Posted by rumplestiltskin on February 06, 2011 at 06:20:43 from (166.165.137.190):
In Reply to: Tractor Control Quirks posted by rumplestiltskin on February 05, 2011 at 17:39:35:
I forgot this one:
On my 350 Utility with an IH loader, the bucket control seems to make sense -- I rotate the lever forward, and the bucket does the same thing (i.e., it moves to the "dump" position). But the arms do just the opposite of what I would expect. I have to rotate the lever forward to rotate the arms rearward (to the raised position). I think I read somewhere in the archives that they were made that way, so evidently it's not just plumbed backwards.
Those engineers in the 50's did a ton of things right, but now and then they came up with a real head-scratcher. :-)
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