Posted by 47M on April 27, 2014 at 15:31:41 from (65.103.160.90):
I grew up on a farm and we used a Super M (a 1953, I think) for years. My Dad did all the maintenance work on all of our machinery, I don't ever remember taking anything to town to get it repaired.
When shutting off the Super M, he always had it in gear and just as the engine was about to stop rotating, he'd let the clutch out so the tractor would "lurch" just a tiny bit. Not enough to move the tractor, just enough to feel it. He made sure my two brothers and I did the same thing when we'd shut it down and we did it without question.
I don't know why he always did that as the engine stopped. He's been gone for several years now so I can't ask him. Now that I've got my own M, I shut it down the same way he taught us, but I don't know if it's necessary to do this or if it was something his Super M needed that other tractors don't. I seem to remember that it was transmission related, but I could be wrong about that.
Do any of you do something similar when shutting your tractors down? If so, why do you need to do it?
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