"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
09/26/2016 at 15:03 • Filed to: Lanz Bulldog, Starting
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
09/26/2016 at 15:03 • Filed to: Lanz Bulldog, Starting | 2
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Using a blow torch and the steering wheel.
Picture by the author
And to see the whole process in moving pictures (they don’t always start this easily...)
Why the steering wheel? Well, turning an exposed flywheel is a potentially dangerous activity so you cover it up. You still need to turn it and you don’t want to fit a starter, dynamo and battery so you leave a little flap for access. You then need some kind of turning thing to use to turn it. The steering wheel is to hand and turns.
Sensible, really.
Lanz, makers of the Buldog, were bought by John Deere and gradually became John Deere Deutschland. The bigger Deere models are still made in the Lanz plant in Mannheim.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> Cé hé sin
09/26/2016 at 15:07 |
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My first thought is that this seems Soviet as fuck, but the Germanness of it is confusing me.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Cé hé sin
09/26/2016 at 15:14 |
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So you’re telling me that Resident Evil’s ongoing nonsense with detachable steering wheel-looking things was based in reality, however accidentally?
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Cé hé sin
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
09/26/2016 at 15:16 |
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It’s not, somewhat surprisingly. Lanz were based in Mannheim which is in Baden-Wuerttemberg, SW Germany. There were quite a few tractors of this design with hot bulb engines, like this Italian Landini which as we see was started the dangerous way.
The green one beside it was often started with a blank cartridge.
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Cé hé sin
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/26/2016 at 15:17 |
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No idea what any of this means I’m afraid!
jimz
> Cé hé sin
09/26/2016 at 15:22 |
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hot-bulb engine?
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Cé hé sin
09/26/2016 at 15:24 |
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The Resident Evil video games have, since the ‘90s, had a penchant for requiring one to find a control wheel, usually for a valve, to solve various puzzles. Why such a wheel would be detachable with a long shaft was never explained a single solitary time.
Frequently such games have multiple valve wheels, with different interfacing ends. Triangular drive, hex drive, square drive, as a purely deranged way of explaining why one couldn’t just carry a universal wheel in the inventory...
Then of course, one game featured a mechanism to
remake
one of said wheels on the end from triangular to square, or some such. Truly an idiotic series of puzzles.
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Cé hé sin
> jimz
09/26/2016 at 15:24 |
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That’s the one. Came with a little blowtorch when new, most owners now use gas burners as with the Landini.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Cé hé sin
09/26/2016 at 15:29 |
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Exotic ways #4: Shotgun Shell.
This method was mostly used in vintage aircraft but I’ve also seen tractors that use it.
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Cé hé sin
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
09/26/2016 at 15:36 |
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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Cé hé sin
09/26/2016 at 15:40 |
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Oops. Would help if I actually paid attention to things once in a while.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> Cé hé sin
09/26/2016 at 16:07 |
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He certainly made it look like he knew what he was doing.
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Cé hé sin
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
09/26/2016 at 16:23 |
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He was lucky too! I’ve seen this done in real life and it took several cranking sessions and false starts.