OK, all steamed up, coal oil burners and gasoline powered washing machines

[delmar]

I remember Grandma having a washin machine like that one,  we'd push it out of the garage on wash day if it was warm enough,  Grandma would start a little fire burning on the ground with some paper and small limbs,  she'd stick 2  or 3  spark plugs in the fire to warm em up,  take her gloves when they was hot and put it in the motor and pull it to start,  if it didn't start easy, she'd change out to another plug, till one started.

I used to have a lawnmower that started really hard when it was cool. I never considered that warming just the spark plug would help.

[Texas Lawdog]

I never thought of that. The NASCAR teams have heaters to warm the fluids in the cars before the race starts.

[Leo Tanner]

My old buddy Charlie uses a cigarette lighter when a two stroke is bein fussy.  We clean the plug an then he holds the flame up to the electrode and the tool starts right up if ya get the plug in bafore it cools down.

[Delmonico]

Del, thanks fer the pix, belive it or not, I'm old enough to remember these machines back in the Nebraska's farm land.

Gran Pa Orson had 2 sections he homesteded just north of Thedford, GranPa Wilson homesteded in Pierce right after the Civil war, took 3 yrs. to get a corn crop.
Just some history fer thought.

MS

Cool, I know both area's.

[Texas Lawdog]

Del, I'm gonna have to come up there when they're threshing with the steam engines sometime.