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Good thinking! The heat from welding plus the impact wrench can loosen a lot of things.

A diverter works great for 3rd function. Nothing is ever cheap when it comes to hydraulics, so get used to that, but if you pick your battles you can make decent use of your spending. The factory rear remotes will generally be very well-integrated and should be the "easy button" for those.

Like everything, depends on where you are... WI requires septic permits and must be designed & installed by a licensed plumber. Then you must pump it every 3 years. Wells require a permit and they also test the water after the well is complete to allow it to be used. After that, nothing.

If you are looking at typical thin sheet metal fenders, then those are not structural. If you have something more substantial made from plate or thick stuff, then maybe but I'd still doubt it.

I don't have an opinion on the rock BUT... the rule of thumb is to not drive over the area around the tree inside the dripline of the canopy. Good contractors will fence around trees like this to make sure equipment stays away.

I agree on using a ladder to get on scaffold. I have done it both ways, and it is far safer/easier to use a ladder, but sometimes less convenient.

Almost has to be in the clutch/TO bearing zipcode... Not sure how the shop didn't find at least something... Did they use a wrong part somehow?

Yeah listen to Eddie. You won't ever regret power and water there, even if it has to wait until you are back in shape.

Nice! The goats told me "Not Baaaaad!" 😁

That story was priceless! Somehow I'm guessing you aren't showing this post to your Dear Wife.... :ROFLMAO: You can hopefully guess what movie this is from ;)

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Heal up quick, man! (y)

I'd probably do what ptsg said...

Nice! I'm noticing a distinct color theme here... ;)

Precisely my point. We don't have hundreds of devices here but we do have probably a couple dozen total. I specifically paid extra for the Roku with a wired connection for the TV. One less thing soaking up my wifi bandwidth and video is fairly heavy. But then I built my own house 11 years ago...

Nothing beats a hard line, in the end. I have everything I can hard wired on ethernet in my house. Wireless is for portable devices or convenience for oddball items. Starlink is for hard to reach end-users, and is great for that, or so it seems. I have a fiber connection so don't need it...

Call the utility back and make sure you use the words "loose neutral" and that this is an emergency situation. This is a serious problem that can result in fires or other bad events. They SHOULD send a crew immediately, but then this is NY and who knows what they will do (I grew up there...).

I'd guess just trying to get clicks for ads or sales or something. I see they already removed it. But we should get the link killed in your reply too... I'll do the report here...

Spammer...

I have used both towable and self-propelled ones, and hands down the SP ones are far easier to use. Biljax makes a great SP one that has outriggers that lift and level the machine and it isn't terribly heavy. Certainly not 10k - more like half that. I also used an SP one that was simply a crap...

Start/stop can be OK at times and can be very annoying at other times. Very annoying if you are doing something like a K-turn, or need to otherwise back up/go forward if it wants to shut off every time you stop to change directions. At long city lights it is fine and saves a little gas. When...

Around here they actually have a legal minimum gas price. I think it is something like "at least $0.XX above what they paid wholesale". It is ostensibly to stop the big corporate stations from a price war that kills the mom&pops, but of course it just raises what everyone pays...

For a long time it was against the rules of the CC giants to charge extra for use of a CC (note: not the same as "illegal" which I have heard some say. It wasn't law, just the terms & conditions of the CC companies). Their workaround to try to keep it legal was that they did allow businesses to...

A lot of those ramps are light weight ones for mowers, ATVs, etc. Not rated for skid steer or tractor with any real weight to it.

Until the Gendarmes show up and make his life change...Hopefully

When I had my trailer, the ramps were trashed (used) and I bought alum ramps from these guys. Was very pleased and a heck of a lot lighter than steel! I think it might have been this one, but they have a million options: https://www.discountramps.com/car-loading-ramps/p/05-15-048-06/

Oh yeah - it's probably on this thread more than a dozen times...but still priceless!

Perhaps some small defect from manufacturing that finally broke through? Hard to say...

^ Yep that's the one I saw, though it was well after I had made my own.

