Got lucky

DeltaRed · Apr 7, 2011

Spent the day working ground about 10 miles from home.the fuel gauge was just at empty,so I figured I could make it home.Pulling up the driveway the tractor"sucked air".When I reached the fuel tank,the engine quit-out of fuel!Thats cutting it a little close!

Jg20601 · Apr 7, 2011

Reminds me of a story I would like to share. (I already know the answer... but still a good story)

We were cutting tobacco in Maryland and there as a storm coming up. We loaded the 3 tractors with trailers and put the rest of the tobacco onto the Farmall cub with the stick trailer. The cub just made it into the east door when it ran out of gas and it coasted halfway thru behind the John Deere. When it came time to move it up to hang the tobacco, my uncle tried to start it but no luck. We hung the tobacco in the rooms where it stopped. Some one went to the Horse barn to get the AC D15 and the AC Model B. Our oldest worker Mr Curtiss climbed up onto the cub despite my uncles protestations that it wouldnt start. You just didnt talk to it right he said, and promptly started it and drove it to our gas pump, leaving my uncle standing there speechless, then wondering how the Deuce it would start for him and not for me.

DeltaRed · Apr 7, 2011

The tractor is a 1256 diesel.

nickg · Apr 8, 2011

Id say you were livin rite that day.lol. Hope you get er fired back up without much trouble. I ran my 806 diesel out one day and had a real time getin it fired up again.

Mike (WA) · Apr 8, 2011

You've got more nerve than me. After a couple go-arounds with re-starting diesels that had sucked air (and with weak batteries and/or starters), I decided never again. If its even getting close, it gets parked and I go get a can of fuel.

Of course, cell phones have made that much easier- now, I can call the disputatious Mrs. Mike (WA) instead of walking home for fuel.

toadady · Apr 8, 2011

(quoted from post at 01:00:10 04/08/11) Reminds me of a story I would like to share. (I already know the answer... but still a good story)

We were cutting tobacco in Maryland and there as a storm coming up. We loaded the 3 tractors with trailers and put the rest of the tobacco onto the Farmall cub with the stick trailer. The cub just made it into the east door when it ran out of gas and it coasted halfway thru behind the John Deere. When it came time to move it up to hang the tobacco, my uncle tried to start it but no luck. We hung the tobacco in the rooms where it stopped. Some one went to the Horse barn to get the AC D15 and the AC Model B. Our oldest worker Mr Curtiss climbed up onto the cub despite my uncles protestations that it wouldnt start. You just didnt talk to it right he said, and promptly started it and drove it to our gas pump, leaving my uncle standing there speechless, then wondering how the Deuce it would start for him and not for me.

he turned the valve on the sediment bowl another turn and used the "reserve"

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