One of the many reasons why my dad liked his John Deere B was the lack of battery. He also liked the flywheel start with pet cocks. Very easy on back and can use two hands.
How is are the Farmalls to start? Are there pet-cocks? The McCormick Deering 10-20 required a lot of heft to start which admittedly is short supply from office workers.
As for bands, I didn't realize you'd make them removable. I thought I saw folks weld them right to the lugs.
Great-grandpa had 5 tractors that went on his auction in '05, unfortunately I was in 10th grade and broke. He had an M Farmall that you could idle down and practically count the rpm's by the fan blade. There was also a B John Deere that I fell in love with and drove around all summer and like you said, very easy to start with the petcocks.
The Farmalls are easy if the timing is set right, because you only need to crank them about 1/4 to 1/3 of a turn before they fire up. If not set right, the F-20 is a little hard to crank over. The F-12 has a very small engine, and mine as a Heisler overdrive. There is a lever on the clutch pedal to keep it pushed down for starting which makes it even easier.
Yes, the bands will just have a piece of angle welded on the inside of the band on the two ends that will fit in the space between the lugs and will simply bolt together.
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