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We have a horse farm, so need water for the animals and heat/cold for the people. When we lived in a subdivision I got a 6900/8500 unit. Not an inverter because back then $$$$$. Only went that big because we still had well water. It runs everything we need. Not all at the same time, we have...

Ah I get it. In the 7 or so years I have had the Boomer I have never removed the loader. It has a system where it is supposed to be a quick easy take off put back on. The bucket is pinned though. Just found there is a dealer that sells Kioti and Mahindra not too far away. So getting quotes...

Nope. No E for me. Did not realize the bucket was non removable. If I buy a new one it will have a removable bucket. A set of forks would be so so handy.

which would you prefer... the 2R or the 3E?

We own an 18 acre horse farm in Indiana. We are in Northern Indiana so pool table flat. 7 years or so ago I bought a New Holland Boomer 24. It is in the shop (again). We are debating replacing it. I would NOT get a 24 hp machine again. I would def go to 35 - 40 hp. The Boomer did...

Yes we have a good JD dealer here. They are, of course, a multi dealer organization and I am about smack in the middle of their territory. I will look at the 2 series JD as well. Thanks for the tip. No dealers near me. I need shop support as I am not able to do my own repairs.

No the $8k was as is. Not having done the repairs. I still think it is a bit of a lowball. However more important for me to have the time to figure out if I want a new tractor and if so what color it is going to be.

I am on Starlink standard plan. I have the standard square dishy. This has higher priority than roam, but not as high as business. I get speeds over 100Mbps during the day. During "primetime" from say 6 pm to I go to bed it slows down. Sometimes as low as 50Mbps. Sometimes higher. With...

Thanks for all the input. The reason to repair it is so I have it to use whilst I am trying to figure out (a) if it is time for a new tractor and (b) what color it is going to be. Also, I think having it fully repaired will make it more attractive if I trade it in for a different color. The...

I currently have a NH Boomer 24. It is starting to nickel and dime me on repairs. I am not handy so repairs done by dealer. It is currently in the shop needing $2600 in repairs. That is shortly after $1400 in repairs. Ranges from hydraulic hoses worn out to the shaft of the cooling fan...

They make fire alarms you can put up in garage like conditions. They also make them connected to each other meaning if one alarm goes off they all do. They even make specific ones for dusty environments like a horse barn. So I think pretty easy to put one in the unheated garage and have it...

Yes I had a client that worked there. So I have seen the South Bend warehouse. Pretty interesting all tires are picked by robots. They are a prime supporter of Reins of Life which is a charity that I support.... just not to the same level as they do. Great family from all I have heard...

Thankfully I live in the town that has the corporate HQ for Tire Rack. I buy tires from them and have them put them on the car. I'd never trust Sam's to do that kind of thing. Costco has tires too..... don't use them either.

They make a T-post puller that works really well...

Typically your use has to be unauthorized by the land owner. So if the land owner gave you rights to hunt you have a revocable license to use the property. That does not satisfy the "hostile" element of most adverse possession statutes. Of course laws in your state might be different so...

In Indiana, at least, to get adverse possession you have to prove you paid all the taxes and special assessments you reasonably believed were due on the property. There are a ton of other requirements too. Simply building a fence over the line is not generally sufficient. However the period...

Right up until you have a heart attack and go into sudden cardiac arrest. When you see the bills from that you have another heart attack and then realize it is ok because insurance is picking up $1,000,000.00 and you only have to pay your $4500 deductible. Or then have the heart procedure...

And they turned it over to the prosecutor for charges. If it was an offense that was just a ticket they would have given him one.... like speeding or blowing through a stop sign etc. Those are civil cases but prosecuted by the government.

Plus the WiFi outlet uses some amount of power even when turned "off" because it has to be in standby mode waiting for the command to turn on. We have a couple of them for convenience not power saving. They are handy.

Indiana has a super majority of a different party. So I doubt we are going to ban ICE anything any time soon.

They can enforce what is sold in the state. They cannot stop you from going out of state to buy an ICE. Of course they can also refuse to register and plate an ICE. That will upset people moving into the state.

We own an 18 acre horse farm. Lots of fence posts to weed wack around. We have an electric weed eater. Three batteries. They last about a half hour each. After an hour and a half of weed eating I am ready for a rest anyway. Move on to doing something with the tractor that needs done. We...

I would buy an electric car no question. I have an off the farm job. Office is 12.5 miles from the house. Little running around during the day. On a "bad" day I might put 100 miles on the car. If I have a 250+ mile range that would suffice for most of my needs. If we needed to travel the...

