Recent content by Dargo

I know this has been discussed before in the past, but I'm wondering now what an average, nationally, acre of land would set a person back. I have a friend who lives in what would be considered swamp land in southern Louisiana and he laughed and told me that they have frequently gotten $1500...

It's been 9 weeks now since we had 100 mph winds that took out much of my roof, my privacy fence and 87 mature trees. I'm just screwed on the trees. I lost a lot of my 'natural privacy fence' with all those trees going down. If it weren't for having an excavator with a thumb, I'd still be...

After over 6 weeks of trying to get someone to show up to replace my roof that was destroyed in a storm, I'm starting to branch out to construction crews outside my local area to get my roof replaced. Yesterday I had an Amish crew show up and show me these metal shingles that looked just like...

I've never gotten poison oak, poison ivy poison anything. My skin has been like leather and nothing has ever bothered it. Now I've done it!! Clearing debris from an F1 tornado we had almost a month ago I got into a bunch of vines yesterday and today I need to be in a straight jacket! :( I...

Just in case you think it's a joke in my sig line about having an 8hp 18" push mower, here it is at work on the island in my lake yesterday. I don't think you can get much more dense and generally it was abut shoulder high. My magnesium mower deck (watching weight since it has to be boated to...

Chain prices seem to be going up and some of my chain has been used quite a bit. Although it's not nearly as sensitive as straps, chain does indeed degrade with wear. For the size equipment I haul right now, 3/8" grade 70 is what I need. I have some good 1/2" chain from when I had larger...

I've bought from the same company for about 15 years. I am not a big customer. I generally go through between 1000 to 2000 gallons a year. I'm well aware that some go through that in a week or less. Anyway, here's my issue; I called yesterday to buy about 700 gallons and was quoted $3.40 per...

Anybody on here ever have one of these? I don't really need a dump truck right now, but this is a one owner a family friend owns and has never sat outside overnight and I can't find any rust anywhere on the truck. He had the bed removed, media blasted and painted with some hard enamel paint...

I bought a much larger trailer and I need to replace the deck boards. I figured I'd repaint it while I'm at it and put on new reflective tape and new LED lights. Anyway, my last several trailers have used the 'star' looking head on the relatively large screws that go right through 1/4" angle...

There is quite a bit of difference in price in the mounts, but I don't want to get cheap where it may count. I'm not going to get into discussions about how much I tow on my trailers on my property, but for the sake for figuring, let's just say that I'll be pulling a total combined weight of...

I just put it AMSOIL - 100% Synthetic 0W-20 Motor Oil (ASM) in my wife's 2006 Honda Accord along with Amsoil's top oil filter. I don't plan to go for any record on extended change intervals, but my wife will be driving a lot of highway miles taking my daughters who play on "travel" soccer teams...

I'm serious. I did the stupid human tricks with the Horrible Freight band saws and they voided my warranty after the 3rd replacement in a week. For $10 and the price of shipping I'll send you the last one. It has about 3 minutes run time on it but is shot. The cheapo internal rubber wheels...

The reason I ask is because I built a zip line across my lake and used a 10' section of 1945 dated standard railroad track for the termination post. I sank 5' of it in the ground, digging the hole with a 24" excavator bucket, and filled the hole with 32 eighty pound bags of concrete mix...

I used to drop by a local Rural King, about a mile away, and pay between $3 to $4 a bale. Today they were charging $6.25 a bale. They can keep them for mice nests at that price! Fortunately, I found a place a few farms down the way who said I could have up to 50 bales at $3 a bale. I'm...

I'm considering the purchase of a 5 year old 4wd JD 1445 with a 72" side discharge deck. I was curious as to any feedback. I have several acres to mow and right now use 2 Grasshopper 61" front mount diesel mowers. The 1445 seems to ride better and cut faster. I just don't know that much...