g is small tank fr is big tank. be careful about fuelling with the engine running the fumes will be by the stack where they are easily ignited. open the drain on the bottom of the carb and check for flow. this will also remove trash from the bowl. the needles sby the way hould be about 1 and 3/4ths turn out. we have been running our family b for 84 years. good luck. any questions please reach out..
I believe you have a 1946 B, that may have been purchased in 1947 as a left over before JD switched to the late styled model. I have the exact same tractor but with the narrow front, which was my grandfather's. Good tractor. Mike.
You can hook a twelve volt battery to that tractor. The starter doesn't care, its wound plenty heavy enough. Same with the generator. Change the bulbs in the kights, and you're good. It'll start a lot easier, especially if its cold out
My Dad was a JD Parts man for many years. One day at the shop they drove a B in for repairs. One cylinder had a bad break and water was filling one of the two cylinders. So funny the B would hit on the good cylinder and on the next one it would push a gusher of water out the stack... I really liked those 2 Lungers
Dad traded our '39 Farmall H for the '54 Super H sitting out in my shop, my #1 snow mover, i pushed up piles 10 ft tall the year we had 108 inches of snow around here. We used the SH to mow & rake hay, made 2 or 3 five mile trips to town with the Heider auger wagon for ground hog feed, 6000# loads, plus hauled one or two 350 gallon loads of water out to the various hog pastures. We used it to haul loads of combined oats or picked ear corn up to our BIG corn crib, think it was one of the bigger ones around, held 8000 bushel of ear corn is we had a good enough crop to get that much. I only remember having to pile 500-600 bushel outside one ear, was probably special circumstances. It had a BIG KEWANEE inside bucket elevator, used a drag conveyor under the surface of the concrete floor to dump into and convey to the bucket elevator. It was ALL link chains, only remember the chain on the buckets jumping off the sprocket once when Grandpa was hauling in. Spent the better part of a day getting things fixed, Dad, Geandpa, and I was tool & parts GOFER climbing the 40 ft up into the cupola of the crib. Our BIG wagon was a 150 bu Electric Wheel flare box on an 8 ton gear, wagon had 2 feet of sideboards, when it was heaped up it was all the SH wanted to pull especially if the ground was soft & wet. The driveway of the crib had a wood platform scale in it, 8 ft wide by 16-18 ft long, we didn't trust it with such big loads so I backed everything from the barbyard to the middle of the crib. No power steering on the SH so I was really good at backing wagons. Dad bought a 1940 Deere B to pull our Deere R spreader thru our hog house, the '39 H was narrowed up special and we weren't going to mess up the Super H. The B came from a farm auction over 20 miles from home, in December. It was running when we got to the sale, it was shut off after it sold, Dad gave $90 for it. Dad and I cranked that stupid flywheel for 2 hours without a single pop. We pushed it back in a shed, told the guy selling it we'd get it next weekend with a neighbor's narrow front end dolly. The local DEERE dealer told Dad he needed to have the engine running to lube some bearings in the transmission or rearend. We screwed around 3-4 hours before the thing started, we pulled it with our pickup, barnyards were snowy & icy but roads were dry. The B's starting never improved, we tried putting it on the water wagon to haul water to the hog pastures, most times I'd unhook it and push it downhill out of the way. I raked hay with it one day, 20 acres at 4 mph made for a long slow boring day, the 6-1/2 mph 4th gear of the SH covered ground WAY faster. I did use a gallon of Deere green and letter series decal set to repaint the B the week before I started college, I towed it to a car wash, had wire brushed almost all the rust off, got most all the built up dirt & grease off with putty knife, Gunk, and car wash. The B didn't quite bring what we paid for it. Thing still didn't start worth a darn at Dad's sale, think he and a neighbor pulled it around the barnyard before people started showing up. Was an odd auction, the '40 B, a 1947 FARMALL M that had our IH 2M-E corn picker on it for 8-10 years. 