Recent content by thorn

I have been using Linux for years. My wife uses Linux, she just needs a browser, email and documents and it works well. They only 2 programs that I use in windoze is Quicken and Adobe Lightroom sometimes specific programs for programming devices. The check book programs on Linux did not have the...

The one thing that worries me about EVs are the batteries, they can catch fire. This bus went up in flames fast.

I have a 2004 Prius that has 140,000 miles on it and it was our main car. I had to commute to a job further away for a while and got a 2017 Prius Prime which can go 30 miles on a charge. With incentives, it cost $23,000. Now I work at home. We drive it most of the time and get gas about once a...

I never had to adjust one before. There's a photo here: Clutch-Brake-1.125" Id 01001979P | Official MTD Part | Fast Shipping | PartSelect I see 3 nuts on it. There are some instructions in the manual: BBC (PTO Clutch) air gap should not exceed 0.025”, if so, adjust as follows: Ogura JD08...

OK, I'll take a look to see if one can adjust it and I'll check the voltage. I cut grass for over an hour yesterday and did fine without turning the blades off. Turned it off and it didn't want to come back on. I found them on line, $400-$800. Not cheap. Thanks!

Hi, I have a Cub Cadet 48" Tank zero turn that I've had for almost 20 years. I'm starting to have issues as it is getting older, stuck valve, hydraulic leak, bad relays, magneto etc. One problem I can't figure out is that as it warms up and I turn off the blades/PTO it will not always come back...

My parents bought a new 1976 Chevy pickup in the fall of 1975. It was garage kept most of the time and only used occasionally. It would sit for months at a time. I learned to drive in it. In 2000 my dad gave it to me and I used it on and off and was mostly in my garage or barn. It had 70,000...

I have a 1995 JD 870 and have always done maintenance and repaired it myself, it's never been to the shop. The biggest job was to replace the hydraulic hoses for the loader a couple of years ago. One failed and then a month later another so I replaced all of them, I guess they only last 25...

My late dad was an electrical engineer and learned to fix radios while he in the Navy during WW2 as a radioman (Morse code and tube radios back then). He continued to fix ours, relatives and friends electronics. In later years he was having a hard time finding ICs, they would probably have a...

My dad was driving to work on the highway when I full sheet of plywood came off a truck and the edge of the plywood just grazed the frame of the windshield and then went over his car. If it had hit the glass it would have probably come into the car and killed him. Another risk is bad drivers...

When I was in high school I worked on a dairy/horse farm for 2 summers in the late 70s. It was hard work. They had a thrower on the baler and a lot of times I would be the one in the hay wagon to stack the bales so we could get on more per load. Had to watch out for the flying bales! We put up...

The weather was great last week here in Maryland, we had 7 days of dry, sunny, low humidity weather. I was able to bale about 10 acres and got 37 bales. Should have cut the rest, but with my luck, the weather would have changed and only had a day of dry weather. :) I need to get a hay tedder...

I have a JD 5525 that I have had for about a year. A few months after I bought it and after it sat for a week or so it would start and then after 10 sec it would stall. I had the turn it over for about 30 sec and then it would start and run ok. The dealer had a recall for something else so they...