I do put my hand down at the 6 o'clock position at times as well as swapping hands when doing a lot of driving.
Rain is supposed to clear out Tuesday so I'll have 50+ acres of 2nd and 3rd cutting hay to put up, I'll be changing hand positions several times over the next several days.
The spinner is only on my 801 that doesn't see much farm duty, as I said the steering wheel is worn all around the knob so moving or removing it will be noticeable, guess I'll just leave it where it's at.
Driving manual trans cars and pickups plus 30 + years in semis the 10 o'clock position has become my go to position, call it muscle memory or habit. Retraining old muscles and breaking old habits is hard to do.
I'll change positions or hands and a little later my left shoulder will start bothering me again, magically my left hand will be back on the wheel in the 10 o'clock position, don't know how or when it got there..
A couple of my tractors have hydrostatic steering so a spinner wouldn't stay in one position on them, after all these years without one I probably won't be able to train my hands to hold onto one anyway.
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