12 ft Kewanee disk, Case 4 bottom pull type plow with a 5th bottom and a MIDWEST plow harrow. The 4010 Dad bought in '68 only pulled the 5 bottom plow and harrow in 2nd or 3rd gear and the 4 bottom in 4th or 5th. Dad hooked the 4010 to the 6 ft Brillion rotary cutter to cut some weeds and mowxgrass waterways. He needed something with live pto, only the 4010 had it. First day mowing 2+ ft tall grass in 5th gear he twisted the output shaft on the mower off flush with the grease seal. Not sure what that cost but I NEVER did anything like that mowing thit that mower & Super H. Next day I get home from work, mower is fixed and parked by the barn Tractor, 4010 is gone. The pto shaft hammering so hard on turns loosened the 4 capscrews holding the 540 pto stub shaft on and the pto tried shifting from 540 to 1000 rpm while running. That PTO design on 3010 & 4010's has to be the WORST design ever. I used to chop a LOT of haylage for a neighbor, used one of 2 '65 4020's, or a 71 4020 or 4320, and NEVER had a problem. Somebody ought to make some parts like's on the 4020's to replace those stupid bolt on stub shafts on 3010&4010's. Dad had Grade 8 cap screws, Red locktite on the capscrews, split lockwashers, and star-type lockwashers, plus like when he was combining oats with our #30 pull type combine he'd check all 4 bolts every load or two. I guess he under estimated how hard the harmonics of that long pto shaft were in tight turns. I mowed 60 acres of hay and 120+ acres of cornstalks every year with the Super H, and only problem was the cheap weak like Grade #1/8 instead of grade #8 shear bolts. I had to be careful how fast I let the clutch out so I didn't shear them.
I had one of these tractors mine was a 1949 model the way mine started is you put the throttle just about halfway pull the choke all the way out then press down on the starter once the engine catches and starts the run you push the choke all the way in
It seems to crank too slowly. Check whether your primary wire is too small of a gauge. They often get replaced smaller gauge 12 volt system wires that can't handle the higher amperage necessary to provide the proper wattage to the starter. I've owned a number of six volt system tractors, cars and trucks over about 60 years and have a lot of experience with 6 volt systems. Nice BW! Great find!
It is a BW. If it's 47 it's an early 47. Deere change to the late style A's and B's I'd year changing from a pan seat like yours to a square pedistle seat with a thick seat cushion. The late styled tra tors also had a pressed steel frame instead of iron and a larger 196 cu in gasoline only engi e was also available. The all fuel engine displacement t was also increased as well.
My uncle fueled our j d and it was running. Dumb move it flashed over and caught him and the fuel can on fire. He threw the can and pulled off the burning shirt. By then he had 2nd degree burns over most of his upper torso. Wasnt worth the time he spent at hospital. Lesson learned.
I happen to own one of the very last BW's that came off The John Deere Line in late 1952..... The Brass Plate was never stamped with a Serial Number, but other resources say the Number is 300867 which would put it at a higher number than records...It was redone back in the late 1980's from the Ground on up.... It came down out of Maine... It was originally a Potato Cultivator.... She still looks like it just drove out of a Dealer's Show Room.... I have quite a few JD's in my Collection... I even know of an Experimental Oliver Tractor that Sits down the Road from me.... It says OLIVER X26 on the side.... Its really old... It was before Sheet Metal was a "thing"... It somewhat resembles an old Farmall F-12... Something like that... She's in the weeds and brush for probably at least since I was a kid, and I am at the 50 Marker... The Engine isn't tight... I'm not sure about the Transmission, Differentials and that stuff.....
I haven’t heard the sound of a John Deere B in about 24 years I was 10 years old. My grandpa had one from the 40s that had the narrow front end. His also had the platform on the front with a big sawblade. We used to use it for cutting firewood to heat his house. Unfortunately, he sold that tractor when I was 11 now he has passed away and I would like to have one back.
I had a 39 B with a wide front. I should not of sold that tractor. The reason i sold it was that i went in the Army back in 88. Right now i have a 45 and a 49. I love them both.
