At fifteen years old in 1974 I tried hand cranking an old H tractor. That thing smacked my knuckles good. I went inside trying to act cool , but PAWPAW said..." IT got you, didn't it?" I then showed him my swollen hand nodding.
Those old classic tractors were built to last a couple of life times and beyond! Back when Craftmanship meant something! Growing up we had a neighbor who had and old John Deere, it was a 1923, Many years later the grandson had it and it still ran great and the engine was never overhualed and it still had great oil pressure! Plus they were simple to work on too!
@@noahtheowl7107 if newer engines didn't have any computerized parts they plob last longer then again their are very few of theses engines for a reason. also most newer engine have issues because the computer sees the issue of a wire or connection being weak, like most computers will stop the car or tell you pull over and shut it off if something is going wrong and some times its a minor issue but the computer can save you thousands of dollars, like if your engine runs away very unlikey with newer engines because the computers have anti run away software. same if their is a issue with the transmission, their a higher chance the engine will notice the damage even before the damage is too bad. so its mostly that detecting the damage is alot better. it a double edge sword tho. if you know their is damage you will most likey replace it even if it has a few thousands of km left before breaking.
This is what I love about diesel engines. They can sit forever, and when you finally go to start it back up, most of the time all you have to do is put a new battery and some ether, and she fire up and be a happy engine
I started a Lanz Bulldog that the farmer Said hadn’t been started in over 40 years , the fuel in it was like wax so after cleaning the system and filling up the burner ( it had a pressure white spirit burner ) I heated up that giant cast iron knob on the front of the cylinder head , and spun that big fly wheel and away it went , it had all steel wheels no tyres just steel tread and was an absolute monster of a tractor , much bigger than the one shown here but the farmer had a tear in his eye when the old bulldog fired up , he said it was one of the first tractors to ever work the headlands in Otago New Zealand as it would climb any hill , I’m Not certain of the model but it has a horizontal single piston that must of been huge , the flywheel was at least 2 and a 1/2 feet in diameter, what a fabulous video this is thanks for uploading
Banners aside it is definitely a great video with very interesting old-school machines that could and will run longer than anything built by today's standards guaranteed and no they might not have as much power but definitely less tear downs and rebuilds!.
That old Holt was amazing. Did anyone else notice the JD that hadn't been started in 4 months had as much trouble as some of the ones that hadn't been started in 10 years?
My dad told me about how his dad had an old old tractor with a crank start. Grandpa was trying like crazy to start it, then gave up and went into the house to take a break. Dad's brother came out the barn and gave it one crank and it started. Grandpa came a running out of the house and yelled "don't shut it off!" Sadly, the same tractor wound up rolling over Grandpa as Grandpa got off to go pee and I guess didn't set the brake! Crazy Crazy! Lesson: Don't pee in front of any tractor tires. Grandpa lived to be 90! I don't know how they did so much with so little; however, they managed. Love 4Truth!
I remember as a kid starting one of those old D series John Deere tractors by hand. Open up the petcocks, hand crank it till it started on gasoline, then close the petcocks and let it warm up then change it over to diesel.
I love tractors. Not sure why. Maybe I do know why, maybe its because they remind me of the time america was great, when people actually worked hard for a living, when they took responsibility for things that happened, had to mend their own life and could still profit from their sweat. The basis for whats great about america is on the farm and in the tractor. What stories of blood, sweat and tears those tractors hold secret.
Bonjour a tous vraiment un très beau reportage avec de magnifiques tracteurs dont certains me rappelle mon enfance à la ferme (années 1950), mais il y avaient encore des chevaux et des mulets pour des travaux bien spécifiques merci pour ces quelques instants de partage ADESSIAS
Love these mighty machines! Also very dangerous stuff, the dude shouting at the Lanz Bulldog shouts translated "Get out of there", because the guy was standing next to the flywheel. If it gets you it will take a limb off or it will kill you! Some of these guys just playing with their life... insane.
lol ikr... seriously ... but it seems to be how things are now a days ... clickbait crappy over music of which I always ask.. who the hell listens to it and where the hell did they find the music to begin with?? really long explanations text all over the videos ... or what seems like A.D.D ... head foot leg arm 2 second text .. then there are the annoying interrupting commercial adds which no one ever pays attention to or ever pops up out of there seat to rush off and buy something of... don't those morons realize that?? gees.... And I thought I was the only one that noticed all of this... actually now that I think about it this video is pretty good.. compared to some of the other stuff out there..
