This video is of my walk-through of the John Deere Tractor Museum and the Antique Industrial Museum at the Linbrook Heritage Estate near Trinity, North Carolina, on November 5, 2020. I visited here as part of my November Bridge Odyssey.
I miss our old John Deere's we had when I was growing up. We had a '39 "A" model and a '41 "H" The '41 always started right up on it's battery (had been converted to 12 volt) but our '39 that we used the most always had a dead six volt battery. Don't know if you've ever started one of these manually, but if not, here's the rundown. Set the brakes. Put in neutral. Push the throttle leaver up a bit. Make sure the clutch lever is pulled all the way back. Turn on the gas line under the tank. Pull the choke lever back fully. Open the petcock valves. Grab the big flywheel and turn it by hand until you see gas misting out of the petcock valves then turn slowly till you reach the compression stroke. Give a mighty turn and if it starts, Great! If not, push the choke back in half way and lug on that big flywheel till you reach compression stroke again. It SHOULD fire this time. When it fires and begins to run, first close the petcock valves then push the choke in all the way. Climb aboard, release the brake levers by flipping them back, select a gear, give it a little more throttle and push the hand clutch in and away you go! This time of year we had that thing going almost every day because we built a hydraulic wood splitter with quick couplers that attached to the hydraulic pump on the tractor we had rebuilt. That was the first time I had ever seen leather gaskets, lol. We eventually restored the whole tractor down to the decals like these in your video, but we still used ours often for everything from plowing to baling hay and bushhogging. We used the little "H" for mowing hay with the pull type sickle bar, the hay rake and garden plowing and disking and harrowing. We had built a 3 point hitch for the "A" while the little "H" only had a small hydraulic lift for the garden plow and was otherwise pull-type for everything else. Our neighbor had a "B", a big "G" and two little "L"s and he used his in everyday farming as well. The "L"s for stuff like planting tobacco and the big "G" for plowing, discing and planting more than 20 acres of corn. He ran it like they were supposed to be ran, starting on gas in the small tank and switching to the big tank of kerosene when the engine got warm. We only ever ran our tanks on gas, using the small tank as a reserve in case the big tank ran out of fuel in the field and use the small tank to get us back to the barn so we could refill the big tank.
Will you go visit USS Nautilus PLEASE . Love to see your video on the museum. Like your videos very much, very interesting and relaxing, a good substitute when you can't travel yourself (handicapped).
@@marcsheinberg6487 , I don't know the answer. A quick look at the John Deere Wikipedia page does not seem to suggest that their model numbers are chronological.
