[AT] Cold weather starting

Indiana Robinson robinson46176 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 08:00:58 PST 2015


We used to have a neighbor who while he was a good neighbor was a pretty
poor mechanic. His stuff hardly ever started on its own even in good
weather and that was just his normal thing. He had a steep hill along one
side of his barn lot that ran about 60' or so down to a fair sized creek.
He would park tractors along the top of the hill and if one wouldn't start
he rolled it down the hill to start it. There was a short flat area at the
bottom where he could turn and drive out to the road. One day when I was a
kid I asked him what he would do if one didn't start. He said "I'll just
run it off in the creek".
We had an occasional cold weather starting problem with a Ferguson TO-20
that lasted too long. It sometimes would not start with the starter but
would pull start in about a foot of pull. The starter had been serviced a
couple of times but still was just pulling too much current. A TSC rebuilt
starter cured it. That was back around 1960 when our closest TSC (was still
called Tractor Supply Store) was near downtown Indy and smaller than my
house is now.



On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:

> 12 F & 4 MPH wind; about as cold as it gets here (hour north of Atlanta).
> Years ago, in central KS,  I am sure there were quite a few mornings with F
> Finks weather conditions, when I climbed the silo and threw down a pickup
> load of silage for sixty head of cattle.  Sometimes it seemed like more
> silage blew back and up into your face than what you had thrown down the
> chute. Then unloading into long feed bunks. Dad always kept the pickup well
> tuned, so only concern was shift lever bending/breaking, so shifting was
> veerrrrry slow.  That was back in the good old days.  Herb
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fink Sr
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 4:50 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Cold weather starting
>
> Boy Dave i agree on farmer would say Cold, it is 4 below in central PA
> this morning with a wind about 20MPH
> R Fink
> PA
>
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Francis Robinson
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Central Indiana USA
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