Road gear for the vehicle trying to be started gives you the best mechanical advantage iregardless of tow vehicle. Thus we always used road gear for one trying to get stated.
This helped as we often had to use a lowly 1/2 ton pick up truck for tow vehicle so every mechanical advantage you could get was helpful when using an undersized tow vehicle. If had to use a tiny tractor for tow vehicle then fasterst gear it could handle the load.
We had one case 430 diesel that we always parked on a hill to bump start it. Even went as far as propping implements with blocks of wood so they would not bleed down. Yes the 430 was well worn, but what a fuel miser it was.
Sometimes the operation of futility was use the truck to pull start the 430 Case, then use the 430 Case to pull start the 730 John Deere, then use the 730 deere to pull start the 1066 International. While the Case was well worn, the Deere and International were not - they simply lacked good batterys.
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