I thought that the "popper" was the two cylinder model that you started by opening the petcocks (compression release) and grabbed a hold of the huge flywheel on the side and gave it a spin.
The ranch I grew up around had one of those. It was a JD and it kinda popped when it was getting started.
You are right -the Popper does pop all the time, gets louder under load. When I was a KID of 12 years of age my dad loan me out for free to my one of my older sisters and brother in law for six months. (Summer time when I was thinking about trouble) When I think about it I can still hear that noise in my ears. (I did get Bread and Water and a good place to sleep) I guess that was great for the 50d’s
The other tractor looks like a Farmall WD40 a diesal that starts with gas and when you flip the lever – my dad told me to count to 60 slow, if you wait longer then that-the dam thing may blow up – then NO MORE Billy... I was called Billy all my younger years, when I married Barbara, she put a stop to that name. Both Mom and Dad have died (Mom 97- Dad 87 – They were Great) the home farm was 220X160 Rod’s long.
WD-40 is actually a pretty stout horse. Essentially a 4 or 5 or even 6 bottom tractor depending. It had to compete well with steam engines to be successful, and had to run on what could be poor fuel and do it fairly efficiently. No easy task in those days. Steamers pulled more bottoms, but most didn't actually plow that deep either. Machines like the WD-40 went a bit faster and didn't need all that support to keep it fed. Running a steamer is a 2 to 4 man operation, so a fuel tractor compares well in cost per acre. The oil pulls were too similar to the steamers in many ways. Size, cost and slow gearing worked against them in the end. That's why a WD-40 was considered nimble for a workhorse. It was all part of the tractor downsizing that was going on.
FYI, the auto switch over is a little gear box that counts off roughly 800 revs and switches. Problem is, when the engine is warm you don't really need that much time and they suck that gas tank dry pretty quick. On the plus side they will idle on well less than a gallon an hour, so most weren't shut down much. (This was on newer models – the new ones did not blow up kids any more.)
Last edited by bjbethke; 08-27-2011 at 08:35 PM.
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Thanks everyone so far. My customers request is that I make a toy model about the same as my kids push car with 4 wheels and a hay wagon to pull behind. Thats why I needed the straight on side view. The tractor is going to be about 14" long.
I'll see what I can come up with in designer.
Thanks again Daniel
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Please take a look to see if it suitable for your project. Free minor modification is available upon request.
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