I'd prefer a gas over diesel in the winter. However a lot depends upon your mechanic skills and what you can work on. Diesel injectors and injection pumps usually need to be taken some where to get fixed and read all the posts about gelled up diesel and having to drain and bleed off everything. Points, plugs, wires, dist. cap, etc. with a gas can be an easy tune up.
Don't overlook something new at the dealers. John Deere and the others offer financing packages to part time farmers with their country estates and then you end up avoiding a lot of problems with old tractors and something your wife and kids can start and run easy. Can be about like buying a car.
You never know when the old tractor may need a new hydraulic pump or overhaul or need some hard to find parts. Plenty of guys here are DIY mechanics who aren't bothered by that but sometimes those old tractors can be a Fix or Repair Daily that nickel and dime's you to death.
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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