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We will be starting the interior of our Tennessee retirement home in a couple of months. We are hoping to purchase prefinished tongue & groove pine for some of it. The home where my wife grew up had some old knotty pine which had the rich reddish honey color which pine develops over time (pine...

Stopped at a local Yanmar dealer to pick up some hydraulic fluid. Asked for TF500, they had only TF500A, and said it was just a newer version of the same fluid. Can I use the TF500A? Can I just add it to the TF500 currently in use?

We had a sinkhole in the field just up from the house. It always seemed almost like a ready-made pond, and we talked often about finishing it 'some day'. We are right now frantically trying to get the house livable by the end of the year, so I was very surprised when my wife suggested we get...

We are going to NE Tennessee in mid-April, and hope to get some plants in the ground. High on my wife's list is planting a variety of fruit trees. Apples, peaches, and cherries are on her list. Our clearing runs north and south, and is basically a notch in the forest. Most of the areas we...

We have almost a mile and a half of gravel drive to maintain on our east Tennessee hills. The first 3/4 mile drops about 500'. The soil contains a lot of gravel and has held up pretty well after the initial rough grading. I expect that stretch to be straightforward to maintain with our new...

We spent Christmas week in Tennessee. Our kids came in from across the country and, except for a dog issue, we had a wonderful time. We planned to leave on 12/29, but stayed another day to wrap up some construction issues. At lunchtime in that extra day our neighbor asked if we would be...

4 weeks ago in Tennessee we used a ditch-witch to dig a 2-foot deep by 4 inches wide trench about 450 feet long, from the house down to the spring. 150 feet is on our rolling hilltop, the remaining 300 feet are down a steep hillside though the forest. We placed the pipes and wires in the...

We got our water running a couple of weeks ago. A 300 gallon tank down by the spring, with a 1HP submersible pump inside the tank to pump the water up 160 feet with a 500 foot run to the house. We have a bladder tank up at the house, which is where it switches the pump on/off as water is used...

We just received my late Father-in-Law's 1948 Farmall Cub from our nephew. FIL mechanically overhauled it long (50-ish years) ago, and used it often but lightly until he passed away 10 years ago. It has been used and ignored by various family members since then, sat outside most of that time...

We purchased 73 acres on the Powell river arm of Norris lake in NE Tennessee about 20 years ago. We had hoped to move there right away, but life got in the way. With a lot (not enough) of planning, and helpful input from here, we finally started building our barn in early July. I posted a...

We have 73 acres in NE Tennessee, mostly woods with about 7 acres cleared at the top of the hill. Last October we had our previously clear-cut field cleaned of stumps and assorted vegetation. It is looking good, and we want to avoid it growing back wild as it had done after originally being...

We have 73 acres in NE Tennessee. I was just checking google maps, and it looks like it is about 3000 feet (I had guessed 2000) of road from the pavement to our property. Most of this road is cut into the side of a hill as it drops about 500 feet. It then climbs back up about 400 feet using...

We have 73 acres in Claiborne County, TN., and are planning to retire there in 2017 from Michigan. We had timber harvested 3 years ago, including clearing about 6 acres at the top of the hill. That 6 acres now is solid raspberries, both red and black. 4 foot high thorn bushes all knotted...