LOL. Right you are Eddie! I'm going on 11 years now... I just made the doors for the laundry sink cabinet this afternoon. Should be able to get that installed in a couple weeks, and then I could sort of call things done(-ish). That is the last rough-work item left outstanding - the plumbing...

Like many, I struggle with this problem on my grapple with flat faced couplers. First off, I work the lever on the tractor to relieve pressure with the power on but engine off. That helps some. Next, I made some add-on jaws for a short pipe clamp that allow me to put a squeeze on the...

I find our net worth statement to not be all that useful. We signed on with some advisors several years back to help manage investments/retirement, and so my wife and kid would have some guidance if I kick the bucket first since I have always handled all of this. They always show us the net...

Did you see the part where I said i did not know? I am guessing the gov't owned it then but don't really know and it was lived in just prior to the training/burning.

Makes sense as shown...but...what do they do when there are 3 lanes? 4?

I have no idea on any of those questions. I assume the state/county/etc owns the property now, for freeway purposes. Probably why they used it for the practice...

Once you said you were keeping the OS tractor, I knew the new one was gonna be a cab. You will love it!

No, the training fire exercise was maybe 5 years ago. The rest was just background on how this house became isolated and probably unsaleable

I've seen it done. There was a house near work that was in a very odd spot next to the freeway. Probably got boxed in when the freeway went in back in the 60's or something. It was all off by itself. One day the FD was there and did a burn as a training exercise. Had a ton of trucks there...

From what I've been reading they have a mule of a super cab version with 6' bed out there, but are starting with the much more popular crew cab. Also rumors of the 6' bed behind the crew cab as another option coming. We'll see... I am still adjusting coming down from an 8' bed but this meets...

Great to hear about Lauren's progress! (y)

Mine is 11 yrs old and the AC still works great. Now I don't have tons of hours on it maybe 400-500ish and I do blow out the radiators regularly, esp when used in dusty summer conditions. But this isn't Texas either... The heat is a lot more important to me (and also still works great).

I have several of their tools. These days, they are close to the only game in town for reasonably priced WW stuff as so many other brands have basically shut down. Overall I've had good luck but there are always some corners cut it seems. A lot of times the cuts are no big deal but sometimes...

While I agree with the sentiment, the video was only 15 sec long and showed exactly what was needed to do this and nothing else. You can always click on it and see if it is useful or not in about 3 seconds. If it was a 20 min video, I would have just stopped it and moved along...

Precisely...Plus the very first words of the OP's post: Not much risk of voiding a warranty on a 12y-o tractor...

And if Moss keeps getting these 20lb boxes of chocolate, we will have to change his name to MassiveRoad 😁

Aging castings to eliminate stresses is (or rather WAS) common practice. Problem is that that requires a lot pf WIP (Work In Progress) and the accountants hate that. Rough machining in stages is similar. Nothing new there, just the willingness to take the time to let it happen...

Same here, and I am on hilly land that is covered in trees. Not sure where that comment is coming from?

That could be a good name for a punk band "Dragging Cow Pastures"...

First, assume a spherical horse... Then microwave it! ;)

That pit is super awesome. And I expect real cheap...not!

Well, ask yourself the question "What could I do with it (the extra piece of land)?" It doesn't give you the buffer of being on 10 ac, since you are on 4 ac in the house and it is not contiguous. Can you hunt on it (if you want to )? Can it be split off and sold (doesn't sound like it)? Come...

Basically the same for me except add steel toe boots. I have chaps and wear them perhaps half the time, depending on what I am doing.

If you want to add that, go right ahead, but I never found it necessary. I put a large clevis in the tow bar and used that to secure the back, and just hooked onto the front grill guard directly as shown below. It might scratch the paint a little, but it's a tractor...

Not all states have good or even decent state colleges. NY for example, where I grew up. For general stuff the "SUNY" system was considered at best OK. I went into engineering and there was almost nothing in the SUNY system that had engineering, and what there was was not considered to be much...

Or get Klaus to train you! He's the best! (Well that's lame - it won't show the preview, but it's worth it!)

Find a shop with a bigger press, or cut it off and weld back on in the right spot/angle/etc. Others previously suggested a body shop with a frame machine as another option, as I recall.

