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joel29m · #31 07-05-2012, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mjlcare2

no offense to anyone but how the heck do you put a blade on backwards, upside down, whatever?? it does have a sharp edge.. that would be the point of taking them off in the first place.. to sharpen! I've never put a blade on upside down but I once forgot to put the truck in park out of drive and did a property.. went to leave, truck wouldn't make a noise.. took 3 hours and lots of complaining to the dealer we just bought it from 2 weeks earlier to figure that out.. even had a tow truck on the way on the dealers tab... this was a isuzu npr so a BIG, expensive tow truck

hell my brother in law was cutting with the blades backwards for the entire year of 2011, and didn't realize it until he asked me do I have to make 3 passes in the same spot with my mower, I knew something wasn't right.
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BestImpressions99 · #32 07-06-2012, 11:35 AM

Kkane... That you called out Orangemower. He does think he runs a business perfectly. So that's what the Bravo was about. Go ahead and crack open a cold filtered Barq's then on me.

Kkane97 · #33 07-06-2012, 11:51 AM

Will do

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MOturkey · #34 07-06-2012, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by mjlcare2

no offense to anyone but how the heck do you put a blade on backwards, upside down, whatever?? it does have a sharp edge.. that would be the point of taking them off in the first place.. to sharpen! I've never put a blade on upside down but I once forgot to put the truck in park out of drive and did a property.. went to leave, truck wouldn't make a noise.. took 3 hours and lots of complaining to the dealer we just bought it from 2 weeks earlier to figure that out.. even had a tow truck on the way on the dealers tab... this was a isuzu npr so a BIG, expensive tow truck

No offense taken. I know there are people who don't do such things, but they grow up to be astronauts or work on nuclear submarines. Most of us get distracted by physical factors in our environment, or even our own thoughts.

One question though. Why in the hell wouldn't you jiggle the shifter lever around if a vehicle wouldn't start, in which case you would have realized it was still in drive?

wildstarblazer · #35 07-06-2012, 06:59 PM

We're lawn men, we're allowed to have dumb ass moments. Otherwise we'd be something more important..

mjlcare2 · #36 07-06-2012, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by MOturkey

No offense taken. I know there are people who don't do such things, but they grow up to be astronauts or work on nuclear submarines. Most of us get distracted by physical factors in our environment, or even our own thoughts.

One question though. Why in the hell wouldn't you jiggle the shifter lever around if a vehicle wouldn't start, in which case you would have realized it was still in drive?

because jiggling the shifter around is what stupid people do.. all of my trucks are new so i know the shifter isn't broke or anywhere close to broke.. so it didn't cross my mind that anything with the shifter would need looked at.. we were thinking along the lines of something electrical was wrong

tgzzzz · #37 07-06-2012, 08:57 PM

All my stuff is new: to me.

B&SFTW · #38 07-07-2012, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by mjlcare2

because jiggling the shifter around is what stupid people do..

stupid people that can start their trucks...

I'm not perfect, mind you, I've tried to start a vehicle, wouldn't crank, wondered wtf? looked down, realized it was in drive, not neutral or park, put it in neutral, and it started right up. I've also, while driving a silverado, backed out of a parking spot with the truck off, wondered why the steering was less responsive and the rear tires weren't steering, then I realized the truck was off (can't hear the engine over the climate control blower on that truck), put it in neutral, started right up, drove away. it's not what stupid people do, it's step #1 in diagnosing why an automatic vehicle won't start, same as pressing the brake pedal to take the shifter out of park, or pushing the clutch in to start a manual transmission vehicle (some also make you put it in neutral).

as said, people are absent minded by nature when distracted, but how you react to the result of your absent mindedness is what sets the smart apart from the not so smart. taking 3 hours to realize a truck was in drive because you were "too smart" to look at the shifter makes you the latter, IMO

StanWilhite · #39 07-07-2012, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by B&SFTW

stupid people that can start their trucks...

I'm not perfect, mind you, I've tried to start a vehicle, wouldn't crank, wondered wtf? looked down, realized it was in drive, not neutral or park, put it in neutral, and it started right up. I've also, while driving a silverado, backed out of a parking spot with the truck off, wondered why the steering was less responsive and the rear tires weren't steering, then I realized the truck was off (can't hear the engine over the climate control blower on that truck), put it in neutral, started right up, drove away. it's not what stupid people do, it's step #1 in diagnosing why an automatic vehicle won't start, same as pressing the brake pedal to take the shifter out of park, or pushing the clutch in to start a manual transmission vehicle (some also make you put it in neutral).

as said, people are absent minded by nature when distracted, but how you react to the result of your absent mindedness is what sets the smart apart from the not so smart. taking 3 hours to realize a truck was in drive because you were "too smart" to look at the shifter makes you the latter, IMO

Amen........