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Nope, wasn't fired from Kubota.

I have seen new less than one year old tractors get a ruined engine because they had an idea like you are having

I've learned not to incriminate myself.

You just need to break them from sucking eggs.

We have one that's been doing that the last thirty years or so. Just had to go pull it out because he was pulling a 14' disc. It click no crank, so he just walked home. But, then it rained. We didn't have to disconnect disc. It drove on out just fine, with the other tractor pulling a little.

And, they were New Holland, Kubota. Open since 1944. 85 year old man comes in every day. Son, grandson, great grandson there most days. The man that opened it in 1944 died when the oldest man alive now was 36.

Kubota didn't want to sell kubotas. They wanted to sell Polaris. My dad has a Yamaha RHINO. He uses around a real life income farm. No mud riding or hot dogging. Puts about 3500 miles a year on it. I could not believe he drove it that much, but numbers don't lie.

Never said anywhere that I had one. I do have a Honda 200 M three wheeler. I have a life, I like living it, not waiting forever to get somewhere on a Kubota. I actually do all my knocking around in an old 4x4'truck.

I'd take the wheels off. Sell them. Keep your hands off the lift handle. Set it and forget it.

Just get an old riding mower with a steering wheel on it. Drive it to town, hopefully several miles. That is what a Kubota is like.

It's a whole lot easier to say that's the way it was when I got it.

Riding the kubotas is like watching paint dry, or watching the grass grow. I worked at Kubota. We also dealt Polaris and Kawasaki. A team of engineers was sent from Japan to study why the kubotas were getting traded for Polaris. It's that bad.

There's places you can send a computer to that will fix it.

True pemmican. Not the jerky type. I found a way to separate it further. This stuff is hard as candle wax. I can step on it and not make a print in it. I think it is true tallow.

Seen it happen in a remote area. Big farm and they parked all the tractors in the yard by the vacant farm house. Kids came and got a tractor started. Drove it through the middle of a good house. Left the mess for someone else to clean up.

I'd run a line back to top of tank.

Sounds more like your throw out bearing went out. Lot of them older John Deere had a grease fitting so you could grease it. But it has to be split now to change. If it has the two disc clutch, probably still good.

I run ethanol in my 76 model truck for 7 years straight. 55 miles to work, one way. After 7 years I finally had to put a wrench on it, I blew a tire. I went ahead and took carb down because of all that so bad ethanol. I just put it back together, everything was fine. Did not put a kit in...

I've re packed well over a thousand cylinders. Never bought a new one, so can't advise you on that. Never bought parts at a dealer either. Done a few swivel joints too, but didn't use dealer parts.

Could be as simple as a valve stuck open. Take valve cover off. Turn over by hand. See if they all move like they should. I got one nobody could start. 6 of 8 push rods were bent 90°. It sounds pretty solid. I wouldn't jump into a rebuild. The bent pushrod tractor I have is a 1958 model...

If they wanted me to haul a tractor 1000 miles, I'd advise to just buy one there.

You have to mention channel locks.

Just break, disc, till, smooth, cover with sand. You seem to be thinking backhoe because you have a backhoe. I see no use for it. We dig septic tanks and graves for cows with ours.

Chain is working load limit,. A third or fourth of break strength. The rating on the cloth is the break point.

I don't think the 3 out of 5 years applies to cattle. You can't make any money unless you operate at a loss. Any agriculture does not switch to hobby status. Notice welfare is in the farm bill.

You need them to give clamping force on blade.

I have caught myself out in the yard weed eating around my riding mower....

That wouldn't be because of the scientific articulation of the frontest most axle, would it ?

Just get a hydraulic motor with a tractor pto stub on it. That's the simplest thing to do. No shortening drive shafts. Just take them off. Direct couple motor to implement, hoses from tractor to motor. If you don't have enough hydrs on tractor, get a pto pump too. I've owned both, so they...

Come live in my misery a few days and you'll return home as a new being. I mean she at, if you can pook off enough bucks to vacate in Africa, I feel so bad for you.