That’s a John Deere b with factory wide front axle lots of them in western canada/ wheat lands of the us, looks like a mid to late 40s their called the slant dash.
Are you kidding me? Fueling with gasoline while the engine is running is a recipe for disaster. Small tank is for gasoline to start then change over to main tank with a fuel similar to kerosene often called “power fuel” designed for low compression engines. Not many BTU per gallon but cheaper than gasoline. Carburetor is probably varnished or shellacked up. Needs to be taken apart and cleaned. Might be rust in the bottom of the tank too. Owners manuals aren’t hard to find. They can be ordered from John Deere.
- It has lived a good life . I have not seen a wide B until now - nice find
g is small tank fr is big tank. be careful about fuelling with the engine running the fumes will be by the stack where they are easily ignited. open the drain on the bottom of the carb and check for flow. this will also remove trash from the bowl. the needles sby the way hould be about 1 and 3/4ths turn out. we have been running our family b for 84 years. good luck. any questions please reach out..
when Deere were made totally in the USA..great looker..and the sound is just so cool to hear again..
What a beautiful sound
I believe you have a 1946 B, that may have been purchased in 1947 as a left over before JD switched to the late styled model. I have the exact same tractor but with the narrow front, which was my grandfather's. Good tractor. Mike.
Agreed
You can hook a twelve volt battery to that tractor. The starter doesn't care, its wound plenty heavy enough. Same with the generator. Change the bulbs in the kights, and you're good. It'll start a lot easier, especially if its cold out
My 52 BO has been converted to 12 volts, and like you said the starter motor has heavy windings that can handle 12 volts.
My Dad was a JD Parts man for many years. One day at the shop they drove a B in for repairs. One cylinder had a bad break and water was filling one of the two cylinders. So funny the B would hit on the good cylinder and on the next one it would push a gusher of water out the stack... I really liked those 2 Lungers
Dad traded our '39 Farmall H for the '54 Super H sitting out in my shop, my #1 snow mover, i pushed up piles 10 ft tall the year we had 108 inches of snow around here. We used the SH to mow & rake hay, made 2 or 3 five mile trips to town with the Heider auger wagon for ground hog feed, 6000# loads, plus hauled one or two 350 gallon loads of water out to the various hog pastures. We used it to haul loads of combined oats or picked ear corn up to our BIG corn crib, think it was one of the bigger ones around, held 8000 bushel of ear corn is we had a good enough crop to get that much. I only remember having to pile 500-600 bushel outside one ear, was probably special circumstances. It had a BIG KEWANEE inside bucket elevator, used a drag conveyor under the surface of the concrete floor to dump into and convey to the bucket elevator. It was ALL link chains, only remember the chain on the buckets jumping off the sprocket once when Grandpa was hauling in. Spent the better part of a day getting things fixed, Dad, Geandpa, and I was tool & parts GOFER climbing the 40 ft up into the cupola of the crib. Our BIG wagon was a 150 bu Electric Wheel flare box on an 8 ton gear, wagon had 2 feet of sideboards, when it was heaped up it was all the SH wanted to pull especially if the ground was soft & wet. The driveway of the crib had a wood platform scale in it, 8 ft wide by 16-18 ft long, we didn't trust it with such big loads so I backed everything from the barbyard to the middle of the crib. No power steering on the SH so I was really good at backing wagons.
Dad bought a 1940 Deere B to pull our Deere R spreader thru our hog house, the '39 H was narrowed up special and we weren't going to mess up the Super H. The B came from a farm auction over 20 miles from home, in December. It was running when we got to the sale, it was shut off after it sold, Dad gave $90 for it. Dad and I cranked that stupid flywheel for 2 hours without a single pop. We pushed it back in a shed, told the guy selling it we'd get it next weekend with a neighbor's narrow front end dolly. The local DEERE dealer told Dad he needed to have the engine running to lube some bearings in the transmission or rearend. We screwed around 3-4 hours before the thing started, we pulled it with our pickup, barnyards were snowy & icy but roads were dry. The B's starting never improved, we tried putting it on the water wagon to haul water to the hog pastures, most times I'd unhook it and push it downhill out of the way. I raked hay with it one day, 20 acres at 4 mph made for a long slow boring day, the 6-1/2 mph 4th gear of the SH covered ground WAY faster.
