Re: Re: Re: Re: Starting with a Rope

Posted by jim stuart on November 22, 2003 at 21:19:39 from (198.110.40.112):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Starting with a Rope posted by Dick Davis on November 18, 2003 at 03:11:33:

My dad bought a loader for our bn about 1955, making the crank spot inaccessable, so he began starting it with a rope wrapped around the belt pulley. Seems to me I saw him start it by hand once when the rope was missing. I use the rope now, cause the starter drive sticks when the fly wheel spits it out when the motor starts and I have to take the starter off and unstick the starter drive. Maybe I was the "show off" that Ken C talked about in his post; I deliberately stall my bn at the local tractor pull in scottville mi--the crowd gets a kick out of the rope start. to do this safely you have to have a rope that will circle the belt pulley about four times counter clockwise. On the first wrap, lay the rope over its end so it doesn't slip, then continue winding it up until you are out of rope. no Knot on the end of the rope that you don't pull on; have a knot on the end that you pull on. When you are ready to pull, the pulling end should be on top the pulley, maybe sticking out toward you an inch or so. Grasp rope with both hands, put foot on drawbar and pull as hard as possible while making karate sound, "HuH!" When tractor starts, the belt pulley will spin the rope off. I have done this hundreds of times over the last twenty years or so, as did my father before me with no mishaps. Of course I'm only speaking for the farmall bn, but it looks like it would work with any similar tractor with a belt pulley on the back. seems like I saw an allis or moline it could work on. I rebuilt that motor a couple years ago, which really increased the strength needed to rope start it and it's almost impossible to do below twenty degrees unless I lose my temper.

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