This machine is in immaculate condition. Great to see these machines being preserved.

The smile on that old man’s face when that thing fired up, was brighter than the sun!! Great little video!

Any start-up procedure that involves saltpetre-soaked blotting paper and a hammer, is the sign of a proper machine. Very excellent work all around! 👍🏻🍻

I am 62 years old, but I felt like a kid watching the starting procedures for this awesome machine! Thank you so much for posting it. Tractors and tug boats are working tools that never cease to enchant me, because, despite the intrinsic burlyness, there is something so pure and poetic in their functionality, as well as the practical forms.

What a beautiful example of an old PopPop Marshall. We used one often for threshing with the old threshing drum, elevator for stacking the straw etc. Dad used to let me light the litmus paper and strike the starting cartridge after he had set it all up. After the first start of the day it was usually started with the handle after setting the decrompresion control to maximum to give time for several fast build up turns. It was a matter of pride to start it first attempt. We also had a Marshal Crawler Tracked version, rather unusual too in our area. I was about 12 years old I suppose and I was allowed to use that one, under supervision of my older brother, for rolling, harrowing and so on. Still remember how difficult I found the gear selector levers at times. MEMORIES !.

Modern technology is amazing. But old technology is beautiful.

Wow, shotgun cartridge and glowing paper. What’s not to love, of a beautiful bygone age ❤

Had no idea when I clicked on this video that start up would involve a piece of lit paper and a shotgun shell, ha ha!

Beautiful restoration and amazing family history. Thank you so much for sharing with us!

I have never seen any engine ever start like that. So fricken cool.

We may be more advanced, but we definitely ain’t smarter. The ingenuity/industriousness of humans is mind blowing.

You've done a wonderful job restoring that old beauty!

That is wonderful. Its great that people have pieces of history that they can actually demonstrate to people who are interested as opposed to something in a museum which can only be looked at.

Wow!!! I have never seen a tractor started that way and I have seen quite a few tractors. Amazing!! Thank you Patch!!!

You won't find anything as cool as this now days!

Great tractor and great story. Many years ago as a child the farming community in my home town told a similar story where the driver parked the running tractor "Field Marshal" and went into the farm house for breakfast, only to return to find the tractor it in a pond alongside the road he had parked it.

I’m from America and seen many old tractors from all around the world and never seen a tractor like this one! Honestly, a pretty neat and interesting tractor.

Boy, that runs so sweetly

Волшебная старинная техника! Спасибо за то что сохраняете такую технику.

What a cool machine! I hope it's cared for forever

Years ago I accidentally came across an antique tractor show in a field half a mile from where I lived. I called in and met the guy from over the road from me with his antique tractor. I had no idea that he had it. It had been in his family from new! It was a special narrow model for orchard use, tending fruit trees. Anyway, someone else at the show had a tractor that used exactly this starting procedure. He used shotgun shells that he'd taken the shot out of himself. I was amazed; I'd never seen anything like it before. Sadly, my neighbour has been gone for years now. Thanks for bringing back memories.

Such a beatiful piece of farm equipment restored with love and dedication in the work, the machine will run for centuries Also, the shotgun starter demonstration is impressive, starting the engine without hesitation

I've never knew about an ignition system like this! Great video!

There’s just nothing like antique machinery to put a smile on your face.

Such a great way to help lower cost and reliability for the tractor by designing how to start it with things a farmer would have abundance of while also being ahead of the competition.

What a work of art!!! The fact that its a beautiful machine and being restored like it just came out of the factory gives me joy. Plus you can tell the owner loves it and who can blame him.

Looking at how meticulously it was designed and manufactured (and maintained) it’s clear that such a machine was an insane investment back when it was new

What a beautiful machine, thanks for sharing the start up. You can tell that old boy loves that thing, it was dang near spotless. I enjoyed this thoroughly.

Firing up old machines like this is an art. It's like fulfilling a ritual to appease the machine and wake it up.

Really interesting video. The tractor looks better than the day it was bought. Hello from South Africa.

What a wonderful machine. This is when men took extreme pride in what they built.