My first tractor was open, my second and current one has a cab as you can see in my avatar. There are a few advantages to an open station and a ton for cabs. You basically stated all the reasons I got a cab. My main use is snow removal and it is cold and oddly enough, I don't appear to be...

One of the biggest advantages of Advantech is the moisture resistance. It can get rained on quite a bit, especially compared to the cheap stuff and not swell. Remember to gap the edges per the mfg spec! In a DIY situation, time is not your friend as things take forever compared to a pro crew...

Chrome here with AdBlockPlus, but should work on Edge too. I only see the one banner at the top of the pages. Also blocks them from You Tube which is super nice. The only annoyance is every now and then when ABP updates, they throw a web page at you asking for donations. Easy to close and...

2^10. Sure. I'll wait while you finish. LOL ;)

Well you are listed as Upstate NY. Homestead is in WNY, which may be drivable depending where you are...

Yeah I think it was 2018 or 19 when I was there and the big one was clearly not close to new.

I seem to recall there were 2 or 3 smaller cranes down lower on the legs of it too, but it has been a few years.

Yepperdo. You cannot imagine just how immense that thing is in person... And then you start thinking...what crane did they use to build THIS ONE?!?!

I know it is much easier said than done, especially with family, but nobody can take advantage of you like this without your permission. Figure out your hard limits, tell them what they are, and stick to it. Some time thinking through what you are and are not willing to do would be worth it, IMO.

They're not wrong about that. Fundamentally the only way to know for sure is to list it and get offers. But people can still come to an agreement based on best available info absent a market sale. So the other 2 are being unreasonable/stubborn? Or is this just round 1? If they refuse to be...

A difficult situation but what exactly is your question? About the only thing you can do is talk and come to an agreement. If they want you to do all the work while they just sit back and criticize, I would recommend a hard NO to that. And in any case, start clearing out your shop/car stuff...

I was inside Newport News shipyard a few years back for work. It is amazingly huge. Not as much walking as you might expect, since the distances are so big everyone drives trucks or golf carts around everywhere. Pretty sure I was inside both of those vessels while under construction, too...

Shooting high-powered lasers that can slice through a tree up into the air. Hmmm...hope there are no planes overhead... What could possibly go wrong? 😲

My forks are from Virnig. They are localish around here (outstate MN). Very solid.

In a hospital setting like you Ultra, the only utility of Teams or similar would be for admin mtgs and such. For us, it is useful for people scattered in different buildings, cities, and even other parts of the world to get together. We can have extensive engineering and business discussions...

It is or was a requirement in some parts of Europe. I don't think it is true anymore, but was at one time. You would see all the euro cars in the US with headlight washers for that reason. No reason to make another version just for that...

1. Bought 2 rear blades and a landscape rake back in 2013? 14? One rear blade was for a friend, was just combining orders for convenience. I have since sold the rake as I barely used it and it mainly just sat. Still use the rear blade for snow a lot, same for my friend. I really don't...

2 very different processes. The thing to note about wirefeed is that the wire is constantly being fed into the puddle, so you are getting more material fed in constantly keeping the current up. Also MIG is constant voltage vs Constant current for Stick and TIG which behaves differently. They...

Pretty sure ingestion is the most common route of lead exposure, not respiration. Yes respiration is a hazard, but is not as common for non-industrial exposures. Even in lead paint abatement, the chips and dust generated that are not properly contained and removed end up as an ingestion...

A lot of pigments were made from heavy metal compounds. Lead, Chromium, Cobalt, etc. Since they were inorganic, they did not break down or fade like dyes or organic pigments do. It was the easy durable way to get vibrant lasting colors. Downside was the toxicity that took a while until people...

12cup Cuisinart coffee maker with a built-in grinder that we never use. We grind the beans at the supermarket grinder and I don't find that they go stale in the time it takes to go through a bag (couple months?). Sure it is a bit better fresh but nothing too dramatic. The coffee scoop is...

