Mechanical Thinking
It's funny, my dad always sees me as non mechanical, mainly because I chose to work with wood rather than metal. But, looking back, I'm always fixing machines or maintaining them, changing batteries or topping stuff up, there is always something breaking and although I do phone dad for advice I quite often get things going again myself. My little old blue digger is a good case in this one, I've bled it numerous times when there has been problems with the fuel line, replaced pipes, and now dealt with the track coming off. When it happens it is never in a convenient time or place and this was no exception. I was trying to level an area for our earth oven and wanted to bring the digger to the bottom of the orchard to create a space for the "waste" soil. As I got to the narrowest bit the track went slack and I lost traction. Whoever designed the access to the tensioner grease nipple (grease keeps the track tight on this old digger) must have hands like a kittens p...