Long one but a good one.

Posted by Jason Simmerman on June 20, 2005 at 23:05:12 from (65.166.94.2):

In Reply to: Haying Tales posted by Michael Soldan on June 20, 2005 at 20:01:03:

This isn't a hay story exactly. We have a Farmall M which we are all familar have absolutely no safety features to keep from starting in gear at all. Well, apparently when I was younger I figured out how to crank the engine over using the foot peg starter switch. His solution to this was terrific not! He removed the kill switch and just twisted the wires to the hot on the coil together to run the tractor. To start the tractor he held the positive terminal of the battery cable to the starter post. What better to keep a little kid off a tractor but to rig it to the point of fear of operation not only for kids but grown adults? Well, as I got older I attempted to talk him into putting it back the way it should to no avail and then one day it happened. He was having a problem with water in the fuel tank. So he had gas all over the pulley gearbox. He went to start it and a hot lead amber from the battery post landed on the gasoline soaked gearbox. The first thoughts in my mind the moment it happened were I told you so and boy an extingusher would be handy right now. Sure enough my dad grabs a garden hose to put fire out. All water did at this point was to wash the gasoline onto the ground where it continued to burn. In the meantime the fire managed to burn all the wiring for the voltage regulator. We rewired the whole tractor and continue to use it today but needless to say it is no longer rigged LOL.

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