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Because your engine is usually over the front end. Look at the size axle shaft in rear compared to front. The front is not made to handle near the power of the rear. You can pull backwards, but not in 4x4. Ive seen trucks grenade transfer cases and seen tractors break axles. Then you have...

My dads that way. He was tough for a long time, though. You can keep a big cheap crescent wrench on your tractor. I believe ours says " Squirrel Brand" on the handle. But adjust it open to just catch the collar sleeve and smack it with your heel of your hand and knock sleeve back. Also drop...

Find some fuel stops in Florida. Last time I was there cleaning up after a storm, diesel was hard to find. Some regular gas stations had it but you won't fit a camper. I was hauling a dump trailer.

Well, 5th wheel is easier to back into and hook up. You may even be able to see it as you back it up. I don't know what tool box or whatever you have. You won't see a gooseneck unless in a reg cab no tool box. Plus if you have a GN ball already, you'll have the best of both worlds.

Well, we have a gooseneck that is light on the front. That one clangs a lot when empty. So much he bought air bags to lift the front axle when empty. I don't bother me but him and dad can't stand it. It's bad enough that you'll hear that coming before you hear the truck. Fifth wheel will be...

We haul on a Beaver equipment trailer pintle hitch. Stand alone delimber pintle hitch. IR 375 cfm compressor pintle hitch. I've never heard my brother mention it and he's never heard me.

Only reason any hitch bangs around is because not enough weight on the tongue end. I just hauled one to Alaska. Never noticed any banging.

That's stretching it out a bit...

I have a 99 with aluminum. No corrosion.

There's a lot more going on. Reason behind it all.

Wipe inside windows down with gel shave cream. Plain ivory bar soap works too. If you don't shave or take a bath, I don't know...

Fifty years ago we used red wood boards on houses because it was affordable and lasted. The lasting part is still the same but I think the affordability has changed a wee bit. Get a $5.00 kiddie pool from dollar General. Build a treated box and line the inside. Use ICF blocks. Lots of...

He's got redwood on the brain.

If it uses fuel or electricity it don't get loaned out around here. I don't really loan much anyway. I have absolutely loved having no visitors lately.

Plug it in.

You just slide a pto in and bolt the arms on. Find a donor would be best. I'd buy it cheap. Probably why it looks so good, it's been useless it's whole life. You make sure to tell everybody at auction it has no pto and lift. Then throw your hand up. I bought a crane like that. Asked if it...

I'm down in oilfield counytry. Y'all are giving some complicated info. Just shoot with a transit on every post and establish level. Pipe is metal, so magnets are your friend. You can put a magnet on your mark and measure up from that. Figure your pitch and Mark the thing. Like stated...

We just bought a drill rig and drilled our own. Where we wanted to. When we wanted to.

I helped my pawpaw move a 24x24 building around a few times when I was young. All he had was a truck, jacks, big red come along, and old creosote Bridge timbers. Since them days, I move anything I think I can pull. Just hauled a trailer house behind my old F250. Yep, 1976 model truck. Moved...

I helped my pawpaw move a 24x24 building around a few times when I was young. All he had was a truck, jacks, big red come along, and old creosote Bridge timbers. Since them days, I move anything I think I can pull. Just hauled a trailer house behind my old F250. Yep, 1976 model truck. Moved...

Just hold clutch down and crank it in gear. So put it in neutral first and let it warm up so it will start easy. Ride it around varying the throttle until it pops loose. Happens all the time around here. No biggie.

We not looking at it wrong. It's like climbing a mountain in overdrive. Bog down or overheat is your two options.

Put a piece of pipe over edge.

I guess I should be a radiator repairman and tell them boys to go home and sit in a chair.

We keep an 8' chain to hook on each corner and that always puts load on the corners. Never even tried a center hook. Last thing I loaded was a 14' disc that an oil field man wanted to use. Used two tractors and backed the trailer under it. I do have a hitch ball in the center of one for...

