You can start this tractor with shotgun shell! How to start a 1948 Field Marshal Tractor

Dan Magness takes us through step by step instructions on how to start the English built 1948 Field Marshal Tractor powered by a one cylinder diesel engine.
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[@bolinadegorfe5339]

Starting a engine with a shot is the most American thing ever

[@DClairRobinson]

It's English built tho

[@jacz6131]

Its British built and british brains lmao...😂😂

[@elpocasombra9237]

Sempre tem um br

[@LGTheOneFreeMan]

Some of our American (and probably others) WWII fighter aircraft started with shotgun cartridges.

[@bolinadegorfe5339]

@@LGTheOneFreeMan that's actually pretty cool and practical

[@rawbacon]

Ben looks like he's done that a thousand times before.

[@martinb6482]

When I was a child the neighbouring farm operated a Field Marshall. Two things I'll never forget, the smell. When it was thoroughly warmed it was switched to a second fuel tank to run in paraffin (kerosene) with a very distinctive sweeter smell. It also blew perfect rising smoke rings when the air was still!

[@kingpin9733]

Thank God for electric starters! I bet Ben appreciates electric starters as well. That's a good work out. Especially if it doesn't catch on the first try.

[@TheSilverShadow17]

You gotta admit that the shotgun shell start is a unique way to crank over and start a tractor.

[@SuperAdam1313]

my gramps told me stories of the crank start days, lots of broken wrists.

[@vilstef6988]

The broken wrist from hand cranking was called a Ford fracture back in the day.

[@tangy.mp4300]

Ok boomers Jk

[@corbinkanneman1653]

ever seen a German super heavy no electric ignition lol

[@rexjolles]

That won't happen if you have your thumb behind the crank

[@americanpride9733]

Why didnt they make them ratchet?

[@Shagnasty]

Awesome way to start a tractor. Really enjoyed seeing it. Thank you for showing the start-up.

[@DurhamXo]

Sorry to hear the guy who owned this passed on before this uploaded I’m from England and these machines are quite legendary dooms day tractor 🚜. ❤

[@noahhelmuth6497]

Couple years ago I got to start one we use the shotgun shell

[@darylcjackson]

Great video. Thanks for sharing the crank method of starting. I have a seen a video from the UK showing the shotgun shell method. The shotgun shell method seemed a bit easier. Either way you have a great tractor. Fantastic piece of history.

[@redyellowpink01]

You know that movie trope where someone's being pursued and they make to their car but fumble the keys? Imagine that but they're trying to start this tractor

[@tjohnson9051]

I'd have liked to see more about the features of the tractor and see it drive around. I have not seen any of these tractors so far at the shows I've been to.

[@kirriekiwi]

In my young days i used to work on these tractors ,we used blotting paper in the glow plug holder.That was a long time ago in the 50ties.

[@JonC341]

I'm am glad that I saw this, it is amazing how technology has progressed over time. It would be awesome just to have a video explaining with a opened engine, how it works compared to a more modern engine. I wonder how much power some of these old tractors were capable of putting out, relying on compression and a small piece of buring paper as the primary source of potential energy is mind blowing; let alone the idea of a blank shotgun shell producing enough energy to start the engine. Thank you for posting your video, this is a unique and important innovation of history!!

[@ericchapman399]

40 Hp at the Flywheel 750 RPM

[@shaundrezek4330]

"you can't be in a hurry to get one of these things started" that made me laugh so freaking hard. What an interesting machine!!

[@jeremyswindell2330]

Sweet ride! Extra large crank

[@androo4519]

At tractor shows in the UK you can't move for these things! But they are cool. Would be interesting to see more European tractors on here.

[@dbear3]

What does that mean "you can't move"

[@androo4519]

@@dbear3 Thought it was a common expression but maybe it's not. It just means there are a lot of them.

[@glenjones6980]

Made in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. The company started back in the 1800's and made steam traction engines, the old boiler shop overlooked the church I was christened in. The factory closed in the 80's, part of it was demolished though some still remains and were turned into retail units. I spent a few years working for a local haulage company that used to deliver the Marshall products all over the UK.

[@DJCRBEATS]

Beautiful machine.

[@dc1397]

That is really cool

[@Bankable2790]

That is great!! Thanks so much for showing!

[@johndeere1951a]

Would have better to see it drive and point out the tractors features. Story ended rather abruptly. Lots of KZbin coverage of these two stroke tractors in Europe participating in shows, club events and road runs.

