Up North wrote:

"Pete C." wrote in message
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Jim Stewart wrote:

Pete C. wrote:
"Bruce L. Bergman" wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:26:09 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:
Crank start...
A Diesel. Riiiiiight.... After you. Bring friends.

International UD9 - got one - it crank starts just fine with one person
jumping on the crank.

Google "Lanz Bulldog" and "Field Marshall" tractors.

The early Cat scrapers were hand cranked - the small
gas pony motor that is. It was then run for awhile
to heat up the diesel then clutched in to start it.

The UD9 is more interesting. Diesel injectors, spark plugs, gas carb,
switchable compression ratio.

There was no starting them by hand though. They were the same set up as the
early IH diesel tractors.....they worked but there was a better way, as
Oliver proved at least in the farm tractors.
Steve

Baloney, I've started a UD9 by hand a number of times and it works fine.