Interesting they define the engine as being one where the fuel air mixture is ignited by a spark. So arguably diesel is exempt. Interestingly standards allow lawn mowers to be up to 25 HP. So I would expect a lot of 25 HP mowers to come on the market if these kinds of laws proliferate. Or...

We have a service called US Rider. We are horse people. They will come take care us like AAA did for you. If we are hauling horses they will get the trailer too. If we need to put the horses somewhere for the night they will find us a place (we have to pay the fees for that). It is for my...

I agree with the folks that are saying use the pressure washer. You don't want to risk making the wife mad. There is nothing wrong with the dishwasher idea, but you know that will just upset the wife unnecessarily.

As stated it really depends on what you call basic essentials. Most of us live without city water so we need to think about powering the well if grid power is not available. That means you need a generator that can provide 220. We get by with a 6500/8500 generator. We have to manage the...

I am not a fan of coyotes, but live and let live for the most part. We had one that was too bold. He would be in the horse paddock in the morning when we went to turn the horses out. He would run off. Then he stopped doing that. So he became a potential danger to the horses. One morning I...

I would find local charities that deal with issues important to you. Talk to their Executive Director about planned giving. Give some money while you are alive so you can see what they do with it. Obviously you have to keep enough for yourself to live on for however long that is. If you have...

So someone just pulled fiber down my road. It is going from the main road down to the 8 houses on my road. It then stops at the over pass for the highway. So not likely it is for back haul on a cell tower unless they are building a cell tower on my neighbor's property. I think it is AT&T who...

My 6800 watt unit came with a battery and a maintainer built in. It finally failed after about 9 years. Time to get a new one. Last time I had to fire it up I had to jump start it with the tractor. I like the idea of having a li ion jump pack around for this task as well.

Um no the video is clearly about a snowblower.

Sounds like heaven. I love to have a house full of people over for a meal and connecting. Even better when it is family.

Well OP you got a lot of good advice and a lot of really bad advice on this thread. Do it safely and get it properly locked out. Even if we agree the lineman will not get hurt because they ground their stuff before they start, you don't want to risk your generator getting toasted when the...

I suspect if they do it will not be an immediate ban. Just cannot sell a new one after x date. So be sure to buy a new one just before that date and keep it in reserve for when the current one fails? We have an electric stove just because that is what the house had when we bought it. Too...

Code talkers. They used Navajo because it was an unwritten language so the odds that the Japanese even knew the language existed was extremely low. Then they used code words within the language. For example I believe for a tank they used the word turtle and things like that. Probably because...

Yes I love the alert for charge over $x. That has saved me a couple times. I call the CC company right away as soon as I get the text and they can stop the charge and send me a new card.

It is to make folks driving take the turn a bit wider so they do not hit pedestrians if they cut the corner close. That would be pedestrians standing darn near in the road to get hit.

Indiana has a form for the landowner to sign to give someone permission to hunt their land. It contains a release of liability. There is a place for the landowner to sign so the hunter has proof of permission, and a place for the hunter to sign so the landowner has the waiver of liability...

Yep. This is the key for even more than just the generator. One of the reasons we like the home we are in is it has the master suite on the first floor. So as we age if one of us cannot do the stairs we can remain in the home longer. A wheel chair would be a bit of an issue as there are...

I am in northern Indiana. We had the wind and the -35F windchill. Thankfully we dodged the snow. About 15 miles north of us got pounded. So we did not have the widespread power outage you had. If we did the gen would have been running 24/7 because the pump on the boiler was running darn...

I always thought I would not run the thing 24/7 in a power outage too. However what I have learned is when we have these -35 wind chills the pump on the boiler rarely shuts off. So to keep warm I will be running the thing 24/7 in those temperatures. If the temperature were more moderate I...

When I bought my tractor they had a 0% "deal" going. I asked this question, what is the price if I bring in a bank check? They said same price. Great sign me up for the 0% financing. My investments can keep earning a return and you will get a few bucks a month from me. Seems like a silly...

Looked into this for my parents. Costco is made by the same company that makes Phonak. Cheaper cost as well. The folks in the store seemed pretty knowledgeable as well. Consumer Reports also lists them as the best hearing aids on the market.

Kept our locks from freezing in Northern Indiana in the recent "why the hell do I live here" conditions.

A 10KW generator will use 1 gal of propane per hour at 50% load. Depending on what else you do with your propane it might not last as long as you think it will. That is before the "penalty" you take in power for being at altitude. We have a 6500 running watt (8K starting) and it will run...

We used the wedge-loc for corners for our first horse pasture. The first corner took me like 45 min to build. All other corners like 10 min. Easy peasy once you understand how they work.

