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    Colloquialisms

    Skookum is the best.realgood top drawer. If a guy is running a bunch of junk on a logging show or rinky dink substandard activity. “That ain’t quite skookum”
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    Favorite farm life sayings

    We’re burning daylight. Who checked the fence last? I thought I set it down right THERE
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    Help with choosing new rider mower

    If you can get the job done with an 1800 dollar mower and have it for a couple decades by golly my hat is off to ya.
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    Help with choosing new rider mower

    I don't have hilly, ie steep ground to mow. I have rolling fields and orchard that I use my X370 on for mowing close to my electric fences in pastures. This is my first NEW Deere mower after having three used ones. I sprung close to 5K for it. This mower has 110 hours on it. Power steering and...
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    Need advice on a machine to manage timberland

    The most dangerous machine in the woods is a farm tractor. Timberland, 4000 acres? Get a cat with a drum, six way blade, and removable brush rake. quit trying to talk yourself out of one.
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    Got my Carry All today.

    Wood headboard and deck 2by wood. Removable sides of the same. No need to go overboard with iron
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    40x60 pole barn advice

    For what it is worth from my experiences… Build your building with Eaves.
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    Suggestions for tree removal

    I have done a lot of this stuff doing residential tree work. We would use a throw ball and small line into neighboring large tree limb…attach bull line to small line. Pull bull line through and loop at the break…bull line slack gets taken off TIGHT…further cripple the break and detach..begin...
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    Equipment/strategies to locate a break in underground PVC piping?

    Not a real good solution. You won’t get water to the surface until the area is totally saturated. Water follows gravity first and goes down. When all the bottom is saturated it will begin to go laterally and then finally to thesurface
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    Equipment/strategies to locate a break in underground PVC piping?

    I hired a leak detection guy from fifty miles away and it was worth it. He charged the system with helium.
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    Mold and grass buildup on mower deck underside

    Back in the eighties, I took a seasonal job with the local county parks department maintaining mostly rural parks, out of town, some on gravel roads. Each day, coming in we douched out every mower. Period. All klnds of mowers, tractor flails, ZTR, conventional, walk behinds, riders, all of...
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    Moving cut tree branches & logs

    That is a good and heavy stick. Use your drawbar a good cable or chain. If you want to minimize ground damage hang a block in a tree to give lift, run your line through the block.
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    Health Care Prior to Medicare?

    When you got nothing you got nothing to lose.
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    A better boot dryer?

    Call or write them! I have mine for 35years.
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    Transferring propane from old tank to new one

    by law you need proper hazmat placards to transport big tank
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