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I just got through with the first brush hogging of my front 12 acres since my tank was dug last August. The tank is about 1.5 acres, but with all the rain quite a bit of grass and weeds are flooded and I can't get in there to mow it. So while the place otherwise looks good, around the tank is...

My father-in-law in Missouri just called me about a tractor he is looking at. It is a demo model with 6 hours on it and he has been quoted $19,800 for the L3010HST with R4 tires and a 5' Rhino cutter. Also a loader. I told him this sounds high to me. Looking back at the archives it appears...

I called a used tractor dealer in the Dallas area and he says he has a John Deere 54" tiller for $1000. He says the owner didn't use it much and it appears to be in very good condition. At this point I don't know how old it is, but he claims the guy paid $2800 for it. Does this sound like a...

Back about Christmas there was thread about when to use a disk vs when to use a tiller. Of my 24 acres I have about 2 acres of bald fill dirt that I need to tear up to get some grass going (if it ever stops raining). I have intended to get a tiller, but because of the incredibly high price of...

Don\'t pull the loader Well I stuck my 2710 yesterday. Couldn't get to anything to tie on to so I hooked the chain hook to the lip on top of the loader bucket and hooked the other end to my 4X4 Suburban. Bad move. In pulling the tractor out I pulled a dent in the bucket - about half an inch...

I have a couple of my 24 acres that I plan to till for a new "lawn". It is heavy clay that came out of the bottom of a newly dug tank and so I need to till some type of organic material into it. I don't really want to spend more than $2K for a tiller for my 2710. A plumber friend of mine paid...

Or maybe an idiot alert. For about the 200th time I have forgotten that my front end loader had tools in it. Today I put up a TV antenna (stood in the bucket to get up high). I had all my tools in there, including my BRAND NEW cordless drill my son got me for Christmas. Heading back to the...

We are trying to build a small dog pen which consists of about 25 posts and 150' of welded wire fencing. Got up early and went 28 miles to rent a one-man hole digger. In our damp heavy clay that came out of the bottom our our newly dug tank, it would dig only 6" and bog down. Did the 56 mile...

A plumber frend of mine installed my septic yesterday and brought along is new JD 4200 with backhoe. He didn't dig the big hole with it (his big yellow JD did that), but his son got up under my porch awning and finished digging the trench. I didn't drive it but it is an impressive looking...

Well we close on the sale of our 2000 square foot house in a small town on Nov 30 and have to be out Dec 15. Hoping to have our shop/living quarters on our 24 acres ready to move into in time. Recently a couple of friends have told us "You'll like it for a while, then you will get tired of...

Well I have managed to misplace my B2710 manual. Could someone tell me if there are any maintenance items to take care of at 150 hours? Bird?

A few weeks ago I spent $15,000 on my place having a road built, a 1.5 acre pond dug, and paids built for my shop and house. The fill dirt and the dam dirt is all clay that came out of the pond down to 10 feet deep or so. It is dense yellow clay and I doubt if anything would ever grow in it...

The heavy equipment has arrived on my 24 acres. They will get started in the morning, building my road, making a 1.5 acre "lake", and some pads for my shop and house. They are also going to push some mesquite and locust trees down. The equipment for building the tank is a BIG JD tractor - I...

Well, as I said earlier I now have a well. I still don't have any power, but I need to pour a slab and build an insulated well house. I have an idea what to do - I need to leave access to the well shaft in case service is needed on the submersible pump. I can't find any advice anywhere on the...

Well its nut cuttin' time on my water. I finally got the bid from the Rural Water system for connecting. It is a mere $10,250 (after I talked them down by $575). I've talked to 4 water well drillers. Basically the price per foot is the same but they are telling me all kinds of different...

I just got in off the tractor after fighting the results of putting off my first mowing of the pasture this year. We had quite a display of wildflowers, and my wife wouldn't let me shred the field 'til the flowers quit blooming. I just got this 12 acres in shape last year, and I think it was...

I went to my dealer to pick up my finish mower that they had to fix and decided to take close look at the BX2200. I had mentioned last week that it was awful small for $10K. I take all of that back. I actually went right of to it and looked it over and it looks like a great machine. No...

Well I just got through putting my beloved finish mower on my trailer to be taken to the dealer in the morning. It appears the the deck area around one of the spindles is bent, and the left blade is digging into the ground. My 27-year-old nephew says he backed into a stump and then it started...

I think we should add a new class of member. This should be above "Star Member". The ones who should be in this class, well I won't mention any names but the initials are "BIRD" and "MCHALKLEY" . Back in the seventies during the CB radio craze, everyone in the county had a base station. We...