They are saying get off the roads by 5 as it is going to flash freeze and we will have black ice.

I have never had a problem using my Amex internationally either. I pay zero annual fee, get a cash back bonus. Internationally I do pay some kind of processing fee on top of the purchase price. There are cards (Amex and non-Amex) that do not have that fee. Once we start traveling again I...

Debit cards with a Visa/MC/Discover/Amex logo are processed as credit but have lower interchange rates than a true credit card. Significantly so. 90% of my processing volume is debit cards and the cost is dramatically lower than a true credit card. Amex is accepted at 99% of all retailers...

Amazon has the USB adapter you need to read SD card if the lap top does not have a built in reader. Looks like this one is mostly flush when card inserted...

One of our local credit unions does this. I am not sure if it is 1% or 2% but they give a cash back for use of the debit card. They give the exact same cash back on their credit card.

Discover issues and services their own cards as well. They and Amex always run neck and neck for best customer service. Really, if you are paying the card off every month, it is about just finding the card that gives you the best rewards in for your situation.

Or just saying we are adding a 3% transaction fee to cover the cost of the processing fee with their payment processor.

There are plenty of studies out there showing it is actually more expensive for the business to take cash. You have to have controls in place to prevent sticky fingers, balance the drawer at the end of the shift, get the money to the bank to deposit, run the risk of robbery etc. The vast...

So here is the thing.... if the bus had been self driving it would not have pulled out in front of you and thus there would have been no need for you to do what you did.

They are not using GPS to keep the lane. They are using the lane marker/lines. I have lane assist on my car and it will tell you when it is working and not working. It is directly related to if the lines are well marked and if the camera can see them. If there is snow on the ground obscuring...

Yes and interestingly the thought of what peak time is changes. There are studies coming out showing that charging EV during the day may be better for managing the grid than doing it overnight. I am not aware of any request from any government to simply not charge EV's at all. It is similar...

Thankfully that is a soft cap and only during peak hours. If you can schedule DL for overnight it does not count against your cap. Once you hit the cap you are deprioritized until your next billing cycle starts.

Build a beaver deceiver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_device Does not help the immediate tree damage but will cause the beavers to move on if you are not wanting the stream or culvert dammed up.

Back when I drank, those calls would come in after dinner and after I had a scotch or three. They were much more fun then. They usually devolved into me telling the guy what sex acts I was going to perform on his wife while I made his mother watch. What was really funny was I would then hang...

10 hrs seems pretty reasonable. Also if they are fully autonomous they can drive back to the barn, recharge and get back to work. So they can work overnight while I am sleeping. As for ROI you have to factor in the money you are saving not paying an operator to run the thing. I suspect the...

I have never understood why electric cars (and now tractors) do not have an easily replaceable battery pack. I realize there would have to be a standard across all companies..... but just drive into a "gas" station and swap out a battery pack and be back on the road in a few minutes. Then the...

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/12/01/mondavi-monarch-smart-electric-jetson-tractor/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark Looks like this could be interesting. I did not look too hard, but can't find data on how long it can run between charges.

Yes. It generally happens to me when it is significantly below freezing and there is a good wind. The door faces north which is good in that it gets less direct wind on it, but bad in that it gets less sunlight to help thaw things out. Lol I do not live that far from you. I am sure SWMBO...

The human access door on my wife's horse barn is freezing shut. This AM I really had to put my shoulder into it to get it to open. Any suggestions on how to stop it? It seems WD-40 would work but wouldn't that degrade the rubber seal around the door? Any other suggestions? Thanks for any ideas.

I live in lake effect zone for lake michigan. 15 min north of my house had like 30 inches of snow in November. We had like 5. Amazing how those bands set up and pound just a small area. I could not imagine 6 feet of snow in that period of time. Lots of people out on their roofs shoveling off...

Similarly that is why we have a generator. Wife did not want to be without certain creature comforts. That was when we lived in a subdivision. Now we need it to run the well so we have water for the horses. Of course we also get creature comforts from the generator.

I do not have any friends with tractors. Neighbor has one, they are friendly but not friends yet. We both help each other out if needed. My NH has a bit more lift capacity than his JD. So sometimes he needs me to come move something he can't quite lift. If my tractor is in the shop he will...

National Weather Service is predicting 5-10 inches. Accuweather is saying 8-12 inches. However it is lake effect. Right now 10 miles north of my office they have had 6 inches of snow. We have had some very minor flurries. Later today the wind is supposed to shift to being more NW rather...

Seems like a good compromise between the two options!

