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Not wearing a seatbelt. https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/cass-county-tractor-crash/69-32c06a70-eb55-488c-81ea-833f2593b68f

Don’t you mean “the” and “they”? 😅🙄

Ha! We know each other. I live next to your cousin Julia, give me a PM and we can catch up.

Hey, I think I know that property. Is that the old Morrison Farmstead?

I really like the Bobcat Track loaders, if money was no objective I would put one in the barn as a conversational piece :ROFLMAO:

Elk Lake, bought a cottage in 1994 at the depth of a real estate recession.

12” trenching, 24” toothed, 36” grading buckets.

First up is clearing out overgrowth from 5 acres at my pole barn site, after that I will dig up the ”stump dumps” behind the main house. Later this year I have a new pole barn project followed by a new lake house with a huge amount of rock work.

After four surgeries in the past three years, I can’t lift or run a shovel anymore. Decided to get a little help!

Covid is real,, I wish you well.

Really nice upgrade! Can you share the part numbers of the lights that you used?

Last week we paid off a home equity loan by transferring money from an account in the same bank and were told that it would take 10 days to verify the funds! I said the money has been in that account for a month and you can see it on your computer screen,,,,what do you need to verify?

Yeah, those darn subsidies! Imagine if they had subsidies for the horse industry, oh, wait, they do! https://www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania/article_812c5dee-a6ac-11ed-bd87-b7978946c4c5.html

You should slow your outrage down and reread my post and who it was intended for.

If you got rid of government subsidies to the farmers, there would be a financial collapse of the economy that would be equivalent to the great depression.

It would be if it was priced in Canadian!

I think these folks will disagree with you! https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=usdafsfacpub

Do you have a link to this article?

Right, because we know about all the serious negative health risks to a solar farm. Ha ha!

A volcanic eruption is an act or God were as a nuclear meltdown is an act man,,, come on even you can admit the difference can’t you? Show me the proof where Chernobyl is not as bad as the news media says. You are whining about thousands of acres that are temporarily altered with solar panels...

And how many square miles of solar panels does it take to equal one nuclear disaster? Oh, that’s right ,,,, zero! I’m not against nuclear energy, but I do know that a major catastrophe in the nuclear power generation world is forever! Eventually all these solar installations will return to what...

Please provide a link supporting this argument. Many firms prefer to lease land so that it doesn’t show up as an asset on their balance sheet, most public companies are judged by the return on their assets. A leased asset is considered a short term liability, whereas a purchased asset that is...

How is that different from building a sports stadium or NASCAR Race track? If we use your logic, then we ought to be tearing down a bunch of stuff down in this country. Have you ever looked into the environmental impact of asphalt paved roads? I guess we should just go back to dirt roads again...

Get ready!

You don’t understand my point because you only see your point. You use environmental damage in support of your argument but fail to mention that farming has an environmental impact also. Either you are unhappy that you are not getting any financial gain in this project or you are jealous of your...

So you are against clearcutting then? well, then how much land has been clear-cut in the timber industry or for agriculture? I’m sure a lot of the bunnies are sad for those two purposes.

I object!

I failed to see how your problems can be attributed to the manufacturer. Just because the dealer did a bad job doesn’t mean the brand is bad. Also, you are mad at the manufacturer because you bought a tractor that is too low of horsepower for your application?

So, actually, the government made money by bailing out the automakers. I think it was a wise investment move...

Wow Moss, you were quite the troublemaker ! Ha ha 🤣

As Dylan said “the Times, they are a changing “

Many are, they all have “papers” but false paperwork is easy. Many of my friends are farmers so I know first hand.

Most of the farms around here are using illegals or they aren’t started getting the work done. On my walk yesterday I spent 20 minutes or so watching a Spanish-speaking crew roughing in a house, I was amazed at their ability to work. it is rare to see a “white” crew in the carpentry, cement...

All the GM, Chrysler and Ford employees thought they had a guaranteed pension and healthcare also but it took a bail out from the government to rescue a percentage of what they were promised.