I'll throw another option at you - Oxy/Propane. It is a similar but slightly different torch set vs Oxy/Acetylene. The benefit is you don't need to get acetylene which is expensive and is a bit more hazardous than propane. You can just use your grill tank. Great for heating and cutting too...

You sure you slid it all the way on? A little light tapping with a mallet can help.

I think you mean that turtles breathe through Uranus...

Beats me. There is probably a safety standard and a couple ways to meet it, and this is the one Kubota chose. 🤷‍♂️ First time is a surprise but after that you can manage just fine. That is a safety I don't feel like I want to disable. Now the reverse PTO-kill on my mower I disabled right away...

I am religious about turning mine on when I enter the shop (if I am going to need it) and off when I leave. But yeah even us religious ones sin occasionally...😇 I have forgotten a time or two and it will run every few hours due to leaks in the airlines/regulators/etc. My shop is 400' away and...

Leaving the seat won't kill it on mine. Leaving the seat while moving the HST Go pedal however will kill it. I leave it running and get on and off frequently, but if you touch the Go Pedal it will start to kill. Release it quickly and it will stay running. So if I am trying to drive forward...

Go for it. I got a clamp on one I clamp onto my bucket cutting edge for this which works quite well.

I recall doing it myself so rarely that I would often put the special paper in the wrong way and get a blank print and a wasted sheet. I mean there is a 50/50 chance of getting it right, so that means there is a 100% chance I will do it wrong, right? :rolleyes: We had a couple guys that did...

I sometimes have to stand up slightly for the last bit of alignment. Can't move while standing as the safety switch will kill the engine but I can get close, stop, stand up to see, sit back down, move/adjust, etc. Sounds more complicated than it is to do... It is not a big enough deal to...

Ahh yes, I remember the strong ammonia of the blueprint machine we had. At some point in the late 90's we bought another much smaller company and they had a full "E" size Xerox machine for prints. Life was never the same... I took all the industrial strength ammonia home to use for fuming...

Rob, What is that? White oak? That is my best guess from here...

You can only lift so much (2310 lbs, it appears...) so every pound in the implement is one pound you won't be able to lift in logs. Flip side is the heavier the unit, the more sturdy-built it likely is. But skidding logs only requires you to get the butt off the ground, not the whole log. With...

Nah, old listings are good data points. You are correct that you don't know the final selling price necessarily, but the more listings you can look at, the better the odds are of figuring out a reasonably fair market price/value. It's one input, not the final word. 3 or 4 listings near X and one...

Yes I recall him. He was the only person, other than the subject of this thread, that I though about hitting the ignore button on as he was a flaming a$$. Then they banned him, and he really deserved it, so that was a tiny measure of justice. So I still have yet to put someone on ignore here or...

You must be pretty old to have been clearing basements in the late 1800's... ;)

Yeah clearly fake. Nice CGI overall though...

Yeah I can see something is not right but still can't really tell what. Good eye on the weld. Too dark for me to tell that...

Not poor engineering, just...engineering. Engineering is the determination of trade-offs in a design. If I want A, I cannot get B. Or as A goes up B will go down... what is the proper balance between them? As pmsmechanic noted, to get above a certain compression ratio basically requires it.

You are going to need to post more and better photos for anyone to be able to tell what exactly is going on. And then seconding what others have said: Does it still work OK or not? With that said...in the end, don't be afraid to take it all apart so you can fix it. there is nothing terribly...

I think you are misreading the table. While it may appear to be one where you read across the rows, when you think about it, the first pair of columns and the second pair are independent of each other. One shows flow vs rpm and the other pair shows torque vs pressure. I say this since the 2...

Honda has slightly different specs on different models, but my recollection was 90-100k for the belt but they also had the lesser known caveat of 7-8 yrs on it too, if I remember the range correctly. I don't recall the exact figure, but pretty sure it was under 10. Just to put a number to it...

The reality of most forums is that people come and go for a million reasons. Probably the biggest one for long term posters being that they got bored with the same stuff over and over and just drifted away. I think you would find that the number of users that were banned (other than the...

