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Things were a lot less crowded in the 1960s but the US population was 183,000,000. Now the population is 330.000.000. I guess those 147,000,000 extra people have to live and work somewhere. The byline in the article gives a date of January 15, 2016 as the date the article was updated, no...

That was during a previous political climate as the article is dated Jan. 2016.

I worked for Cowden Gravel. One of the last jobs I worked on was Lakewood High School west of Smokey Point. Sometimes it took 30 minutes of hard shoveling to clear both boxes at the end of the day. They pretty much had to be spotless because we had no idea whether we would be on the same job...

Could be, but just about everything there is $25. The other reason is it will limit the number of vehicles past my neighbors front door.

Look at the cell phone market as an example. Granted none of them are US made, but we discard perfectly good working phones to get the newer, faster, and more expensive one, not out of necessity, but for nothing more than bragging rights. We are bombarded with advertising for the "new and...

I used to live about 75 miles north of Seattle, nearly everything ordered arrived within two days and sometimes in less than a day. I moved to north central Washington 3 months ago, about 250 miles from Seattle and I started noticing exactly what you state. Nearly everything is 3 to 5 days...

It's funny, people complain about the Amazon fulfillment centers in one breath and complain when an Amazon package takes more than a few days to arrive in the next breath. Business come and go, it is the nature of capitalism. What was a good idea in the early 1900s (Ward, Sear etc.) become the...

Worst for me was a water treatment plant in Ferndale WA on the Nooksack river. The wet clay muck would self level by the time we made it to the dump site 10 miles away, we had to put load locks on for the trip. After dumping there was a 2 inch layer, front to back and 30 inches up each side...

Thanks for the compliment. You ought to try hauling wet clay in a dump truck and pup trailer. You don't need a gym membership to burn the extra calories on those jobs. :D

A little over two years ago my brother decided to upgrade the heat at his house. He wanted a geothermal heat pump. The heating contractor came and bid the job and said they needed 600 feet of trench 36 wide and 5 feet deep plus about 100 feet of feeder trench of the same dimensions. I had...

And trying to do it without mining permits can get you big fines in most states.

We only used loaders to mine gravel borrow at the pits I worked at for my last employer. Excavators and draglines were used to mine below the water table. Decide what level your pit floor is going to be and start taking the gravel across the bank left to right or right to left. whatever suits...

Biggest excavator I worked under was a 670 Hitachi. Two scoops per box and we were loaded with 28 yards in less than a minute. I can't imagine that machine crossing that bridge or traveling the roads up to the bridge on either side.

I hauled rock chips to Island County for several years for their chip seal road maintenance. We were always loaded to 105,000+ and crossed that bridge sometimes with two trucks at a time. The worst part was the approach from the Fidalgo Island side, you had to crowd the centerline to keep the...

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I worked for a gravel company and about half of the dump trucks had the stuff lining their boxes. Those drivers spent a lot less time shoveling out spoils/waste/dirt excavated for construction sites than the rest of us. (Nothing like dumping out 24 yards of waste material and checking the boxes...

The FMCSA regulates interstate commerce and interstate trucking. What Plumbers, roofers, landscapers, construction workers, home builders, cabinet installers, counter top installers etc haul is covered by the individual states regulations which can be more stringent than the federal...

I was pulling a 10K trailer with my gasser over passes all summer. One grade varies in amount of grade, but drops 2600 feet in 12 miles. I was taught that service brakes are for emergency stops on a down grade, not for controlling speed except for the occasional minor slowdown for a sharp...

Many diesels run for years with no problems, but when they do have problems they can get expensive. On top of that, if I had wanted a diesel version of my pickup, it would have cost me about $8000 more, and that was for a 5 year old truck.

Never actually did the loop as a loop but I had to take both North Cascades and Stevens when the fires shut the North Cascades down for a few weeks during my move. Both are beautiful, but the North Cascades is spectacular all the way.

I pulled a four axle trailer for years and all of them had at least one axle that turned, some spring loaded on king pins, some some with a front turntable. When they didn't due to mechanical failure they resisted turning quite a bit. None of our 3 axle trailers had a turning axle but all of...

I'm just curious, did he have any pilot cars, oversize load signage, or was it just a boat on a trailer?

I sort of think that truck was beyond moving that boat no matter the gear. There just isn't enough hold back in a pickup diesel to do anything but creep down the hill at 10 mph and use frequent turn outs to let the brakes cool with 35,000 to 40,000 pounds behind it. A 6% grade has a lot of push.

