the COMPLETE guide to the Farmall MD, including how the starting system works!
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- In this video I take an in-depth look at the Farmall MD, made by the International Harvester Company. This tractor is fairly rare compared to the regular Farmall M, and has a unique starting system that warms the tractor up on gasoline then switches to diesel. Using my 1950 MD, I review the model's history, specifications, unique features, mechanical details, the implements used with it, and the story of the tractor's nearly 40 year history in my family.
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That is a very good comprehensive explanation of the MD. Well done!
Hey Pete I really like this series and I think you should start this series back up and do one about the H, C, and A I would really like to see those three, Thank!
Pete, I agree... it was fun to operate the two levers to switch from gas to diesel and hear the big sound difference when running on diesel.
Wow! Awesome explanation of how to switch it over from gas to diesel. I live on a farm & have farmall tractors including M's H's Super M's F20's 06 66 & 86 series so I'm very tractor oriented but never understood how the MD worked. I never knew that the other lever actually did 4 things. Thanks so much for your thorough explanation of this!
I ended up just buying a 1943 WD-9 (ends up being an ID-9) to restore. Been working on that the last two weeks. At 17 years old and I look up to a lot of your videos. Keep it up!
Hey Pete I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you, I watched your old tractor video before heading to see the local Massey Ferguson dealer to get a newer pre owned loader tractor for are 47 acres farm. I thought about what you said as far as debt and everything else in the videos so at 23 years old I dident want the debt so I decided to turn around go on Craigslist and buy are “new” 1946 farm all h with a Dearborn loader and I couldn’t be happier with a all American made piece of vintage iron I payed $1200 cash. with a rebuilt engine new tires and paint. Please make more videos like these I really appreciate what your doing for small farmers like us!
Hi Austin, good for you! An H is a solid piece of machinery and easy to learn to repair. You won't miss that loan payment!
Good deal...!
Thanks for the video. The very first vehicle I ever remember “driving” was a Farmall MD. My grandad operated the throttle, brakes and clutch and all I did was sit in his lap and steer. His father had purchased the tractor in either the 40s or 50s and am not certain when my grandad took possession but my great grandad passed away in 1954. It was a tricycle so when I was a kid I thought all tractors were red tricycles. My grandad passed away in 1986 and my grandmother sold the tractor some time after that. I sure wish the family still owned it.
Thanks for your video. My father bought an MD new in 1947. I was 7 yrs old and PA wouldn't let me operate it by myself, so i was relegated to the 39 A till I turned 8. I negotiated down from 10. By 9 I was operating the MD in the fields. Lots of chisel plow work. The MD was the 2nd diesel on our farm, as my grandfather bought a Cat D4 in 1936, and it did most of the hog work. I remember well the starting routine, and the MD stayed in the family until my uncle traded it in on a 706 in the late 60s or early 70s. There are still a few around in Mid Mich, but very few. Ah the memories...
I had a late model MDTA with aftermarket power steering. Loved that tractor, but everyone but me struggled with starting it. Once it was running I could put other people on it, but wouldn't let them shut it down. Really liked that tractor for it's uniqueness.
I can’t wait to see her running again Pete, I hope you don’t run into any problems getting parts!
It's cool to see the MD, i am 18 years old and working on a 1953 td9 crawler its been sitting for 40 years and i am trying to make it a usable tractor for me plan to use it to plow and disk and it has a lowder on the crawler so i can use it to lift and pull big logs for fire wood , and the MD very similar but a little different than the td9, international was ahead of its time with the start on gas run on diesel engines.
Awesome explanation! You packed a lot of information into just twenty minutes. I grew up on an MD, and thought I was the only one that got a thrill out of switching from gas to diesel, lol. It truly is a unique sound. Can't wait to hear yours run! And yes, if you don't have problems with parts, it will start very easily. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for the video! It reminds me of my father's IH 650 he had here in northern Alberta. More modern tractors even plugged in in minus 40 weather would fight to get going but his old 650 would start up every time. A little cold feeding cattle in that weather in a no cab tractor, but it doesn't matter how cold it is outside, when they are hungry, they're hungry!
Love your posts. Wish my college professors could have possessed the knack to be instructive in such an interesting fashion as you. If you do a rebuild please let us watch.
Old School Dependable know how is very rare these days.. Thanks for keeping it alive Pete!!