Boys I got my butt beat good one time. Caught me with a bottle of gear oil in the micro. Makes it pour easier in that old Willys pickup truck. They didn't care...

Most exactly right. So if they sell the feel good tingly feeling bio fuel and dont tell you.... Then you start having all the problems you can't understand.

Check the line from house to tank. Fixed many a problem on those lines.

Because old engines have 8 to 1200 psi injectors. New ones with computers run 24,000 or so. Fuel must be clean. Can't you see how tractor mileage has increased so much in the last few years? I didn't think so.

Them folks order 3,000 gallons at a time. Just like me, I don't care what fuel costs because I have to have it. I either charge more or make my coffee at home. Make up for it somewhere else.

Trouble was with a brand new Polaris diesel. D3aler put new engine and the customer sold it and bought gas model.

It stays in the filter. I just dump it when it's full, screw it back on.

Iowa Park Texas usually has them in the 700-1000 $ range. Those were prone to cracking. New heads are improved.

My main love trailer had hydraulic drum brakes on both axles. New but not hooked up. Now, 23 years later, it's older but not hooked up. The news is I have electric brakes for it. I'm gonna do both axles and need two more backing plates.

Acorn lugs require in and out Ford type wheels. If ring type GM the pilot hole must fit hub.

There are 2 types of 14.5 tires. Also I'm thinking you can swap to 6 or 8 lug hubs on that same axle. Both hubs will fit. Only difference is the seal and there are two different seals.

I'd just cut the length in half and load it up. Put it back together at my house. We moved old houses that way. Just cut it with a chain saw. Put the houses back together. Now they are several rent houses. Moved it all with an old ragly one ton and a home made trailer.

I've got an old trailer made out of an old car lift. Remember the kind that had only one large cylinder in the center that pushed up from below floor? It don't have sides. Three old trailer house axles that have five hole wheels on them, 5 on 5 1/2. 14.5" wheels. Put a few buildings on it...

I'd just put new cutters on the front and the best of the rounds on the back. Check your bearings good. Keep up with spacer locations.

Pipe edge works good for cleaning manure up.

Maybe tap a 6 PT socket on it.

Them folks I mentioned earlier that got ran over. He developed a few hernias from the quick surgery. Got those fixed and was visiting his neighbor. Was leaving and fell down the steps. Not good. Sure the driver broke the law, but that don't help much. Too much texting and drama calls these...

Sounds like you really need to paint the concrete in the basement with swimming pool paint. I built one around 20 years ago that had a 5,000 ft basement and two stories on top of it. With the floor over basement being 8,000 ft. But the basement was sealed. Not many basements around here and...

Yes but it's fine as long as two vapor barriers are not touching each other. Putting the batts over the foam is fine as long as the insulation paper is toward living space. Foam is toward outside wall. I have done exactly that a few times.

Use it and see if each feels the same temp. I'm thinking bad piston in cylinder.

I've taken off three in the last year. Cant say it was difficult. I will do another one this month because it leaks somewhere up there. He wants to change to electronic ignition too. So when the parts get here, I'll take it down.

I might go 12-1400 if the engine isn't busted. If it's needing new tires, price is getting lower. Like in the 500 range. Or you could figure what it will bring as scrap, and take off for loading and hauling, offer that.

No simple green. Make sure it is safe for paint.

You can do it.

Vapor barrier goes toward treated air. No vapor barriers touching each other. If using two layers of insulation the vapor barriers go to inside.

If you got movement it should come out. Last one I did was on a hydro axe. A pin had fell out on the bottom. He cut a large tree and was driving with it to lay it down. Rode over a stump and when it shifted it snapped top of boom off. They had worked on it a week or so before calling me.

Our Kubota dealer won't touch ballers. John deere does, so we touch John Deere.

I'm 52 and have only heard of the bio diesel problem. Never heard of anyone having algae problem. Though I have known for years that there is such a problem out there somewhere. We have a gravity tank here. Dealt with stored fuel all my life. Even have my grandpa's tank from when he used...

