Re: Hand cranking idea?

Posted by Dennis Benson on January 27, 2003 at 10:16:51 from (205.188.209.109):

In Reply to: Hand cranking idea? posted by Dennis on January 26, 2003 at 12:58:59:

When I was in the trade school learning to be a mechanic in 1970 one of the students brought in a Farmall F20 and rebuilt the engine. In the course of trying to start it, without taking the time to put the priming pipes into the intake ports, he spent several days grabbing the crank with both hands and spinning as fast as he could. By the way, he weighed about 120 pounds and had braces from polio. One of the times it coughed he went spinning in the air and landed on his back about 10 feet away with the crank still in his hands, and a lot of laughing people standing around him.

When I had tractors to crank I would stand facing the tractor with my right arm holding the crank, my 4 fingers forming a J, and my thumb behind my index finger. I would turn the crank until I felt it comming up on a compression stroke, and give a pull. If the timing was off it would simply pull the crank out of my hand, and if it spun back a revolution my hand would be up too high for it to hit my hand, and I would be standing beside it so it wouldn't hit me.

Your idea sounds like a John Deere flywheel start, they worked good, too. Had an interesting stub to use the steering wheel to turn the flywneel if the battery was down.

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