Recent content by Panik

Been going through this, thankfully on a much smaller scale at work. I manage an animal collection for a municipal environmental education center that is primarily comprised of native reptiles. With our natural climate and the HVAC controls for the building heating and lighting the enclosures...

Sounds like you are on the right track in terms of getting a tractor. A little food for thought in terms of zero turn vs tractor mounted belly mower.... I have roughly 4 acres of old, terraced farm land on top of an older clay ridge for a yard. While it does have trees they are very minimal...

So.... to possibly stir the pot a bit. Roughly last year the Home Depot down in Rome, Ga started stocking a couple to three of these tractors out front their store. About the same time Summit Tractor put in a final assembly facility about 10 minutes south of Rome on 411. Tractors have been...

Cool new machine! I dearly wish my BX had come with remotes - for me a grapple and top n tilt would be the best additions I could ask for for my diesel powered wheel barrow. Maybe give yourself some time with the industrial tires on that machine. Mine came with turf tires and by the time they...

So I don't have any of those tooth bars from Bxpanded, though I do have a number of their other products, inclusive of their bucket expander, forks, and bolt on hooks. I have been very well satisfied with both the service, as well as the products I've purchased. That said, it would probably be...

So about 10 years I got sucked into reading a bunch about the high-end "every-day carry" trend. Thankfully, I didn't get drawn into the purchasing and accumulation part of that. However, it did lead me down memory lane and the flashlights dad had when I was growing up - at one point in the 80's...

Aww heck depending on what I'm throwing into the chili, I've gone as far as to add some dark brown sugar near the end of the cook to balance either the acidity and/or the flavor from the corn chips I use to thicken it. Tends to go well with the warm heat I like in my chili.

In a similar, but slightly off-topic comment I regularly add a good bit of either semi-sweet or dark chocolate to my chili and have used coffee as part of making sausage gravy for biscuits - they both add really good background depth and complexity to the flavor without being a recognizable...

Apologies for dropping out of sight/communication - things were a bit of blur trying to get stuff accomplished prior to my surgery yesterday. Wanted to drop by and thank everyone for their recommendations and support and let everyone know how it went. As compared to my last knee surgery...

I had been thinking of finding and cutting down an old rotary brush that you usually see used during road construction, but dang Amazon has cattle brushes of multiple diameters for very affordable prices... they just need a solid core of appropriate size to bolt to and attach a eye on. Again...

The cattle scratcher/broom concept is an amazing idea! Thanks for the suggestion - it sounds much more effective and world's safer than solid plug configurations for my purposes!

After the abortive attempts I jus posted about I purchased one of the following.... unfortunately with clay sediment and the amount of reach involved it's really hard to get any sort of bite on material unless it's already loosened up...

Ooof! Sorry to hear/see about getting the tractor stuck - have you been able to get unstuck yet? Your thread perked my interest as I have a similar issue going on with the dry drainage culverts that run under my shop road. - The tire+chain trick pretty easily clears leaves and debris, but does...

You're speaking my language here.... I bounce back and forth between honey and brown sugar with cream in my coffee depending on what we have in the house, but my preference is generally good dark brown sugar. I probably stumbled on that combo one morning when we were out of regular sugar years...

So the GMC I referenced in my earlier post was a Z71 - give some serious consideration to installing some suspension airbags. The install is pretty easy and they make reasonably affordable blue-tooth/compressor packages that allow you to change pressure on the fly from your cab. I bring it up...