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Anybody Hear Click Clack On The Radio Today ?

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OUTim

06-14-2003 12:11:36




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"Car Talk" has a weekly puzzler and today's involved an old Jeep with a PTO pully and a cord wood saw on the back. I was in heavy traffic at the time and didn't get all of the details. The description sounded a lot like a Dearborn rig. Anybody have any idea what the crowbar was for ?
I was interested that they explained that "power take off" refers to taking power off of another unit to run some piece of machinery. I had always thought of it in the sense of "starting out" as in "when will he take off for New York" or "when will the plane take off from the runway".

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ZANE

06-15-2003 19:10:01




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 Re: Anybody Hear Click Clack On The Radio Today ? in reply to OUTim, 06-14-2003 12:11:36  
May be something like the time I started a four cylinder Wisconsen engine with a hand crank and the crank stuck in the crankshaft and didn't come loose when it started. I was working for the county road department at the time as a master mechanic. When the bunch of men who were standing around waiting for me to get the sweeper going again realizes something bad was wrong when the sweeper began to jump up and down about two feet off the ground and was making an awful noise and saw me runnig as fast as my brogans could go away from that thing they did the same thing. The crank finally did let go and when it did as it left the area it sounded like one of those things we used to make from a slat of wood on a string that we called a "bull whistle". We never did know where that thing landed. "I shot an arrow into the air" kind of thing. Lucky it didn't hit anybody when it turned loose.

We just let the sweeper run the rest of the day and got another crank the next morning. Put a little grease on that one.

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Salmoneye

06-14-2003 12:30:39




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 Re: Anybody Hear Click Clack On The Radio Today ? in reply to OUTim, 06-14-2003 12:11:36  
The whole question is "What was the crowbar used for"...

The guy swears it was not used...The old farmer says it was an integral part of the operation as it sat unused...

The hint was that the old farmer had 'forgotten it once and swore he would never do that again'...



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06-14-2003 12:35:22




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 Re: Re: Anybody Hear Click Clack On The Radio Tod in reply to Salmoneye, 06-14-2003 12:30:39  
The puzzler will be up tomorrow at the site below...

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