Never did anything like that when I was a kid. The tractors were always in the shed and in good tune. Dad made sure the tractor related chores were done on warm days. When we had a long cold spell he would finally start the 51 A but he was reluctant to do it. He never had a battery charger or jumper cables. On the rare occasion when nothing started he'd call the neighbor to come over.
If a tractor wouldn't start he'd get the long flat belt out and belt up the reluctant tractor to one that did start and spin it over with the belt. He'd do that even if someone was around to drive one of them for a pull start. The hand crank 35 A was always backed into the shed for that reason.
I finally gave him a set of jumpers for Christmas but I still have to remind him "PLUS to PLUS and MINUS to MINUS. RED is PLUS, BLACK is MINUS". Same way with a charger. Batteries and cables and volts and polarities never were something he caught on to. But he can tell you what the stock market did on any given day! Jim
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