What about old Fords?

My dad has a '79 Ford tractor that was his dad's. 2 cylinder n/a diesel. My dad told me it has glow plugs (it must have something, he can start it in the winter), no block heater or anything though.

 

belive it or not my uncle still has a cat grader with a pony motor and 2 d8's and a d6,with a CABLE blade.oh yeah,we still use a 2u scatcat to butt scrapers.

 

Amazing what a hit of snort will do for a cold diesel.

Nothing quite like hearing one of the Steigers on the farm with the V12 Detroit fire up cold

 

not familiar with 2u scatat unless it is a 2U D-8 used for a pusher

 

they were a dealer built thing with a 337 scraper motor and the trans modified so you had 5 reverse gears and a clutch/tourque converter.ours we changed the trans around and took off the push cup off and put a blade and c-frame back on so we could grade up the cut between scrapers.

 

ok,must have been similar to the 9U WD-6 that a florida dealer built many years ago to use in cane fields,looked to have had a modified grader chain case hooked to the final drives

 

yeah,these were mostly built in the mid-west for BIG road jobs and such.

 

pony motor:small gasoline motor used to warmup and start big diesel engines
cable blade:front blade lifted up by a winch system
Johnson bar clutch:?????????????????????????????

I didn't need wikipedia.

 

not quite. a pony motor is a small gas engine used in place of an electric starter.
correct.

caterpillars name for a hand operated clutch.
it is a "bar" sticking up out of the floor, kinda like the clutch lever on an older wood chipper

 

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Everythings pretty well explained except the Johnson Bar( also known as slide bar),that was the forward/reverse lever for the transmission

The name Johnson came from the Cat engineer that developed the particular invention
Another of his inventions for Cat was the Johnson selfloading scraper,in the early days was called a johnson as in 621 johnson which was a 21 yard selfloader in the later years just the J was used ie 613J 618J 623j etc

 

I have a Bolens Garden tractor woth a Mitsubshi 3 cylinder diesel (15 HP) with glow plugs

 

I now have a job farming for a neighbor. My dad's '58 730D had a block heater, no other starting aids. My neighbor's 4020D has none that i know of. His 4440 & 4640 both have ether starting aids. Poof of black smoke and they start right up.....it was 39 degrees.

 

JohnDeere 30, 40, 50, 55, and 60 series tractor were set up thru the attenuator to provide full throttle fuel (even with throttle lever at idle) on start up. That is why you get the rapid acceleration and heavy black smoke on start up.

 

At home we've got a Farmall 560 and 706 that both use glow plugs. The difference between theirs and a pickups was that where the pickup had a light that goes out when its okay to start, the tractors have a button you hold in for 10-15 seconds with a glow plug gauge next to it.