Our neighbors built a berm back stop. Thankfully they are shooting south and our house is north of them. We have horses and my wife gives riding lessons/trains horses as her day job. Thankfully we have a good relationship with the neighbors. They will check in to make sure no one is ridding...

Loved her in both. I watched Longmire well after its run had ended, so was able to just binge watch the whole thing.

Generator has one built in. That battery is the original to the machine. We bought it at the old house that was in a subdivision. We have been on the farm for 7 years. So generator is about 10 years old. I am pretty happy with that battery life. If I get 10 years out of the next one I will...

No it is a portable with electric start. With my shoulder problems I could not generate enough force on the recoil start to get it going. The power company also must employ Scotty as one of its engineers. They give us a 24+ time frame for restoration. It went out at 9:30 a.m. Since the...

Well not really a maintenance run… Had wind gusts yesterday hitting 50mph or more. Our power stayed on. Today about 930 am it went out. They are saying restoration tomorrow at 6pm. Despite having done a test run 60 days ago the generator would not fire. Jump started it w tractor and it...

To my north is a road, to the east is a county maintained drainage ditch. To the south is woods. In that woods there is an old fence line that I suspect approximates the property line. To my west it is an open field to the neighbor. There is a line of poles on that line. Line is ~1200 feet...

I think inevitable they will set a limit. The question is always what the limit will be. There are "power users" that use terabytes of data every month. Even limiting the top 10% of data users would dramatically increase speeds for the whole network. The problem is until those folks hit the...

lowes has vet spaces. At least the one on the south side does. Not sure about the one up in Mishawaka. I think the Chipotle down south has one as well.

When I was recovering from my cardiac arrest I WANTED to go to the store with my wife. It made me feel a bit more normal. Even though I needed the assistance of the scooter. And I am not oversight in fact my Dr is telling me to gain weight. In a world where you can be anything be kind.

And based upon your posts here I have no problem making a judgment call either.

And at least in INdiana one of the questions on the application for the placard is a question if the person cannot drive, will the person getting the placard be driving a person that qualifies? After my near death experience I could not drive for 3 months legally. Longer from an ability...

Man I wish I was as self righteous as you are. Must be an easy life when you are the god given expert on everything. Do you know the definition of the word compassion? Try some for once.

That is completely untrue. After my cardiac arrest if I parked out in the back of the parking lot and walked into the store I would be exhausted. Getting up into a big truck would have been zero problem for me. Can you define "legitimate" physical handicap for me? Maybe my near death...

So a person with a disability cannot drive a big truck? I am confused by this comment.

Most of the folks saying the spots were tight is not just because of other cars, but just how close together the white lines marking the space are compared to the size of today's pick up trucks. We have an F150 that is 8-9 years old. We use it to pull the horse trailer. It is also a daily...

You are probably the reason full roll out has been pushed back to "mid-2023"..... close out your account so there is room for me! :ROFLMAO:

We have a hotspot for our internet connection. We have a large Yagi antenna outside that connects to the hotspot. Dramatically improves the signal. They make powered cell boosters that could hook to the yagi as well and increase your cell service in the house. Our connection is ok for a...

It actually has a pretty good snow/ice melt feature built in to it! But yes that will be a consideration in siting the dish. When we had Dish Network it was on a pole on the ground so the dish was 5 feet high. Sometimes you had to take a broom out there and clean it off.

If I was that dude watching it all go down on the left side next to the pick up, I certainly would have said something to those folks. Of course once all cars have this auto park feature we can cram more cars into a parking lot since we do not need to leave room for the doors to open or people...

I am just outside of South Bend so likely a very similar location. Since the dish is useable once we get full residential service it makes me a bit less nervous about spending that kind of money on the dish. It will be useful eventually. I have a barn I can plant the dish on that will give me...

I thought I would start a new thread on this so as not to overwhelm the current Starlink thread. I just got the email from SL. They had been projecting late 2022 for me to have SL available. That has now slipped to "mid-2023". However I am being offered their "Best effort" plan. It seems...

Yes growing up as kids we always had to plan our costume to have a winter jacket on under it to keep warm, but still go trick or treating. Of course now living out of town I have no idea what the kids do. WE have not seen a trick or treater in the 7 years we have lived on the farm.

Might also want to throw in the dr said that more frequent sex will improve the memory.

Hells Bells by AC/DC

I like this. Wish they would do this in more states. I know in some states, mainly out east, they have rules that say the land is open unless posted. I would be ok with that too as long as people would respect it or there would be consequences for not doing so. If I found a tree stand on our...

In most states you do not owe a duty of care to a trespasser. Whatever happens to them is their problem. Someone you invite on to your property (friend, contractor etc) is a different story. You owe them a duty of care to make sure there are no hazards on your property, or that you warn them...

