my very first tractor job was a first service on a Deere small tractor. I had never been around tractors much so it was quite daunting. NO training, basically boss says "do it" and that was it. no manuals, no checklists, nothing.
Week later it shows back up. Wheels falling off. Of course I just serviced it. As a 16 year old brat kid who didn't know the slightest about tractors, I never thought to check the bolts (they were lug BOLTS on that model, at least on the front).
Got my butt ate out something fierce. Hence, the handle. Lugbolt.
but at the same time the boss (who by the way was at the time also a drill seargent in the nat guard) was apologetic because he knew that I had zero instruction. Remedied by a whole library of service manuals, and a real office to keep them in (prior, had neither). In those days Deere sent out only paper manuals, and everything was on paper including recalls and bulletins. I had THOUSANDS of pages of PIP's, product improvement programs, that I had to work through. Sometimes 2-10 a day. Mind you they are kinda like recalls, in that there might be a few hundred of them in the area that I had to address, per PIP. I don't miss that about deere! Especially don't miss having to go to the air base to 'find' 29 LX188's to replace the key switches. It was at the point, a 17 year old kid, that I realized that the government is, broken. They had all those mowers, and nobody knew where they were at. Each one of those key switch replacements was a 2 minute job. It took all day to find 2 of them. 27 of them were nowhere to be found. Wasted trip!
But yes, lugnuts and lugbolts are service items. As a tech doing a first service, while the oil is draining, the tech should be checking those--and loader bolts among other things. But all the customer knows, is that the shop is doing an oil change. Then they gripe about how much an oil change is on their tractor, and how it compares to a $30 oil change on their pickup truck.
Week later it shows back up. Wheels falling off. Of course I just serviced it. As a 16 year old brat kid who didn't know the slightest about tractors, I never thought to check the bolts (they were lug BOLTS on that model, at least on the front).
Got my butt ate out something fierce. Hence, the handle. Lugbolt.
but at the same time the boss (who by the way was at the time also a drill seargent in the nat guard) was apologetic because he knew that I had zero instruction. Remedied by a whole library of service manuals, and a real office to keep them in (prior, had neither). In those days Deere sent out only paper manuals, and everything was on paper including recalls and bulletins. I had THOUSANDS of pages of PIP's, product improvement programs, that I had to work through. Sometimes 2-10 a day. Mind you they are kinda like recalls, in that there might be a few hundred of them in the area that I had to address, per PIP. I don't miss that about deere! Especially don't miss having to go to the air base to 'find' 29 LX188's to replace the key switches. It was at the point, a 17 year old kid, that I realized that the government is, broken. They had all those mowers, and nobody knew where they were at. Each one of those key switch replacements was a 2 minute job. It took all day to find 2 of them. 27 of them were nowhere to be found. Wasted trip!
But yes, lugnuts and lugbolts are service items. As a tech doing a first service, while the oil is draining, the tech should be checking those--and loader bolts among other things. But all the customer knows, is that the shop is doing an oil change. Then they gripe about how much an oil change is on their tractor, and how it compares to a $30 oil change on their pickup truck.