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Re: Some farmer mechanics.


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Posted by NCWayne on May 22, 2015 at 07:13:50 from (173.188.169.54):

In Reply to: Some farmer mechanics. posted by oldtanker on May 22, 2015 at 05:55:48:

If you think that's bad, you should see some of the stuff I've seen over the years. Some issues have been so bad it's impossible to go into detail, but think wires simply skint and twisted together with no connector, a double handful if wire nuts of all sizes, undersized wire, etc, etc

One of the worst was a crane that had been royally screwed up. It had plain SO cord (not oil resistant) pulled on a lot of the circuits. The wiring ran through the belly pan which was full of oily water. This meant the coating had broken down on the cord, and it was all but impossible to trace circuits as the wires would intermittently make and brake contact between the individual wires within one cord. Add in the fact that the machine had industrial style contact switches in everything (the ignition switch was a stack of them about 8 high)and it gets worse. Top it off with the fact the last guy had screwed up and had the functions crossed with down being up, left being right, and so on, and go on to an even worse level in that it had a remote pendent with controls matching those in the cab for about 8 different functions, and it got even better.

I spent nearly a month tracing wires, and rewiring that machine before I ever got it back in operating condition.

Now when we get into things like welding the phrase 'chicken poop' goes a long way to describe some of what I've seen and had to repair.

As far as mechanical stuff goes, a farmers friend is a nail, bailing wire, duct tape, and what ever size O-ring might be handy that just might possibly fit and get him through the day (((((the rest of the season))))). Beyond that I'll leave it to your imagination....LOL


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