Things the children struggle with

premise said:
Anybody else learn manual with three-on-a-tree?

It's been years since I drove stick, which, even then, was on the farm or to the store. Is it one of them things you forget, or like riding a bike?
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In high school (career center) I frequently drove classmates to the job sites in a school van with 3 on the tree. No background check, no drug test, just "can you? Here are the keys, see you there."
 
LJ's BFF in Chicago had her boys ready to turn 16 and get their license but noticed that neither seemed to have any interest. She asked them about it and both told her that they didn't feel like they were ready. She then informed them that the day they turned 16 "Mom/Dad's Taxi Service" was discontinued and effectively closed. They made the mistake of doubting her, I'm sure you can figure out the rest.....
Suddenly, within just a couple of days they seemed to have much more interest in getting their license and a car...
 
premise said:
Is it one of them things you forget, or like riding a bike?
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For the most part, like riding a bike.

To me there’s a bigger difference in getting used to a different clutch (e.g. swapping from a Ranger/S-10, to a Challenger) than there is remembering the basics.

My brother and I could both drive a manual by ~age 10. My dad had a Mazda B2000 that we drove round and round in the yard.
 
premise said:
Anybody else learn manual with three-on-a-tree?

It's been years since I drove stick, which, even then, was on the farm or to the store. Is it one of them things you forget, or like riding a bike?
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I actually learned in a B model Mack twin stick

Imagine being 8 or 9 and grandpa telling you to go teach a new farmhand how to drive it.
 
My 19 yr old stepsister is at Disney for the first time this week. She called her daddy yesterday all excited because she got to meet Pooh...... in the conversation she said she was a little disappointed she didn't meet the original one but knew he was prob dead by now.
 
Aardvark said:
My wife did. 1963 Chevy Nova. It was her first car. She's 59.
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My wife is 55; she learned three-on-the-tree too, on a Ford pickup (don't remember the year). She's almost rather have a stick than auto.

I was driving tractors in the field when I was 11 or so. Learned cars/trucks on a mix of three-on-the-tree pickup, auto pickup, auto car, and a Chevy dump truck with 5-speed and a trans-axle :) The transmission isn't what kills me; it's where are all the light/HVAC/radio/gas cap cover/side mirror controls/locks/washers/cruise and all the other "mundane" stuff in different vehicles. This is really exacerbated when you travel a lot for work and have a bunch of different rentals. That all can be vastly different among the various makes and models.

First time I encountered automatic door locks, I was about 25 (1989). Flew into Dayton, rented a car, and was leaving the airport at night. There is (or was) a long, empty road to get out of the airport. I'm driving around that road in the dark, and all of a sudden, KER-CLUNK!!! Those locks clanked home. I had no idea what it was. I pulled over and searched that car thoroughly, convinced there was someone in there with me :eek: We didn't buy new vehicles, and we didn't buy vehicles all loaded up... After that, I would take a rental through all its paces before leaving the lot :D
 
Things that children DON'T struggle with, and some adults DO...this particular adult has never mastered video game controllers...never spent the time. Never owned a video game, except for an old Pong I rescued from the trash and repaired, and later sold.
 
noway2 said:
The hard part is getting that natural feel for goosing the gas as you're letting off of and not riding the clutch. I've heard that the diesel trucks tend to have enough torque that you can put it in 1st and just let the clutch out and it will creep. It's considered a feature.
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Who starts a truck in first? I start in third, with a load. Bobtail on a downhill with no load, 6th. You almost never use first. And when you get started you can speed shift them using the rpm’s to move in and out of gear. Clutch is just for cranking and starting from a stop.

But we are now going to automatic’s. I think they finally have them figured out. The Kenworth T680 is the best automatic I have driven.


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Wow ya'll have it easy. My kid struggles with eating. It's not an eating disorder that involves body image thank god, she just doesn't eat enough.
 
'Nother farm kid here & learned to drive in a '36 Plymouth dump truck at 10 y/o when we were short handed bringing in the silage.