Well ya gotta remember that they knew Moss was one of them high-rolling moderators on a tractor forum. Had to keep the paparazzi at bay ya know. ;)

Yeah there is age in addition to the mileage. Sounds like a similar situation my my Mom's old 2003 Accord she gave me. I changed the timing belt (and water pump proactively) because it was old and not because of mileage. Honda engines are generally interference and so you do NOT want that to...

He's back. Please ban him! Or at least ban from the Front Porch! These posts are just ridiculous and endless!

They have a bet in San Jose that you will end up stuck in the stream. So far Jose has won 3 beers on this.... ;)

I bought 3 attachments (one was for a friend) from them a number of years ago when it was place the order and they shipped pretty much right away. No problem paying 100% at order time on that. They have all been great. Sad to hear they are in trouble or rumored to be. There was some famous...

Always listen to Eddie...

Lawn Boy was bought out by Toro a number of years ago. I'm not even sure they exist anymore. The 2 strokes of old on lawnboys are long gone for sure as the regs have killed them off.

You really need to know the windows first and find out the RO requirements. +1/2" on both sides and the top is common. You can, and I would argue should, add 1/2" on the bottom too and put a piece of beveled siding clapboard under the window before you make the window pan to encourage any...

Old, old thread... My guess is your best bet is going to be to make something. Even wood should do the trick. You are only making one, so hand tools, rasps, sanding, etc will get you there.

Here's my tractor signing the US Constitution in Philadelphia

I can only imagine how ripe a Florida slaughterhouse must have been....:sick:

That is pretty amazing. And perhaps pointless in the end, but I'm sure it made sense at the time.... That time lapse was cool

Oh I think most of us know who it is... Not Mr Admin Supreme either...

That's not a 3-way switch, and the presence of a red wire (the 14/3) indicates it may well be a 3-way circuit. Is there another switch controlling that light? Also you really don't need a GFCI there... My $0.02

Carbide is generally considered to not be able to get as sharp as HSS due to the grains in it, but it is much harder so it maintains that sharpness level much longer, especially in harder or more abrasive materials.

You don't have 57 PTO hp...You have a 57 Hp engine. You have 50 PTO hp. I have 45 on my L5240. A blower would be great for me on those occasional big snows we get, but the broom sweeps the driveway clean which is super nice as we are on a big hill and winter time can be fun getting up the...

I built a broom as we often get snows in the 4" and under range, and it works great for those. On the rare occasions we get 8-10" it is not very happy, nor am I. But that is rare for here. Maybe once a winter. And if I can catch it partway and do it in stages rather than all at once, that...

From an announcement in today's Minneapolis Star Tribune: With great sadness the Northern Tool + Equipment family announces the loss of our beloved founder, Don Kotula, who passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 20, at the age of 78.Don was a passionate entrepreneur who founded the company...

Easy! Just point the dynamite AWAY from the windows! Let me know if you need any further advice... :ROFLMAO:

I asked a retired Ford Transmission engineer about manual trans availability about 10-12 yrs ago on another forum. He said there were 2 main factors driving it. 1. Demand falling off. There is a small segment of diehards, but the take ratio was dropping fast when they were available. 2. EPA. He...

Sounds more like another example of drive-by posting... All too common

But you said you replaced the primer bulb "several years ago"... Did you also do it again recently? Seems likely the culprit ETA: and replace any hoses too. Sometime they crack and it isn't obvious and it can cause problems.

They aren't bad to learn but don't expect to be smooth at it, unless you find you have a particular talent for this. But I am with the others in that what you are asking to do is probably better handled by a stump grinder or hiring it out to someone with a bigger hoe. You will want a grinder...

Wow. What a bonehead move. He is very lucky to be alive

At least somebody is getting snow this year...we sure aren't. We've only had a few inches total and no more than a couple inches in the ground now. Of course last winter was in the top 3 or 4 for snow records, so I much prefer this winter for ease of getting around and not having to deal with...

Thread is over 2 years old now... @Root Cause did you ever complete the project and how did it go?

I use a broom I made for primary snow removal. We tend to get smaller snowfalls here of up to 4" so it works great for that and clears right down to pavement most times. ..Unless there is ice below, which it can sometimes clear off some of the ice but not always. Here is mybuild thread if you...

