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A picture from month of so ago. Now harvested with soybean plants a few inches high.

I have a family farm and I rent out the fields.(pays the taxes on land with about 10-12k left over most years) We are on a rotation of soybean, corn, cotton and peanuts. After the peanuts are harvested that gets bailed, sometimes they plant wheat as an cover crop. I just like to garden and am...

I'm sorry, but even if you love doing it seems dumb to keep doing something so unprofitable as a business?

From what I understand they(snapping turtles) are only aggressive above water....I catch some huge ones fishing in my beaver pond and really want to eat one but would like someone with experience to help me with the cleaning/butchering.

Some people install an adjustable priority valve which feeds the mower first and the machine gets whatever hydraulic flow is left over(travel/other functions will be slower). Have you tried tracking really slow while cutting to see if that will keep the cutter spinning?

Seems everyone paying the same percentage is as fair as it gets, but even if it isn't my parents taught me life isn't fair. If having 77million isn't a good enough incentive to get rich I'm not sure what is?? Unfortunately in the USA the number one predictor of how wealthy one will be is how...

I'm not saying tax them at 99% just tax them at the same 33% most hard working citizens pay. If a person who makes 100 million a year can't live off of the 77million the have after tax how the heck is someone who make 70k supposed to survive with the 46ish k they have afterwards?

Just have the rich pay the same 33% average that us normal citizens pay. I know they pay more $ amount of taxes than us peasants but it seems to me if you have 99% of the wealth you should be paying 99% of the taxes.

I doubt your shop vacuum makes much pressure....check around the hose clamps and give the hose a squeeze so look for cracks. The cracked ones I've found don't leak fluid but do allow air in, so don't take a lack of a leak as a sign that they're good.

Check the rubber boot/hose on the pump, they often have small cracks that are hard to see but allow the pump to suck air from outside instead of pulling in hydraulic fluid. On a Branson of that age I would expect it to be cracked if it hasn't been replaced before.

I used to think the old Pharaoh's in Egypt had power and wealth....but really nothing has changed.

Yeah one of my cousins and his wife are both lawyers in NYC, I think they pay around 13k/month for their apartment. Pretty sure they can afford a Tesla or to buy my farm and retire early.

I'm kinda known as a mad scientist around my parts. I make excavator buckets/grade beams, made my own weight drop post driver for the mini excavator, made a 26ft vibrating scree board to pour my concrete slab.(some of my recent stuff) One of my younger neighbors(26yr old) and one of my older...

Sorry it's just what I was thinking, but I do try to learn from mistakes and will refrain from commenting or even reading these posts in the future. It seems some people are getting "work smarter not harder" confused with being soft.

Personal attack? If you say so, I apologize! I wish I hadn't gone as hard as I did at sports and I should have sat out games instead of playing every minute to be "tough". My body is worse off now because of it. I guess I'm lucky to live in a area where I don't see what youre...

Hey Hay Dude, you're the toughest there is without any question! Based off of you posts I do question whether it's the youth of today or you that hate America? Or maybe you just hate the people in it?

I hope a radiator is the only problem, everytime I've seen one pop it's because cyl pressure is getting into the cooling system through a head gasket or cracked head....

Y'all need to read more history! The world's the same as it's ever been, I think TBN has a "I'm better than them and I'm going to tell you all about it" complex....

People have never lived more comfortable then we are now and we're only going up. I really laugh at people sitting on computers/phones in AC complaining about how terrible the world is.

Lol, this is exactly what I'm talking about, you're fantasizing about being a victim right now with a made up situation.

Sometimes I just don't understand the world. More guns of different types/calibers and quantity are being sold now than ever before, but the 2nd amendment is in jeopardy? There are more Christians in the world than ever before but we are somehow being procecuted? People can go on a social...

I whittled up this figure four trap few years ago and like showing it off! It is crazy how flat that 8x8 made them. I tied a piece of pork chop bone/meat in the split of the trigger, they couldn't resist.

People be crazy! They need training on reading a fuel gauge not some wannabe taticool crap. I really can't understand any of what they did and I'm so grateful I can shoot safely on my own property (not that I shoot much anymore thanks to ammo prices).

