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Get some stuff called Jomax. You add a little bleach and water to it. Not sure what else. The stuff in Jomax keeps the bleach from bleaching, only doing algae killing and cleaning.

We had a house in NJ on a hill, 40 miles west of NYC. On the really rare clear day, we could see the twin towers. Course, they're all cloudy to see them now.

We have a metal recycling place that we take this stuff to.

Think I'm about settled on cedar or redwood for the rail tops and keep the roof rubber/gutter underneath for drainage. No Trex. If I can convince my wife and/or get a builder who's done it, might go with aluminum deck and remove the roof rubber drainage but use or relocate gutter underneath...

Mowed the grass yesterday with the Ryobi ZT. First time to mow with much grass growth. Have had a lot of rain recently. Did good. Mowed one area that I normally only mow once/yr. Had to go over spots with tall grass a 2nd and sometimes 3rd time to get it all. Typical.

That size is probably about right to run the well without having to turn everything else off to start it. Once had a portable 4500 watt generator. Ran the refrig (2) and freezers (2) in the house plus computer and lights but had to keep the well pump off. Turned everything off when we ran the...

I used some old tire chains, connected together (e.g. 2 sets of chains). Just run them around the outside of the chimney. Vacuumed out the stuff from the bottom inside the house. Had a wood stove in the basement of the NJ house, and the Vt house was heated by a leaky stove. Never had...

It is up high enough to put a 350 gallon tank underneath. About 6 ft.

We're at the point where our deck needs replacing again. Replaced the boards on the deck and rail top boards about 10 years ago. Two or 3 years ago, I had to replace several boards. Before that, I found that many of the torx screws had corroded and replaced more than half of them with SS...

Amen. No problems at all in 9 years. When our main 4 ton heat pump went out recently, I tried to sell the wife on replacing with a split unit. No sale. Went with an Amana which I'd never heard of.

So's Fujitsu.

Long as it isn't GL5 like in the FWD system, I'd think it would be okay.

We've 2 Fujitsu inside units and 1 outside. The 1 outside can serve 5 other inside units. Quiet. Efficient. No backup heat coils. Main heat pump servicing the basement area failed recently. It was nearly a month before we got a replacement. In the meanwhile, the Fujitsu kept the basement...

When I had air cooled gasoline engines, I used 5w30 M1 in them. Now all electric. No gas. No oil. No gear boxes. No belts.

Get a Ryobi or Ego or even a Gravely, and they will not have any belts. No gear box either. No gas. No oil.

We've a 40v Ryobi carbon fiber one. As strong as a gasoline engined one. Can be had with a 4aH battery. I've both 2 and 4 aH batteries.

I'd try some Dawn Powerwash. Works great in my kitchen. Often times, you spray it on, and the foaming action is enough to clean things without any scrubbing at all.

Thought common law in most states was if you used or lived in an area long enough, it became yours.

One of our host sons graduated LSU as a chemical engineer like me. He was working for a large oil company on doing fuel cells for homes or vehicles. Lost contact with him and hear nothing from that area about it. Would make more sense to use natural gas to generate the hydrogen, e.g...

Amen. 5w30 or 0w30 even better. According to your manual, it will be good for 78 degrees and above. 0w is good for down to -40 F/C. Thing about 0wxx oils is that they will be "caught" and pumped by the oil pump virtually instantly at almost any temperature. I once had a VW Cabrio with...

10w30 is pretty much the same as 30 weight. Think 30 weight is probably 15w30. You've probably a head gasket leak.

We call them web worms. Bag worms are in bags like shown by a couple other posters. DO NOT use Seven to kill them like my neighbor was doing. First, ask yourself whether they're destructive to the tree. Unless they're pretty much all over it, they actually aren't. If they are fairly...

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Got 0w30 M1 ESP from Advance Auto online for the last 2025R change. Plan to go to this in the Isuzu diesel generator driver next year. Had been using VW's Catrol 5w30 for its TDIs for the last 7 or 8 years because I had a VW TDI for nearly 7 years and then got VW $ and used it to buy more of...

You don't need bins. Just make piles. I collect kitchen compost (any non meat) in an old garbage container from 1970 in NJ. Throw in some mulchy (brown) material from the compost/mulch pile when I get a significant amount of kitchen stuff. I flatten out one of the piles when the garbage...

I don't wear anything more than that either but have the top to a Frontier "document holder" as a cold thermos holder and have a small tool box from the 1025R. Use the bottom to a Frontier doc holder to hold the fire extinguisher. Oh, got a tool belt wrapped around the bottom of the grill...

Same thing here. Wife suggested I look at getting a bike. I was awed by the prices!

