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That internal strainer is actually a flash arrester, got a new 5 gallon diesel can from TSC a few years ago. The flash arrester made it almost impossible to fill without spilling diesel fuel. Had to work at prying that out, it was made to be hard to remove. After adding a vent it works great...

Probably will work fine, my sister has a 650(?) John Deere subcompact that makes about 18 hp (engine) and it runs a 4 ft tiller just fine in good soil (not heavy clay and rocks)

Are you looking for a tank to put fertilizer solution in or a device to inject the fertilizer into the water? Mazzei makes good injectors, they have a calculator on their website to figure out which one will work best for you. There are a lot of similar looking ones on Amazon but they do not...

New long sleeve chambrie shirt for summer, cancer treatment drug (keytruda) makes you sensitive to the sun... Last week bought remotes for the tractor, picked them up yesterday and spent this afternoon installing them. Didn't quite get finished still have to mount the connectors tomorrow...

Stamp Massey Ferguson on it and the price triples! Just ordered remotes for my 1734e, price was north of $2000. Ouch!

This, $45 from AGCO (Massey Ferguson). Ouch! Then my neighbor will turn it down from 22mm to .75". If I wanted it soon an additional $20-$30 shipping.

Hydraulic top and tilt, no more winding turn buckles while hooking up or leveling implements. Been doing that for over 40 years now, time to make my life a bit easier!

Thanks, another bit of information. My battery seems to still be going strong, I don't know what the life expectancy is for this type of battery. I have had this tractor for about 11 years now and bought it new in the first year it came out. The dealer uncrated it and delivered it straight to...

Anybody know anything about calcium batteries? My tractor came with one, I've had it now a bit over 10 years now and it is still going strong. I did a bit of research about them, they seem to require a bit higher charging voltage and are supposed to discharge at a slower rate when sitting idle...

Around my neighborhood the soils are deep glacial till with layers of impermeable hardpan. Lots of huge boulders are buried in it. There are several water bearing layers in it, some good, some not so good. Most of the wells are at a depth 60-100'. Some pounded, many rotary. When our next door...

Keep mine in the 12'x24' Partitioned off part of the shop. Can't believe how many of my neighbors keep theirs outside, often parked next to large shops or barns. I guess they must have a lot of money to waste. Kubotas are the dominant make around here, i have seen a lot go from bright orange...

Lift arms were located differently on the n series Ford tractors. That on will not work on yours. Newer post hole augers have a single tube coming into the top link, won't interfere with the lift arms. Looks like you would need re-fabricate almost everything but the gearbox, drive shaft and...

There's a youtube channel called Cole the Cornstar, it's produced by a 26 year old farmer who's family farms 2000 acres in Iowa, they use this sort of technology, really amazing how precise these systems are. Planters and spayers with the individual planting heads and spray nozzles each...

The system your thinking of is CORS, Constantly Operating Referance System, or something that has evolved out of it. This is a network of GPS receivers running on known control stations, their data is available via cellular connection. This allows for centimeter type accuracy on equipment in...

If you want to see what a lithium battery fire looks like, watch Battlebots on discovery, some truly amazing battery abuse there!

Local Telephone company has used vibratory plows around here for years. Local prairies are glacial moraine that are about an inch of top soil covering boulders with a little bit of sand between them. They leave a lot boulders on the surface that need to be cleaned up. Recently I have seen them...

Compacts and up have a hydraulic radiator stacked with the engine radiator, radiator fan cools both.

Does anybody know if there is some sort of thermostat that controls how much hydraulic oil flows through the radiator? I know I usually blow a ton of seeds and dust out of the radiator stack when I brush hog, despite the screen. I made a long extension to my air gun with a 90° nozzle at the...

Glad to hear you can get yours out without removing the subframe member. It's a real pain to remove.....

Did you clean the suction filter when you changed the hydraulic oil and filters? Mine is located behind the loader subframe piece that attaches to the rear axle housing. It requires removing said piece in order to get it out. Mine had some debris in it the first time I cleaned it. If yours does...

The problem is they mount them on the outside of the ROPS. I moved mine to the inside and they are still intact to this day.

And I thought black locust was bad, they only grow thorns on the trunk when young. Neighbor had one about 5' DBH, arborist cut it down before they built, I can attest it makes great fire wood and fish billies. What he didn't count on was the generous copice growth that black locust is capable...

Very nice, now go and enjoy working or playing in it.

Around here there are a lot of Kubota's, the summer sun fades the paint in just a few years. Tires and hydraulic hoses from all brands will take a beating from the sun. If you choose not to, it's your money.....

Lots of folks around here seem to use 1 ton dually's as their daily drivers....

I Australia they call those Uts, really popular there I've heard.