The beam of the boat is 12' 9". That's 15" shy of what a mobile home. That would require oversize banners front and back and pilot cars in any congested area, and maybe for the whole trip. I saw no evidence of even the banners. unless he backed the trailer into a boat launch (not likely) the...

Whatcom and Skagit counties provide the service for free, including old tires, oil, paint antifreeze etc. There is a per trip limit, 5 gallons of oil and 4 tires, etc. Cleaning up where I used to live I found about 10 old tires and disposed of then in three trips to the solid waste site in...

I looked at the prices of these boats used and depending on year. hours and options they are listed at 450K to 800K on Yacht World.com assuming that it really is a Riva Rivarama. With an investment of that much money, why would anyone risk hiring some fly-by-night with a pickup? Could the...

Try this one: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/video-captures-semi-driving-with-vehicle-pinned-underneath-trailer-on-tri-state/2696991/

I am sure that is where some of the wild numbers came from, estimates based on vin tags and so forth. Reporter asks one question information officer answers another, reporter interprets the answer according to their understanding. I believe I saw claims of a 37,000# boat, an 8,000# trailer and...

For the Canadians in the forum, there is Molson, Washington. I have no idea where Labatt might be.

I can't imagine any company hiring an unlicensed driver, putting him in a apparently privatly owned much too small of a truck with no licensing, no permits, no oversize load signs, no pilot cars etc. and sending him across the country to haul a boat of any size. My guess is, Mr. and Mrs, Ford...

Quote from the Carson Now article cited above. "NHP says suspected brake failure is likely the cause of the fiery Nov. 9 crash at the intersection of I-580, South Carson Street and Highway 50, also known as Spooner Junction. Part of the brake failure was due to the weight load being carried...

A person doesn't need to comprehend English to understand that the load is pushing him downhill too fast and that his brakes are faded or gone to understand that an escape route is needed, whether that be a runaway ramp or the sagebrush desert. The ramp has a long approach lane, there is a...

I don't have an answer for you. I have been in a situation of heading down a mountain pass in tractor with a loaded "trailer of wood" with fading brakes with a small town at the bottom of the grade. Barreling through that town without brakes wasn't even on the list of options I considered...

I am going to take a wild guess that the 37,000# is the gross weight of the pickup, boat and trailer and the 21,000# towing weight in the article is the gross combined vehicle weight rating for that particular pickup. The trailer had poor or inoperative brakes and the intersection is at the...

Visions of a weather protected plexiglass stockade in the town square with prisoners in color coded jumpsuits, green for porch pirates, yellow for shoplifting, etc, etc.

I am going to look into one of those in the Spring. It won't help too much on some of the hills around here, but if I stay on the valley floor I should be able to find some places to ride.

Happy Thanksgiving from the dry side. Five months ago I was living in the Skagit valley about a mile west of Lyman. Beautiful country and a beautiful valley.

I always enjoyed bike rides, either alone or with another. I am now 70 and the long bike rides are 10 years past, and the area I live in now is way to hilly, I don't think I'd ever get back in good enough shape to do much riding around here. I am going to scout the area to see if I can find...

First snow of the season last week. Shy of two inches, but more to come I'm sure. Meanwhile, many of my friends from the west side of the state are trying to recover from record flooding, with the forecast of more hard rain coming.

I was at my employers one Saturday after hours loading some gravel with a wheel loader, My wife was directing me to get the load in the center of the trailer. I started dumping watching her, then looked at the tires and stopped. I raised the bucket and she kept trying to get me to dump more...

Trailers are great for bulk and weight, but they can be a pain to pull. I put about 6000 miles on mine this past summer hauling a household, hobby ranch and hay over the mountains.

Welcome! Just left the left side of the state for the colder and snowier and hotter and dryer right side of the state. Lived in Sedro Woolley, Everson, Maple Falls and Bellingham on that side.

That trailer the tractor is on appears to be one of the Snowbear trailers with the 12" trailer wheels. They are handy little trailers with the removeable sides and ends, but mine has a gross weight rating of 2100 pounds. That tractor weighs a little over 1500 pounds without the loader...

Just tested Starlink here, 150 down, 7.86 up. It's clear cold night so no weather, just a lot of users I guess.

I live a mile and a quarter off the county road, three quarters of a mile off the private road and share part of the driveway with my next door neighbor who is a half mile away and whose home you have to drive by to get to my place. A gate maybe if the horses are let out to graze along the...

Thanks. it's my favorite view from the inside the house.I set my reading recliner there for that reason, but there are views in all directions. from the property.

