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I remember the first time I remember becoming emotional and that was in 1957 when I saw the movie Old Yeller. Ever since than I have been careful not to watch a movie where the dog dies. As I got older and tougher I thought I could take anything that life dished out. About 15 years ago I went...

I bush hogged for a couple of hours on my L4400 and raised the bush hog up to move to a different location. When I pushed the right hand lever to let the bush hog down, it stayed up and won't move. I am not familiar with the workings of the 3 point but looking at it the lever turns a shaft on...

The Gulf of America is surrounded by 2 countries. Both the United States and Mexico are in North America so they can both lay claim to the name. If Mexico is so insistent on having waterways named after it, they should ask for the Gulf of California to be renamed the Gulf of Mexico because it...

I bought this 2012 Ford F150 new and have had it all this time without ever seeing this before. I just saw it today for the first time and don't know what the heck it is. I am too lazy to look for the manual to see if it is in there because I know there is someone on this forum that knows and...

I rather post this computer question here than on a computer website because we have many computer experts on TBN and they usually give me a better answer in layman's terms that are easier for me to understand. I am replacing an old computer for my wife and having problems with the new one I...

I have a Taurus 9mm G3C and am trying to find out if a G3 magazine fits it.

Yesterday I started getting over 100 emails a day, from mostly Russian and Chinese websites, showing that someone is trying to check into these sites using my email address and saying they lost the password and trying to reset the password. If they happen to get to a site that I am registered...

I was cutting grass when it suddenly killed. It starts fine but if I move either handle to make it go it kills in a couple of seconds. It only runs with the handles fully extended apart. Another thing I noticed: It will now start without pushing down on the brake pedal and the brake pedal feels...

I have stands of Roseau cane on both sides of my wood fence making it very difficult to cut and unable to burn it. I have tried Roundup in various strength and it has not fazed it. I need something I can spray on it without cutting it or burning it. Some of the choices are 2,4-D, Crossbow...

I will be reading a long story or watching a long video and when I start getting close to the end, this McAfee popup comes on my screen blocking it. There is no way to get it off except hitting control, alt, delete and using Task Manager to close the browser. Then you have to restart the browser...

All the Chinese restaurants in this area make Chinese BBQ rib or Chinese BBQ pork appetizers the same way, or at least they taste the same. This is one of my favorite appetizers so I wanted to make my own. I Googled Char Siu recipe and got dozens of recipes and they are all different. I tried...

I've been getting Cox cable internet for about 30 years and they have been raising prices every year. Usually about $5 more a month each year but this year I just got a $66 increase. That's about a 60% increase. I need high speed internet for my home business and this one is called a 1000mb...

My ZD326 was laid up for a couple of weeks while I repaired the fuel gauge and with the hot weather and lots of rain we have been having my grass grew rapidly and was a lot higher and thicker than usual. I also have a mulcher on it which makes it even harder to cut tall grass. I bought 2 new cup...

My main gas gauge on my ZD326 stopped working and stays all the way down on empty. I suppose the float in the tank is at fault. How hard is this to repair or replace?

If the price was low enough for you to easily afford, would you book a flight into outer space or undersea, such as the ill-fated Titanic one? As much as I would like to if the price was low enough, I think I value my last remaining years too much to take such a chance.

I bought a new outter and a new inner air filter element for my L4400. I had never changed the inner element before. I tried to pull the inner element straight off and could not budge it. I'm not as strong as I used to be so I got a younger, stronger neighbor to help me. He could not budge it...

A few days ago I had to log in for the first time in ages. I check the "stay logged in" box but every day when I return I have to log in again. What gives?

I am posting this for my next door neighbor. He has a fairly new Kubota 3910 and was bush hogging when his tractor suddenly stopped. Checking it, he saw that the lower radiator hose had been pulled off and there was no water in it. He said he had been watching the temperature gauge and it hadn't...

Ever since they started selling health insurance for pets, veterinarians have started charging as much as the insurance companies will pay making it even harder for people with no pet insurance to be able to afford a vet. In my area I am no longer able to get a vet out for my horses because all...

Tires were getting old on my Genesis GT Coupe so I decided to get some new ones. I shopped all around and the cheapest prices I could find for the tires and having them installed was at Sams. I had to special order them because they didn't have the ones I wanted in stock. They phoned me a few...

A couple of my cylinders are dripping just enough to mess up the concrete pad it's parked on. It's not a major leak, just bothersome, and not bad enough for me to buy new cylinders. Is there any "stop leak" for these cylinders that is safe to use in my Kubota? I know I have used brake fluid in...

My young Mille Fleur hen laid a strange egg today. She has been laying steadily for the last month with eggs about half the size of a normal egg but this egg is very much smaller and I have never seen one like this. Have you?

Anyone who watched the commercials in the 2nd quarter of the Super Bowl must have seen the M&M (Ma & Ya) commercial and thought "this is going to be the biggest flop since New Coke". CLAMS?? Clams in the new M&Ms? Not even ET would go for that. Would you eat an M&M with clams in it? This...

This is a hypothetical question. (sort of) Let's suppose that you are fairly old and have no close relatives left. You worked very hard all your lifetime and were conservative spending and have amassed a nice savings. Let's just say around $1,000,000 which is not very much nowdays. Your health...

