The expert will line up to the separator the first time, while the other
fellow will back and twist around for half an hour, and then not have a
good job.
Now don't make the fatal mistake of thinking that the fellow is an
expert who jumps up on his engine and jerks the throttle open and yanks
it around backward and forward, reversing with a snap, and makes it
stand-up on its hind wheels.
If you want to be an expert you must begin with the throttle, therein
lies the secret of the real expert. He feels the power of his engine
through the throttle. He opens it just enough to do what he wants it to
do. He therefore has complete control of his engine. The fellow who
backs his engine up to the separator with an open throttle and must
reverse it to keep from running into and breaking something, is running
his engine on his muscle and is entitled to small pay.
The expert brings his engine back under full control, and stops it
exactly where he wants it. He handles his engine with his head and
should be paid accordingly. He never makes a false move, loses no time,
breaks nothing, makes no unnecessary noise, does not get the water all
stirred up in the boiler, hooks up and moves out in the same quiet
manner, and the onlookers think he could pull two such loads, and say he
has a great engine, while the engineer of muscle would back up and jerk
his engine around a half dozen times before he could make the coupling,
then with a jerk and a snort he yanks the separator out of the holes,
and the onlookers think he has about all he can pull.
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