I am wondering about the legality of this practice. I ordered a meal at a restaurant and they refused cash would it be legal to just say "thank you for the meal" and then walk out. The bill says that it is legal tender for ALL debts.

If one is as ill prepared as this post indicates, then perhaps one should remain in the city. But if all else fails, and your power goes out, you can always plug in your electric generator. :p

I got about an 1-1/2 to 2" of snow that is supposed to melt off later today. It apparently snowed from the Cascades to the Rockies across northern Washington and Idaho

Hamilton is a poor town. The people have been offered a buy out at market prices, but that would not be half of what they need to build somewhere else. The city has acquired property on the north side of Hwy 20 out of the flood plain and has a plan to move the city over a period of years. I...

I came real close to doing that on a couple of occasions. Now I go about 6 inches to a foot then lift to clear dirt and then down again. I run it at about 250-300 rpm on the PTO shaft. Easier to control that way.

I am somewhat familiar with the areas affected by the atmospheric river and the subsequent flooding. For the most part NW Washington got off fairly easy compared to BC. In Washington, towns were flooded and people were evacuated and many are now returning to damaged, and in many cases...

Interesting how the times turn. There was an Interurban line here around 90 years ago, but paved highways and cheap automobiles spelled the end to it. Now cheap cars and the paved roads are almost overwhelmed and near gridlock isn't unusual. The solution is the Interurban revisited in the form...

The most notable difference between east and west is the west has grown and spread out everywhere. What used to be rural farms is suburban housing developments, to the point that city stretches out into town and towns into the next city. Too over crowded for my taste. On the east side, there...

I haven't ridden much in the past few years, but that looks like an interesting ride. I'll be 71 next summer and rail grades are usually pretty easy riding, although a 30 mile round trip might be a bit much, but it would be fun to try. Although when I was in riding shape, distance wasn't that...

I bought about the least expensive one I could find to see if I liked having one one my truck. So far, I do. So when this one wars out,I will upgrade. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L32L4CC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I am curious as to how much of the 24 miles is a 24% grade.

No I have no clue what they are for, A little larger image.

I have a trifold on my F-250 and I love it. It keeps things dry when I need it, kept the fall leaves out of my box, I don't need to tie down trash bags for my bi-monthly trash runs. I can load a full pallet behind it when folded and like the others mentioned it removes and reinstalls in...

My only guess for the mounts on the back is some sort of gauge wheel

Still using 5 gallon jugs, but in the Spring I am going with a 50 gallon square tank and a 12v pump. I will mount it so I can load it and unload it with forks for a run for fuel. I've been using 60 to 75 gallons a year so 3 trips in two years will do me. I am considering stepping up to the...

Or a gypo fly by night hauler looking to make a few quick dollars with no clue what he was doing.

If he was at the bottom of a long grade and his brakes were gone, with all that open desert beside the road, I have to ask why if he didn't park it is the sage brush rather than run through an intersection and kill 2 people.

About 3 tons of hay over 3 mountain passes, 215 miles 5 times with no problems, approximately 16,000 GCVW. The trailer has brakes, but I operate on the principle that when coming off a pass, brakes are for sharp corners and emergencies, not to control speed in general. The truck is 6.2...

I was thinking the same thing. Years ago I owned a Utility flatbed trailer that weighed 10,000, as and she was a heavy old girl, so that trailer empty is going to weigh 6-8K. I can't believe the boat weighs 30,000+ either. I am guessing they were referring either to the GVW capacity of the...

From the FMCSA web site. Class A: Any combination of vehicles which has a gross combination weight rating or gross combination weight of 11,794 kilograms or more (26,001 pounds or more) whichever is greater, inclusive of a towed unit(s) with a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight...

The photo of the trailer is from in front, but it appears to be 3 or more axles. It's to poor a photo to tell

That appears to be a pretty heavy frame on that trailer, but how does an F-350 with that boat and trailer require a CDL? Federal regulations seem to say a combination over 26,000 requires a CDL but I doubt the truck, trailer, boat GVW exceeded that weight. I also have to wonder if the driver...

About five miles up the road from me. It's rumored that this rock was in one piece before Chuck Norris passed through on vacation one year. 😃

The times I am most likely to do that is when I get off to open or close a gate, or when changing the loader from bucket to hay spears and latching down, etc. so the tractor is still running. At least 90% of the time, the first things I do after starting are raise the 3 point and the loader. I...