Do you have an external antenna on it? I do not have the mobley plan, but I have the MR1100. I have one external antenna. It has helped a lot. I have been told if I put two on it of set to 45 degrees I will get even better signal because of the polarization.

In Indiana I would tell you not to deal with the creditors or try to settle with them....at first. Yes you will need to deal with the mortgage company and whoever holds the truck note. If the truck has no value over the lien, just let them repo it. The mortgage company you can find at...

Well in his defense the ad does show a picture of a semi.

It was a discussion about heating hot water. Hot water does not need to be heated. You can't UNTHAW something that is frozen. You THAW it. UNTHAWING it would mean freezing it. It is already frozen. The joke is not funny when you have to explain it.....

Have to get the boiler checked and serviced. Need to think about hitting the diesel with some Power Service in white bottle. Got all the hay in that we need for the horses. Got our supply of bedding that should last until January or so. Need to check all the heating elements for the water...

Cover as much skin as you possibly can. Face mask/eye protection a must. If you are going to a commercial field they will rent it. If not that is something to spend $ on. I always wore jeans and a "hoodie" because the hood helped protect the back of the neck. I did not wear the hood up, it...

Yep. Same kind of events held here every so often. Usually for a donation to some charity or the other. I figure the $10 or whatever they are asking for I donate goes to a good cause and the time saved by not having to tend the fire or shredder is worth more than $10 anyway.

Well they can't turn off my water that is for sure! (we have a well so no water company)

Lots of fun ways to do it without batteries. Pumped hydro storage is one. Another one I read about was using the excess power to lift a bunch of heavy weights. Then when you need power let the weights drop to generate power. Sure there is loss in both of those systems, but there is with...

Do you unthaw frozen ice?

The Russians have their own version of GPS called GLONASS. I would assume the military has better access to GPS than we civilians do and their accuracy is better. I am surprised that we are not jamming GLONASS and Russians are not jamming GPS at least in Ukraine.

Easements in fact do pass down the line of title. Things like your power lines are on an easement. You don't have to renegotiate them each time property changes hands. The RAP simply does not apply, nor does the Rule in Shelly's Case.

I wouldn't be near that area of town that time of morning. I have seen the videos posted on social media of this phenomenon, but it does not seem to be just a local thing.

They would think "heck I'll put a light near it" and then use an LED.....

We have a local appliance shop that is the same way. They have a great service department and simply will NOT service anything they did not sell. We had trouble with our dryer. It came with the house, so we have no idea where it was bought from. So they did agree to come out and fix that...

Oh I totally agree with you. I MIGHT get a smart thermo that I control completely myself but likely not. I have some "smart" outlets that I can control with my phone. It is useful to be able to turn certain things on and off without having to walk all the way out to the barn.... especially in...

These are only for thermostats the customer allowed the power company to put in and agreed to allow them to do this in exchange for cheaper power. If you were to buy your own smart thermostat and put it in the power company would have no ability or right to control it like that. We have a...

So I took a perusal through Indiana traffic code. Apparently you are to move over if someone is overtaking from behind. However there are two relevant exceptions - (1) if congestion prevents you from moving over or (2) you are turning left. I suppose there is an argument (2) did not yet apply...

Ok glad to know I am not crazy. OAT I may have used a similar word but it starts with a C.....

So I drive through town to get from our farm to my day job. The main street I am on (not a highway, a city street) is 2 lanes each direction, with a turn lane in the center. It dead ends into another street and I turn left at that intersection. Most folks turn right at that intersection and...

Where we lived in law school the landlord controlled the heat. It was a three unit building. The sensor was in our apartment. We put those freezer pops kids like on the sensor to trip it. We found we needed 6 of them in the freezer at all times. 2 to go on the sensor and the other 4 waiting...

Knock on wood we have not had any trouble with any of them. The only ones that seem off to me is when Amazon delivers in a personal unmarked vehicle. Some strange car pulling into my drive.... then they get out.... then they finally put on the amazon vest so you know what is going on.

This is the only coffee maker you need...

Always good to learn something new. We trailer horses and often when unloading at a show grounds are on not level surfaces. Trailer wheels will always be chocked when loading or unloading now...... and truck in 4WD. The horse does not weigh as much as that tractor I am sure, but no taking...

We run our well pump off our generator. Have had zero problems with it. It is not a name brand but the engine is a honda. I would not run electronics off of it. I'd love to get a big Champion inverter style generator so I can just run whatever I want. Need to check the starting draw of your...

