[AT] History Exam

[RonMyers at wildblue.net]

Charlie that's a great story, can have permission to put it on the YT
tractor forum I think those guys would love it too.
I will be sure to give all the credit.
Ron


> When I was a boy it took 2 or 3 days per week to harvest our tobacco crop.
> So we traded labor with other small farmers.  We'd help them and they'd
> help
> us.  One farmer we worked with was a share cropper.  He tended about 6
> acres
> of tobacco and roughly 100 acres total with a worn out Farmall Super A and
> a
> completely worn out Farmall A.  The motor was so bad in the A that we had
> to
> take turns turning the crank to start it.  A man or a strong boy could
> spin
> the crank round and round like cranking a corn sheller.  It would take
> long
> enough to get heat in the motor that it would wear the first guy out, then
> the second and sometimes the third.
>
> Sometimes it wouldn't crank start at all and we had to hook the Super A to
> it and pull it round and round the tobacco barns with the Super A in high
> gear.  Sooner or later it would crank.  Then we let it run all day.  It
> would sit and run idle and blow a continuous stream of white smoke rings
> out
> the straight exhaust pipe.  Each ring would pass through the previous one
> if
> the wind wasn't blowing.  Sometimes you could see as many as 4 or 5 rings
> at
> once.
>
> The  farmer that owned it told us not to check the oil in it.  He said,
> "if
> it stops smokin pour one quart of oil in it".   Ah.  The good ole days.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] History Exam
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>
>>
>>
>> Ralph Goff wrote:
>>> Ben Staats wrote:
>>>> It is a piece of cake, I have a 1918 T with the crank start.
>>>> But I havent tried to crank the 47 Farmall M
>>>>
>>>> Ben Staats
>>>>
>>> My Dad used to crank start the Cockshutt 50 back in the days when he
>>> didn't own a battery charger and the old car battery got a little weak.
>>> And before that his John Deere D was quite often started by turning the
>>> big flywheel.
>>> I used to occasionally be able to crank start the DC4 Case but
>>> sometimes
>>> nothing would work on that one.
>>> Nowadays I have electric start on a riding mower. We've come a long
>>> way.
>>>
>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>>
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>>
>> Crank start... Lets see Farmall F20 and F30, One Case LA and two
>> different Fordsons and every now and then the Super M when the battery
>> doesn't want to cooperate.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve W.
>> Near Cooperstown, New York
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