It's amazing the technology that advertisers can come up with nowdays to sell their products. I looked at a long handle shoe horn online to make it easier to put my shoes on. After that, the next 2 ads that popped up on my computer were evidently objects that resembled the shoe horn I purchased...

I'm not paying $250 for a Kubota battery. Who knows of a good replacement battery that will fit in a zd326. My original battery is 9"Length, 4 5/8" Wide and 8 3/4" High. 475 CCA.

I notice Muhammad joined March 21, 1998 so I "assume" that is when this forum started. Just wondering who some of our longest current (someone who has posted in the last year) members are.

These were taken in a police raid. I am not familiar with the gun in the lower right corner. Can you tell me anything about it?

For many years after I started driving in the 1960s, diesel was cheaper than gas. In later years, diesel was changed to help the environment and it got to be 5 0r 10 cents a gallon higher than gas for quite a few years. Lately, it has gone crazy. Today, gas at the stations I usually go to is...

I bought this 6 acre property 10 years ago with intentions to use it for a different purpose. Things came up and we were unable to use it for that purpose and have rented it out since then. I am getting older now and would like to make my life simpler, not having to worry about taking care of...

Many years ago as I was growing up you could not go a block without seeing a Japanese plum tree, a celeste fig tree, or a cooking pear tree (all local names) in someone's front yard. In the back yard they had a mirliton vine and a blackberry bush in the far corner. If they liked gardening, they...

I needed new tires on my 1995 F250 and Sams Club was the first place I looked because they usually have the best prices and the tire installation kit, including everything, is only $20 a tire. They were out of the size tires I needed and it would be 2 weeks to order them so I went online to...

I went to replace my headlights and I saw this wire dangling that I had never noticed before. I bought the truck new so it is not aftermarket and I don't know what it is. Since it is a 120 volt plug the only think I could even think it might be is a heater for the diesel but it is not mentioned...

About 10 years ago I burned out a headlight in my 1995 Ford F250 diesel and wanted something brighter so I installed HID 6000K headlights. I probably don't drive it at night or with the headlights on 25 hours in a year. I tried everything I knew how to do but could not get the lights aimed...

My wife ordered one of those boxes of supposedly undeliverable items from Amazon and this was in it. Three circular items in various sizes, hard shiny plastic on the inside and rubber coating on the outside. The largest one is about 12 inches in diameter. I told her I would find out on the...

Time Line: 400,000 BC 1000 A.D. 1800 1945 Tomorrow This is how it feels to be depressed.

I went to Sam's Club .com to order more dog food to pick up and they were out. So I went to Walmart.com to order instead. The same bags that I have been paying $21 for are, what, $111.00? I am hoping that this is a misprint and not an actual price. I would have to feed my dogs nutria meat if...

When I get up in the morning and go to my computer it says it has no internet connection. When I restart my computer it works fine. If I go off for 8 hours and come back home, same problem. Every time I leave my computer for about 8 or more hours it loses the internet connection and it takes me...

It was back in the early 1980s when prices started skyrocketing just like they are doing right now in 2022. The difference is that the gov't is saying we just have a 7% inflation rate while everything we buy is 2 or 3 times what it was a year ago. In the early 1980s I put $20,000 in a 5 year CD...

When I replaced a battery over 40 years old in my multi-meter I thought that might be close to being a record. I was wrong. The battery in the story below is over 180 years old and still going. Oxford University has a bell that has been ringing since 1840. For at least 180 years, an...

Just wondering. My hydraulic hoses on my frontend loader on my Kubota take a lot of beating pushing down trees and piling them up and clearing woods. I usually wind up breaking them by a fitting and rarely have them just wear out although some of them look so bad after a few years you would...

When I log in I check STAY LOGGED IN but the next day I have to log in again. This just started happening about a month ago. What changed?

I had a thread on here a little over a year ago about IRS wanting me to pay thousands of dollars in back taxes because they made a mistake in checking my return. Using search I have been unable to find that thread to respond to it so I am starting a new thread. When they checked my 2019 taxes...

I started this thread for all of those who have taken my thread "What teams will play in the next Superbowl?" off topic and may get it shut down. Please post your anti-NFL remarks here instead of the other thread.

After screwing me for years I got rid of AT&T and got a different phone provider. Just to put the screws to me the last time, they sent me a gift card for $1.45 for my final settlement instead of a check which I could have deposited in the bank. It isn't the money, it's the idea of the thing. I...

Does your 3 point post hole digger dig down 3 feet straight without moving your tractor forward or backward? I use treated 4x4s for my fence posts and I dig a hole with a 4" diameter bit. Since the 4x4 is square it will not go down in the round hole without pushing it down with my fel full of...

Since this is an unusual part time business it can't be valued by the usual methods found on the web and the owner is having difficulty figuring out how much to ask for it. Here are the details he is willing to share. He works an average of one hour a day, 7 days a week. Sometimes he takes off...

How do I get the plans for it?

After reading the thread "What is the best dog you ever had?" that I am enjoying so much I thought that this would also be a decent thread. I have nothing to input to it because all my dogs have always been the best but I am sure that many of you have had a dog that fit in this thread well. So...

This is the third time this year this has happened in Indianapolis: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2021/04/16/fedex-shooting-indianapolis/7249099002/?utm_source=n2k%2041621&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=5971

The first season of The Last Ship was thrilling and I never missed an episode. It was realistic and in a way may have predicted the pandemic we are having today. The second season was OK but it seemed to go downhill after that. Script writing must be awful hard after a few seasons trying to keep...

