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Re: The Danger of Hand Cranking
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Posted by Bob Kerr on April 25, 2007 at 12:07:13 from (152.163.100.197):
In Reply to: The Danger of Hand Cranking posted by El Toro on April 23, 2007 at 17:13:53:
untill recently all my tractors were hand crank. an f12 and a 10-20. I always stand mto the side and pull up on compression. thumb tucked in and make sure of leg clearance. and be sure to check the timing carefully!!! and if it has a spark lever retard it! We had a nieghbor who was in his 90s and always had this round dent in his head. He said he got it when he was a kid from a farmall regular. he was plowing and somehow killed the engine while it was running kerosene. You have to restart them quick when on kero so he jumped off and grabbed the handle and pulled it.he forgot to retard the spark and it kicked back and nailed him on top part of his forehead. It knocked him out cold and he layed there in front of the tractor quite a while until his Dad got mad and wondered why he wasn't plowing. he thought jr was taking a nap! when he saw my 10-20 the first time he told me that story.
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