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Jon;
I was attending an antique tractor show once & a young man was hand-cranking his tractor, a Farmall as I recall. An older gentleman saw him & rushed over & said Son, let me show you how to crank a tractor before you break your wrist. He then proceeded to show him to "Never" spin the crank all the way around as if you were winding it up, but to only pull upward.

He further added that many tell you to never put your thumb across the crank, said if you only pulled up it didn't matter where your thumb was. Where most people got hurt was if the engine back-fired crank would come around & hit the back of your wrist, breaking it. If you only pulled up the crank would yank out of your hand & the hand would continue upward & not get hit.

The old 2-cylinder John Deeres were the safe ones to crank as you rolled the flywheel. Not much way to get hurt cranking one of them, unless you left it in gear & the clutch engaged, then you might get run over by the back wheel.

I recall my Mother mentioning when she was growing up her family had gas lighting in the house. She said they had A Carbide Vat which set out behind their house & the gas was piped inside. I recall as a youth seeing the lights still on the walls but they weren't using it then, only had the old fashioned Kerosene Lamps with a flat wick.

I lived in 7 or 8 houses before I was 9 yrs old, a couple of them had electricity, but most didn't. From age 9 to about 12 we didn't have it again, got "Wired" around 1950 when I was 12. At that place, there was a drilled well (4") & I had to draw all the water, but fortunately was only around 20 feet deep, with just a Touch of Sulfur in it.

I cranked Farmalls many times with a crank. Even though I shouldn't have, I could crank the Super C by pushing down and then pulling up, but could only crank the H and the M by pulling up. They had a lot more compression. Any of them would crank in gear, though. It was imperative to remember to check to be sure it was in neutral before hand starting. Many people got killed when they forgot to do that, then were pinned between the front of the tractor and the wall, when they were cranked in gear. I couldn't push the H and M down then pull up because I simply wasn't man enough. No matter, they would crank easy enough on the "upstroke".

I turned over the engine in my Super C with the crank just last week, as I do occasionally to prevent the engine from seizing from lack of use. It is awaiting restoration.

SRH

Some might consider the comment about the nail falling out of the black maids hair kinda racist.

Just saying

Don't you think the comment about being German & making sausage to the old kraut recipe was kinda racist ?

O.M

You tell me...

jOe, all I am asking please, is that you stop going through this thread like a bull elephant in musth, pissing everywhere & attacking people.
That is not welcome in a thread where folk are exposing their heart & sharing.
Very un cool & ruining the experience.

I know you will not change & neither can you make these good folk change.
So, please, leave them in peace to post their very interesting fond family memories.
I for one, am more interested in their posts than your bitter & unforgiving blood pump.

O.M

I believe it's in musk not in "must".

Just last week I was "sizzling in Stan's skillet like a toad frOg".

(I wonder how the toad frOg frying is coming along)

Then I was his "game hog"...

(I can't wait for the dove pictures)

Next I was just a "dumb Tennessee" hill billy out of Mississippi.

(I'll just have to face it I'll never be as witty or smart as Stan)

Now I'm your heartless "bull elephant in must".

(Actually I do have a very big heart when it's needed).

I was trying to do a little bonding with you guys but truth is a fellow can only take so much abuse.

And I voted for Donald Trump.

Close but not quite Frank. It is an Elephant in "musth" or "must" that you are acting like. I do love the poor me angle though. As I have pointed out to your BFF in the past, you just do not make a very sympathetic victim.

frank, all your abuse is self inflicted. I don't know how you can put with so much of your own schlock and whining, but you are a master of schlock and whine. It would be really nice if you would get over yourself someday.

Well look at the two little bee'itchizs I called up...

Freeloading Steve'O Liberal gunsmurfer meet Forum Freeloader Brent D the Liberal college professor of Ecology at Iowa State University.

Two peas in a pod.