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Iowa | I grew up running Dad's combines. His last combine had lots of problems. I bought my first combine a little cheaper with no radio and cracked the windows open so I could listen for whatever would be going wrong. Not much went wrong with that combine in the 11 years I ran it. All of my combines since then had quiet cabs with heat/AC and a radio. I can still hear things and feel vibrations with whatever I'm running, but it seems to be a lost art. It's a matter of paying attention without having to think about it and understanding how things work. It seems most people, although very successful by most measures in life, are hopelessly clueless when it comes to stuff like that if they did not grow up doing it. Yet, it does seem to help the learning process if one is doing these things with their own money. I wish government worked that way. | |
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Is "listening" to your equipment a lost art?
