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    Help Me Design/ Build a Shop

    It still doesn't give you an open room. It gives you one that has less web pieces in the way. I forgot to mention the other reason I don't like trusses - I don't trust them to stand up to snow load - in the long term. I live in snow country , and every time there's one of those massive snow...
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    Help Me Design/ Build a Shop

    This is a personal prejudice of mine - but I hate trusses. I think they're completedly wasted space. You paid for walls and a roof, might as well take advantage of ALL of the space contained within those walls and roof. I built my 28x42 barn/garage about 14 years ago - and stick framed it...
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    1.5 acres. Am I nuts for thinking about a tractor?

    This general type of question comes up often I think. Just as a comparison point: I live in a suburban neighborhood on a 1/2 acre property. I had a Kubota BX23 (FEL and backhoe) - and put about 650 hours on that tractor before decided it just wasn't big enough and got a Kubota B3200 with FEL...
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    Options for putting mower deck on John Deere 316 or 318?

    So I picked up the tractor a couple of weeks back, it didn't have a battery in it so I couldn't even try to start it. Got a battery about a week ago - and the thing turns over like a champ but doesn't even give a hint of starting. The previous owner told me the guy he got it from had said it...
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    Options for putting mower deck on John Deere 316 or 318?

    How big of a finish mower will the tractor handle - would it handle something sized for Sub Compact tractor?
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    Options for putting mower deck on John Deere 316 or 318?

    I see a lot of people making that very same comment on other forums too. Unfortunately it seems that the tractors far outlast the decks - so the likelihood of finding a trashed tractor with a good deck is somewhere between slim and none from what I've been seeing. I did see a guy on another...
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    Options for putting mower deck on John Deere 316 or 318?

    I'm going to be picking up a John Deere 316 shortly (my first John Deere - hope my Kubota doesn't get jealous).... but it doesn't come with a mower deck. My main interest in picking up this tractor is use it to mow with and I hope restore it some to have a project to work on. But I've been...
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    Trailer new to me, what is the pictured dip in the frame for?

    That was my thought - looking at the pictures. The dip part looks like it was either made originally as a piece of a ramp - and reused - because it has the traction bars on it - or , as you pointed out - it was a dip that was filled in later when the trailer was used for something else.
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    Do I really need a tractor on 1.5 acres?

    I haven't read the whole thread, so somebody may have already said this - but to me the question on whether or not you need a tractor depends more on what you want to get done - instead of how many acres you have. I live on a 1/2 acre lot in a suburb - and put 600 hours on my BX23 before I...
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    Intentional Food shortages?

    If I believed in Snopes - or the media - I would have just gone to Google :ROFLMAO: , and used whatever results they gave me to "disprove" the video. I'm sure Snopes would have been one of the top results. If had believed that would give me actual truthful results - I wouldn't have posted the...
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    Intentional Food shortages?

    Well that's good I suppose for this particular thing , but I haven't used Snopes in years to validate anything. Once I found out they were playing political games I gave up completely on them. In this day and age just saying " Snopes said that isn't true" is a really bad habit to get into...
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    Intentional Food shortages?

    Well that's why I figured I would ask here. I know there's a bunch of guys here who actually are farmers. My problem with stuff like what they're asserting in that video - is that the US Government HAS done this kind of thing before - during the Great Depression. And given the general level...
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    Intentional Food shortages?

    A friend sent me this video - and there was no better place that I could think of to get a sense of whether there was anything to it or not - than Tractorbynet. Number of people claiming that the government appears to be trying to cause intentional food shortages by paying farmers to destroy...
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    LA364 Loader Quick Coupler

    If it was me - I would go to the Artillian site and see if they have their SSQA type fork frame in stock - and if they do - get one ordered - and cancel the Kubota fork frame. Also - compare whatever forks that Kubota is going to supply - with what Artilian supplies. There is a wide range of...
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    Any issues with mis-matched hose sizes?

    While my BH77 hoe was removed from the tractor over the winter - I managed to whack one of the outrigger hydraulic hoses and rupture it. So I've got to replace the hose. I've got Parker hose - and a the correct crimper and fittings to replace the hose , but one end of the hose has a 90 degree...
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