I also wanted to say that I watch A LOT of farm tractor and equipment CZcamss and your's is definitely the most clearly communicated and well done! Thank you sir!
We had an MD on our farm in Colorado! I was introduced to it at 12 y/o. We used it as our stationary irrigation pump tractor for many years and might disc or run a packer with it occasionally. The farm chores that involved the MD always included me for some reason... I think because the starting procedure was so involved and I ran it everyday for many summers. I'm 62 now but I remember like yesterday the transition from gas to diesel. It was very mild mannered on gas but it barked like a big dog when it shifted to diesel. My dad had been a diesel mechanic for many years before we moved to our farm. He was a definitely a lot like a Drill Sergeant with issuing orders but I can remember him asking me to "Please don't ever let this run out of fuel".
One last thing.... about our changing world. I have a friend that was extremely stressed trying to find a place that could fix his 18 y/o son's vehicle. He was calling all around, arranging for a tow and it was obvious that either a loaner car or a rental car was absolutely needed. So I chimed in and suggested he should used his hunting jeep (like maybe he had overlooked it as an option)? My friend said that wouldn't work because his son didn't know how to drive a stick shift.
I actually shutter at the thought of being 18 y/o and calling my dad to tell him that my vehicle stopped going Vroom.... and that it would be great if he'd keep me in the loop as to his progress on fixing this for me. I think we'd have been on the evening news!
Overall I think things were better back then!
Thanks for the great video! I bow to your superior MD knowledge and I can't say that about very many folks!!!
I love old tractor stories. Thank you Rob!
These kids won't steal a stick shift. You can now get a class A CDL and not know how to drive a stick!
I love the Farmall tractors like that. My grandpa always told me about his MD growing up on his farm in Nebraska. I am currently in the process of restoring a 1950 MD and trying to buy a TD 6 which is the crawler version of these tractors. Mine was used for 4500 hours of corn picking with a front mount 2 row picker.
Cool Josh! Good luck with your restoration!
I really like the Farmall tractors, they looked nice and also held their own in the field. However my ultimate preference is the Fords and Fordsons. Much simpler diesel engines and were built to hug the ground a little better. We have hills here that make a wide front and shorter tractor neccessary.
I always liked the fordsons but the ferguson's caught my eye more
@@theballyglassfarm2448 we dont see them around this area. Did not have a massey dealer in the area until 2009. The folded up after a few years.
We had a Super WD 6 TA on the farm. Like you I remember the warm up time on gas and pulling the handles to change over to diesel. Always looked forward to seeing the smoke flying up . Turns out that was a fairly rare tractor. I'm enjoying your posts .Thank you
Thanks a millllllion for sharing this info. I have this tractor's full brother (1950 MD) that my grandfather used. I am in the process of starting a restoration on it and am very grateful for your willingness and ability to share and explain. Thanks again!
A gazillion years ago when I was just a wee lad, age 6/7 (I am now 72) my dad farmed near riceville, Iowa. His main workhorse tractor in the spring summer and fall was an MD. It did a lot of the tilling in the spring, cultivating of corn with a 4 row, cultivator, and come fall he had a 2 row corn picker of which he picked lots of corn with for his brother, and my grandpa's I remember those times that once it started getting COLD he would have trouble getting the MD started but they would hook onto it with the super M and it would start! I appreciated the what makes it run tour. good luck on the restoration....
HI there Pete. Now I know what a humanoid Tractor Encyclopedia looks like!!! International could hire guys like you! I really appreciate people who actually know what they are talking about!
Just found your channel buddy…. I have to say….. holy shit this was one of the most informative videos period let alone on Farmalls… can’t wait to binge these
great explanation of how that system worked. when I was a kid back in the 60's our township had a six-cylinder road grader that had the same set up. I can still remember my dad explaining how that was rather unique and how it worked. Brings back memories. I didn't know there was a four cylinder version of that style. great video.
My grandfather had a MD just like that, It was a 1948 model. I have myself a 1953 Super MD. I love those gas cranking diesel Farmalls. Anyone who has ever been around one will know that the exhaust has it's own smell when switching from gas to diesel.
Great video. Very well explained. Smart people back then to come up with that idea.
