Re: Mechanical skils

Posted by farmshophermit on November 02, 2015 at 13:21:31 from (134.39.185.133):

In Reply to: Mechanical skils posted by Dan in Ohio on October 31, 2015 at 09:21:37:

My dad had a small farm and was a high school auto shop teacher. Before that he taught wood shop, metal shop, English, and history. He always waited till something broke on his cars before he fixed them. I remember one time he had the kids in auto shop fix a flat tire on his truck and we went camping with it that weekend. On the way home the truck started shaking and we pulled off the side of the freeway in the rain at night and discovered that the kids didn't tighten up the lug nuts on the tire and there was only one lug that hadn't been sheared off. Dad took off the tire and the hub with the tools from his canvas tool roll that my mom had made him. He and I walked to a gas station down the road but they didn't have any lugs, back then they actually repaired cars there too, but no lugs. So we went back to the truck and Dad proceeded to remove each tire and hub and bang out a lug from each hub until he had 4 total for that hub. I imagine some kids got yelled at the next day in class.

I'll never forget that story. Had that happened to me, I'm not sure what I would have done. But now that I saw how my Dad tackled the problem I look for different options when something happens.

I would classify myself as a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none. If I get stuck I'll ask my oldest son, he went to the auto tech program at the community college where I work. Though he's not quite up on the vehicles that I like to work on, old VW's, old tractors, cars and trucks, things without all the electronic computer stuff in them. I had told my wife when she bought her mini van with all the electronic stuff in it that I won't work on it cause I can't even see the engine. I've said that with each new car she's bought, and it means nothing to her. She hounds me till I get out there and at least try and fix it. She also is getting me to do preventative maintenance on our vehicles. Now that my shop is getting resurrected I'm all for that. Fun in the shop.

I didn't go to school for anything that I've learned but had men and friends around me that I've learned from, that and getting my hands dirty actually doing the work.

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