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I know RWD with a true locker is better than 4wd with opens for not getting stuck😁 If I'm paying for 4wd I want a locking rear and center. The only way you get stuck with that set up is to be on the frame. Most people don't want to hear their 4wd system is crap but I've seen it on many a...

That's not the type I'm talking about, I'm talking about the ones with a manual push button vacuum actuated locker, if it's locked on dry payment it jumps and chirps when turning locker.

Dude... a LSD isn't the same as a push button solid locked differential.

https://www.deere.com/en/news/all-news/2021aug19-CF-announcement/ When I was shopping mini excavators I had checked out the Deere 17g and then called the Hitachi dealer. He didn't have a zx17u on the lot then asked me if I looked at the 17g yet, I said yes, he said it's the same thing but in...

That's not been my experience. 4wd with open diffs is really 1wd when things get slick or a wheel is in the air offroading.

I'll take a 2wd drive truck with a locking rear differential over a 4wd truck with open differentials!

In the past the deeres were definitely Hitachi's but recently they announced they were splitting up.

One of the reason I went with a Takeuchi for my baby excavator a couple years ago was the simple electronics and heavy counterweighted rear end toughness.(she got a big butt) The Cat sticks feel different because they are electric over hydraulic design. You loose some feel at the joystick but...

How dare you!;) Lol I'm looking forward to when Takeuchi come out with all of their 3xx series machines to replace the 200 series. Should add some of the fancy touches other manufacturers have put on em. I don't know if anyone that mad at their Takeuchi's performance though.

Tb260 with thumb and hydraulic pin grabber coupler, 86,000 adding an angle backfill blade took it to 89,000. Tb370 with thumb and hydraulic pin grabber coupler, 103,000 These are both cab units tax is included in the price.

I had to get "in line" for an machine last month. I let them them know if I liked it I would buy it and they brought it to my house for me to actually use. You never know till you ask. Cat, Ditch Witch, Takeuchi, Deer and Bobcat(I had to pick that one up) have all let me demo machines. The ones...

Lol. That's not what I meant at all. I think most people who talk about 1984 on the internet haven't even read it.

150hrs in 15years I'd say just sell the tractor😉

Cool, those Hitachi's are good machines! Load up some pictures when you get a chance.

Used to work on tractors then ran a shop for a while. The stuff you see from owners when you do it all the time is amazing, you are correct.

I've never seen one of those systems actually return coolant to the radiator. I have seen more than a few tractors overheated because owners looked there and saw plenty of antifreeze when in fact the radiator was empty....they do work for catching overflow though.

It's simple, don't do stuff you don't want people to know about and don't say stuff you don't want people to hear. If you do it or say be proud and back it up. Living in fear of technology you bought with your own free will is humorous!(smash it and go back to a landline)

As a country person with to much grass to cut I'll never understand wanting it to grow faster and thicker and spending money on it.

Very true, also most dealers that don't have a demo unit will credit you rental fees if you buy their machine.

Get them each to drop a machine off for you to demo on your farm. That's the really the only way to know how what your buying will perform. I've found machines in the same weight class a zero tail won't perform a well as one with counterswing when it comes to lifting or feeling stable without...

They certainly tore down many statues and monuments though was that rewriting history too?

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Stop trying to control me!

I hear they're hiring, go for it!

I'd say working at McDonalds is a pretty harsh penalty. Lol.

Re: taking the diploma back in bankruptcy. I know three business owners that declared bankruptcy and not a single thing was taken from them. They got rid of the debt and started over

I'm still pissed I can't dump used crankcase oil in the creek anymore. Control!

And some houses become crack houses, that doesn't mean we shouldn't build any new houses.

I've been on many rails to trails rides and never seen anything remotely like that, just smooth riding and awesome views, then stoping at the small businesses(that couldn't exist without the rails to trails) along the route for food and drinks.

I canceled Netflix a couple years ago, wasn't difficult at all. Their library wouldn't look nearly as big if they didn't put every movie/show in 3-4-5 different categories, how many times do I have scroll past the same show. Lol. I'll probably sign back up when the next season of stranger...

Couldn't you say the same thing about roads? Lol. I've been to towns in West Virginia that seem like they survive the summers based on rails for trails tourist traffic.

I tried going that route but didn't have any luck. A bunch a leaking machines and most didn't have the boring option. Saw many more chain trenchers than vibratory plows for sale.

Thanks! Bought, was the only option all the rental place machines are out on long term rentals with no signs of being returned. $32,000 with the boring attachment/rods/etc. That's alot if hay bails to sell!