Picked up a 3100 psi Honda engined Simpson a few years ago at TSC's black Friday sale. Been a reliable good machine, think I paid less than $200 for it. The only black Friday sale I ever went to, about 4 miles from me.

Never could understand why folks don't make an effort to shelter their equipment, it represents a significant investment. I for one am not made of money!

Better overall view.

This building was on the property when we bought it 40 years ago, it's a 24x36 pole building from Western Farmers COOP. It's not real fancey but gets the job done, our JD lawn tractor is stored in the lean-to on the left.

I was nearsighted and had worn glasses since grade school. I was diagnosed with Fuchs dystrophy about 12 years ago. Fuchs is a disease of the endothelial layer of the cornea that results in the growth of little fingers of tissue on the inner side of the cornea and the failure of the endothelial...

Lock and lube tip was a real game changer especially for the zerks in hard to reach places. I keep a grease rag near the grease gun to wipe off the zerks before greasing and to clean up if I get too enthusiastic. A grease gun is a must if you own a tractor!

2004 Tundra extra cab, I'm the original owner. Used it as my daily driver until I retired almost 8 years ago, now it just gets used for truck stuff. 148k miles on it, probably will still own it until I die. Everything was in almost mint condition until last Wednesday when I backed into a 10" oak...

My metal shop building has almost no radio or cell reception in it. Only near a window, but the in the direction of the cell signal there are no windows. When we gave up our land line phone there was no way to get a hold of me in the shop. We recently installed a wifi 6 mesh system in the house...

About 5.5 acres, enough for privacy and to play with. Retired so we do a bit of gardening and donate what pasture hay we get to a hooved animal rescue charity. Wouldn't mind having a bit more but the land prices around us have become nuts, about 40k/acre per assessment, so that's not going to be...

I noticed that as well, the sub frame transfers the load to the rear axle, not the transmission housing.

My dad loved Lawrence Welk, us kids not so much. I don't think my mom was much of a fan either, she would retreat to her sewing room when he was on, that Singer would really make a mess out of the picture and sound!

The 1734/39e series use a Shibura engine, the rest of the tractor is Iseki. When I bought it, the dealer told me that Iseki hadn't yet sorted out their tier 4 engines for cuts yet. I think most of their more recent offerings don't use Shibura engines. I have been very happy with my 1734e and...

One small thing I didn't like on mine, the lights on the ROPS being unprotected on the outside. Fixed it by moving them to the inside of the ROPS.

Congratulations, to quote my my niece when I showed her a picture of my new Massey a few years ago: Shiney! Hope you enjoy yours as much as I do mine.

When the checkers assistant in Cosco asks if you need help loading a 35 lb bag of dog food in the car. Yep, happened today!

This is an interesting thread. Our property has a sixty foot easement down the south boundary that is for access to one six acre lot on our west boundary. We had some issues with the previous owner of that lot, he had not built any sort of driveway back to his property, just drove along the edge...

Had an older deere lawn tractor, it lasted about 20 years, it died when the oil filter vibrated loose. I had to replace the deck belts a number of times. We tried heavy duty belts from Napa one time, they lasted about an hour! We used JD belts after that and they lasted for several years at...

I use a sony AV reciever and a pair of old second hand Kenwood speakers, no idea what vintage. Also have an unpowered subwoofer driven by a Dayton mono amplifier. Had to build a dipole antenna outside the steel building. The receiver does have Bluetooth input, but since the shop is a steel...

35 years as a professional photogrammetrist mapping forest lands and compiling highway construction base maps. It's what I did for a long time, proud of it.

Feel your pain Geoduck, we have then same problems in our neighborhood. There is a herd of about 60 around here. I mostly have problems with the young bachelor bulls in the summer that hang out in the woods by my back field. Just one can do a lot of damage. The dog helps to keep them at bay...

Not all golden retrievers are double coated. Our current dog is not, I believe they are what is referred to as "field bred", either that or there is some Irish Setter in there somewhere. In any case he sheds very little, unlike the other Goldens we have had. He is very dark red with silky soft...

I have a Frontier 60" brush hog that has eaten its share of rocks, roots and small trees and brush. The sheet metal has lots of dents that testify to its hard life. I have never broken the shear pin on it. I bought it originally to use with my old 8n, stalled it out a number of times with no...

Regen on my 1734e occurs in a lot shorter interval than 60 hours. Minimum rpm during regen is 1800. It also occurs about the time you a ready to put the tractor away🤔 Also check fuel level, gauge sensor is apparently on the opposite side from the fuel pickup, if the tractor is at an angle that...

Pallet forks on that size tractor for that size load can't be clamp on to bucket type. They put the load out way too far from the pins. Clamp on work fine for moving brush piles and light loads. Heavy stuff can damage your bucket.