One used a lot is 2,4D, but it can easily be vaporized and can condense several miles away and kill someone's shrubs or vegetables. Other stuff like Grazon can live on almost forever through the digestive track of animals and show up as toxic manure and compost. Identify what you want to kill...

Our master bath shower has a seat in the corner of the shower away from the shower head. Also a grab rail. I use both and put down a mat because the bottom is very slippery, especially with neuropathy in my feet. In the summer, we both shower outside though. Could use my chair cane in it, but...

I've switch very old engines from dino to synthetic with absolutely no problems. The Gravely 5665 actually stopped using oil. Think synth blends are a silly idea. Either use a cheaper dino oil or go full synthetic or hydrotreated like Rotella typically probably is.

Agree. Greedy, dishonest or uncareful people going into deep pockets causing us all problems.

Corn and okra and rhubarb and asparagus are some of the vegetables that need fertilizer. Others are better without it, as they'll just make a lot of foliage and be too happy to bear fruit. Dried chicken manure works great. I never had to fertilize at all when growing corn and okra in the big...

The ROC women beat the US handily in volleyball.

I've a funnel with a long snout on it and a tappering hole at the end of the snout that I use to get liquids into tough spots. Didn't make it. Got it somewhere but do not recall where. You could Goop a hose to the end of a regular funnel and get it done that way. Just let the Goop sit overnight.

Or a 10w30 diesel oil. Better would be 0w30 for better protection at startup.

I'd try some Seafoam. Haven't had to take a carb apart since using it.

Used the circular saw and one drill of the new set today. The saw is sweet. Cuts through plywood like a hot knife through butter. The stubby drill with the auto install of screw tips is a bit too fast, and you cannot seem to slow it down. Supposed to be able to do this with the trigger, of...

Guess you haven't used enough yet to know oil comsumption. The 36v Stihl that my wife has now gobbles oil. The previous 2 Kobalt 40v ones weren't too bad on oil, and you could very easily see the level via the indicator, not so with the Stihl.

I got my last JD engine oil filter online. I just put in the filter #. Genuine JD oil filter. If still under warranty, I'd replace with a Toolcat one. Otherwise, do a cross reference (maybe an auto parts store can do this) and get a Wix or whatever.

Got the tools today during lunch hour: 2 drills, light, circular & reciprocating saws, 2 batteries and 1 charger. Charged the bigger battery already. These tools have some bells and whistles that the PC tools didn't, e.g. vacuum port for the circular saw to attach a vaccuum to it, extra hand...

Singaporeans are bad about picking up the worst of the way English pronounce English and adding their own. We once asked a Singaporean where some place was. We took a while to sort out what he said. He said, "Out behind tha cah pahk." Behind the car park.

Like "Melbun" for Melbourne".

Saw my neighbor yesterday using Seven to spray for some web worms. I'm sure he never consulted his county extension office, because we would never recommend Seven. I wonder about birds eating insects that have ingested stuff like Seven that kills everything. Maybe even birds if they eat such...

Wonder who Lowes has their current contract with to make Kobalt tools.

The wife helped me to cut up some old raised bed boards I had removed today by running 2 extension cords out to where they were so I could use the old 120v circular saw. Never heard of left handed circular saws. Didn't even know they made them.

My Porter Cable circular saw's brushes apparently got too short. Then the recip saw blade would not eject. Time for a new set. Lowes didn't have the PC circular saw in stock. So, I went through Lowes' listings and liked a Kobalt set with near the same stuff as what I have but in 24v...

We're good on the right. That neighbor is a naked gardener like me. We know the liine +/- 10 feet. That's the easement for maintenance anyway. Neighbor to the left is a pissant territorial rat. Had stakes put in about every 75 to 100 ft down the line. Neighbor on the other side removed...

One nice thing available on the 5665 Gravely (12 hp) was the steering brakes. Could steer it with just that one black handle between the handle bars. I was lucky in finding the brakes at an ex Gravely dealer in town. Otherwise, I just could not handle the thing on the hill around and behind...

Rotella always seems to have good prices. Think it's a hydrotreated oil, Group III maybe IV. M1 and Amsoil are higher level and a bit higher in price. I've an Exxon retiree; so I tend to go with M1 stuff since I know from our research people that it was the best. Never really heard of...

The bush hog nuts are "torqued" at 450 ft lb. I just use a guesstimated 80 # push on a 6 ft piece of pipe places over my 3/4 inch socket handle. A 600 ft lb value could be obtained with a 100 # estimated push. Don't think you have to be that accurate for these kinds of torques.