I think its out of beta now. They claim they are limiting the number of people per cell to keep it fast and no data cap. So far I am very happy with it vs the other options available at my location.(hugesnet or 4g). The 4g works good in the early morning but slows to almost nothing 4pm-10pm.

Got my vibrator, should have the boring attachment in the next week or two.

I can get a Takeuchi TL12 set up for mulching(extra cabin protection) with fecon mulching head for $3500 a week where I live. Plan to rent one for my woods when I have the combination of free time and extra cash even though I have an excavator.

I guess patience is a thing of the past. You can get your $99 deposit back anytime you want, but if you wait for the service you'll be happy once you get it.

That's not what the people who have it think.....

Lol. 😂 Lol.

You didn't come to my defence when it was said I'm naive with a big ego and implied I have a small *****.(it's ok it make me happy) lol

"I do what I want!!!"

Pretty sweet, looking forward to seeing to pictures once you get it! I just sent a request to the closest dealer to me(over 100miles away though:() for a quote. Were you able to put any seat time in one before buying to see how it handles?

😁 Lol, thanks I'm lacking in many areas. Hope you have a great day!

If I decide to leave a forum, I leave the forum and that's it. Not make a post announcing it.

I love these attention seeking posts. Seen them on many forums throughout the years. You know what they say. "The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without."

Cool! How much did you save going with the Sany vs a similar weight Cat/Takeuchi/etc? I was recently quoted a tb260 with cab/AC @86k.

Very cool. I would love something that could follow the excavator around, I load dirt/gravel/whatever into it, then it goes and dumps in a designated location.

I do #1 in the winter and #4 in the summer if it's to dry.

The hard part isn't clearing land it's what to do with all the pulled up trees. They pile up fast!

Cool, I'll have to look into that if the utilities thing ever dries up.

I've been looking at those to. After running the open rops excavator all summer I decided my next big machine will be enclosed with AC for temperature and dust reasons. What's one of those run? When shopping Vermeer I saw they sold balers, didn't realize that before.

I got a contract for installing communication cable, but the machines can also put in water/gas lines, sprinkler lines.

I haven't been shopping for ride on machines. A new 2500lb walk behind is 30k, a 4000lb walk beside combo machine is 60ish thousand. Early 2000s combo machines are 30ish thousand. A Toro, Vermeer, Ditchwitch mini track loader with plow and boring attachment is 50-60k depending on the track...

Try shopping for a vibratory plow/chain trencher/boring unit. Dang!

In my experience the way people mess up tractors with a grapple is by picking up trees/other things that hang WAY out of the sides. Then drive around with em bouncing and leveraging on the loader. 10ft of tree hanging out with a rootball on the end creates alot of force. My dad wasn't an...

When I used to have an auto repair shop I would get random people with those tv warranties, they never covered the repairs.

I like to use USTOPO app for mapping trails in the woods.

I mainly make my living with a 2ton excavator that people like to joke on, till they see it in action. So I'm definitely not in the competition for the "largest unit". Lol

Just curious how often you use an excavator? Hoping on something you're not used to for one job and saying it's not as good as what you used l to is kinda funny. The fact that you were "bobbing and wobbling" says to me you're not smooth with the controls and don't know what your doing.(with an...

The small mecalac is 160k at my dealer.

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Exactly what I said.

Many/most loaders aren't made by the tractor manufacturer..

Learning that tractors aren't bulldozers the hard way....

We lost, have the backbone to own up to it and let's figure out how to win the next one. To compare losing an election to the founding fathers is ridiculous.

How "rightfully enraged" do you gotta be beat on police with a flag pole and chant about hanging someone? It sucks we lost but none of that was justified.

Pretty sure those UPS guys get a decent salary and benefits 😉

Problem with that statement is, money generally=survival and power.

But not at the same rate as productivity? or are graphs such as these wrong?

@Torvy hasn't US workers productivity been going up for years/maybe decades without a corresponding increase in pay?

Come on, they obviously know more than the engineers and accountants at Bobcat/Doosan, Tesla, VW, Mercedes, etc🤔 lol

I think Bobcats thinking is that in some/many construction sites a machine spends more time sitting that actually being run each day. Obviously this isn't the case always but it often is on multiman-mutimachine crews.

That's funny because when I watch TV or get on the internet it seems like anything goes!

Slap em with a glove, then challenge them to an jousting contest!

I'm not defending him, I don't know what he was thinking.