I quit eBay because of pay pal.

Truck has been half full for 15 years. We havent done any running but just to crank and move it.

We have switches on our equipment. On the ground cable.

I have a Mack truck here and have been running it lately. Bought it ten years ago but haven't needed it. Fuel was 5 years old 10 years ago. We got it to put a log loader on the back of it, but the other truck kept going longer than we thought. It still cranks and runs fine. We had to put a...

One bulk plant here was selling bio diesel and not telling anyone. The buyers had problems and couldn't figure out why. Once the customers figured the plant out, they bought somewhere else and problems went away.

PP is all right if you are buying something. Not if you are selling.

Yes I just fixed one with air brakes that we use with our Mack.

I worked at a drilling rig factory. Ended up being the lead over the sub structures. 40 million dollar rigs and we turned one out each week. Flex4S+ for H&P International Drillers. I didn't have to do much welding but I had to stay on top of the welders. My job was to put everything...

Lawnmower cars are killers too.

A neighbor and his wife were into weight loss and bicycles. They both got ran over way out on a country road. Driver ain't had no insurance because he was a baby daddy. They both lived but no bikes anymore. They had them special bicycle helmets and wearing bright go fast outfits too...

You can load it more to the front over your tongue a little. Just see if you can center the building over trailer axles. You can always cut in half cross ways and haul as a two piece special. Find someone with a longer gooseneck trailer. Move it on a Sunday afternoon. I've moved things like...

My brother just called and wants me to look over a log loader swap he is doing. He can watch u tube on his TV and I'll ask him in a few.

Thats what I'm wondering. We have a 1900 that age and glow plugs have to work. Just because they are getting power means nothing. Ive seen good looking spark plugs that made me think it jumped time when I started it. So thoroughly check the glow plugs out. Ours you have to use the glow plugs...

Dip net from a fishing store.

Heater for the bottom radiator hose. Heater for a heater hose. I have both of those too. I have a magnet heater for oil pan. I have one heater that goes in dip stick tube. Or you can put some connections and circulate hot water with your pickup. Or you can leave it empty and fill it with...

I'd get a block heater. That one thing made my old tractor usable.

Just add motor honey to used oil.

I think ours is a 962H. It beats the heck out of a shovel.

We are bracing ourselves now. Weatherlady just said its gonna drop to a blustery 78 F here at Christmas.

Not here. Dead pigs will lay there and rot. Nothing eats them. I've never seen anything eat dead ones except people.

Yes but they only had a small gas tank on the dash in front of you. Better than a pony engine.

Pairs is the way to go.

Lets just say spark plug engines and non spark plug engines.

Well, you have to have a gasoline engine to run either or both. Diesel engine wont do.

G means gas?

Do they have the 4 wheeler style clutch? My dad has another brand that is belt drive. Used heavily since 2007 on a commercial farm. No problems, no belt troubles. Pulls 16' tandem axle trailers too. Have a Honda on another farm that's only driven on the road. Honda is suffering no goes and...

My brother orders them by the big box fills. Hes probably never been in a tractor supply.

Call a tractor salvage yard.

Just adjust so it wont go down so far. Then it will raise higher.

Its nice when it works out good.

I'm not certified but I'm satisfied. My friends son was working there too I'm thinking.

Just put your forks close together. I rip trees out all the time with forks. In fact, I will openly compete with a stump bucket. Because I can spread them out and put the trees on the brush pile and not change attachments.

We just bury. Sometimes I find people that want to grill one or a few.

In the middle of nowhere Oklahoma I helped a man fix his truck. I found another truck. We cut the bent frame off his and cut the straight part off the other. Welded truck together with brown clothes hangers and a torch. Right there in the pasture.

We have A frames with casters and two trolleys with a hoist on each. So two hoists per A frame. Hoists Are 14' tall.

