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Hand Crank remember them back in the day

TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
edited October 2016 in General Discussion
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember seeing my Uncle Ned start his John Deere tractor by hand, but not with a crank. He spun a flywheel on the side. Loved that old tractor.[8D]
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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,307 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When in High School I had a 31 Ford Model A with a hand-crank, used it when the battery was dead, but at times the handle would reverse during cranking with blow-back pressure and damn near break my forearm, seriously I'd lay on the ground trying to recover. I love electric starters [;)] [:D]

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My brother has had old Fords since he was 16. He had a 26T Ford "phone booth" first, and several 30-31 Fords, plus a 27 T touring. He loved to hand crank those things. He had a way of folding his thumb under so the crank wouldn't kick back and break his arm.
    Once he was trying to crank his "T" and I tossed a cherry bomb that landed right under the engine as he was pulling the crank. When it exploded he jumped about five feet in the air, and when I started laughing he chased me around the house with a stick, but he couldn't catch me. [:D]
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not a car, just an airplane. I had an old Cessna 150 when I lived in Great Falls, Montana. In the winter, the temps would drop so low the battery wouldn't turn the engine over. So, make sure the tail was tied down and get out and start the engine by flipping the prop manually. There is definitely a right way and a wrong way to do this. [:D] That's a bit more exciting than hand cranking tractor.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    still got the old hand crank telephone i used as a kid ...looks like NEW....
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  • EVILDR235EVILDR235 Member Posts: 4,398 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    35 years ago my wife had a 1959 Morris Minor 1000. The wheel lug wrench was also a hand crank for the engine. Worked best when the engine was already warm. I use to start it that way sometimes just to blow people away. I use to also hand crank my friends 1937 Chevy 1-1/2 ton crane truck because all the teeth were gone off the flywheel.

    Juan Tonabondo.
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    Propped a Rutan Long-Ez, many a time.

    Model T, Many times.

    1954 Ford Anglia, many times..
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,371 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    when I first met my wife her dad had a old tractor ( do not even remember the model )
    it had a hand crank he ask me a few times to start it . then my wife told me one day he just wanted to see if I could , to prove my man card I guess .
    it was like turning over the entire tractor with that crank , worst hand crank engine I ever started , and yes I started it up , also it would kick back sometimes and felt like your arm was broke [:0]
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Several years ago I had a 37B John Deere with the fly wheel I had to crank to start it. I parked it on a hill and just used the hand clutch to start it most of the time.

    When I was a kid my dad had a front hand crank tractor, can't remember the make, but it was orange, so maybe an old Alice Chalmers.
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    Does an OMC sail drive count?
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've hand cranked an Allis WC, a 29 model A and an old hit and miss engine. I would start the hit and miss just to hear it run.[:D]
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    check out a website called Hardly Fraught...they have a neat mechanical chain saw...it's got a crank......wooooo!!
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a Datsun pickup that had a hand crank capability. I had to use that after the starter motor went out until I traded it in on a new Pinto wagon.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    long gone the days of pinto power, ford exploder, corvair axle shear....now we have union dominated historic high recall list...safety first mfg genius at work/break
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Not a car, just an airplane. I had an old Cessna 150 when I lived in Great Falls, Montana. In the winter, the temps would drop so low the battery wouldn't turn the engine over. So, make sure the tail was tied down and get out and start the engine by flipping the prop manually. There is definitely a right way and a wrong way to do this. That's a bit more exciting than hand cranking tractor"

    First airplane I was ever in got started this way. Did not instill great confidence. When I asked the pilot/owner about restarting if it died while airborne, he made the situation worse by saying "Don't worry about it. If it dies, we'll crash before I could re-start it even with a good battery".
    I knew an old guy who parked his B John Deere by backing it onto a chunk which lifted one rear wheel and blocking the other. He started it by spinning the elevated rear tire. Once started, it ran until he got back to the house(hopefully) unless there was enough slope to utilize the "gravity starter".
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Posted - 10/27/2016 : 11:55:11 PM Show Profile Email Poster Reply with Quote
    I had a Datsun pickup that had a hand crank capability. I had to use that after the starter motor went out until I traded it in on a new Pinto wagon.

    Man, you went from sheet to crap didn't you?
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  • mackcranemackcrane Member Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Buddy had an Old CAT D-8 with a Handcrank Pony Motor that You started to get the Diesel Engine started. Better get it right & watch for Kickback.
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,569 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a couple International M and H that we hand cranked and we had a pump that we used for irrigation that used a hand crank
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    lrned the hard way about kickback on a Farmall super A
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    PULL UP ONLY! Push down=broken arm.

    Peace

    Dan
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by searcher5
    PULL UP ONLY! Push down=broken arm.

    Peace

    Dan
    [:D][:D]Yeah, my father told me he learned that lesson first hand back in the early 40's with a Model-T. [:D][:D]
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