Great video! I have an F-20 in the family farm barn in MO that was left to me by my grand dad. Your knowledge and enthusiasm is amazing. It would be fun to restore, but I'm now 74 and don't even live on the farm. It's hard enough to keep my IH 656 (gas) running which shares the barn with the F-20 in MO. I use it to mow around the farm in MO when I visit from VA. I wish I had your expertise. Thanks for taking time to share your expertise and interest in old tractors. I also have a 1952 Allis Chalmers B in VA that is also a challenge to keep running.
Mark Decot
Hey Pete, awesome refresher course for me!! My Dad bought our 1946 MD from a rancher in Montana back in 1972. It didn't run (which is why we got it for "haul it off my property"!!) Free! Dad and I cleaned it up, replaced pieces, ordered new parts and done an in frame overhaul. At close to being done? We seen that there was an issue with the starter and we took the starter and certain parts that I don't recall why? But, when the IH parts man looked at it? (I'm missing a lot of details here but,) the man had a shocked look on his face and said, "I think I know why it wouldn't match up! You have a WD9 there!! You need different parts!!!" During the WW2 IH built a certain number of MD's with the WD9s for the war! Dad also built up the attachment for 3point hitch and live hydraulics for a Sargent loader attachment, and also he converted an old corn binder into a snow blower. Oh! And also I recall Dad preached at me to make sure that when we parked it at night to keep the gas/diesel lever in the diesel position!! Which we learned from the overhaul! 😆
I always appreciate how you tell the history of the tractor you are working on. what they had available when the tractor was made. thanks for passing on your knowledge
I really liked the way you explained how the fuel systems worked, you took what i would consiter a difficult thing to explain and made it sound easy.
I'm wasn't familiar with this type of tractor engine, love discovering the past ingenious things they did.
Its like discovering a great song from the past you never knew about.
I will anxiously await your work on the MD. I just finished a three year rebuild of a 450 diesel. It took two tractors to make one running one. Parts are scarce to say the least and outrageously expensive. I now have a nice tractor but the job was a huge challenge. I have far more invested in the tractor than it is currently worth. I hope that changes some day. These gas start diesels are becoming quite rare. Good luck on your project!
Just coming across this... Dream tractor for me besides the Big 4568 tractor! Saturday I had just bought myself a Farmall BN! My grandfather had a B "Culti-Vision" But since his passing 7 yrs ago I've not seen another one like it except this BN i bought local! I hope by next summer i can get a MD. Really interesting and neat video.
Looking forward to the restoration, my grandpa had a H and I remember my cousin had a MDTA in the late 70's early 80's and maybe it was a Super MDTA , enjoy your vids alot !
Hi from England. I have a Farmall H tractor on my small farm here in Lancashire, it hasn't run for 30yrs. I'd planned on selling it but after watching this video you've inspired me to get it going again. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Best wishes. Peter.
Hi Peter, that will be a fun project! I enjoyed restoring our H.
Just discovered your channel. I am really looking forward to this series on the tractor. Great description for us to understand! Thanks for taking the time. I can tell you love the topic of old tractors and are really knowledgable.
Hi, thanks. If you go to my channel, there is a playlist of this tractor’s restoration, over the course of 2 winters.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm Yup! bingeing now as a matter of fact.
Hello Mr Pete ! Recently tuning in to your broad-casts here on U Tube ! Really like your enthusiasm you have in your delivery Sir ! I love all old machinery & look forward to your working on this tractor as I have never seen one like this ! Thank you ..
Best in depth video on how the MD's worked.
Looking forward to more on it in the winter.
Nice work Pete 👍 Imagine it’s the year 2090, can you imagine any new tractor from 2020 still being serviceable or brought back to life by a small farmer with a home shop? Man, I can’t imagine it, nor anything having a service life that long anymore. My old 8n is 70 years old too and still does work and is useful. The fact things were designed to be rebuilt and be easily serviceable back then makes it so appealing plus just the lore and history of tractors of that generation. That is fascinating about the gas/Diesel engine in those, that is some super clever engineering. Thanks for sharing.
It Kristian, I agree. I read somewhere that IH designed tractors for a 10 year service life back in the '30's & '40's. Glad they got that one wrong!
I tell you what these COMPLETE guides are fantastic!
I just watched this video after watching the video of Pete tedding hay with this tractor. Great job on the half restoration Pete!!
Most thorough explanation of the MD I believe I’ve seen.
Very explanatory . I watched it twice. Complicated motor but you made sense of it. Now I want one.
You are extremely good at explaining things. You held my attention 100%.
