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When we built my parent's house, it was all nails. The only ones that pulled out were the ones where somebody missed the stud, and...

Actually we were putting up some drywall for my brother yesterday. On his wood studs we used nails. They were smooth, no ring...

They'd have to be better than the old practice of nailing. Friends had a (nailed) drywall ceiling come down in their kitchen in a circa...

I've run into tractors that are a pain to get the PTO and implement shafts lined up. I always have the tractor turned off when messing...

Easiest method…. Add an overrunning clutch. Can move it by hand. Also, this has added benefit of letting an implement like a chipper...

I've started hunting for solid steel and overbuilt casters, depending on the application. Weight distribution is a problem. Consider...

Go big..... Four 200#(+) and large diameter, small diameter require scrupulously clean floor, to wit a bean caught under shopping cart...

I had my first infestation of Foxtail last year, ruined my horse hay. This spring I sprayed a pre-emergent along with DuraCor (DuraCor...

That makes a lot of sense to put a U-Joint near the pivot point, so you aren't relying on a significant amount of telescoping as you...

Each place is different. We rarely top 100°. For the next couple of days, we'll have the upper 70's, then a couple of days in the low...

This looks useful: Foxtail control in pastures and hayground

Over time I have also grown to have more respect to what I once thought were pest species. While Mistletoe is a parasite, it is also...

A lot of the worst invasive species were introduced about a century or more ago. The Himalayan Blackberries were introduced long ago...

I think a lot of species were over hunted in the past. So wolves, for example, were almost entirely wiped out, and then were...

The cheat grass is popping up in an established hay field. But It had seemed that some had popped up when an oak tree fell down in...