Re: Hand Cranking

Posted by The tractor vet on January 30, 2017 at 11:59:00 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Hand Cranking posted by Johnnykick on January 30, 2017 at 07:56:26:

Here is my take on hand cranking , If it requires hand starting and it needs repair work DO NOT BRING IT TO ME . I still bare the reminder of hand cranking . Many many years back on a warm Sept Saturday i was working ground at my uncle's one farm with a Oliver O C 3 pulling a four section spike tooth getting this big field ready for wheat and at the far south end there was a dead furrow . To keep the old O C 3 going you had to keep your right hoof pushed up against the throttle or it would slip back to idle , as i was making the swing to the left to head back north i dropped the right track into the dead furrow and my foot came off the throttle and she died . Not the starter was bad and the battery was dead and the gen did not charge but you could crank start it or coast start it and it ran well when running . well i had watched my uncle crank start it may ah times to get me going and i can do this as i am a big boy . Plus the fact to get any help i would have to go two miles to the field everybody was digging taters in . SOOOOOo put tractor into neutral , set throttle three clicks up (it would hold there ) get crank , make sure stop button was pulled out , Stick crank in Hole make sure thumb is NOT wrapped around crank , NOW PULL UP AS HARD AND FAST as you can . I can do this , So give hard pull up engines hits and dies do again , engine backfires and flings said hand starting device backwards and nails my right elbow then comes flyen out and laces me up along side the head making a nice deep gash next to my right eyebrow red warm liquid is now leaking and i am knocked half scenes less and now layen on the ground . when i sorta come to my Saxon temperament comes out and i am now learning new words and i take my revenge out on said hand starting devise and i turn it into A UFO and it ends up landing in the ten acre pound next to the field i am working in the deepest point of said pond . Now comes the long walk to the house leaking bodily fluids down over my white tee shirt , as i get close to the house my aunt sees me coming and she goes ballistic just knowing i am dieing . Well i probably should have had sticthes but she got the bleeding to stop and a bandaid to cover it and i got cleaned up with a clean shirt and she and i went to get my uncle and explain why you will never start the O C 3 ever again with hand starting device ever again . So he and i toook another tractor and a flexible starting device and got the O C 3 back up and running and i fiinished my job . The next weekend everything was fixed , repaired or replaced and you no longer had to either coast or crank or pull to start and even the lights now worked . And i will never ever again us a hand starting device . THEM THINGS WILL EAT YOU .

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