Fifty hours altogether? If so, for how many? OR fifty hours apiece?
I treat my tractors like I do my generator (you know, the 'lectric start one that doesn't even come with a pull rope) and run them periodicaly if they're not being used otherwise, just to keep the batteries up and the juices circulated. And any time I start them, whether it's just what I call a maintenance run or to work them, I make sure they get warmed up well, and run for while afterward. The point of warming them up is to try to evaporate out what moisture I do pick up in my oil from condensation which, around here can be considerable.
As far as the condensation factor, some folks pooh-pooh the whole idea but around here it's bad enough generally, and especially in early and late winter when we get some pretty wild swings in the weather. Enough so that if I don't keep the fuel tanks full on everything, I've got to deal with water in the gas, as well. (Some would say that the ethanol in the fuel is a factor there, and it may be, but water is enough of a pain in the neck in warm weather and I sure don't like having to stop to thaw and treat a frozen gas line when I have snow to clear.)
Your space is insulated where mine is not but, to give you an example, twice in the last two weeks we had a cold snap, nights within a few degrees of either side of zero, followed by temps around 30 the next day, followed my rain and temps in the 50s the second day. Cold snap was fine. By the next day, I see hard frost on the fuel tanks of the tractors. On the rainy day, I go out and my BN, the one parked on cement, is sitting in a puddle of it's own sweat -- the concrete looks just like a shadow of the tractor, and the tractor is soaked from stem to stern.
Now I know the crankcase air is relatively static, but it does breathe in and out a little as things warm and cool and, with condensation that extreme on the outside, I've just gotta believe she's pickin' up condensation (though not as extreme) on the inside, as well.
Since it sounds like all your tractors are under cover, a little test for you would be to see how much water your trannies pick up over a year or two. That'll give you an idea of what your motors are picking up.
As a final note, one of the "selling points" for this generator I've got was a two-year oil change interval, as if that was something new-fangled. IH had some wonderful innovations in their day, but I don't think there's anything on a tractor that says IH on it that we would call new-fangled any more.
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