Why do people who ask for help on these forums not follow the suggestions of the experts? Arguing with Bruce VA, Royse, Dell, JMOR, GB etc. Is not only silly but very foolish. People should be thankful and grateful that these men take the time to help!
 
Some people don't know enough about what they are talking about to even ask the right questions, so why do you think they would know when they got the right answer. Most people are looking for a quick,no cost solution to their problems. When they don't get it then they start questioning the experts answers. I get a half dozen phone calls a week from people that are looking for free information, that don't have a clue what they are even asking, and if I did take my valuable time to explain it to them they would say it was to complicated or I can't afford that.I have listened to enough of them to know what's coming and that's when I really get dumb and don't have an answer.
 
Plain and simple it's what I call shopping for answers. They believe something someone ( who probably doesn't know anything about tractors) told them and they
keep asking questions until someone answers the right way agreeing with them
Case in point, I do this myself, when a snowstorm is predicated I channel hop on TV until I find the weather man who gives me the lowest snow totals. I usually agree with his low to no snowfall totals if he's wrong I get mad and blame the excess snow on him

Kirk
 
By all means, getting CROSSWAYS with the "A" team should mean Banishment... After all..........
 
This board probably has more newbies than any other board on YT. There's something about Ns that draws a lot of first time tractor owners. Some of them just can't believe that a 70 year old tractor can be that simple. Others find them just the opposite. Many of them come here defeated, at wits end, with deflated egos, having pulled their hair out and are testy. Getting hit with a whole bunch of stuff that they overlooked or have to learn/relearn can be a bit overwhelming. Theyre frustrated and just lash out.
Fortunately there's search engines that get them here.
Think of their wive's plight if there wasn't google or bing.
 
You have to hang around here for while to really know who the experts are. Some are wanabe experts, some are repeaters, some think they are experts, but for the most part you can get the correct answers to your problems. There are a half dozen guys here that I really respect. There are a half dozen I laugh at and hope the newbys dont get duped. I think you all know who I mean.
 
I think this thread suckers honest responders in a way.

I wasn't applying "virtue signaling" to the forum at all but to the subject of this thread and its opening posts which started with blatant virtue signaling.

So here's my definition.

Naming faults of others, the more "others" like a forum, the better, so as to subliminally reflect praise on themselves for being so far above the character weaknesses they've named.

Virtue signaling is just the newest name for comparing oneself to others, by finding them lacking so that the signaler comes out shining by default in that VAIN comparison.

Virtue signalers boastfully broadcast their pseudo wise determinations to the world as opposed to just coveting them to sustain their prideful selves.
 
erskine........I am by no means an expert. You do know what an expert is don't you? "X" is unknown and "spert" is a drip under pressure. Yeah, I've been checking in to the board since 1997, but I learned alot from John, (the old tractor guy) I met him once near Greely, Colo where my Australian Shepherd Club was holding their NATIONAL CONVENTION. John was caught up in some political stuff and was "banned" by Miss Kim (her site, her rules, eh?) along with some other guys who like little boys, picked up their marbles and founded the "other" N-tractor site some place on the east coast. They have alotta pictures and videos of N-manuals. Me? I just have the MPC (master parts catalog); the FO-4 manual; and the Ford Owners manual. While I was a flight test engr for the Boeing Co, my technical speciality is electronics. I have an FCC 1st Class License with radar endorsement, which allowed me to operate Television Transmitters. But don't ask me about transistors. All I know is they have electron flow and hole flow. I have problems seeing holes. I'm always amazed at the LACK of mechanical understanding of many respondants. I rebuilt my '52 Ford flathead V-8 in 1959 and ran like a stryped A$$ ape. I built my first radio as a cub scout project when I was 9-yo. I built several tube radios by the time I was a senior in high school. A couple of years ago, my high school class (1956) had a 50-yr reunion. I gotta dance the 2-foot shuffle with the HOTTEST girls in class that 50-yr ago ignored me. And NO, I didn't gitt enny this time either. But comparing life stories, I hadda successful life. I flew around the world calibrating the NEW Apollo man-to-the MOON tracking stations. I operated a tracking station on the BIG ISLAND of Hawaii, saw Madam PeLei, the volcano goddess that appears at nite just before an erutption. Flew to England, then Germany, where I picked up a BRAND NEW 1969 BMW 2002 at the factory in Munich. It is in semi-retirement with 387K miles on original engine. When yer wife makes more money than you do, you live where she wants, eh? So I drove 60-miles to Boeing in Seattle, 1-hr in morning, 1-1/2 hr in afternoon. Same distance. I eventually graduated to Volkswagon Rabbit Diesel pick'em-ups 'cuz I buying a bale of hay every couple of days to feed the sheep that I used to train my Australian Shepherd dog fer competition against Border Collies....... the buzy Dell
 

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