One of our master gardeners, an ex marine and now sorta "substantial", once bought some tool belts for all of us. Well, for most of us, the tool belts were just a bit too much. I've mine fastened around the base of the FEL guard between the hood and the FEL on the 2025R and have a small sledge...

Hmm. Get a box big enough for it and put it in it and place on porch. Put appropriate mailing labels, etc. on it. Let porch theves get it.

One of ours is sitting in the creek overflow area and just rotting. Too large and uneven to do much with it. Have piled other tree parts in various gullies we have, but this one stump is just too big and uneven to do much other than push it around with the FEL.

You need to put some cross pieces in that area where the child is, after filling it in with some big rock. The cross pieces can be limbs up to 4x4s. That's what I've put in where I've had washing, schooled by what they do in our Ivy Creek Natural Area which has lots of trails on slopes. If...

We've VoiP with Xfinity/Comcast. No problems. I have to wait until the other person finishes because I read the captions translatiing what they said on the screen. Have to wait for the captions. I tell them this, in case they're wondering why I don't respond right away.

I had to run my 4010 @ PTO speed, which is about 3,000 rpm on it and probably the same for the 4105.

I use a silicon spray lube or similar. You don't want anything that attracts dirt/grit.

Plenty of capability for what you want. I've my eye on a B2300 for when to replace the JD 2025R. The 18.5 hp 4010 was plenty for me doing what you want to do.

Could be a tight valve lash. Had this happen on a JD 14SB mower.

Think I'm going to take your idea for when (near 400 hours now, change at 450) I change the HST fluid on the 2025R. I've a 12v Ironton pump bought from Northern Tool that will be good for it. Might even use it to put the fluid in, as I could watch for it to show up in that circular sight...

I've been sucking the oil out with an oil extractor on all 3 tractors. Checked it on the first one. Then opened the drain plug. NOTHING.

Had turfs on the first series 2 JD. Had LOTS of front tire problems. Have had R4s on the 1025R and now on the 2025R. No tire problems at all. Yeah, a bit harder riding. Haven't tried lowering the pressure on the rear ones. Was suggested to another OP who brought this up. DO NOT lower...

Hope your 240D is as reliable and as good as our 240D was to us for 25 years.

I tighten engine oil filter by hand as tight as I can. Had a filter come loose once following their directions. For the hydraulic filter, you have to use a wrench to snug it up. Use the 2 finger wrench on every filter. Never had a problem.

I had a MacKissic TPH-122 (now 123) for 16 years. It's great for shredding leaves, and I did do about 100 bags of free leaves I picked up from the town people who just threw them away. Shredding does reduce their volume by about 1/2 to 2/3. However, you kinda have to dribble the leaves into...

Wheel weights and at101 tires, agree. I've a $4,500 Ryobi ZT480e. It would mow the acre but does not have the grip. I went skidding down onto the neighbor's grass down our back hill where there's a compound slope, e.g. sideways and down. It climbs like a billy goat, but you have to back down...

There's little space to the side for the rachet hole like this one has. The one I use (the 2 fingered one from NAPA) has the ratchet hole right in the center. Doesn't need clearance.

There are mark downs on the separate items amounting to $70. That accounts for most of it. I bought them separate because I bought the carbon fiber shafted grass whip. Later, I bought a 2aH battery for the grass whip to lighten the load of handling it. 2aH is what I have for the Kobalt 40v...

Not enough room on the tractor engine for this type.

My old MacKissic chipper/shredder seemed just enough and was out at about the same distance as a ballast box. It was about 300 #. This is with rear loaded tires, too.

I bought one similar to this at NAPA several years ago: Amazon.com: ABN 3/8 Inch Drive Oil Filter Removal Tool Adjustable Wrench Tools Canister, for Removing 2.5-3.25in Diameter Spin-On: Automotive

Doubt I could. Could not handle the Gravely 5665 until I found turning brakes for it.

I've one or two friends, ex military who got free heating aids from VA. If one of mine ever need replacement, think I might go that route. Just hate messing with the VA, which remains a separate entity. It ought to be integrated into other medical services and just act as our "insurance"...

My Gravely did not have an oil filter. The connecting rods keep being dipped into the oil to sling it up top. Doubt anything is going to settle to the bottom. Give up the non detergent oil. It was good in its day. Detergent oil is available now. Use it.

Your water is likely acidic. Below 7.0 pH corrodes copper lines. We have copper house pipes. Had 8.0 pH when we moved here via one of those free tests. Continued at that level for nearly 10 years. Tests then showed it had dropped below 7.0. Put in a lime bed. Test it every every week with...

I was kept from going completely deaf with otosclerosis about 40 years ago by getting a stapedectomy in my right ear at that time. Had like Superman hearing for a week or so until my brain turned the volume down. About 20 years later the left ear developed it as well but also had some nerve...

