Actually they were very popular in Australia. There is a wonderful book written by an Australian Lanz dealer. Tractors, Kalashnikovs, and Green Tea. By Ian Johnson. Very interesting look at early tractor years.

@@jamesgresham2030 i didnt know that

@@xy_iron And there is at east one MASSIVE Bulldog that used to appear at Casino NSW 'horsepower' (?) field days. Didnt see him get beaten by anything modern in the tractor pull comp. It made the ground shake!

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Agree well almost, they were built simple to be run and repaired cheaply, all when Germany was struggling financially, plus these tractors were a big improvement on doing so much by hand or by horse. One thing I do like is that fact the Lanz is still able to do some work and runs like clock unlike the modern stuff in 60 or 70 years from now.

LMAO? But ain't it cool! 😎

Takes a fraction of the time needed to harness a team.

Having run draft horses, I do have to agree.

Hi Mate. Glad you liked the video. As it happens I am on the Isle of Wight at the moment. Great to hear that you have a Puppy stored away. Let me know if I can help you get it going. If it is free and has any compression, we should be able to get it running. There is not much to go wrong.

The Field Marshall tractor used a 12ga blank shotgun shell. Coffman starter system.

@@danburch9989 it was definitely a blue and orange Lanz so I must be mistaken about the shot . It is a few years ago!

What size engine it is?

@@Maketsu_81 4.8L & 10.3L were the most common, probably this was a 10.3, the largest.

@@danburch9989 Thanks👍👍❤️❤️

In Germany we sad" Wer gut schmiert, der gut fährt!"

as my germay friend sad starrting lanz bulldog is hard

You’re very welcome. Thanks. Glad you liked the video.

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​@@jamesgresham2030thank you so much! I love ole tractors of all kinds, I had the privilege of my engineer father born in 44 enjoying his dad's tractors down home in millville Cincinnati Ohio area and I was fortunate enough that my dad restored several old tractors and when he passed away they're still next door in the barn and I keep them running because I paid enough attention and them ever learning about them. I love taking them for a stroll. But honestly must admit I never knew they did two stroke engines in tractors so cool. I don't claim to have researched every thing about all.

Hi Andy. Yep. I've tried bouncing it hard in the reverse direction. But it seems to fire much more strongly in reverse than in forward. I suspect that the governor eccentric is worn in the forward direction and therefore the fuel delivery is retarded when running forward. Some day I will have an expert look at it. I also operate a Rumely oil-pull for our local museum. Now that is interesting o start!!

No cam shaft.s, No push rods, rockers, valves, spark plugs, magnetos, water pumps, carburetors, or even injection pumps. Will run on just about anything oily and produces remarkable torque. The head Lanz engineer used to insist that a tractor cannot be single cylinder-ed enough. Who knows what this tech would be like today if it had been pursued.

Me either! Thx.

very welcome. Glad you liked it.

I’m rather stunned by how popular it has been.

Hi Mate. Glad you liked the clip. Some tractors actually had a nice little seat with hand rail on the fender. Some even had a bench for two people. Very cosy . Chile hey? I must visit South America some day.

Thanks mate. The truth is, these things are actually very simple and easy to keep running. They are built for farmers who only know horses, have very limited tools, and very limited knowledge. They are very very simple machines. But you do need some patience.

@@jamesgresham2030 Haha, that explains why that was easy to understand for me :D Still, those are amazing machines!

Thanks Kevin Glad you liked it. There are a few things I missed but it covers the high points I think.

They can run at zero RPM too. Calmly sitting there bouncing back and forth. I did demonstrate it for the video but the clip was getting to long and I had to cut it out.

@@jamesgresham2030 , does this one also have the dial on the "dash" showing "direction of running" ?

Thanks Mate. Glad you liked the video.

Thanks mate. It is a handful to drive compared to modern tractors. One has to take his hat off to the old timers.

@@jamesgresham2030 Looks like fun! grew up with a Ford 9N. Much simpler to get going.

Thanks mate. Glad you liked the video. Atlanta hey? Believe it or not I used to work out of ATL flying CRJs for ASA. A subsidiary of Delta. One of my former lives.

When I was a child, my parent bought a little property with a dead Bulldog in the shed. I loved it at the time and spend many hours sitting on it making brummm noises. Dad gave it to a neighbor who got it going and I got a chance to ride on it and watch it blow smoke rings!

Awesome. Sounds like great childhood memories!

Thanks mate. No worries.

Thanks mate

In really cold weather, you would drain the radiator over night and then bring the water to the boil before pouring it back in. Then you poured a spoon full of petrol down a special fitting and that ran onto the piston and sleeve to free up the cold sticky oil. Then it swung into life very easily. Done correctly, it took some time, but they always started even in the most brutal weather.

Thanks mate. I should point out the the white on my hat is not bird poop (mostly). It is probably cattle drench or paint.

I actually did a video of a McCormick 10-20 the other day. It is owned by our local museum and I wanted to give them something to reference so that they could start their tractor. I also did a similar one of how to start their Blackstone crawler. The one and only one known in the world to still be running. If you check my channel you should find both. They are really reference videos, not really for general entertainment.

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This one is 10.3 litre and 35 hp at 540 rpm. But they always surprise people with how hard they will pull. There are lots of you tube clips of these things pulling. Check them out.

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Actually, with a bit of patience, the tractor starts really very easily. Sometimes on the first bounce.

@@jamesgresham2030 and also,it will start easily at every temperature, the hotbulb just need to be hot enough !

yep. It is a known challenge. Running over you own plough. Competition tractor pulling guys will let it stall and take off backwards then they jump on the clutch select, reverse and drive away forward. It gets really confusing.

The engine is much weaker running backwards, I suspect the injection timing is in the wrong place in reverse, also in reverse the governor weights are leading rather than trailing and would be tending to work against bringing the eccentric into maximum stroke I think. About 2:19 can be seen the circular governor housing bolted to the inside of the flywheel. The two springs for the two weights are visible. Just above his hand is the adjusting bolt for the high idle weight with its two locknuts. I worked these tractors for years plowing, sowing, harvesting, pushing up logs and mallee scrub and tank sinking, the engine running backwards and hence the tractor is a novelty or party trick rather than a preferred practice.

As you wind the fly wheel around to the correct spot for pre piling the engine does start to come up on compression. Perhaps because this engine is old and worn, I can get to the right spot without having to pull the plug. A new tight engine might be harder though. The manual does suggest that you might have to pull the plug if I remember correctly. Thanks for you comment though. Glad you liked the video. All done in one take, hence the occasional slightly incorrect commentary.

To be fair, as soon as something came along that started with a push of a button or turn of a key, and didn't shake like a dog defecating razor blades, these got parked in a fence row.

Remember the reason..,

@@jamesgresham2030 yes

Most of our modern environmentally "friendly " gear is designed to be thrown away and replaced every few years. Have you ever tried to put a new battery in a Tesla? Can't be done.

160 to 180 slow cranks according to my book. I’m not sure if pre-oiling or purging is the limiting factor. Modern oil has much better oil clinging than old oils so preoiling is probably not that big an issue. But scavenging the sump very important. Particularly if someone left the fuel on for any length of time. There was lots of extra things I wanted to say but the video was getting very long.

Depending on how hot the tractor is you can shut down for about 10 minutes and then restart instantly. It is handy if you stalled it.