Coming to a stop and making him jog around you makes sense to me.

If the runner jumped out in the street in front of him would agree with both of you.

I don't know anything about anything! If you can't stop for an obsticale in the road you're going to fast for the conditions.

I don't even own a tractor right now, just fix other people's. My next purchase will be CTL👍

The dealer standard of paying their bills!;)

The only way a tractor brand drops a dealer is if they don't pay their bills. Lol.

I missed that you were talking about it being towed behind a RV or with another vehicle and a chain. Sorry about that.

They why not post that you want choices/options instead of making a bogus post about how they can't be towed! Not only can they be towed on a rollback most "regular" tow trucks keep a set of wheel dollies that could could be put under the wheels of a EV allowing it to be towed. I guess that...

Keep reaching! Most road side assistance I see uses a flatbed tow truck. By your logic many 4wd and AWD vehicles shouldn't be on the road either.

No but they pulled guns on me when I filled up and drove away without paying ;) It was just a joke(hence the ;) )but if there is no other option and you want to get places, you're kinda forced.

I've been forced to buy gas and diesel my whole life;)

I agree with not playing chicken with vehicles and as I said about riding bike I ride a MTB on the road for the very purpose of being able to get all the way into the grass shoulder on the backroads I ride on, but it's your fault you were going to fast and went in the ditch not his.

It's not his fault you were driving too fast for the road conditions.

That's stuffs easy and youre slow! Lol. Not serious just laughing at the internet bragging.

It's all good Budds. Many dealers do this but aren't honest about it. They just keep putting the tractor purchased elsewhere work behind the purchased here work. Next thing ya know the tractors been there for months without even being looked at.... Kudos for being up front about it and I can...

I'm happy in a big ICE vehicle, I'm happy in a small ICE vehicle and I'm sure I'll be happy in a EV vehicle if that's what the future brings. My mental state is the only thing I have control of in the world!

It'll be pretty easy, go for it! 🙂

Wouldn't it be easier to change the bucket attachment points and keep then self level feature?

That why I ride my MTB on the road. Going 10-13mph on a knobby MTB is the same workout as 15-18 on a skinny tire road bike. And I can pop wheelies if I want🙂

I mainly stream Prime using Chromecast and it's smart enough to pause the show when you turn the tv off. Don't have to anything with the phone or tablet to make it stop.

I did and it sounds like that is what they are going to "try" to ban new petrol car sales in 2030. They're not requiring old ones to be turned in and new hybrids will still be sold so gas stations aren't going away. The articles I read projected more like 2050 before gas cars are off the road...

Very very short. This is all I got from the link.

I shot a 14yr old bear a few years ago and save many lbs of fat and came across this while search for stuff to do with it. Never got around to trying it though. http://mountainmonthly.com/gordon-wimsatt-and-his-famous-bear-grease/

I use my mountain bike as both a trail bike and road bike. I like the ability to ride on the shoulder of the road when I hear a car coming on the backroads I ride on. I know I have the same rights as a car on the bike but that doesn't matter if I'm dead, so I make sure to get out of their way.

If you don't use a jar of bear fat to predict the weather I'm not listening 🙂

As of right now my Starlink connection is just as fast at 7pm as it is at 5am. They say they are limiting the customer per "cell" so that speeds wont diminish, we will see on the long run but it seems to be true right now. My previous connection, Verizon 4g hot spot was good in the morning but...

A quote from one of your links. "This has been a problem going on for years,” CEO and president of the California Retailers Association Rachel Michelin said in a statement.

Thanks for the links! I would like to hear from some locals with first hand experience though.

I agree with ya there! I think that guys statement is BS though that what the lol was for. If you're old fashioned you should be happy with no internet 🙂

We have some Californian members here what do y'all see on the ground there? I'm on the other side of USA so I just know what I read about the place. How many and what stores have closed?

Must be true then! Did you ask him to introduce you to the right people? Lol. I've used dialup, Blue something or other, Hughes net and phone hotspots and starlink blows them out if the water! If you don't get it because of Elon you're missing out.

They just increased the mandatory felony charge to that amount and still arrest and prosecute for lesser thefts, it's just a misdemeanor charge not a felony.🙂

Not going to watch the video but anything like this from a YouTube star I assume is scripted and fake.

If you get a workshop manual it might have what you need in it. My excavator one does.

Na, if the service or parts manual doesn't list the specs, just tell them to get a tech to grab a new tractor off the line remove a cylinder measure everything then put it back together;) then give you the numbers;)

What did the Kioti dealer say when you asked for the specs on the loader cylinders so you could try to get them cheaper elsewhere?