I remember Dave kutney and I started up an old Massey Ferguson! My hand it had a hand crank in the wracked our wrist a couple times too and not hurt like hell!!!
my daddy used to tell me stories of growing up on the family dairy farm in virginia, and operating tractors at a young age, and working the fields and tending to the cows and even tying big rubber bands around bulls balls until they fell off. he quit school in the sixth grade to work full time on the farm.."you could do that back then but not now..legally" his first car was a used model a ford that he put a "suicide knob" on the steering wheel and would make something called ..a square turn???..he passed before you tube was popular..but he would have gotten a kick out of seeing these old tractors come alive..and he would be telling me stories of them i am sure..love you daddy.
yea my dad did basically the same thing when he was young only he quit in 7th grade. recently me and my dad got an old 1953 model A John deer started that hasn't started in 10+ years
@@hamdude2109 that might be the correct name for it, but i was asking my mama about it the other day and she said yes, that what people called them back in the day..maybe it was a local name for it?..i dont know or it could be regional depending where someone lives in the u.s. but thank you sir for commenting..
not saying how old i am but some those were fancy new tech when i was a kid. dad was a frim believer in boy and real horse power. finally bought his first tractor in 1951.
I had a logger tell me how to start a diesel in cold weather. I takes several minutes but seems to be better than just winding on it and running your batteries down. He said to let it turn over maybe 2 revolutions. Let it sit, then do it again a few mins later. Keep it up and the compression will warm up the engine so you don't have to wind on it for mins at the time.
I used some of those on the farm. Certain engines had very distinct sounds. Some of the I can tell you the manufacturer just by the audio. Wish they had an Oliver with the continental engine. It was also used a lot in WWll. Very smooth and quiet like a kitten but when loaded it was sharp raspy and mean.
It’s cool to watch these cause most of these machines worked their whole lives and were most likely abused every now and again but with some coaxing they fire right up after years of sitting in rusting retirement
Reaching your arm in to turn up idle speed, no wonder great grandpa had one arm - half a leg deaf died of smoke inhalation, these machines were dangerous back in the day of modernization. Good to see there are dedicated people who can still work with these machines, be carefully though 👍👍. 🇨🇦
Simply amazing! Try starting up a modern car after 40 years of sitting neglected! It's interesting. I navigated here after likening the "restart" of the independent American Spirit to trying to start a donkey-engine after years of neglect. I seriously hope America survives the re-start of her Independent Spirit after almost 60 years of neglect.
When I was a kid I was seriously scared of old tractors and machinery like that. I have no idea why. I had a a book about a mouse on a farm, on one page was a garage full of old engines and a tractor, that was the scariest thing ever to me, even though I grew up on a farm with lots of machinery. Even today, after graduating as a mechanical engineer I still get some of that feelings when I see pre ww2 tractors. Of course I am not scared of them anymore, but they still give me that weird feelings.
I'm not scared of tractors at all and I'm 17 and help my dad run a farm. I drove a tractor when I was about 8 years old and it was an old ford, I can't remember the model. I get goosebumps just hearing one start up. I love it to this day!
@@campbell0162 I did the same thing. used tractors since I was seven or eight years old as well. Still I was afraid of those old tractors with steel wheels and open flywheels for some reason.
@@peteraugust5295 well ya that normal to be nervous around things like that. Those open wheels and moving parts are very very dangerous to be manipulating around. My grandpa had his fleece jacket caught in one once, which is a reminder to stay away from moving parts on all machinery (no matter what). God forbid if he had a serious injury because the farm was in a very rural area in the woods far away from any hospitals.
I got emotional. However, it is actually a question of whether if a tesla can secure to start easily like this machines in future. I think it couldn't happen.
At fifteen years old in 1974 I tried hand cranking an old H tractor. That thing smacked my knuckles good. I went inside trying to act cool , but PAWPAW said..." IT got you, didn't it?" I then showed him my swollen hand nodding.
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now you have to think if he knew it got you, doesn't that mean he has also done it the same way you did it.
Those old classic tractors were built to last a couple of life times and beyond! Back when Craftmanship meant something! Growing up we had a neighbor who had and old John Deere, it was a 1923, Many years later the grandson had it and it still ran great and the engine was never overhualed and it still had great oil pressure! Plus they were simple to work on too!
indeed, older tractors was built to last, and not a pile of garbage like the newer stuff today.