My parking brake had been removed by the previous owner (why I'll never understand), so I usually use what ever is on the three point as a drag brake. It's usually either a ballast box or a box blade. I have gouged more driveway and ripped up more driveway than I care to admit. :-(

When I bought the truck used 2 years ago I hadn't figured on doing a lot of towing and a diesel of the same year and trim were nearly $8000 more. In the tow/haul mode it came off the passes well and I seldom had to touch the brakes. I am sure a diesel would have held the grades and climbed the...

Coming over the passes loaded it was 9.6. I didn't weigh it, but I was pushing 16,000 pounds. I loaded the hay at about 50 feet above sea level and the passes are sort of up and down, the first pass, Rainy Pass is 4800' then drops to 3800 and then climbs to Washington Pass at about 5500' drop...

Load 5 of 5 hay big bales from Arlington WA tp Tonasket WA over North Cascades Pass and Loup Loup Pass (217 miles). Couldn't afford the diesel, 2015 6.2 gasser with an 18' car hauler. The 6 and 7% grades did slow me down a mite.

I made at least 10 trips over and back, never tired of the scenery. Even the wildfires respected the beauty and stayed mostly on the forest floor. A few charred trees along the hwy. on the east side, relatively little damage, unlike the fires that hit the west side near Newhalem and the Skagit...

The Puget Sound is some of the most beautiful country on God's green Earth. I'm from Whatcom County and the beauty of Mt Baker, Mt. Shuksan, Georgia Straight, San Juan Islands etc. is just breath taking. Over hear, it's a different kind of beauty but it's still awesome. It's a dry desolate...

Just moved from the Puget Sound region and it was quite the quick transition from highs in the 80s and 90s to highs in the high fifties. Does winter give way to spring/summer that quick?

For really old people like me, that's like the old 3 on the tree in the old cars. Shift up from first, second, third using the clutch, shift between third and second and back using the clutch, but had to come to a stop to get back to first. A little different from the truck I drove at work, the...

I was surprised a few years ago working on an airport refurbish job. The airport had been built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the early 40s and used as a Pacific coast patrol base as well as a stop off for aircraft being flown to Russia through Alaska and Siberia. It was designed to handle...

I just checked our speeds using the wireless service, about 20 Mbps down and .75Mbps up. Adequate, but not all that good. During peak hours we barely get 5 Mbps. Just set up the Starlink and have quite an improvement over wireless. Using speedtest.net we got about 225 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up...

50/50 is the only thing my former employers shop uses in their fleet of 100+ vehicles. They buy it in 55 gal drums as well as 1 gal jugs. The well water they have has the wrong Ph and too many dissolved minerals in it. Secondarily, they don't have to worry about drivers using to thin or to rich...

Every wheel loader I ever operated had some form of bucket level indicator, from mid 80s Deere loaders to mid teens Cat loaders, all of them have it. All of the newer ones had a self leveling bucket option also. I like it on my little Ford New Holland, it is really helpful to keep the bucket...

We had just closed on this place and had assumed that since we are at the end of a 1-1/4 mile private road and power comes in from a different direction, below us and 1 mile from hwy. 97 that no high speed internet was available. The previous owner, a woman in her 80s, had Dish TV but that was...

I am really curious what the criteria, algorithm, what have you, is for their decisions on who gets what and when. Our 5 month wait compared to your apparent 12-18 month wait just doesn't seem fair or justifiable especially since you placed your name in the queue 3 months ahead of us. My...

The quality of the build and the quality of the steel would only make a difference if you had enough power to bend it. I have seen a few implements with the side pin mounts bent, which would have been impossible with the through pin mount.

Usually when hauling larger rock (just not that big) we would throw a scoop of sand or dirt in the box first. It would cushion the fall (a little) and the rock would have a bed to keep it from shifting too easily.

All very true. Some of the areas deemed safe for passing would require a very slow vehicle and a very fast passing car. There are numerous slow vehicle lanes i.e. wide shoulders where one can pull over without stopping tp let traffic by and one passing lane that is about 1.25 miles long on the...

There were quite a few cars, probably a Seattle area club, but a significant number of them chose to turn it into a race. I had 3 tons of hay behind a gasser pickup, I would slow down on the straights and use as much paved shoulder as I felt safe to let them pass. Many other drivers weren't so...

We ordered ours in late May, and were told it would be delivered late 2021. It arrived a few days ago and will be set up this weekend. I don't understand how they are prioritizing delivery, but they obviously have some factors they are considering other than a straight FIFO queue. WE...

I was hauling a load of hay from Arlington over North Cascades pass about 6 weeks ago. I saw what you describe a good half dozen or more times. A sports car club had apparently decided to use hwy. 20, a road full of families in motorhomes and other RVs, as their rally course. I was surprised...

