It's amusing to watch a strapping young man fan the crank a dozen or so times while the tractor sways back and forth, without success, then go lean against a tree to recouperate while an old timer walks up, sets the timing just right and starts it on the first slow pull.
I didn't grow up pulling on a crank, I grew up turning a flywheel. I didn't have my hand on a crank till I was well out of high school. When turning over a two banger dad taught me to feel when it's just over the top and then let go of the flywheel. Once in awhile the old two bangers would kick backwards with enough violent energy to spin it backwards a couple of revolutions. You don't want to have a tight grip on the flywheel when it does that.
My granddad's dental office was across the hall from the town doctor back in the 20's through the forties and fifties. When a person came in the doctor's office with a broken arm from a kickback the doctor would call my granddad over to pull on the arm with his foot in the patients arm pit while the doctor squeezed and felt the bone trying to reset it. Grandpa said he had to pull very hard while the patient screamed in pain. Uffda!
This post was edited by fixerupper at 16:56:04 06/11/15.
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