I see no reason at all to continue to use non detergent oils. I had an old Gravely 12hp 5665. It used oil until I switched it to M1. After 2nd or 3rd change, it had stopped using oil, probably freeing up the stuck rings.

I vote for PVC. It's tough stuff. Unless your pump rate is way in excess of 5 gpm, 3/4" is big enough. I've about 1100 feet of 3/4" just running down the hill and along a maintenance road to a little stream below. I run over it with the tractor a number of times in 2 or 3 places. Has...

Multi trunk and leaves say hazelnut. You must have at least 2 of them. I've had 1 for a long time and haven't had any nuts. Transplanted a 2nd and 3rd one near it last year. Originally planted 2, but one died.

I sold the 40v Kobalt trimmer and bought a 40v Ryobi one: MUCH more powerful. Think the 40v is still brushed in Kobalt line. They went to 24v for brushless stuff and even 80v in their mower. Told me they don't know what they're doing.

When I had the big garden, I'd plant 2 half rows of corn starting about mid April and on until about mid June about a week to 10 days apart, each 1/2 row. That spread the harvest out.

In NJ, I just did the dormant oil sprays. Nothing else. Never got worms. There, I never got the witches crook either nor brown rot.

Kids in NJ were once shooting some turtles in a lake. They killed a man working on his roof about a mile away with a ricochet. 22s are bad about that and can go forever when shot into the air. We could never ever go squirrel shooting like we used to when I was growing up, e.g. shooting...

A guy came into the extension office one day. Said he wanted to grow big peaches like he had in had. He'd bought all kinds of pesticides, etc. to get the job done. I felt like telling him, "If you want to poison yourself, just go buy some at the grocery store". I didn't. Should have. For...

I was using a 22 at that age, often unsupervised. I was fine, but I had a cousin who would have been crazy enough not to be trusted with one unsupervised at that age. Some kids just want to shoot and kill all sorts of stuff. Human? Just another thing I can shoot.

My territorial rat neighbor to the left hired an outfit that used a Cat-equipped flail mower on the front to clear out between his trees. He'd been renting out the place in the 20 years prior to this year, and it had gotten quite overgrown.

Been a long time since I've had an ampmeter in a vehicle. As I recall, their indication jumps around a lot. Probably why they cut them out because they cause more alarm than help in many cases. Doesn't sound as though your alternator is charging as it should.

5w30 is what I used in the VW TDI for near 7 years and near 70k miles, changed every 10k miles. Used same 5w30 Castrol from VW dealer in JD 2025R and Isuzu generator. Can get 0w30 M1 EsP from Advance Auto now. That's what is in the 2025R now.

Relocating any wild animal is against the law in Virginia.

I think they've been heated and bent intentionally. Looks as though they did not line up with their end points unless they're bent. Maybe other owner's of B2600s can supply some pics of theirs.

I fought the groundhog war in NJ and lost, but one thing that would run them out of a hole is ammonia. I've done in lots of them by just watching their hole. Head pop up? No head or head full of 410 lead. I'd kill 20 or so every year and could not keep ahead of them in NJ. My boss and I...

Just because it's making a lot of noise (including the engine), it doesn't not mean that it is working very hard. Our VW TDI made very little noise, and it worked harder than the engine on my JD 2025R.

The JD2025R will do both, but the JD4010 would not: just did not have the pumping capability.

I somehow knew from my own and engineering knowhow that 18 hp was enough for me. Looked at JD (who had one then) and Kubota offerings. Nothing else in our area at that time. Think one of the present Kubota dealers had Yanmar. JD was, by far, the closest dealership. Still wish I could get...

You could easily drive a WM WC88 chipper. Will make lots of chips. We've a WC46, which is adequate for us.

Just plug up the outlet and mulch them. First thing I did on the Ryobi ZT was to put the plug in place and to remove the discharge flap.

Never bagged leaves. Just discharge inward until about to choke up. Then make a round discharging outward. Then go back to inward. Worked well on 5 acres of church property with lots of mature oak trees. Leaves do not acidify the soil. Do initially but then go neutral.

I agree: right hand height adjustment for the lower lift arms.

I bent the center bar and broke both (separately) tensioning (can't think of the name for them) gizmos because I did not have them tight when running the bush hog. Tighten everything up very tight if you've something heavy, like bush hog, ballast box, WM or similar chipper. The right hand lift...

You cannot put 2 generators together unless you have some way of electronically making sure they don't multiply and give you maybe as much as 480 volts. I agree with some others that you can probably run all that load with 1 generator. I once had a 4400 watt one with similar loads, but I had...