Looking at the map MossRoad linked to and looking at abandoned lines that I am familiar with, I can understand why they were abandoned. They were industry driven dead end lines that became surplus when the factories shut down or the project was completed. Where I lived in Skagit County WA...

I didn't see it. I am pretty sure it was a zero slump mix . It self leveled after the drive, but there was no migration of water to the top even after the drive in a hard spring Mack. .I mixed some concrete at home dumped it into my tractor bucket and took it about 1200 feet to anchor in a...

The airport was about 6 miles, the border crossing was 18 miles, probably 25-35 minutes with traffic and speed zones etc., I really don't know how far or how long concrete can be hauled in a dump truck, it would depend on the air temp, humidity and mix design.

I was thinking a treadmill.

It was a wet batch system the company had built at their newest batch plant. We just drove through and parked under the boot they use for loading mixer trucks. They claimed the first job they did with the set up paid for it, concrete apron at the passenger terminal at Bellingham Airport. For...

Chinglish is usually entertaining even if it isn't very informative.

We hauled concrete in dump trucks to a job at a US Customs commercial vehicle crossing a few years ago. The concrete was so stiff, probably a zero slump, that there was nothing for a crew to do when it came out of the paving machine. I didn't get out of my dump truck to measure it, but it...

You can't go wrong with a Land Pride. 2. You will not regret getting a hydraulic top link. With scoring the box blade for 5 you should have plenty left for the top link. Good luck and have fun.

Actually as I thought about it, it is true of where I lived too at least in miles of track, but all the rails that are now trails were spur lines built for freight and passenger service into the river valleys of the Cascades. They hauled lumber, limestone, coal, cement, logs which in some cases...

Oil is cheap, repairs aren't. With a new engine I would change the oil now. The best of manufacturing leaves some near microscopic imperfections that get cleared up in the first few hours of running. Just about all are caught by the filter, some may not be. I may be old school, but I change...

That might be true where you are but on the BNSF near where I lived there are more and longer trains than there were before. Oil trains, coal trains, container trains, mixed freight all more often and longer. It's hard to believe that a population that was half of what it is now, and a...

If you have never used one, there is a learning curve. The key is top link length. If your tractor has a hydraulic top link, it will be a lot easier. It took me a while to figure out with the manual adjust link I have, but now after as few adjustments for every job I am usually pretty...

Where I worked they would sell it and it made a good stable driveway, but it would track. They had mountains of waste asphalt that had been dumped by contractors that was awaiting grinding down to make what they called "recycled asphalt product". The best time to buy it was early spring...

I suppose, depending on whether a person has welding skills. For those of us without that skill set, a solidly built model for a few dollars more would be the way I go. I wa told by someone with experience that the two main thing to look for in a box blade are a replaceable cutting edges and...

I can sure see the problem. I don't think I've ever seen a tractor with so little clearance between the tire and the fender. It might look cool and streamlined I guess, but is of no practical value and is in fact detrimental to some applications as you are finding out.

Welcome from the Okanogan region of Washington

Welcome from as far away from Florida as one can get in the lower 48, north central Washington and the Okanogan region.

Set out the third one here today. We use 3x3x8 squares 700-800 pounds. About all my little 1715 can safely stack. I brought in 40 of them last month (8 at a time) to see us through the winter and into spring. They last the horses around 8-10 days.

While I am not at all a fan of Greta, and enjoyed watching Sky News respond to her little tantrum, I am sure glad freight is moved by somewhat cleaner locomotives now. Coal and later fuel oil, were cheap and readily available 70 years ago and made sense then, but I can't imagine what the air...

I'm gonna get one of those right after my $1200 2016 Kubota with backhoe and $1500 2 year old John Deere Gator arrive

I have an old Rhino box blade that came with my tractor, but if I were in the market I would avoid the Tractor Supply model for something like Box Blade Pinnacle Series It appears to be a little better made. The difference being in how the lower arms attach with through pins

My ex drove like that too. She would approach a stop light or stop sign and brake at the last minute. It was cured when we changed insurance companies and I plugged in one of those monitoring devices for three months. Every time she would hard brake it would beep and it was posted online for...

My older brothers remember steam engines from their early years (late 40s early 50s but by the time I was old enough to be aware of my surroundings they were all gone from NW Washington. I do recall seeing operating steam trains on three occasions later in the 70s. One from a a fair distance...

Just one question. WHY?

