Fell for that old chestnut.

Neat 1500 · Dec 23, 2016

Went to use the YM14 today to mow some grass at my property boundary. Started it up and went flying down the drive, got to the bottom and had no drive. Pulled the filter and checked the fluid-all good. Tore all the back end off it and checked linkages, selector pins and anything I could think of and nothing. Oh well looks like a tear down then the penny drops........ nah it couldn't be the range selector in neutral could it? Sure enough it was. Re-assemble and away we go. The kids must have been playing with it and it must have been inbetween N and II and jumped out on the descend from the shed. A happy ending no less :ashamed:

Thomas · Dec 23, 2016

Sometimes its the easy fixes we grin and sputter to ourselves afterwards.

normde2001 · Dec 23, 2016

Duh, I'm still working on this

. "Started it up and went flying down the drive, got to the bottom and had no drive".

oosik · Dec 23, 2016

When my tractor was new the range selector was stiff as a board. Started down the driveway and shifted from Hi to Lo - I thought. Tractor wouldn't move. Took me half an hour to figure it wasn't in Lo but in between. Great relief - - but, jeeze, sure felt like noob. Now at 250 hours its better but still requires a good push.

jerrybob · Dec 23, 2016

You should have checked the range selector first.....would have saved you some time! LOL! Glad it was nothing serious.......Merry Christmas.

lilranch2001 · Dec 23, 2016

This from the guy who said Trump had no chance in h*e*l*l

teg · Dec 23, 2016

Was buying something from an old farmer... Got to talking and he said his backhoe barely could move forward and back. He was planning to tow it to a shop. I asked if it did it in both the high and low range? That's when we found out it wasn't in either... he said he never used high range and he forgot about that lever.

California · Dec 23, 2016

Hah! I did similar last week. The YM186D wouldn't crank after I tried to see if it could lift the backhoe I use on the larger Yanmar. (No.) WTH? Headlights bright, it isn't the battery.

It took a couple of minutes to figure out I had left the PTO engaged after removing the backhoe's PTO pump. I forgot about the PTO range safety switch until I was tracing wires under the seat searching for a seat-vacant safety switch (that doesn't exist).

I put the PTO back to neutral and it fired right up.

clemsonfor · Dec 24, 2016

So what does this have to do with an old chestnut?

California · Dec 24, 2016

An expression probably more used in Brit English, means 'something traditional, old, so commonplace that it should have been expected'.

In this instance, falling for something we should have already learned from experience by making that mistake before.