I fixed a roof leak. Then I put a piece of plywood over the hole in the floor. One night I went to bed early, which was another room. Flipped on the light and a possum was on my pillow. My little dog just got on the bed and laid down. So I knew that had been going on for a while. Shut the...

Kubota brake locks don't get used because are such a pain. Our Ford's have the one you pull up and twist. Works a lot better. I really dont know about others.

I'll give you a top answer. I'm not a drinker, but them son of a guns might love them some beer. Which is kinda what you're making with the corn. Another fella goes by the doughnut shops and gets their old stale things for the pigs.

And it might have been bypassing and weakened your bypass. We always tie our lift arm down. That way it won't get bumped. Been doing it 20 years. You have to eliminate the bypass as the problem. It may have blown the rings on lift cylinder. Just gotta check it out.

We put water on corn and let it sour. Then hang the bucket on a limb up head high or so. Then sprinkle corn on the ground leading into trap. Keep putting new corn out for several days. We have a 60' diameter trap with two drop doors. Game camera with live video feed. Text operated gate...

I was asking an old family member about that. I knew where an engine was that rarely was started, but ran a lot when it was running. He said when he was installing that engine, he had his truck door open and the radio was on. News flash came on that said Kennedy had been shot. Engine is...

If that tractor comes with a cab, whether you have a cab or not, should have a place for heater hoses. You can get a heater for a heater hose. I would loop it down low. Heat rises and cool sinks, so circulates. Throw a blanket over the hood helps. I'm sure if you look in a freeze plug hole...

Don use DEF for toilet paper. It burns on sensitive areas.

Find a neighbor with some cows. Load up a wheel barrow and a square pointed shovel and go visit them.

We have a huge bucket for moving manure and shavings. Can't use for dirt because its too heavy when loaded. Great for doing what it was intended for. Also I extended one 18" on the bottom. Sides to make it look right. Welded a road grader blade for a cutting edge. That was a few years ago...

If the tires hold air. Start engine and pull lift handle up. If the lift raises, I'm ready to deal...

From daylight until 9 am we shot 276 hogs. Lot of them here.

A sewer pump works just fine. Have put them in and used for years. They are heavy duty and will give years of service. When the float switch turns it on it pumps the unit until empty. You can run a 2" line from pump to septic tank. I have one of the pumps out of one and I have pumped a few...

7.3 was the last Ford. I have seen and heard of bad stories involving a 6.0 engine. Saw one ole guy drive his F350 4x4 across the scales. Said he had fixed it twice, wasn't going to fix it again. Wish I had caught him earlier and bought it. I would have put another some kind of engine in...

My dad had one for years hooked up backwards. If you pulled back on lever to lift loader, it would drop in float. Wasn't really a problem unless you had people in a basket on the forks. Then you had to watch it. He finally did it right.

I had one. You had to have pliers and screwdriver in your pocket just to walk by and look at it. But I will still say it's a good tractor.

I'm a Ford person but you couldn't run fast enough to give me a Ford diesel. Day before yesterday, guy I work with got that call on his Duramax that it's gonna be 12,000 bucks to fix. Just over 100 k miles. That's the third Duramax that I know personally. Meanwhile another guy I work with...

Polaris. I worked there. Take the starter off and make sure brushes move freely. Lube each end of armature and install. If it seems to need brushes, order some. Them starters are 500 bucks. Check the external solenoid first and all your connections. Starters last a long time on those. I...

You have to hold it forward.

I imagine we all do.

I got me self a little rig for that. A Vermeer vibratory cable plow. This little machine will rip through things that will stop a 200 hp tractor in its tracks.

Advice. I wouldn't weld it up while it is on the tractor. No way to make sure nothing is left inside from welding. Just take it apart until you get the line off. Go to a hydraulic place and get a new line made. We just had several hard lines made for a John Deere 540 B-G log skidder. They...

I've also had a compression fitting on my 1967 F250 since 1990. Right off the back of the power steering pump. It's an ACE hardware fitting. I'm not recommending it, but they do work. On my own things I tend to use any kind of cobbled together crap that will work.