These old tractors are nigh-indestructible. My grandparents bought a Ford 8N in July of 1950. We were still using it when the engine finally threw a connecting rod and broke the engine block in 2008. Against my protests, it was sold for scrap. I wanted to put a flathead V8 in it.

I grew up barely 200 yards from the factory and went on to work for a local haulage firm that did a lot of work for Marshalls (though before my time). The Gainsborough Heritage Centre has just taken delivery of a large scale scanner/printer to digitise the old engineer's drawings, they often send them all over the world to assist in the restoration of engines. (Marshalls started way back in the 1800's producing steam engines and agricultural equipment). They built Bristol fighters in WWI and X-Craft midget submarine in WWII.

Lovely to see it looks like it came out of the factory yesterday 👍👍

I am 45 and I just discovered this method for starting engines exists, thank you for this video!

That has to be one of the coolest things that I've ever seen 🙌. Easier than starting an old harley, for sure.

A joy to see such a machine. Thank you for keeping a bit of history about for a while longer.

They are good at bouncing and finding their own level on soft ground !!! Don't turn your back on it for too long as they will as you mentioned vanish in a puff of steam !!! Fantastic story and resto . Thank you for sharing it with us ❤

What an incredible machine. It just goes to show how far we've come in such a short time but also just how incredible the engineers were to create such a beautiful machine back before the modern process we use today to create modern machines.

Good to see old tractor working. Tractor is in really good condition and maintained. Remind me of my Grandfather. Looking ahead for video's of this beautiful machine.

Wow! I would not have believed it if I did not just see it for myself. This machine is beautiful, a real piece of automotive history .

Well that was just as neat as you can get 😎what a great restoration of a tractor 🚜👍I loved the way he started it 👍growing up around an antique shop anything old and cool 😎 will just draw me in 🎉

What a beautiful machine, it makes my day every time I see such a great feat of engineering being preserved! Thank you for taking the time to make a video :-)

I'm 69, and fondly remember my orange Dinky Toys Field Marshall tractor; what a great brand name also. Incredible restoration! Thanks for sharing this video.

GOD THAT STARTUP IS SO BADASS, BOOM FROM THE SHELL AND THE SPINNING STARTS, im only 22 but i hope i come across one of these in real life, absolutely mind blowing

This video made me take a moment and be thankful for the abundance of technology we have today. Just think, now you can yank a cord 3 times to get your mower started, back in the day it was a process, now it’s just a beautiful art

amazing, my Dad had a field marshall which i remember being started this way! they are fantastic machines

That startup procedure was SO ate up!! Designed by a great mind, and first copy built from scratch by tool and die guys. All without the aid of a computer other than the human brain. Thank you for doing this video.Im 75 and have never heard of this gorgeous tractor before.

It is an amazing show piece now, but just imagine back when they really needed the tractor, but it was raining and they couldn't get the paper to light. Or maybe that's just how my luck works - lol. Beautiful tractor. Thanks for showing it to us.

What a very eloquent way to start an equally eloquent old tractor! Superb!

Wow… Started easier than l thought it would…Nice looking tractor

She is a beauty! I liked the "start" setting on it. I have done the same thing for years with the lawn tractors that usually could use a battery. Thinking I save buying a battery until I squeeze the last start out of it.😊

This is beautiful. Really wish I lived in the era when this was brand spanking new!

What a lovely machine. I am 77 years and as a child I remember these being used daily, also the crawler version for ploughing. The exhaust ruffled the leaves far above when they went past.

❤ this is a great ritual to start an engine. And it's nice that there are still people who can do it. ❤

been a while since this Marshall has seen the "field". a beauty she is !

You know you are an OG when you carry a brass hammer in your pocket!!

I haven't seen that in 49 years thank you,that brought tears 😢to my eyes,grandpa would have ❤ love to see that.

Never in all my years on this earth have I had the honor to witness such a genius work of pure analog parts. Thank you, for restoring this old beast and giving me the pleasure of watching it start

That is so cool! I love old tractors.