@@noahtheowl7107 if newer engines didn't have any computerized parts they plob last longer then again their are very few of theses engines for a reason. also most newer engine have issues because the computer sees the issue of a wire or connection being weak, like most computers will stop the car or tell you pull over and shut it off if something is going wrong and some times its a minor issue but the computer can save you thousands of dollars, like if your engine runs away very unlikey with newer engines because the computers have anti run away software. same if their is a issue with the transmission, their a higher chance the engine will notice the damage even before the damage is too bad. so its mostly that detecting the damage is alot better. it a double edge sword tho. if you know their is damage you will most likey replace it even if it has a few thousands of km left before breaking.
This is what I love about diesel engines. They can sit forever, and when you finally go to start it back up, most of the time all you have to do is put a new battery and some ether, and she fire up and be a happy engine
I started a Lanz Bulldog that the farmer
Said hadn’t been started in over 40 years , the fuel in it was like wax so after cleaning the system and filling up the burner ( it had a pressure white spirit burner ) I heated up that giant cast iron knob on the front of the cylinder head , and spun that big fly wheel and away it went , it had all steel wheels no tyres just steel tread and was an absolute monster of a tractor , much bigger than the one shown here but the farmer had a tear in his eye when the old bulldog fired up , he said it was one of the first tractors to ever work the headlands in Otago New Zealand as it would climb any hill , I’m
Not certain of the model but it has a horizontal single piston that must of been huge , the flywheel was at least 2 and a 1/2 feet in diameter, what a fabulous video this is thanks for uploading
Used to be quite a few of those in France right to the fifties
Banners aside it is definitely a great video with very interesting old-school machines that could and will run longer than anything built by today's standards guaranteed and no they might not have as much power but definitely less tear downs and rebuilds!.
Bless those mens spending time to get this old gems back to life. Yesterdays machinery
Diesels are just one of those beasts that never really die they just slumber and like an old man they're groggy and cranky to get started again.
That old Holt was amazing.
Did anyone else notice the JD that hadn't been started in 4 months had as much trouble as some of the ones that hadn't been started in 10 years?
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My dad told me about how his dad had an old old tractor with a crank start. Grandpa was trying like crazy to start it, then gave up and went into the house to take a break. Dad's brother came out the barn and gave it one crank and it started. Grandpa came a running out of the house and yelled "don't shut it off!" Sadly, the same tractor wound up rolling over Grandpa as Grandpa got off to go pee and I guess didn't set the brake! Crazy Crazy! Lesson: Don't pee in front of any tractor tires. Grandpa lived to be 90! I don't know how they did so much with so little; however, they managed.
Love 4Truth!
That was fantastic. Wonderful to see those old girls still running.
I remember as a kid starting one of those old D series John Deere tractors by hand. Open up the petcocks, hand crank it till it started on gasoline, then close the petcocks and let it warm up then change it over to diesel.
Kerosene, not diesel
The tractors starting up in the background are distracting when I'm trying to read the titles.
I love tractors. Not sure why. Maybe I do know why, maybe its because they remind me of the time america was great, when people actually worked hard for a living, when they took responsibility for things that happened, had to mend their own life and could still profit from their sweat. The basis for whats great about america is on the farm and in the tractor. What stories of blood, sweat and tears those tractors hold secret.
What is all the titles getting in the way and hiding what is going on? DO IT PROPERLY!
Doing it properly is not the TH-cam way!
Be a weirdo, do a good job. Be different
@@mikeymcmikeface5599 ya the dam banners, fuknhell, does anyone not watch their own edited video?
I remember seeing LOTS of OLD farmers missing fingers and parts of fingers......
Seeing these old tractors.
Now I know why.
Without any electronics. Pure mechanical precision will always work!
old but gold
Bonjour a tous vraiment un très beau reportage avec de magnifiques tracteurs dont certains me rappelle mon enfance à la ferme (années 1950), mais il y avaient encore des chevaux et des mulets pour des travaux bien spécifiques merci pour ces quelques instants de partage ADESSIAS
Love these mighty machines! Also very dangerous stuff, the dude shouting at the Lanz Bulldog shouts translated "Get out of there", because the guy was standing next to the flywheel.
If it gets you it will take a limb off or it will kill you!
Some of these guys just playing with their life... insane.
