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10 thousand dollars for 4 injectors installed.... jesus christ. Sorry you had to swallow that one. ECU as common denominator... interesting. I am struggling to understand what aspect of fuel control the ECU could incorrectly instruct that would lead to mechanical failures, though. The...

Lol right until you forget it's in there, and grab a log and smush your chainsaw on it. And then dump it out in the log pile. Lots of stories about people forgetting what is in the bucket until you go to use it. I put all my tools into a dirt pile once.

^ fried, I think he was joking. Chillllllll, bud. $65/sheet does kinda blow, though. 4x8 or 4x10?

neat. I wonder what those blue hoses on the excavator booms were for.

fake news, you shoulda gone with the gas engine instead. ;)

Same here, construction is currently ramping up despite the lumber prices and subsequent 20-30% surcharge on new buildings! Stock market success could be some of it, but I think a lot of it is also just general paranoia and a desire to invest in tangible, hard assets. But if you look at a...

Congrats! Thats gonna be an awesome machine for you. Start slowly. Check all the loader bolts and wheel lug bolts for proper torque asap. Check fluid levels and scan around for leaks like a hawk for the first several hours of use. Read your owners manual front to back. I would buy it with...

I was thinking they should just ram it with whichever cargo ship is sitting and waiting to go the other direction.

Foot start for a cold saw (mine takes 5-8 pulls especially if I ran the tank dry previously). Drop start when it's warm or hot, its just so much easier.

Amen to this! I do love how when you're splitting wood that is fresher or wetter, you can segregate it to it's own IBC tote and move it to the back of your storage. So instead of trying to burn wet wood in October you wait until March (or better yet, the following winter) to touch that tote...

Gravel prices are very regional, up to 3x differences for same product sometimes. Live near a gravel pit in a semi-economically depressed area? Almost dirt cheap. Live in wealthy suburbs? Eyeball gouging. Also depends on how far your truck driver has to go to get and deliver it, of course...

I'm not sure I would even agree with this anymore for the newest engine generations - in daily driving anyway. GM hurt the 6.6L L8T a bit by sticking to the 6-spd trans, but it will probably still pull mid teens mpg pretty easily. IE about the same as a Dmax, just with cheaper fuel. Now when...

^ Lol I doubt it. All you need is 10 minutes with a flash tuner to add a crazy HP/Torque boost anyway.

Yeah good advice in here so far. Since you appear to have modest elevation to work with, all you truly need is to contour the land so that nothing puddles and it all gently flows away, down your swale. Your original idea to put wood underground and cover with mulch would have been a total...

Look at the actual power curve though. Might peak at 4000, but it's well over 400 lbf-ft at 2000rpm already. IE more than a Cummins 12V that used to be the holy grail. People seemed to drive dump trucks and haul heavy trailer loads with those back in the day just fine.... now we're in a crazy...

I know what you mean about many scams having a similar life story or backstory explaining the need to sell. But they also usually have numerous errors that make things easy to catch. dbchaplin's post was pretty immaculate, and it all makes sense to me. Just need pics that line up with the...

As someone who dyno tests the exact engines we are discussing on a daily basis, I find your position interesting and somewhat misinformed. Commercial and heavy vehicles are primarily all diesel for the torque, and fuel economy. But there is no inherent reason why an internal combustion engine...

I use a landscape rake and rake it by hand until I feel like I'm gonna puke. Then rest and repeat for a few days until all 1000" feet of my driveway are done on both sides. Ugh. Then I remember that feeling whenever I am plowing snow, and I watch my snow rolling off the rear blade like a...

Never using the brakes.... wears them out? Talk about making sense.... 🤪 I said to have at it, and drive what ya want. Life's too short to care about other peoples decisions that much. But it's also kind of silly to pretend like what you drive on the road or parking lot doesn't affect other...

You make a fair point, but most people dont daily drive the Corvette. And even if you do, it drives smoothly, it's easy to fit into parking spots and easily gets over 20 mpg. I meant more that you are doing yourself a disservice by buying more truck than you need, because it is expensive, and...