That is some magic right there! And the machine is in brand new condition!!

Your commentary at the end combined with the rhythmic popping of the engine made for a perfect ending to this nice video.

Magnificent restoration. Not a speck of dirt on it. Looks better than new

I love to see things like this being used instead of just rusting away in a scrap yard.

That is such a beautiful example of engineering accomplishments before Electronics that tractor gets my juices flowing it's like an omage to the most beautiful physical specimen in mechanical form like the great steamship engines it also reminds me a lot of the single- cylinder diesel Jack pump engine that ran 24/7 on our farm just a few hundred yards from our farmhouse in Ada Oklahoma I would go to sleep with that thumping sound it was much lower than that tractor and it had a 4 beat tempo so it was Thump Thump Thump Thump pause and over again ciao for now

Seeing start was one thing, but the story that came after was amazing.

What a beautiful machine she is a fantastic example of engineering

Not only a beautiful machine but a wanderfull bonus story !!!! You waited a long time to see her run !!! I wander what your Dad might say !!! Thankyou for sharing 😉😎

I never seen a thing like this ( i am European) i am happy that my friend mentioned a machine starting like this and my phone heard it ( now its on my feed) Nice machine, well preserved for the future to drop jaws ( i love machines) this thing just made my day!

That is simply beautiful Patch . Sounds so good. I never heard of a tractor 🚜 starting that way. Thank you for sharing your story. Wow broke in half. So co to see it restored. You are an interesting person 😉💕. Glad you got to see it restored. What a rare and beautiful Joy. I'm so happy for you 💕😘

I have never seen anything like this in my life. Awesome.

I love how it settles into the right operating temperature and rhythm.

Once I saw the shotgun cartridge, I knew it was gonna be magical

I'm a mechanic have been for 22 years. And I love watching engines from yester years.. it's really cool I enjoyed it. Good video sir

Unique tractor with a good story behind it.

I was expecting that!! How lovely, and that tickover is to die for.......

That’s probably the coolest video I’ve watched all day…soaked paper, a shotgun shell and a hammer…who woulda thought that could start a tractor

What a cool old beast!

Imagine having to start your car like this these days . Every morning would be like D-Day .

Geez I'm 46 and this is the absolute coolest thing I've seen!!! I grew up on a dairy farm in rural Michigan I've seen some oldies but nothing like that thanks for the video!!!

Kind of reminds me of a Poppin Johnny. I know several older gentlemen that had a pristine tractor they rebuilt from an old tractor. They are just like brand new off the showroom floor and this is one prime example!

Fabulous video, very interesting - I never knew that was a start up procedure.

One thing for sure…that’s a beautiful tractor!

Beautifully maintained, the paint and the tires look awesome

Imagine stalling on the job out on the moors in a high wind with driving rain. Maybe warm starting avoids this rigmarole. I must admit I enjoy the ritual of it. I thoroughly enjoyed the vid.

Literally one of my new favorite vehicles now. Gotta start it with a shotgun shell and a tiny hammer. Whats not to love??

Okay, this machine looks so brand new. Awesome restoration and awesome way to start a machine

I love all of the old shotgun start engines, especially aviation engines!

Never saw this kind of engine start before. Awesome!

Literally every thing this man did was not the thing I was expecting him to do

I grew up in Gainsborough it was a common sight to see these out in the fields.

i am still fascinated!!! and a mechanic of over 50 years!!!! love the slow idle

This startup procedure was so cool that I just shared and explained it with my Mom. Awesome video!

Beautiful tractor and smooth startup, intriguing startup tho.

Beautiful machine! Such an enjoyable video to watch, thank you for sharing!

Oh wow.. this is magic! What a great video. Thank you very much!

Absolutely gorgeous

Ok, let me get this straight. The saltpeter infused piece of paper acts like a glow plug, and the shotgun shell provides a burst of high pressure gas which spins the engine? That’s amazing!

Very interesting starting mechanism. Glad to see this example still running. Thats history right there.

Shout-out to this farmer. Giving his tractor a hit of the good stuff