Learning all over again.

Geo-TH,In · May 19, 2016

I decided to modify the terramite so I drive with my right hand and operate front bucket with left. Too much arthritis in right shoulder. Now I have to think about what I'm doing. You think your brain would know. But it gets it backwards.

David G · May 19, 2016

Just like driving a stick in the UK

WI Dan · May 19, 2016

I like your cupholder too!

Geo-TH,In · May 19, 2016

David G,
You mean driving a stick in the UK, steering wheel on the wrong side, shifter on the wrong and they drive on the wrong side. If I ever go there, I'll drive my own car. Same with going to Hawaii a second time. I'll drive next time. So you know what that means, something is going to have to freeze over before I can drive.

BTW, I had a 1966 TR6 650 motorcycle for many years. When I bought a goldwing GL1200 I would be hitting the shifter instead of the brake. Goldwing was backwards from the triumph.
geo

Geo-TH,In · May 19, 2016

Two cup holders. Can't have too much to
drink .

FBH44 · May 19, 2016

The danger I found in British driving is not what I did, it is that oncoming traffic is on the wrong side, the drivers are sitting on the passenger side, they're coming at you from the wrong direction, totally unpredictable. THEN you come to your first round-a-bout..... terror.

fixerupper · May 19, 2016

Sometime just for giggles try buckling your belt while watching in the mirror. I once drove a 1936 Massey Harris GP, one of those four wheel drives they made for awhile. The hand clutch is on the left and you pull back to engage it. This Two banger raised guy didn't do well with the Massey.

Geo-TH,In · May 19, 2016

The hand clutch is one of the reason I don't have a two cylinder johnny popper today. We
had 3 JD A's, and a D when I was growing up.

TimV · May 19, 2016

Yup--my '74 Harley had right-hand shift, left-hand brake, just the opposite of all the other bikes I've owned before or since. Took some brain readjustment to ride it, and of course led to more than a few times of applying the wrong one. Probably why a lot of backhoes and excavators have a switch to change from Cat to John Deere joystick controls, which are also opposite of each other. Makes it easier to use whatever way you're most comfortable with.

jm. · May 19, 2016

now we have progress if I could just get you to paint it KUBOTA orange then man it would be nice... LOL When we get old have to do what we have to do , I like your solution , I,ll bet you get used to it.

sms · May 20, 2016

If you had run some old Cats it would have felt normal.

Geo-TH,In · May 20, 2016

jm,
I have 4 tractors, 2 terramites, a farmall c and a Jubilee. Each got a paint job shortly after I got them. Terramites were painted John Deere yellow. I thought because I don't have a JD, except for a JD275 garden tractor, I should use an american color.

Well the tractor in the pic was painted less than a year ago. Painting my tractors is like putting lipstick on a pig. As soon as you paint them, dang the pig rolls around in the mud. I may have painted my last tractor.

If you want to put bota orange on this pig, spend your dime and time, knock yourself out. Darn pig will still get dirty.

BTW, the terramite is so easy to use, even the boss can use it.
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