[AT] DC Case

[Ron Cook]

Ralph,
     Ours started  quite well providing the 6 volt battery was up.  
Magneto ignition, so all it had to do was turn and get fuel ,air and 
spark in the right proportions.  I don't remember ever using the hand 
crank, but I do remember using the battery charger/booster on occasion.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA


On 1/15/2012 2:45 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "john hall"<jtchall at nc.rr.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] DC Case
>
>
>> Ralph, we rebuilt this engine around '95 or 96. We've used it some on the
>> farm but normally it just sits standby until we need to move a wagon or
>> loaded trailer. One thing we use it for is cranking other engines and
>> tractors with flat belt pulleys
> John, your DC is a LOT different from mine then. This one comes close to
> being a pull type tractor. It has attained the status of the hardest
> starting tractor on the farm, second only to the McCormick Deering 15-30
> with the permanently seized up engine. This DC4 is impossible to start on
> the battery or crank now. Last time we tried starting it we pulled it round
> and round the fields a good while before it showed any signs of life. It had
> spark and gas but I guess not in the right combination.
> I could blame it on today's gas but in fact it was stubborn and
> unpredictable even 40 years ago when I used to work for the neighbour that
> owned it at the time. It's usual parking place was on a steep hill so it
> could be "roll started". I do remember the odd occasion being able to start
> it on the crank. Must have been the right combination of something .
> I wouldn't trade two of them for my Cockshutt 40.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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