I'm 36 now, but when I was 31 I bought my first hand start JD from a friend. The first summer I had it my buddy and I spent a couple of hours setting the timing and the carb on it and now it will start with one or two throws when it's above 50. When it's colder she can be a bit temperamental, but will still start fairly easy. Old boy in our tractor club explained some of the ins and outs to setting up a hand start tractor.
I was at a show one time and there were three of us with hand crank John Deeres pretty close to each other. The first guy went to start his and with everything he had kept throwing that flywheel for several minutes and she finally started. The old boy next to me went over turned the gas on and explained to the crowd that if they were timed right and the carb set right it should pop off with little to no effort. He kind of put his back into it and gave the old girl 2 throws and she popped right off. Of course he was grinning from ear to ear and came around to watch me start mine figuring it was going to be quite the show since I was at least 20 years younger than either of them. I choked the carb and grabbed the flywheel with one hand to roll it up to compression. As soon as I grabbed the flywheel, it happened to stop right about at full compression, and started to roll it the old girl kick I opened the carb and she sat there and purred. Old boy just turned and walked away. Kinda got lucky that day, but gave me a good laugh.
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