The word "engineer" is professed a lot around here but frankly most have assumed that title by themselves with no credentials at all. I'm not saying that engineers are better than any one else, but let's do a sense check around those who like to banty their credentials with only scam titles. Many people who need to reinforce that title never made it. Most folks on the net don't care but whenever I see people taunting their expertise makes me think they realy have no credentials at all.

...I'm not saying that engineers are better than any one else...

...realy ...

And then there is the late Bob Drews. In addition to being a wonderful human being with a great sense of humor, he was one of the smartest people I've ever met. Bob's degree came from the school of hard knocks and life time experience. Bob was a South Dakota farmer with a degree in John Deer engineering. He would buy a new piece of JD equipment, use it in the fields for a while, then pull it into his machine shed and re-engineer it to do what it was touted to do. He had regular visits from the JD "engineers". They came from the plant to see what changes he had made to their equipment. Interestingly enough, those upgrades would appear on next years model. After he retired from farming I don't know who they got to take his place, but I'm guessing it must have been tough finding Bob's equal.

Then Bob started re-engineering the GMC. Everything from simple stuff inside relative to storage, on to engineering a one ton where there was no change in camber as the coach bounced up and down going down the highway.

He's been gone for several months now, and I can't think of anyone that...at this point in time I miss more. Loved that man.

Raise your glasses to the best we could have had.