Recent content by NCL4701

Checked the location on your profile to see if you live around the corner from me. You don’t, but same situation here. My friends with acreage have the tractors and equipment to maintain it. I doubt I’d have much in common with a land owner that hired everything out. Friends without acreage...

We had two older tractors without hour meters, a Farmall H and Ford 9N, both of which have no telling how many hours on them. Both are on their second engine rebuild. They were semi-adequate for the property I grew up on but inadequate for the steep, hilly 70 acres of trees, meadows, 1/2 mile...

I have nothing against safety devices but from the perspective of having investigated such incidents for a bit over 3 decades, CHILDREN coming into ER’s and morgues due to mower and equipment injuries is 100% related to improper supervision and care of children. Those types incidents are...

I’ll once in a while loan a tool, but nothing I’d get so upset over it would ruin the relationship if I never saw it again. If I “loan” equipment I go with it, and that does happen semi-routinely. Even if I trust the borrower to treat it well and return it timely it’s quite rare I’d trust them...

Had an old creek crossing that was barely wide enough for the Mule. Even though the L4701 isn’t huge, it scraped both sides going through and all that meant there was only one set of wheel tracks. Add the milkshake mud in the bottom and it just wasn’t much of a crossing. Decided to widen it and...

If I’m online, I call my rough cut rotary mower either a “rotary cutter” or refer to it by its actual moniker, “Howse 500”, in recognition of both those who obsess over semantics rather than communication and in recognition of the variance in colloquial terms from one locale to another. I also...

Speaking as an owner of a Mule Pro MX EPS, if you bought it for maximum top end speed, you bought the wrong machine. If you bought it for hauling people and stuff more for work/maintenance type things, probably a good choice. And the speedometer can display in kph or mph. Mine was kph when...

Congratulations! Have the same machine aside from ours is green and no roof on our roll cage. It has been an excellent and reliable tool for moving people and stuff. Capably fills a niche the tractors and trucks don’t address well. Easy on fuel and low impact even on soft ground.

Yeah, I was kind of shocked first time I was subpoenaed as a witness. Deputy just called to serve me. I asked him if he didn’t have to show up to hand me a paper or send via certified mail or something like serving a warrant or civil complaint. He said nope, just call. I asked him if he got hurt...

Aware it’s a difficult position to be in. Several years ago, I was part (not all) of the reason an elderly gentleman with Alzheimer’s lost his license and insurance after he attempted to drive 4 miles north of his house to a hardware store in the small rural community to pick up some screws and...

If they drive drunk, high, recklessly, hit & run… If they’re doing that on the same roads I drive on, that IS my business. If they’re doing whatever on their own property (if they want to emulate Whistlin’ Diesel or get drunk or crazy or whatever OFF public roads) not my business. Bring it...

I thought you might be describing my local JD dealer but then saw you’re in Texas. Must not be unique to one dealer group.

For some dealers it isn’t the technology involved in the communication, the lack of response to internet and email inquiries is just an extension of their lack of response to customers in general. One of the reasons I have a Kubota is when I walked into the local JD dealer with a $60K cash...

At some point there’s a good chance something on my computer laden DPF tractor will exceed my capabilities. So far, I had them put on rear remotes. Might could have done that myself but for the cost, I preferred they do it and no issue trailering it 25 miles and back. If it’s within my realm of...

Several years spent making a living working for a tree service climbing, cutting, trimming trees. A few decades investigating causation of ag and industrial accidents since then. Couldn’t make it through the whole video. Looked like it was prepared for a campaign to require training and...