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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 05/31/2015 at 16:00 • Filed to: Bulldog Lanz

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I’ve been to a show where all kinds of things were to be seen.

Take for example this tractor. You expect to just turn a key to start? Not this one. You light a fire at the front to warm the hot bulb and after five to ten minutes this should be hot enough to ignite the fuel. Now you can get cranking.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Cé hé sin 05/31/2015 at 16:06

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Someone I know has one where you light a fire in the front, then when it’s warm enough, hammer a 12-gauge shotgun shell into a special cavity to start it.

Cé hé sin > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 05/31/2015 at 16:24

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I saw someone using a similar technique. He took out a plug, put some rolled up paper in, lit it, waited until it was glowing then put the plug back in and cranked away. Started straight away.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Cé hé sin 05/31/2015 at 16:29

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Some of this stuff is pretty crazy, huh?

MultiplaOrgasms > Cé hé sin 05/31/2015 at 16:37

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Good old Bulldog engine. Worse than diesel in every way but extremely reliable and runs on literally anything vaguely resembling oil.

Cé hé sin > MultiplaOrgasms 05/31/2015 at 17:59

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I’d never heard of hot bulb engines before so I looked them up. Now I know why one of the owners at the show started his engine in one direction while it ended up turning in the opposite direction. Popular in Scandinavia because once you had spent ages pre heating they would start quite easily in cold climates.

MultiplaOrgasms > Cé hé sin 05/31/2015 at 18:05

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Also very popular in my home country. So popular in fact that in some regions people still refer to all tractors as “Bulldogs”, even though said engine went out of production in the 1950s.

Also available as a Convertible, Coupe or Shooting Brake btw.

Berang > Cé hé sin 05/31/2015 at 18:06

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The starting “crank” is also the (removable) steering wheel.

Cé hé sin > MultiplaOrgasms 05/31/2015 at 18:06

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Yes, Wiki says it’s a popular term particularly in Bavaria.

Cé hé sin > Berang 05/31/2015 at 18:08

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Such splendid economy. Use each part for as many jobs as possible.

The other old tractors I saw were started by just swinging the flywheel by hand.

kanadanmajava1 > Cé hé sin 05/31/2015 at 20:02

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My former coworker had one of these. He unfortunately sold it.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 05/31/2015 at 20:07

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A lot of old planes used to start with shotgun shells.

Cé hé sin > kanadanmajava1 06/01/2015 at 04:42

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I didn’t know they did tracked ones too.

kanadanmajava1 > Cé hé sin 06/01/2015 at 11:33

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I guess they are pretty rare. There’s one in a tractor museum 40 km from where I live but I’m not sure if it is in running condition. They have two “normal” Lanz Bulldog tractors that they run occasionally outside the museum. They sound really awesome when they are running.

Cé hé sin > kanadanmajava1 06/01/2015 at 12:37

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Yes, they go chug...chug...chug and the tractor shakes each time. A huge single cylinder engine running very slowly.