The problem with the promise of a pension and health care for life is that many times over it is eliminated during a corporate takeover or a bankruptcy. I rarely lost employees over money, it was mostly timing, I did not always have the opportunity available that they were looking for at the...

I have the opposite perspective, all of my close friends are business owners and they are doing great. When you ask them how they're doing, they will at first say "just OK", then, further into the conversation, they open up that they are making more money than ever but they are scared it will...

I’ve had one for a year now, and I would never go back to anything else!

Why are you always such a jerk? Can you just leave things alone? When I looked at these pictures on my little itty-bitty iPhone I really wasn’t able to determine what the bark looked like. But then I put my glasses on and looked at them on my iPad and it appeared to be cedar. Wow, why are you so...

And the number of bike riders is dramatically more than mowers and tractors. You’re just trying to deflect.

You can teach a child to ride a bicycle carefully, there's no safe way to carry a child on a riding lawnmower. Riding a bicycle is one of the necessary means of transportation in many areas, especially for people without a drivers license. Driving a lawnmower is not.

In order to operate on those extreme angles, that engine must have some kind of a dry sump oil pan.

And now you know why experienced boaters always start the boat while it is still on the trailer! Ha ha

Well, I bought a microwave yesterday for $89! I can remember when they used to cost $1000! I guess we must be in a deflationary period?

Yup, it’s either happening or it’s not,, depending on your political leaning! Ha ha

Not trying to be a jerk here but when you talk of the average working class family, why are they somehow less fortunate than others? Are those with money somehow just lucky or perhaps they have worked the system better than the average middle class family? Milton Friedman would be the first to...

So not all economists agree, right?

Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics,,, even if you win you are still just "Special" Ha Ha ;)

There's another good site to track CD/savings rates. https://www.depositaccounts.com/

I installed a Bidet before my back fusion last November, don’t know how I would have managed without it. Also come in handy with my recent shoulder surgery.

This thread!

It’s also a low production day in the field that the great looking dog is standing in.

Actually they did, just not as much as Chrysler/whatever and GM. They claimed they only excepted bail out money Internet for to help the others. Kind of like being forced to grab the bag of money someone is handing you ha ha. And by the way, I am not afford hater. I have driven Ford trucks and...

Ford, GM, Dodge, they all got some kind of a bail out during the great recession.

I like symmetry, so looking at a solar farm with all the panels lined up is like art to me the city is actually looks quite messy and chaotic, nothing seems to be an order. Planted fields, military cemeteries, striped grass etc. etc. are all examples of symmetry,This is was why I use example of...

Just sitting around waiting for an “E” 😂

Oh, come on, really? I’ve walked around solar farms and they are no different than walking around a cornfield! It all depends on whether you like them or not. It’s a lot like art, either you like it or you don’t. It’s a bit disingenuous when you infer there’s some moral character to whats in...

So, on the first date with my wife, I did the old “pull my finger “trick, and she laughed! That’s when I knew I had a keeper.

Good one!

I was thinking more fun than a Bud Light commercial! 😂

Simular studies. https://www.audubon.org/news/wind-power-and-birds https://www.sierraclub.org/michigan/wind-turbines-and-birds-and-bats

Actually, I am more like a parabolic mirror, whatever is directed towards me is collected, magnified and sent back at the source. Not that hard to figure out, just don't be a d--k!

You must be near the Grayling military area.

So here's a hypothetical question. Let's say that you are a farmer that is growing enough hay for "X" amount of animals, say sheep for instance. On that same amount of land that you used to produce the hay for these sheep you install solar panels that will still allow the sheep to graze on the...

You seem to not understand that the increase in energy cost is not all due to the “green energy program “it hasn’t been going on long enough to affect the overall energy cost. Most of the increase in energy costs because the companies that control the energy have the capacity to raise prices...

well, I’m glad you know so much about my DNA, what else would you like to tell me about myself? I could say all kinds of things about you, but I am holding my tongue. Civility is reciprocal. When you start being civil, I will be civil. I speak my mind to people that have a passive aggressive...

