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 | hardwood
Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3583 iowa 
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2012-08-31 184770
The old timers on the board will remember when I used to post pretty regularly, usually about daily. My lack of posting isn't from a lack of intrest or a problem with a poster, nothing like that. It seems that most of the questions anymore involve tractors with names I can't even pronounce. No problem with that either, we need posters no matter their brand, but I just simply don't know enough about any of those brands to offer any thgoughts about the care and feeding of them.
I'm still around.
Frank.
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| richwaugh
Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 96 
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2012-08-31 184771
Glad to hear you're alive and well, Frank.
I understand you not posting on the machines you don't know anything about, though that doesn't seem to stop plenty of others (grin). ....
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Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 1307 The South Shore of Lake Ontario, New York 
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2012-08-31 184773
That is my issue as well Hardwood although I do read the threads. ....
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 | DennisCTB
Join Date: Nov 1998 Posts: 2707 NorthWest NJ
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2012-09-02 184790
Hardwood,
Sometimes the questions are so specific that it is hard to respond unless you have the same model tractor as the poster. But often your many years of tractor experience can be very helpful in pointing them in the right direction ! Even though you may not have seen that machine..... ....
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| hardwood
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2012-09-02 184791
Dennis;
Yes, I can explain how the basics of a diesel or gasoline engine operate and what is required to make them run. No matter the brand they all work on the same basic principles. The same with transmissions, hydro or gear, they all work on the same principle regardless of brand.
Those aren't the things that throw me, it is the control of those things, the electronics, etc. have replaced levers and knobs with push botton controls. I can fix or explain most things that are still controled with a lever and linkages, but when a computer controls the engine timing, tells the transmission when to shift, etc. I hit a brick wall with any brand.
Questions like, "My XXX Brand Tractor won't start" with few or no other details, I'll help if I can but I need more than that to do the poster much good.
I'm sorta like that fly that won't leave you alone when you are trying to get that after lunch nap in, I'll always be around, so long as God lets me be anyhow.
Thanks for your encouragement and compliments Dennis,
Frank. ....
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 | harvey
Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 1550 Moravia, NY
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2012-09-03 184808
Frank I hear ya about posting for the different stuff. I feel a little bad also about lack of visit time also.
I'm on a pretty good exercise program get 8-10 hours a week, gym, walk, run, bicycle plus I feel like doing stuff in the shop now. (lost over 70#) now on a maintenance program. The Harley only has about 6,600 miles on it so far this season that is neglected also.
But like the "ole boy" said: "if you don't have time to exercise a couple hours a week do you have time to be dead 24/7." ....
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 | kthompson
Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5275 South Carolina
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2012-09-06 184859
Seems Brother Frank you need Ole Jeffery to get on you!
I very much understand and yes sometimes I will reply to a brand I don't know and it gets proven. But as Dennis and you said the basics still hold. So much is so simple...amd then some so vague as you mention on "does not crank" and some will jump in to give suggesions or thoughts and never a reply.
At times will look at all the active threads and realize, know nothing about any. Then I visit another site and find out they post like crazy and know nothing either. LOL ....
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 | Art White
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 6898 Waterville New York
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2012-09-08 184877
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See it all the time and just love seeing some of the replies that actually would make a good comic strip for those who do know. ....
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Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 1307 The South Shore of Lake Ontario, New York
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That holds true, tractors, boats or whatever the topic. ....
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| kthompson
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2012-09-10 184888
Cutter, some comments will fit a boat as good as tractor. Makes one wonder at times. Then we wonder how this county got in the messs we are in. ....
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Join Date: Feb 2000 Posts: 1307 The South Shore of Lake Ontario, New York
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2012-09-11 184900
I kinda sorta know how we got into this mess. I relates back to Rome and even further back to some foxes left to guard the hen house. ....
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