I don't quite understand why we are swinging dicks on a 3.5L EcoBoost in a 1/2 ton vs a Cummins in a 3/4 or 1 ton. Different purposes. Neither is truly "better" - They are both great. That said, for a weekend warrior like myself, I would much rather have a 3.5 EcoBoost w/ 10 spd and max tow /...

I want a UTV - for both a little fun on the trails, and general utility/towing. But I cant financially prioritize buying a new one at this time. So have been looking used. Problem is, inflation and market pressures are pushing up the used prices right along with the new unit prices. I fully...

DBH = diameter at breast height; how you commonly rate tree size to ignore the flare in diameter down at ground level. I guess all the loggers in the olden days were buxom women or something? Sweet, gt! You own an excavator! Damn, I am a bit jelly over here. Dig some stuff asap and share pics!

Umm... the land is wet because it is low and directly adjacent or even part of the creek. right? You cant just chop the trees down, turn the soil over and expect it to be a nice dry pasture. You would have to physically raise the land, with many tons/yards of fill. Except that you will be...

Oh Lol I actually didn't even see the NCT on the post - just guessed based on you posting something that said Ontonagon. Would love to hike some of that stretch someday.

Is it part of the north country trail? I'm eager to really improve my perimeter loop trail this year and start ripping laps on my son's new (to us) go kart. I've always wanted a nice mountain bike trail on my property, but hand installing the trail simply proved way too time consuming and I...

Also have a former coworkers who moved on to working in the Livonia transmission plant and says the same thing - avoid the Ford 10 spd. But to be fair, they dont seem to be acting up or failing in the field. Maybe they fixed things?

Good call with the Range chip, my coworkers also swear by them. The cylinder deactivation system was "active fuel management" or AFM, where they always cut off the same 4 cylinders - Not a good idea. It might not burn much extra oil at first, but seems like when they cross ~100k miles, it can...

This time of year makes it seem crazy that we technically live in the same state; such different climates. Our ground down in the southeast corner is thawed and DRY, grass is trying to turn green but struggling - tomorrow's rains should help. Should get some flowers poking up any day now. I...

^ ductless mini-splits basically just use valving to reverse the flow of refrigerant. You can think of it like running your A/C in reverse - instead of rejecting heat to the outdoor environment, you send cold refrigerant through the outdoor heat exchanger to absorb heat from the outside air...

No it was the safety chains only! Two silver safety chains, and you can see two more rusty big chains that the semi donated to securing things initially.

This! My personal preference is for 10-12" logs/rounds that I can quickly split into 4 pieces. Split once, rotate 90°, split both halves again at the same time. Easy to handle a 12" round. Sometimes you don't get to choose what size wood you have for firewood production, but if you're going...

I think this about sums it up nicely, actually. The Ford 7.3L gas and GM/Chevy 6.6L gas v8s are rated for a maximum of 14k or 15k lbs w/ conventional trailers, anyway. Gooseneck steps it to 18k or 20k lbs, but I would agree thats a bit much for the torque of a gasser. Doable, maybe...

Not to mention there is almost more expense tied up in the emissions control system than the internal combustion engine itself. As far as mpg anecdotes, folks need to realize that while your old 12V or 24V cummins or LBZ duramax could get close to 20 mpg, a new one simply ain't gonna. Buddy of...

My day job is dyno testing engines for an auto supplier. Far more than 30 minutes... every new engine has to pass dozens of mules on multi HUNDRED hour durability testing at full load. They can take it all day long. I think perhaps people cringe when revving up hard to pull a trailer up a...

As if we have a choice in the compact tractor range? What are you talking about here.

Well, not necessarily true. The refinery streams are totally different and there can easily be independent price effects as a result. Right after the low-sulfur mandate, there were plenty of times that diesel was 25-40% more expensive than gas.

I bought my '03 2500HD with the gas 6.0L LQ4 mainly because I needed: rust free, low miles, that I could afford. 13k for my gasser w/ 88k miles instead of 20+ for a duramax (or cummins). My 6.0L runs great and has decent power, but the 4-speed 4L80 blows. Even with 4.10 gears it's not quick.