Compression or flared?

Cut it for hay. Cut and rot don't seem too good. That's why the state are the only ones I know with batwings. They work for the outfit that has a money making machine. The rest of us have to produce goods and services to get the money they print. It's a system already set up when I was...

Yes they will. I've been running a hydra push manure spreader with a compression fitting on it for 20 years. I replaced it last year to get everything right to sell it. We'd pack 8 yards on it cleaning out chicken houses. Maybe 300 loads each clean out.

Once I bought an 18 wheeler load of net wire on pallets. 350 bucks. We fenced our place and everybody else fenced their place. Some of it was thick wire. I just built a corral and welded some of that net wire on some places. I'd say maybe 10 GA wire. Some rolls were over 4' in diameter...

Get a big adjustable wrench and adjust it to fit the edge of the collar and tap with a hammer. See if it moves. You might need to blow the crud out of it with a compressor. Then more oil. More tapping. So on...

We use pole saws to trim up loads of logs before we get out on the road with them.

Saw my brother do that with a 15,000# tractor. Instantly.

You for sure don't pull backwards with a 4x4, of any type.

We had a little red wagon from somebody's kid. 12 volt battery and some jumper wires. Kept all the tanker trailers checked at a haz mat chemical trucking yard. They don't get no stricter than that.

Pretty much all pros. Only con would be that it needs paint. But it holds paint a lot better than wood. It is a dense and compact material. It's like the old Johns Manville asbestos siding but with a concrete base instead of asbestos. You can even order replacement siding for old houses...

I imagine it's cast steel. Nodular cast maybe. Both can be welded.

I've used it a few hundred times or so.

Main thing is LT tires.

You don't get that much time for killing a stranger.

Just run by a hole in the wall starter alternator shop and point at solenoid, I need one looks like this. Or jump the solenoid and crank it at the auction. Put tape on it says runs good. Theres ways around things. I've seen engines ruined at auctions. Don't leave the key in it.

Robert Redford was in the movie.

Standing seam.

Liver eating Johnson style.

Pressurized case will push fluid out when it heats up and expands. Fix one seal and the next weakest link starts to weep fluid.

Solder it up and use.

Why don't you go ahead and get a chip implanted in the driver's so you can monitor and control them at all times?

Can you cut it at the bent spot and use a compression union? Maybe drive a punch inside it and straighten the tubing enough to get the union on?

One type tube goes by ID and the other by OD. If it uses flared fittings, just flare it and use it. Adapt it to use flared fittings. You can get NPT to inverted flare adapters. I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish. Natural gas and butane/propane use flare fittings and they fit...

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I've got hitches like that. I've always used a lug wtench, flat end to open them, then beat it shut so the collar slips over it. If you ever back up to it and hit the end, dead on the point, she'll be hard to open. But we have several trailers here. Id rather have it stiff. My dad has one...

We had one fall a few days ago. Was 19 ft around it at 4 ft high. Fell on the fence. Cows were there. Had to fix.

I'd tie it open and put a valve near the engine. I remember as a kid all the school buses were that way. You can do what you want. I'm tired of high dollar parts.

Yes I'm in AR and they drove the deep waters of Katrina in New Orleans.

I've dug a million trees and stumps up with forks.

We use them around here. I like them. I want to put a manure spreader bed on one, tired of using a high geared road truck in the field.

They don't sell Hercules engines either, but you can still buy the pieces. You can still buy the guts for the gearbox. I worked at Kubota and did many.

I welded a road grader blade on a tractor bucket. It gets used regular and hard. Built a fire under it in half a drum. Heated and welded with 7018.

But then, soon as we go back to horses and drag all the plows out of the thickets and brush....they will start belly aching about all the methane from the manure....

Well, I have two 64 galaxies here that have not been driven since 1972. Still full of anti freeze. Many times they could have frozen over many times over the years. I kept them because both have Thunderbird 390 4 bbl engines. I have learned to leave engines where they are until I'm ready to use.