Also check that the fuel stop solenoid is working. It's easy to check and manually operate on the Branson's with external ones but I can't remember if its external or internal for that model.

It might be best if you let someone else work on your tractor🤣🤣jk and good luck. If that area is "full" with oil your engine is super super overfilled.

It's just an alternate oil fill location. Goes to the crank case just like the one on top. Depending on what the engines installed in and which one is easier to access

I would enjoy a Ferrari but it's not fair I can't afford one .....;)

Fat trees but not much of a "tap root" from what I can see?

I always though supply and demand drives prices. If demand for crude is less because the majority of vehicles don't run on it, wouldn't it be cheaper? Seems some people in the thread have it backwards.

Welds look awesome! Is there a respirator or something under the mask? Some of the craziest older people I know are ex welders, right behind auto body/car painters🤣 I think it has something to do with the fumes.....

"I refuse to be extorted"....sometimes things cost what they cost when it comes to equipment.

The progression I've seen in my lifetime with flashlights and cordless tools makes me think battery vehicles are possible too.

2 for sure. 3 others that died quickly from "pneumonia" in the middle of the summer. I put it quotes because they were adamantly against covid being real. All were elderly but still up and moving around.

Isn't that what everyone of your posts in this thread has been about. Lol.

Lol. You wouldn't be mad if they didn't have a product you wanted! As a business I'd rather have 500,000 waiting customers than 0..

I think their main client base doesn't have any other good option(like me), so they'll sign up however long it takes to get the chance. That's why so many are upset about the wait. They're a bona fide business as far as I'm concerned, the service is awesome. The one time I had a question...

Could also help with the 10000+ drunk driving deaths per year...

I wish you the best, it works awesome once you get it.

I'm sorry y'all are getting delayed. Since I already I have it I'm glad they're doing that instead of overloading the cells and slowing everything down. I'd say it's good to have a company that cares about it's existing customers more than signing up new ones. That is something that...

Not canceled, you can get a digital copy for free on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Ruthless-Rhymes-Heartless-Homes-Graham-ebook/dp/B004TRNU6G/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=R2Q5O1IC9TWM&keywords=Ruthless+Rhymes+for+Heartless+Homes&qid=1637626697&sprefix=ruthless+rhymes+for+heartless+homes%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-3

If someone I don't know asks and I have it then I give it. None of my business what they do with the money.

Did you click the link? It was an app outage not a power outage but if the owners had not of left their key at home it wouldn't of mattered.

The article also says Tesla provides a key with the car that would have made the car functional even with the app out but most owners leave the key at home and rely on the app.... Two is one and one is none, as they say. So it's part Tesla's fault, part the owners.

I've found stands on my property and called the game Warden, he told me"I guess you have a new tree stand" lol. I did put up a note telling them not to hunt there with my phone number but I've never gotten a call. It's probably people who know me and know they're not supposed to be there and...

Where I mounted it it, app said I had an obstruction every 4 mins and suggested I try another location, but that was the best location I had so I used it. The app showed the count down to 100% while scanning, but never gives me a % obstructed. It's works though!

Weird, when I do the check sky app it doesn't give me a percentage, it tells me the expected minutes between outages..I'd guess I have at least that much blockage. There are some tree tops in the east and west edges if the sky area. When I had it on the ground it was WAY more than 3%, the...

Im pretty sure the politicians can figure out more taxes, lol. As to the eliminating all cars, who wants this and why?

Verizon hot spot is what I've been using. Not too bad in the mornings(10mbs)but from about 4pm to 10pm every evening it would average 0.3mbs. Testing Starlink it is from 200-230mbs no matter what time I do it!

I got mine on the roof with volcano mount and flashing mount kit. It had an obstruction every 21 seconds when I had it in the ground. Even with that Netflix and Amazon prime streamed without interruption. I got an apple tv subscription to watch Foundation and it would freeze up every 3-5...

Sometimes the easier something looks the harder it is to do correctly....concrete falls into that category for me. I do small concrete jobs from time to time and you are at the concrete's mercy, no breaks and if something goes wrong it's ALOT of work to correct.

I don't have a clue. I personally think for a computer cars/truck/buss system to work ALL of them will have to be computerized and talking to each other. I also think most human drivers are so bad it wouldn't be hard to computers to do better, but it will be hard for them to be perfect. The...

