First start 1931 JD D in 68 years-after engine rebuild
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2017
- Has not run since the winter of 1949. I have had this tractor for over 40 years, & it always got set on the back burner for other projects...it was time to hear her run.
For the unbelievably sharp-eyed genius types who see that the flywheel rim is shiny, YES! I know that! I rebuilt the engine, and in the process turned the flywheel over MANY TIMES! And lo and behold, it got shiny!!! Go figure!!! Shut up about it already. Comments about it will be deleted instantly.
Update: It seems a few IDIOTS either don't believe this was the first startup after so many years, or have a problem with me parking the tractor where people can see it...for the IDIOTS, this link to smokstak will show what the tractor was like in 2008. I experienced a couple of life-changing events in the years following, which delayed work on the tractor...
www.smokstak.com/forum/showth...
Go to post#52 in the thread.
To all the good comments, thank you. I do appreciate them.
Spent many hours plowing fields on a D in my youth.
Ran on distillate and had rubber tires. That deep pumb pumb forever in may memory’s.
You sir, have brought back some good memories for me. my uncle used to collect these tractors. 50 years ago, he taught me how to start these tractors, and drive them, I had so much fun! The John Deere is truly a classic tractor!
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I don’t know what some people think. Just by looking you can tell you have given the old “dear” some love before you tried to start it. Too bad the video wasn’t longer, I could of used the rhythm to put me to sleep. Great old sound. Well done.
He put in the comments to the video that he had turned it over 500 times to get it to start after he did other engine work.always read first that tractor would never start if he didn’t do some work to it first
Man what a magical thing to have just hanging around your property. All that time. Beautiful sound to see the ol girl turn over. Old school American ingenuity never gets old. Someone probably based their entire life around working that lovely piece of iron. And you did whoever he was a real solid gesture by tinkering her back to life.
That was a good video. I love the old iron . I attend many old thresher reunions here in the midwest. All of the many ingenious designs of the nearly industructable machines always captivate me. Watching them demonstrate their capabilities is awesome and its guys like you that make that possible.
I'm glad this popped up on my feed to watch. Great to hear that thing fire up and go. Obviously a labor of love on your part Ron. Thank you for sharing this.
That's like slow rain on a tin roof to my ears. Those old JD's are magnificent machines. Glad you were able to bring it back to life.
I worked for a John Deere Company back in 1978 in South Lyon Michigan , It was a co-op job i got from High School . Thank You for your work, it brought back a real good time in my life .
bill ryan My uncle claimed the pistons in these old 2 lunger John Deers stood still & the tractor jump around them. They weren't that bad in the 50's & 60's when I was doing field work with an model A and 720. They certainly had lot's of low end tork. Good to hear the old girl run again. Thanks for sharing.
That was awesome! To anybody who doesn't believe this wasn't your first start: check out your reaction at 3:10. That first BARK when it starts would have given me a heart attack. And also your final comments just about sum it up... what a beautiful sound. Keep up the great work.
Listen to that sweet 2 cylinder making music. Love it! Thanks for sharing.
....i especially liked the ending....."well SHIT!".....GREAT JOB! I liked it! looks like a dangerous piece of equipment, lots of noise and pressures....WOW! Good Job! Sounded Great!
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Very cool old machine. Thanks for showing us how it starts!
Nice job! You sure looked happy when it fired up :) Too cool!
Like your video. I always enjoy seeing old iron run again
There is something extremely satisfying about very old engines starting up.
Man that brings back some good memories of my dad. He's been gone for 40 years but I still remember him and his old D with the spiked wheels. I remember once we bogged it in some really bad mud. I wondered how we would ever get it out. He cut down a couple small trees and put in front of the lugs and that old tractor popped right out of the mud. Thanks for sharing this video.
Yep, those old guys knew how to git 'er done, didn't they?
Yep working with what they had. Keep up the good work.
Loved it! Thanks for sharing!
What a sweet sound right there, ya gotta love those old tractors and there awesome engines........thank you
Beautiful sound. Nothing runs like a Deere...
Nice job, good to see she still lives.
I rebuilt a Buick V8 engine in an MGB, the joy of the first start is magic.
Love the noise of this old JD.
We sometimes had to resort to pull-starting our A's and D's. The D's have been long gone, but still have a few A's to look at.
A new lease on life ! Thanx for sharing !
Great job! Thanks for such an amazing video!
Love the way these, and farmalls sounds
Love these old relics.
VERY nice work kind sir!
What an awesome piece of Americana. Love it.