No, yours don't have it, an upgrade for me is to have your type. Batteries explode at times. I have had it happen a few times. Not on the tractor. It shouldn't hurt anything but the battery. Wash the acid off of everything.

Sounds like a good excuse to get another tractor.

Just buy a kit and put it in the cylinder. Re pack it. We have all Ford or New Holland. Don't damage the rubber on rod ends. Pickle forks I never use. I'll explain later. Gotta go move manure now.

Steel toed combat boots. They make them. All military mechanics had them, or people that did construction type work. Or just skip the steel toe. I wear some most every day. They show up at thrift stores around here. Have several pair but still wearing out the first pair.

I worked at Kubota. JIC fittings.

Hey, I have a Power Major, 1958 model. Vacuum governor. It sat for a long time and I think it is stuck in high range, I know it is. I will split it and check things out. Sounds like a good winter project. Might even put a newer diesel in it. Well built tractor.

That goes back to using year round. I use mine like a 4 wheeler all winter. We have a pressure washer here. 1995 model and cranks on first sometimes second pull. 10 hp Honda. But it gets used off and on throughout the year. We have four layer houses for Tyson and washed those houses out...

Why dont you give to a young guy that may need some saw chaps? Even if yours have a little damage, still better than none.

Yes but them old machines was back before they knew the damage it caused. My friends dad up in his 70's said when he was a kid his grandma would give him cigarettes....back then they werent bad for you. He was 6 at the time. Not a smoker.

Yes because most young people have no clue about the black top versus red top. And they use way too much, spray it like they are spraying a wasp nest.

Yes and I have a large Massey here with a 6 cylinder that has a place to put a can. We have a few R model Mack trucks and other diesels. My brother will spray it outside the air filter so it has time to mix before intake. My uncle was a navy diesel engineman in Vietnam and worked for Cummins...

Thermostart repaired and a block heater. Starting fluid bad for it. Find me one person that says it is good for it. I've seen new engines run out of fuel. Filled tank and started on your magic fluid, never to start again without a rebuild. One year old 50 horse tractor.

I'd check the valve stem. We check all our machines before use anyway.

Really all I do is loosen a line at the injector after I put more fuel in tank. Crank it over until fuel shoots out. Tighten and it starts. Sometimes it runs rough a few seconds but smooths out.

Just be careful splitting. I've split some big ones. Get weights and loader off front half. I usually roll front part away from back part, leave rear stationary. Block rear wheels so no rolling. Put a jack under rear and Jack under front. I put my front jack on a base with wheels. It is...

I live in a gated community. But I'm the only one behind the gate. I really dont like opening and closing a gate. If I don't, things seem to walk off away from here. So, I just keep it shut and lock myself out when not here.

It's a lot easier to call it' a cheap piece of junk, throw it down and walk away.

Every junk yard has 10' tubing on forks and move 1 ton diesel trucks with.

Put smear of dishwashing soap on beads when trying to put on rim seat. Most tires say you can put up to 32 psi when seating beads. Immediately let pressure down after bead seating. Beings as you are tubeless, get you a tire plug kit in case you have a leak in the future. Then you will be...

And I have welded and straightened in a press, many a lift arm. Never mine, but for others. Pushing with a box blade backwards was the cause of the last few breakages.

I'm hard on boots so I repair often. SIKAFLEX tube caulk will hold a complete sole on a boot. NP-1 is next in line. I mean it will stay until the boots are gone.

Just get something that will work. Example we use cut up livestock panel for shear bolts in the post hole auger.

We always put one on the back and one on each fork in the front. Stick the forks in the bale. Or if we have two spears on the front, a bale on each spear. So when we get out of the shut down chicken house we keep hay in, we load two on trailer and drop back bale on ground to keep 500 cattle...

I had a girlfriend once that was the bestest cook. Even if it was pig tail soup. She put mayonnaise and salt and pepper on corn. It was a good thing.