Hay dude, obviously you need a diesel. You ton crazy loads almost daily. Most of us aren't like you. OP was talking about buying a truck as a daily driver, and plow truck, in northern ohio where there are no mountains whatsoever. Maybe a couple modest river valleys over east of Cleveland...

Man.... is my tractor the only so obviously building up a full layer of old grease? lol. It's everywhere, especially near all the loader pins. I keep trying to ignore it, but a full clean up will be required soon, probably take a whole roll of paper towels to get it off. On other points...

Your truck specs sound AMAZING, lol. Good advice from others thus far. Too bad you don't feel comfortable driving on the roads.... 3.5 miles wouldn't take too long and would sure be faster than loading and unloading it. No sneaky back road route? Cut through some subdivisions? BUT, a...

Yep I think you pretty much nailed it. We had three repair opinions from HVAC folks around here, at $100 a pop, and they all quoted me exorbitant prices just to find the problem before even possibly correcting it. The final company we went for repair with pressurized the system and it held for...

I have a 30k BTU fujitsu halcyon as our main A/C and backup heating. The unit and system itself has been perfectly reliable for 6 years now, BUT, we did have a refrigerant leak that no HVAC company could find. Got a few opinions before spending $1k just to evacuate and recharge it. Working...

I sold 31 black walnut trees after buying my 19 acres in Michigan. Contract looked pretty legitimate but had a couple vague terms. I had my questions about them answered verbally, and got a nice handshake and smile to seal the deal. You can guess what happened next. $2500 in new "cutting...

Can you imagine how hard one would cringe with every bump and dip in the road at speed towing with that setup. Well I would anyway, but who knows, maybe cowboy here didn't worry one bit. If his hitch wasn't bent down so far, he might have decent ground clearance under the trailer tongue.

I used to buy the basic firm-grip 3-pack of gloves from Home Depot for $10 also. But I get holes in the finger tips within a couple hours of hard use, just not worth it. So I graduated to the $13/pair version with reinforced everything. These last for a good loooong time of general use. I...

Holy crap that was a bad idea. Look at the hitch....

Another thing to keep in mind might be the quality of residual oil film for "cold" starting. The last number on a multigrade oil is the HOT rating, at 100C. But on a hot summer day you are still only starting the engine at 30 or 40C max. A 5w30 oil is still thinner than a 10w30 oil at 40C -...

Dang, thats a lot of trail. How many acres do you have?

....sigh. I guess my 1000 ft long driveway is never getting paved, lol. With naturally sandy soil, plenty of seat time on the tractor, and access to a dump trailer, I'm only a few grand into gravel and it's holding up well.

If you have a plate compactor handy, compacting your same #53 mix in 1-2" lifts should make a very tough surface - however: During the spring thaw it can still get mushy, especially once it has mixed in some organic bits over a few years. Crushed or milled asphalt will definitely pack harder...

Lol, right.... it just took 8 years after they did that to kick in? Anyway again to try to get back on subject here, again, both LS and Kioti tractors seem great and reliable. And a fantastic bargain compared to Kubota/Deere.

Geez man, show us on the doll.... where did the UAW hurt you? Your picture is the ancient Packard plant that they started building in 1903. Ceased producing Packards in 1956 and had a couple years making Merlin engines for P51 mustangs to help win WWII. Has ziltch to do with the UAW. What...

Dude. The UAW definitely has a lot of issues and clearly adds cost to US/Nafta manufactured vehicles. But your entire world view is pretty distorted here. Labor costs are most certainly a very real and substantial part of the calculation for where to produce (assemble) an automobile...

Gosh I sure hope you didn't get any on your concrete. Permanent stains unless you grind it off. No work lights in there? so dark....

Is this.... real?

Fair enough. You could always make a section of the causeway with a row of metal or plastic culvert pipes underneath it at the current ground level Sure they might plug up eventually, but you can clean them out easily enough, just a bit of manual labor every several years. They shouldn't ever...