Barely but yes

Or perhaps one of those magnets on a stick for picking up nails? Those are super handy

So register it in Mississippi???

The only zone I have with a floor temp sensor is the garage as it is kept lower than the house and those large doors get opened in very cold weather. The control I have for the garage averages air temp and slab temp somehow. The rest of the house zones are a tstat on the wall controlling the...

Can you buy drives pre-fragged? Asking for a friend... ;)

Actually there is plenty of space to work in there as needed and it is all laid out and organized/labeled. I knew I was going to need a fair bit of wall space for all the pumps and controls, so i planned for it.

The talk of brakes... If you mean electric trailer brakes, you will need a brake controller and a 7-pin connector. Do you have those on your Escape? I would guess not. Now if you are talking surge brakes, then this is not an issue.

Mine is essentially like that, so it can certainly be done. Here is mine complete:

Yeah I used to drive my Dad nuts (speaking of lost nuts... ;) ) growing up as per normal kid logic, when I finished with a tool, I'd drop it and walk away: done! Never put stuff back. That would drive him bonkers. As an adult, I put stuff back religiously and have very well organized tool boxes.

That is one big honkin boat! 😲

Even with the damper, that building must move a ton in the wind. Laws o' Physics and all that...

Maybe... might be too wide and interfere with steering or axle components (if on the fronts)

Wire reel!

Dat's Nuts! ;)

I hear that. I start from the assumption that everyone is trying to scam me and then work backwards if they seem actually legit. Had a coworker tell us at lunch how this contractor came through annually and checks out the utilities for them on a service contract - plumbing, HVAC, electric...

Fallon has it right. Floating a snowplow on a FEL with the FEL float doesn't work. Too heavy. You need to float the blade separately like he did

Just watch out for potential CO buildup in a small enclosed space like that. A battery operated CO monitor might be a wise investment out there...

Apple tried getting into sapphire for iPhone screens several years back. The company that was doing it folded as they couldn't make it work at scale for the size needed. I rather doubt you are going to find it. There are much easier options. Put a thin sheet of lexan below the regular glass...

Well I know I was quite out of it after my last one. My wife told me I told her the same thing 4 times and I had no memory of doing it. I sure as heck shouldn't been driving. I think it is part good sense and part CYA for the Dr/hospital.

Yeah the prep isn't any fun but "medical procedure" and "fun" are not found in the same sentence... There are many different prep options and they keep changing it on us. As I noted earlier both my wife and I are on the 5 yr cycle due to parents having had colon cancer, so this is a regular...

As previously said, it's all about the people. We've had good luck here with all 3 (UPS, USPS, Fedex plus Amazon too) but there have been times when we have had issues and it was due to personnel changes/temps. So Far.... fingers crossed

Somewhere around 60-75% of people fit in a medium and almost all the rest in a Large. Very few smalls out there, unless you are talking about folks from SE Asia. This is generally true for all half mask respirators, though it will certainly vary with different designs and styles. Some only...

I have an acquaintance who went in for his first colonoscopy when he turned 50, like they tell you to do if you don't have a family history of it (40 if you do). They found a golf ball sized tumor and did surgery to remove it shortly after. He had no signs whatsoever of a problem. Prognosis...

Still nothing about ZERO regulations as the only alternative to excessive regulations... LA was far from the only place with issues, but it was the worst there was.

The double-wide monitors are driven like 2 separate monitors from what little I saw. They are just smooshed together tight in one package. Also if you are going to run 2 monitors on an arm, make sure both the monitors and arm are compatible. Not all monitors can be mounted to an arm. Ask me...

This is the straw-iest of strawmen and I see it all the time. LITERALLY nobody is advocating zero regulations. Because fully unregulated was what made LA air so awful in the 60's. BUT... LA has a special problem with geography that makes this a much bigger problem for them than many places. So...

Yeah I count 6 lugs, but looks like maybe 4" channel at best. Maybe 3"... These pics are just total head shakers. What is wrong with people?

