The Field Marshal start up

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