Tractor Time With Tim posted a series of videos on the self leveling bucket and showed both the advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages is that you can't tip the bucket back and dribble material on the hood of the tractor. One disadvantage was it was harder to get a full bucket...

I did something similar, except I used small Northern Tool dollies. The implements I kept inside were a flail mower, a rototiller and a box blade. Wider than they were deep so they would fit along a wall and not use too much space. I used whatever lumber I had to join the dollies for each implement.

It only applies if the vehicle combination exceeds 26000. It's actually a little confusing in how It's worded and in the wording differences between the fed and Washington State. However, when I increased the gvw of my pickup to 16,000 the vehicle license was changed from private to commercial...

It seems to vary state by state. Federal highways and interstate highways are regulated by the FMCSA manual that would put some of the numbers I've seen here in the grossly overweight category. My state has adopted the FMCSA statewide. Other states may allow the extra heavy loads on state and...

We have started having some rain to wet things down. Last week we had close to an inch one day so I went out the next day while it was still raining and drizzling and reworked the entire road with just the box blade. My neighbor worked a small section near the county road while I spent about 4...

I may be in the market for a new tractor sometime in the future. My choices will be a dealer in Wenatchee or Spokane area. Is there more than one Kubota dealer in Spokane?

I like it and I am envious. Just left behind a 12x24 implement shed with a hard floor and now in the new place I only have room to park my tractor out of the weather on a rough gravel floor and everything not attached stays outside. I was surprised to see your building doesn't seem have roof...

We had the first significant rain in months so a neighbor and I tackled about a 3/4s of a mile of private road the had gotten pretty rough. He used his bucket on one section of about 200 yards from the county road to the bottom of the hill and I tackled the rest with a box blade. The road...

There is something immensely satisfying in working and improving a property. My wife and worked my brothers property on a state highway for 4 years cleaning things up, putting in fencing, tearing out blackberries, removing junk, leveling out piles of dirt left by the previous owner, mowing...

An Okanogan Sunrise and the view out the front room window.

Nowhere, Oklahoma. When I moved to Tonasket WA my cousin in Torrance CA said I had moved to the middle of nowhere. I had to prove her wrong and found Nowhere. I told her I was nowhere near the middle of Nowhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere%2C_Oklahoma "Where are you from?"...

It looks more like a Ram on the tailgate, not the Ford badge.

Just a guess, but at 2'x2'x8' one could hide a body quite easily in the wet concrete. I've seen some pretty attractive walls built with stacked quarry rock. Modular block walls like Keystone and Allen block can be built fairly tall and have a fairly small footprint for the actual wall, are...

It seems for a lot of people, it's the color of the paint, orange, green, red, blue, a lot depends on brand loyalty. Just like Ford, Ram, Chevy, GMC and so on. In the hinterlands where I live the biggest factor would be a tractor that doesn't need parts, service or support. Reliability would...

Same product but with a price, about $800 not including shipping. https://www.wiedmannbros.com/Tractor-Mower-Canopy-with-Down-Draft-Fan-For-Vertical-3-X-2-Roll-Bar--Green_p_4147.html

The good contractors I know of where I worked did the prep work and since it was usually on well compacted already used driveways, there really wasn't that much prep. It would save the home owner most of the coast of transporting the paving machine, rollers and crew but they paid full retail...

Reputable paving contractors when paving a road, will often ty to sell driveway paving for a reduced price since the crew and equipment are literally at the end of the driveway. It can save the homeowner some coin if he was already thinking of paving and the company gets a little extra profit.

Many drivers who hauled asphalt had a small tank sprayer full of diesel to spray the outside areas around the tailgate to keep asphalt from sticking. It was forbidden by the asphalt company to use it inside the box when paving, they provided a soap solution to spray the box. As to your point...

Personally, I think there are too many liabilities involved. Pulling a pickup out is one thing, but a plastic car is quite another

I worked for a dump trucking company on the west side of the state so that piques my curiosity. When they batch too much hot mix, it's never just dumped, it's always brought back to the batch plant and dumped in their waste asphalt pile for later reclaiming. My only other guess is that it might...

I've hauled lots of waste asphalt and there is no real value it it. The best we got out of it was a free dump as opposed to a per yard fee for construction spoils. In a big hard pile like the Cougsfan has, there is too much work involved to break it down to a useful size.

I made close to a dozen trips over the passes from Sedro Woolley to Tonasket pulling a car hauler with the tools, tractor, vehicles, tractor implements and everything else involved in moving a hobby ranch. Only two of the trips will be remembered, the one with the horses, never forgotten, and...