I'd be pissed off to if you woke me up after 68 years and i wouldn't co-operate with you.
I thought he was going to burn himself on a hot engine trying to start it. The man has a good memory of the procedure to start it after so many years.
1-The engine was cold before it started.
2-"The man" was 1 year old the last time this particular tractor ran, but "the man" grew up around & worked on similar tractors all his life. He got the procedure figured out in those years...
Ура , он работает, я нервничал 3 минуты. Хорошо , что такая техника сохранилась и она живая. Удачи.
Thanks-I think... :/
I love old iron fired up for the first time in many years. And for hand starting that tractor my hats off I have hand started one John Deere model b hand start once and that was enough for me.
I would love to have an older tractor like this, I just think there amazing and they are a true work horse....unless you use a horse or mule.
beautiful, i love those old JD's
Imagine how early your day started, an how early bedtime was back then. I mean, youd have to show up to the farm an hour early just to get the equipment running not to mention when it was 10 degrees out with a foot of snow. Hand starting must back been real a real chore haha. But back then to them, this was state of the art.
Awesome! Those iron wheels would really aerate the lawn! Thanks for sharing!!!!!!
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There used to be signs on a lot of roads in Iowa that said no steel lugs
still have blisters? I have 2 tractors 63 ford commander 6000 an 39 farmall 14. the 14 is hand start only. This next year I'm getting a 39 JD A. This will be my wife's. You know as well as others that there is something to the sound to a hand start tractor that you just have to love. Just like a old Harley Davidson. Thank you for sharing an bringing it back to life. I
saw post you had a leak with it hope you have found the time to get it regoing. Best of Luck.
Well done with TLC .That was some compression. She was huffing & puffing , than she was breathing. More videos on driving it. Please Sir.Be safe and well. Thank you. Shiiiii!.
What a beautiful old machine
Growing up on a farm, my Dad ran our JD 2-cyls. on a mixture of roughly half gas/ half diesel. He referred to that as distillate? Started them on gas though before switching to the other tank. Saw on one of your replies that distillate was kerosene? Had an AR, BR, and a G Model. Grandpa had a D with electric start. Nice to see your post. Thanks!
Distillate was a product of the old refining process that became obsolete when the catalytic cracking process was adopted. It was a grade between kerosene & diesel, basically a byproduct, so it was cheap, like 3c/gal. in the 40's. The new process allowed more of the heavy fuels to be cracked into gasoline, so kerosene & diesel got more expensive & distillate went away...your Dad's mixture of gas & diesel was probably close to true distillate. Thanks for your interest.
Awesome ,Brother!
That's amazing! Built to last!
that was running like dog shite it sound harsh it needs restoring
@@mcfreezeupcoming4522 that's what a 2-cylinder is supposed to sound like, dumbass.
it's beautiful just the way it looks
Nothing like the sound of an old project finally lighting off
Wow! What a moment-I would have done a Doctor Frankenstein: "It lives! It lives!"
Great video; thanks.
I started an uncles JD that way. So cool.
Great video thanks . I would love to see it running a big rip saw with that flat pulley .
Sounds lovely
cool D. one day I will own a 40 or a 420 to play with. I am from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. spent a lot of hot summer days stacking bales on wagons behind I.H.C. Hs and Ms. red seemed to be the popular color up there back in the day. few As and Bs around and the old Olivers
That was amazing, thankyou
Beautiful, love it
Nice job. 501 cubic inch of good old school power!
ronm99 I'm Jealous , That is an awesome tractor, You should be proud it still runs. Great job keeping it going.
U made it BRAVO!!!
That is so COOL!
I think back to my 1960s childhood and there seemed to be old tractors on just about every farm where i grew up, outdoors, discarded along the tree line or fence and left to the elements slowly sinking into the ground. There was one at the primary school i went to set up for us kids to go mad on and i recall playing on the thing, with its huge CASE radiator and steel wheels. Then one day the Fire Brigade came to our school gala day, dragged our fave playground thing into a field and spent the day setting it on fire with buckets of gas and covering it in foam to put the thing out. The machine sat there for another 30yrs and suddenly some guy came by in a truck with huge bulldozer trailer and a collection of local old tractors and it was gone. Gone for scrap read the local paper.... WHAT A WASTE!
I know. this one would have gone to scrap if I hadn't grabbed it. Too many didn't get saved.