Heavy duty commercial has round holes. I kept sharp blades handy and changed 66 blades a week. Basically half the mowers every other day. Kept a few new blades to replace ones too worn. They'd wear in two on the back side where they turned up. I welded some of those back and used them again.

We run six tractors, all have tubes. Skidder has tubes, tree cutter has tubes. We love tubes.

Have you tried just tightening it up, making sure it isn't loose.

Why can't you hold the drive shaft from turning. I always used a piece of chain tied around the blade and the deck. Air wrench on the blade bolts. I worked at Kubota. Dealer has been there since 1944. Started out as a Ford dealership. I didn't ever replace the cup washers unless the owner...

The loader will pick up an entire load of oilfield pipe off a 3/4 ton truck maxed out with a pipe trailer. That's with forks in front of the bucket. I've taken several of those apart. Put a new flex plate for the torque converter if you take engine out. You may get it freed up without...

I've replace a lot of seals. Never bought one at a dealer.

You can buy those engines ready to go.

I've dealt with that. It was a crystallized end of a battery cable. Where the lead is molded on the wire.

Just turn off tank line. Remove filter. Fill new filter. Install. Turn tank valve on. Start tractor. We have a 4630 set up that way. Injection pump and lines will still have fuel. So it will start up.

I worked at Kubota and used gear oil every time. Stayed in better.

Ha, he don't have that plate.

He's got connections on tractor and on loader. I will check to see if that block is there. Thank you.

We will try that, thanks.

My bros father in law just called. He's working on a 2012 MX 5000 Kubota. Has less than 100 hrs on it. Putting a great bend front end loader on it. Loader valve has three hoses. He said he has worn himself out connecting ever which way but it won't work. He's real crafty. Just rebuilt...

Make sure you don't have one. They are small.

There is a realtor here that uses a backhoe. Left it parked on a job. Two young boys, he didn't know them. Played on the machine and one let bucket down on the other. Killed kid dead. That's why you put it all down.

My light been on last few years. Just stuck a business card in front of it.

Flat break it. I've done hundreds of acres that way. Turn it over and the grass will die. Lightly disc with a drag tied behind the disc.

I've over did several of those boxes. I worked at Kubota. There is nothing in that box that will be hurt by either oil. Main thing is keep the level checked.

They don't hang out. It's up inside a little bit.

I will tell you one thing right now, from experience. Those double joints are highly expensive, so keep it greased. It has zerks on the center parts too, don't miss, grease it all. I have successfully re done them, and it takes five hands to do it. My hands, dad's hands, and a pair of vise...

You need to check if you have a way to grease a throw out bearing. Some tractors had a grease fitting on it. Some had a grease gun hose with a fitting in the end of it, hanging down to bottom of bell housing. Also, the snout that sticks out of front of transmission, the throw out bearing rides...

It don't have a double u joint like a hay baler has?

If it's under a certain length, narrower than your vehicle, it shouldn't need license plates or lights. Show me a brick mason that has the mortar mixer licensed. And I'm not from Missouri.

Yep, I'd fix it. They have some thick boot patches to put inside tire over the hole. Then put a tube. Good to go. If it still shows a hole on the outside, caulk with sikaflex.

We have tractors made in the early 1980's. Never done a hydraulic fluid change. We have changed the filter a few times because it was dirty. We have 6 tractors. Commercial farm. They get used daily.

I've gotten brand new carbs off my neighbor because he always used Teflon tape. A piece always gets between needle and seat. I'd gladly pay the core charge and he'd go get another.

Float may have been stuck down. They'll do that.

Get a box grader with adjustable angle blades. It will dive right in the hardest gravel. Make a smooth trail in the woods. It saves your gravel. Me and my brother made a 7' one. It will move 2 yards of dirt easy. We load it up, pick up just a little so it doesn't dig, and you can move...

Only the ones blown out, broke belts, or too rotted.

I've done it. If you drew a fifty yard circle around me right now, easily 1000 tires in that circle. I do lots of tires.

Probably have to have some spacers made to bolt from one rim to the other. But, you may find some adapters already made.

I'd just cut it off smooth with the tire.

For one plug?

They used to all have tubes. By not selling tubes they are saving several hundred dollars a tractor.

