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Probably not the worst idea possible given that it's a diesel tractor, but please don't let her/them ride on the Cub Cadet with a gasoline engine. SWMBO is an RN, and during her training, she cared for a man who was severely burned when his gas-engined lawn tractor caught fire. The whole time...

We have and use plastic pallets found for free at the local electronics recycler. We split our wood onto them into used grain bags [pallet-sized] sourced for free from a feed factory, which although they're not great for evaporation, but if you put dry wood in them and cover them, it stays dry.

This is a similar discussion re: pilot holes: https://practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/when-to-use-pilot-hole-before-drilling.354924/

All of the above, using slow bits speeds, hardened/sharpened drill bits, and some [almost any] kind of lubrication are helpful. There is one other thing that no one, except the OP mentioned [in passing] at least as far as I have read so far, was that drilling a pilot hole really eases the whole...

We originally had a DOT-grade sign post welded into a heavy-duty truck rim, which we filled level with steel-reinforced concrete. Unfortunately, our propane driver [an apparent new-hire] backed over it, and absconded with it to hide the evidence. We replaced it with a 55-gal poly barrel...

I meant it as it's too late [for me and more than a few other TBN members] to buy something other than the "Horror Fright" QH, since we have already bought them.

Oh no, too late!

Could you please share the dimensions?

Please see my last post...

I beg to differ, our woodshed has never been even close to fully enclosed, but when we had snow on the roof, on a day where the air temps were warmer than freezing, the cold roof condensed moisture from the warmer air and it rained in the woof shed. Conversely, when we had our pole barn...

Do you end up using the rippers often? Also, have you ever needed to adjust the cutting edge depth? Thanks, PA

Neat, but missing my favorite- Red Satins...

There's a reason the docs call them organ donors. I saw a lot of road rash scrubbed out of 'em in my ER days. I had to scrub and pick telephone pole splinters [and creosote] out of the arms, legs, and chest of a lineman who took a slide down a pole once- his spikes kicked out and he fell...

In the late 80's, I bought and restored an [IIRC] '79 Kawasaki KZ-750 twin, as a noob rider, I had to hold on like the dickens when I opened it up because of the draft, at least until I put a fairing on it, then the backdraft it actually pushed me forward into the bike. That bike had serious...

Cats and Birds: A Bad Combination Outdoor domestic cats are a recognized threat to global biodiversity. Cats have contributed to the extinction of 63 species of birds, mammals, and reptiles in the wild and continue to adversely impact a wide variety of other species, including those at risk of...