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.
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.
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.
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.
