Recent content by EdwardL

I live in snow country (New England). Before you spend thousands on equipment you will only use once or twice a year, consider it as pole vaulting over a mouse. there are lot of not so smart opinions out there. R1 tires are generally ok, except in wet snow. Solve that with tire chains...

You can fix most of the new cans (except the ones with the green button. Don't buy one ever). for the others (midwest type cans) First pull out the strainer and throw it away. For the spout, fix them this way; there is a rubber gasket on top of the nozzle that holds it together. Take it...

If they are dry a landscape rake will work to break them up and leave pieces along the way. I have one and it works, but I also have a pine straw rake that has done a better job of collecting grass, weeds, twigs, leaves, etc. A landscape rake will collect heaver things. A pine straw rake will...

I'm in Bennington. Communist land. Use to be a wholesome place to grow up...

I don't hook it to the top link. Just use the lift arms and the skidding tongs to get the front end of a log off the ground, and drag a log about 100 feet from where it was unloaded to where I have the splitter. -- the weight is to simply to counter balance the bucket when it filled with split...

In the past I either cut fire wood in the National Forest or got it from people who had trees cut down and did not want to pay to have it hauled off and gave it away. This year I had a log truck load delivered. To move the 24 ft logs to the splitter I built a 200 lb weight that I can attach...

It looks like they cut the floor joists to run the pipe. Those joists are not fully supporting the floor and structure now.

they depend on what you need to do. They will not replace a gas powered saw. I have a small Stihl. Mostly its handy for cutting up limbs that drop from a 100 year old maple, and I use it if splitting stringy wood rounds, where I need to cut the strings to continue. Otherwise its not worth having.

Has anyone ever tried putting a 3-point hitch on the front of a compact tractor and using it to mount a back blade to plow snow? -- I know there won't be any springs to dampen the blade hitting something, but my drive way is short and there are no curbs to hit. Just wondering if this is a...

Klein makes a digital angle gauge with a magnetic base that I've used to see the angle I've been on. Generally when you get to around 16 degrees, your close to rolling. I think the OSHA says 22 degrees, and the Army manuals say 20 degrees. Spacers help. On my little Mahindra I was often...

I have an old 8000 lb winch. Its extra work, but I've hooked it to another tree and with a remote, used it to pull down hung up trees. Have also done it with a 4000 lb ATV winch. -- Bought them when I was cutting fire wood alone in the National Forest..

With a boxbade you will have to make several passes to get most of the rocks up. Don't think a York rake will help until most of the rocks and roots are up. -- I tried once, and gave up on the york. Kept making passes with the box blade.

Nope. I was once a power plant operator and took a job with an engineering firm that had built two steam plant for a utility. It required the firm to write manuals for the operators. The engineers wrote them. they were rejected and several million in payment held back. The firm decided the...

No one gets to write power plant instructions, unless they know the equipment and how it is connected to other equipment and the plant operations. -- Did that work for 30 years.

I've seen ads for a leveling box assembly. Can someone tell me what the purpose is?