TODAYS SEAT TIME

[LouNY]

The older Internationals that had the ether push button used the push button to give the engine one shot when you pushed the button.
The directions were that you should have the engine cranking over THEN push the button for the shot of ether.
One problem was the ether button was a black push button and guess what the starter button was, yep a black push button.
Also they did not have a lock out on the number or timing of the button pushes.
I have worked on engines that were given too much ether, tuliped valves, broken rings, piston lands broken and one with the piston shoved down below the rod.
That said I have used it myself on some of my engines.
I really dislike seeing it sprayed into air filters and then the engine cranked over.
My procedure requires two people or a remote starter, with the engine turning over just a tiny shot or two,
if it is easy to access I'll pull the air filter or a hose off to get direct access to the intake manifold.

But it is a last resort, I'll get my wife to tow with the pickup first if no one else is available.
A geared tractor will light off quite well with no fanfare or issues with a tow start, unfortunately power shift, power shuttle and HST's don't work with that.

 

[K5lwq]

The older Internationals that had the ether push button used the push button to give the engine one shot when you pushed the button.
The directions were that you should have the engine cranking over THEN push the button for the shot of ether.
One problem was the ether button was a black push button and guess what the starter button was, yep a black push button.
Also they did not have a lock out on the number or timing of the button pushes.
I have worked on engines that were given too much ether, tuliped valves, broken rings, piston lands broken and one with the piston shoved down below the rod.
That said I have used it myself on some of my engines.
I really dislike seeing it sprayed into air filters and then the engine cranked over.
My procedure requires two people or a remote starter, with the engine turning over just a tiny shot or two,
if it is easy to access I'll pull the air filter or a hose off to get direct access to the intake manifold.

But it is a last resort, I'll get my wife to tow with the pickup first if no one else is available.
A geared tractor will light off quite well with no fanfare or issues with a tow start, unfortunately power shift, power shuttle and HST's don't work with that.

Dad would never let us put ether in those dispensers for that very reason. Black button. We could always get an old M going and pull the rest of the tractors off in cold weather.

 

[Oldpath05]

So I guess when using ether, 1 quirt 2 quirts, 3 squirts your out. Good thing glow plugs were invented but I always thought they was invented 30 years ago at most, then I read someone here had them on a 60 year Massy.......

 

[Cougsfan]

I just Googled it. Glow plugs first were used for starting diesels in 1929.

 

[Johnkn]

Used BH to transplant some bushes for the wife.

When you plant those hydrangeas cut them back to 18”. Good luck.....

 

[Oldpath05]

I just Googled it. Glow plugs first were used for starting diesels in 1929.

Guess they have been around along time, probably right after they started making diesel engines, but definitely like all things improvements were made in 90 years, and so I'm most likely in the prechamber diesel engines club what ever prechamber is...........

"It was the second half of the '90s, all glow plugs were used in prechamber diesel engines, where the glow plugs and the injector were fit inside a prechamber inside the engine head. Here the injected diesel fuel exploded then the high temperature gas expanded to the cylinder moving down the piston before................"

Etecno1 Diesel glow plugs history.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Did some roadside mowing today which included a couple small fields that I mow once a year after the fall song bird migration is done.





gg

 

[RaydaKub]

WOW thats quite a story!!!!!!! Now did this happen at the same time Tim the Tool Man show was on TV.............

:laughing: Long before TtTM was a gleam in some writer's eye. I was about 15 at the time, so back in the mid 70's I would guess.

 

[Oldpath05]

Got .8 of an hour on the BX1500 picking up small tree limbs and branches.
Got 7 tenths of an hour on the BX23 filling in a small hole in the yard cleaning out at the end of a 6'' culvert and moving a few buckets of the free dirt I got about a month ago.

I accidently got on the OPs first post, it appears this old thread might of strayed a bit from the OP 1st post intentions or what the OP had in mind, probably dont matter since that person has long left the building..........

 

[Oldpath05]

:laughing: Long before TtTM was a gleam in some writer's eye. I was about 15 at the time, so back in the mid 70's I would guess.

Oh no I accidently found out your almost as old as I am .......