Dad would spin the pulley by hand to start.  We never had a tractor
starting party though.  I had friends who used to have potato planting,
cultivating, and harvesting parties though.  Ruth



At 10:57 PM -0500 3/4/03, Bruce Marcham wrote:
>Start tractors?  Anything for a party!

>Early tractors were to power belts also, not pull or plow. My 36 John Deere
>has a external clutch set up to handle a belt. Ken may remember a party when
>we started old Gurdy up by belting to another tractor. ctb
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