Art
Excellent job in your explanation!! You made me want one which is saying quite a bit. I am not a tractor person. I am actually a harley person.
We love your channel,watch it all the time. You are a pleasure to listen to. I do have one question though. With all of the property and all of your beautiful tractors and equipment why would not build a beautiful lean too to cover those beauties? Hate to see them sitting in the snow and cold.
We will watch you no matter what, thanks for a great show.
Les & Vicki Smith Florida.
I'm enjoying your videos. You're getting me inspired to go finish restoring my two-cylinders I started on, but didn't finish and have been sitting for a number of years.
I can remember when I was growing up our MD was not run in the winter but when we got it out in the spring that was our big horse you are right giving those two a levers yanc that was awesome
Thats awesome that old MD in your family for all these year. Very helpful video, I still have my eye on the one my Neighbor has, Its been sitting in his barn 15 years.
Can't wait until you start working on yours👍👍
Been going back and looking at your old videos, wow, this tractor came out very well in the engine rebuild, you do a great job
Great vide showing a great tractor of its time and a great explanation of IHC and the gas start to diesel run engine. I grew up with a super A, a MD,WD6 and WD9 with this type of engine, and I think far superior to others using a pony engine. Keep up the good work, and I hope you will restore this tractor to it's full glory!👍
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I love the MDs that's so cool how that it starts on gas then switch to diesel that seems like to me better than a little engin to start the big one. And the MD has a particularly nice sound to them, love your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
We had the "M". This was very interesting...thank you so much for sharing.
Great video! Appreciate the thorough explanation. This engine is really fascinating to me. From a neat Era of tractor history seeing how different manufacturers experimented and competed to innovate. Best wishes!
I enjoyed going through this with you as you are working on the tractor. I only a few months behind on some videos.
I was a service rep for Harvester in the late 70s and heard from some of the older reps that the head cracking was caused more by operators shutting them down hot and not allowing them to idle - Harvester had "Jet Heads" on the TD crawlers but I am not aware of the technology going on wheel tractors. That injection pump rotates the opposite direction of any other one - I think IH made them as well and parts are tough to find. I really enjoyed this video and obviously you love this old tractor with all it's quirks. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the insight Philip!
The j-4 magneto also rotated backwards. the diesel and "cub" used the j-4 magneto
@@danjosephson6910 they ran off the same gear as the backwards running igntion.
Interesting. Love the video. I love red tractors and usually what you grew up with is what you love. I got to use the farmall M and a Super M for lots of activties, plowing, discing, pulling tobacco wagons, bushogging while growing up on a small family farm.
My dad had a W450 with the gas/diesel, and I only had the vaguest idea how it worked. He told me there was a third valve, but I thought the cam timing was altered via the third valve for gas. Thanks for the info!
...I earned an AAS Degree in diesel mechanics back in 1976...
...I used to work on and adjust those pumps and injectors on the test stands at the College...
My daughter just got a Farmall! I shared your video. I thought you had a playlist on farm equipment but I didn’t see it today.
Should be a nice winter project when you find the time!
I noticed you have the original style fuel cap for the main tank. As far as I know you can still take that cap into a local case dealer and they will still order a vented cap free of charge for you. Watched a video from another guy some months back about that. So unless that's just that fella's local dealer doing that or they have changed policy recently, should still be an option. Just putting it out there for anyone that didn't know cause I didn't. Really enjoy these videos.
Pete very nice in depth look at your MD I hope you are able to put it in your shop I would love to see you restore it and all the videos on doing it. I have to do a 47 Cub this winter.
Definitely need to get it restored! Super cool tractor 👍👍👍
Look forward to seeing the upcoming video this winter
All from memory, wow. Ingenious design... It was likely built in Canton, Illinois. I lived there for years and IH was a huge factory in that town and was where everyone worked or knew someone who did... When they closed it, the town nearly died and then the old factory burned down in the late 90's... Just a small history lesson.
Pete, have you considered a sawmill especially if you have a woodlot. The bandsaw mills they have now are easy to set up and work well. Twenty years or so ago I built a band mill, cost me $500.00 and its paid for itself exponentially. Oak boards are very handy for wagon decks, softwood for building construction and repairs. Scrap from the mill will keep you warm.
We have hired a portable sawmill to cut lumber for us in the past when we were renovating our house. We only have 10 acres of woodlot, so there's not really enough there to harvest sustainably.
