Posted by notjustair on January 28, 2018 at 06:41:09 from (184.191.48.136):
Last night I had a minute so I adjusted the brakes on the '35 Chevy grain truck. I use it to chore when I feed square bales and the pedal was starting to get low. I was thinking about how so few people there are probably left that know how to work on mechanical brakes with their adjustable rods, cables, and centralizers. It's a lost art. And not necessarily an easy one, either.
Most of the guys here wouldn't be afraid to tear into the carburetor off of their grain truck, but in the "real world" that's a pretty lost art as well. When I ran gas school buses I had to learn the two and four barrel carburetors because at the switchover to diesel no heavy mechanic shops were training kids on how to work on them. I had a bus inspected and worked on once and he told me that they did the best they could with the carb/emissions adjustments but no one really knew them anymore. And this was a good shop! I limped it home and promptly tore into the four barrel on it. With all that emissions junk I had never seen anything so "new" with that many pieces. I didn't stop until it ran like new (with a lot less parts on it) and it still ran that way when it was retired.
I wonder what kinds of things will be lost when we are gone. Grandpas '35 has always been in the family. When I'm gone it goes to my niece. She's really going to be in trouble - she won't know anything about a carburetor OR those mechanical brakes (not to mention points and adjusting timing with a dial distributor). I told my brother there was going to have to be an apprenticeship program for the old thing. At my farm sale there better be lots of other guys like me. There are still lots of things around here that require some special skills to upkeep. And some are actually worth upkeeping!
Brakes, ignition, carburetors. There's got to be others I missing.
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