I did a newsletter for 16 years. I always resized images down to 500 to 700 pixels wide, plenty good enough for viewing on the computer and typically 50 to 150k instead of the 4 to 12MB that pictures right off cameras come out as. With the big images, you have to scroll around to see them all.

What took us off Kobalt is their going to a 24v battery for their brushless stuff. Why? Then they have 80v for their lawn mowers. Not good engineering.

The local county fair always had some in the past. Haven't been to it in years now though.

We turn off the well pump when we're going on a trip. Could still happen even at night when we're asleep.

You should have enough hp to engage at idle speed. I do this on the 2025R and did on the 1025R. The 4010 with only 18.5 hp needed to be revved a bit. Otherwise, it would die.

Have some of that, too. Will check price next time to replace wasp & hornet spray.

Normally don't experience them well into July and August, but yellow jackets got me mowing this afternoon. They actually moved some rocks in front of a blueberry bush and have a nest in there. Got a note to myself and told the wife to remind me to go out 6-7 pm and spray with wasp and hornet...

Does Lowes have their own brand now? Not a Kobalt? We had 2 Kobalt 40v brushed motor chain saws. Wore out the brushes on the 1st one and broke a cog on the 2nd one. This was with A LOT of use in clearing a 100 yard long pile of debris and start of cutting on downed trees among some...

I'd use the Rustoleum Rust Reformer as primer. It will react with any rust and turn the iron oxide to iron sulfide. I bought a Farmhand sprayer at TSC several years ago. Sprayed a Gravely rotary plow and then a JD soil ripper. Years ago, I sprayed a whole Alfa Duetto with a tiny touchup...

I grease the Ujoints for implements when I put them on. Where's the grease from a Ujoint going to go? They last the life of the vehicle generally if sealed up. If you do not overgrease them and blow things apart, the grease isn't going to go anywhere.

Santa Fe sent a 3rd unit. It does not produce any water at all. Sent them the checks I did from what they'd sent for the 1st unit. Got their standard thing that "due to short age of the unit, etc., we're sending another..." We've made an appointment with a local...

Tried milorganite. Didn't work.

Self propulsion is fine. They have a slider that controls maximum speed and also controls starting torque. It's a little bit too loose and too easily moved by brush, accidently brush by the hand, etc. No belts nor gears. Has motor(s) for the wheels and a motor for the blade. The...

I put the white bottle PS in the diesel I put into the generator's 60 gallon tank. Lately, I've been taking fuel from it for the tractor. Otherwise, never used any additive for 39 years in the diesel cars.

Plantain loves shade and compaction.

I use a bench grinder for all blades except pruners/lopers. Use a file on those unless they're really bad. Then take apart and use the bench grinder.

The 3rd Santa Fe is being shipped. By the time it gets here this 2nd unit MIGHT have the humidity down to the 45% set point. It's 51-52 now. Probably not, wavering there. We have the install down pat. We can get it in and out without the 2x4s, etc.

Where'd you get it and ball park price? Love it. Guess it's a stick?

Haven't done it, but good use for used oil. Could use even used hydraulic oil or engine oil. The engine oil would have a bunch more additives to maybe worry over, but hydraulic oil would have little to bother anything.

The Ryobi 40v 21 inch "crosscut" mower has gas power. Great mower. So much easier to trim with because it's lighter than the beastly gas powered stuff. So much easier to pull back on a slope. The crosscut is a self propelled mower. You can get the 21 inch and a 20 inch Ryobi in push, but...

Doubt there is that much difference to justify flushing. I'd just drain and refill with the gear oil. Doubt there are very few additions in either stuff.

I've a Chef's Choice 300. It has 4 different places to run the knife through. Not sure what they all are. Use it for the knives down here in my basement kitchen. Not sure it's any better than the simple 2 tiny file thing behind a handle and guard that I use in the main kitchen. Got the...

I saw a picture of a Cub on here that had a steering wheel to steer it and forward and reverse pedals and a parking brake. On the Ryobi ZT480e (electric), think the parking brake is it, a parking brake. Have to back it down steeper slopes. Little tricky and backwards thinking to pull back to...

Dump while moving and then use the back side of the FEL to level it out. Try different angles. Generally 30-45 degrees works. I did 22 tons as the 1st job for the 4010 way back in 2004.

Just checked the manual for the msa 120 online. No chain oil adjustment.

How is it on oil use and being able to see the oil level easily. These are the Stihl sore spots. Does it use the same 40v batteries, e.g. think hexagonal on ends and long; slide tends to stick; depression area on end of slide to release. What aH batteries do you have?

