You assume too much. I'm an ASE certified master tech,
a graduate of Dunwoody in 1990, and you owned a shop that worked on what is now considered older imports. Comparing your mechanical knowledge with a line mechanic is like comparing a machinist to a tool-maker. Worse, the topic of that thread was comparing features and thoughts about different Kioti tractors and you refused to get back on topic. Mindnumblingly, you never recognized the subtlety of the conditional nature of my remark of (the-if-it-takes-too-long-to-warm-up/then-something-is-wrong) and kept auguring in making remarks against my person while also failing to recognize that the climate is colder here in the north than in your part of the world.
Contrary to your assertion, you never actually offered any useful advice because criticism and negativity isn't advice, it is criticism and negativity.
I tell you what: I think you're a guy who cannot sit and listen to people with different ideas and perspectives than yourself, and that is fine. But I also think it is high school to to keep attacking my person. I heard you. I heard you the first time, I understood what you said, and now it is time to move on and get over it.
I assume nothing. I'm going strictly on how you present yourself here on TBN. Woopie for the ASE tech thing. If I'd stayed in the business I would have gone the route of certified tech, as it was becoming popular when I sold my business. And yes, I, and my shop techs worked on every conceivable foreign auto to come down the pike without all the plug in, answer pops up diagnostics available today. You're the one doing the comparisons, not me. BTW, I went on to switch careers and added a Masters in Applied Psychology to my education 20 years after my undergraduate B.S. I'm not a one trick pony; I go after what I want and get it, always have, always will.
My contributions to your thread about Kioti tractors were numerous, including stating emphatically that they don't overheat, nor do they need a different T-stat than the one from the factory. You wanted to prove how much you know about diagnosing a non-existent problem, typical of someone who studies mechanical concepts in school yet has little practical knowledge as to how and when to apply the concept properly in the field.
I returned to point when it seemed like you might have grasped the fact that you were wrong about the T-stat needing replacement. It's not about high school, but it is about not leading people here on TBN to erroneous conclusions about diesel equipment, which you admitted you have little knowledge of same.
Auguring? I think you mean to say, arguing? High school English might be something to consider revisiting when you're not too busy. And what's this: 'my person' stuff? just say me.
So now MN has the claim to cold weather, and Vermont is like the tropics? Regardless of the specific degree days in either zone the Kioti tractors don't care, cold is cold everywhere.
I stated: "You've been given good advice about all sorts of tractor related issues by those of us who've taken our time to answer you, and then you question what we're telling you."
Numerous people including 'my person' have given you advice in various threads, not criticism and negativity, as you put it.
BTW, wrong once again, I come to TBN to learn about all kinds of things not limited to just tractors. Most everything I know about tractors has been learned here and from actual use of two DK-series tractors since I joined TBN in 2009. Other people's perspectives and experience is what I and most people come here to share. It works if you let it, you should try it, owning and operating any tractor, it will be a big learning curve, as it was for me, but that's what actual hands on learning is about.
Carry on.
CM out