Had a young chap back in the mid 50s swing one of those and it kicked back and knock three front teeth out. He was of short stature, we called him Wee Geogie Wood and the handle hit him fair and square.
As kids there were always plenty of discarded all-nylon syringes around. We filled them with TVO to make nice ‘flame throwers’. There were many ways of passing time on a farm yard. Another was interrupting the farm hand when he was snogging one of the farmer’s nieces on the sugar-beet bales, riding bales down ladders toboggan style, making a telephone exchange in the hay barn out of discarded hydraulic tube and hose pipes, making ‘joints’ out of dried out hemlock(!) stems stuffed with seeds and ‘helping’ at milking times, but probably just getting in the way.
Hi, Thanks for the Video, I used to drive one of these on the farm where I grew up. There is one very important thing you did not mention, especially when hand cranking, You must set the spark retard - advance lever to the retard position or you might cop a backfire. I used to shut to the spark off, set half throttle and full choke, two full turns of the crank, set spark to on, retarded, set choke half way and pull up on the crank, worked most of the time.
Very nice indeed, another tip I was given was if the impulse Magneto does not release ( You can hear it) just give it a tap with a wooden hammer shaft, if you crank it again and it hasn't released, you could be in for a nasty surprise.
Mate, have you tried following fordson instructions ? ignition off and full choke pull up 4 times then ignition on half choke? you dont have to be so quick to get choke open when it starts.
Had a young chap back in the mid 50s swing one of those and it kicked back and knock three front teeth out. He was of short stature, we called him Wee Geogie Wood and the handle hit him fair and square.
As kids there were always plenty of discarded all-nylon syringes around. We filled them with TVO to make nice ‘flame throwers’. There were many ways of passing time on a farm yard. Another was interrupting the farm hand when he was snogging one of the farmer’s nieces on the sugar-beet bales, riding bales down ladders toboggan style, making a telephone exchange in the hay barn out of discarded hydraulic tube and hose pipes, making ‘joints’ out of dried out hemlock(!) stems stuffed with seeds and ‘helping’ at milking times, but probably just getting in the way.
Beautiful tractor!
Hi, Thanks for the Video, I used to drive one of these on the farm where I grew up.
There is one very important thing you did not mention, especially when hand cranking,
You must set the spark retard - advance lever to the retard position or you might cop a backfire.
I used to shut to the spark off, set half throttle and full choke, two full turns of the crank, set spark to on, retarded, set choke half way and pull up on the crank, worked most of the time.
Pushing down on the crank handle is fine until you get a kick back then have the emergeny room on standby for stitches and possible dental work
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Top Nick !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice indeed, another tip I was given was if the impulse Magneto does not release ( You can hear it) just give it a tap with a wooden hammer shaft, if you crank it again and it hasn't released, you could be in for a nasty surprise.
Nice Tractor to get it to that condition took some effort congrats, are does front wheels original spec.?
Mate, have you tried following fordson instructions ? ignition off and full choke pull up 4 times then ignition on half choke? you dont have to be so quick to get choke open when it starts.
Always pull up on the crank. If that was to kick back while you're heads down there you will end up awfully sorry with yourself.
That's a lovely Fordson. Just a shame it doesn't have lift and linkage to complete the package.
Where nice tractor
Hi mate, where abouts are you based?
Just outside Canberra
Any chance I could give you a call? I’ve got one that I’m looking at restoring however I’m not sure where to get parts etc
Cheers
Are you sure that's petrol /kerosene?
Knocks like a diesel
09amusement with the compression of a diesel I wouldn’t think it would be easy to crank it over
@@benj8529 I was referring to the knocking noises from inside the engine. If my standard Fordson sounded like that, I'd be worried.
Definitely a petrol/kero, luckily the knock came from the old metal stud fan belt that was loose. Replaced it recently and no more knocking.
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That's good.
Take a look at my Fordson.
“Fordson standard in Norfolk"