Recent content by bpence

In late October I posted and talked about the 6-week old Border Collie pup we had just acquired. Everyone here had a lot of postitives to say about the breed and all the info provided has been really appreciated. Now that Abby is almost four months old, I have to admit she's a lot different...

Well, we just acquired a 6-week old Border Collie puppy to go with our seven year old beagle/retriever and the cats. I kind of forgot what puppies were all about. Anyway........ I was wondering if anyone else out there has had much experience with Border Collies. My wife wanted another dog...

Here's my dilema. We have an above ground 27' round pool that has a 24' x 16' deck built against it. It was built in 1993 or 1994 using all pressure treated lumber. The decking is 5/4 x 6 round edged deck board. Over the years I've cleaned the deck every spring, re-sealed, re-stained...

I finally got tired of bouncing over all of the mole trails/hills and uneven areas around our place. So, last weekend I picked up a tow behind 4 ft lawn roller from the local TSC. Steel. Big. A man's roller. Fully loaded with water, it's supposed to weigh in just under 1,000 lbs. Last...

We had to have one of our two dogs put down Wednesday night. She was a tan cocker spaniel that adopted us about 5 years ago.......somebody apparantly dropped her off. The Vet thinks she had a stroke about a week ago and just hasn't been able to overcome it. We think she was about 14-15 years...

Wondering what the employment mood is in other parts of the country these days. I happen to work for one of the auto companies that just announced it's going to trim the salaried workforce by about 5,000 jobs by year-end. And the guys at the German/American company up the road took a lot of...

It's lots of fun for many of us to talk about new Kubotas and John Deeres and New Hollands and others, and sometimes to even go hassle with the dealers and drink coffee, drive the new tractors around, move dirt, and play for a bit. But the reality of the situation is lots of folks buy used...

It seems like where we live in Michigan it's rained and been 60 degrees for most of the past two weeks. There's some strange Canadian weather system that's supposedly pushed the jet stream south and won't move. Because of the every day rains we haven't been able to mow since before Memorial...

Saturday afternoon my little '95 B7100 HST rolled past the 500 hour mark. So, Saturday night I changed the oil and filter, put in new air and fuel filters, drained and refilled with new anti-freeze and gave the little bull a bath to boot (things were kinda slow out where I live). I changed the...

I was stumbling around the John Deere site today (www.johndeere.com) and fell into some pretty cool screen savers they have available. A good variety of tractors and related stuff. Of course, it's all John Deere, but......... Somebody here had asked a while ago if there were any tractor...

That previous post must have escaped undetected when no one was on duty. Anyway, here are the real pictures this time. And I still think paper clips and scotch tape are easier!!! Bob Pence

One of the dilemas of owning a compact Kubota is finding a place to mount a tool box. I found that a "tool bag" hung on a j-bolt attached to the ROPS works OK, but I also found that it often times blocks my vision while working backwards with the back blade. So, I came up with another solution...

test Bob Pence

My mail box got wiped out in early December - that was at least the 3rd one in a year. Somebody hit it with something (motor vehicle type something) and snapped off the 4x4 post and crushed the mail box. Several other mail boxes on our road were just beat up with baseball bats that same night...

I was talking with one of the old farmers in our area after church yesterday. He said, and I quote: "Old Man Winter's back is broken. Maybe a little more snow and cold, but we're through the worst of it. Seen it before and bad December storms mean an early spring". I'd sure like to believe...