Recent content by JRTJH

I'm certainly no expert and most of my neighbors would suggest that I have two left thumbs on my right hand and two right thumbs on my left hand... That said, I do most of the snow removal in the neighborhood and my neighbors are still my friends, so apparently I haven't destroyed too many...

Congratulations on your "good fortune with what looks like an honest dealer"... When we built our current house back about 20 years ago, I did the "3 bid requests" and got bids back from two contractors that were fairly close. One of those contractors seemed to be "more friendly and open to...

I got my introduction to welding by watching the welders in the sheet metal shop while in the Air Force. I was "hooked and wanted to learn how"... Started looking and the Adult Education department at the local high school had GED Night Classes that were open to anyone to join in on a space...

My Branson 2800 started "smoking white/gray smoke very similar to yours. It would run rough and smoke when first started, then after 15 or 20 minutes, would even out and run OK until the next time I did a cold start. The dealer was too busy to schedule a "now appointment" so I decided to do...

He He Maybe it was only driven by Grandma, to church on Sundays ???? My Gma had plastic covers on her living room furniture, us kids weren't allowed to sit on it anyway... Come to think back to those good old days, I can't remember ever being allowed into the living room as a kid. We...

Thanks all. Sorry that I haven't posted a response sooner, but with the snow we've had, I've been using the snow blower for its "intended purpose". Roughly 36" of snow in the past 5 days and now we're having a warm-up for a couple of days, so it was either "move it while it's still powder or...

I've got a Bercomac mid PTO front mount snowblower that's about 4 seasons old. In the past, I've put it on snowmobile ski rollers, but this year, when mounting the blower to my tractor, I got the "hammer smack to my forehead" and thought, "Why don't I build a storage rack with wheels on it so I...

I've got a 2012 Branson 2800H tractor. The first winter I owned it, the temp was somewhere around 15F and when I started it, the Oil Cooler started spewing hydraulic fluid from the input (just below the fitting). I built a bypass hose, drove it onto my trailer, towed it to the dealership and...