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I thought it was due to old belt so I replaced it but it came off in the first hour. Any ideas?

I went to engage my parking brake yesterday as I always do but when I released the brake petal after "engaging" the parking brake, the brake petals went right back to their neutral position with the parking brake lever up. Further testing shows that I can now click the parking brake On and Off...

Hi everyone. I'm considering putting a pergola over my patio and I'm having a little trouble locating information on beam and joist spans. Most likely I will be using pressure treated pine but I might go with cedar. I want to find out how much span I can get so i can figure out my post...

I am having a stamped concrete patio installed and the workers showed up today. When the salesman was here, he told us how they would excavate down about 4" and put in gravel before pouring the concrete onto the gravel base. The workers showed up today and started building the forms ontop of...

I'm trying to mount some torches to my deck. The torches are on 1" bronze poles and I need some clamps to mount to my deck rail supports to hold them. I think that they should look like this (except these are for 3" pipes). OR I need them to stand off of the post by about 3/4" to 1"...

Just found this on another site... Removed copyrighted material. Mike - It's OK to post a link to a story, but not copy copyrighted material from another site such as the online content of a newspaper.

We had an estimate for paver walks and patios done and the guy was going to charge $16K for 1000 SqFt of work. I'm not going to pay that so I'm checking in to DIY costs. The pavers will run about $1500 - $2000. Maybe another $1000 for gravel, sand and rentals. The big question comes with the...

I am about to go nuts. I lost my third turnbuckle on my rear draft arms yesterday. The MMM is held up by a pair of rear draft arms. They adjust by a turnbuckle in the very back. The turnbuck is attached to the draft arm assembly with a pin that has a hole in it. When I bought the unit...

I want to get a snow blower for my 64 yo mother. She has a short steep driveway and about 50' of sidewalk. Most of out snows are in the 2" - 6" range, but of course we get the big ones once or twice a year... Here are my main considerations: - Easy starting - Easy handling - Easy maintainance...

There was a dead deer across from the corner of my lot a few days back. This corner happens to be where my 5yo waits for his bus in the AM. When he returned from school he looked at the carcass and saw that the eyes and part of the face had been eaten away. While we explained that's how...

A while ago, I read a post that had a link to a book on how to build pole barns. The book looked like it was very good, but not professionally published. The guy was asking for $40 for a 60 page book. Now that I'm in the planning stage of my pole barn, I'm looking for a good book. Of course...

Hello everyone, I did read the post from about 2 weeks ago about well water treatment, but thought it would be better to start a new one to ask my questions... I just moved into a new home with a new well a month ago. My well is 165' and draws 50 GPM. The foreman from the builder told us not...

I'm a new tractor owner who finally got to do some mowing on my brand new lawn. I live on a fairly hilly lot and I know that I should not mow across a hill but that isn't always possible. What about when the hill slopes two ways? I don't know if it is because I am new to tractors, but these...

I just purchased a 4110 w/ an LX4. When I tried to see how easy it was to remove, I was suprised that I couldn't get the link to slide off the draft arm (yes, I did remove the link pin). Now, I didn't try too hard because I really needed it on at the time. But that started me thinking that...

How to remove 60\" MMM on JD 4110 My 4110 was delivered this weekend and I was a little disappointed that the MMM could not be locked in the up position while I used my 3PH (my fault for not checking this further - thought it would be like the 2210). I did remove the MMM but it was difficult...