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Wilson · Jul 30, 2011

Pet peeve always amuses me when folks have to exlpain right or left side setting on tractor. When teaching auto mechanics had students take off wrong part because they thought machine was their left and right. Not criticizing those who specify in their post just hard to imagine someone not knowing. Wonder if right and left is specified in manuel??? I know it's a slow saturday evening. Once I got a real buy on a sawmill because fellow didn't realize pto and engine turned opp. directions but facing each was clockwise

Aaron SEIA · Jul 30, 2011

In our rush to make sure every kid in the country has a Masters from college, common sense will be a rare and very valuable commodity.
AaronSEIA

ShadetreeRet · Jul 30, 2011

Wilson, most people just crank it up and drive, with nary a thought as to the technical aspects. I don't know how many I have talked to that thought right and left was FACING the vehicle, not from the drivers seat. Had one man come in one day with a nearly new truck and didn't even know what size engine or whether it was a 6 or 8 cyl.
And Aaron, you nailed it square on the head!

RayP(MI) · Jul 30, 2011

I teach driver education to teenage wanna be drivers. A suprising number of 14/15 yr olds don't know right from left. When they go home with a large "L" and "R" on the back of their hands, in indelible marker, Mom and Dad have a clue!

toadady · Jul 30, 2011

i always ask "left like you'r driving it, or like you'r getting ran over by it"

DeltaRed · Jul 30, 2011

Bachelor of Science=bull$h!+ Master of Science=more $h!+ Doctor of Philosophy=piled high and deep Common Sense=no longer taught-obsolete

just another old geezer · Jul 30, 2011

All parts books I have ever seen say right in the front, "Right or left as if you are standing behind the machine faceing it"

Goose · Jul 30, 2011

If I tell you to pick up something with your left hand, and you do so, you're picking it up with the right (proper) hand, right? Then your right hand is unoccupied, so it's left, (left over) right?

I liked the one about the auto technician who complained to his wife that his arm hurt. She asked him, "Which one?"

He replied, "The passenger side".

Heck with it.

rustred · Jul 30, 2011

exactly! even on engines , standing behind looking at flywheel. now whats so hard to find left or right?

Bob · Jul 30, 2011

YEAH?

But who's on FIRST???

Anonymous-0 · Jul 31, 2011

Worked in a parts store when I first got out of the army over here. Customers were from all over the States so different ways of looking at/desribing things... Lady came in one day and needed a left mirror... Couldn't see her car so asked her if it was left from looking at the front or rear of the car. She said "what makes the difference, left is still left"...

So, I asked if it was the left from setting in the drivers seat..."I'll go as my friend, she's the one that is driving"...... That time and from then on, I walked out with the customer and had them show me what they needed.........

oldtanker · Jul 31, 2011

(quoted from post at 19:25:49 07/30/11) I teach driver education to teenage wanna be drivers. A suprising number of 14/15 yr olds don't know right from left. When they go home with a large "L" and "R" on the back of their hands, in indelible marker, Mom and Dad have a clue!

LOL wonder how the Drill Sergeants are dealing with it!

Could be worse......I've worked on stuff all my life. I've talked mechanics in front of all my kids even when they were little just leaving out some of the mechanic phrases......

...... I taught them how to check the oils and fluids and that it's left and right as if you were sitting in the drivers seat...... my oldest daughter went to NAPA for blinker fluid when my son told her that she needed some for her car!

Rick

S.Crum · Jul 31, 2011

Favorite son got his bachlors degree in May. He was sitting at the table last night whining about the fact that it wasn't right that he should be stacking dogfood at minimum wage for a living with a "BS" degree. So I just told him 'now that they've taught you WHAT to think, you have to learn HOW to think'!
Amazing the numbers that come out of college thinking they'll walk into a corner office position.

MSD · Jul 31, 2011

George Jones song says something about "putting the ring on the right left hand this time."

jm. · Jul 31, 2011

In my 28 years as a dealer you cannot think of the times someone has tried to trade me a 15ft bat wing or a lawnmower that would not cut as it should. As soon as we traded we would find either the blades on the wrong side or upside down. Easy to get confused when you are laying under acutter looking up.

paul · Jul 31, 2011

Dad thought he was the center of the universe. Whenever he told me right or left, it was in relation to the way he was facing.

Just the way he was.

Was a little tough to figure.....

--->Paul

muleboss · Jul 31, 2011

Would the left be the right if you are from Down Under???
They drive on the left side , BUT it is still the right side.

oldtanker · Jul 31, 2011

Look at it this way....if you aint right yer wrong.....ROFL

Rick

Cienna · Jul 31, 2011

IHC (McCormick) must have had something different in mind when they labeled the links on some of their spreaders the way they did. Specifically, the cross-bar "S" link labeled "Rxx" is on the left side of the implement, looking forward---and the "Lxx" on the right----Right?

Geo-TH,In · Jul 31, 2011

Bill, Does this mean you will be a real cut-up with a sawmill?

Anonymous-0 · Jul 31, 2011

The CORRECT side.to avoid confusion.

right left

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