He's only on 1.5 acres that is already landscaped. A big tractor might be a bit hard to maneuver. Remember you can do almost as many things with a small tractor as a larger one, just takes more time.

The fill neck on my tractor is in front of the left floor board. Easy peasy, set it on the floor board tip it and dump it in the 4" diameter opening. One of the differences I love over my old 8n, with the fuel tank above the engine, and the battery and starter below the fuel tank opening. I am...

Some of the discussion here is more about reliability vs efficiency. You can push a small displacement engine to really high hp, example - F1 race cars making 1000 hp+ from a 1.5 liter 4 cylinder engine vs a tractor with a 6+ liter engine making 150 to 200 hp. The F1 engine is going to last...

Look at the puplication date on the lower right corner or the center bottom on USGS quad maps. Some of them are really old, if the area is very rural or federal land many have not been updated since the middle of the last century or earlier. The Google maps thing I think is caused by not using...

There was an elderly lady whose lawn I mowed when I was about 14. She had a wind up start lawn mower. It worked fairly well. My dad had a Gibson garden tractor with rope and pulley starting, it got painful if it backfired. My first car, a 1959 MGA, had a crank stored in the trunk that was...

I owned an 8n for about 30 years, it did a lot of work for me. Upgrading it to twelve volt made it much easier to start especially in cold weather. I upgraded to a new tractor that is about the same size as the 8n but with about 15 more hp and diesel. The new tractor has a FEL, 4WD, and power...

Garage door service man said do use LED bulbs on garage door openers, that they work at a frequency that interferes with the opener. My openers are 29 years old though.

Welcome from Thurston county, Yelm, Rainier area!

Had only one experience with a fuel can with a flame arrestor. Took about 15 minutes to fill the can without spilling fuel , had to dribble it in with the pump valve just barely cracked open. They made it so it could only be removed with pliers and that destroyed it, so I haven't had any...

They don't work very well with viscose liquids, only so much energy in one D cell battery.

The owners manual for my old 8N had instructions for using that type of lift. Definitely need to place jack stands under the tractor, would never want to depend on the 3 point to hold the tractor up with the engine off!

We are very fortunate that cataract surgery and lens replacement has come so far in our lifetime. I remember a friend and coworker of my father, a bit older than him. He developed cataracts in the late 1950's the surgery then was to remove the lens and replace it with glasses - really thick...

Had mine done about 10 years ago in conjunction with DMEC cornea transplant surgery. Single focus, was near sighted all my life so I opted for distance vision. 20/25 vision. I use prescription readers as I found them more comfortable than drug store readers. I also have driving glasses to...

There's a major pipeline across my neighbors property, it is Williams Company main north south line. We've lived here over forty years and nothing adverse has happened. The right of way has two 36" lines and one abandoned 30" line. One of the 36" lines was put in about 30 years ago, which had...

I have an old Armstrong pipe threader that I inherited from my FIL, it works great. It's also important to have a good pipe vise to hold the workpiece. For small diameter pipe a bench vise will work but for larger pipe a well anchored pipe vice makes life much easier.

I get good service here from most all carriers. USPS comes down my driveway every day since my mailbox is up near my shop, its location is grandfathered in since our carrier years ago had us move it there after we both got tired of dealing with vandals trashing it several times a year. USPS puts...

Used to have a coworker who had Arabians, their place was fenced with New Zealand fencing. They thought it was great until one ran into it and got tangled up in it. Lots of vet and rehabilitation bills later, they weren't as sure. Smooth high tensile wire has it own risks for animals.

It is FWD, the FEL is from JD and seems to be sized ok for the tractor. I have trouble with the FEL controls though, kind of loose and fine movement is really difficult. Never heard her complain about the steering being too hard. I am not sure of the model number, thought it was a 750, but may...

Most of my local friends and neighbors have tractors, not many big ones mostly CUTS and SCUTS. My friends who live in town don't. Of my three sisters, two do, one is a farmer and has a bunch, my little sister lives on a bit of acreage and has a older small JD 750(?). The other sister lives in...

Ox tail and lamb shanks used to be really cheap as well, now they cost more than some steaks!

I grew up eating liver and onions, loved it! Got married, wife hates it, even the smell. Years ago she would let me fix it when she was out for the evening. She was out one evening and I fixed myself liver and onions with a side of broccoli. She came home, complained a bit about the smell...

Nothing weird about halibut cheeks, very best part of a really good fish!

You usually have to specify that extra money in your mortgage payment is to go to principle, some banks do that automatically but many don't.

Full fuel tank. 2 hats from the dealer. 1 month or so later an official owners hat from Massey Ferguson. My wife loves my tractor, especially last week for garden clean up time. Me on the ground chaining up 8ft tee post bean poles and her sitting in the drivers seat pulling them with the FEL...

