[seowulf]

You can break your arm starting one of those things if you don’t hold the crank right. That crank can kick like a mule.

[Bonemaker]

My dad used to recount how as a kid he had that crank come back around on him and compound fracture his ulna, Doctor set it by pulling on both ends and re-aligning them. No anesthesia.

[hanamizu]

You can break your arm starting one of those things if you don’t hold the crank right. You can break your arm starting one of those things if you don’t hold the crank right.

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My great-uncle who drove a Model T truck told me the secret was to not put your thumb around the crank handle. That way if it kicked back the crank would just slip out of your hand.

He called all of his cars ‘Lizzie’. Before he had the truck, he had a horse and wagon to deliver candy to stores in Boston. The big advantage of the horse was it learned where the deliveries were to be made and would take himself to the stores.

[JoeFromSidney]

Yes. When I was a child, my father had his wrist broken while cranking his model T. Since he was a barber, that put him out of work until his wrist healed.

[Jimmy Valentine]

True. This was so common it became known as the “Ford fracture”.

Quite a car though. I was in Brazil during the mid sixties and they were all over.

[JimRed]

You can break your arm starting one of those things if you don’t hold the crank right. That crank can kick like a mule.

My 1956 Triumph TR-3 had a hand crank in the trunk. I only used it once, for practice in case I ever had a flat battery.