How nice was at times...everything says LIFE
Old engine is best very nice sound
That 1917 Holt 120, what an awesome machine.
make the graphics banners larger as we can still see some of the machinery we clicked here for
Yes Yes.....Just block the whole screen
Maybe add some really loud obnoxious music as we can hear all the sound of the machinery we clicked for.
I also managed to get a glimpse of the tractors, not good enough!
lol ikr... seriously ... but it seems to be how things are now a days ... clickbait crappy over music of which I always ask.. who the hell listens to it and where the hell did they find the music to begin with?? really long explanations text all over the videos ... or what seems like A.D.D ... head foot leg arm 2 second text .. then there are the annoying interrupting commercial adds which no one ever pays attention to or ever pops up out of there seat to rush off and buy something of... don't those morons realize that?? gees.... And I thought I was the only one that noticed all of this... actually now that I think about it this video is pretty good.. compared to some of the other stuff out there..
I was thinking the same thing. Cool subject matter video slathered over with obnoxious self-promoting graphics.
Enjoy watching these oldies start up.
I remember Dave kutney and I started up an old Massey Ferguson! My hand it had a hand crank in the wracked our wrist a couple times too and not hurt like hell!!!
my daddy used to tell me stories of growing up on the family dairy farm in virginia, and operating tractors at a young age, and working the fields and tending to the cows and even tying big rubber bands around bulls balls until they fell off. he quit school in the sixth grade to work full time on the farm.."you could do that back then but not now..legally" his first car was a used model a ford that he put a "suicide knob" on the steering wheel and would make something called ..a square turn???..he passed before you tube was popular..but he would have gotten a kick out of seeing these old tractors come alive..and he would be telling me stories of them i am sure..love you daddy.
yea my dad did basically the same thing when he was young only he quit in 7th grade. recently me and my dad got an old 1953 model A John deer started that hasn't started in 10+ years
I think you mean a NECKERS' KNOB. Lincolns had 'suicide DOORS' many years later.
@@hamdude2109 that might be the correct name for it, but i was asking my mama about it the other day and she said yes, that what people called them back in the day..maybe it was a local name for it?..i dont know or it could be regional depending where someone lives in the u.s. but thank you sir for commenting..
1:10 That guy just started a tractor by hand. THATS manly shit right there.
Who needs a starter lol
That's how majority of John Deere tractors are started. That is the flywheel he is turning.
Some amazing old gals here lads , keep the faith and keep them running
I like old tractor that time has tried and forgotten.
URSUS! Poland machines!
That 1 big ass 1917 tractor is so facinating to look at
wow, that calls old is gold. thanks for your video. I ever saw
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I love videos of people starting old vehicles
Bloody banners in the way, can't be arsed to watch
Keith Standen same
The good old days. Re-lived !
not saying how old i am but some those were fancy new tech when i was a kid. dad was a frim believer in boy and real horse power. finally bought his first tractor in 1951.
OLD TRACTORS ARE SO COOL.
Every Tractors are cool :D
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Those old tractors be tough alright!
1:56 good ol Princess Auto special right there🤠
Those iron wheels are so cool😍
Love it , Thanks for bringing our history back one more time .....
Won't be seeing this with a Prius in 30 years let alone 100.
its moments like these that make me wonder why i support environmentalists who want these tractors scrapped
so glad seeing that many are being rebuilt and done by today's younger - mid aged adults
*It is an interesting video these ancient machines were the ones that made the progress of our society. Regards.*
Amazing how some of these really old tractors are more reliable than new ones.. Starts on the first try after 30+ years!
I'm convinced now, everything on line is just a big tease !
10:07 sounds like its saying "i want to, i want to." on repeat lmfao
congrats to the batteries for the autostart models... as for the crank start, good muscles man
Last fall at my friends farm in Ohio. Spent a week there. We got his 1948 Ford tractor running.
Dayum son, that Fordson Major putting out more smoke than Snoop Dogg's hotel room!
9:04 wows this old boy is alive
I like to start up old motors too.
It would be a great video, that red and black banners blocked all the action,
The landini was also wrong labeled as an hanomag
Nice video ! I love diesel engine....🥰
I enjoyed this. I see old tractors in Folks Yards and wonder if they will run. Amazing!
lekker gekdoen met mechanica ..
I love the old tractor and the way they start like a lister engine
That awesome old never dies they just don't make it last like that any more perfectly beautiful
Love those 2 stroke field marshels
I learnt to drive on my late grandfathers MF35. A very good type of tractor.