Members are reading the thread in Related Topics named TBN STICKERS and asking about how to buy or win some TBN merchandise. I told them about the 2,000,000 post contest back in 2010 and how it wound up raising $1000 for a great charitable cause thanks to the generous TBN members and your kind...

I just spent way more money than I should have buying some of that highly advertised new ceramic auto polish. I have tried about 6 different kinds of auto waxes on my car and not really being able to tell any difference between the cheaper ones and the more expensive ones. My car looks very good...

The thread about the Chrysler turbine cars made me think about this. I would love to have that Chrysler but the top 3 vintage cars I would love to have right now are all 1957 models. First would be the Studebaker Golden Hawk, then the Ford Skyliner and then the DeSoto Adventurer. I know there...

My tractorbynet icon in my favorites on my Edge browser has a small red dot by it. Neither my Firefox or Internet Explorer browser have that dot. Does anyone else have it or know why it exists?

Spring is on the way and I am about to order some more baby chickens to replace my dwindling stock. Day old chickens are running about $4 each and I will surely lose some before they are 2 weeks old. Then I have to feed and nourish them for months and have all the pleasures of preparing them to...

Most people know a lot more about routers than I do. All I know is they are working great or not working great. I have an old Netgear N900 router. It's the third one I've had, each time, one a little more expensive and barely any difference. My problem: My bedroom TV is 35' from my router with 4...

We just had our first boiled seafood dinner of the year. It's not crawfish season (my favorite season) yet so the Louisiana wild crawfish are a little small yet but I managed to pick out the biggest ones and gobble them down before I took this photo. The Louisiana blue crab was seasoned well and...

My sister in law in her 80s has moved out of state and is trying to sell a 9 acre plot of land she used to live on in Louisiana. Her son lived on the property for the last 20 years and was a junk collector. The property is full of old Mobile homes, travel trailers and many tons of junk with...

OK, my wife and I are bored. We've been sitting around all year with nothing to do because of the virus. We're dying to get out and do something. We worked all our lives and saved up to see the world when we retire. Now we're retired and love cruising but there are no cruises this year and at...

I'm inviting readers to give me their timed expectations of how long my new sign will last before it is stolen or completely destroyed. The winner will win the envy of all of his TBN competitors. My property extends from the River Road back one mile and through woods and over railroad tracks to...

I built my present barn 20 years ago and have never had an electrical problem except when lightning hit the cable for my surveillance camera that runs from my barn over 1000' to my house and burned up the camera. I went to my barn Sunday and saw a line of ants running up to and into my panel of...

I just had 2 contractors working on my property today and feel like they gave me reasonable prices for the work they are doing. One is doing fence work and the other is doing concrete work expanding my driveway apron which was too narrow to easily get trailers into the driveway. The concrete...

There isn't much to do nowadays with the virus closing everything up. One of my few enjoyments is reading TBN and hearing comments and advice from all my friends here. Unfortunately, everyone isn't interested in obeying the rules of the forum and is more intent on trying to prove how their...

My father was born in 1893 and was a disabled veteran of World War I. He was exceptionally brilliant and worked his way through Tulane University. Besides teaching himself how to speak several different languages and even sing opera in foreign languages on the radio he was constantly inventing...

I got this on eBay. One for each tractor.

I guess I have poor circulation in my hands because even on a slightly cool day my right hand is freezing while I am holding my mouse while using my computer. I did have a gooseneck lamp with a high intensity bulb that I put right over my mouse but it would burn the top of my hand before it...

It is a slow day in the small Wyoming town of Creekbend, and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit. A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the...

In these times it seems like everything we read is bad or sad. We need one happy thread to cheer us up. Help me out guys. No downer replies on this thread. I'll start it off with a few. * I'm thankful that my teenage bride and I are still together after 55 years. * I'm thankful that I have a...

Now that the gov't is adding $600 a week to unemployment benefits many people will be getting up to and even over $1000 a week for staying home instead of going to work. There are millions of job openings right now and employers are unable to fill them because who wants to go to work for $600 or...

Why don't they come in metric measurement drives in countries that use the metric system? :confused::confused:

Personally, I love cruising and would hate to see any of the cruise lines go out of business but.....I see that the cruise lines are asking America for billions of dollars in aid to help them with their losses due to Corona virus. These ships are registered in the Bahamas, Panama, Liberia and...

My barn is 1/4 mile from my house on my property and years ago I installed a surveillance camera in my barn so I could keep an eye on my pregnant mare and I ran coax cable to a small tv in my house. The camera hooked up to an RF Modulator that you could set to watch it on either channel 3 or 4...

When I bought my 2013 Genesis Coupe I broke down and bought the extended warranty for the first time since it was made in Korea and I knew parts were going to be expensive. The Coupe had a 5 year or 100,000 mile warranty on everything and a 10 year engine, drive train warranty. The extended...

The first new TVs I bought about 50 years ago would work for maybe 6 months before they broke and we would take all the tubes out and bring them to the drugstore to test them on their tube tester. Replacing a tube would usually fix the TV for a couple of months till it broke again. Today, TVs...

I saw these on Amazon a while back while looking for something else and now I don't remember the proper name to search for them. I need to buy some for my joystick. They have threads on 4 sides so you can mount the joystick facing up or out. What's their name?

