Question for the old timers

Bean your dad was a good driver.

 

I put up with a brownie that would sometimes do that for a year or longer, finally took it apart and fixed it, seemed like it was pennies to do too. lol
Iirc it was a problem with one of the detent ball springs.

 

Neither. It refers to the H shift pattern of the auxiliary transmission (brownie). Most brownies have the pattern where 1st is to the left and forward, 2nd to the left and back 3rd to the right and back, and fourth to the right and against the dash. When you shift from second to third it is easy to put some pressure to the right as you take it out of gear, rather than moving the shifter straight forward to neutral, and then to the right. This is when you can stick the shifter inside the transmission, and get stuck in one gear.

 

Now for the real technical stuff...When to use the jake to shift and with which box and when? All three stages regardless of terrain or cut it back a notch on a steep pull where you're trying not to be gearbound ?
As in...when you leave the landing and it's an immediate seven or eight percent, soft ground, and five miles to the top. If you try to grab one in the brownie and miss, you come to a complete stop real fast. That kind of ground.
You can hear some darn good arguments on this one at the shop sometimes.

 

Ever run two sticks? They won't allow you to make and get away with very many mistakes. It's kind of a different deal.

 

Ha, yeah when I hear fellas say they never use the clutch all I can think is that they probably don't spend much time off road in the hills. And , you want to have your foot on the clutch, but not depressed until the split second you go into the next gear so that the Jakes bring down the speed of the tranny(s).

So many little things that you just had to learn on your own, usually by having to stop and start all over in a low gear in which you were likely stuck in until the top of the grade.