[@DaleErnieMichael]

If I had to guess it looks like you were supposed to use an old filterless cigarette as a glow plug too.

[@Bankable2790]

lol ikr what is that for

[@stevenmetzger3385]

@3:19 "... My son (Ben) is going to be cranking..." yup, crankin' is for the young uns!!! 👌💥🚜🤠🎉

[@RustyZipper]

Imagine trying to explain this to the Guatemalan’s working the big farms nowaday

[@Catfish697]

😂

[@ikichullo]

Some radial engines on early airplanes also featured something similar

[@martingardener90]

As far as I am aware a blank 12 bore shotgun cartridge isn't powerful enough to start a Marshal it is a special cartridge, most people hand crank them.

[@MURDOCK1500]

I heard the correct cartridges cost £5 each. I should imagine they'll have more propellant but slower burning than a shotgun cartridge

[@richardsolberg4047]

Seen the recipe for loading those rounds , combination of black and smokeless rifle powder...a lot of powder ..23 grs blk and 160 grs of smokeless , and a crimp on the shell

[@alternator7893]

Awesome

[@mranto9318]

The manliest man ever

[@shawnhaas5158]

Thank God that we've been able to move way past these days

[@mistervacation23]

Funny enough, some of the older Lanz tractors didn’t even have a reverse gear. You’d just have to reverse the engine.

[@charleshammond8963]

Opening the decompression chamber whilst the engine was running was a neat way to scare livestock on one of these when I was a kid Thank for the memories.

[@gregorysampson8759]

Thanks for 2seconds seeing that run

[@Badcrow7713]

"My son's gonna be crankin it" hahah

[@rickmegandrapeau6950]

And look were weve been to where we are now. Ill take the years of THEN anyday rather than NOW.

[@robertchall8576]

That's class how could people give thumbs down i Un less they hit thers with a hammer.

[@travisbeaman1627]

My farm is down the road from Gainsborough where they built them it’s called Marshall’s yard now it’s a shopping centre but they have a vintage tractor meet there every year

[@kozart4005]

my goddang wife left me but these tractors keep me going !

[@AtomicReverend]

Hard to believe someone would have bought that in the 1950s as technology came leaps in the post war period. Neat tractor but I am glad I never depended on it to work back in the day

[@gittyupalice96]

Even in the 40's there were several U.S. built diesel and gasoline tractors with electric start. In fact I'm pretty sure Farmall sent some over to Europe in ww2 for road building and such. So its a mystery to me why this tractor is the way it is? Looking at American tractors that would of been more like a 1920's start up procedure, not a 1948. Although I know the 40's farmalls had both, in case the battery died you could hand crank it.

[@LesAventuresDeTigRRe]

@@gittyupalice96 Why? Simple: making and selling price, ease of maintenance, repair cost, and pig headed farmers who always preferred simpler/cheaper stuff.

[@jonross377]

@@LesAventuresDeTigRRe not to mention you could literally drop this thing in the middle of nowhere and it wouldnt matter if your battery died. I imagine the simplicity was a HUGE selling point as well. People used to fix their own stuff.

[@olesmokey394]

Good thing you said a blank i was gonna say should i grab a buck shot shell lol

[@robertomerino3149]

KZbin has a new taste in farming I see

[@magnum8264]

haha!it starts like I do,roll and light a blunt!

[@KubotaManDan]

pretty cool

[@ericchapman399]

The original Glow Plug Paper was blotter paper soaked in a strong solution of Sodium Nitrate disolved in water then rolled into slugs and air dried. NOT a Shotgun Shell to start a Feild Marshall tractor it is special 12 guage Power Start Cartridge Not a blank shotshell

[@KubotaBXathome]

Very cool!

[@krzyzakpolska]

this is amazing! So how long does the "Glow Plug" paper last in the engine?

[@DaKoler]

Even if I dont use tractors this is just interesting

[@outlawflyer7868]

cool and a bummer at the same time. I anted to see the shotgun shell start...

[@charlesroberts3910]

I remember my dad had a truck for his meat route that we started with a crank

[@DualDesertEagle]

Now this makes me wonder, would the engine survive if u fired up anything other than a blank shell in there? Like, if u accidentally grabbed a 00 buckshot round instead of a blank, would that damage the engine or just spit the shot and wad out the exhaust?

[@dougtheviking6503]

Yes.Nice But how did the family come by it ? Canada ?

[@olskool3967]

I wonder what would happed if you put a live 12 gage slug in it?

[@jarrhead3538]

Even though this is a pretty tough machine, the slug would probably dent the inside of the cylinder or worse.