I am excavating with my backhoe and the ground is a very sticky brown clay. I get a scoop of clay and go to dump it and it won't come out of the bucket. I hold the bucket upside down and hit it with a maul and it does no good. I shake it a little but am worried about hurting my cylinders or...

Only in Louisiana. In wild encounter, woman bites testicles of Tiger Truck Stop camel to escape, officials say | News | theadvocate.com Hope her husband never sits on her.

Better check the link soon because I have a feeling it won't be active for long. https://neworleans.craigslist.org/grd/d/new-orleans-reel-cheap-fence-for-sell/6897347107.html

You have seen some of these already but it is an interesting article. 5 Odd Tractors You Don't See Everyday - Mentertained

This is one of my few original creations. Unique and a special taste treat for someone who has never eaten persimmons before. We had some friends over for dinner and my persimmons were finally ripe enough to pick and I had to decide what to do with them. None of them had ever eaten persimmons...

My prediction is the New Orleans Saints and the New England Patriots with the Saints winning, of course. The Saints are really hyped up this year and are capable of beating any team. The only teams that I am afraid they could lose to are ones like Cincinnati or Atlanta that they are favored to...

I found this in my old barn. It looks like it says NATIONAL SAFETY on it with a number 16. It's almost flat with the end curved up that has 16 on it. So, what is it? :confused:

I can't just let him go without mentioning something about him. I've been a member of TBN for many years but he had his own life and never posted here. I was just 20 when my son was born and had never had much money since my father was a disabled veteran. I wanted my son to have things I never...

I am getting over 75 spam emails daily from these long fake email addresses. I can block these addresses but it does no good because every day they change to a different address. The fake email addresses they use are usually 40 to 50 digits long like this one...

Or are we making the world a safer place for them? For the first time in many years I went by the playground that I used to play in a half century ago. We had a huge sliding board about 12 feet high, pretty steep and it ended in a water puddle if it had rained lately. We slid down it forward...

Reading N80's post about his pine log inspired me to ask the forum if my pecan log is worth anything. I hate top just cut it up for firewood if it might be usable for some other purpose. It is about 24 feet long and roughly 18" thick. There is a slight bend at the 12' mark and cutting it there...

Hi TBN fans. Right now I am on a cruise ship heading to Miami trying to outrace Irma. They will reach Miami Thursday morning and let people off who want to get off though they will have trouble getting flights or car rentals out of Miami. Then we will leave Miami ahead of Irma and head to...

In southeast Louisiana tornadoes are pretty rare so I wasn't prepared to see this as I traveled on a long bridge across Lake Pontchartrain. A funnel cloud started dropping down out of the dark clouds ahead. Then another one and then another one. Then they started touching down in the waters...

This coon has been raiding my chicken coop for 3 weeks now, eating their feed and eggs and chicks. I have set multiple traps, 2 kinds of coon traps and a coyote trap and he keeps getting out. My game cam keeps track of his escapades and shows me how he gets out and I work on my traps to...

Frequently after I read a post and hit the back button to go back to the previous page, it will not go back. I have to go to my favorites and click on TractorByNet and then go to the forum I want to view. At the page bottom it will say "waiting for aniview.hs.llnwd.net..." when it won't go back...

How rural can you get? But, your tractor will be of no use here. The bid is up to $15,000 right now. GSA Auctions, General Services Administration, Government Site for Auctions

I have many flashlights that use 18650 rechargeable batteries. My chargers hold one or two batteries. Each flashlight holds one battery and the batteries will be in different states of discharge. If I put one battery in the charger that is about 50% charged and one that is about 10% charged...

As I am in the process of remodeling my house, I have many things listed for sale on eBay and Craigslist that we no longer need. One that I have listed is Antique Cast Iron ornate victorian Fireplace Surround, Summer insert and I got a reply to it and am wondering if the person who sent me this...

The minimum coverage for liability insurance in Louisiana is $15,000. If you get in a minor wreck it seems like lawyers will just go for the quick settlement of $15,000 if that is all the insurance that you have. But, if you have a large policy, they see that as a goldmine and immediately the...

Once again I ask my TBNers to help me with a problem unrelated to tractors. I have 2 security cameras in my barn. One has an RF modulator set to channel 3 and the other has an RF modulator set to channel 4. My barn is 1000' from my house with 1 cable running to it. Either camera will work well...

I had to move a dozen livestock panels about 500' across a muddy pasture. Since I had no forks and wanted to do it the easiest way, I improvised. A little ingenuity goes a long way. I was able to lift 6 at a time so only had to make 2 trips and could load and unload them automatically.

I'm cleaning out my attic and found this but I don't know what it is. It is about 18 inches long.

I usually get better and faster computer advice from TBN members than I do on computer forums so maybe you can help me with this problem. I am trying to view the newest Google map of my property since I made some changes. If I view Google maps on Firefox, Internet Explorer or Edge I get a map...

Yesterday I had to put down my favorite horse of all times, Mitey (Mighty) Golden Tally that I had her whole life, 27 years. It was the hardest thing that I have ever done. We have showed in so many horse shows, ridden in many team pennings, Mardi Gras parades, trail rides and had so many...

A large branch fell off a pecan tree during a storm and landed on my horse trailer and shack. I can repair my shack but it is nearly impossible to find any place that will do body work on an aluminum horse trailer. The only suggestion I have had is to bring it back to the manufacturer in...