So what do you suggest the government does for the “forgotten people”, pay their mortgages, give them free energy or Jobs for life? Now you’re talking like a left-wing Democrat nut job. We live in a country where people are free to move around, throughout the history of this country people have...

You should read the book "The Millionaire Next Door" for more insight into "blue collar wealth" accumulation. I read the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" when it first came out in 1997, It changed my life. I was working for a really good company making pretty good wages but I was spending as much or...

This is a quote from one of Hay Dudes posts in the past: "As soon as hay prices go up 50% or double, a substantial chunk of horse owners will cut or cull their horses. Many horse people live in debt. They’re fantasizers and pikers. They will buy hay before they clothe their kids. lol" So, as...

It wasn’t aimed at you, I was just simply pointing out that I’m not the person that Haydude wants to paint me as. When someone insinuates that I am not intelligent, or I am not successful, I feel compelled to post the evidence to the contrary.

Again for you because you seem to not understand what I’m saying, this is only aimed at you. I know there are lots of hard-working people on this forum. I also know that most of them don’t have the holier than thou attitude that you keep throwing out there. If you don’t agree with someone you...

Perfect!

No, just making fun of you, you think you are the big time farm industry mogul and your opinions carry more weight than everyone else. You are nothing more than a large hobby farmer and you don't speak for the industry. I am not on here to be popular. People can take me or leave me at their...

Of course, tax deductions are targeted subsidies. We have a tax code that has two high of an initial rate so that in order to compete with the rest of the world, we have to offer tax deductions to bring our cost down compared to the rest of the world.. If we just had a simple tax code, we...

So far all I've seen you do is cut and paste articles that you haven't even taken the time to read!

I am a guy that started three manufacturing companies and sold them for a bunch of money. Unlike you I don't screw around on a big lawnmower, selling grass to self important horse people. My contributions to society were products that people actually need and use.

It's only fake news if you want to deny that tax subsidies have been used for years to promote certain industries. Governing bodies have always picked the winners and losers in society. I totally understand tax deductions and their affect. I started and owned a few manufacturing companies, I've...

Yes, I am very serious and I know what the IMF is, do you? This article takes in account all of the damage that is done by the fossil fuel industry to our environment that does not get paid for by the fossil fuel producers. I'm not against fossil fuel, but I am against people that say that it...

So is that more than the 5.9 trillion that we are spending to support fossil fuel energy? https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds

For example?

Do you ever read the articles that you post links to? You keep pushing coal and natural gas as the “low-cost” energy sources however, the increase in energy costs seems to be due to coal and natural gas. From the article: “Electricity costs are relentlessly climbing because prices for the two...

Yes, that's incorrect. I let my fingers get ahead of my thinking. The first solar panels created in the late 50's had an efficiency of around 5%, current commercially available units are at best 23-25% , Lab prototypes are approaching 50%. From 5% to 50% is a 10x increase but certainly not...

I believe that the rule of thumb is the solar panels are doubling in efficiency every 2 to 3 years so maybe that facility if using current panels would power 2000 homes?

So you do realize that this is also a rest area for the freeway? If you look at the site from Google Earth, you see that was not " prime in-production farm land", it was a combination of field and woods. It appears the solar panels only take up about 20% of the 25 acres so approximately 5...

So is it farming potatoes or mining potatoes?

Yeah, but is it a real “farm “? Ha Ha😂

So you are in favor of a law that would deprive an individual from using his property as he wishes? Isn’t that an example of the “deep state” taking over?

So a farmer that is raising energy, using solar panels is ,,,, a farmer!

Well, I have a friend that’s very “high up” in the government and he says all your comments are wrong. how about some data to back up all your points?

Oh, I see, they’re all pregnant, but some are more pregnant than others!

Last time I checked, Jamie Dimon was not a government official. his comments have about as much weight as ”Ego” Musk’s comments.

Yeah, but he doesn’t have to mow around windmills If he doesn’t lease out his land. It’s his choice, so what is he complaining about?

I live a couple of hours from the Ludington pumped water storage, it is very impressive.

Apparently compared to the amount of land we have lost to urban sprawl solar farms are a drop in the bucket.