I want one of those now😡

I guess y'alls daddies didn't teach you not to judge kids based off of a 4 paragraph news article and I'm sure nobody on the forum did something stupid as a kid they later(or instantly) regretted 🧐 it's a tragedy for all the families involved and I pray for them.

Could it have a second safety button/switch? I don't have the hydraulic coupler for my machine but the ones that do have a button you have to step on, then flip the switch before the coupler will activate.

I did not there was a post by an 80yr old dude about how future kids won't be able to buy houses and he's already watched all the gunsmoke episodes. That got deleted and bumped me to the top!

Lol. I was just responding to someone else's crazy post about how crappy the world is. Now it looks like I'm the crazy one. I didn't start this thread.

If specs and a test drive around the lot is all you need that's cool but I need more. If they won't let me demo it in a real life situation I won't buy it.

Are you supposed to hit the switches then curl or retract the bucket to move the coupler cylinder? That's how some work.

My opinion is most people buy off of specs without demoing/testing the machine they want "in the setting they will use it in"...

Read some books and turn off the TV.

They made me a sweet fishing hole out of a small creek. The swamp is a little swampier but water stays well below the fields so no worries.

I've had HugesNet and it's crap compared to starlink. Can you really be mad at them if you can't figure out how to get to the correct website? I had no problem and I'm willing to help you out. Starlink

Turn off your electricity/water/anything motorized and forage for food for a week, then come back and tell me you think you'll be better off living in a destroyed world.

I priced one a couple years ago and it was outrageous. You could get 3 mini excavators for the price of it or one with a complete tilt-rotator/ multiple buckets and have some good change left over. It might be amazing but dang.

My church does mission work at a Navajo reservation, their ground water is unusable from uranium mining....

You www.askjeeves.com type of guy?

https://www.surpluscenter.com/Hydraulics/Hydraulic-Motors/Ag-PTO-Output-Hydraulic-Motors/ They sell mounts for the motor and the coupler from motor to gearbox. I think you also need a relief valve to keep the pro motor from blowing if something stops the blade unexpected ly.

Use a constrictor knot to secure hose to handle if you know it(it's a good knot). If you don't waste a couple zip ties. Of course you need to check the machines fluid before and after this operation.

Cool! I shouldn't have commented. Re the bucket/hose problem, the buckets I use have the main lid still on and I put the hose in through the smaller pop out hole you pour the fluid out of. If you were planning to use an open top bucket you shouldn't be trying this...

Lol. Do you have to do it at WOT and full flow?? On my excavator I do it idle and then ease into aux flow until the output seems fast enough.....

Hook up input hose on implement, put out hose in bucket, run till you think all the wrong stuff is pumped out, put fitting back on then connect. At least that's what I do in these situations, but I don't have either one of those machines.

I "think" the electric warranty on those is 2yrs.

Thanks for all the replies. I recently got some measured/scaled loads of soil and gravel....in doing so I realized all the loads of soil I loaded with the excavator were WAY over the spec of trailer! Probably closer to 5t instead of the 3.5t. I So I'm not mad about the one front heavy load...

How much of each day do you spend thinking about environmentalists? Seems like they're living rent free in your head!

Yeah, almost half the price of #57 or crusher run.

I always reduce dig the grass and black topsoil, geo fabric the area, then build up pad with aggregate of choice. I do many with recycled milled asphalt(fined screened is what they call it, it's an extra $3 per ton). After running the compactor, it makes one heck of a driveway/pad. Around...

I'd try bleeding the fuel lines at the injectors before worrying about anything worse.

Drive them both to see which hydrostat system is smoother/you like more.

I pray the kid gets things figured out before getting in real trouble. Pay low wages get low quality workers(most of the time). When I hear people say they can find quality employees I think it means "I'm not willing to pay for quality employees"(most of the time).

You're just as important as anyone else, cheer up!

I automatically assume anyone speculating on USAs demise is a Russian plant spreading dissent.