On my cheap-o Harbor Freight air compressor, a compression nut broke on the tubing that runs from the compressor to the tank. This appears to be 10 mm copper tubing and I need to get a female compression nut and ferrule. I have found distributors that sell them by the thousand but can't find...

It's been so long since I got out of school, I can't remember how to solve this problem. I can't even remember if its geometry, trigonometry or whatever. Maybe its early Alzheimer's? Please help me find out how many square feet this is.

I have a Genesis Coupe with 16,000 miles on it. The tires still look like new. I went to get an oil change yesterday and they said my tires needed to be rotated. I asked them how they would rotate them and they said the usual way, which includes moving the rear tires to the front etc. I...

I ran over a tree branch on the ground and it hit the tailpipe on my L4400 and broke the exhaust manifold in half. I don't even have a dent in my muffler or tailpipe. I'm trying to find out if I have an extremely strong muffler and tailpipe or a very weak cast iron exhaust manifold.

I don't even know the proper name for this plant but it amazes me at how fast they can grow. They are not even showing out of the ground in the evening and the next morning they are over a foot tall. They are very pretty when they are fresh but they do not last long before they wilt.

I know that magnetism is involved but it is not just magnetism because you can't make an item float with just magnetism. Either it won't move or it will stick to the magnet. When this is unplugged, the orb won't float no matter how hard you try, but the top of it will stick to the top of the...

I have to drill 40 quarter inch holes through 1/4" angle iron with a hand drill. I've tried most of the different drill bits that Home Depot sells and they usually get too dull to drill after 2 holes. Is there a better drill bit I can buy or am I doing something wrong in the way I am drilling?

I caught two young coon in my chicken yard today. They appear to be about 6 weeks old and they were born tail-less. I'm keeping my eyes out for the mother because I want to see if she is tail-less too. Anyone ever see a coon with no tail before? And no, they weren't cut off. The rear is...

I bought a new ZD326 60" with a mulching kit. Naturally, you have to mow a little slower with a mulching kit since the grass is getting mulched under the mower instead of just being thrown out. So far I am very satisfied with my mower but with our heat and heavy rains in south Louisiana the...

I was in Las Vegas at the Rio Casino and spotted the Tractor Bar with this antique tractor on display. Nope, I don't know what kind it is.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the record 18" of rain we got in 6 hours in Jefferson LA. During this record setting 2 day rainstorm some areas got as much as 28" in 40 hours. Luckily, we lived on some of the highest ground in the area and had no flooding. 'A rain of biblical proportions': The...

I'm planning on buying a new Z model Kubota and the option for flat free tires is $300 more. Do the flat free tires ride rougher than regular tires? I have a bad back and need the smoothest ride possible and don't want to spend $300 more for tires if they give a rougher ride.

I ruined the front R1 tire on my L4400 and am having trouble finding a replacement. Who are some of the dealers who handle this tire? It's a 8.3 16 NHS.

I have been trying to buy bullets for my 22 magnum and my 32 automatic pistol for a long time and no place I have gone to has any in stock. Is there some special place I should go to find them? And why is there such a shortage on these calibers? These are not the type of calibers that the...

I've had my 1802 for over 10 years and it has been the most dependable machine I have ever owned. Even if I lay it up 6 months it starts the very second I turn the key. It purrs like a kitten, never leaks oil, the front end loader and shredder will stay up a month when parked without lowering an...

I've been letting a big rat snake live in my barn to keep the mice out but now I'm missing about 6 chicken eggs a day. Is it possible that a snake can eat that many a day or do you think he's invited his relatives for dinner?

I'm telling you how this scam works in case it ever gets you when you order tractor parts or whatever. I ordered a new iPad on Amazon.com for $733. It was sold by a third party seller but I have had luck with Amazon in the past. They emailed me that it would be delivered by USPS on May 19. I...

I think the last time she posted was on July 4, 2010. I enjoyed her articles about her olive farm.

My neighbor has a JD 790 that has just blown the front end gears for the 4th time in 4 years. He tears up the gears labeled #8 and #10 on the diagram. I have told him he needs to load his rear tires so the rear end will work harder and take some pressure off the front end but I don't know if...

Each year Americans spend millions of dollars on a product that is completely unnecessary, cost hundreds of dollars, takes up valuable storage space, is seldom even seen, could be eliminated from our homes and we would never miss it. If you didn't have one nobody would notice. They frequently...

I bought 3 acres of wooded property that I would like to clear most of the small trees and brush off of. It is very thick brambles with many small trash trees close together and quite a few fallen large trees. I got a quote of $2500 from a man with a large mulcher to clear the property and just...

This man went to jail for stealing 5 cents worth of power. 'Theft of power' lands electric-car driver in jail - U.S. News Not many of us have an electric car but most of us have cell phones. How many times have you plugged in your charger at an airport, school, library or any public or private...

I need to know the rating and it is worn off on my hoses so I can't read it. I want to get a hose with the same rating for my grapple. I have had new hoses fail fast and believe it is due to using a lower rated hose.

I had a Kubota dealer install a thumb on my front end loader and they used SAE100 R17 hoses. Within 1 minute the end blew off a hose and I brought it back and they made me a new hose. On the first try the end blew off again. I thought that maybe they weren't crimping them properly so I went to...