They are same here in Northern Indiana. We have a large Amish community a couple counties over. They have a market here in South Bend. The doughnuts are amazing..... we call them crack doughnuts. Their other food stuffs at the market are similarly good. However if they are selling to the...

Of course it is all about how it is handled. That is exactly what the FDA is going after this guy for. Mishandling things. Not complying with the regulations to handle things. Not because he is Amish.

They still have to follow government regulations. Here is a link with more information about the issue. Raw milk from the farm actually killed someone. https://news.yahoo.com/conservatives-milk-story-amish-farm-030116623.html?fr=sychp_catchall

Yes one of my hay suppliers is down that way. He said the dry weather stunted 2nd cutting a bit, but then it perked up with the rain. He is on pace to have a good year. I can tell it is a good year for quantity produced (and quality) because of the prices I am paying. With fert and fuel being...

We just had hay delivered. Bunch of youngsters stacking it. The 17 year olds could toss one up to the top of the stack as easily as I could have tossed a basketball. They had their 5 year old brother there. He helped. He would basically flip the bale like a guy working out with a big tractor...

We put up a point to point system to get internet out to our barn. The receiving end is actually an outdoor wifi extender like this...

As someone who is not totally a mechanical guy I prefer the shear pin. The slip clutch needs annual maintenance. If I were using the implement commercially I would think a slip would be better.

I had not done oil/filter change on my tractor in 18 months. I was no where near the number of hours the book says to do it, but I generally do it once a year regardless of hours (or at the hours if I hit them). I was having the thing bog down more than it used to. Changed the oil which...

That math is wrong. CPI/Inflation has been running in low single digits since the 80's. Looks like 2022 is about the blow that out of the water. At 5% it would take about 14.4 years for that rent payment to double. To get to 5 years you would need a sustained rate of inflation of 14.4% or so...

Love my Kasa products. We use a lot of Kasa outlets around the farm. They make a good reliable outdoor rated one, although all of ours are under cover so no direct rain, but they get cold/hot. So convenient to be able to turn thing on/off easily or set up a timer. We have an out door wifi...

It would alter the value of the property for sure. I am sure he could immediately sell the future payments for a discounted lump sum today if he wanted to. Or take a lump sum directly from the tower company. But when it comes time to sell the land the sales value of the land will reflect that...

I know him as well..... it was more than a dozen towers if I recall.... he did QUITE well when selling the business to someone larger in the industry.

They are anticipating lawsuits. If the judgments in the Monsanto suits stand the other manufacturers will be next.

I could sit on the tractor and mow for a long time if that was the view.

I am so glad I do not live near you.

Not here. You can set rent at whatever you want.... of course if you go too high no one will rent from you.

kind of like using the word "overmuch"?

Ummm..... renters sure they don't pay property taxes directly to the taxing authority.... but unless you are renting it out at a loss they are paying the taxes to you as part of their rent and you are sending it along to the tax man. If your property taxes went up 50% wouldn't you increase your...

Amen. I have a 3600 RPM "screamer" that everyone complains about. I have zero complaints about it. It runs, it powers the things in the house I need it to power and it was at the right price point. As long as I change the oil and fire it up every couple months it seems to just work...

I live in a portion of Indiana that makes Kansas look hilly... I rolled my tractor moving manure. That was something I had done at least 1000 times before. I just had a moment of inattention and carelessness. Rear tires were NOT loaded and I did not have any rear ballast on the machine. You...

Pay off the house and invest the rest. That way I could retire much earlier than current plans.

Oil is fungible. So it went into the market but you can never tell who actually bought it and it does not matter. It increased supply. They only sold a small fraction if it. The amount of Oil in the SPR changes frequently. The government leases oil grounds. The royalties are paid in oil...

I'm confused. You understand each pump does not have its own tank in the ground right? There is one bulk tank all the pumps pull from. If it was empty they would all be turned off. Okay so there are two tanks, one for low grade and one for high grade. Mid grade is a mix from both tanks, but...

Here is the answer https://www.statisticshowto.com/same-birthday-odds/ For two people it is in fact 1/365. When you start to add a 3rd person the odds change dramatically. Once you get up to 30 people it is 100%. I do not pretend to understand the math.

Grainger for the ones who get it done...

Clearly you need a bigger tractor with an AC Cab so you can help out friends in need!

House around the corner from us went for auction about 8 months ago. Plus all the contents. It was a small cattle finishing operation with a farm house on it. All the contents have been moved out, but no one has moved in. I am curious what it sold for, but not curious enough to find the...

I do this all the time. When the initial contract runs out call and say you want to cancel. They will reduce the price for a period of time. Repeat when that time frame runs out.