I have chain top links well over fifty years old. Never broke. Used with five and six ft bush hogs, and used roughly. You could make a flex hitch on the implement side, like some bush hogs have. You could run two chain braces to rear of your pallet and let the hitch flex at the bottom.

But they have wheels.

I saw them too. But, maybe it wasn't from an APS squadron. Maybe a land based organization. Plus the big ones were aluminum and shallow.

An old fella here cranks his truck when he goes to work and kills it at eight in the evening when he gets home. Truck idles all day. If he's at the office, out there idling. If he's on an oil well location, out there idling. All day six days a week. Sells his trucks at 500,000 miles. Still...

You can get overrun clutches for small tractor shaft and modern output shaft. Buy one and be done. Like you said, it needs overrun anyway because it don't have it.

An old 8n would cut all day with one. I seen another guy that had a Kubota that would fit in the bed of a pickup. Used a sickle mower all the time with it. He cut trees and brush with his, never hay.

No way I'd use all thread as rebar. All thread can be used for other things. I'd buy all you have.

I live right near a T post steel mill. They make grade 80 rebar here too. If you are a real HE MAN and could bend it, it will snap. 1/2" nope, not bending that. I have a big Klein rebar bender, it don't want none of that grade 80. I've about ruined it trying. I've cut some with a torch and...

Yes you can. That original plug was solid. So a freeze plug of the rubber variety will do the same job. If you saved your old one you can get one made at a machine shop. It will be under seven hundred dollars. Just kidding. But it may be cheaper than buying original. Plus it will be made...

When we clear, we use a big ole junky trackhoe and two skid steers. We have a D 7 but don't use it. Knock trees down, saw stumps off. Then we have a big square hole dug. Throw them stumps in the hole and light er up. Keep the inferno going. Firewood all that hardwood from the trees. Get...

Yes, but we have paper Mills in the south and osb plants, mdf plants even. I'm just across the river.

As long as it's around the same size all should work. I always swapped out the 20 horse engines for 37 horse engines and was an easy swap. Just don't get rid of your old one until new one is on and operating. Might need a part or piece off of it.

Religious Crusade defines the situation perfectly. You have hit the nail on the head. Wind farmers are same religion, different sect. Electric car folks are in there too. Though, I can see a use for them. My mother relies heavily on an electric golf cart. She can't do what she does without...

Starters and flywheels are still costly.

I know I have seen septic tanks delivered many times. Concrete tanks 1,000 gallons. The hydraulic motor is about the size of a coffee cup. You must have some type of speed reduction already because electric motors run at 1750 rpm. It don't take much hydraulic to get 1 HP when you have a...

I don't want to go no lower than diggin taters or no higher than pullin corn.

My grandaddy was born in 1900. He always had it and so doeth I.

Then one has fuel turned up higher. Ford 4 cyl tractors are the same. 5610, 6610, 7610, same engine.

There is no replacement for displacement.

An old rusty chain is five times better than a new strap. I tried both, hands down for chain being # 1.

Yes, but you have to put up a temporary to build the house. Build a nice temporary and never call them to swap it over.

In the rural part of my world, they absolutely do not.

We run 3,000 mama cows. Not counting calves and bulls. Many miles of junkified fence. Never had any get out.

Long piece of small pipe with an ell on the end. Or tubing and bend the end. Adapt it to a ball valve. Adapt the ball valve to fit the hose. Stick it down in there and spray away.

Exactly right. That is a slow moving vehicle. It's not like you'll be driving 80 mph to El Paso with it. Heck, it was all fine until they saw the water. Never had a clue anything was wrong. Sure, dealerships can create work, they are good at that. I'd roll on like a big dog with that...

Kubota or Massey. Even a New Holland dealer would say that.

Did you let them already do the repairs? I'd just change fluid and continue with life.

That's a big cat. I've petted a few dead ones. Few people have them in cages around here. Seen one tied out like a dog. One guy has one in a twelve foot tall cage. Cyclone fence across top. You can throw an aluminum can on the top and that cat will jump up and slap it off. Another guy has...