Ursus C45 is the first Polish tractor after the WWII
Polska heheh
I always used to lose the crank to our old Alis-Chalmers tractor! Pushed it up many a hill and thru the woods!
I had a logger tell me how to start a diesel in cold weather. I takes several minutes but seems to be better than just winding on it and running your batteries down. He said to let it turn over maybe 2 revolutions. Let it sit, then do it again a few mins later. Keep it up and the compression will warm up the engine so you don't have to wind on it for mins at the time.
It'll cool back off between tries
If you want something that works, a propane torch or preferrably a heat gun in the intake works wonders
I really love seeing old tractors starting up when they have been sitting for years
i would love to stand and smell at those tractors
What they are ancient and still run .That's cool
I used some of those on the farm. Certain engines had very distinct sounds. Some of the I can tell you the manufacturer just by the audio. Wish they had an Oliver with the continental engine. It was also used a lot in WWll. Very smooth and quiet like a kitten but when loaded it was sharp raspy and mean.
The 1917 holt 120 is located in the Paso Robles pioneer museum in ca
Nice
You can not not love these Machines
Some real jewels there.
It’s cool to watch these cause most of these machines worked their whole lives and were most likely abused every now and again but with some coaxing they fire right up after years of sitting in rusting retirement
I also remember driving a Fordson Major on the Isle of Skye, as well as a Massey 25.
you want to talk about reliable machines! I am 100% honestly surprised that none of these just EXPLODED on you
I think the RED Bannners are TOO SMALL !!! LOL :)
Great credit needs to go to their designers and builders.....!
7 OSHA inspectors were harmed in the making of this film.
Those that we could SEE...
Gearing is an amazing thing
I love here hit and miss motors run!
Reaching your arm in to turn up idle speed, no wonder great grandpa had one arm - half a leg deaf died of smoke inhalation, these machines were dangerous back in the day of modernization. Good to see there are dedicated people who can still work with these machines, be carefully though 👍👍. 🇨🇦
These tractors are so cool!
Simply amazing! Try starting up a modern car after 40 years of sitting neglected! It's interesting. I navigated here after likening the "restart" of the independent American Spirit to trying to start a donkey-engine after years of neglect.
I seriously hope America survives the re-start of her Independent Spirit after almost 60 years of neglect.
Old tractors are better than new tractors
I wouldn’t have a clue how to start some of this ancient equipment, great job
When I was a kid I was seriously scared of old tractors and machinery like that. I have no idea why. I had a a book about a mouse on a farm, on one page was a garage full of old engines and a tractor, that was the scariest thing ever to me, even though I grew up on a farm with lots of machinery.
Even today, after graduating as a mechanical engineer I still get some of that feelings when I see pre ww2 tractors. Of course I am not scared of them anymore, but they still give me that weird feelings.
I'm not scared of tractors at all and I'm 17 and help my dad run a farm. I drove a tractor when I was about 8 years old and it was an old ford, I can't remember the model. I get goosebumps just hearing one start up. I love it to this day!
@@campbell0162 I did the same thing. used tractors since I was seven or eight years old as well. Still I was afraid of those old tractors with steel wheels and open flywheels for some reason.
@@peteraugust5295 well ya that normal to be nervous around things like that. Those open wheels and moving parts are very very dangerous to be manipulating around. My grandpa had his fleece jacket caught in one once, which is a reminder to stay away from moving parts on all machinery (no matter what). God forbid if he had a serious injury because the farm was in a very rural area in the woods far away from any hospitals.
I was that way as a kid with garbage trucks
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Very cool video and a Thumbs Up !
Belle rétrospective ça rappelle des souvenirs .
Outstanding !!
Why do I like these old tractors
I can feel the torque through my screen.
I saw some old boys drive a 77 Peterbilt 359 out of its 18 year grave, she drove down that mountain highway full of life
Your text covers up most start ups and takes away from the video.
Why did your graphics have to be so huge? We miss half of each start attempt.
2:11 Some upcoming rap prodigy, do your thing
Really fun video! Tractors, the most dangerous of all inventions.
Those old ones yes. The ones from the 80s,90s and modern tractors are much more safe to start.
Bravo!
Brand-new engine in an old tractor @ 1:55
Burnwash they ruined the tractor in my opinion :(
I got emotional. However, it is actually a question of whether if a tesla can secure to start easily like this machines in future.
I think it couldn't happen.
I can't imagine this technique in work now))