Yes nitro causes blood vessels to dilate. That is why us heart attack survivors carry it. If we have another one we can take it and hopefully get blood flowing until we can get to the hospital and have a procedure to clear and stent the blockage. I carry small nitro pills with me at all...

The house we lived in prior to the one we are in now had bad iron. We used a system like found in poist #13. It was an air injection system so no need to buy chemicals periodically. First we had a spin on 5 micron filter. Then the iron filter, then the water softener. Water output was...

Loads of fun! I always wore blue jeans and a hoodie. The less exposed skin the better. Face mask and goggles are a must and usually you can rent them at the field. Cheaper to buy your own paint balls than to buy theirs. If you rent their guns they usually make you buy their paint balls...

Stop giving us lawyers bad names please.

For those of us that live rural options are limited. T-Mobile Home Internet gets really good reviews from lots of people. It is not available at my address. I have an AT&T Business plan. It is cell based. They say I am not supposed to stream with it. We stream a lot. They have not slowed...

Just remember if you cannot figure out what the product is.... YOU .... and your personal data.... are the product. Fedex offers that service so they can gather and sell your data. Only you can determine if the service provided is worth that invasion of your privacy.

Is the HF one rated for gasoline? I thought it was only rated for diesel. Not that I am gonna pay $75 for this one, but it at least appears rated for gasoline. I love my HF one for filling the diesel tractor. Wish I had one rated for gasoline for the lawn mower and/or generator.

I swear by Dr Sholl's inserts. I realize this is a "generic" solution so will not work for everyone, but it will work for lots of people. Start there. Then think about custom inserts or custom built shoes. Obviously if you are having serious pain issues go see a doctor.

Cut in half and jb weld back together. what could go wrong?

Tesla does this. The fob is the size and shape of a credit card. You can also get the app on your phone so you do not need the card. But if there is no cell service or Elon's servers go down you need the card.

I go through enough fuel during mowing season not to worry about rotation. Fuel going into generator gets a dose of stabil. Cans get filled for the winter and get stabil.

Thankfully only out for about 4 hours. I was at the gym when the power went out. Picked up a pizza for dinner on the way home since the oven/cook top is electric. Fired generator up around 7:30 and ran it for 2 hours before power came back on. Power company uses the Scotty method of...

Well not technically a maintenance run. It is in the 90’s here and power went out. Generator fired right up. Needed to water the horses so no choice in the matter. Thankfully we have a window ac in the bedroom so can run that to sleep if need be.

If your wife is a horse owner (mine is), and especially if you have the horses at home, you have very little say over anything. "My" shop and barn is now full of hay and horse feed.

I really have no ideas for this but I want to follow the thread as it just is a different challenge than what we usually see here. Good luck! Nice looking cannon.

I have that mower's little brother. We are an 18 acre horse farm with mostly open areas that the bush hog still works well on. I prefer the zero turn. Originally bought for the yard, it has now taken over a lot of the mowing duties. Had I known that was going to happen I would have bought a...

You don't know they won't get a cent in court. You have not read the contract. I agree I would not want to force the job on the guy as you will get shoddy work I bet. However the measure of damages is not just the refund of the deposit. The guy signed a contract to build the home at $265K...

They are rebuilding a bridge on US20/31 in South Bend near my house. I'll have to grab some crane pictures next time I am over that way. There is one pretty big one there, but does not have the wings.

Now that would be a great compromise. That bundle should weigh in around 450 pounds. I can handle that with my current tractor and then it breaks down into small bales. Nice set up. Farmer can just handle it like a large square and do it all mechanically.

If it is unlimited data why do you need to connect to the WiFi hotspots to preserve your data plan? Uses all wireless carriers I think means if AT&T or T-Mobile has a stronger signal it will use their tower at no additional cost to you.

The bundle makes so much sense to me. A good compromise between what the end user desires and the farmer's need to reduce labor and do more mechanically. Plus if we went to those for our horses I would be able to justify a bigger tractor, and who doesn't want that!

They are cutting here in Northern Indiana. Yields are down a bit it appears. We bought some really nice first cut for our horses. Still need to find a couple hundred more small squares.

Jail for what?

Plus one on being high enough. We moved A LOT of dirt before building our indoor arena to make it a high point on the property. Thankfully we had a hill already so we did not have to bring dirt in, that would have been crazy expensive. The guy that did the final grade originally did not use a...

I am in Northern Indiana. We get the typical 50-60 pound small square here. I would love about a 150 pounder. I would imagine a small spear for my tractor to move them from here to there. Would be a lot easier than doing it by hand. They would still flake off and be easy to hand feed to the...