You contradict yourself on your post so many times I think you just spit the first thing that comes out of your mouth. So China is using coal and killing us and you think that we should use coal also to kill us faster? Just so we can be economically competitive? Talk about being brainwashed.

You are in the very tiny minority of farmers, if you look up the total number of farmed acres in the world, you will be shocked at how insignificant a farming is. Most of hay farming is for well to do horse people. It is a luxury farming, not a necessity farming. All you ever do is make...

You are correct some of the coal plants can be converted to natural gas but I don't see where that can be done without any kind of energy expenditure to create the components that are needed for these conversions. Also, natural gas plants are not clean, they are cleaner than coal plants, but...

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/21/fact-check-are-wind-turbines-killing-whales-off-americas-atlantic-coast

Actually, I hate wild life, that's why as a farmer I am happy about the fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides that I spray in my fields,,, kills a crap load of wildlife, and that is good. Why can't you ever have a serious conversation?

If I got on base 10 times every 12 attempts I'd be a superstar!

I know what it's like to sit there and wait until you get a fix. I went from hiking and mountain biking in the mountains of Utah to not being able to walk in a two month time. I had to wait about six months before all the testing and everything was done before I was able to have my back...

So what does solar power have to do with fuel and fertilizer cost? Are you implying that solar farms are raising your fuel and fertilizer cost? I would like cheap beer, but I don't look to the government to give it to me.

Why is that any funnier than clearing snow on the roads? Can't you learn to drive on snow? Our forefathers went through the snow with their Ox carts!

Are you saying that the coal burning plants and nuclear plants don't require energy to build? Do they just spring up out of the fields like tulips?

They're not all foreign many are being made in the US now creating good jobs. https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/wind-manufacturing-and-supply-chain

Yes, it reminds me of the smell of money. Also, there aren't too many mountains in Iowa and Nebraska last time I went through there.

Just goes to show how different people are. Blondes, brunettes, redheads, etc. etc.

I am not promoting illegal immigration, but I know that the without illegals most of the farms around me wouldn't have any workers! Also, there wouldn't be any home construction rough in crews, drywall crews, cement crews, etc. etc. etc. I am now actually quite surprised when somebody that does...

If we didn't use power to make power, there wouldn't be any power generation in the world! How much power does it take to mine coal? How much power does it take to cool the generation plants either coal or nuclear? And then how about all the power that is used in the transportation of the...

Moss, good post. Solar panels are just something new that will take a while for people to get used to them, kind of like when you move from the farm to the city, everything grabs your attention and your head spins around like the girl in the Exorcist movie. :) I drive out west to Utah and...

Yep, this one picture alone proves that solar energy won't work! However, the truth is the snow will melt quickly, and some systems are starting to incorporate heating elements so your picture is pretty much invalid...

So what is the difference between clean and green energy? I'm confused by your statements.

Well, now this is not a true statement at all. There are multiple coal and nuclear lobbyists, all pushing for coal powered and nuclear powered plants. Why is it surprising that we also have green energy lobbyist? Just a couple...

Mr. Peabody’s coal train done hauled it away!

Call it what you will but the bottom line is it’s their property and as long as they meet the law, shouldn’t they be able to use it as they want?

The same could be asked about trailer parks.

Aren’t these called solar farms? If so, shouldn’t they have the same farming rights that other farms have?

I couldn’t think of a more fitting example of what you have said here than the UP! Calumet especially.

yes, on my iPad.

I was in the Gary Mill. That’s where I saw a sign on one of those bathrooms they had in the middle of the plant that said “any stupid SOB can write on the walls, try writing on the ceiling “. Of course, the ceiling was 60 or 80 feet above us! The surprising thing was, there wasn’t any writing on...

My dad was an independent steel hauler for a number of years, I went with him for a few runs, and got into some of the largest steel mills by hiding in the sleeper until we got past the guard shack. I have to admit that those steel haulers were some of the toughest SOBs out there. also, maybe...

I did my apprenticeship at a GM plant in Grand Rapids, of course I had to be a member of the union to work there. What I found was that 90% of the people working there were hard-working and conscientious. However about 10% were just along for the ride. When one of those idiots would screw up the...