[@MrCountrycuz]

Can’t you use an incense stick or a slow fuse?

[@arnemagnus680]

Lanz Bulldog next?

[@CarlHargreavesRustyRelicsUK]

Marshalls imported a couple of Lanz tractors in the 30s and copied and improved the design. by being able to start without the blow lamp the Lanz used. They went from Semi-diesel to full diesel. I have a few parked up here 👍🇬🇧

[@johnnydoe7846]

Ok so if I understand what is going on here correctly, then this “vehicle” would be completely impervious to an EMP. Yes?

[@madhav5955]

Yup .

[@AsiAzzy]

EMP? Electromagnetic pulse - so the variation of the magnetic field, induces in nearby conductors, coils, etc a variation in electrical field. If the component is very sensitive (a computer unit) to voltage, then EMP can fry the computer because of the extra induced voltage all over by the EMP. Now on cars, if an EMP would target a car, might fry various sensitive electronics, but starter and battery and alternator and those short thick wires are not going to do much in presence of EMP. Because the EMP field can only deliver a spike of voltage and low amps. Only sensitive electronics can get damaged. A car that is impervious to any EMP would be an old diesel car with injection pump (rotary or inline). The fuel system is all mecahnical, can run without battery or alternator, can be pushstarted (manual gearbox) or windup starter. I had a VW golf mk2 diesel that could run without a battery (but no headlights, signals, horn, etc). I actually drove that golf without a battery for a 300km trip (battery was shot, removed it completly and bought a new one, but in time being i had to get home, so i've push-started, drove in daylight. - back in the 90's, no DRL requirements) Anyway, EMP is not like in the movies. Most power electronics are impervious to EMP (on the scale we know now, not talking about giving a MRI to a car battery, or solar flares in the outer orbit, or other large scale of EMP energy), and small electronics are sensitive to EMP because they were not designed to cope with EMP. Harder to do, but with EMP resistence in mind it is doable to design protection accordingly (any space vehicle has a lot of protection for other induced voltages like EMP from solar flares and Roentgen induced currents from the radiation).

[@cr10001]

@@AsiAzzy I suspect an older petrol (gasoline) car in pre-computer days - say up till 1980 - would be pretty impervious to a moderate level of EMP also. Except maybe for the car radio. Yes it relies on electricity, but the only electronic components in it would be the capacitor in the distributor (which is designed to take electric spikes) and the diodes in the alternator (which also need to be pretty rugged). Even if the alternator died, the battery would still power the ignition. (I once drove my Ford Escort home 400km on a battery. The alternator failed one night. So next morning I bought a new battery (the old one was not only flat but fairly tired, and there was no way I could get alternator spares on a weekend) and drove home on battery only. Just made it home before the battery went flat, and just after it got dark :)

[@clivehorridge]

This is great, but what happens to the shot? Is that removed before inserting the cartridge?

[@ejhickey]

Cool but complicated

[@patvilleneuve3387]

What happens to the lead in the cartridges?

[@byever1]

It's a blank shotgun shell

[@seventhson27]

There were some aircraft engines (don't remember which) that were started with explosive cartridges in the same maner.

[@TwinJalanugraha]

Wasn't it in a movie? They crashed and had to rebuild, then flew it out. Have you seen that movie?

[@williamthomas9463]

Sorry Anthony. While there is an antique farm tractor that’s started with blank shotgun shells, it’s not that McCormick-Deering. It was the English built Field Marshal.

[@yung_lemon6314]

So what happens if you don’t release the crank arm in time?

[@basilpunton5702]

Egg cartons make good glow plug paper.

[@stephensmith799]

On the farm we lived on the glow plug was a cigarette. The cartridge starting method could be very loud. No need for starter motor, battery or generator. Some swearing was also involved.

[@DAVE_WHITE]

Cigars work also instead of paper..

[@derksquad666]

Help, somebody please answer me a question, my google fu is weak, how does the engine deal with the actual lead shot? It doesn't seem that these are always going to be blanks.

[@jonross377]

It doesn't. They are not technically shotgun shells or even blank shotgun shells. They are PowerStart shells. A blank might work but bird/buck/slug would seize the engine and you would have to tear it down to remove the lead.

[@SGTDuckButter]

Back in the day you could start a B52 Bomber engine with a shot gun shell.