The Stihl 36v MSA 12 inch uses A LOT of oil. The Kobalts were much better (lower) on oil usage and had a good oil level indicator. Just didn't last mechanically though. Anyone using a Ryobi 40v one? I love the Ryobi grass cutting and whipping stuff, even the battery ZT. Any comparisons I...

Think mine says 400 hours. To me, that's 400 hours after the 50 hour change. I changed just the filter @ 200 hours. So, on the clock, 400 hours on the oil is 450 hours on the clock. Don't think time makes much difference on UDT oil. I've never taken a hydraulic coupling loose on any of my...

A dual fence will confuse the hooved rats. Here're my daylilly blossoms thriving behind the nylon dual fencing. Planted 2 more pieces of hooved rat candy down behind the carriage house: camellia. Have dual wire fencing behind them. Can just barely see the teflon poles for that fence in the...

Another way is to go all battery power. No longer have any oil or gas to handle for the Ryobi ZT nor the Ryobi self propelled crosscut mowers.

Think this 2nd Santa Fe is short some refrigerant. Here's all the water it made in 24 hours of operation at 75 F and 58% humidity in the crawl space. This is 3 to 3.5 gallons. Supposed to make 8.75 gallons/day. The first Santa Fe did well for 9 months and then ran out of refrigerant sometime...

Did the 3 parts of the lawn yesterday. Used 15% of the battery power. Trimmed with the Ryobi crosscut.

I bought cat 1-2 and cat 2-3 collars/adaptors at TSC. Lots cheaper than the expensive ones they sell to affix permanently onto implements for QHs. These collars/adaptors are a bit wider than the lift arm holes and would help a lot to fill space.

That's a good idea. Even better would be if you could do it like a "hot tap" for attaching lines to an existing, flowing line, e.g. hot tap and have a flow out of the tapped hole all in one shot. Might even try drilling out the Miata's oil filter. It's a mess to get it off without having oil...

My DR oil pump type extractor is rather slow for that. I'd use the Northern Tool 12v one. Think it does 0.5 gpm.

I researched the building of a new bridge across a little 6-8 ft stream a couple years ago when we were having troubles in the wet 2018 keeping the underflow pipes clear under our present tractor crossing. Other tractor guys in our congregation said they've built bridges using 3 or 4 railroad...

Our most liked pickups have been the 1984ish Dodge Rampage and the 1996 Toyota Tacoma. The present 2005 Tacoma that we got back around 2008 has had only about 6-7k miles on it because we DON'T LIKE TO DRIVE IT. We liked the Rampage and earlier Tacoma. Toyota just kept making the T100 and...

Lucky. Most are quite stiff, especially when new.

Put down seed protector mats to retain moisture. Normally only used to retain grass seed on slopes, but will work also to retain moisture on level spots.

Welcome from Charlottesville

Follow-up On Keeping Hooved Rats Out In an article about a year ago, I described some fencing methods that I had used to keep hooved rats out (not dear to a gardener). I mentioned that the BEST is 2 fences about 18 inches apart, with one being only a single strand of wire. However, I read on...

The gaskets on the tractor aren't designed to take that kind of pressure. I just use an air hose to blow stuff off. Don't do that too often any more. Doesn't need to be clean to work.

Yeah. I'd prefer a steering wheel and forward/reverse pedals like it has. Wish Ryobi had done that on its ZT. It has a steering wheel for its riding mower.

I do not think a clear water pool with a tiny bit of chlorine in it will be harmful to dogs.

Plantain likes traffic and shade.

Just measure the distance between catch points with the implement in place. Then measure the PTO shaft fully retracted. You can then compute the overlap that will be there. A fellow with a series 3 JD with (I think) Cat 2 stuff bought my Cat 0 MacKissic. I sent me a picture running it...

That top link would have to rotate towards the tractor. Otherwise, the top link will be much longer than the bottom lift arms. Raise the lift arms, and the top link would drive the tail wheel into the ground. Had this happen when JD delivered my LX-4 in 2004 with the lift arms in the wrong...

I would not try a cheater bar with 1/2 inch drive and handle: asking for a break and maybe injury. Think you need the 3/4 inch drive and handle and sockets. Unless you have a precision set impact wrench, I'd be more confident in getting that 450 ft # with 80 # of estimated push on a 6 ft...

I've clover all over the place and happily seeing some insects on the blossoms. LOTS better than a desert of pure green.

Good luck. This new treated lumber stuff stinks. It corrodes screws unless they're stainless. It also rots out easily. Have replaced several boards on the deck redone around 2011ish and at least half the screws. Don't know anything about composites, but I'd be leaning towards using them...

One of the reasons to use rechargable batteries: no leakage. That's all I use.

