Vice Grips
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Vice Grips
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My grandpa kept this tractor running for years with a pair of vice grips clamped to the battery terminal. It worked, until I went to fix it the right way and the whole connector broke off in my hand.
This is the tractor that moves the chicken tractor and mows the fields. When it went down, the farm went with it. So I spent the afternoon working backward through it, a spliced starter wire with no nuts and no tape, an ignition with power but no crank, corrosion, and finally a broken terminal I had to replace with a part pulled off my grandpa's '65 Fairlane. One old machine fixing another.
My grandparents are 85 and 83 and still out here every day. Grandpa's at the tractor with me. Grandma walks up in the middle of it to ask about her computer. The analog and the digital, back to back.
Life happens when you put the phone down.