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Chlorinated brake cleaner will kill them instantly in my experience. If they are flying and you spray them they will drop out of the air. So get a can, soak the nest, close the door to the shed and come back the next day. Eric

Me too on being skeptical but the owner is past 70 years old, is downsizing, moving, and doesn't want to deal with a broken machine because he can no longer physically work on the machine or even get into the thing. My son is getting or has already gotten a bill of sale. He found out yesterday...

I have 10 or 12 acres but only about 2 of that is cleared and maintained. My tractor is a 1980 Yanmar YM2310. It is only 2WD and I have rarely wished for 4WD. It has 23 HP at the PTO. I have Yanmar 5 foot wide tiller and the tractor has no problem powering it. The tractor has a "Power Shift"...

I only have a 9 inch auger and I use it to plant all my trees and bushes. I drill about 3 feet deep and widen the top of the hole letting the spoils drop into hole if the root ball is large, other wise I leave the hole size about the drilled size. I still put loosened dirt, spoils, into the hole...

ABS is a common plastic used in all sorts of stuff and I wouldn't be surprised if your drone arm is made from ABS. You can test this by seeing if acetone will dissolve the arm. Or if you have some ABS pipe cement see if it will stick. If it does then use a piece of ABS pipe that you saw from the...

Even 30 years ago gas stations had water removal filters. Back then Arco stations in the Seattle area had a very bad reputation for cheap but crappy gas. I was buying cheap gas because I was living on a shoestring, buying a house and raising a family with my wife in college. Too bad the gas was...

Fuel quality varies from place to place. It's not always the fuel supplier to the gas stations either. Years ago I filled my VW bug at an Arco station in Seattle. My house was about 20 miles from the station. The bug started to run worse and worse the closer I got to home. The next morning it...

My son told me the model number today and he said it was a 753. The manual states that the machine is equipped with a Kubota v2203-b 43hp engine. My son insists it is a Bobcat. A 753 G series. So maybe Bobcat did make some machines with Kubota engines. He did today try to set up an account on...

I'll find out.

So my son found a Bobcat with about 2500 hours on the clock, a Kubota 4 cylinder engine, 10 to 15 years old, and a pretty severe hydraulic leak for 900 bucks. The machine recently had a wheel motor replaced and the leak is in the area of the motor. The seller and my son don't know exactly where...

I dunno. Maybe if he used the well his city water usage would drop enough for the city to notice. Eric

I have always liked the saying "Finer than a frog's hair". And another is "If a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its butt.". A big favorite for me is "frog pelts", which is another way of saying "green backs", which of course refers to American money. I still say frog pelts to folks and they...

When I was in high school we lived in a neighborhood in Saratoga, California that was originally a huge orchard. Our neighbor behind us had a typical water tower with a well below from back when the orchard was active. The well still produced water. I asked the owner one day how the water...

You shouldn't have any problem running aluminum wire in your 210 machine without a spool gun. I have run 4043 aluminum wire in my Lincoln SP 125 Plus welder which is under powered compared to your machine. To run aluminum wire you will need to use a teflon of nylon liner in the whip. Do not...

Several years ago I bought my Yanmar YM2310. My previous tractor purchases were a Case 580 CK and a Ford 9N. I had no experience with tractors made for rice paddy work. The seller told me that the tractor had not moved for 2 years and that the clutch was stuck. I got it started and drove it home...