I always use push sticks and such on the TS. And I often use a splitter. I bought one of the Biesemeyer snap-in splitters so I can pop it in and out as needed easily. I think I got that right around the time Delta bought them, years before Delta fully imploded. I also have an overarm guard...

So, Winter, I'm guessing you are active over on OWWM forum then? Those big tools are cool but yeah they have challenges...

YEP! I should note a leather glove or two is a very wise idea...

That is just like how you coil up bandsaw blades. Sorta. As they are in a loop... There is a trick to it where you stand on it and grab the top with your hand in just the right orientation, and then twist your wrist and it coils right up. The trick is getting your hand in the right orientation...

I guess I am assuming you have a lot of these to do or do it regularly...or both. If so, making a jig is well worth your time. If not then sticking with your current method might be best. What sort of quantities are you talking about here?

This would be an excellent application for a type of tenoning jig that rides on your TS fence. Add a toggle clamp or 2 to hold the piece. If you are not familiar with the type, I can dig up some photos, I'm sure. Heck, here ya go. This one the fence is set at your angle and the blade is...

Scroll saw is not really the best tool for that. Do you have any sort of tablesaw? A tilting arbor TS would be perfect. You could do a makeshift table on top of it set at the angle you want. You can either cut a wedge into it, or just attach a spacer under one edge to lift it to the angle...

We still got basically nuthin' down here (Twin Cities area). Had an inch a couple times, but melted in between. Of course this has the weather guy in the paper doing the "See? Global Warming!!!" routine, but he fails to mention last year's record breaking snow totals for some reason....

Well if he parked it on pallets in a field with some rounded-over drain plugs, then it would be easier to back up. ;)

Still on page 1 for me... 😁

To retain the glass, route a rabbet from the bottom to set the glass in and then you can either use strips of wood that you tack in place with brads behind the glass, or there are rubber moldings sold at places like Rockler for this and you route a small slot for it to press into above where the...

Having been there done that and got the t-shirt, on a regular FEL of the larger sized CUTs, you cannot get away with just floating the FEL with a snowplow. It will just dig in and you will start to ride up over it. There is just too much weight in the FEL arms. Your best bet will be to modify...

Lots of ways to skin this cat. The lid doesn't need to be flat. You could make the lid also include the 2 sides so when you lift the lid, it lifts the 2 sides so you have free access to the sides of the bible. Or the sides and front all together. You could make the box larger on the sides so...

Sound practice says that you should move a portion into cash-like investments around now (since you are close/thinking about retiring soon) while things are up. I've heard 2-3 yrs worth of needs should be in cash. But you also will need to live off that money for the remainder of your life...

I carried a pair of jack stands and 2 pieces of scrap 3/4" plywood to put under them so they don't sink into pavement or dirt. I would put those under the rear of the trailer on the main rails when loading/unloading. Had to be a bit careful not to set them too high or the trailer deflection...

Well of course! Everyone know the Egyptians didn't build the pyramids - the space aliens did! :alien:

As soon as I saw the video start I knew what was going to happen. The problem is that you don't know this is going to happen until either someone tells you (teaches) or you find out the hard way. Yes, if you REALLY thought it through with a thorough failure analysis, you might think of the rear...

Uh Oh. Moss is skipping like a record on Studebakers. Someone go nudge him to shake that loose! :ROFLMAO:

A mug filled with brandy? No.... 😁 Just a mug with the car mfg logo on it, thus the "brand". Like I said they gave me one of their mugs as a gift/incentive to fill out the survey with all 5's...:rolleyes: I took the mug. Didn't take the survey... At least it fits. Most of the decent...

What's the rated road speed of the wheels on a floor jack?

No, sorry - that was on my car, not mower. Just a similar problem...

I feel your pain. My daily driver is German and apparently they were not interested in making the cupholder large enough to fit literally any mug in the US. Except one. The dealer sent me a branded mug as a gift to fill out the survey with all 5's :rolleyes: and I looked at it and said it...

You look at things like this and trotting on past the stupid leads one to how did you even get that in there?

Izzat a tree branch holding the trunk open? Awesome!