Heat pump with propane for outdoor temperature less than 35 degrees. Shop is a wood stove, go through about 1/2 - 3/4 cord per year. This year I have vowed to reduce my scrap wood bins to free up space in the shop, you know those bits and pieces that have to be good for something..... Slow start...

Differential lock on my Massey has to be held down to stay engaged...

Don't even need a dedicated calculator now, hundreds available for download to your phone now. If you have a computer with excel spread sheet you can do all sorts of complex math stuff.

Never liked chocolate milk in cartons, they added something to thicken it. Felt like I was drinking 30 weight!

Since I live in the Pacific Northwest, just a few miles away from JBLM (Joint Base Lewis McChord) and the state Capitol, I may live long enough to see the fireballs before the heat and shock wave vaporizes us. Don't think I will do a lot of prepping for it. Not real interested in living on the...

Had an experience a couple of weeks ago that gives me hope for the young workers coming into the workforce. We had a new quartz countertop installed. The two early 20 something, young men who installed it did a flawless job. There were 2 seams in the counters that required color matching the...

I find that they work well for moving brush and tree limbs around and stacking burn piles. Most other stuff not so much.

But they have to prove that he flattened the tires and screwed the doors shut...

We make ours in 1/2 gallon Mason jars with a fermentation lock. They take about 2 weeks to work off. After they are done fermenting, I put a plastic Mason jar lid on them, this avoids rusting rings, and place them in a refrigerator. They are good for about 2 years this way. I also make chili...

Been a mixed bag this year for fruit, my peach trees didn't set anything due to a cold, wet spring had to battle peach leaf curl even on the resistant varieties. Th Bartlett pears only produced a couple of dozen pears, but the varieties that require chilling the fruit for 30 days after picking...

Look at Costco, they had some huge briskets a few weeks ago, huge price as well.

Sounds like a heart attack in a glass! Lot of fat in that.

Closest I have found to our native wild blackberries. Not Himalayan or Evergreen blackberries.

My go to for breakfast several days a week: 1 banana, 6 frozen strawberries and another fruit: blueberry, mango, marion berries, etc. Add two scoops of Orgain protein powder ( chocolate for me, vanilla for wife), a glug or 2 of almond milk. Blend until smooth, yum! I have never had the urge to...

We do get asked occasionally if we are preppers, my answer is: No I have been doing this all my life, my folks taught me, they grew up during the great depression when life could be really hard. We were doing this sort of thing long before " prepping" was a thing. I think most of us here are...

Trim the blossom end of the cucumber before pickling, it contains a plant hormone or enzyme (can't remember which) that makes the pickle soften. For crisp sweet pickles try making lime pickles, Mrs. Wages picking lime has a pretty good recipe on the bag. Grape or green oak leaves work well for...

That's why we also can stuff, and then give it away to friends the next season because we like the frozen stuff better. Just finished beans, 8 gallon bags in the freezer, 16 pints canned. Now supplying friends with u-pick beans.

The only TIN bits I have are Brad points for wood, they seem to be ok for that. My father who was a very smart man and an engineer once told me after I had destroyed a drill bit in metal,( one of his of course) always use the lowest speed available on the drill press. Good advice, I've broken...

I have disturbed quite a few yellow jacket nests in the ground both plowing and brush hogging. We must have a different type around here, I've never been stung while on the tractor. They swarm around a foot or two off the ground but never attacked me. I've also driven past black hornet nests...

Adolfs meat tenderizer, papayin breaks down the venom, also baking soda and water paste. Never needed it for myself, stinging sensation goes away in a few minutes. Knock on wood that I don't become sensitive or allergic to stings as I get older.

Often there are a lot of little dirt pellets and bird shot size pebbles around the hole.

What is the engine rpm for each model? The Massey Ferguson I have is 1734e, 34hp, the next one up is 1739e, 39hp. The engine rpm for PTO on the 1739e is considerably higher than the 1734e. The engine specs other than hp are identical, as is the rest of the tractor. The only difference is the...

I grew up with a 7hp Gibson garden tractor, we used to plow with it, single bottom 8 or 10 inch I think. Rope start Wisconsin engine, you hoped would not backfire when you pulled on the starter rope, would about rip your fingers off if it did!

Was in Bellingham Wa. this morning after my 50 year HS reunion last night. Hotel free breakfast was pretty bad yesterday so I hunted around for something better. Found it a place called "The Birch Door Cafe", family owned for 3 generations. Some of the best scratch made sourdough buttermilk...

Small closed containers of Glsophosphate with a small slit in the lid. Put a growing tip of BlackBerry vine in through the slit. It will absorb the stuff and the entire plant dies roots and all. Mix the glysophosphate at the same dilution you would use for spraying, too much and it just burns...