I usually do A. Some here seem to be thinking that the technique is to drive several hundred yards in the wrong lane. Maybe some do it that way, but I put on my signal and start slowing move into the left lane 50 to 100 feet max before I turn. I do this especially when it's a semi behind me...

I would have to disagree. I leveled a 36x36 pole ban floor compacting it in 2 to 3 inch lifts with the cheapest plate compactor I could find When I was finished it was almost like concrete, nether my tractor, pickup or trailer left a mark in it. I still have it and use it for compacting base...

That was just a part of delivery here, no extra charge because it really takes very little extra time. Set chains, lift box, drive. It might take a few extra minutes, but not $40 worth. That's to spread it. to "tailgate" lift box until the load shifts, start rolling, trip gate, progressively...

How does the foundation tie into the footer, or is that step not shown? On the west coast due to seismic activity regulations are pretty substantial and sometimes to the point of ridiculousness.

Nice looking job. Looks sturdy and able to handle just about anything you might want to put on it. It would be easy to overload that with gravel though. I am in the process of reclaiming the sideboards I made for my car hauler since I don't plan to use it that way again. Simple 3/8s ply some...

The price of lumber dropped like a rock here. OSB dropped from $65 a sheet to something in the neighborhood of $18 a sheet when I asked at the local lumber yard. Treated 2x4 and 2x6 had dropped substantially too, I bought 4 2x4 and 4 2x6 8' for $78. That's about what I paid for untreated a...

That is the perfect solution for truckload and less jobs. I didn't see them around here very often on the west side of the state and not al all in the Okanogan.

I've hit 4 dogs and at least one cat. I always went back. I was only able to contact the owners once. Two of the dogs were in raining pitch black conditions on county roads, when I went back, I could see no sign of the dog in either case. One was a pit bull, so I didn't get out. That one...

I hope not also, for your sake. The concrete/gravel company I worked for required the customer to provide adequate access to the job. The customer was charged for any towing costs that weren't driver error. We used 9-11 yard mixers, once the truck started backing in, the drop and booster...

Just finished getting our winter supply in. We just moved into the Okanogan valley so we aren't sure how much hay to stock for winter. In western Washington, there was always a little green grass in the winter for the horses, but here it's just sparse dray grass so after they knock it down...

Walk of Life -- Dire Straits

Thanks for the info. I have AAA but they were of no help because of the horses. The first good Samaritan called them when he got to a place with cell service. they did nothing. I am considering dropping them. but will likely keep them because this is sparsely populated country once you get...

Exactly what I thought. Even if it had been disassembled in a normal maintenance procedure you could not have detected it. It was right at the backing plate.

Congrats. Just don't be like that guy

September 14th was a day I will long remember and not in a good way for what initially happened, but with good memories of how it all turned out in the end. We went to McDonald's for breakfast, came back to the old house and hooked up to the horse trailer. Backed down to the barn and proceeded...

I was in my 60s and rode closer to 17-18mph on average for fun and exercise, these guys were much younger and training for a competition. Somewhere I have a photo of a bike computer after a 62.5 mile ride showing 14.9 mph average over the entire distance. Rolling coal: Excessive black...

On ground like pavement or hard packed gravel this is true, but on grass, soil, sand, loose gravel etc. the looseness of the material you are operating on acts as a de facto differential allowing the wheels to work a slightly different speeds without undo stress.

He will probably have to make arrangements to park it somewhere in the river valley. The private road entrance is about 500' above Hwy 97, so it's a bit of a climb and on a snowy evening it could be dangerous as there is one place with a 100' drop off unprotested by guardrails. I was planning...

I was wondering how he was going to manage a 10% grade with snow on it. This is his and my first year here, he bought about a month before I did. I've heard it can snow a lot here, but looking at the snowfall history, it's usually just a few inches at a time, but for two months it doesn't melt...

Recycled asphalt product yes, but not raw asphalt grindings. In the off season he asphalt plants around here take the raw grindings and run them through a crusher and make the 3/4 minus RAP which they mix back into the hot mix. The RAP is a little more expensive but worth the difference in...

Unfortunately that is what is needed on top of the crusher run which is what I have on my 1/2 mile driveway off the main driveway. Sort of thinking that it would be cost prohibitive. 4000' x 12' x 2" x cost per yard = a lot of money. I plan on just covering the driveway inside the gate...

I just moved to a place that has about 2 miles of common and private roads/driveway, Some of it has no top coat, just poor quality crusher run gravel that seems to get worse rather than better when working it. The common driveway which has a proper top coat of 3/4 to dust is shared primarily by...

