Recent content by s1120

For anyone that is in the Albany NY area, Channle 10 news will be doing a story on my "builder" tonight at 6. I for one am pretty interrested in seeing what it's about. I will try to fill you all in later.

Well I have a front porch that REALY needs to have gutters on it. Just as a little flash to the house I was planning on going with copper. The porch is only like 15’ long, so the cost is not that much. Anyone ever work with them before? Any tips? My local home center has the stuff, but is...

Well, for those that don't know the story I will bring you up to speed. Had a house built, 15 months later we fire the builder, lots undone, some done bad, back and forth with lawyers for months. OK that sets it up. Well, things are starting to wrap up a little, and we were thinking of grading...

OK guys, I am at my wits end. We have three dogs, two are 11, and one is 13. I have a big problem. They will not sleep! The two younger ones wake up at between 1-4 am EVERY morning. It is not like they HAVE to go out. May take a quick leak, and run right back inside. If they go back to sleep...

WOW, Those are some big @#& turf tires! Good thing the tractor has power steering.

My 8N has an add on hydraulic system. The fluid in it now is a bit foamy, like it has some water in it, and when using the pump, it does cavatate a bit. Now I am planning on draining the system, and I am adding a filter, [this will be a thread later on this week. My first welding project on the...

This winter I am planing on rebuilding a motor. I am not sure what yet, but I have a few choices. Old Gravely engine from my walk behind brushcutter. Ford 8N motor from my new tractor, if the oil burning does not get better Old Ford 460 motor, that will go into my Convertible if I get the...

I stopped by my local dealer to get some parts yesterday, [one of those weeks where EVERYTHING breaks. Lawn was about 2'tall ]and saw an old MF 25 there. I had never seen one before. If looked like the old 35, and 65's but smaller. Anyone know anything about these? Looked to be inbetween a...

OK, just kind of thinking out loud here, but sence all my lawn mowers died this weekend, and the 8N is just sitting there doing nothing, I was kind of thinking a finish mower would be kind of neat to have right now. What size mower would an 8N run? I know I could use a 5' brushcutter, but what...

OK, it's only a drawbar, but still this is a big step for me. I had a lot of trees go down last week during the big storm we had, and have a few I need to drag out of the woods. Figured I would use the 8N, but had nothing to hook to. Now I know to not pull any thing to big, just a few small...

5\' cutter fits? I am shopping for a brush cutter for my "new" 8n, and have mostly settled on a 5ft cutter. Now my only fear is that this is my first real tractor, but it will not be my last. Now if the cutter lasts, how will it limit me on my next tractor? What kind of size range tractor will...

On Monday night, my little corner of the world had some REAL bad storms. They say there were tornados, but last I knew they have not confirmed that yet. Power was out from 8:30 Monday night, till 1:30am on Wednesday morning. It has not been a good couple days. My new house made out OK. No...

Anyone know if there are any aftermarket ROPS for the older tractors? I have an old 8N, and some of my land has some dips, and hills, and just woundering if anyone has ever seen, or had it on an old tractor. Ya, I know, if I want to be realy safe, I should get a newer tractor, but for now, that...

I have a strange problem. When ever I type up a post in Word, and transfer over to TBN, all the quotation marks, and apotrfy show up as a line of strange characters. It almost looks tike the computer is swearing at me. Is this normal with everyone? Is it just me? Am I doing something wrong...

Well, I am not sure, but it looks like I may have to do some grading around my new house. The rough grading is done, but it needs to be final graded, raked, and seeded for lawn. Now I am thinking a landscape rake will probably do the job, but I may have one problem. The back part of the yard is...