Jim I agree with your assesment another important factor in comparing the two modes of power as applied to the farm scene is sea level.......As I am sure many of us have forgotten but certainly not the manufaterers of heavy equipt. a deisel engine shows no apprecible power band loss at higher altitudes but gaslone must be tweeked to maximize the thinning of the air it must have to burn cleanly. Again that was the ultimate downfall of the piston driven aircraft high tec combustion engines could not get the aircraft to the new operating ceilings that where demanded of them hence the turbo and then the jet...
This discussion has been very interesting I am not real sure we helped out the guy who had the orginal question though.

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