Life in a big city. (They just do not get it)

Brent Zappe · Jan 25, 2014

Yesterday I went to a tractor shop and got out my part list. The owner looked at me and said hey trouble whats up. I then walked back to my pick up and picked up a Mold board and other parts to a roll over plow system. After an hour went by he finaaly got the right book I order what I though was the right stuff. Got home looked at the roll over plows and the it struck me they where rolled over. Opps I might have got the wrong stuff order. When we say Right VS Left plows on amn old roll over do we look at the front or the back. I think it is which way the plows go in plowing right.

Hay hay hay · Jan 25, 2014

I read your post very carefully, and I think I understand the problem.

BillOHIO · Jan 25, 2014

Brent, In all my years in Farm Equipment and Auto Parts this is always something we had to clarify.

In both cases the way I keep it straight I think of my self in the drivers seat. While sitting there if part is on my right that is right and if on my left then part is left.

With your plow when sitting in drivers seat and plowing with right wheel in furrow and throwing dirt to the right then those plow bottom parts are right hand. When you flip plow and go back with left hand wheel in furrow throwing dirt to left then those plow bottom parts are left hand.

Very common when customer comes in asking for parts he may be standing in front and looking back at his unit and then what he sees as left and right are reversed.

Always call it right and left as what you see while sitting in drivers seat looking forward.

Hope this helps, Bill

NCWayne · Jan 25, 2014

Like others have said, it"s not so much the parts guy not "getting it" as it is the way left and right is determined by the customer, the mfg, and the parts guy. Even in doing machine work, in years past an Armstrong tool bit holder could be left, right, or straight, and that was determined by which way the end of the holder was bent in relation to the man operating it. Nowdays, many of the new "foreign made" holders are all exactly opposite. Makes it a PITA to order anything without actually being there to look at the holder and insure it"s what you need.

In either case, it"s not really anyone"s fault, it"s just the way things are........

60 acre hillside · Jan 25, 2014

Easy, right hand plow moves the dirt to the right.

Alan K · Jan 25, 2014

What I have always read in operators manual is basically "as viewed by the operator sitting in the seat facing forward".

moresmoke · Jan 25, 2014

Try to find the right part for the guy who calls and says it goes on the north side of the machine!

Life in a big city. (They just do not get it)

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