I’m not sure your information is correct. Take a look at the link below.

Was his name “Chuck”? 😂

David P Goldman? Hasn't he been predicting the end of the dollar since writing for Lyndon LaRouche? "Lyndon LaRouche was a serial presidential candidate, a convicted fraudster who spent the early 1990s behind bars, and a onetime management consultant who became the head of a Marxist sect and...

No, totally different loaders and mounting system.

You’re right I don’t know anything about precision and ease. Except that I am an engineer, I learned the metric system early on. I stared and owned a couple of Tool making and CNC Companies that made me a lot of money. I just don’t worship the metric system as a holy Grail of mistake proofing...

base 10 is base 10, it doesn’t matter if the basic unit is based on the Angstrom unit or the kings arm! I have always worked in decimal inches in the tool and die industry, when we switched to metric it was still base 10 and decimal millimeters. I have never seen a die drawing called out in...

It drives me crazy when I see someone lift the load above the hood so they can see where they’re going! An accident just waiting to happen in my opinion.

Sorry, that will not get you SSI. Perhaps he has a disability that prevents him from being able to read and write? Even that doesn't automatically get you in.

I’m not sure it’s just regional, every place that I have been to in the last year couple years have a lot of building going and a short supply of labor, it is amazing. Properties I was looking at in Utah have more than doubled, some quadrupled in the last three years. People are building with...

I don’t agree with your statement that there’s plenty of skilled people, I’m trying to get a new house built up on our northern Michigan property and all the builders here tell me it will it be at least two years before they can get a start because they can’t find skilled people. The framing...

Yeah, I picked up that you are doing good. You are a hard-working person that has made good choices. We have a social safety net in this country that will take care of most people, the problem begins when it is expected to take care of all people. I grew up in a poor family, we did have indoor...

Yes, you are correct. I was born in 1955, which was the middle year of the baby boom, we are all retiring, and with us go all the skill sets that are so sorely needed right now. In the past immigration played a large part in solving the labor problems in the US, right now, that is a sore...

I don’t believe you know anything about my neighborhood, it is mostly high-end professionals, lot’s doctors and medical types. From my point of view things are pretty good. if things collapse around me, I won’t really know it because the world as we know today it will have ended by that time...

Well, for one, I’m not. I don’t see the doom and gloom that everybody is talking about for our country. This is still the greatest country in the world and the opportunities are immense!. Maybe I’m lucky but I understand the rules of the current economic system and I applied it to my benefit...

No matter how much you pay for them. They are all still just junk going down the road. A gentleman I know that is on his 18th RV said “think of it this way, what if your house was going down the road at 55 miles an hour in a hurricane? Well that is what a motorhome is”.

Like a moth to a flame!

I washed and waxed one of my cars yesterday, it was amazing! What I used to take for granted is now a struggle. I’m really sore, but I feel better than I have in the last six months.

Collecting pop cans!

Please mommy, make the bad man stop! Will you guys ever let me live this down?

Now that's funny! I need to stop using spell check or put my glasses on before I hit send!

It’s actually pretty cool, the personnel on the Coast Guard helicopters always take time to wave to you if we’re out on the water or the beach. Also, nothing like an A-10 or two coming in low over the tree tops. I know they’re supposed to stay above 500 feet or so, but man it seems like...

I have a cottage just north of Traverse City, Michigan. It is amazing how many planes from Europe drop down over the Traverse City area as well as a number of routes from the east coast going west over Traverse City. Can make for a lot of entrails at times. We are also on the route of the Coast...

I have a new Ford F150, it has the latest driving assist features, like lane keeping, etc. etc. I really enjoy it on long drives. Driving across Iowa at 80 miles an hour it will hold lanes very well, you just have to have your hands lightly on the wheel. What's interesting to me is when I'm...

How dare you bring tractor talk into this thread! Ha ha.

I wanted to circle back to this post because I had a recent follow up on my surgery. My doctor explained to me that some laminectomies only need to remove a small amount of bone to get good results. In my case they had to remove a lot of bone in three vertebrae, therefore my back would be very...