10 inches of sand is way way way too much. Sand on top of clay is slippery. It is the predominant footing here in northern Indiana because we have so much clay soil. I did not think much of it until we had our footing redone. Put 4 inches of stone dust down. Compact the living crap out of...

Right now in Northern Indiana we are not seeing hay prices skyrocket. Just got a load of small squares delivered. About 80% alfalfa. Paid $7/per delivered and stacked. Seller brought his skid and used his grapple to unload and stack in my barn. Good looking hay too. We are just a hair...

They are rotated offset 45* to account for the polarity of the signal. You can buy them already mounted like that...

Yes but that rate resets every 6 months based on inflation. You cannot cash it for 5 years without losing 3 months worth of interest. So if inflation tanks again you will get a very low rate of return.

Correct re the FED not fighting inflation. Rule of thumb is the prime rate has to be one point HIGHER than inflation to start to bring inflation down. That will cause banks to have to give higher rates on CD's and other deposits. That in turn will cause people to save more. That in turn will...

Especially if you want to run them for 100% of the time the power is out and want it to be like the power is not out. We have a portable backup generator. So of course we cannot live like grid power is on. The argument the wife and I have is I think we should run the generator when we need...

Yep. According to Duromax at 50% load this consumes 1.35 gal of propane per hour. Assuming you could use all 400 gal in the tank that is 296 hours or just over 12 days of continuous use. Of course lots of scenarios where continuous use is necessary and lots where it is not.

or thinking about it. He is running power out there. He can just use a wifi repeater/antenna system to bridge from the drive entrance back to the house. Most of those are line of sight though so might need to do some testing to see if that would work over a hard wire connection. Also gives...

In any totalitarian regime there will be ways that information gets in and those willing to take the risk. Heck in Korea people in the South often launch simple helium balloons at the boarder carrying thumb drives loaded with information into the North.

Yep. Given the small business we run we wrote the tractor off on our taxes. Saved us like 25% or so of the purchase price. Plus we write off all the fuel, maintenance etc at about the same rate. I'd like to see how you kill birds with it. Smash them with the bucket? Run them over with the...

I have a "honda powered" generator. Runs on gas only. I have had it for 7 years. Has 50 hours on it. Knock on wood never had a single problem with it other than a dead battery when I forgot to plug the battery minder back in after using it. I fire it up every quarter if we do not have to use...

We have some friends that their father is basically a gentleman farmer. Usually has a couple steer he is raising for meat. That grass fed steak sure tastes a LOT different than what you get at the grocery store for sure.

Since you are running cable for power anyway.... what about running ethernet as well. Then you could use a Ring Camera (or one of many other brands) and have it alert when it senses traffic down the driveway. That way you get not only the alert but video as well. Video not necessary for EMT...

That is the exact question I have. We are getting 10-20 Mbs over the cell plan we have. So I would need to know about a better speed than that. The current estimate is "late 2022" for availability here. If I cannot switch to "regular" service when available I do not want the RV service I...

We have a commercial hunting "preserve" here in our county. They do pheasants although i think they buy their birds rather than raise them. They say it is good business during hunting season.

So it's all Orville Redenbacher's fault? Got to make the sweet sweet concession money.

looks like it is actually polyethelyne. So do not think the fiberglass repair will work.

I have that kind of set up. Works great if you have good signal. I am on an AT&T business plan. We consistantly get 15 MB up and 5-10 down. Wife and I can both watch streaming tv at the same time with no issues. I am not sure a third stream would work without slowing the system down. Lag...

You can add another horse friend to that list! We are on the south side of town so we don't get out to RK. Thankfully TSC will price match them. So I often go in with the RK website up on my phone to get the price match at TSC. They are not going to like me because RK is selling mulch for...

We have a plastic/fiberglass rubbermaid stock tank that has a crack in it. They are $100 new now! So I want to try to repair rather than replace if I can do so economically. One method I have seen is to basically drill holes around the crack and reinforce with wire. Then coat with JB Weld...

We use the bucket to put them in as well. We have very clay soil so have to do it when it is not bone dry.

There are gas powered tpost pounders.

i keep mine in the garrage and wheel it out when it is needed. The garrage is detached so I could run it in the garrage if needed. Thankfully the opening of the garrage faces east. The prevailing weather is from the west so in rain/snow I can open the garrage and run the generator just on the...

Those of us in the midwest like to keep things civilized!

We had the house wired for generator (portable) bc the prior owners told us the power went out "all the time". Been here 6 years. Used the generator for its intended purpose 3 times I think. Use it around the farm for "portable" power. It is a 7000 kw unit so hardly portable off of a...