All good advice above - with thin flagstone (in PA with the freaky weather) I/we would put the stone in a mortar bed - make it 4-5 inch thick and work it to level that you want, the mortar will dry & draw the moisture out of the flagstone.
this will greatly help with frost heave but not...
Ultrarunner,
Yeah, no power would be a problem - can't ditch pipe to daylight as the elevation is too low & I dont think my neighbor who owns the property I'd have to evacuate out onto would like that, as well I have Electrical id have to ditch under.
I'm trying to put the door in to have all...
My current project, I have dug it down more & had to switch over to the front loader hoe to reach down deeper, now I have around 25+ tons of dirt on the side to deal with - LOL, gonna put versa Loks on each side to retain and paver walk with versa lok steps - this will be an all summer job, im...
Well, last I posted the Kohler engine was giving me some issues so i decided to put a new power plant in the machine. HF was having a great sale on the 22 hp Predator motors so for $849 I bought one. this required some modification to the "firewall" area of the machine, some longer Hyd hoses a...
I just did my above ground pool last year - I did the grading (yes to 1 inch actually out 1/2 at the most), electrical, pool bonding, etc.. everything except build the pool.
The guys from pool city came to check my grading & were impressed to the point of recommending me for a few jobs. when...
agjones,
how did the love joy connectors hold up or how are they holding up? I looked into those & the horsepower/RPM rating with the elastometric spider failures caused me to go a different direction.
Mine is basically a 5000 (4800 with upgrades) how did you deal with the hood & grill, as I...
This female splined shaft, good luck finding that.
I can't complain I mean 20 plus year old engine and I didn't baby it. So its been awesome.
There is a guy I found online who makes that shaft on kohlers but the engine is $3200 plus S&H and comes with no muffler, I'd rather get the guy in...
I have a seep in the rear seal, its not to bad - ill keep an eye on it and replace it when weather breaks.
Hopefully the seal is not some special thing, I doubt it and will order one to have on hand
haven't posted in a long time, recently I had some issues & thought I'd share, over the past year or so I've noticed the Kohler command 25 would just shut off in the middle of working, jiggle a few wires & bam fires up and runs well. next day try to start & no go, jiggle some wires and off to...