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flying belgian · Feb 11, 2023

Why was there proportionately more LP gas MM then other brands?

coonie minnie · Feb 11, 2023

there's probably a lot of reasons, but MM was the pioneer with LP. It took several years before others followed suit. MM also built a lot of big, standard tread tractors that were popular on the plains where LP was cheapest and most plentiful. While not trying to downplay other lines, companies like Ford or AC who focused more on smaller, utility type tractors were not as focused on something to pull a big disk tiller across the western plains.

Anyway, that's my .02.

Leroy · Feb 11, 2023

Where were MM headquarters located? In areas of more Propane avaibility?

kcm.MN · Feb 11, 2023

(quoted from post at 18:03:23 02/11/23) Where were MM headquarters located? In areas of more Propane avaibility?

https://tractors.fandom.com/wiki/Minneapolis-Moline

The above site has lots of info about MM.

jm. · Feb 11, 2023

cM I think your answer is exactly spot on look where the big tractors were and MM was there.

MMDan · Feb 11, 2023

MM headquarters were in Hopkins,MN which is not a LP gas producing area. Coonie Minnie has it right that they were an early user of the fuel and a lot of the area's where there were large wheat farms were also area's that had a lot of oil wells and refining. LP gas was a by-product and was very cheap. MM also put a lot of effort into making engines that ran well on LP (it was their niche). As time went on they sold lot's of Stationary engines that were used to pump water for irrigation. Slow running, durable engines running on clean burning LP gas were perfect for irrigation wells. Driving thru central Nebraska today you will still see a few MM engines on pumps and they haven't been produced for almost 50 years.

fastfarmall · Feb 11, 2023

Hi MMDAN, i agree there were a lot of MM engine's on LP gas pumping water in Neb and Kansas yrs ago,if you ever had to make a pit stop, in corn country you could here them running 24-7 !!

wore out · Feb 11, 2023

(quoted from post at 19:26:04 02/11/23) cM I think your answer is exactly spot on look where the big tractors were and MM was there.

The fact that Minneapolis and Waterloo or Minneapolis and Dubuque are a relative ''stones throw'' apart at some 200 miles between either factories kinda blows that theory clear out of the water, IMHO.

If location was the key DEERE should have been right on it, matching MM in propane tractor production.

NDIHC · Feb 12, 2023

It used to be pretty common to see a big Minnie Mo on a pto run irrigation pump along the Missouri river in NoDak. Many of those tractors were beyond their prime for field work by the 80s, but they'd run for days on end pumping water. A cousin had one connected to a 500 gallon propane tank and ran his irrigation setup with it. I think the only time it got shut down was for maintenance, check oil, grease the pto shaft and pump etc.

Ozlander · Feb 12, 2023

(quoted from post at 21:58:44 02/11/23) Hi MMDAN, i agree there were a lot of MM engine's on LP gas pumping water in Neb and Kansas yrs ago,if you ever had to make a pit stop, in corn country you could here them running 24-7 !!

And if there was a gas well in the section, the engine was being run on natural gas.

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