[AJD] timing crash test.............

[James West]

Nick, it happens. Just be more careful in the future. Thank God your fiancé
was not in the way. I scared the crap out of myself once a few years back. I
was coming down our lane on my 51 Ford 8n. My two daughters were standing by
the lane and I stopped. The little one 15 months old wanted a ride on
Daddy's tractor. She walked over and stood right in front of the left rear
tire, my foot on the clutch and in gear running. I picked her up and away we
went. Nothing happened thank, god. But a few days later in the news a 15
year old kid did the same thing with his little sister and his foot slipped
off the clutch, and ran over and killed his little sister. Made me just
about sick thinking about how this same thing could have happened to me.

So stop kicking yourself, get your truck fixed and just be more careful.

J. Dave Mayfield
www.w9wrl.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <nick_solomon at infostations.com>
To: <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:29 PM
Subject: [AJD] timing crash test.............


> well I continued the work of the last make shift mechanic and re soldered
> the lead they had picked out of the coil, still wasent getting much of
> anything, condensor tests fine. I have nobody here to help me pull start
> it, and I could not think of one safe way to do it my self. so I pushed
> the tractor away from the garage and was able to squeeze my truck by, and
> pulled the tractor (in neutral) to an area that was out of the way.
> while I was out there I decided to give it one more shot, I opened the pet
> cocks and adjusted throttle and choke, stepped on the starter, it gave a
> tremendous back fire AND STARTED, I had sometime while climbing on the
> tractor pushed it into 6th gear and not noticed I could not get the clutch
> disengaged, could not turn in time and ran into the back bumper of my
> truck, very hard, it put a dent the width of the front of the tractor
> pushed clear to the sheet metal of the truck, only scratching the paint
> and primer down to bare cast on the pedestal of the tractor. by that time
> I had gotten it out of gear. I am so pissed at my carelessness that I
> could just spit. what if I had been standing next to the tractor pushing
> on the starter, as I have done many times in the past, what if my fiance
> had been there and gotten in front of the tractor. we learn from our
> mistakes, but why do some of them have to be such gosh darn stupid ones.
>
> well I shut it down to move my truck and assess the damamge and went to
> start it again and couldent, Im back to little or no spark, checked into
> coil again, coil still tests 0......... while it did run, it ran very
> poor, lots of misfiring
>
> somebody should take my truck and tractor away as a punishment.
>
> Nick
> sorry for venting about my stupidity
>
>
>
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