[AT] Field Marshall single cylinder tractors

[Ken Knierim]

Wiki has some good info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Marshall

I had confused them with the Lanz Bulldog but that was a hot bulb engine
(from the above article). They were also big, single cylinder machines.
Having watched video of the Field Marshalls and the way they seemed to
bounce around the piston, I can see why they didn't build a lot of them.
They looked like a real handful. :)

Ken in AZ

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:

> Have seen a Field Marshall at several shows (may have been the same
> tractor?) in Midwest
> a decade or so ago. Don't remember much discussion about the large, single
> cylinder design.Herb(GA)
>
> From: Ken Knierim
>     Field Marshall tractors have huge 1 lung engines (several hundred cubic
> inches if I recall) that were started with something very similar to a
> shotgun shell (without the shot). A pop on the firing pin and the engine
> barks (and hopefully starts). It's not a Coffman starter (a different beast
> yet) but it's a solution that seemed to work.
> Ken in AZ
>
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