Santiago
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Dark Skies
Saturn and Jupiter are a hand width apart, with Mars and Pluto between, early morning in the east. Worth taking your coffee out at 5:30-6:00am just
to wonder how Kepler figured this all out. Walk out, face due south, pivot to the east (your left) about an eighth turn and look up about 45 degrees.
Wish you lived in California where clouds are unheard off.
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AKgringo
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Thanks for the heads up, but I think I will try to sleep in. A winter weather advisory has been issued for the part of California that I am in right
now, and 45 degrees doesn't get me above the tree line!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  | | Thanks for the heads up, but I think I will try to sleep in. A winter weather advisory has been issued for the part of California that I am in right
now, and 45 degrees doesn't get me above the tree line! |
Gary,
Did you do the 1/8th turn before the 45' head tilt?
Those directions describe how my bulldozer-driving Uncle Fred put on his cap..... 45' tilt w/ 1/8th turn to lock. 
Don't believe everything you think....
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| Quote: Originally posted by motoged |
Gary,
Did you do the 1/8th turn before the 45' head tilt?
Those directions describe how my bulldozer-driving Uncle Fred put on his cap..... 45' tilt w/ 1/8th turn to lock. |
Did your uncle at least realize the bill of the cap goes in front to shade his eyes? My D-6 has become a "republican" Cat lately....it doesn't want
to turn left anymore!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Of course he wore the cap the way any self-respecting equipment operator would....peak (adorned with greasy patina) forward, tilted 30-45' degrees to
one side, and that 1/8th sideways turn just to lock 'er down.
As for not turning left....take your lunch pail off that right pedal 
My experience at age of 7 w/ a D8 was telling my cousin to stand in front of the blade and tell me if the lights were on (because I "knew" that
button on the floor was for lights ....).....the dozer bucked when I stomped on that thing....scared the crap out of us both.....
Never told Uncle Fred we tried to get that thing out in the field.
Probably a good thing....his workboots were those lace-up steel-toed
boots with the leather fringes over the toes....and getting kicked in the a$$ with those would have sent me into adolescence....
As for your machine's predilection for direction....could be attributed to operator error....
Don't believe everything you think....
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Ged, I can still use my Cat on level ground, but when I head down hill the left brake won't hold. Fortunately the right brake allows me to maintain
control, but it takes both tracks working together to get back on the level!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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motoged
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Clearly you know about these things....
Don't believe everything you think....
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