Those look like paper wasps, usually pretty mellow until you put your hand into the nest hidden under stuff.

Here in Washington water rights have become a major issue. Towns and cities have to have adequate water rights before additional development is allowed. Getting them by eminent domain has become pretty much impossible recently and they have to purchase them from someone or something that...

The suction screen on my Massey is located inside the transmission housing, about six inches behind the oil filter. It unscrew out of the transmission housing. I have to remove the loader subframe piece that runs from the left loader tower to the rear axle to get it all the way out of the...

I find that my Massey Ferguson is not near as comfortable a ride when mowing my fields as the 8n it replaced. The 8n's seat had a lot of travel on a big spring, about 6 inches before bottoming out. The Massey has about 1.5, when its adjusted correctly for operator weight. Everything else about...

Can't emphasize enough the importance of good ventilation in a greenhouse, it can be 40 out and 100+ inside when the sun comes out. And the temperature goes up really fast. In a greenhouse the size of yours a thermostat controlled fan and inlet shutter is a must! In the meantime frame in the...

Years ago my BILs mailman carried a can of aerosol ether starting fluid. Said it only took one time to train an aggressive dog that he was a bad idea to mess with. Put the dog asleep and when he woke up had a bad headache and nausea.

Found a route on Google a few years back that was a real doozy. I was helping my son set his phone up to navigate to his summer job at my sisters farm in Laconner. We found that the mapping app showed a road from the end of the road where she lives, (road ends at her drive way and a neighbor on...

Not sure you even need the soapy water, just getting whirled around in the canister will beat them to death pretty quickly. I usually find a lot of queens overwintering in my shop, they wake up when the wood stove is fired in the winter. I suck them up with the vac hose plugged into the dust...

A band of white and black tape around the end of the nozzle will make them attack it as well. Picked that tip up from a guy who works for the local venom collection company around here. Helped a friend get rid of a nest in his shop wall last year that way. It took a second session a week or so...

Trees are drought tolerant when they have a well established root system. The soil needs to stay moist for this for happen. Reforestation planting never happens in the summer, tree survival is nonexistent around here when planted in the summer.

Have you checked out the Mazzei injector website? They have a large selection of venturing type injectors and a calculator to figure out the proper size for your application.

With your ground and all the rocks I think a 3pt post hole auger is going to be a waste of time. Planting trees and shrubs during a summer drought is not a good idea if there is limited water i.e. hauling it in 5 gal buckets. Put your shrubs in a location as suggested in an earlier post where...

Not sure about the jolt, but a damaged battery on a Tesla will burn - white hot!

A quick Google search seems to indicate that your tractor does not have an integral overrunning clutch. Use the external one that you use on your 8n. I'm not familiar with your tractor so could be wrong, someone will certainly correct me if so!

Our climate is typically dry most of the summer. We use soaked hoses down each row, water about 30 minutes twice a week, water volume is adjusted to just let the water seep out of the soaked hose, leaving wet strip about 1.5 inches wide under the hose. The surface soil in the aisles stays dry...

Theoretically you can lift water 33.9 feet at sea level. Your pump would need to pull a perfect vacuum to do so. Would also need a strong pipe to avoid collapsing it. Much better to put the pump at the bottom and push the water uphill.

Make a rainy well next to the pond. Dig a hole about 5-6' deep next to the pond put a 2'-3' perforated pipe vertically in the hole. Backfill around it with gravel. It will fill with water very quickly, if not connect it to the pond with a gravel filled ditch. This will filter the water and give...

Washington State Patrol has a commercial vehicle division and that's their job. They will also make noncommercial traffic stops if someone is driving like an idiot.

Went to use my Frontier RC60 a few weeks ago. Checked the oil in the gearbox and found that it was over the level plug by quite a bit, and very milky looking. Seals are good and it has never leaked. Just condensate I guess. Biggest challenge to draining it was getting it up on edge to drain the...

Metabo, I am quite pleased with it.

I have some thai chili flakes that I made from some that I grew. Hot enough that an almost invisible amount on a slice of pizza is more than enough. These are in the 20,000 scoville range. More than enough for me!

Might quickly run out of friends and family to help you run that thing.

Back to the Bosch tool quality question. I have a number of Bosch tools, corded and cordless. I have been very happy with the quality of them. But recently I had to replace a 1.5 hp plunge router, a Porter Cable that I have owned for at least 30 years (another made in America brand that isn't...

Slip clutches should be rated for the implement, not the tractor. But they do need to be serviced, it's not difficult to do. Just make sure to torque the bolts correctly when reassembling it. Too loose and it slips all the time, too tight and stuff breaks.

The front axle on 9n tractors is not designed for a loader, there are a lot that have broken front ends out there. My old 8n was a beast to steer without a loader, can't imagine what it would have been like with an additional 500+ pounds on the front end!

