{"id":22,"date":"2004-04-21T23:29:16","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T04:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2004-04-21T23:29:16","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T04:29:16","slug":"driving-a-bobcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Driving a Bobcat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently bought a farm and I volunteered to help him replace some of the fence posts in the pasture.  To do this, he was able to borrow a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcat.com\/products\/aws\/item.view.html?itemId=5136\">Bobcat<\/a> to make pulling out the old posts easier.  We attached a chain to the bucket of the Bobcat.  When we wanted to pull out a post, we wrapped the chain around the post and lifted it out by raising the bucket on the Bobcat.  It really made it a piece of cake.  What was fun for me is that I ended up doing a lot of the driving it.  I had never driven one before, but it only took me a few minutes to get the hang of it.  <\/p>\n<p>This particular Bobcat had a feature called &#8220;all-steer&#8221;, meaning that all four wheels would turn to help you make smooth corners.  You drive it with a joystick that you actuate with your left hand.  Your right hand also has a joystick, but it is used to move the bucket around.  With all the years of playing video games as a kid, this all felt pretty natural to me.  In fact, I really enjoyed it.  Think about it&#8230;.  What&#8217;s more manly than pulling out fence posts with a Bobcat?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently bought a farm and I volunteered to help him replace some of the fence posts in the pasture. To do this, he was able to borrow a Bobcat to make pulling out the old posts easier. We attached a chain to the bucket of the Bobcat. When we wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}