What does 'righty tighty - lefty loosey' mean?

[bigtiller]

one down and 2 to go for my 3 page prediction.

 

[BleedingOrange]

Does this help ?

 

[scootr]

Does this help ?

I hate when that happens

 

[Engineer42]

This is 1991, working as a poured basement wall crane operator. Only been there for few months, one of the owners was

out and changing the fuel filters on the truck/carrier. Looking towards the front from the middle of the truck, cab on the left,

very narrow, next engine compartment and a open area same width as the cab. When driving on the road the boom is over

the engine compartment sitting in a cradle. He has the hood open on the top and the side and is laying on his back next to

the engine. He's grunting trying to remove the fuel filter and says how hard it was, I tell him he's turning it the wrong way,

this happens a couple more times and tell him he's turning it the wrong way. Finally he turns it correctly and it comes off and

he says, f'ing crane operators think they know everything. I said no, you were turning it the wrong way. He didn't get mad

at me, he had a hell of a temper, but would cool down fast.

This guy was a unique boss, worth many millions yet he would go out and get his hands dirty. Found out later that he had

dyslexia, now were both retired, he lives in Florida and were friends and talk on the phone often.

Here's one of the cranes I operated, CCC truck/carrier, P&H 215 crane, 50' boom, 30' jib, with a dragline.

Wow, a dragline on a jib? Small bucket?

 

[masscity]

Wow, a dragline on a jib? Small bucket?

It's not for a dragline bucket. The crane is used for setting concrete forms that weigh up to 1200 lbs. When you sit at the

corner of a basement hole often the distance to the opposite corner may be 80', so just boom out and lay the boom almost

flat to reach it. Now I have to set a form right next to the crane so I just boom up and pull the form next to the crane with

the dragline and set it. Also when swinging the form on a windy day the dragline gives you much more control of the form.

 

[Jstpssng]

We are past Bigtiller's guess pf 3 pages (although 10 posts per page not 40) and 1/3 of the way to his aggregate of 120.
Jstpssng--Do your testing rules require you to deduct your own and Scootr's posts?

Heck no!!!
I may even have to write "I will not make frivolous posts on TBN"
on the blackboard 254 times! (my settings show 50 posts per page.)

 

[Engineer42]

It's not for a dragline bucket. The crane is used for setting concrete forms that weigh up to 1200 lbs. When you sit at the

corner of a basement hole often the distance to the opposite corner may be 80', so just boom out and lay the boom almost

flat to reach it. Now I have to set a form right next to the crane so I just boom up and pull the form next to the crane with

the dragline and set it. Also when swinging the form on a windy day the dragline gives you much more control of the form.

Ahhh, that makes more sense. When I hear dragline, I automatically think bucket. Bad habit I guess.

 

[RayIN]

Also an old mnemonic to remind bicyclists that clockwise rotation tightens the right pedal but loosens the left pedal. Once pedal manufacturers put hex recesses in the ends of pedal axles, the cyclist had to remember the left pedal has left hand thread.

Old enough to remember when automobile wheel lugs were threaded that way.

Left-hand threads were invented to use on wagon wheels so as the wagons left-side wheel rotated the actions tended to tighten the wheel nut, like the right side wheels did.

 

[tradosaurus]

Does this help ?

No. We need more of your ignorant comments about EVs. You know, the type of car you have experience with.