I bought a one cylinder thumb to put on the front end loader of my Kubota L4400. I know very little about hydraulics. Can anyone familiar with an L4400 tell me what I need to get to hook up the hydraulics to this thumb?

I looked in my favorites to go to tractorbynet and couldn't find it. I usually just look for the little icons besides the name and TBNs icon was the tractor and it has been changed to something else. I liked your tractor icon much better as it was easier to associate it with your site. I see...

When you look at this wreck, it is hard to believe that the driver opened the door and walked away with only scratches. She ran into the back of a trailer pulled by a pickup truck hauling a tractor. Don't worry, the tractor only received minor damage. :rolleyes: Young motorist survives ugly...

OK, it's a tractor forum, but we have to eat too so, the Wendy's commercial for their new Flatbread Grilled Chicken sandwich made it look so good that I had to go try one yesterday. I ordered the Asiago Flatbread sandwich that comes with healthy grilled chicken and unhealthy bacon to even things...

I saw a snake on my carport today and when I went to catch him he ran under my car and then climbed up into the middle of it somewhere. Is there anything a snake can damage under there or will he just keep harmful mice away? I'll probably lose him next time I go somewhere but if he can cause...

Does anyone still use a hand saw? Yesterday my neighbor came by and asked if I had a battery charger for his battery powered saw. It seems he had nailed up a 2X4 and then had to cut the end off in his back pasture and his battery went dead. He is a 38 year old contractor and had left his charger...

I had my weedeater stolen out of my garage so I checked my gamecam that I have set up in there. Unfortunately, I had it set to wait 1 minute before taking a second photo instead of taking photos every 5 seconds. The photos showed 2 people entering my garage during the time period that the...

OK all you new F150 owners. What is this on my new F150 XLT? My owners manual doesn't even show it on the dashboard.

I didn't even know my L4400 had a suspension seat when I bought it new because it was already frozen up. When I read about the seat on TBN I went and worked it up and down and sprayed WD40 on the joints until they loosened and it worked again. But every time I lay it up a couple of weeks it...

Even though I have read all my messages and replied to all of them, the red 1 remains next to my ALERTS indicating that I have a new message. Now I never know if I have a new message or not and keep checking it only to see there are no new messages. How do I get rid of this 1?

I can't find the Front Porch column. I read it this morning. Is this a temporary computer glitch or was it removed?

I just went to read the Front Porch posts and the Front Porch is gone. Who stole it? :confused:

It's time again to repeat the famous Harv's Christmas Classic:

Last month I took a friend for a ride in my 2009 Sonata. I turned on the radio and set it on a channel I liked and set the volume. After a while I wanted to change the channel but it wouldn't change. I tried to lower the volume, turn it off, switch to am, fm or xm and no control did anything at...

We now have remote controlled trains operating in our area. Any in yours? I wonder how long it will be before they are all remote control.

I caught this snake in my chicken coop today and am not sure what kind it is. I would like to positively identify him before I decide what to do with him. He is about 4 feet long, round eyes, tapered tail. slightly triangular shaped head.

I found this cleaning out my old barn today but I'm not sure what it is. I'm sure one of you will know.

The evening sun makes my patio unbearable for about 2 hours until it gets low enough to go behind some trees. I am trying to think of a good way to block the sun yet still let air pass through this area. Something like louvers, etc. If the roof was straight here I would put up a bamboo shade to...

I just wanted to re-post Harv's Christmas Card here since many people can't view it on The Front Porch. Merry Christmas everyone!

I have no experience with pigs and so I don't have any idea about how much this one might weigh. More and more animals are being run out of the swamps as they rebuild the levees in our area. First it was deer and then coyote and now pigs. My neighbor is an excellent wild game cook so I am...

The left drive is working fine but the right drive just started acting up. If I push the handle forward slightly it moves forward a little but without much power or speed. If I push the handle further forward it stops. I checked the belts and linkages and they all look ok. There is no sign of...

One of our members has a signature with a very good definition of "Hate". My memory is so bad I can't remember the definition or the member's name and I was trying to remember it to tell it to a person who is so full of hate that they need some words to consider.

:mad: I was cutting the grass behind my barn when all of a sudden I noticed a swarm of bees attacking my tractor, then buzzing me. I jumped off my tractor and ran to my house swatting the bees with my hat the whole way. It's over 1/4 mile to my house from where I was and I didn't think I could...

I am interested in finding out about the different attachments that I can get for my LA703 FEL with the quick coupler. Where can I find an offering of different attachments and their prices online?

I know that most of you raise chickens for meat or eggs but I was wondering how many raise them as pets. I have always enjoyed having chickens and I decided to get a few rare breeds to raise for fun. Most of these are 12 weeks old that I got from McMurray Hatchery. My favorites are my Golden...

Last fall I had a thread here about my PTO slipping in my Kubota L4400 with only about 100 hours. It was still under warranty and they replaced the PTO clutch but it took them 2 months to do it. Now that grass cutting season is back and I am using my cutter again, I noticed that when I turn on...

The Mississippi was supposed to crest at record levels in New Orleans on the 23rd but since they opened the Morganza and Bonnet Carre' spillways the river is cresting in New Orleans today instead and at much lower levels than it would have been if the spillways were not opened. Attached are...

