I am a big fan of Youtube instructional videos. I find they pretty much mitigate all the crap on Youtube, and I have lost count of the times they have saved my bacon from not being able to find any other source for info I was looking for, or even if I found a source, being able to actually watch the process, which I might have otherwise screwed up. I used them a lot when I was still doing a lot of computer and electronics fiddling, use them a lot for vehicle maintenance, and have started using them for farm equipment maintenance.
Which brings me to: Man, you had better get multiple sources on these things. I was just checking some on brush hog (brush cutter that goes behind your tractor) maintenance and doublechecking gearbox oil capacity. The first one I watched, while the guy did most everything right, had him pouring tractor hydraulic/tranny fluid into the the gearbox. I instinctively knew that was wrong, but did have the hesitation of "what if?" since I'm knew to this kind of machinery maintenance.
Of course half the comments to his video called him out on using the wrong fluid, but still, it hit home that as incredibly helpful as these videos can be, it's absolutely worth watching a "second opinion" video, or more, to verify the info. This guy actually did everything else correctly and explained it all well (giving a "pro" vibe), which could lead a newbie to making the oil mistake.
Anyway, it reinforced taking the extra time on info sources before I start a project I've never done before.
