Process: Easy. Implementation: Hard
Apr 23rd, 2007 by Nate
This weekend, I decided to change the oil and oil filter in my lawn tractor. John Deere actually makes this process EXTREMELY easy, in fact, you don’t even need tools to do it. So I drain all the oil out, no problem. And the instructions say to just twist off the oil filter with your bare hands. I’m not sure what animal they hired at the John Deere plant to screw on oil filters, but that f*cking thing wouldn’t budge. So I get my pipe wrench, and try to twist it off, and in the process I bust up my middle finger, and I get this really deep gash on the top of my ring finger, right below the nail. Extremely painful place to get a cut, let me tell you.
In the end, all I had to do is put on a pair of latex gloves (for grip), and the thing eventually did come off. But man alive, what a pain.
Process? Simple. Implementing the process? HARD.
