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    How to transition to MIG?

    when transitioning to mig like me..............dont do this!!!:mur:
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    Big Brother - WW

    ok fellas..............here goes, my first attempt at welding mig with c25 gas and some stick welds with the same machine .30 wire and all auto settings the lincoln chose for me Left to right, first run was 1/8" 7018, next run was 1/8" 7014 - i didnt clean anything on that weld, total rust...
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    Big Brother - WW

    Hi All, I have been waiting for several years to pull the trigger and so i did. Tried to find a used with wty for a while and no one could produce a receipt for me to follow up with manufacturer to pursue a wty and with not being able to confirm devices I went with new. Rebate was helpful. I...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    10 degrees while cutting today and splitting with the collins axe ( 6lb fiberglass maul ) didnt have any trouble getting it or the stihl or the 2038 going - hands got cold a couple times tho
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    510B - cant get it to start

    saturday trivia = can you guess what is wrong with it?
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    1st regen experience

    2018 Deere 2038R 50 hours Mowing yard with 72" MMM Noticed funny smell, hot/burning - if you have been around equipment you know the smell of HOT no matter what it is Check gauges and all I see was white light with spray nozzle looking emblem. No words on info screen. All seems normal, no...
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    Sixteen Dollar Tractor Bridge

    here i one i rebuilt two summers ago, i was able to obtain old light poles for material then took them to a sawmill and they make them into 5 inch thick slabs to put down as the floor across the steel beams - this old bridge is on an abandoned road that connects land that used to be my mothers...
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    A/C experts - 5088 IH

    dad/mom drove the tractor over yesterday - i talked to Terry the repairman yesterday after mom/dad dropped it off, he has 90% of the items there and will tear into it over the weekend/first of the week barred no one has a crisis breakdown that interrupts, i never want my stuff to bump someone...
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    A/C experts - 5088 IH

    symptom - ran fine at idle - low pressure was 35 would drop to about 30 then back up to 35 - high pressure was running around 250 with a fluttering gauge using mac tools gauges for R134a, system was converted to R134a before i purchased it. I was only getting around 70 degree air out of it so...
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    Welding to FEL Bucket --- Gas or Arc?

    arc, i arc everything........have for years love my idealarc 250
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    Best way to clear unwanted trees from pasture

    i have dug them up with excavators, bradfords, western red cedar, elm, wild plum, oak, hickory, locust and they will all pull up dirt no matter what size machine you use the dirt will be wherever you leave the tree/stump - no way you can remove those size trees w/out making holes that will need...
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    Buying Advice Sick and tired of low quality riding lawnmowers

    the easiest way to answer that is the older garden tractors that people used for lawn mowers were all built heavier - lawn tractors are much cheaper, you used to be able to buy a craftsman/wards/gibson/ford/wheel horse/cub etc.... and they were 95% built for stout and going to last a LONG time =...
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    Best way to clear unwanted trees from pasture

    I had a large excavator/dozer come in and remove trees on 6 acres in our creek bottom, 90% were soft maple. My cousin signed it up for edge feathering/erosion control with the FSA office and in 10 yrs he never maintained it. I purchased the property last yr from him because he lives out of state...
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    Buying Advice Sick and tired of low quality riding lawnmowers

    Hi there ETD - I too have owned an LGT17H, and an LGT18H those were magnum kohler engines - they had eaton hydro pumps in them with tecumseh gears/rearends. I NEVER had a problem with either of mine, i then graduated to a GT75 - it was a 1997 and sold then with power steering, hydraulic lift on...
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    Ford LGT 16D tractor aka Shibaura

    i owned a GT75 Ford which is a japanese shibaura unit 16hp, never had any trouble getting parts from ford at all i sold it last yr it was trouble free outside of when i ran a stick into the belts that drive the pto pulley that went to the mower deck and i also had to put a seal in the mower...
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