Recent content by Ken45101

I agree. I had a toothbar for my JD skid steer. Twice I broke the end connection. I gave up and bought a real tooth bucket. Both buckets are heavily used and it's one heck of a lot easier to change buckets than it was to wrestle that heavy toothbar on and off.

How deep are you going? I think they went 4' deep and at least a foot in diameter on my pole barn. More than you could do by hand and probably more than you could do with a gas powered one man unit, especially if you hit any rock.

It's not just upright trees that are dangerous. Last summer we had a big tree fall across our driveway. I was recovering from neck surgery so I just pushed it off alongside the driveway at the time. By the end of November I was getting along better and decided it was time to cut it up. I...

I was a volunteer firefighter/emt. We had one guy where the saw kicked back and it got him in the face. Not very nice. One of our other lieutenants had the saw cut him in the thigh. He was lucky, no serious damage. I have a multistemmed ash tree dead and falling along one of my trails. I...

Propane was $1.77 to owned tank this year in August. Last few years they never showed up (Southern States Co-op). I tried switching suppliers. Not many options here. Suburban Propane wanted $90 for an inspection but when they showed up and saw we had a bridge across the creek, they refused...

When I bought our horse camper, the salesman said our F250HD would tow it fine. He was correct, it towed it but even with the trailer empty, I felt the rear end lean in very gentle curves. A trip across the scales showed the truck rear axle was 500 pounds overweight even with the trailer...

Sorry, my typing is terrible any more. I caught the other ten typos, missed that one. Corrected: does not apply to NON commercial carriers. Thanks for the catch.

I have heard that the lever style binders are no longer legal (federally) for commercial carriers. Federal regs do not apply to non commercial carriers although some states may use them as guides.

However, for their skid steers, JD recommends the use of their Plus 50 engine oil for both the engine AND hydraulic systems. Now, as you were saying.... Just because it is made by Esso does not mean it is not a unique formulation

I started out with a tractor and rear blade. Worked okay on almost level slopes. Note, trying to dig going backwards is a bad idea, the 3 point is designed for going forward, not backward. Bought a small backhoe (Kubota B21.) Works better than the backblade but still slow. Next eventually...

Sorry for your loss. So much depends upon the quality of your insurance company and the type of coverage you had. I have been lucky we had wind take off half the roof of our horse barn and six months later rental property I had burned to the ground. My insurance company was fantastic and looked...

Plenty of professionally controlled controlled burns have gotten out of control. Houses and lives lost. I am not saying you are wrong but there is high risk. you do the best you can but no one can win when nature takes its upper hand especially unexpectedly.

As a past volunteer fire fighter, that looks scary

The MS “blue screen of death” takes on new meaning “To error is human, to really foul up takes a computer” — old IBM sign

AFAIK. R1 tires (ag tread) have relatively weak sidewalls compared to the rating of most modern loaders. Get a good load in the bucket and the front tires well be sagging. R4 tires (e.g. typical skid steer tires) have much stronger sidewalls, but traction suffers in mud etc.