I'd think the easiest way is to send yourself an email with the picture right in it or as an attachment.

Here's a snap shot of the cranking speeds (based on their cranking oil viscosities) by oil type that I calculated. I did not do a 5w30. It would be close to a 0w30, which is the best. A 0w40 M1 was very close to the 0w30, probably the same as 5w30. I did some other comparisons that tended to...

Cannot see it. A dehumidifier and an AC are basically the same thing. Would never make sense to add a "whole house dehumidifier" to an already existing AC or heat pump. I am a retired chemical engineer and dealt with refrigeration systems for most of my 31 years. That's all a dehumidifier is.

Last fall, we bought a WM WC46 that does exactly what you want. Put the base of a 4 inch tree into its horizontal chute, and it will chew the whole thing up. The 2025R with 24.5 engine hp loafs along with the chipper.

We have whole house dehumidifiers. They're called heat pumps and function in AC mode to dehumidify. Tried opening an AC duct in the crawl space to dehumidify it. That and fans did not work. Did for a while though.

The encapsulation was done a few years before we put the Santa Fe in. We'd been using a couple of fans in the crawl space until early last year when we started getting a smell from it. Put the Santa Fe in last September. Smell went away. We'd stripped away the insulation in the ceiling of...

Compressor runs. No water condensed out nor any heat output in the discharge air.

Brakes often will not work. The rear tires simply will not grip. Have seen this problem with all 3 JD tractors if I forget to put them in 4wd. Can be very dangerous if it slides sideways and then rolls.

Yeah. A bother to run out and get the gas and then to pour it in, etc. Also have oil changes, belts to replace or to put back on when they come off, air filters, spark plugs. I figure you save about $200/yr in going electric for each gizmo. No belts, no gas, no oil.

Lost the refrigerant. They're sending a new one. Need some ideas on how to get the heavy old one out and new one in. Near 70 #. We did enlarge the crawl space. Otherwise, I simply could not even get in there myself. It is located about 20 ft inside. There's a big dig just inside before...

We had both CBs and walky talkies at one point. Don't think either one had much range. The CBs maybe a couple miles. Walkies only a few hundred yards. Be better to just buy a couple throw-away cell phones. That's actually all we have. No smart phone.

I ran power to the carriage house and put Romex in conduit. Later work by electrician removed it because we needed some other wires in the conduit for return, etc.

The 12 inch battery one we have is a guzzler for oil. Wife mentioned this to some tree people recently. They agree: oil guzzlers.

Last night, I checked the dehumidifier operation. Humidity was showing 64%. No water was being produced. Bought September of last year. Will be calling Santa Fe's 800 # to find out what to do. Compressor obviously is not coming one. Unplugged it for a bit. Turned it all the way up. No...

Oh, I removed that grass deflector. Just have the mulcher plug on the discharge. Came with it.

We bought a 42 inch Ryobo ZT480e. Haven't really had enough grass to grow to properly test how well it cut yet. Cuts fine the sprigs coming up from the dry grass. Uphill tire spins easily on a very slight uphill slope when sideways and stopped. Climbs hills forward like a billy goat and...

Changed every 10k miles on our VW TDI, as recommended. Same now for the Mz3, not a diesel, 0w20 in it; 5w30 in the TDI.

I drilled and attached an old lawnmower wheel to one of the neighbor's gate years ago when I was looking after things for her before she died. Present neighbors still have it on the gate. Theirs rotates, but it would work on a sliding one as well.

Here are pictures of the outside shower valve together and with the "fan" end unscrewed. Very easy to maintain. Have a 2 1/2 gallon "Tiny Titan" hot water heater on the cold water from the outdoor spigot; so, needed a low flow, but it still has a "blast" to it. Water fans out from that cone...

Meatball makers.

Wife says you always see something new on the trails. Could walk forever on the streets/roads and not notice much. Emphasis there is to talk to people you meet, not to see nature. My feet do not like hard pavement.

I'd check into a DC pump like they use with solar panels. Might come in a smaller size. Then just get an reverse inverter to change from AC to the DC needed. Here's the site for that Pentair mentioned: Some from Northern Tool: https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/NTESearch?Ntt=2 inch...

Got them in quarts.

It's near 600 #.

I bought a 12v pump oil extractor. Used it on hot oil and ruined the seals. Think they say not to use it on oil hotter than 190 F. They refunded my money. I've actually bought another one of these Ironton pumps when my old DR oil extractor broke. I'll just be careful and not use it on hot...

They weren't taught to use shears. They were trained to use hand pruners. I had a couple pruning classes even before doing MG training. They did not train us to use shears.

