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    Why Can't Someone Make a Good 12' Batwing Cutter?

    Today I picked up a Indiana auto & RV advertising magazine. It has an 11' batwing Bush Hog in it for sale. Wouldn't you know it, I cannot find it again tonight. I think it was somewhere in MI. I wonder if it can be found easier on their website?
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    Massey 240 making oil!!!

    Faulty injector leaking fuel into cylinder. Fuel is so thin it easily passes the oil rings and drains into the crankcase.
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    Threaded dipstick

    It is for my 16HP Honda ZTR engine, the crankcase capacity is 1.3G. That ½" of threads makes the difference between full and low.
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    Checking filled tires pressure

    Filled tires should be checked with stem on the bottom; which requires a different air gauge. The normal fill is 70%. That is approx. level with the stem; completely filled is not good. Jack up that wheel position, then check air pressure. The usual air pressure is 18 PSI for a filled tire.
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    Is thirty years too long to keep a lawn mower?

    Giant VAC belts:
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    Is thirty years too long to keep a lawn mower?

    Would $43.22 ea. for belts be better? https://www.jackssmallengines.com/Products/GIANT-VAC/Belts
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    Anyone seen this attachment? What is it?

    Yep, they are still made and used today. 2020 Yetter 3541 Rotary Hoe - $19,900 | Machinery Pete Apparently some people call a 3-pt roto-tiller a rotary hoe: 2024 IRONCRAFT UM-56 Rotary Hoe - $2,720 | Machinery Pete
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    General intro to 'ground engagement'

    If you are positive of the area and design you plan to garden; I suggest you burn off everything growing there with a chemical spray the fall before you think about breaking ground. (like no-till planting) Grass sod is hard to turn and disc, plus it will regrow rather quickly after planting. It...
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    Resharpen or Replace

    I sharpen my lawn mower (ZTR) blades with my 4" angle grinder; don't balance them but once a season. The original 2002 blades lasted until 2023 cutting 1.5A. I don't mow rocks or sticks so the blade ends stay relatively square. Sharpening istructions say to sharpen the tip if it get rounded, as...
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    Rims

    Welcome! What about the rim? Do you need one or selling one?
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    1st time at my new property & 1st time ever brush-hogging - some lessons learned

    This mower has skid runners front to rear too, so it can ride on the ground without damage. The square deck increases tail-swing when mowing around things.
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    ugghhh .... more advice needed!

    Yup, Foxtail and Johnson grass are good cattle feed; but row-croppers bain.
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    Zero Turn mower for moderate slopes?

    The TRX is $17,999. I'd buy one if I hadn't just bought this 52HP tractor W/loader, bucket N forks.
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    Zero Turn mower for moderate slopes?

    That's only $2.2K less than the Commercial tracked Altoz.
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    Who knows about stacked-block retaining walls?

    LouNY_ yes. The landscape company accepted the job in July, didn't show up until after Jan 1. DW was ill so I didn't concern myself with the walls. MY BAD! Had I been thinking, I'd have told them forget the job and hired a different company that following spring. I don't care who or how...
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