The way to go from 2 lanes to one and not have to slow down is to double the speed as you downsize lanes. A computer knows this😂

I wish I was this smart and confident.

Did you even read the article you linked us to? Here is an excerpt from the end. "SpaceX has yet to comment on this partnership — so there’s a chance that it might not even come to fruition. However, Reid said that GEC had been vying for the aeronautics company’s attention since 2018. It...

I've had a 10k 6x12ft dump trailer since summer and use it a bunch for work. It has come in very handy and made me money but for large quantities of material it is cheaper to have a big truck bring it in. It is a scissor lift and will easily dump double the rated capacity if loaded rear heavy...

Isn't that what they said about computers and chess. I live near hwy 13 where human driven cars kill people all the time. I'm hoping one day computers will do a better job of keeping people alive.

Starling update: Still working great even with many hrs of obstruction per day. I finally ordered a roof mount which will get it to almost no obstructions. It's is weird to have a good internet connection at home.lol.

Royal purple has the only gl4 I can find locally. Redline also had a gl4 but I can't find it anymore. If you ever compare gl4 to gl5 the 5 is much stinkier lol.

That sucks but it isn't something I ve seen from the two suppliers I use.(and I do a decent amount of these each year) The stuff is actually dry and dusty when being put down and has to be watered to compact properly. Just like anything I'm sure they're are different qualities of product. I...

Here is one I did. It continues to together for a few months after laying it down but there are always some loose rocks on top. To compare to regular asphalt is a little unfair as it cost 4 to 5 times as much as recycled. The recycled asphalt is the best reasonably priced/cheap driveway I've...

Loss of ICE power(even with a turbo) at altitude is one of the reasons an electric vehicle holds the pikes peak hill climb record.

They are heavy! I do hammered in fence posts and fencing with my excavator. I made this attachment for working with 330ft rolls of fencing. Curl down and spear the center of roll then curl up attach to post and drive to unroll. In this picture I have four 1320ft rolls of high tensile hot wire...

I bought a diverter valve in February to switch between hydraulic thumb and another function on my excavator. Friday while on a job it got stuck in the ON position even when un-powered. Talked to tech support we tried a couple things and they said we're sending you a new valve and you'll have...

Input in orange ones for both fat coax and fiber optic. I leave the ends out or in a vault(depending on job) for someone else to make the final connections. Sometimes it takes a while sometimes they're waiting on me.

Do you have any post about that attachment?

If you have a loader, lifting up the front wheels makes disengaging much easier on most tractors.

I think it's more likely made like that to save pennies/dollars and increase profit....

From the article written by "Tyler Durden"(can you trust the crazy alter ego from fight club?) The Tesla in question "might have been using an advanced driver assistance system", according to Reuters. Alot of things might have been.

What happens is the rock sink in one by one over time. If you want a gravel driveway to last put geo fabric down before aggregate as Bill says.

Have you checked the torque specs for that size fitting? Some if the larger ones take a substantial amount, if your using a regular wrench you might just not be tightening them enough.

I guess this was the motivation.

Glad he made it out if the pond! I know many operators that plan to "jump clear" of the machine if it tips and flips. My experience with heavy things is that when they go it's so fast you don't have a chance of reacting in time.

A little water in the cylinder will cause what you're describing.

It's "interesting". Looks like replacement blades once you buy the kit are $8.95 a piece, so $108ish for a set of 12.

Do you do this for a living or is it volunteer work?

A B D C C C C(crap they would put 4Cs in a row would they, or maybe they did just to throw me off..) :)

I guess I have a low IQ. Please clarify are you saying people who are valedictorian of their high school and get perfect or near perfect SAT scores do it through guessing and don't actually know the correct answers?

They're only multiple guess if you don't know the answer.

A person who never makes a mistake is a person who never does any work. Unfortunately in some lines of work a mistake means an injury and some lines of work you just have to print it out again with corrections...

Lol! As someone who digs for a living I've heard this said many times but never seen it happen.

Nice! That was a big chunk you pulled out! I first came across them on a Volvo with an Engcon tilt+rotate setup. They called the bucket it on it a Scandinavian bucket. The bucket impressed me more than the tilt/rotator. No one made them in the USA for my machine so I made my own. Next I'm...

Does anyone this this forum above the age of 18(not living with their parents) live somewhere without having a written agreement, rental, lease, mortgage, etc?

