shade tree mechanic's

gbs · Mar 25, 2015

sitting here thinking about a previous post about changing out a front end using what was available for tools,recon I was blessed to be raised around and worked for and with a generation of self sufficient people a lot of which probably fell under the shade mechanic classification because that's where a lot of repairs were made, I remembered me and another young feller changing the clutch and replacing a stripped brake disc on a 1155 MF sitting on a concrete floor using a large floor jack, a bottle jack and a pile of assorted timbers and boards, still can't recollect how we got the cast wheel of the axle without losing control of it.

pete 23 · Mar 25, 2015

Not even any shade from a tree when I replaced several rear axles out in the field. Usually several planks, couple jacks and a loader on an old M farmall. Haul or drive the M out to the field and go at it. One time had to get a loader in to remove the snow bank. Fun fun.

LMack · Mar 26, 2015

This is my shady mechanic story. My uncle broke the cast axel on his C with a corn snapper mounted in the middle of my dad's field picking corn. A few jacks, blocks and timbers were needed but he had the replacement axel on in less than a day right out in the field. I am not sure if the axel was the right or left so I can't say if he had to remove the snapper (one row). I think I am glad I was too small to help.

L.Fure · Mar 26, 2015

(quoted from post at 20:08:49 03/25/15) sitting here thinking about a previous post about changing out a front end using what was available for tools,recon I was blessed to be raised around and worked for and with a generation of self sufficient people a lot of which probably fell under the shade mechanic classification because that's where a lot of repairs were made, I remembered me and another young feller changing the clutch and replacing a stripped brake disc on a 1155 MF sitting on a concrete floor using a large floor jack, a bottle jack and a pile of assorted timbers and boards, still can't recollect how we got the cast wheel of the axle without losing control of it.

What name do we give to a person who can cobble something together to make it work? Here's an example of what I had to do. I had a starter drive spring break. I purchased a replacement spring and installed it in the starter. When I put the starter back on the tractor the starter wouldn't work. I had to take the starter apart to see what was wrong. It turned out that the insulation on the field coils had worn off at one area and caused a dead short to one of the long screws that held the starter together. I didn't have the time, or money to rebuild the starter, so I put the screws through the holes in the back cover, then wrapped them with electrical tape, and put the starter back together. Worked perfectly, and has been for several years.

rbhuntn · Mar 27, 2015

(quoted from post at 12:33:24 03/26/15)

(quoted from post at 20:08:49 03/25/15) sitting here thinking about a previous post about changing out a front end using what was available for tools,recon I was blessed to be raised around and worked for and with a generation of self sufficient people a lot of which probably fell under the shade mechanic classification because that's where a lot of repairs were made, I remembered me and another young feller changing the clutch and replacing a stripped brake disc on a 1155 MF sitting on a concrete floor using a large floor jack, a bottle jack and a pile of assorted timbers and boards, still can't recollect how we got the cast wheel of the axle without losing control of it.

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What name do we give to a person who can cobble something together to make it work? Here's an example of what I had to do. I had a starter drive spring break. I purchased a replacement spring and installed it in the starter. When I put the starter back on the tractor the starter wouldn't work. I had to take the starter apart to see what was wrong. It turned out that the insulation on the field coils had worn off at one area and caused a dead short to one of the long screws that held the starter together. I didn't have the time, or money to rebuild the starter, so I put the screws through the holes in the back cover, then wrapped them with electrical tape, and put the starter back together. Worked perfectly, and has been for several years.

Where I am from we call either "Doing whatever it takes" or "Jerry Rigging it"

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