I did use a gallon of Deere green and letter series decal set to repaint the B the week before I started college, I towed it to a car wash, had wire brushed almost all the rust off, got most all the built up dirt & grease off with putty knife, Gunk, and car wash. The B didn't quite bring what we paid for it. Thing still didn't start worth a darn at Dad's sale, think he and a neighbor pulled it around the barnyard before people started showing up. Was an odd auction, the '40 B, a 1947 FARMALL M that had our IH 2M-E corn picker on it for 8-10 years. 12 ft Kewanee disk, Case 4 bottom pull type plow with a 5th bottom and a MIDWEST plow harrow. The 4010 Dad bought in '68 only pulled the 5 bottom plow and harrow in 2nd or 3rd gear and the 4 bottom in 4th or 5th. Dad hooked the 4010 to the 6 ft Brillion rotary cutter to cut some weeds and mowxgrass waterways. He needed something with live pto, only the 4010 had it. First day mowing 2+ ft tall grass in 5th gear he twisted the output shaft on the mower off flush with the grease seal. Not sure what that cost but I NEVER did anything like that mowing thit that mower & Super H. Next day I get home from work, mower is fixed and parked by the barn Tractor, 4010 is gone. The pto shaft hammering so hard on turns loosened the 4 capscrews holding the 540 pto stub shaft on and the pto tried shifting from 540 to 1000 rpm while running. That PTO design on 3010 & 4010's has to be the WORST design ever. I used to chop a LOT of haylage for a neighbor, used one of 2 '65 4020's, or a 71 4020 or 4320, and NEVER had a problem. Somebody ought to make some parts like's on the 4020's to replace those stupid bolt on stub shafts on 3010&4010's. Dad had Grade 8 cap screws, Red locktite on the capscrews, split lockwashers, and star-type lockwashers, plus like when he was combining oats with our #30 pull type combine he'd check all 4 bolts every load or two. I guess he under estimated how hard the harmonics of that long pto shaft were in tight turns. I mowed 60 acres of hay and 120+ acres of cornstalks every year with the Super H, and only problem was the cheap weak like Grade #1/8 instead of grade #8 shear bolts. I had to be careful how fast I let the clutch out so I didn't shear them.
I had one of these tractors mine was a 1949 model the way mine started is you put the throttle just about halfway pull the choke all the way out then press down on the starter once the engine catches and starts the run you push the choke all the way in
It is a B with a rare factory wide front. They stopped making the B in 53 and it was replaced by the 50.
It’s actually a John Deere BW. The anteater front is the give-away. 1506 made.
Correction, B production and A production stopped in 52. D and G production stopped in 53.
It seems to crank too slowly. Check whether your primary wire is too small of a gauge. They often get replaced smaller gauge 12 volt system wires that can't handle the higher amperage necessary to provide the proper wattage to the starter. I've owned a number of six volt system tractors, cars and trucks over about 60 years and have a lot of experience with 6 volt systems. Nice BW! Great find!
It is a BW. If it's 47 it's an early 47. Deere change to the late style A's and B's I'd year changing from a pan seat like yours to a square pedistle seat with a thick seat cushion. The late styled tra tors also had a pressed steel frame instead of iron and a larger 196 cu in gasoline only engi e was also available. The all fuel engine displacement t was also increased as well.
My uncle fueled our j d and it was running. Dumb move it flashed over and caught him and the fuel can on fire. He threw
the can and pulled off the burning shirt. By then he had 2nd degree burns over most of his upper torso. Wasnt worth the time he spent at hospital. Lesson learned.
That's an "All Fuel" Tractor... Nice!...
Love that old tractor.
