kcm.MN
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Brian G. NY
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I bet the original owner was one of the happiest guys in the world!
That flywheel on that small of an engine (if you open the petcocks) should be fairly easy to spin. No durn batteries to maintain or get stolen, no fractured arms or hands because it could never backfire on a blamed front crank.
You missed out on the sneer of starting a 37A JD covered with a two row cornpicker! Had to loosen the steering wheel nut, remove the steering wheel, insert a provided short rod with a slotted coupling on the end, put the nut back on the rod to hold the steering wheel on, then poke the rod through a hole in the corn picker, engaging the coupling with the hollow in the flywheel hub, engaging the crosspin and turn the flywheel with the steering wheel. You never wanted a spinner knob on the steering wheel!! Of course one had to crawl under the cornpicker to open/close the petcocks. It was lazier to let the thing idle while having lunch!
It worked....better than by hand picking. Leo
You missed out on the sneer of starting a 37A JD covered with a two row cornpicker! Had to loosen the steering wheel nut, remove the steering wheel, insert a provided short rod with a slotted coupling on the end, put the nut back on the rod to hold the steering wheel on, then poke the rod through a hole in the corn picker, engaging the coupling with the hollow in the flywheel hub, engaging the crosspin and turn the flywheel with the steering wheel. You never wanted a spinner knob on the steering wheel!! Of course one had to crawl under the cornpicker to open/close the petcocks. It was lazier to let the thing idle while having lunch!
It worked....better than by hand picking. Leo
I learned most of my cuss words when I was a youngster when the salty old neighbor had to hand start his styled B with the steering wheel, In too big a hurry to remove the spinner knob. It was an easy starter most times but this time it popped back or something, Left him standing there pretty much naked when the spinner caught his bibs and ripped then off. Luckily his bibs were pretty old and worn. I can't fully understand how that happened for sure but I'll never forget it either!
I was about 12 when I first got to start and run our Lindeman. Opening both petcocks allowed enough compression to pass that it wasn't that hard to pull the flywheel over. It had finger pockets on the back side to allow a better grip. With the choke on, it would fire off on the 3rd compression stroke without fail. It had a blade, and I remember counting 14 different levers to pull and push. For a 12-year-old, nothing could top running that tractor.
caterpillar guy
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They look about as cheap and cheesy as those old Cletracs. I'll take a D-4 over that anytime.
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