Recent content by YardBikeBob

How are your knees? I am 67 with a 40hp no-cab tractor losing the battle on 120 wooded acres in the MIssouri Ozarks. Wife is not the helper she once was. My tractor is great! I can (eventually) do anything! But what I'm usually doing is getting in and out of the tractor to adjust 'stuff' for...

If you're going to have a conditioned room inside your barn, I suggest that slab be a separate pour. Once concrete gets cold it stays cold. When planning your electrical requirements, I suggest a dedicated feed for a future EV charger. Yes, this could be shared with welding equipment. My...

Yes. It will be fine.

Don't overthink it. It is a Group 24 battery. Google isn't much use as group dimensions are "not greater than". Even the parts counter computers are not much help. Arm yourself with a tape measure and go to a store with a good battery selection. Here is one from O'Reilly with the part number of...

Husqvarna 125B Leaf Blower. When turning with cordless drill & plug out and grounded against fins, cannot get visible spark. What am I missing? 3 different coil packs (2 brand new). 3 different plugs. Continuity check on kill wires and switch (plus tried w/o kill switch wiring). Flywheel...

I'm preparing for my 500 hr service on my '13 R4041H. Perusing the manual it says valve clearance is 0.025 mm. I've never bothered to look at this. The diagram looks simple enough with a jamb nut over the pushrods. The valve cover is right there on top other than that fat exhaust thingy snakeing...

Here is something that doesn't happen every day. I awoke from my afternoon nap and glanced outside to see what the squirrels were doing to the bird feeder. Oops. That is a pretty big squirrel! The fellow seemed pretty content out there. I can peer into the bird feeder just like he does...

Scored an Oxy-Acetylene rig to compliment my wire welder. Motivation was to be able to heat & bend metal besides just welding. It came with a Prest-O-Lite W-250 torch with a #6 tip as well as a cutting attachment. What it did not come with was a rosebud for heating metal. Alas, the HF...

Thanks for making me think a little more. This is a good deal and I've found a no-brainer coupon. I really like the ability to shut the gas off and let the carb run dry. Don't look like the little one has that and a retrofit would be even money! Now to discard the smaller connections and...

I built a water tower to tend the wife's garden. Now that it is up, I need to make a decision on how to fill it with water. The pump must handle 20' of head lift. I've got a couple of questions: #1 is what to use for a pump. I can haul 250 gallons out to the tower on my tractor. At the start...

I thought I'd pass along some info on my new "Farm Implement." It is a Recoil by Textron Offroad. The farm has its share of other implements: 2 ATVs, some motorcycles, and an LS tractor. Day in and day out, the most-used implement over the last 5 years has been a standard golf cart. I am...

Doing a little construction involving concrete block. They come on pallets. 5 rows on a pallet. Each row has 18 blocks. Each block weighs 37 pounds. Thus a pallet weighs 3,330 pounds + the weight of the pallet. No SCUT can lift that on the loader. However, if you pull off two rows onto a Carry...

What is the prevailing wisdom (oxymoron?) on sharpening the blades on a rotary cutter? Yes, there is a pretty good 2-year old thread on this. It was time to mow again and I noticed the tips of growing grass looked more bludgeoned than cut previously. Time to look at the blade. It looked...

Okay, the OP was asking about box blades and you posted about your road grader. I was curious and clicked over to your link and saw a marketing picture of clean gravel being smoothed on a smooth path on flat ground. I just got a giggle in that their marketing picture conveyed little of anything...

How about a contrary view. What's the matter with Blue Poly? Years ago the excavation contractor liked anything over black poly. He said it grows brittle over time and leaks. And leaks were hard to fix as the pipe would split when trying to splice. He recommended PVC for short runs and blue...