Standard Transmissions

Beth Gallagher said:
Just imagine if today's kids had to survive with a car with a standard transmission, an analog clock, a rotary dial phone, and directions written in cursive.
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Sometimes, us oldies also don't get it.
I was at the self-service cashier at Home Depot yesterday. When I stuck my card in the slot, it said, "Error Read." A young employee came & put the card on the screen - I guess to read that silver chip & it worked. I said, "Thanks, us old people don't get it." She said, "Very Funny."
I didn't know the screen could read the chip; I thought it was some sort of security feature.
 
Like others on here, I have been driving clutches since I was a kid on the farm.

My old square body GMC was a three speed with a granny. The dually is a five speed. The F-150 is automatic.

My Saturn is a five speed. I keep it because it’s paid off and nobody can steal it because they can’t drive it.

The farm tractor has a two-stage clutch to engage the PTO.

I have fallen behind on tech stuff since I retired. I try to keep up, but as fast as things change, it’s tough🤯🤯
 
Connie Bennett said:
Like others on here, I have been driving clutches since I was a kid on the farm.

My old square body GMC was a three speed with a granny. The dually is a five speed. The F-150 is automatic.

My Saturn is a five speed. I keep it because it’s paid off and nobody can steal it because they can’t drive it.

The farm tractor has a two-stage clutch to engage the PTO.

I have fallen behind on tech stuff since I retired. I try to keep up, but as fast as things change, it’s tough🤯🤯
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I wish my 2010 Kubota tractor had a standard transmission. The hydrostatic [sorta automatic] transmission is not strong enough to pull even the smallest of saplings. 50 years ago I helped clear a lot using a 1933 Farmall. That tractor could pull any stump out there--even though it had fewer HP than my modern diesel Kubota--largely because of the gearing of the standard transmission.
 
John Brunner said:
I wish my 2010 Kubota tractor had a standard transmission. The hydrostatic [sorta automatic] transmission is not strong enough to pull even the smallest of saplings. 50 years ago I helped clear a lot using a 1933 Farmall. That tractor could pull any stump out there--even though it had fewer HP than my modern diesel Kubota--largely because of the gearing of the standard transmission.
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My neighbor has same complaint about his Kubota. I suggested he wrap a chain around the shrub he was removing, hook it on the front bucket and pull up. It took a few tries, but it finally came up.
 
Faye Fox said:
My neighbor has same complaint about his Kubota. I suggested he wrap a chain around the shrub he was removing, hook it on the front bucket and pull up. It took a few tries, but it finally came up.
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I remember doing something similar with my Mazda pickup years ago. My friend had a good sized flowering shrub she wanted to get out of her yard, and give to me; and digging it out was not working. I ended up chaining to the truck and giving it small tugs until it finally started moving and came out. Replanting it was a chore though !
 
Faye Fox said:
My neighbor has same complaint about his Kubota. I suggested he wrap a chain around the shrub he was removing, hook it on the front bucket and pull up. It took a few tries, but it finally came up.
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Yeh, that's what I do. But often I end up having to provide assist prying the thing up with a digger bar. I have a boom pole I attach a chain hoist to, but it takes so long, and it's stupid to have to do that.

I don't even know if I can buy a Kubota with a manual transmission.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
So, I was going to put this video in @Faye Fox ’s new song thread, but then…….. I realized that it fits SO well here in this thread…….so here it is….the Beep Beep song.

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I once had one of those Nash Ramblers🥰. It was my winter beater for one season, when I lived in NE Ohio and didn’t want to drive my new car on the salted winter roads.

It was green with a three speed on the column. It was cold as hades to drive because the heater barely worked, but I was early 20’s and not much bothered me back then 🤠

Come spring, I sold it for what I had paid for it so I was happy with that.
 
Connie Bennett said:
I once had one of those Nash Ramblers🥰. It was my winter beater for one season, when I lived in NE Ohio and didn’t want to drive my new car on the salted winter roads.

It was green with a three speed on the column. It was cold as hades to drive because the heater barely worked, but I was early 20’s and not much bothered me back then 🤠

Come spring, I sold it for what I had paid for it so I was happy with that.
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That was a sloppy 3 speed with loose linkage, wasn't it, Connie? I know we had a few Nashes, including a Nash Rambler station wagon and 3 Nash Metropolitans. Front wheel drive with a sideways mounted engine, as I recall.
 
Yes, @John Brunner Inforgot about the crummy linkage. It was simple enough I knew how to fix it if I had to. That car didn’t go very far on any given day, lollol

I can’t believe I found a foto of that old Rambler ANNND my precious Arab/Saddlebred that I raised/trained from birth!❤️❤️

Sonny had gotten loose from the pasture in the back and had come around front to let me know that he could do that, it was something he did often😘😘

When the creek bed went dry, he crawled under the fence. He was in his mid teens in this photo and a very seasoned trail horse by this time. He wouldn’t go near the road so I just left him go till I got his feed ready and put him in the barn.

The date on this old photo says March 1970. This was back when we had a lot of snow. I don’t know why the photo looks smoky, it has something to do with this new iPhone 17, but I have no idea how to make that filmy look go away.

I forgot I have to use Imgur to upload photos. I hope this works.

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My mother loved Ramblers ! We had an old 1953 Buick Special, which was the vehicle that I remember when I was growing up, but by the time I was a late teenager, she had bought her Rambler station wagon, and she drove that for years and years. I have no idea how many miles it had on it, but it must have been a LOT, because she did a lot of driving. We often went to Spokane to go shopping , which was around 75 miles easy way, plus whatever driving she did in town. Except for the old Buick Special, I think all of the vehicles they had were standard transmissions.
This picture would have been around 1970, and the car was probably early-60’s model, or even late 50’s.

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John Brunner said:
@Connie Bennett I am NOT a photo expert, but I took the liberty of trying to adjust your pic. If you don't like my changes, I'll put your original pic back. I may post this on another forum later and ask the guys who use AI to clean it up. I've seen some old WW2 photos they've worked with. It's amazing stuff, but above my skill level. Maybe I'll learn how to do this myself.
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AI? Horrors!!!!
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John Brunner said:
@Connie Bennett I am NOT a photo expert, but I took the liberty of trying to adjust your pic. If you don't like my changes, I'll put your original pic back. I may post this on another forum later and ask the guys who use AI to clean it up. I've seen some old WW2 photos they've worked with. It's amazing stuff, but above my skill level. Maybe I'll learn how to do this myself.
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What really helps with definition, is resizing. OIE offers a free online program where cropping and resizing are easy. I keep it on a tab for easy access. Her photo was 5000 x 4000 and I reduced it to around 500 X 400. I didn't do anything but crop and resize. Also takes up 90% less forum space.
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