I thought I'd seen it all..........

[cuttinscott]

Wow I thought Id seen it all..... then this :newbie: comes in with his chain all stretched and dull and burnt. When we asked if his oiler was working ok? he replied its auto oiling right? he never put any bar oil in the tank after his initial oil and been used!! I guess anymore I cant take this sawing thing for granted I must tell the buyer he needs to fill his or her oil reservoir when refilling with gas:bang: :bang:

Scott

 

[Goat]

"Here's your sign" -- Bill Engvall

I once had a lady pull into my buddies 4x4 shop. Brand new S-10 blazer, she thought that 4x4 shops are the ones that service 4wd vehicles. Anyways, she complains that her SUV doesn't "go fast and shakes terribly". Gets taken for a spin...nothing. Visual inspection of the driveline, nothing. Finally, she takes one of the guys for a ride and what does she do? Hits the 4Lo button!!! "Why did you do that?" her reply "I want my 4 lo-beam lights on"

People who never bother to RTFM don't bother me...they keep the tech savy people in buisness...

 

[johnha]

My brother in law asked me to look at his new saw last year as it wasn't working right. Same symptoms. I asked him what kind of bar oil he was using. 'Bar oil?' was his reply. 'Yes, Bar Oil, which is referred to on the front cover of the manual for goodness sake. You don't even have to open the thing.'

How can this guy make more money than me? (rhetorical) He's like this with everything.

 

[rreidnauer]

You got to add oil?

But it does remind me of my last visit to the Stihl dealer. I noticed a clutch cover hanging on a hook behind the counter with a big round hole burned clean through it. I said, "Nice clutch cover ya got there." He replies, "yup, I guess no one told him to take the brake off."

Wow, how out of touch you got to be to hold the throttle down long enough to clean burn through the cover? More interesting, why didn't the break hold?

I imagine dealers must have plenty of stories.

 

[Oregon Engineer]

Wow, how out of touch you got to be to hold the throttle down long enough to clean burn through the cover? More interesting, why didn't the break hold?

Likely the brake did hold but it was the clutch slipping that over heated the saw cover.

Employees here can checkout a saw for personal use. One guy brought back a saw with the same problem. The cover was put on a plaque with an engraved name plate and presented it to him during meeting. The guy is gone now for the same type of thinking applied to his job.

 

[chainsawjunky]

Haha.

Dad: Son, did you make sure there was oil in the car and did you have the oil changed?
Son: Don't worry the car came with oil.

Evan

 

[dtnodya]

"Here's your sign" -- Bill Engvall

I once had a lady pull into my buddies 4x4 shop. Brand new S-10 blazer, she thought that 4x4 shops are the ones that service 4wd vehicles. Anyways, she complains that her SUV doesn't "go fast and shakes terribly". Gets taken for a spin...nothing. Visual inspection of the driveline, nothing. Finally, she takes one of the guys for a ride and what does she do? Hits the 4Lo button!!! "Why did you do that?" her reply "I want my 4 lo-beam lights on"

People who never bother to RTFM don't bother me...they keep the tech savy people in buisness...

Thats hilarious!

I used to work in the service department at a Chevrolet dealership ... One day a guy calls and says "My engine don't sound rite". I said "well, bring it on by and we'd be glad to take a look at it for you". He replies, "aint no need for all that, here just listen". He puts the phone in (I guess) the engine bay with the vehicle running and starts revving it up. On the phone all I heard was HSSSSSSSSSSSSPSSSSSSSSSSSHSSSSSSSSSSSPSSSSSSSS. I just started LMAO. "Did ya hear it?" Man people can be stupid but I just laugh about it...

As for the chainsaw .... That is definitely one of the dumbest things I've ever heard! I mean, even on a super common sense level, if it's auto oiling then the oil HAS TO COME FROM SOMEWHERE! Oh yeah, I can see how he would have been confused though because of the new saws that make their own oil ...

 

[ropensaddle]

Wow I thought Id seen it all..... then this :newbie: comes in with his chain all stretched and dull and burnt. When we asked if his oiler was working ok? he replied its auto oiling right? he never put any bar oil in the tank after his initial oil and been used!! I guess anymore I cant take this sawing thing for granted I must tell the buyer he needs to fill his or her oil reservoir when refilling with gas:bang: :bang:

Scott

Can you spell idiott lol.

I saw a girl in a gas station with the hood up and twenty oil cans empty her daddy told her she could use the truck just make sure to fill the oil. Well when I asked what she was doing
she said this thing sure takes a lot of oil, she was going to fill the engine until she could see it I showed her the dipstick!
Told her she would have to get someone to drain the overfill
and thought is this a blonde moment

 

[Dan Forsh]

Can you spell idiott lol.

God, I hope you meant that...

 

[ropensaddle]

Yeah but for effectt

 

[rreidnauer]

Can you spell idiott lol.

I saw a girl in a gas station with the hood up and twenty oil cans empty her daddy told her she could use the truck just make sure to fill the oil. Well when I asked what she was doing
she said this thing sure takes a lot of oil, she was going to fill the engine until she could see it I showed her the dipstick!
Told her she would have to get someone to drain the overfill
and thought is this a blonde moment

Wholly crap!!! I almost forgot about one just like that. I take care of a 10 acre telecommunications facility and I run a Kubota F3060 at work. When I went on vacation for a week, my boss said he'd take care of the lawn. When I got back, there was this HUGE oil spill stain in front of the garage. Well, turns out he thought the mower was running hot (which it probably was if he didn't clean the radiator screens before starting) and for whatever reason, he reasoned that it needed oil. His way of checking the oil level? Look down in the filler, as described above!!!!!! I think he dumped in something like 6~8 quarts of oil, and fired up that little diesel. It just spewed the oil out (from God knows where) and I am amazed he didn't wipe out the motor. I drained another 3 quarts out just to get it back in the normal range.

And to think, he was probably being paid at least 3x as much as I.

 

[THALL10326]

seen it all, not quite

I was asked to repair this saw, it still runs the man said,hmm

 

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[Ed*L]

A friends ex-wife had a F-150 Ford, 300ci 6 cyl. She would check & add oil as required, but never change it.
Nobody ever explained to her what service an instant oil change place did. That poor truck went 100,000 miles before it died and never had the oil changed. There was so much crap built up in the top of the cylinder head you couldn't see the rocker arms.

Ed

 

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[ehgauss]

Another Bright Young Man

My nephew called me one day shortly after he left his apartment near the law school he was attending about 20 miles from my home. He complained that his old Buick ran ok at low speeds, but when he tried to go at highway speeds it would run badly. Told him to drive it slowly to my place and I'd look at it. Looked at the dipstick first and discovered the oil level was way up the dipstick. When I asked him what he was doing about oil, he told me his father had warned him the car used some oil and to check it frequently. Rather than be bothered trying to find something to wipe the dipstick, he just added a quart of oil whenever he thought of it. I drained enough oil out of that crankcase to completely fill the old enamel baby bath tub I use for that plus about another three quarts on my garage floor. Gene Gauss