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Reliable after market starter for early JDs

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Sloroll

12-22-2005 05:12:23

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A Farmall of course.

I fixed up my first F-20 when I was 14. By the time I was 15 I figured out that the belt was by far the best way to get a hand start tractor running for the first time after a tear down. First run up the oil pressure (if it has any) Then throw the spark to her (if she has any) then cautiously open the fuel line. This method saves a lot of dislocated shoulders, dislocated craniums and eliminates the on off again jumping from tractor to adjust while trying to pull start. The old GP fired for the first time in at least 20 possibly 30 years or more last night. The 6 volt system on the 39 H started itself right up at 10 degrees yesterday morn.

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the tractor vet

12-22-2005 12:27:45

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

Thats better then the way we use to have to start tractors when i first started farmen . First we would go to the neighbors and Ronnie would crank start his H and come over and pull start the old my gasser because we had hopped it up somuch that even with a good big battery it would not turn over when it got down to 40 degrees and chain start it then chain start the 450 diesels then we could do something . But that was way back before we started to relay work on tractors and did not know just how to do things.

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MJ in the UK

12-22-2005 09:20:44

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

Here in the UK most of the tractors were hand start till the 1950s. Nearly all the American tractors sent to us in the war were hand start. I have a 1945 Farmall H wich will allwas start on the third crank after two cranks on choke. Yes Old i have also started tractos with your method. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. MJ in the UK

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old

12-22-2005 07:56:33

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

Years ago when all I had where hand crank tractors thats how we would start them. Always seemed the one you want to use woudn't start but the other one would, so we would do the same thing. Whats worse is the times I would pull start one, whats bad was I did it all by my self. Start pulling the one jump off and run back to the other jam it in gear and the run back to the one doingthe pulling.

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JonT

12-22-2005 07:44:59

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

Is that a GP beaner?

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Sloroll

12-22-2005 07:59:23

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to JonT, 12-22-2005 07:44:59

I don't know much about em. How would I tell?

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JonT

12-22-2005 19:05:00

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 07:59:23

I'm no expert, but I know Deere made a small number GP with a special arched front axle for cultivating green beans. I think most went to Michigan. I would post on the JD board and see for sure, Beaners are quite rare.

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Peabody

12-22-2005 06:02:39

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

Good-looking tractors! And airplane! Is that a J-3 Cub, or a PA-11 with a J-3 paint job? Gosh, I wish I had either one.

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Leroy

12-22-2005 05:55:38

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

What kind of airplane is that in background of picture? to somebody that actually knows nothing about planes it looks like a small Piper. I had figured from your previous post that you were a pilot but had no idea if they were the big jumbo jets.

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Sloroll

12-22-2005 06:21:00

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Leroy, 12-22-2005 05:55:38

It is a 41 Piper J5 Cub Cruiser. It is the scourge of many a combine in the fall and a quick way to check on my aging parents as I can pop in and out of a pasture near their home with it.

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Steven@ND currently

12-22-2005 05:24:05

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

I use a similar method with my stationary engines, only it involved a 13 horsepower Honda and a V-belt.

Only hand-start tractors I have are the F-12 and F-14 and they start good...

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n9lhm

12-22-2005 05:21:03

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

Back when Polk"s was still putting out an old tractor magazine, they had some pictures one time of some JD collector"s assortment of tractors. After all the pictures of the nicely restored Deeres, there was a picture of the back of a Farmall M with a coiled up flat belt laying on the final drive cover. The caption on the picture read, "Picture of a John Deere starter".

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RustyFarmall

12-22-2005 05:17:56

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

So there you have it, a Farmall rescuing a JD once again.

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El Toro

12-22-2005 05:17:25

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Re: Reliable after market starter for early JDs in reply to Sloroll, 12-22-2005 05:12:23

I use that method for starting my big Toro rotary
mower, I use the the tractor and and a belt. My arms won't take that punishment anymore. Hal

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