Employ's only. I actually saw that one.

Hot springs ain't on 30.

Shoot. Shovel. Shut Up.

I've seen them blow just like that from the sun shining on them. I've bush hogged from the Texas line to the Mississippi line across the foot of Louisiana, never blew a tire that way. And, it was a jungle down that way.

I generally don't use anything but water hose pressure on a radiator. Air hoses bend fins over. Before you do anything, while it is dry, spray hot soapy water on it from a squirt bottle. Soapy water will absorb into dry debris. Will not help at all if it is wet. Spray with it dry. I use...

Get a quiet gun and solve those problems. Poison works too. I know a man that killed four in one day.

I read that same thing when I was up there. I drove to Alaska in a 75 hiboy.

Take the injectors out, blow water out. Pour marvel mystery oil in. Let it soak. See if you can get the starter off and pry on the flywheel teeth, each way, see if you can get it to move. Be gentle but firm. Too rough can break the land in a piston. It may take a few days, but once it...

I've only seen that happen from too much air pressure.

Overland dirt scoop on wheels will do what you are wanting. I've seen 3 yard and 5 yard scoops. They have smaller ones. We have a yard size. One yard of dirt, maybe two. Spillover, spillover, I can't remember the brand. We also made a 7' land plane that carries 2 1/2 yards at a time, but...

A little wider than your back tires. You want it to cover your tracks. Then as you make more passes, the tires will be on smoother bladed ground, blade will be on smoother ground, it all gets smoother. Plus, you don't want a blade too wide for a sided trailer. Even a 7' blade will need a...

You are plumbed off tractor hydraulics. Ours has a separate pump that goes on PTO. That's what he was asking.

With 2" thick tails that are 6' long? I've seen 11 live ones and a couple dead ones. But, we don't talk about those.

With the box blade and one tooth down, you will have the weight of the box blade. Don't forget that. I used to bury phone lines too, all day, six days a week. We didn't work Sunday because it inconvenienced people at their homes. But, if we had a mile long run across a farm, we'd be there...

Just mix grease and gear oil together in a container. Yes, stir it together and mix it good. Then put in the gearbox. That works real good.

I'm thinking that's the b st hoe around. I was way up in Canada and came across an old guy, didn't drive anymore. He had 11 greenhouses, probably 100 yards long. Used one of them hoes and said he could get 4 acres a day. His wife drove. He had a sxs he got around on.

Our scrap yards keep all the plate steel for to sale to the public. I call them first.

Ive built brand new houses and sprayed the entire thing with a pump up garden sprayer. Log house,10' porch all around, wood walls and ceilings inside, tile floor. 6' off the ground on light poles. Porch was 10' all around house. Garden sprayer worked fine. Put citronella in with stain and...

You may can put a radiator hose clamp around it real tight. Bump the knot where the screw is in the clamp. Since it is a little chewed around edge, clamp will hold. If you salvage it, get an aluminum or steel replacement made. Rubber freeze plug will work until you get the cap figured out...

Wait until you need a water pump. I'll rebuild that for you. If it is real expensive. I've done several. You can buy just the seals for it. And while I'm thinking about it, if your battery is in front of the radiator, put it in one of those marine battery boxes. The fan pulls acid through...

That's the only thing about those tractors, always cold. Injection pumps expensive to rebuild. Seals are cheap to replace. Your symptom is called, making oil. Because your fuel leaks into the crankcase, making oil level rise. But, if the machine runs fine, no rebuild needed. There is a...

I'll tell you a true story about straps and chains. I was down in Homestead Florida, with a 40 cubic yd dump trailer, crew cab 4x4 3500 Dodge flatbed, cleaning up a hurricane. Dump was terrible, had a huge dozer to pull folks. I got stuck, all I had was a strap. That dozer snapped that strap...

Are you sure it's the injection pump? We have an older 1900, probably a 1980 model. Broke, disced, cultivated 40 acres with that rascal for years. Still cultivate with it. No pump issues. Funny about it, you have to use the glow plugs, even in July, if you want it to start. Been that way...