Did you service your slip clutch recently?

Doesn't take too much horsepower to turn one, the horsepower is needed to pull it back up. I run one on a 34hp tractor at low throttle, I notice that the engine grunts a little bit when lifting the auger full of damp soil.

That didn't help a local dealership in McKenna, about 4 miles away. Thieves stole the fuel from about a dozen cars last year, by punching holes in the gas tanks. Expensive!

We have relatively good soil in my neighborhood, a few rocks, my property was part of a dairy farm and most of the bigger rocks were picked years ago. There is a great deal of land nearby that are glacial moraine and and areas where successive glacial events packed old moraine into a pavement...

Toll bridges and toll lanes in western Washington, most you can avoid or go around. Probably see more in the future....

There is a difference between hoarding and keeping useful stuff. A hoarder will accumulate stuff that they never use, my neighbor is an example of this, herplace is filled to the gills with stuff that once acquired never gets used. She acquired a bunch of stuff from an estate sale at an old...

Years ago a powerline broke in front of the parking lot of the building I worked in. Line was on the ground arcing, breakers did not kick. Power company showed up a while later and fixed the line. Later I noticed that where the line had layed on the ground and burned away that the dirt was fused...

I had the same problem, the thing was impossible to pull out by hand at the pump. Had to take it home and rip it out with pliers, it was in no condition for anything but the trashcan after that. I really don't know how one of those cans can be filled at the pump, the pump nozzles are so...

Tried jacking a 20-24" maple years ago with my FIL. Had a 16 ton bottle jack, blew the seals in the jack. Tree didn't move. I don't remember how we got the tree down, it was 40 years ago.

Engaging the PTO at anything above idle is a good way to break stuff, kind of like revving up a car engine and dropping the clutch!

Replaced the original B&S engine on my Troybilt Pony tiller with a predator of similar hp. Took a bit of fiddling to get the spacing right for the drive Vbelt. The original engine had a counter rotating auxiliary shaft that was used for reverse, no longer have reverse, but the tiller is small...

Sourced the film, channel and wiggle wire from amazon. Shopped a lot of other suppliers as well, the biggest challenge is finding a supplier that has the size you need. The amount needed for a small greenhouse is hard to find, if you want to cover a house 200' long and 50' wide, that's easy to...

Mine is built using the salvaged frame from a Shelter Logic tarp shed, 10'×20'. I anchored it down to pier blocks and built ends with a couple of $5 storm doors from the habitat for humanity thrift store. Its covered with a double layer of 6 mil UV stabilized greenhouse plastic that is inflated...

Local store has Key brand Jean's, the heavy duty ones I bought about six years ago are stained a bit but otherwise still feel new when the are washed. Unfortunately they closed the store in Yelm, now I have to go to the store in Chehalis.

July last year!

Too short a season here to get a really good crop, about the time they start to ripen early blight shows up. I grow mine in a 10X20 greenhouse along with peppers, cucumbers etc. I use tomahooks, string and tomato clips, race track the plants from overhead wire cable. Hooks and string are...

There were some presto log type factories that processed waste sawdust in Everett when I was going to college there, several of my classmates had jobs there. Said it got real exciting when some wet sawdust got into the system. Logs would explode as they came out of the press!

I think my brother inlaws combine may be that vintage or older. Smaller JD that suits the smaller fields in the Skagit valley. It's also one that he can do his own wrenching and repairs on. Keeps it indoors and does goes through it every winter. He also maintains his "Lemon Orchard " where there...

We replaced our furnace and heat pump a couple of years ago, new system is Trane. Had a few noise problems that the installer worked to fix, most of it was small air leaks around some of the seams in the air handler, amazing how much noise a minute leak can make! Another issue was condensate...

Used to be a steakhouse around here that served pepper pot soup, it was delicious. I found out later that tripe is one of the main ingredients. Not sure if I would have been brave enough to try it if I had known before hand!

Had escargot a couple of times, served in garlic butter. Wasn't bad, the garlic butter was the predominant flavor, the snail the chewy bit in the middle. Cost was high (fancy French restaurant) and there are a lot of other good food I'd rather spend money on. When you find out about how snails...

We do have pocket gophers in Western Washington, they inhabit the rocky prairies in the south sound area. More specifically the Mazama pocket gopher, which is listed as an endangered species and is illegal to kill. Absolute bane of existence for property owners and developers. If you want to...

Take the drive shaft off and lock it in the shop.

We live in an area that doesn't have a lot of rocks, especially when compared to the ice age glacial moraine that covers about 90 percent of the south sound region. But what we do have is rocks placed precisely where you want to place fence posts!🤬

My T-post pounder is about 30 lbs, fabricated and left here by the folks we bought the place from 40 years ago. So loud that I wrapped it in sound deadening closed cell foam (gray sleeping pad for backpacking) and heavy as well. While it's a beast to use it makes up for it by only needing about...

