EPISODE 389 “STRIPPING THE GEARS” (with Bill Brooks)
alan skeoch
July19, 2021
“World treating you well, young fellow?”
“good and bad…up and down…hot and cold”
“Come over here…something for you to see.”
I had a job for Bill Brooks to do…to make a special sunflower…but
he got me distracted right away. Bill is a mechanic who likes
to be challenged.
“Take a look at those gears”
“Look good to me…what are they worth?’
“Can you spare $3,000?”
“You mean those gears are worth $3,000? what’s wrong with them?”
“Look closer….gears have been stripped…”
“I have to find new or used gears like this…to fit the front end of a
four wheel drive Ford tractor built in the 1960’s.”
“Any luck?”’:
“We can get new gears from a factory in Italy for $3,000…right now we are
asking around scrap yards for a used set but no luck.”
“Stripping the gears…jamming a gear change without using the clutch…that’ll
start the stripping….eventually the gears just will not work together any more.”
“You know something Bill…”
“Know some things.”
“The term ‘stripping the gears’ could be applied to the current big
problems below the border in the United States. A lot of gear
stripping going on down there…eventually the government could
just not work any more. Trump stripped the gears a lot when he
was president….”