Take a wheel off and haul it home with you. I can have most any tractor cranked in a jiffy with no key. So, it's hard to drive and load a three wheel tractor. Even chaining and padlock steering wheel ain't much for a battery angle grinder.

And the consultant has never been dirty before. Think about where this advice comes from.

I'll think this over. I have done it for an old fella. We sold 9 tons of welding rods, still in the 50 # metal boxes. That was just the welding rods.

53-24 is a hard size to find, I can guess that.

Other hose is near bottom of cylinder towards you can be reached from inside back on some. I only know about some because I've only had some apart.

There is also a special emergency gasket around the window glass in the door. You'll see a pull strip on the inside, center top has a pull tab. I take the door off unless I'm mulching or bush hogging. That high flow ain't no joke.

I guess that they were thinking one day. You know, if we don't put a special module, they won't have to buy a special module from us. We've not been thinking, boys.

Did you take both lines loose on each cylinder? Sounds like you took the wrong one loose. Is there a jack shortage in your part of the country because of covid?

OEM don't mean jack Didley at a dealer.

You can't just hone that one cylinder and put a piston and rings? I'm 53 and had lots of junk apart, but I have yet to bore or sleeve anything. I have honed cylinders sitting full of water and rusty as heck. Ran it for years afterward. If it's really bad, wrap sand paper around hone. In...

I have seen a newish Jon dear bought at an auction, non runner. Guys dad took a piect of tie wire and dug a shop rag out of the intake. Been running strong twenty years. I'll take them same gambles.

I've seen several home made rigs at farm auctions. Good looking, functional rigs.

So you are saying we'd have trouble?

50 hz things work on old welding machines. They are 50 hz.

What goes on that shaft? Also is it vertical or horizontal? I have solved a problem such as that, but I need those two questions. Okay, I looked it up. Zero turn? Vertical shaft? I have swapped all kinds of engines out on those. Easiest for you to do is get one close in size. I would...

I have fixed some heckuvamojo problems because the fuse box wasn't bolted on tight enough.

Water and prestone

Also if it has a tach, does it move on a crank, no start ? I'd replace cam sensor and crank sensors anyway, and I'd keep the old sensors for future diagnosis of problems. Fuel pump relay could be. Relay bypasses crank sensor until engine is running. But, if relay isn't working, fuel pump...

I'm not a GM guy, but I have worked places and kept fleets up. That one may have delay start. There is a small relay, I'm thinking under the hood, that will cause that problem. A little spray lube in the ignition is always good. Puts off changing the ignition. See if it has delay start...

A wheel barrow and a shovel has you both beat.

What makes you think it needs a rebuild ?

Just put a water separator on it. Every fuel tank we use has one. Some fuel has so much water I had to dump out the separator several times a day. Log loaders and skidders use some fuel up.

I worked at a large Kubota dealer and used gear oil. But, I would keep a 5 of UDT on hand for topping off your tractor hydraulic system. Gear oil is fine in a gear box. Super UDT is special and will run cooler. Seen other machines burn down because they don't have it. We burned a JD down to...

Take a simple idiot light. Disconnect pos and put light one end on cable, one end on post. See if it lights up. If it lights up, start pulling fuses one at a time to make it go off. That finds what circuit it's on. If that don't find it, disconnect alternator, keep going until you find it...

If it runs on fuel or electricity, no loan it out. Standard policy around here.

Or they break it in two and let you keep both pieces.

You can slide a tent out pretty easy and set it up.

I'm not trying to rain on his parade, or steal his thunder. I'm just talking from experience, seems you have had the same experience.

I worked for JCB as a field service mechanic in Little Rock. Alternator has a built in regulator. There are two types, a 9v activated field and a 12v activated field. Usually if a regulator is out, it doesn't regulate, so you will get 17v or so. Which, that could be your problem because it...

We have a log skidder. We also use a couple big tractors. Used a rear grapple on a tractor for years. Finally bought a new hydraulic winch for a tow truck, put it on top of the grapple. The grapple is just in the way now. Then, we bought a Farmi. I think a Farmi and some chain chokers will...

Skid steers do fine with some over the tire tracks. Ones made out of chain with cross bars welded in. See them in the woods regularly.