I'm putting in round treated fence posts. Should I put them in upside down or right-side up? The posts are narrower on the top and wider on the bottom. The way that I put fence posts in is that I use my tractor post hole digger to dig a hole about an inch or two smaller than the diameter of the...

The favorite car we ever owned was a 1926 Franklin that my parents got in 1935 and sold in 1957 when I was 12 years old. Imagine my surprise when a man phoned me a couple of weeks ago and asked "Did your family own a 1926 Franklin?" He had found some old registration papers in the door panel...

I just changed the hydraulic oil in my Kubota for the first time. The manual says it hold 10.6 gallons. I added 7 gallons and looked at the sight glass and it looked empty. I checked it again after I added 8 gallons and then 9 gallons. It still looked empty after I added 10 gallons and 11...

:mad: My wife just got another rogue program on her computer. She was using Google Chrome and got the XP Internet Security 2010 (virus, worm, trojan, whatever it is). I'm about to start searching the web to find the best way to remove it. Has anyone had it yet and found the easiest way to get...

I bought an L4400HST 24 months ago and think I have a PTO clutch problem. I push in my clutch pedal, put the PTO in gear, slowly let up on the clutch pedal and then raise the throttle. The 6' bush hog starts turning fast and will cut light grass. When I go into thick grass, the driveshaft to...

Has anyone ever put a backhoe on a Yanmar? I have a YM1802 that I would like to get a backhoe for and am wondering if any company makes one that would fit my tractor and how major a job it would be to install.

I just caught him in my back yard. He looks like he got run over by a mower. He tried to snap at me when I caught him and his mouth was white inside like a cotton-mouth moccasin but his round eyes make me think he is just a water snake.

Since our chickens starting disappearing I have been trapping and night hunting to find/get the culprits. I have trapped a couple of possum fairly easy and then I keep missing this one who always manages to eat the bait without tripping the trap. I figured that he wasn't stepping on the foot...

My buddy was using his 3 year old L3400 for about an hour and then killed it. He tried to start it a few minutes later and nothing. After towing it back to his shop and spending hours diagnosing the problem, he found the bottom 3 fuses in the fusebox had corrosion on the terminals and corrosion...

I keep getting photos on the internet. Have to have something to do with them. So here are a couple of the bike ones. Do you have any?

The thread on ugliest GM car got me thinking about starting this thread. Here's one for all of us older guys and even the younger car enthusiasts. I want to limit this to cars built in the 1950s because there are so many of them and the styles vary so much. Many of our younger readers have...

This is a question for experienced horse people. I have owned horses many years but never encountered this problem. A person I know had their horse in a pasture. A passerby (nosy) noticed that the horse was not sweating and reported it to the Louisiana SPCA. The LSPCA went to a judge claiming...

It seems like I remember that there used to be a link for a spelling corrector on the page where you post a thread. I have a lot more smilies available now but can find no link to correct my spelling which seems to get worse as the years go by. :( Where is my lost spelling corrector? :confused:

I have listed the TBN jacket that I won in the 2,000,000th post contest on ebay. All (100%) of the bid price will be donated to the National Audubon Society to help the animals endangered by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. You get to pick the size and color of the Carhartt jacket and it...

I was very grateful to be the winner of the TBN jacket for guessing when the 2,000,000 post would be. I have to do my part to help with the tragic oil spill in the gulf so I am going to auction off the jacket (you choose the size and color) and donate the money to the National Audubon Society...

In the Regional forums the South has more posts than all the other regions combined, yet the Northeast has more threads. Why? Could this be because the South has more interesting posts? Note: I will not admit to starting this thread just to get more posts so I can win the 2,000,000 post...

I was wondering how many tractors the average TBNer has owned. I have owned 4 not counting riding lawnmowers. How many have you owned? :confused: PS I need to get the post count up so my prediction of when TBN will hit 2,000,000 posts is correct. :o

It's Saturday evening and I can't get a vet or a farrier until Monday and I just noticed my old gelding favoring his rear foot. It was fine about 10 days ago when I checked his hooves and now it has a growth on it about the size of a peppermint candy and it looks like some bruising behind it. I...

It doesn't matter how fancy your flagpole is or how much money you spent on your flag, it is the thought that counts. I only have a cheap little flag but I post it prominently where the most people will see it as thanks to all those who serve or have served. I have what I have because you did...

My neighbor has had a chicken killed for the last two days. Something just eats the head off and leaves the rest. I can't find any tracks in the area because the grass is too thick and the ground too hard. I know that my cats will eat the heads off of rats and leave the rest but these chickens...

I am amazed by the engineering they are using to widen the 75 year old Huey P Long Bridge over the Mississippi River outside New Orleans. This is the longest train-auto cantilever bridge in the world but it was built with 2 very narrow car lanes on each side with no shoulders. They are...

I won a coupon for a free oil change at a benefit I attended awhile back. I have always changed my own oil but since I am planning a trip to Branson next week and am very busy I decided to let them do it to my new car with 3000 miles. It's the only auto service center in town and run by a...

My neighbor just put his scarecrow out in his garden. I don't know if it will keep the crows away, but I know my little grandson is scared to go near it. Do y'all have photos of any of your favorite scarecrows?

I didn't want to hijack the thread on "People who keep vehicles for over 200K miles" so I started this one. I saw where many people had major rust problems on their vehicles after several years. Many years ago I got rid of a lot of vehicles because they were too rusty. Mainly cars from the...