I'm looking forward to your Complete Guide on the Farmall C. I don't have one, yet, but it's one of my favorite Farmalls.
Great in deft video Pete, I'm a big fan of all the Farmalls. On my Father's farm (western New York), we had a Super M, I was in fifth grade when Dad put me on it. No power steering that thing built some big muscles in my arms quick. Had so much power it would pull a 12ft. disc 12 cullapacter and 3 section drag all linked together in third gear all day long sometimes in fourth gear if the soil and conditions were right. I think it had a lot to do with my hearing almost gone it had a straight pipe exhaust, hey it was a lot of fun and we sure enjoyed the times back then (small farming). Good luck with your build.
I really enjoy your videos. You have a real knack for explaining things clearly.
I have my dad's MD also and had trouble getting it to run on gas. My suggestion: make sure you know where TDC is exactly. Mine is extremely sensitive to ignition timing. If I've got it figured out correctly, for starting, the engine likes the spark at TDC but the advance mechanisms in the magnetos and distributors are active at cranking speed, so you actually need it set to fire about 7deg retarded when hand cranking. Supposedly there are 7 deg and 15 deg advance magnetos, also, which can mess you up if it was changed out. Mine requires the choke to be 15/16 engaged for starting and running, stalling out at anything less until extremely warm. Switching back to gas is a real test of faith ... you have to wait 1-2 seconds beyond "back to diesel" for the fuel bowl to refill and get sucked back into the engine. Good luck. It's a real pleasure being able to shut down the tractor and then restart it without having to grab the wife and pickup!
I ran one just like that Pete. Boy did the main seal leak oil on us. we used it for everything
Im 74 and I started farming with F-20s, but a bit later I had at different times 2 F-30s. I liked the 30s much better, but I got to the place where I couldnt start it anymore
Bonsoir Pete. Very clever Gas to Diesel start. You have just got to restore her!
Great video, I have always been intriged by the MDs, one of my favorite top 5 tractors and one that if I saw for sale, I would be very tempted. I've never seen one for sale! I'll be watching as you pull it in your shop! Thanks!
Another great video. The "gasoline start" diesel engines were unique to IH. This model of engine (D-248) was also used in the WD-6 standard tread tractor, early series TD-6 crawler tractor and the UD-6a power unit. The later "Farmall" models to use this style of engine were Super MD, 400 Diesel (both D-264 engine) & 450 Diesel (D-281 engine) There was a high degree of commonality between these engines (D-248, D-264 & D-281 diesel engines)
P.S. The British built Farmall BMD and later Farmall Super BMD used a related but different engine. It was called the BD-264 engine and used a glow plug starting system. The "gasoline start" diesel engines were only used in US built tractors .
Those British diesels were converted from the gas engine. Three main bearings instead of five. The gas engines were tough enough to convert. I'd like to know if they lasted as well as the American version. Cold starting was always a problem with any diesel of that era on into the 80s. IHs gas start solution was as good as it got back then. I had an MD. The low fuel consumption was great but I was put off by the thought of tearing that engine apart! I traded it for a super M gas. Oh, about 5 gallons per hour instead of 3 and a half. Running a bushhog.
That engine design is amazing. Very cool.
Just a note on looking after your Farmall MD. it is highly recomended that with these Gas Start Diesel engines you "idle down" the engine before switching it off, particularly in very cold conditions. Diesels run hot and if they are suddeny shut off in very cold conditions the cold air flooding over the stopped engine can cause thermal shock to components such as the cylinder head. Letting the tractor idle for at least 2 minutes before shutting it down show be beneficial.
Well done Pete! This is quickly becoming my favorite channel 👍
They used those hermaphrodite engines on many power units and IH dozers. Good review mate.
We had a MD tractor when I was in school and I drove that tractor when I was nine years old. It ran cheap as diesel fuel was very cheap back then and it ran about twice as efficient as the gas M. I hand cranked the MD and it started very easy. I let it run about two minutes in the summer on gas and then switched it to diesel and I cultivated and plowed with that tractor. We never had a breakdown with it. We also used it for belt work as I ground feed and ran a John Deere silage blower with it.
Extremely informative I have a 1947 Low Boy keep the videos coming
You sir have earned another subscriber. Your passion for these tractors rivals mine for all things Jeep...
Thank you!!
Great video. I look forward to seeing her running!
So Interesting Pete!.. Tech from a simpler world..