Wow!! Pure American.. Could u imagine a 19 yr old boy trying to start that bad boy..He would be trying to use his cellphone or looking for an app to start it..
great job. love seeing old iron come back to life. i do old lanterns my self and have videos here. also am subscribing to your page. kepp up the good work sir. and hope you are better now as well. Bobby
Thank you.
good Job Ron!!
Thanks, Steve.
Very nice she has alot of heart left. an run after we are gone
Nice to see that it runs. Needs a little TLC and the old girl will be running smooth again.
Beautiful!
Sounds like the oil well engines I hear running back in the hollows.
Beautiful machines from an era when things where built to last! Nice job on the rebuild, are you going to repaint or leave the patina? I think the old boy would look pretty sharp with a new coat of JD green!
I have a friend with 2 Deere that start with the wheel. I had no idea how they worked until he made me turn the wheel, looks way easier than it is.
Dang, you did good for letting it sit 68 years, that's what I'd do too!
TU!
Just listen too those two cylinders pumping 😋
As the saying goes "Nothing runs like a Deere" They should also add "Or lasts like one" The old girl sounded great. Thanks
ha..good job.thats awsome
(Posted by Rick Pickell) Just doing the math. This old girl had worked 18 years before it was parked. Still J.D. tractors are reliable equipment.
Nice tractor
At least you don't have to worry about the tires going flat! :)
Outstanding
A man may have to pack his lunch to start that ol tractor. Lol
Fartin' ol' dinosaur! I had to pull start my '39 F-20 the first time, until I figured out I had the mag in the wrong hole.
I can just picture the old farmers in the 1930 s saying the hell with this ,get the horses!
They are all dead
ItzAtarii _ all the more reason to get the Deere ;)
Would love to see that driving around
Sounded like Deere old John was saying what took so dang long ; )
There is nothing like an ol’ Johnny Popper!!
I still has a lot of compression despite the age and time abandoned
Yes, a Papal ablution visit for sure. "Holy shit"! lol
That was awesome. Any updates?
Well, I parked it out in front by the garage for yard art, & the gas tank started leaking...so, one more project...
Awesome!!
That's awesome
I see a lot of these old JD's on youtube, and it seems they are capable of sitting around for years then with a few nudges here and there will kick into life . Are they 4 stroke? and the decompression valves, are they simply a port into the combustion chamber to lower the compression a bit so they will start?
This is one of those vehicles that always start/run
this is amazing how did you prep it before trying to crank it over
Nice old D
Out-freekin'-STANDING!!! Been there, done that .... got the "shiny flywheel"! Hahaha! Anyone who'd bitch about resurrecting this jewel has never had to sling the flywheel on a JD - and rip a fingerprint off when it DID cough to life in a cloud of smoke .... {;^) I'm sure that by now you have it tuned to perfection, painted SHINY green and you're using it in the summer a little to keep it limbered up. Youngsters can't do this stuff like us "old farts" can - keep up the great work!!
Ei amazing engineering
Just for the s' and g's that flywheel looks nice and shiny :)
Had to push your luck, didn't you?
ronm99 just messing around pal. I love these old machines. Unfortunately you're pay upwards of £300,000 in the uk
Safety first. Ear muffs. Breathing protection. Pretty cool all the same.
Oh man I wish I could drive this thing to work
Well, allow yourself plenty of time-top speed is about 3MPH...and you better have your kidney belt...it's rough. :)
Damn right!
Screw the haters. Thats an amazing old machine. That sounds like a fairly big single. Any idea of displacement?
501 cu. in., 2 cylinders. 6-3/4" bore, 7" stroke.
501 cu in
Holy smokestacks I didn't know that they had that much displacement! I think the HP rating on those old JDs were somewhere in the 17 HP range at least the very early ones. That bore and stroke is all about torque!
Yea 17hp and 350 Lb/Ft of torque at 1000 rpm. lol
king of the world I love it!
I'll have an old JD one of these days!
Hi.
I grew up on a small farm.
Have driven tractors.
Some questions:
1: Does run on gasoline or diesel?
2: Did you change the old motoroil before starting it?
3: Did you flush the cooling system before starting it?
Thanks for your videos.
Love to watch old machines and motors wake up and roar.
I replied to you, but it never showed up.
Runs on gasoline or distillate. (Kerosene).
The old oil was long gone. new oil & crankcase flushed..
Same with the cooling system.
Cool, thanks.
I love it
Super bhai
No need to be afraid of it.. jumping back like it will bite you.. lol
Hey, they NEVER fire on the first turn...wasn't ready for that surprise...
I haven't done that since I was a teenager.