When you work on the stuff for a living days like that are bound to happen, and I know I've had more of them over the years than I care to think about. Funny thing though it's days like that that become the most memorable. I mean think about it, how many of the days when you pulled up to a squeaky clean machine, setting on a concrete floor, and it took only five minutes to fix it do you remember???? Personally I remember the smells eminating from the D6 and D 7 with the bad final drive seals that came out of the dairy bar (mmmm, 90wt gear oil, cow pi$$, cow patties, and lots of flies, all on a 100 degree day), the double disc clutch with absolutely no friction material left on it that left me black from head to toe at the end of the day, and the open gear lube on the old cranes that gets in and on anything that gets within 2 feet of it...and doesn't even start coming off without alot of hard scrubbing...
All I know is that for me, in the end, as long as the guy pays his bill without question...and as a bonus has a dedicated guy on site to keep breaking things.....then it all sounds to me like JOB SECURITY.... and there's nothing better than JOB SECURITY.... when your self employeed.......
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Today's Featured Article - Third Brush Generators - by Chris Pratt. While I love straightening sheet metal, cleaning, and painting old tractors, I use every excuse to avoid working on the on the electrics. I find the whole process sheer mystery. I have picked up and attempted to read every auto and farm electrics book with no improvement in the situation. They all seem to start with a chapter entitled "Theory of Electricity". After a few paragraphs I usually close the book and go back to banging out dents. A good friend and I were recently discussing our tractor electrical systems when he stated "I figure it all comes back to applying Ohms Law". At this point
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