$#%^&! Engineers!!!

Just finished replacing the batteries on my NH TS110!

 

If I ever meet the engineer(s) that designed the battery compartment on that tractor in a dark alley, I will be the only one coming out of that alley alive!

 

To get at the batteries (two), you first have to lift the step out of the way and put it into a position where it is directly in the road.  You then have to swing the battery compartment out at a 45 degree angle.  

 

Then wrestle the compartment cover off while which takes two hands while trying to hold the loader hydraulic hoses out of the way.   All the while trying to reach around the step so that you can lift evenly.

 

Once you get the cover off, it then takes three different size sockets to get the battery cables disconnected.  A 8mm, 10mm and a 7/16". 

 

Why, oh why, do they have to mix sizes?  Especially SAE and metric?

 

That got them out.  I won't talk about getting the new ones in--that was relatively easy.

 

Engineers should not get their engineering degree until the have worked with, and on, the product they design.

 

Ralph

 

 

 

 

 

 

$#%^&! Engineers!!!