The YM 155D at 1146 # is a bit light to carry the WM WC46 chipper unless you only run it on level ground. It's very noticeable back there on the 1600ish # 2025R. A lighter chipper/shredder would be the MacKissic TPH-123. I had a TPH-122 for 16 years. It's one of the lighter weigh ones. A...

Tacoma says "5w30" right on the oil cap. It has been running 0w20 for the last few years. Fine for gas engines at all temperatures.

I've a new Ryobi ZT480e. It's a billy goat going directly up slope or backing down slope. Anything else is iffy. Went sliding into my neighbor's tall grass from a down and side slope to the south end of my "blubeberry" patch hill. MMM, though not very good for working around stuff, would be...

Did the 2 back yard pieces this afternoon. The left side one is a challenge because of the slope up to the swimming pool deck level. Best is to go up the slope and then shimmy over and back down for another 42 inch swipe. It's like a billy goat going directly uphill or backing down a slope...

Think there are very few additives in hydraulic fluid. So, any problem with additives not being compatible are non existent. I'd leave it until the next change.

Here'rer a couple pics that show the toolbox on the 2025R. It's the same one that was on the lemony 1025R and the same place. Think the dealer just had it moved for me.

Yeah. I had really detailed records on our 1983 240D Benz. It's fuel mileage picked up 2 or 3% when I switched it to synthetic. Big thing with a 0w30 or 5w30 that's better than a typical 10w30 or certainly a 15w40 is the amount of time it takes for the oil pump to start pumping and to get oil...

I'd get some local profession advice.

I just sold an old JD mower with Kawasaki engine on it. Always used M1 5w30 in it. Was always crystal clear. Seemed to never get dirty but changed every fall.

I use them in every engine I have. Used to change oil in lawn mowers a couple times/yr with dino oils. With synthetic, I went to once/yr. Now, I have no mowers with engines, only battery motors.

That's one reason for grass, e.g. to drive on it. Why pave over it?

As a master gardener, I only use a hedge trimmer on dead stuff or stuff I want to die. It causes branches at the tips of where you've cut and will cut off the light and air circulation to the inner part of the plant. Va Tech's former (now retired) hort head bought a blueberry farm somewhere in...

One of the top rated ZTs gasoline powered is the Toro Timecutter 14 hp at about $2,600. I'd think it ought to be fine for your smaller property. I needed something to allow ME to do the grass when it gets really hot when my wife cannot do it. Used to do the 3 pieces with long rests between...

I'd try a couple pipe wrenches to turn the opposite direction from normal. What has happened is the inside piece has gotten over rotated and stuck. You need to get them unstuck because they need to move to/fro some in normal lifting and operation. Otherwise, it'll blow out a thrust bearing on...

I went with a Ryobi 42 inch 48v ZT (ZT480e). It will do at least 2 acres. Haven't had much chance to use it since buying it because it plain quit raining here. Expect some today. I bought it to do the 1/2 acre or so of lawn here around the house but had hopes of it doing the trails down...

Yeah. Wish we had room for one. Only way would be to pave some of the front lawn. Even a partial circle helps. Here's a picture of our old house at 6 Marianna Place, Morristown, NJ. We always had to contend with a very steep driveway straight down from the garage on the east (right from...

My first tractor, a JD 4010 like a 2019E if made, had only 18.5 engine hp. Was completely fine for 4 ft bush hogging and Mackissic chipping/shredding that I did mostly. Also ran a 5 ft back blade, BIG FEL and carryall. The present 2025R is way overpowered with 24.5 hp. Ralph

I've a pressure gauge, similar to a regular one, that can be used to check filled tires. Don't recall where I got it. I highly recommend this one pictured from HF.

If you want removable batteries, get the EGO, a similar ZT. You only remove the 4 lead acid batteries on this one when one or more need replacement. Now that I have the thing, it has quit raining. Grass isn't growing.

I'd cut and paint the stub.

I am no longer into tractor repair much; so, I bought a new JD 4010 (2019E if made today) with FEL and bush hog in 2004. Been buying 2 others since then to avoid repairs. The 1025R, the 2nd, was a lemon. Lots of visits by JD mechanic. So far, the 2025R has only had PTO problems: switch and...

I went skidding down a compound hill into my neighbor's tall grass the first time I took the Ryobi down the hill to the "blueberry" patch. It slopes only slightly but slopes to the side as well towards the neighbor's. Then I went looking for videos on how to run them on slopes. Carefully...

I agree. Have a self-propelled push Ryobi 40v that is fully as powerful as the Honda we just sold. Got an electric Ryobi ZT as well. Don't think it is quite as powerful as a gas machine, but close. Neither of the Ryobis have belts, just motors for the wheels and motors for each blade...