looking the opposite of clever

[sizzami]

I was reading the shop tricks thread and started thinking about this .
what is the simplest thing it it took you the longest to figure out?
for example , being mister bigshot that I am I went to a friends to help get his firewood out, after he asked me to push up the brush fire w/ my loader as I was doing it my loader stopped going up I checked everyting over and over until about an hour later I discovered that the qc on my fel valve had popped out and stayed in place. All the while a crowd of beer drinking monday morning quarterbacks jeering me about my junk tractor.

 

[Baby Grand]

Just the other day I was dragging some slash to the chip pile with my boom pole. I came to a dip and went to lift the FEL a tad ... it was really slow raising. I stoped and tried moving the FEL and it was behaving like I had wimpy hyd pressure. Then I noticed that the TPH was all the way up so the top link was pushing against the ROP crossbar. I lowered the TPH a tad and the FEL resumed normal operation.

I looked around, and nobody was watching. Yes!

-Jim

 

[Taylortractornut]

I was putting new tail lights on dads trailer at work one day and was aboutto rewire the whole trailer when I reallized someone had plugged the pig tail in upside down and offset. One of the worse things ever done was I was taking a bolt out of slide in the ejector rail of a JD scraper. I had my Proto half inch drive rachet and a 15/15 socket when I took the bolt of without checking my clearance. I was in a hurry and backed the balit out about that time the rachet bottomed out agains an ejector cylinder. When it did the bolt poped out of the threaded bore and wouldnd drop out. I had the it all bound up. I couldnt even get the reverser on the rachet to get it restarted. I had to pull the ejecter cylinder out. Could have used a wrench in 5 minutes instead of 3 hours pulling the fuel tank and line to get to the eject cylinder.
Dad got a nice little 970 JD tracto cheap one time the owners had this straight little tractor. had the factory loader and backhoe with a subframe. The only problem was the bucket would raise an lower and float fine but the bucket tilt was slower. When dumping or curling I cant rember if you moved the joystick too fast or too far the bucket would do the reverse action it was supposed to very fast. I had looked at it before dad did and had told the owner that he had his tilt lines crossed that the regenerative circuit was causing that. Id seen it in older large tlb's and track loaders. I was in my work clothes and had been under a dozer at work all day and looked like a complete podunk. He told me that was the most absurd thing he had ever heard of and so on. Dad went and bought the tractor and we came home and he didnt think i knew what was goin on. I changed the lines over on the couplers and its still going today.
The same tractor but after my brother bought it he had a problem with the loader and the steering not wanting to work right it would have to race up to work. and the fluid looked milky and gummy. The folks at Deere tod us it was a fungus in the lines from it setting up. I called BS on that one. It would cause the filter to look like it was clogged up with gunk. I told him it was air in the lines some how. One day he was about to take it to deere and I was out there. I found a pinhole in the rubber suction line near the pump. slid the pipe up a notch and reclamped it and it instantly fixed it.

 

[Mace Canute]

what is the simplest thing it it took you the longest to figure out?

Women........

 

[Big Bri]

Women........

Please tell me the answer. . . i'll pay top dollar

 

[Mace Canute]

Big Bri, I think the answer would best be described as a "work in progress"! I haven't actually got the answer yet....and I'm running out of years!

 

[20 20]

Trying to start a small gas engine water pump. Pulled and pulled, cleaned plug had spark, replaced plug pulled and pulled again still nothing. Sent wife to store to buy new plug. Pulled and pulled again still nothing. decided to check oil level it was down just a little bit, filled it. Pulled once and it took off. oil safety switch wouldn't let the engine start.

 

[have_blue]

When I was young, I used to think I was smart. When I reached 30, I discovered that if you swallow, you won't cut your adam's apple while shaving it. That made me realize I'm no smarter than average. Average means you are capable of occasionally doing some very smart things, and some very dumb things.

 

[6sunset6]

Yesterday building a woods road, little wet, everything going ok , 4 wheel drive , low speed. All of a sudden can't move more than a foot either way.
after the heart attack I realized I was in high speed somehow. Whew.

 

[/pine]

Please tell me the answer. . . i'll pay top dollar

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