I’ve been running beet juice for 15 years or so, never had a problem, except for one little leak that my dog found. Awfully glad it wasn’t antifreeze, kind of fond of them dogs.

Yeah, we used to run Heet in all of our snowmobile’s, But we ran it because of the condensation that gathers in the tank. I would also carry little test kits to see how much water we had in the fuel. Running some pretty high horsepower motors before EFI came around to adjust fuel air mixes...

Dang it, you gotta quit making sense! Pretty soon people will start expecting some highfalutin thinking on this form. 😅

Had to think about a couple of these because of the way they were worded. The most correct answer for deforestation would be an increase in carbon dioxide. The best answer available was erosion.

Yep I always say “the more I learn about some thing the more I learn I don’t know anything about some thing”. When someone says they’re an expert, I head for the exits.

What is common sense? What you refer to as "common sense" is really "common knowledge". All things are learned. For example; If you didn't know how electricity worked, would you know not to touch a wire? Most people say it's common sense not to touch that wire, however, if it's the first time...

Now that I think about it it was my 3720 that I used put the counter weight on the pallet rack. The 2038 will still do a lot of work for it's size.

Picked up my counter weight that is on a wood skid and put it on the pallet rack. I know it weighs just under 1,500 lbs. I have the light weight pallet forks. My system pressure was adjusted right at the upper limit by my dealer when he delivered the tractor.

I know for a fact that my Deere 2038 will lift 1500 pounds to full height.

Well, I do agree with you on the IQ shortage. Just not sure where to point the finger.

So if you don’t want it to go political, why do you take it there?

I can see why taxes make such a difference. Here in Michigan you are taxed at 50% of market value if it is your primary residence you get a break of 18 mills. My non-homestead property is taxed around 52 mills so pretty close to what you are paying. Also, I should have said "over there"...

Curious, what is your tax rate down there?

Nice design! If I still had my 3720 I would buy one.

Yeah, you know highly inappropriate but dammit that's the way we talked! I am a pretty prolific user of swearwords, I blame it all on working on the factory floor at GM,Ha Ha. Or maybe it was when I was hanging structural steel, or working on the farm or well maybe I just learned it on my own.

Wow, you always want to make it personal don't you? Go ahead and keep up the name-calling it just simply shows how ignorant you are. Perhaps I should go back through all of your posts and criticize you because maybe you have a better toaster than someone else! You don't even know how old the...

We agree!!!!

I'm only talking about eliminating fossil fuels where it makes sense. I'm not a big fan of electric cars, all things considered. If you consider the total pollution generated in their production I don't see them as a real improvement on a modern low emission vehicle. Besides I like hearing the...

I can’t begin to tell you how many times over my career I had a customer ask me “tolerance?” “Can’t you just make it perfect?” My reply was always “sure I can, but each move of the decimal point to the left increases the cost by a factor of 10. How close do you want it?”

Who is "you guys"? You made a remark about how yummy store-bought milk is in your cutesy folksy speak in attempt to belittle someone. I understand what you are trying to do, you put a label on someone and then somehow they become less than human and that allows you to divide them from the...

So the discussion I had with one of my farm buddies was about the importance of food because you can't import all of it he said. I said to him well, we have thought for years that we can import anything manufactured around the world, why is food different? There's always a country somewhere...

I grew up drinking the milk straight out of the cans after we got done milking, course we had strain the flies out of it first! I much prefer the store-bought milk now.

Coal powered electric generation cost more now than natural gas. The maintenance cost on coal plants is astronomical compared to demand gas generation plants.

Interesting comments about US farmers, my neighbor and many of my friends around my northern Michigan property are reasonably large farmers, I'm talking about in the range of 5,000 acres or so. Now they may not be a lot of acreage in Iowa but in Michigan it is a lot of acreage. Recently, I had a...

Well, certainly, some of the tools are battery powered, when's the last time you saw a drill with an extension cord? Oh, I'm sorry you were just being cute weren't you?