This is TBN...nobody here is going to take issue with your plan. Pretty much everyone here is going to say the same thing I am: "Good plan!" (y)

Sure, no reason that wouldn't work as long as you pay attention to Power Beyond or not as indicated. It won't be as convenient to operate as a joystick, but all a joystick is 2 valves in a different setup. A valve is a valve...

For something like a grapple lid or plow angle, you are correct that it won't matter other than to flip the directions of operation. As Chewwy said, you can make the disconnects foolproof by putting one male and one female on opposite ends of the connection so it only goes together one way...

There is a big difference between not liking what they have to say vs calling them stupid...

You see people say this a lot and it is not actually correct. HOT AIR rises, not heat. It is a distinction that matters at times, and not at other times. People in the US have become so accustomed to their home heat source being heated forced air (which of course DOES rise) that they make the...

Dad and uncle were both drafted in WW2 (both passed years ago). Dad was in Europe including the Battle of the Bulge and Uncle was in the Pacific. Both infantry. Uncle's 2 sons were in Vietnam and survived but one got sick and had a 105 fever over there which apparently caused brain damage and...

On my X738, I got sick of using the button as I would occasionally miss it and then it would kill the PTO. PITA. And at my place I do a ton of K-turns, so this was a constant headache. Mine has 2 methods to override the reverse safety. You either pull up on the PTO button/switch on the...

Everyone will tell you that unless you are doing code work, you don't need to dry 7018 in an oven. I have heard it supposedly works even better when you start warm, but I haven't stick welded in years now as I use MIG or TIG for everything I end up doing. So just keep it dry and sealed up...

They'll probably say something like "it's a tractor, not a forestry skidder". I understand your annoyance and you are certainly not the first with this complaint, but compact tractors really don't come properly equipped for work in heavy woods/brush like this, no matter how much many of us...

Chocks would be a very bad idea on the highway. They are almost certainly going to loosen as you go and probably end up in some poor sap's windshield behind you. You got lots of good advice on strapping here...follow it and you will avoid problems.

Nice. FYI the rod you need is 7018AC (specifically says AC at the end) for use on - you guessed it - AC welders. Easy to find at farm or welding stores. Another thought - have you tried steering with the split brakes? Seems like that might work better for this, but just a guess on my part...

You can get a simple re-keying kit at Home Depot etc that can handle multiple locks of a given type. If you want all your door locks to be keyed the same, you can use these kits to do it and they come with the new key. You just need to buy the right kit for the brand of lock you have. They are...

Ranked by who? Relative to what? As Torvy adroitly explained, there is no free lunch. Just like how the US has been subsidizing defense for Europe since WWI, we are also subsidizing their healthcare by the prices we pay relative to what those governments will deign to allow those companies to...

It would be pretty hard to get regular air-dried firewood "too dry", but you can run into it with kiln dried wood. I burn a lot of my offcuts and other scraps from my wood shop, and that stuff is all very low moisture. I am careful to not go too crazy with it and only add "some" of the scraps...

Yeah if you don't strap them down... That is a pretty expensive sliding back window with defroster on it that he is risking here. Plus it looks silly with a ladder rack right there

Caught this at a light this morning. If only the poor guy had some sort of way to carry long things like a small bundle of PVC pipe, then he wouldn't have to do this! :rolleyes:

Dry off the area well and watch for where the fluid first re-appears. Then you will know what part to investigate further.

My first one was an L3130 and the FEL was direct acting on the valve. The new one is an L5240 cab and it uses the cables. I'm not 100% sure if it is bad installation as the dealer screwed up a few things (and I have never really looked into adjusting them) but the feel and use is far worse than...

Made with lots of soft, comfy, ...errr... sticks!

Everyone knows how enormous redwoods are...but for a red oak tree - that thing is HUGE! They never get that big up here. The biggest I have personally seen here was about 36" DBH

Well when I did mine, there was less cheap chiwanese junk around like that diverter and I did get a good quality one which was probably 200 at the time. Making hoses to fit was spendy as noted but seemed like a very good idea in this case so that they were tightly routed and secured and wouldn't...