Why the heck would you need grass by easter?! :P Tell wifey it'll be green by the fall. Agree with others, when an area is too wet, you should just wait it out longer. Shoot, a few sunny days in a row and you might be able to start pushing the delivered top soil onto the area from the...

You have a front loader on your tractor, yeah? Dig it into the ground in a suitable location until your bucket is full of soil. Drive to the low area, dump it. Repeat ~100x until your have a raised causeway through the low area.

Yeah sadly that seems to be a common tale around this forum, for those who share dead-end rural roads like yours. Any idea how old that road is? My first thought it that it appears to have basically no engineering behind it, just a old trail in the woods that has slowly sunken down lower over...

I only leave a thin 1-2" packed snow layer on my driveway, to avoid scraping my gravel off with every plow job. Down in southern MI where it snows far less and thaws earlier, this typically melts off fast. So I guess I do.... nothing? When I see the spring thaw coming, I pull my snow banks...

Nice video. A working tractor! She put plants up against the house already? oy. :) Man, your shared "road" could use some widening, ditches, more stone, and a crown. Looks kind of like a shallow greasy trench, lol.

Man... you gotta get that water off the driveway. You need a full ditch on the uphill side, with culverts or box trenches to send it under the driveway every so often, as needed. I also have seasonal crown challenges. I try to keep some crown through the winter so that when the snow piles...

Visually, this update is a big bummer. It is hurting my eyes and I get way less information on the page vs before. Like when clicking today's posts to see the most active threads.... there's far fewer displayed on a page. Functionally, it seems about the same.

Hey folks. Seeking some TBN wisdom on a land plane. We built our house in 2015 and ended up with around a 1000' of gravel driveway. I put in most of the driveway base myself by hauling many a dump trailer load of 2-3" crushed concrete, and getting deliveries of similar sized limestone. Since...

Hi all, Thought I would make a dedicated thread for my bridge project just in case anyone wants to follow along or search for it in the future. We bought our 19 acres in 2012, sold off a couple parcels to get down to 10 acres, of which a little over 2 are on the other side of a modest creek...

Removed ROPS? Or just folded...? C'mon, man. Glad he was rescued in time, surely has a nasty, life-long crush type injury. Man rescued in Thumb region after being pinned under tractor - mlive.com KEEP YOUR ROPS UP!

If it were my property, I would not be able to resist carving in a tractor-able "road" down to the dock. IE, bench-cut in a sloping path. A tooth bar on your loader bucket and a sturdy box blade should be able to get the job done. Hard to tell from the pic if there enough room between the big...

North side of Ann Arbor, Michigan last Friday. Came off M-14 freeway to see a lot of police activity. Dunno if this guy swerved too hard in the roundabout, or if the raised center section (possibly with a bunch of extra snow piled on it) was enough to tip this setup over. I've always thought...

Hey Arly, nice truck! Looks a whole lot like the one my dad just bought: He likes it so far, not many miles yet. Pretty dang expensive, but it's exactly what he wanted.

Which way do you think this line is trending? Again... we have the real temperature data. Feel free to research the issue, if you care. If you don't, fine, but then maybe don't spread disinformation on the internet, please.

Yeah, should be in the owners manual. Here is a screen shot from the manual, for lug nut torque anyway. Might have to make educated guesses on the loader bolts. I can't seem to get the whole manual to upload here.

Well, bad news everyone. Turns out my tractor can manage these IBC cages ok even when filled most of the way up. When empty, these cages are actually a bit lighter than the wooden pallet setups I had been using previously. So even at 2/3 to 3/4 full of wet wood, they lifted ok! Now I might...

I managed to snag a dozen of the totes myself yesterday. Finally found a seller willing to just part with the cages, and not force me to somehow deal with a bunch of chemical stained liners. $25 apiece near Fowerville, MI. PM me if anyone in Michigan needs more info. The sad part is going to...

