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Nooooo, of course not! Would I do thing like that? But since I can see you don't know this historical footnote, I will fill in some more blanks for you. As a public service. You know that trench that marks the DMZ between North and South Korea? Dug by Ford 3Ns, every inch of it. The problem was that without the live hydraulics, er ... live PTO ... well, without either one of those things, if the operator put in the clutch the digging stopped. The army-issue FELs would just stop mid-scoop or mid-dump (as the case might be) amid the flying shells and tracer bullets and mortar rounds. But they HAD to put the clutch in because they HAD to go slow, because McArthur kept telling them, "Dig that boundary farther NORTH, Gol darn it!" (Well, I edited his comments a bit for this family-friendly forum, but that was the essence of it.) He was telling those poor tractor operators to go dig farther north, the Truman kept calling the other officers and telling them, "GET back down to where I TOLD you to put that boundary!" and it was just a mess. Total inaction of the scoops because of the indecision. This, of course, led to the research that developed the NAA, with live something-or-others that allowed it to dig even when not in gear. As a result, the DMZ in Korea was finally established, McArthur was called home, Truman put his feet on his desk and smoked a triumphal cigar, and American politics was forever changed by the advent of technology that could shovel s*** without making any forward progress at the same time. I hear the History Channel is preparing a documentary.
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