30yrs rent free is a pretty good run...

https://www.takeuchi-us.com/compact-excavators/tb216-compact-excavator/ Its a tough machine with a big butt.(part of what makes it so good) I just had a Cat 302 at the house for a month demo even though the Cat weights 1500lbs more had has significant more HP it didn't out perform the 216. The...

This was a full Snap On professional set up with domestic, asian and European keys. Had multimeter, occilliscope and could talk to airbag, body, abs, climate, etc modules. I'm not sure what the current Snap On equivalent is but it will still be a few thousand I'm guessing. Last I checked...

When i worked on cars for a living I paid 6k for a used MODUS scanner and it paid itself back many times over. It might be expensive for home mechanics but at least it will open up the option for taking your John Deere to a independent shop. They usually charge less per hr and won't try to make...

Some people will complain about anything! Just because you find self diagnostics impossible to do does not make that the case for everyone. Dang, it's like y'all would rather not even have the option of fixing it yourself.

Yeah, no mountains here though. I also use them for dog walks and hunting.

I am slowly widening my old rake and ride trails into something wider/smoother/faster that other people can enjoy. I pulled this sidewalk from a customers job last year and took em homeI finally had time to drag them into a low spot that I didn't want to reroute. It's good all summer but is...

Worst case they build their house on your property, something happens they divorce, now he gets half of entire farm parcel? I have no idea if this is possible, just throwing it out there for thought.

You might not have but I'm guessing you've passed a few accidents along the way?

Roughly 38,000 people die a year in car accidents by human driven cars, robot cars don't really have high standards to "live" up to.

I think people who "dislike/hate" a sport are actually just jealous they don't have the abilities to do it....I enjoying playing and watching the ones I like and am fine with other people that enjoying watching and playing something else. To hate something you're not forced to do or watch is...

I didn't know of anyone else to order farmtrac parts from and already had an account set up with them. He usually came through and most of the time had what I needed in stock.

This one of the reasons I'm building a pole garage instead of paying for a steel carport building(which would be much faster). My friend has the carport building and it was 7k to have spray foam insulation put in and the R rating is crap compared to normal insulation. He checked around and I...

I don't have any rocks where I live. I use them for tree roots. Sometimes I take out trees with fat 8" diameter or more roots running horizontal and I can spear them with the teeth then curl to break em off in chunks/flakes.

Sushil @ infotech tech people knows the old machines well, but he will send you the wrong part to buy time waiting for the right one. I was trying to get a throttle rod for one a few years ago. After getting the wrong one 4 times he tells me, "this rod is becoming a great pain in my throat!"...

Just wanted to show off the assorted buckets I have for the mini+excavator. The 24" and 18" scandi buckets I designed and made myself. If you've never used a scandi they are amazing. Cut in good and you barely have to curl at all to move materials, can scoop up and move the plate...

Not true. My across the street neighbor is a policeman and when he's not on duty the car is parked at his house. Probably every city does it different.

I just let it be. They only attack down pine with the bark still on(because it hold the moisture in) and damaged live trees.

Pine bore beetle scouting for food. I found this guy on one of my discarded logs this morning. In the late summer you can hear the chrunching of their chewing inside the logs from 30-40 ft away, pretty impressive.

Your always looking for a dig ain't ya. I don't get any $$s from it. Depends on how long my dad and two uncle's(all in their 80s) live and how much nursing home/assisted living they need in the end. We had to sell one piece to take care of grandma with demintia (14yrs of it, that was tough, the...

https://farm.ewg.org/search.php Check this out, it may surprise you. I know farmers around here get mad if you bring this up when they're telling you how poor they are.

Debarking before the pine bore beetles get in it. Draw knife from a yard sale.

16" bar chainsaw, regular chain not a rip chain. I found the straightest 2x4x16ft I had. Then I debarked the area of the cut and screwed the 2x4 top of it(leveled the 2x4). I used the metal tooth claw thingie on the inside of the bar and bumped that up to the edge of the 2x4. Then I started a...

I just cut it to 16ft to get it out of the way and I'm going to try to make a 16fter out of it. Just cut another closer to the diameter I need, draw knifing the bark out of it and going to use it in the round. Would be easier it it wasn't 94 with 104 heat index...

I wanted to turn the pine tree into a 32ft beam but I gave up(at least for today, probably for good). It's actually cutting square and straight, just going way too slow.

When one of these "prophets" give a prediction of doom and gloom with a date/place and it happens I'll give them credit. Until them meh! Bad crap happens all the time so it's the easiest thing in the world to say someday something bad is going to happen...and eventually be correct. I have a...

Ok, you win.