[@ebelbeb]

This tractor can fly in space... we will just don't show you this because... reasons! ;)

[@kevysrandomstuff5835]

these filled with water are unstoppable if anyone knows what the soil is like in Canterbury NZ when its wet then ponder this We had a 15cu m truck full of wood which after some rain had to try to exit through a field but the ground here is very slippery when wet so half way out truck is bogged Trusty flat 6 Massy Harris to the rescue --- nope, farmer with Jdare 4x4 still nope and even after unchaining the JD this alone also would not move Farmer dropped us at home to pick up, you guessed it the Field Marshall, few hours of chugging along to arrive at the stranded 1 Truck 1 Massy Harris 1 JD we chained up the 3 all at once and at approx 2kph this FM slowly lugged out all 3, i think the piston in this thing is like 6.5in x 9in = 4.9L at only 38HP

[@stelleratorsuprise8185]

Wikipedia says: single-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine So ahead of the Lanz tractors produced around the same time.

[@wamgoc3637]

Aren’t these a derivative of the Lanz Bulldog?

[@jozg44]

Not directly. The design is similar (big low-speed single-cylinder engine mounted horizontally) but very different in the details. The Field Marshall engine is a true diesel, while the Lanz used a semi-diesel 'hot bulb' engine that had to be pre-heated with a blowlamp.

[@ericchapman399]

@@jozg44 Italian Landini Built a similar machine

[@alcatailmp]

4am start with the tractor. Follow the procedure diligently and you will be out working on it by lunchtime...

[@davidjones332]

Well, if you're going to be bone idle and lie in bed until that time....

[@alcatailmp]

@@davidjones332 id rather turn the key and get straight into it. There's a reason why they forgot about these junk machines a long time ago.

[@TheBandit7613]

How much to send Ben over if I buy one of these?

[@corbinkanneman1653]

old German tanks crank started super heavies lol

[@CCWSig]

It is regular shotgun shell, with a wad and shot in it? Where does all that go when the shell goes off?

[@micahgrubb6867]

I’m a farmer. , however this tractor just looks like a huge pain in the ass

[@shannonraekal-elhermo4633]

Hence the name field marshal........

[@rainbowdash4111]

anyone else just got this in recommended?

[@Lcab-bh3wx]

Those English have too much class I mean time.

[@bradydreibelbis]

Does not work on newer vehicles....... noted

[@aghistorian763]

I guess there are airplane start procedures which are less complicated

[@Maxumized]

This whole time...it was up to Ben

[@PreacherElexcrump]

How much is it worth

[@chriswilson2431]

You can start it with a cartridge, but I’m gonna swing it instead!

[@briandietrich3079]

No wonder the Brits couldn't beat the Germans on their own. What a pain in the ass to start.

[@dieselgeezer18]

So you saying that the German Lanz bulldog tractor is easier to start? You have to wait 10 minutes to heat the engine head! This tractor in the video is easy. You just put a paper in the plug and crank it. It is that easy! Also not all tractors built in england are like that. I am not hating on German tractors i am just saying that you are wrong

[@worldcuphighlights680]

@@dieselgeezer18 it's a joke

[@voyt-c6623]

👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@davelydon1982]

Wow theres alot to do to start the tractor 🤔

[@alexthomas637]

🚜🚜🚜👍

[@svtirefire]

"you'll need a shotgun shell to start this tractor!" *Proceeds to start tractor without shotgun shell* It's a cool tractor. No need to clickbait us.

[@Hihellohihellogoodbye]

It says you can start it with one, it never said they will start it with one, he explained why

[@buicklesabre8530]

Would a cigarette,or a cigar work instead of the paper glow plug?

[@TheHarrisonHd]

Willy wonkas old plow tractor

[@froggodoggo79]

For a British tractor, this is so goddamn American

[@TWR_Creations]

Here's a video of one being started with a shotgun shell kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJOTXpWobM2HrZI Enjoy

[@P7777-u7r]

I wonder if anyone at any time accidentally fired a "real" shell (instead of a blank) through one of these?

[@dnh3005]

Where did he use the shotgunshell?

[@charlesroberts3910]

Fat punks used to light firecrackers oughta work good for the glow plug . Did u ever see the plugs with a petcock on the side that u put gasoline in and shut it to get Diesel engine going

[@Kagaines]

Give me a farmall or John Deere. That would wear me out.

[@SamaelVR]

okay yt these recommendations are getting out of hand

[@MrCountrycuz]

Use tobacco!!

[@dannyrocha9618]

Now that’s American

[@Hogger280]

Did you ever try a cigarette?

[@sir.phillip2697]

For something made in england its very american