I have Windows XP on my computer with both Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox browsers. My Internet Explorer seemed like it was slowing down a lot for web browsing so I upgraded to IE8 and it is still just as slow. I downloaded Firefox and it is much quicker especially on sites like my weather.com...

Though I am glad I do not live in New Orleans, I can't wait until April to go to the French Quarter Festival and sample the food while listening to the musicians. While festivals across the country typically have hot dogs and cotton candy, the French Quarter Festival has over 100 food booths...

Going to the Mardi Gras is almost like going to a tractor show because they have so many different tractors pulling the floats. Big, Small, Old, New, Good Shape, Bad Shape. Here are some of the ones I saw today.

My wife's new computer is shut down right now because it got infected with "antivirus soft" malware while she was surfing Facebook. Our eTrust antivirus program on the computer did not pick it up and stop it. Now it has control of her computer and I will have to use mine to download software...

I am trying to find out what is the most widely used thickness of OSB used on walls and roofs for sheathing when they are mounted on 16" centers and the walls have vinyl siding and the roof has sealtab. 7/16? 15/32? 19/32? I realize many people will say "the thicker, the better", but I am...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all TBNers. Keep the shiny side up!

The New Orleans area just got 5 inches of rain in 90 minutes. There is street flooding and some minor home flooding but no real damage other than to a few of the well known low-lying areas. I wonder how many areas of the country could survive this much rain in such a short time?

Maybe one of our TBN computer experts can answer this question for me. Why am I getting all these symbols on my page while I am typing an email. It just started and I didn't make any changes that I know of. There is a paragraph symbol at the start of each paragraph and a dot everywhere I make a...

I enjoyed the thread "Guess this tool", so I am trying to make another interesting thread. I know that TBN readers are so well informed that they will probably guess it quite easily so I included a couple of extra questions. Hint: My parents junked this vehicle while I was young. 1. What make...

When people post photos on TBN, I was wondering why they use Photobucket or some other host instead of just uploading the photos to TBN when they make their post. Most of those other photos take much longer to download plus they are full of ads and popups that consume your time even more. When...

After having a slow diesel drip in my beloved 1995 F250 powerstroke that I keep in mint condition, I determined that the chances are 99% that it is leaking out the weep hole in the fuel pump and decided to change it. The dealership wanted $1025 to change it and I was able to get all the parts...

The men are required to wear safety vests on this job and doing so almost cost this man his life. Construction worker caught in concrete mixer rescued by New Orleans firefighters | New Orleans Metro Crime and Courts News - - NOLA.com

While I was rummaging through my attic I found part of an old woodburning kit that I got when I was about 7 years old in the early 1950s. It got me to thinking about all the fun toys we had when we were young that they couldn't possibly sell for kids nowadays. Besides the woodburning kit, I had...

I am making a handicap ramp and want to use 2x4s for posts and 1 1/2 pipe for handrail. I would like to round out the top of the 2x4 for the rail to fit into. What is the easiest way to do this?

My friend's mare was in a pasture with a jack for a few months then they switched her to a pasture with a stallion. They don't remember the exact date they switched her around so when the colt was born they don't know who the daddy is. I have seen many horses a couple of days old but never saw...

My wife and I like to use an old junky golf cart around the place to bring feed to the horses, put out the garbage, repair fence lines, etc. It seems like everytime I am on the back pasture with it, she needs to use it, so we decided to become a 2 golf cart family. :) The golf course up the...

I just got back from Alaska and went I cranked up TBN I found about 4 new closed threads. Naturally, I read all of them first to find out why they were closed. :o Am I the only one whose curiosity is aroused when I spot closed threads and have to read them first? I hope to find out that I'm...

It seems like 90% of tractor fatalities I read about are senior citizens. Becoming a senior citizen lately, this worries me. :( Is it just because most farmers and tractor operators are older nowdays with younger people seeking other vocations? Or is it because we get careless as we age and...

Since the TBN members seem to know everything I am posting this question here and hoping someone can give me an answer without being too technical. I created a special folder in my Outlook that contains emails from about 800 people that I have dealt with in an online business. I now want to...

My L4400 has 5 rear tire setting widths. I can set them from 46.5" to 60.8". I would like to widen them for more stability. My problem is that the Kubota manual says not to reverse the front wheels for wider thread. I hate to have the wheels at different widths leaving 2 sets of tracks...

Last night we had a powerful thunderstorm here in southeast Louisiana and we had 12" of rain. This morning the ground is wet with a few puddles around but I have not heard of any major damage or flooding in our area. The areas around us are very flat so the water is distributed evenly unlike...

My grandson's Spiderman kite landed in one of our large pecan trees and he came to me with tears in his eyes saying "Poppy, get my kite out the tree for me". :( I couldn't resist. At $200 a day for lift rental, I did more than kite retrieval. Although the smile on his face was worth the $$, I...

I have used conveyor belt from grain elevators as flooring in my barns and sheds for many years now and have been very satisfied with the durability and economy of these belts. These come in 3 common thicknesses, 1/4", 1/2" and 3/4". The 1/4" is about 3 times as thick and tough as the sidewalls...

I was watching TV and saw a commercial for some group that encouraged you to sign up your property to be used for some type of conservation area so that it would be protected from encroachment and to lower your property taxes. But I forgot the name of their website. I have a couple of acres...