today I actually fixed something

I know that it is essential for any farmer to be able to keep going even when the equipment does not.  Part botanist and full time handy man comes with the territory if anything is going to get done.

Today Josh was digging post holes when the tractor in his words "crapped out".  When I arrived on the scene the first thing I noticed was that the gas gauge was showing full even though the tractor had been running for over 4 hours.  So the gauge is a liar...lets get some diesel and get back to work right?  It is never that easy.  As an owner of a ford 2810 diesel for the past 15 years I have run out of fuel many times and has resulted in vapor lock.  In the past I have always relied on Jose to bleed the injectors because he was there.  Not today and not until Monday.

A call to New Holland in Frederick and some descriptions on where the fuel injectors were and I was determined

to try to get it running all on my own.  You have to understand I have never fixed a true mechanical problem on a motorized vehicle in my life.  UNTIL TODAY! Trial and error, trial and error and over two hours of persistence along with jumper cables and sure enough that baby is running like a champ!  OK so the afternoon of post hole digging was lost but we are back in business tomorrow.  I even have the hands to prove it.