Normal on a gas burner was the throttel was pulled back and shut the fuel down (even on distributor models) but every time you wanted to idle the engine it would shut off, most were readjusted on the throttle rod so they did not do that and then you just put in a high gear and used the brakes. Now on the all fuel models when you were burning kerosine or distelate then you had to drain the carb to get gas in for starting the next time so draining to stop was the simplest. If you did not do it then you had to do it at starting time. I have had the 2 cylinders starting in 1957 to about 2000 and some never had the fuel shut off for as high as 30 years. never shut of on 38 A, 46 B, 49 B, 50 AR & 51 A. The A & AR were new enough they came with a distributor and the 49 B was converted in a couple of years.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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