Driven manuals most of my life & still drive a manual trans truck today.
 
RFMan said:
Things that children DON'T struggle with, and some adults DO...this particular adult has never mastered video game controllers...never spent the time. Never owned a video game, except for an old Pong I rescued from the trash and repaired, and later sold.
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Yeah.. I grew up with Pong... then Kaleco Vision... then Atari 2600... then Nintendo... Then Sega!... then PlayStation 1... 2.... 3.... and now 4!!!!!

All to get knifed in the back by an 11-year old girl who calls me a Bitch over the game cast....
 
VA_GENTLEMAN said:
I grew up with Pong... then Kaleco Vision... then Atari 2600...
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Never had a game console until after I graduated college and bought my first house. It was a PS2. Growing up the neighbor had an Odyssey. I loved playing on it.
 
VA_GENTLEMAN said:
Yeah.. I grew up with Pong... then Kaleco Vision... then Atari 2600... then Nintendo... Then Sega!... then PlayStation 1... 2.... 3.... and now 4!!!!!
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Jeez, I remember seeing my first Pong game - at the Wheel Inn in Cabazon CA, a standup cabinet game. Games have changed a lot since then.
 
premise said:
Anybody else learn manual with three-on-a-tree?

It's been years since I drove stick, which, even then, was on the farm or to the store. Is it one of them things you forget, or like riding a bike?
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Didn't learn on one but did drive a old Ford can once that had one.

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In my former life, before I blew out my back! I was a Auto Technician. I was working at one of the countries biggest used car companies. They dispatched me a work order to check a bad clutch. 2nd one in like a 2 weeks!. The customer( late teen early 20's male) wanted to take me for a test drive because he had had it with this piece of junk car and he wanted it fixed! We get into the car, he starts it, revs it to 6 grand and then proceeded to slip the hell out of the clutch! You could just hear and smell the clutch trying to catch up to the motor! I said Stop! What are you doing? He looked at me like I was Nuts! I said, This is not how this works! He says, Well how do you do it?

Another tech I knew, had a male customer bring his car in. The engine was struggling to run and smoking! The customer had done a oil and filter change at home, and there must be something wrong, because he had already put 2 gallons of oil into the engine and it's still was not full! Tech said what do you mean it is not full? The customer says it's like it has a big leak I keep putting more and more oil in it, but it still has not filled up the valve cover! Tech says, did you check the dipstick? Customer say's What's a dipstick!
 
Two of my sons both got their first home this week.
Today I’m: repairing a burnt connection block in HVAC, repairing sink plumbing, laying crawl space plastic, clearing a chimney, replacing a Chevy A/C compressor and window o_O
Well see how far I can get.
Didn’t someone have free fiberglass insulation?
Their floor has none.
 
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Pink_Vapor said:
Two of my sons both got their first home this week.
Today I’m: repairing a burnt connection block in HVAC, repairing sink plumbing, laying crawl space plastic, clearing a chimney, replacing a Chevy A/C compressor and window o_O
Well see how far I can get.
Didn’t someone have free fiberglass insulation?
Their floor has none.
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Busy busy man. Good luck with all that!
 
B00ger said:
I cant drive a manual transmission. Family growing up always had automatics, all I have ever bought were automatics, only once had a chance to even try to drive one about 25 years ago.
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No shame in that at all. Tell you what sir, any weekend that we can both hookup, you are free to go out with me in my Jeep and learn. It's very forgiving because of the torquey engine. My TJ not my JK.

Just give me a shout if you want to do it sometime. I'd be happy to teach you.
 
Qball said:
No shame in that at all. Tell you what sir, any weekend that we can both hookup, you are free to go out with me in my Jeep and learn. It's very forgiving because of the torquey engine. My TJ not my JK.

Just give me a shout if you want to do it sometime. I'd be happy to teach you.
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You are the best brother. I’ll take you up on this sometime!


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my son had to prove he could drive a manual when he wanted to rent a straight.
no one at the rental agency believed anyone his age could handle a stick BMW.
 
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