Sixteen inch diameter, copper windings. Turned up plowing garden.
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I remember Dad telling me about those charging coils. He said they actually ran in an oil both, can you just imagine the texture of that oil after a while?
 
I would second or third that. I have seen them at the Hershey car show and they make the buzz boxes for the ignition work. Model "Ts" do not have a coil. The buzz box acts like a whole ignition system in a little wooden box. Let me tell you. They run on 6 volts and if you grab onto one the wrong way it WILL give you a really bad bite. If a buzz box is tuned up with a new set of points and everything is in ship shape I have seen real 1/2 inch sparks. If I remember the Popular Science pages on line how to build it books. There were some crazy fence chargers.
 
Yep, Magneto coil from a Model T. Got 2 laying on the shop floor now and one that is operational in my 1917 T truck. They were also used in Fordson tractors.
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We didn't have a working electric fencer at the time. Brother hooked up a Model T coil(buzz box or whatever) to the H tractor. Dad and I were watching the cows approach the fence and when a cow leaned on wire I hooked the wire up at tractor. Dad and I both got hit as we were leaning on the tractor I suppose. Later on I was watching and when a cow leaned into the fence I hit it . The cow took a bunch of fence with her straight ahead into the corn field. So, chasing cows and fixing fence was next job.
 

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