Re: TOY: Re: hydrauic "line locks"

["Scott Ellinger" <ellinger@xxxxxxxx>]

> After your posts about line locks and steering brakes I have this picture
> of you in the cab of your truck madly manipulating brake levers, switches,
> and knobs much like the Wizard of Oz behind his curtain...

Tee hee... I have friends who won't drive my truck because
they're afraid they'll set off some James Bond-ish something
in the cab by switching a switch that they don't know what it
does.  The admonishment I gave my fiancee when she did
finally hop behind the wheel was pretty simple: "If you don't
know what it is, *and* what it does, don't touch it!"

It was pretty funny for a while... I had five levers, a knob, a
handful of switches....

Now I've got three or four different kinds of switches, three
levers, a knob, a valve, indicating lights, gauges, all kinds
of fun stuff... and driving down the trail, I'm madly shifting
all of them, with lights blinking, buzzer-like devices rattling,
levers back and forth, air, steam, and smoke escaping, 
good grief.  I didn't realize what I'd become... I *am* the 
Wizard of Oz... :)

--scott  ellinger@frii.com
http://www.rockstomper.com