So do I, wife doesn't like big knives......

Nobody ever complained about me smelling like it. I should be incredibly healthy the way we go through it! Wife doesn't like peeling it, so she gets bags already peeled, it spoils after a week or two. So in order not to waste it, it needs to be used quickly (and generously)!

My wife doesn't see it that way, she feels you can never have enough garlic😵

Nice!

Gunk engine cleaner and degreaser will probably work. You may want to hit it with a pressure washer first to get the big chunks out, then the degreaser to get the oily residue off.

My dislikes, Parsnips Summer squash of any sort, tasteless slime in a soft shell! Bad seafood, this includes hake and pollok in any form. Fish and chips made with dogfish, you know when the batter cracks open and all you smell is ammonia. Never tried durian, my fifth grade teacher, who...

Also many are heavy smokers and that will do a real number on your palate as well.

I agree with this, we cook with little or no salt, you can add your own at the table. Guy Feiari ((sp?) used to have a show where he cooked in his backyard kitchen, the amount of salt he used was incredible. Have seen judges on cooking competitions complain about not enough salt, if it was me I...

I agree, only buy solid albicore Big scraps = chunk tuna (a little more lumpy than official cat food) Small scraps = cat food

Fires in the west are getting bigger every year. Last fire I was on was in the late eighties, it burned about 100,000 acres. It was considered a really large fire at the time. Fires since then make that one look on the small side. Even though I live in an area of the PNW that doesn't see too...

Used to be only sold by servicing dealers, now they are in the local Ace hardware stores.

Near Ilwaco, on the Columbia river. Deep mucky moist soil. It was determined that the steel wire in the rubber was the cause of the spontaneous ignition. Took a long time to put it out. It was an experiment in use of tire chips as light weight fill in unstable soils, oops! That didn't work out...

Why not just spread them around where you chip them, they will feed the trees as they break down and help build up the soil?

That was a lesson I had to learn with the first saw I bought (in my 20's). My early experience was with my dad's late 40's Mcculloch saw, had a 24 inch bar that was about 6 or 7 inches wide. The saw had a gear drive and ran the chain so slow that if there was a high tooth you could feel it every...

I try to keep my diesel cans full, when the tractor needs fuel I empty a full can into it. My gas cans are a little different, nothing I have can take a full five gallon can in one shot, I keep them full over winter for emergency purposes, I treat each one with stabil. Rented a medium small...

Got to love those "safety spouts " with the little hook on the bottom that allows the spout to open when it's pushed down, then it buckles under the weight of the full can....

Wait until you try to get fuel into the can with that strainer in place. Got one like that, it was impossible to fill, the strainer was not ment to be removed. It works great now, strainer surgically removed, and vent installed.

My folks had a 58 Mercedes 180D, four on the tree, 42 hp diesel. 0 to 60 in about 15 min. Learned to drive in that car. You could chirp the tires in reverse by dropping the clutch at about half throttle. Tough car, it survived me.

Around here they come equipped with a hydraulic Jack and a battery powered sawzall. Takes less than 2 minutes, in broad day light. Dont park in the outer part of the lot at the local Walmart.

My folks house had locks, don't ever remember them being used until the late 70's or early 80's.

Then you have my brother in law, a 3rd generation farmer and very successful at it. He says the best kind of tractor and implements are APF (Already Paid For). He does favor older machines that he can work on himself ( he is a trained diesel mechanic). Fairly savy individual, he also is a board...

Yanmar has been making small water cooled diesel engines for a long time. First I heard of them was when a friend of mine put one in his sailboat about 45 years ago.

I will check that as well, mowere doesn't have that many hours on it.

As I stated, it's John Deere, therefore high priced. What is your other source? I am a bit disappointed, the mower has around 300 hours on it, my old JD 170 had about 20 years with just normal wear items needing replacement, never the throttle cable.

Don't think that there is much difference in 3pt PHD, they are pretty much the same in how they function. The next step up is a hydraulic PHD that can be mounted on the loader, either a skid steer quick attach or bolt on the side of the loader bucket. The advantages are numerous; down pressure...

The throttle on my X324 will not stay where I set it, it creeps down until I notice that I am crawling along. I took a quick look under the dash, the chock and throttle cables both go into a black plastic box without any apparent adjustments. Has anybody else encountered this issue? If so how...

For a low horsepower compact such as the L2501 you may find that is a lot easier to run a brush hog with hydrostatic rather than a gear tractor. The ability to slow your ground speed to negotiate thick vegetation or rough ground while keeping the hog turning a full speed is a real advantage. Ran...

