Re: Today On The Billy Ho Show

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 04:51:44 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:

> Just a few minutes ago, I saw Bill Hohepa talk to a man with a tractor
> he’d had for 30 years (though I think it was older). It had a single-
> cylinder diesel engine, and a rather unusual starting procedure.

Looks like it was one of these
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Marshall>. That article says the
tractors dated from the 1950s. It also says the shotgun starting
system tended to put more strain on the engine than crank-handle-style
starting.