Recent content by Bill the Elder

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    Dealers Not Accepting Some Brands on Trade

    Told my sweetheart I was thinking about buying a Bad Girl, didn't go over well.
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    Fatal chipper accident

    Back in the early 70s I made money for college doing summer working for a one man tree service company back in northern Ohio. We got a contract with several other much larger companies clearing trees from the perimeter of a tank proving track. One of the companies (starts with an "A") had a crew...
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    City kids do not leave keys in vehicles. . . It’s different out here...

    We lock our doors at night so I can have extra time to get my little friend out of the night stand. My only concern, since we live in a small straw bale house, is losing my hearing if I have to discharge a round in said little house. Ouch
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    If I Only Buy One Piece of Equiptment...

    I enjoy reminding people that a football field is a little over an acre in size so this parking lot is the size of 40 football fields. That's a big parking lot.
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    Front-End Loader  Need a new pump for my 772A loader

    Having picked the best time of the year (20 miles from Canadian border) to do maintenance on a piece of equipment using hydraulics I am getting the cylinders repacked on my loader. Figured it would be a good time to replace the 40+ year old front mounted hydraulic pump as well. Loader is mounted...
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    Flail Mower  Top link vs flail mower

    I go through a top link each season with my Caroni TM1900 flail mower. I'm running it on an old Ford 4600. I use the slot attachment point rather than the fixed point. My pastures do have areas where the tractor is going up while the mower is going down and I suspect that is the heart of the...
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    Is there a video of anyone changing the belts on a Caroni TM1900

    My luck finally ran out and after years of not needing to change belts, this is the year. I took the pressure off the idler pulley thinking that would be the quick and easy, nope. I apologize if someone has already addressed this issue (I've spent a couple of hours using every search term I can...
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    Looking for some shade here

    I've got my little green JD2305 with its flail and my (for me) big old Ford 4600 with its flail. It's getting toasty up here in north central WA and some serious mowing has to happen in very bright sun and hot days. I can only drive one tractor at a time and would like to find some sort of shade...
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    Buying Advice  2008 BX2660 on uneven terrain

    I've got an opportunity to pick up one of these with very low hours at a fair price. Problem is I live in the middle of nowhere, have livestock that require daily care and handle the farm pretty much by myself until my dear wife is able to retire and quit driving back and forth from Seattle to E...
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