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Happy 2000 Hours! Well Jinman.. I still owe you that picture of Micky Mouse "The Steer".. he's a lot bigger now.. pushing 1000lbs. I passed the 2000 hr mark last week.. I might of hit it in 2005 but the doctor grounded me for several weeks after I had emergency surgery the Sun. before...

Seems after a hard day of tilling my PTO will still spin even after being disengaged.. w/ enough torque to still spin the tines on the tiller. Is there an adjustment for the engagement/disengagement of the PTO.. from just looking.. I didn't see any. Maybe it's time to send the tractor to...

A farmer that did some round bales for me this Wed. went to school w/ this guy.. the tractor & baler were running. Kenneth F. Spielman, 65, of Union Bridge died Tuesday after he became trapped between his farm tractor and the attached round bailer. According to the Frederick County...

Well after 25 manure spreader loads on the fields Sat... I tried to cut the smell down for the neighbor's by plowing it all under. I was plowing for a while and having trouble..one of the plows tips had broken off. I thought I keep going.. but after one plows re-tripped.. it wouldn't lock...

I recently filled up at a service station on my way home from work.. about a mile away from home.. my car started missing like I had water in the tank. I spent 1/2 hour trying to start my car the next morning. The next day or so I noticed they had all the pumps closed at the station. The...

\"The Polar Express\" Boomer Today's the last day to enter.. just go to NH's web site!

Frederick County Maryland. In the paper this weekend.. farmer was raking hay.. had 3 year old boy sitting in his lap. Tractor hit a ground hog hole.. the boy ended up under rear tire.. farmer reversed tractor to free child. The boy was still alive.. died later at hospital. I'm sure...

I was helping out my next door dairy farmer yesterday by digging out a manure pit and loading into his wagon when I looked down and saw the hour gauge was at 1002 hours! Dang.. I missed it.. I guess I hit the 1000 hours earlier in the morning when I was cleaning up my own farm's manure & old...

Well it's Sunday.. the last day of the 4 day New Year's holiday... Thurs. I sharpened the chainsaw & cut up a half a dozen or more trees I had dragged to the barn.. I spent the entire Friday hauling dirt w/ the FEL to fill in a low spot by the house... Sat. I hit the feed store and planted 25...

I wonder if she was on her cell phone when it happened.. she said she didn't see him.. he was holding a red/white stop sign getting horses across the road. http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/display.htm?storyid=30360

This was just listed today.. be careful downing those trees! Occupation Fatalities per 100,000 Timber cutters 117.8 Fishers 71.1 Pilots and navigators 69.8 Structural metal workers 58.2 Drivers-sales workers 37.9 Roofers 37 Electrical power installers 32.5 Farm occupations 28...

Has anyone else seen this site.. seems to cover a broad area of farm hazzards & safety. http://www.farmsafety.ca/factsheet-e.shtml

BOONSBORO, MD, July 17 - A town worker in Boonsboro was almost killed when the tractor he was driving flipped over. It happened around 7:00 A.M. Thursday morning on the town farm in Boonsboro. The employee, Kennith Eshbaugh was bush-hogging or mowing a field along a stream embankment...

ROCKY RIDGE -- A 72-year-old man cutting the grass on a Bollinger Road farm was killed Wednesday when he became pinned under an older model Ford tractor, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said. Warren Hoover Keefer Jr., whose 73rd birthday would have been Thursday, was found by his wife...

I have seen & read multiple posts regarding 3pt hitch damage.. most seem to be caused by using boxblades in reverse.. hitting a stone or a stump. This problem.. for some reason.. just seemed to stick in my head.. and I been thinking of a low cost.. after market solution. Has anyone ever seen...