Sometimes it takes courage to ask "dumb questions" (which could also be referred to as very learner type questions).
Asking those types of questions opens the asker up to jokes or mild embarrassment . . . but if you don't ask them you'll never know or end up guessing and repeating mistakes.
2 years ago I started the thread as a newbie tractor owner after many years of other types of equipment experiences. The idea of the thread was tapping into and sharing tractor knowledge or warnings to save the time and equipment of others having to experience it as well.
2 years later it's a good reminder for patience when new threads from new owners have problems that seem so obvious.
Take as an example a number of users on threads talking about their scuts losing power going up hills or the engine killing in the process. They don't think that high gear vs low gear makess a difference, or thick grass cutting up a hill makes a difference. To a new user, their unit is powerful and strong. But they forget they are cutting 54 inches or 60 inches wide instead of 38 or 42 inches wide with a lawn mower that weighs just 450 pounds.
Or they think high speed 's the primary speed and then they just use a little hst peddle instead of using low gear. One writer recently said on another thread. . . that they like going "fast" all the time. Lol.
So maybe a good dumb question for experienced users is "how come I get impatient with new users always asking simple questions? "
And the answer is "because you forgot what it was like to be new and trying to learn a pile of new things on your own. "
Patience to ask good questions when you're new is important and patience to give good answers when you're experienced is just as important.
