Back in 71 or 72 when I worked for Archie Implement Co. I overhauled a B JD. We had Farmalls at home and I had no experience with hand clutches at all.
On my first attempt to start the thing it fired right up, trouble was it had got into low gear somehow. I got on the brakes with both feet, pulled the stick back and then forward, (I had not pulled it back far enough to break over), and was headed for the north wall of the shop.
A local dairy farmer by the name of Jesse Stewart was up stairs and happened to hear the tractor lugging, and probably me yelling. He hollered at me to "pull it back".
I pulled it back, it popped, and there wasn't 6 inches between the front of that B and the bench. I sure was glad Jesse was there that day. At $2.75 per hour it would have taken forever to fix that potential mess.
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