They should have had a pickup, a tarp and a thumb on the excavator, but otherwise, job well done. 😂 They did more damage to the building than the value of the cash. All the police need to do is find someone who is an operator and has some unexplained income.

Ours were automated, but had a fluid coupler, you put your foot on the throttle and the computer did the clutching and shifting, it felt like a standard shift on a 10 speed transmission , but I didn't touch anything. This was in a dump truck and trailer so, it was usually only a few miles from...

What kind of criteria is that? Wait until people are killed before doing what common sense, common courtesy, and the laws of physics would have prudent person doing anyway.? The first fatality might be a car with soccer mom with a car full of kids.

The last company I worked for was in the process of converting over to all automated transmissions. With the kind of driving we did it was a good move, all very short hauls in city and county road traffic. Two pedals, mashed down on one to go and it would go through the gears automatically...

My ex did also. A lot can be said for learning to drive in a car with a stick shift. I have followed her on occasion when we were heading home and she didn't ride the brakes enough to make the brake lights come on, her problem was that rather than coast up to a stop sign or traffic light, she...

I have a 1715 and that happens occasionally with mine. It is usually the PTO safety switch. Mine was also equipped with a clutch safety switch but the previous owner removed it. If either switch is activated it disables the starter. Try using a screwdriver across the hot terminal on the...

Just curious, but how does all this Jeff Bozos, Amazon, coal fired generation relate to compact diesel tractors becoming obsolete? I read the original post, and the current conversation is a ludicrous extension of that, having zero to do with TRACTORs on TRACTOR BY NET.

I have to admire the ingenuity. It looks like he reconfigured all the mower wheels on all the decks by 90 degrees because I have never seen a push mower with a discharge chute located in the front or back.

I bought a fairly inexpensive laser kit about two years ago similar to this one except mine is a red laser. I think I paid $240 for the whole kit then...

Welcome from NW Washington and the Skagit Valley. I'm on a shy 6 acres that was pretty neglected when we moved in. I was like you and didn't have a tractor and wasn't sure what I needed. Being a little short on ready cash we settled on a 25 year old Ford 1715 with a loader. It turned out to...

I converted my old 1715 to SSQA and bought a two prong hay spear and a new bucket at the same time. You are right, the hay spears double as my pallet forks and get used 75% of the time I have anything on the front end. Regarding the OPs question: Having had both I would go with dedicated...

I loaded the image taken from the left rear quarter into a separate tab and then zoomed. The bar crossing behind the seat appears to be the same dimension as the bar loop, which appears to be 1-1/5 x 3" material or similar dimension. I don't think strength would be an issue, but I question the...

Our beloved Governor Inslee issued Stay-at-Home, Stay Healthy order in the third week of March. Travel plans were cancelled so we decided to work on a project that we have talked about since we first moved into the house. We are live-in caretakers, project doers, and for the last 9 months to a...

Your right, we should all panic.

We moved on to this place about 20 months ago to get it ready for my brother (who is blind) and his horses and dogs. It has involved a lot of work, fencing in the pasture, building a dog run, putting in a patio walkway and stairs. The most recent project got me a little ticked off at the...

The adjustable side link on my tractor is worn out. The threads on bottom and cemter sections are barely holding and it often slips a little when I hit a bump. I've looked at replacing the whole thing but the cost was close to $300, which is highway robbery for such a simple part. (It's...

While technically he might not be towing something wrong, still it's just wrong

I used a truckers winch bar with a binder lever on the other end. When the binders broke over either way the bar released the the binder handle. If you are using a pipe, you are using the wrong tool.

My 1715 on a frosty morning

My 93-94 Ford 1715 with 60' Rhino box scraper. I purchased this tractor in July along with a 917L flail, a brush hog, and the attached scraper. I have been using it regularly for all sorts of stuff. Mowed 6 overgrown acres, graded a parking area, hauled out 8 yards of dirt, brought in 6 yards of...

Flail mower project and cutting well. I hand painted the lettering just for a little finishing touch. Thanks for all the comments. Hand

Thanks Leon The blades I removed were in sorry shape, I wasn't joking when I said it looked like the previous owner used it to mow a rock garden. The photo is just a sample of what I removed and is pretty representative of what was on the machine when I got it. I used Rustoleum HiVis Blue on...

New to the forum. I just want to say thanks to those who post regularly for the help they have given me, especially on the subject of flail mowers. I am a 66 year old recently retired truck driver. I hauled mostly flatbed freight on the west coast predominantly in Washington, Oregon and BC...