I have sent many vehicles by truck. Only contact with buyer was over the phone. Sold old things not running with four flats. As long as both parties are truly informed.

That'll work. Angle the tip down just a little so it will dig. Maybe no more than ten degrees. You can always cut it loose and turn it around later.

Other thing, go slowly. When you pull up on it just a little, it'll give more traction to your tires, ease it back down. Maybe pull it up an inch going slow. Are you putting a hard foot on it? You could put a piece of blade on bottom for a foot. Old trackhoe or backhoe tooth. Need...

I doubt you can pull one, much less two in clay. 3/4 thickness is plenty for up to 100 HP. We have big tractors and they are pawing and clawing with a sub soiler sunk 2' in clay, just one shank.

I started messing with tires because of that time period between noon Saturday and Monday morning. I haven't been to a tire store in over 20 years. Even have a balancer but I hardly ever use it.

That works too. Didn't know you had trees.

Usually you can tilt it all the way up. Chain the side that is still away from the loader, back to the loader. Then tilt down a little bit at a time until other side lines up with it. That's the simplest one man show way to fix it. The ones I was talking about were bent like 90° to each...

Check around the lip on your rim. I always go around them with an angle grinder with a wire wheel. Spray paint the inside. I have bought few things that actually really more than paid for themselves. Manual tire changer and hand tire tools. Manual bead breaker, hand hammer bead breaker...

Link belts work just fine. I've used many. Running all day for months on end. How? Belts pulling 55" fans on poultry houses. Link belts are better. One farm has 40 of those fans.

I have done the same thing. I just got a couple last week too. Found two four hole 15" rims with tires, doing a clean up for a neighbor. 165 15 to 205 15, maybe even 215 15 should work. We have a few double V rakes. I mount all the tires we use at my shop, on my vehicles, tractors, trailers...

I wouldn't waste money on fluid. A few days using it, the hot oil will evaporate the water out. Maybe change filters.

I bought a few power packs. Can't find them.

No, they done proved it's the second hand smoke that kills. Always smoke with the windows down, that way you don't get any second hand smoke.

Depends on cost and availability.

First off, he should have been inspecting regularly and caught it when it started cracking.

Plates over welded up cracks and tears, weld more bracing. The one that says it can't be done needs to stay out of the way of the one that's doing it

Ive used equipment so loose and worn that the bucket fell off in a mack dump truck full of poop. Then later the grapple came off two times one day cleaning brush. So, I finally had the new skid steer beside the old one and did some measuring. Waved a welder over, had him weld some rebar...

I've had four flats a week on my vehicle, that's the most. Two flats a year seems like no problem on an off road vehicle. I've had two flats in one day on my trailer. Had to leave it, come home and mount up two more tires, after dark. Take wheel assemblies back, hoping my trailer was still...

If the fluid looks decent, just change the filter. I have split many a 555 mainly to replace a broke flex plate for the torque converter. Worse part of the whole deal is those two little bolts on bottom of fuel tank that are vertical and screw up into the tank. The rest is just bulk work...

I bought 6 solid tires for 6 wheel barrows. Eliminated that headache. One still has a boat trailer tire on it, but it's so stiff it is never flat. It's very old. I think it was made around 1930. All steel except for the rubber tire. You can put a tube in those tires. Be sure to put a few...

It needs a thermostat.

Just add a pressure switch. Maybe a tank to make it all work right.

I've welded worse.

Chains, come along, welding machine are in order.

Just buy a pressure gauge and screw the head off and put it on your air chuck. They make them with a straight pointing away from you and a 45 pointing toward you. I buy at pawn shops for two bucks. Never bought a new one.

Four post. If you're not working on brakes and tires for a living, four post. Plus, 4 post spreads weight out better on 4" slabs. You might not have enough Crete for a 2 post. I wouldn't risk that.

I bet he had a dozen 8n tractors. Parked at every hay field during the summer.

Need to make sure you are registered.

Timing too retarded, oops, I mean mentally challenged. Side distributor? Very well could be timing. Slow timing means low power, overheat, sluggish running.