I'm gonna chime in here, just cause I can. I heat this house entirely with wood: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hkkV5NXOcj4/VhXaX0YX1TI/AAAAAAAAU0I/O8aKpSSTIQE/s640/blogger-image--1774268058.jpg In the two southeast Michigan winters since finishing the house, we've used 5-6 face cords...

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Hi all, This thread is about kind of a random thought I've been having lately. Thanks in advance for reading all this junk and offering any advice. The background: I like all snowsports and want to improve my snowboarding trick ability I have a decent little hill behind my house I live in a...

Hi all, I am kind of a newb when it comes to hydraulics and snow plow technology, so bear with me here. A friend of mine just picked up a worn out jeep that came with a Meyer snow plow and the e47 electric pump / lift cylinder. He is parting out the jeep and has no use for the plow setup...

Hi all, Local craigslist has what appears to be a nice deal, though I've yet to check out the truck in person. It's a 1994 1-ton Dodge ram with the 460 gas engine, 2wd. 157k miles, everything works, but will need new rear tires. Bad picture, sorry...

Tractor-specific weights are about a dollar per pound. That's crazy. So instead, a few emails on craigslist, one hour of driving around, maybe 2 gallons of gas, and I get this nice pile at around 30 cents per pound. Okay, so I realize I need to figure out how to mount all these, and they're...

Hi everyone, Hopefully some of you can help me select a tooth-bar for my tractor's loader bucket. The tractor is a Cub Cadet 7305. 30HP, 4WD, solid little tractor made my Mitsubishi. Last year I found a discounted ratchet rake from tractor supply, and it has been great for clearing brush...

Hi all, If there's one thing I've learned from this section of the forum, it's that there are a LOT of different ways to build a shed/barn. This is my first attempt at building anything substantial. While it's been a lot of fun thus far, my body is a wreck after 3 days on the job, haha! My...

You forgot kuboda. :)

But of course. Didn't have any pics with me when I posted that. So here are some pics of the hat setup (just two twist ties fed through holes poked in both the hat and the cup, tied down inside the cup side to not poke my head). And an example catch after working outdoors for an evening.

Check. Post hole auger, middle buster, box blade. Thank you, craig's list. The only downside today was that I didn't have time to try any of them out! Soon. Maybe now I can start replacing some of my home brew fencing.

Hi everyone, thanks in advance for any helpful insight here. I really want (need) a box blade for my new tractor. I am trying to break ground on my new property - repair the scraggly little bit of actual "driveway" and add in a long new extension, and make smoother trails over my generally...

Or otherwise modified rear 3-pt implements for enhanced practicality! I don't even have a box blade yet, but it is very high on the desired-implements list. It sounds like a lot of folks here keep it on the rear of their CUTs almost all the time. I am in the process of breaking ground on an...

And sold it at a Cub Cadet dealership! haha. Just picked up this minty fresh Cub Cadet 7305 on Saturday. (story of my purchase) Hadn't even considered looking for a used Cub Cadet CUT, but when this came up on craigslist for a good price and I realized what it was, I jumped on it. Had been...

I was just thinking how it seems almost everyone on this site is a rural homeowner or farmer, with some commercial contractors/landscapers in the mix. Most of the time pictures depict a tractor sitting in a rural or agricultural environment, as expected. While I just bought 19 acres of...

Well, I finally found a bargain for a nice used machine in the size, weight and power range that I have been targeting (28-35 HP, 2500+ lbs, under 5' wide). Back story: my wife and I just bought a 19 acre parcel of vacant land. We are currently renting a house just under 2 miles away, and the...

Hi all, Well I was getting desperate to have a bit of motorized assistance out on the new parcel of land I just bought, so after scouring craigslist for a few weeks, decided to jump on what appeared to be a nice bargain. It's a White GT 1622, model year unknown, though probably between '75 and...

Hi all, Glad to have finally joined the forum after lurking for the last couple months. I just closed on 19 acres of vacant land here in Southeast Michigan, and am very excited to start getting out there and doing some work! The land is mostly former pasture that has been left to...