Category Archives: Garagineering

Lifesized Rubik’s Cube

Posted on November 15, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

I recently acquired a slightly used office desk. Like most furniture I own it’s made of slabs of pressboard with the bare minimum woodgrain surfacing. Like most furniture I own it’s been disassembled roughly five hundred times and it’s broken … Continue reading →

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Ailing Tractor VIII

Posted on August 19, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

This is what happened to a clutch mounting bolt. Continue reading →

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Ailing Tractor VII

Posted on August 17, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

People ask me why it takes me so darned long to fix a tractor… Continue reading →

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Ailing Tractor VI

Posted on August 14, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

This is a crankshaft… Continue reading →

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Sherlock Holmes And The Ailing Tractor: Part V

Posted on August 5, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Without a functioning tractor the lawn lost all respect for authority. In a rush I picked up some tools and set out to find what I’d screwed up. Man it sucks to undo “repairs” that you just finished. All those … Continue reading →

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Sherlock Holmes And The Ailing Tractor: Part IV

Posted on August 4, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Denial never solves anything. (A fact that also applies to the fiscal contortions emanating from DC.) So the tractor was stuck…after all that hard work I had to admit it. What to do? I’d screwed something up. What? How to … Continue reading →

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Sherlock Holmes And The Ailing Tractor: Part III

Posted on August 3, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

“Have you ever tried to do anything?” I ask hypothetically over a theoretical beer. Well I have. And I’m convinced that God, Fate, the Furies, and possibly Ralph Nader have secret meetings where they alter the cosmos just to keep … Continue reading →

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Sherlock Holmes And The Ailing Tractor: Part II

Posted on August 2, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

When my tractor died it expired with a desperate gasp and final shudder. It had been suffering and I had kept using it knowing that it’s mortality loomed.  It had committed the very last molecule of it’s aged being to … Continue reading →

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Sherlock Holmes And The Ailing Tractor: Part I

Posted on August 1, 2011 by AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Part of being Adaptive is learning new things. So when my 1944 Ford Tractor died I decided to call it an “opportunity”. (Which is no less obfuscatory than a politician calling a new tax “revenue enhancement” so just let it go eh?) Continue reading →

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