I happen to own one of the very last BW's that came off The John Deere Line in late 1952..... The Brass Plate was never stamped with a Serial Number, but other resources say the Number is 300867 which would put it at a higher number than records...It was redone back in the late 1980's from the Ground on up.... It came down out of Maine... It was originally a Potato Cultivator.... She still looks like it just drove out of a Dealer's Show Room.... I have quite a few JD's in my Collection... I even know of an Experimental Oliver Tractor that Sits down the Road from me.... It says OLIVER X26 on the side.... Its really old... It was before Sheet Metal was a "thing"... It somewhat resembles an old Farmall F-12... Something like that... She's in the weeds and brush for probably at least since I was a kid, and I am at the 50 Marker... The Engine isn't tight... I'm not sure about the Transmission, Differentials and that stuff.....
I haven’t heard the sound of a John Deere B in about 24 years I was 10 years old. My grandpa had one from the 40s that had the narrow front end. His also had the platform on the front with a big sawblade. We used to use it for cutting firewood to heat his house. Unfortunately, he sold that tractor when I was 11 now he has passed away and I would like to have one back.
Those rear tires need to be swapped to the other sides. They are running backwards like they are. Good traction going backwards though LOL
I thought I was seeing it right. Yes, the tread is facing backwards.
Only John Deere we had back in the 1960's was a 620 wide front. Rascal would really roll down our gravel roads with a wagon full of square bales.
Great video
Man....I'd love to have a wide steering B. Need a tractor for land work and a tricycle front is just too risky to take into the woods
led rod brearings ,take out,shims to tighten them. built to last , compression about 4.5 to 1. r.p.m 900. easy to work on .
Sounds like the float in the carburetor is stuck
I had a 39 B with a wide front. I should not of sold that tractor. The reason i sold it was that i went in the Army back in 88. Right now i have a 45 and a 49. I love them both.
Looks like you need to swap your back tires the tread looks like it's backwards
I cannot get the bonnet / hood off due to the steering rod going through the hood how do i remove it?
Thanx
turn the tires around. They are mounted backwards.
That is very possible in really wet areas
I have a scale version of a John Deere BW, but it’s an unstyled version
Did u check if it hade oil in it and coolint
You should disinggauge the clutch first but in started 😬❤🤟
Tires were probably mounted backwards for backing out when getting stuck in muddy conditions.
The front tank was gas large tank was for tractor fuel it was like kerosene start on gas when engine was hot switch to tractor fuel
That’s a John Deere b with factory wide front axle lots of them in western canada/ wheat lands of the us, looks like a mid to late 40s their called the slant dash.
The A john deeres had a slant dash. The Bs didn't. They were flat.
Possibly had a loader at some point
rear tires are on wrong side. running backwards
It's a model BN
Rear tires are going the wrong way points to the front
Turn the gas on. It's older than a 47. 47 had a stamped frame. It could be a 37. Google the serial number, its easy to find what year it is.
Are you kidding me? Fueling with gasoline while the engine is running is a recipe for disaster. Small tank is for gasoline to start then change over to main tank with a fuel similar to kerosene often called “power fuel” designed for low compression engines. Not many BTU per gallon but cheaper than gasoline. Carburetor is probably varnished or shellacked up. Needs to be taken apart and cleaned. Might be rust in the bottom of the tank too. Owners manuals aren’t hard to find. They can be ordered from John Deere.
kept thinking give it some throttle to keep it running. and never did even on the drive home.
Needle vavle stiking
It’s a JOHN DEERE “BW”
Wanna sell it? Im in Iowa where are you?
Pull your liver back to disinggauge your clutch " even though you're in neutral it's still a little dangerous 😮😒
The clutch should be engaged at all times because if not someone could accidentally put it in gear and forget
Yes pull clutch lever all the way back will stop the input shaft from spinning which makes it easy to change gears without any grinding.
Someone put the decals on incorrectly on the front 😅
Can't hear a word your saying
You need to swap the rear.tires.around
It's funny how I too immediately see that too...Strange how often you see that.
haha! Good eye. The seller said he thought the wheels were installed wrong.