Love your mechanical videos, such a great learning tool.
Love to see a first start in 20 years video.
We had two MDs I grew up on them I ran them day after day 12 to 14 hours a day they just ran and ran great tractor
Excellent tutorial indeed!
Watching this very informative video has got me thinking about buying my neighbors SMD he wants to sell ! Good job 👍
Very interesting tour! I'm finding your abilities and experiences to really click.... Unlike others, I have not much real farm life experience, so I don't have much memories. Only one time, I had the experience of helping a farmer to be on the hay wagon, stacking the bales, then riding to the barn and stacking hay in a loft.... It never came to my mind until when you were describing the hay baling with the square baler, and switching to round baling... On that farm, he had a dairy operation with Jersey cattle. His bull, was not a gentle bull at all. All I remember was the smell inside the milking barn.. well, I guess I do have some memories, lol.
We have a MD and a Super MTA on our farm, they make great tractors when you need a pto for an auger or grain vac
Great video! Love them old Farmalls!
I’ll look forward to an MD restoration if you can swing it. For sure, have the head checked/repaired before investing any further.
I need to rebuild my SMTA this winter; smokes like a pine fire and has developed a knock. I have a Cub, SA, B, C, SC, two H’s, an M, and the SMTA, but I wish I had a diesel! Like I need another one....
We don’t farm, just enjoy country living. Sure do enjoy your channel.
That will be a great video series
Great in depth videos, I've enjoyed the heck outta these, thanks!
Same designer as my silversides bus. Going to have to add one to the fleet.
Greetings from El Paso, Texas, Pete...I really enjoy viewing all of your videos, especially the very informative mechanical portions displaying your talents in this field. Are the prices of butchering cattle, turkeys, pigs, and chickens increased substantially up in New York State. And by how much? Thank you Pete!
Hello Pete. This comment is off-topic but this is the first film of yours that I have watched the same day as it was made.
I'm from the UK, now we might speak something almost approaching the same language we are very different in the ways we do the same thing. There are a few items where I've thought why is this guy doing or saying this? However, I think there is very little point asking questions to you on a film that is a year or even more, older. Unfortunately I've forgotten most of my questions, can just remember the one.
PORKonomics. Trying to get people to eat pork chops so that they pay for the bone. Yes I can understand that from your point of view plus I love the occasional pork chop. What the heck were you saying about brining a pork chop? Soaking in brine or somehow desalting the chop? No experience of this, butcher cuts chop you take chop home it goes under the grill or into the frying pan. Especially if you are selling old breeds leave plenty of fat on the chop. Most of the taste is in the fat. Do the kidneys have to be separated off the pig for inspection? A beloved dish in the UK was the chop with a bit of kidney attached. Alas, we can't buy them any more something else the EU killed off. community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/29935827/pork-chops-with-kidneys-attached#flvWelcomeHeader or not, www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/423857-pork-chops-and-kidney/ no idea who to believe? It might add a few cents to the value of the product. Maybe it is just a taste of our youth but it was just enough kidney to counterbalance the pork.
Added to this but not a question about what you said just an idea to make a bit more money. What are the rules on what happens to the pigs blood? It might be a niche product but is there any tradition of eating Black Pudding in New York state? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding blackpudding.club/black-pudding-facts/world-black-pudding/black-pudding-england/ The picture on The Black Pudding club's website is a Lancashire type pudding. The Yorkshire version doesn't have the lumps of fat and has far more oats or barley. The Black Pudding Club is quite a comprehensive site. Only just found it now while trying to explain black puddings. Damn just seen the Irish guidelines for bleeding an animal for human consumption. This is looking expensive, it's no longer just bleeding a pig into a drum.
Hope my mutterings are of some use. Must try to remember what else it is you have said that I didn't understand.
I've been binge watching your videos Pete and I must say you have a lot to offer with all your intelligence sir,I always wished I could have been a farmer but I graduated in 75 and at that time farmers were losing their farms, it wasn't a good time with having no money so I went into construction but I did grow up on a farm, my dad worked for a farmer so I was around a lot of farmalls case Oliver's and Alice Chalmers, question did the Oliver's start on gas and then switch to diesel ifbi remember correctly they did a kid I went to school with his dad owned all Oliver's that's why I ask...I really like your videos great great content I'm surprised you don't have more followers but not everyone is interested in farming like you!