You can't press them out. Just put a rod through them like you said, and get them to moving. Spray some lube. Let them sit in a gallon can of diesel. I have a 60,000# press, but I wouldn't try pressing those out. Ball and socket, won't come out. They'll come free with lube and effort...

The diff lock is spring loaded....

Leave it in 4x4 and it will eventually not have 4x4. Usually wears out ring and pinion if nothing breaks first. Pulled a many of them. I worked at Kubota. New Holland had a triangle piece at the wheel hub that would shear. Kubota was a worn out gearset or a broke something else.

I've caught two recently and they are eastern but I'm a good ways west of the Mississippi. 60 miles from Texas.

Old fella around here had a fleet of 8N tractors and sickle mowers to cut hay. Had a big newer tractor for baling. Cut it all with them 8n's.

Do you honestly think they will turn in the gold they find? Just let the govt take your hard earned labor and mail it to some porch sitters?

Alaska is very remote. Two is a better option. I have lived it.

A lot of things left in Alaska. I been all over Alaska. I was in a 75 truck with a horse trailer I slept in.

Just tweak the pulley you have and get it more in line with the universe.

I don't hardly ever look back. Especially when cutting hay or a pasture. One thing that does help is to turn your head hard to the left every once in a while. Too much turning right makes your neck sore. I've been on machines with mirrors and cameras. They do help.

You couldn't hold the bottom head of the bolt with vise grips? I use them and just tie the handle off. Then I take the nut off from the top. 90 minutes for each bolt is a while. I use Lenox wheels too but they are slower than abrasive wheels. But they won't explode either. I use them for...

I remember my neighbor driving by. Had one of them 35' or 40' cattle trailers. All the cows you could put in it, it was stuffed. Pulling it with a 1982 Ford Ranger 4x4 in low range, a screamin demon.

I have turned around in places with a gooseneck, no way could you turn around with a bumper pull.

I might add a dovetail. I wouldn't make a dovetail out of what is there. More length gives adjustability. Move the load more to get it just right. To avoid pinching holes in your seat from the pucker syndrome.

I probably have more filter wrenches than will fit in a milk crate. Still use every one of them at times. I even used one last week to open a gallon jar of dill pickles. I had that jar clamped between my legs and used both hands trying to break the seal. I literally wore myself out on that...

Put nut back on threads and run down until flush with threads. Get a rod and an impact implement (Hammer), and seriously try to move it. Sounds like a wedge lock situation. Has to be driven out from thread end. If you get movement, spray with oily stuff and tap to and fro and keep spraying...

When you have a fire, the fire dept won't spray water until the power company shows up within an hour or so to shut it off. Fire doubles every 30 seconds, so seconds are important. I started doing that years ago on anything I built. Power company loved it. My parents, no meter on their...

I wouldn't put a meter on a house, period. Run a line to the house. Run a line to the shop. Both from the meter, but meter not on house. Seen many a house burn because of that.

Let me tell you. I have to use containers that close. I went to a farm, just got me a 32 oz truck stop coffee. There was a double handful of flies in it. Got a cup that had a shut drinker on it. Bunch of small flies came in through the vent hole and filled it up. Found a little screw and...

I bought a $ 4.00 phone case, pouch, holder thing on the mark down aisle. Fashioned a string to wear it around my neck. No more broke phones. Can hang it somewhere if I don't need to wear it. Has been a good solution. If it starts raining, drop inside my shirt.

It's all good until you get close to 50 mph, then it's scary. Did that once, and only once. Never told nary a soul, until now.

Can you get an extra pallet and split the load?

We've had a shop with a septic for 28 years. This is at a commercial farm. Floor drain goes outside, not in tank. Oil spills get sawdust or floor dry. We don't intentionally wash oil down the drain. Where the drain runs out, looks good. We have spilled gallons of oil at times. Hydraulic...

If you have oily cloth items like good rags or cloth gloves, put them in a bucket with some gas in it. Take a stick and move it around ever so often. Then take them out, wring and hang to let dry, then put in some hot soapy water to get the gas out. Stir with a stick. Rinse, they'll come...