I've never started an old JD like you describe, but I suspect the uneven firing of the 2 cylinder motor helped. With a two cylinder John Deere, there's 360 degrees between BDC on the power stroke of the number two cylinder and TDC on the compression stroke of number one. For 180 degrees, neither cylinder is in compression. So you have a nice wide arc in which to get some inertia into the flywheel. With a four cylinder engine, there is never any point where a cylinder is not in compression, so you don't have much of a swing to work with.
Of course, you should NEVER be trying to "spin" the motor with the crank. You should just be pulling it over TDC, only a few degrees.
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