I have a big set of rice and canes. 34" rim tires. 18.4 - 34 if not mistaken.

I remember being at my cousins. Aunt would can 350 qts cabbage. Then potatoes, snap beans, peas, squash, all kinds of things. Uncle was in the Army. He retired as Colonel from the Pentagon. He was gone a lot. But when he was there, he was there. He was there during harvest time. Of...

Not if you dig stumps or trees. I can pop a hundred 6" pines out in an hour with a skid steer. Forks work great.

You eating food that was freeze dried here and sent to China, they can and send back here. Especially vegetables, the number one thing they can. Very low nutrition compared to grown on Your own. Ive seen my own sweet potatoes you could stand up in a 5 gal bucket and could not swing the bail...

Ours broke out the top link boss out of rear axle housing. Just finished putting it on and drove a little and pop. I'm just glad I didn't do it. It's all fine and dandy if they do it. I learned that at a very young age.

I was raised shooting deer out of the pea patch. We had a two story barn with Windows out toward the garden overlooking a 40 acre patch. Army cots and spot lights. Uncle's and cousins in attendance. Good times.

Get a block heater from dealer. Fix the thermostart. Should be good to go.

I had a nice old truck I bought. Put new belts and hoses. But, heater hose fitting broke off at intake. It was over soon thereafter. Never showed hot.

This county was dry until recently. Still not used to the beer caves, liquor stores, bars, and beer stacked convenience stores. But it's for sure here now.

Engine. Yep but they have some bad axt things available now days. I'd try just to see how they do.

My uncle worked at a whiskey distillery. One day he fell into a 10,000 gal vat of whiskey. Three men jumped in to save him, but he was able to fight them off.

Was it when he got the preparation H mixed up with the Ben Gay?

Do it for fuel donations. Donation being the key word. Liability is a key word too, that should be avoided. Donations avoid liability.

42 to the pallet. He stacks them high.

No, the old man owned the business. The shop foreman was much, much younger, he was only 74.

I worked for a dealer. His dad opened in 1944. Man was 78 several years ago. He took care of what he sold. I felt bad for one fella. He retired out of the Army and moved back home. Brought his machine for repair. I had the parts and fixed it that day. But it was months before they called...

The first thing you need to accept is that everything on the internet is true. Once you accept that, life will get easier, it says so on the internet.

Just control your lift going down. Saves on threading the roots. We use cut up livestock panel for shear pins. Or whatever rod we find to cut into pieces. Never had to back an auger out with a pipe wrench. That's why I go down slow.

Post holes have become so scientifically complicated. I usually just buy mine. A guy comes from town and drops them off.

We take five grapples when we go clean up after a hurricane. That's extras, each machine has one on it already.

Yeah but the distant dealer knew you probably won't bring it back, so the low price.

No they do not make money on warranty work. I have done too much of it.

Our dealer has a sign out front. If it's warranty work take it back where you bought it.

That is how they fix helicopter blades. Blades are a lot bigger than most folks think.

So the overheat protection failed.

Slow down or spend the money. The choice is yours.

Keep foolingcwith it and you'll bend a rod too. Drain the water out. You can run it to load or move it with no water for a minute. Take the head off and put another one on with gasket. Don't turn anything but the line at the pump. Hold the other part and take nut loose on the line itself...

That's what I'm wondering. We log and have a tractor grapple. Get a winch, way more useful. We got a used Forney, grapple is obsolete now.

Lots of times it wears the ring and pinion out. Something has to give when in 4x4 often. You should look in at each wheel and make sure it didnt crunch a bearing, just remove the carnage and press on. If not broke at a wheel, probably ring and pinion. But If it has planetaries I'd fer dang...

Well they have quick release ends for the lift arms. Which are different lift arms you can get. John deere has some square tubing/ square inner sleeve type that work good. Also there is a quick hitch available.

Worth a million bucks if you need to make a garden. I feel those times are coming.