[AT] Wuz - Fun with manure spreader, Now JD H Starting

[Spencer Yost]

I second Chuck's and John's opinion. The impulse coupling on the mag does need to work well.   But If you have a good mag, and a reasonably well tuned tractor,  starting isn't that hard once you get to know its idiosyncrasies. Like dead cold needs full choke, warm needs just a little choke; that sort of thing.

Spencer Yost

> On Nov 17, 2017, at 11:04 PM, Chuck Bealke <bealke at airmail.net> wrote:
> 
> Al,
> 
> Will defer to Dean VP’s way more expert advice, but spent a summer in my early teens working in a job with a hand start H and JD No. 5 6-ft. sickle bar.
> Did not find it tough to start, and after a few days, it became second nature. The H was cold natured when starting even on midsummer mornings. 
> After you started it with a bit of choke, had to run if for a few minutes or it would die when you tried to back it out of the dirt floor shed - the cooler the day, the longer the warm up.
> If it did not start, you likely had just flooded it a bit with the choke, and three pulls through with the choke open would clear it for the next try and likely a start. 
> (Mind you, did not run the H in colder weather. Also, it never sat unused for more than a few days that summer.) 
> What I remember most about that rig was the armstrong lift for the cutting bar, and occasionally a little neck ache after looking back while mowing a few acres.
> (Like a lot of things including the starting, what was pretty easy then might be a tad tougher now on a more seasoned bod.🙂) 
> 
> Also mowed in the previous summer with an early Allis B with a side mounted 5 ft sickle.
> It started with a hand crank pretty easily too (well, unless it was hot) and was easier on the neck with its no twist mowing view. Being lower and lighter on smaller rear wheels, the rig was more agile mowing around bushes, trees and fences, but a little tougher on butt and bod than the H in a hard, bumpy field. Also, the seat was not as comfy as the H’s - not that anyone gave comfort a second thought then. 
> 
> Mr. VInson, loved your usual magazine quality photo of the shiny Super M and well chosen spreader. As was mentioned by others, recall digging out the hard 
> and scented stuff (packed by steers housed in the barn for a couple of bad weather months) to load and spread with a wagon. Somehow that seems less fun now than it would be using your New-Idea-Kubota knockout combo. 
> 
> Chuck  Bealke
> Dallas, TX
> 
> 
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