My theory is they all employ a team of gorillas to put the filters on at the factory. I used a pair of channel lock filter pliers on mine, looked like it had been in war after it came off!

I have a 1734e which is all Iseki except the engine. It will move in forward and reverse at any throttle setting with even a small input to the hydro pedal, rather slowly at low rpm but that's to be expected. The tractor will move the front wheels at any throttle setting and with the bucket...

Around the PNW property prices went ridiculous to insane in the last few years, partly driven by the pandemic and people working remotely. Lots of folks in modest homes in the city moved to tract houses in the suburbs. The home in the city selling north of a million and the burbs for 1.5...

I had that problem with my metal shop building, it was 30+ years and I had been playing wack a mole for years with it. I found that the wood was starting to deteriorate a bit in the screw holes as well. I replaced all of the screws with longer ones and put a generous squirt of 5200 marine...

Neighbor found one of those small round shanked lynch pins (cat 0?) the hard way, in his truck tire. Neither of us use them, probably picked it up on the road somewhere.

For a number of years I worked a 4-10 schedule, my office was in various basement spaces. I would drive to work in the dark and drive home in the dark for about a month each year! Would not see daylight except on weekends. I'm retired now and don't really care one way or another about DST now...

A router is much like a tractor, not much use without bits and attachments. They can soon add up to more than you paid for the router!🤑

I bought this model of Bosch router recently and was very disappointed with it. I do some pattern routing and found that with the template collars that they were impossible to center. Not sure if the router was manufactured incorrectly or not. Returned it and got a Metabo for about the same...

Never hurt myself backing one up. Split my shin open on the time guard because I wasn't smart enough to lift the handle bars up rather than hang on when it hit a mat of wirey grass roots and started to tine walk on me. Think that I was about 16 at the time. Still have the scar on my shin!

Welcome from the Yelm area of WA

Born about 50 years too early to be able to enjoy that halftime show. Give me rock, blues, and even country. Hip hop or rap, nope. Game was going well and moving along until the refs started throwing flags on stuff that had been allowed earlier in the game. Hate it when they do that, either call...

A lot of the public money for rails to trails here is to maintain a complete unbroken ROW in case it is needed for later use as a freight or passenger rail line again. This is especially important near population centers for future light rail use. Once a rail corridor is broken up it can be...

Old RR ROW being converted to trails can get quite interesting. My parents property near Bellingham had an old Interurban railway ROW across it. It was found in the deed that when it was no longer used as a railway the ROW would revert to the surrounding property owners, the local power company...

I have a 6 year old 1734e, have no complaints about it. The chassis is Iseki and the engine Shibura. I don't think that Iseki's engines at the time were tier 4 compliant. No complaints about the engine other than it always wants to regen when it is time to put it away for the day. I think you...

I think we may have stolen this thread a little. When I graduated from college my first real job was with a timber company, working on a survey crew. One of the office engineers (by title not education or license) was a 65 year old man who started in the woods at about 15 years old (1926?). I...

Here in Washington state they used Burts Solar compass. Mix that with mountainous terrain, heavy old growth forest and lots of overcast days, there were some kind of sketchy surveys, the standard was 1:100. I came to photogrammetry from a cadastral survey crew doing a lot of GLO retracement...

It depends a lot on what the accuracy standards are for the product desired. When I retired 6 years ago airborne GPS/IMU data was good to around a half a meter. DTM data has also been improving, when I started in photogrammetry 40 years ago we had to produce the DTM from controlled photography...

The term "aerial photos" that I see in these posts when referring to GIS and Google maps is incorrect. The images that you see are correctly called Orthophotos. These are created from aerial photos or satellite imagery by correcting the image displacement caused primarily by elevation changes...

I5 is open now, we didn't get much rain yesterday, a few hundredths at most. The tide is receding at this point. My understanding is that I5 was closed as a precaution, WSDOT was afraid that the flood would go over it, but it creasted without doing so. The last time it flooded there it did go...

Official rain total for our neighborhood, 10 inches in 24 hours! I knew we had a lot but that explains the creeks running through the front and back pastures here.

Puget sound region is now cut off in all directions road wise. All the passes are closed until Sunday and I5 is closed through Lewis county because of Chehalis River flooding. And the Columbia River Gorge is closed on both the north and south sides.

Snow is gone, but the rain is here. Almost 5 inches since last night. Water flooding parts of my property that haven't flooded in about 20 years! No problems for me and no flood damage to our home or shop, just a very impressive amount of water!

44° and windy yesterday with a downpour last night, almost all of our xmas snow gone this morning. Whent to town upper 30s and low forties. Heavy fall of grappel started about 1500 ft from our driveway, ground was white when we got to the house. Freezing rain and snow mix since, a bit of an ice...