Could also be the instrument cluster going bad. If you disconnect the temp sensor wire from the sender unit and ground it to the engine, this should make the cluster read max hot and the wire disconnected it should read max cold.

I've seen the smallest lipa run on a bobcat e10 with good results. Many people like to crap on the mini/micro excavators and say they can't do X, when they really have zero experience with it...everyone I've talked to that actually has one on a small machine thinks it was a great purchase.

When talking how much farmers make, it blew my mind when I found out how much my local farmers get in government subsidies. The info is available online, they get really mad if you bring it up, lol.

Ross-tech?

Lol. Mine arrived before the shipping date they gave me...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL0671323420070906

In some euro country it is illegal to advertise a new vehicle as being better for the environment, because no matter how effiecient it is, producing a new vehicle is worse for the environment that driving an old one. Most of the claims on cereal boxes are blocked out for being false also.

Just got a 12' dump trailer to go along with the 16' equipment trailer I've been using and there is definitely a learning curve. I've made about 14 dumps so far and I'm figuring it out. So far all of dumps have been good expect the last two. One before last I loaded too tail heavy and things...

I have had and used it with HugesNet and Viasat and Starlink. It worked for my purposes but they are different that yours so I may be wrong.

I amazed at how sure people are that certain things can't be done! Manufacturer s sure seem to think they will. Audi/VW is ending development on all ICE engines except the one they use in competition.

I have no idea what your talking about but the VPN: Private Internet Access (PIA) worked for me when I had viasat and hugesnet (they were crap btw).

Phone hotspot on left vs starlink on right.

That's one of the funniest things I've read in a while.

That's exactly what an algae based alien that took the trip would say..........

Aliens wouldn't have to be smarter or have superior technology to get here, just biology that allows them to live long enough to survive vast distances.

Cool stuff! I love building trails, one of the reasons I bought a mini excavator.

Not factoring in covid most people I know would greatly benefit from using the stairs vs elevator. I'm in a rural area and many neighbors use a golf cart/Utv to check the mailbox....walking is just getting too hard. I think the masks bothered many people because they are so out of shape and the...

People washed their hands and stopped spitting on each other.

All of them obviously.

All the ISPs that I know of will send a letter of warning, then terminate service for illegal content downloading...that's one of the reason VPN s exist.

@Stowed4Sea As a "new member" you must quickly realize owning a tractor makes you an expert in virology, economics, "general science" and everything else. 🤣

I don't think people will be switching because its clean, but because they are better. An electric vehicle holds the Pikes Peak hill climb record by almost 2mins. That is a huge gap in a 10min race!

I like gas, I like turbos, I like diesel engines...but it won't hurt my feelings at all if I can buy an electric vehicle that performs as well, oh well!! I'm still the same person and life goes on. Some of y'all are really taking this personally, like you invented the ICE and electricity is...

Horse powered implement people used to say the same thing about the internal combustion engine....

What's that gotta do with what I said?

Black vs white vs asian vs etc. Is created to distract the people from what really makes life different. Being rich vs being poor.

OP, you need to lengthen the top link. K5lwq, looks like you might need to get a longer one😁

In my experience, 4hrs of countinious use of a tractor is nothing. Lol. 4hrs of slipping a clutch will kill one. Anyone who thinks running a tractor properly for 4hrs will damage it doesn't know much about tractors.

You can only control what you think. If you can't persuade others maybe your argument isn't strong enough or you're not presenting it correctly.

You're right!

You are wrong. The media is just capitalism. They are out to make max $$ and fear and shock sells. The only conspiracy is to make more money.

From my experience very few/none of the tractor manufacturer s actually make the hydraulic valves/levers themselves. After you work on enough you see the same valves/handles used by many different makes.

If a person thinks driving a stick shift car/truck correlates into knowing how to use a clutched tractor, they will end up with a burnt up tractor clutch and not know why. A tractor clutch should be used more like an on/off switch, with all speed control being done with the gears and engine...

Phenix mowers use the same parts but in an orangish red. John @ unifarm knows most the part # without looking them up! Lots of the farmtrac tiller stuff crosses over also.