Wow, I think you’re going way out on a limb when you start comparing democracy to rape! Oh

Yup! +/- .003 accuracy

The market dictates the future, there are a lot more households in suburbia than the rest of the country. That’s a lot of people pushing for the direction of the market. Not saying it’s the right way to go but numbers speak louder than anything else.

That is for sure! I have a lake home on a large inland lake system in northern Michigan, between the two largest lakes is a 5 mile river, the last thing I want is to get behind a putt putt pontoon putting out a smokescreen.

Valid points today. If the progress made in the last 5 years is an indicator of future progress then I think the gap will close for the majority of users and purchasers of new equipment. Lot’s of HOA’s requiring battery tools today.

That would take quite a battery! I started to think about battery powered devices when I was in the garage on a great fall day winterizing all my summer equipment and my buddy came over with a beer in his hand and said "do you realize you got 18 gasoline motors in this garage you got to work on...

First off, I think banning IC engines is a pie in the sky idea, but I also thought five years ago I'd never own a battery tool of any sort, and now I am replacing my Stihl gas powered stuff with battery powered stuff, they work good and are lighter. Did I do it to save the environment? No, I...

We should be very demanding, but do we expect the feds to be there first?

Reasonable to who? If you believe that ICE engines are ruining the environment then it is reasonable to believe that the Government should ban them.

Nobody’s trying to marginalize you. I’m just pointing out the irony of how we look at things differently depending on how close to the fire we are.

Wow, you have a tough road ahead of you. I wish you well. You comments about your insurance experience should be a wake up call to anyone that is reading this. Basically, if you do not have an auxiliary building on a separate schedule, as well as your high cost items on a separate schedule then...

I think this thread is really quite ironic, the same people who, in another to be unnamed thread, are screaming for more federal regulation and intervention are complaining about federal regulations and intervention taking our jobs In this thread! I’m not sure how you could have it both ways...

After 3 years mine is still tight, I suspect poor initial installation.

Yeah, I know what you mean. We live in an affluential resort area in northern Michigan and the builders are quoting $600 a square foot. We want to build a 4000 square-foot house, doesn’t take much math to realize we can’t afford it.

My personal experience, based on living with both widths is that 24 foot is livable, but 26 foot makes your life easy Peezy. Especially if you don't like door dings!

Wow! Must have been a large tumor?

Not sure what’s going on in this video but the tire they are trying to pierce is not the tire that they show at the end of the video.

Welcome from the “great white north”!

Personally, I am very happy that there is some moderation on this site. So many of the other sites that I used to go to have all degraded to a bunch of personal name-calling, and quite honestly, stupid discussions with no basis in fact. as what was so famously stated; “you are entitled to your...

I didn’t know they were handing out free phones to dogs! 😂

My mother-in-law and father-in-law passed away within 12 hours of each other last year. They had wills and estate planning yet some items still had to be probated under Michigan law. Apparently some of the financial instruments ( IRA's and 401K's) required an "official" transfer by the...

I am 67 years old, maybe I’ll live another 20 years. I won’t come close to spending the money that I have now, why would I be interested in more money? At this point in my life, a severe financial market downturn would hurt me more than a reduced return. For me a 4% tax free muni is as good an...

Really? At any age or financial position?

That’s interesting, I will have to ask my doctor when I see him in a couple of weeks why he suggested fusion for me. My back structure was pretty good however no room in L3 and L5 for the spinal cord. Besides pain I had lost 85% strength of my right leg and had numbness in my left leg.

Wow! I am astounded by the doctor allowing you to lift anything you want. even though you didn’t have a fusion it still seems pretty aggressive.

It just so happened that I had dinner with my 69-year-old single friend last night, he has been living in a barndominium for the last 30 some years. His barn is 40 x 80 with 780 ft.² of living space on the main floor. At first, he wished he would have built the living space on the second floor...

Sounds like you are doing good, getting off pain meds as soon as you can is a good goal. I had a friend that went too long and he had some issues that he had to deal with later. Here’s a picture to give you a better perspective of just how long those “lag bolts” are.

How about this one?