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I've had the entire tread come off of one tire of my empty, dual axle dump trailer. Maybe 1500 miles on it, max. But 20 years old! Stored inside on concrete 99.9% of the time.

My United brand from back in 1990 had one long 1/2" or 5/8" diameter rod that spanned the width of the box blade. The scarfiers each had height adjustment holes that rod fit thru. So you "kebab'ed" the rod from the side, thru a hole in the frame, all the scarfiers, and another hole in the...

We might be neighbors!

You should post the link. There's some emission proposals out there for 2035 and 2045, (IIRC) but also some clickbait speculation trying to stir things up.

Bingo! The local Firestone franchise doesn't do anything but automotive anymore. Counter guy there has helped me re-seat the bead on a zero turn and a front Kubota tire before, probably just to get rid of me! No charge either time and he recommended a local shop for a permanent repair.

My daughter's HS was being renovated and a full dumpster was outside of the physics classroom. Her physics teacher was a good guy and we had a lot in common. One day when I picked her up, I told the physics teacher I was going to check out that dumpster. "Don't bother," he said. "I already...

Ugh. We have 5 Krogers- one on each side of town and one downtown. Locals call the downtown location Kro-getto's- Full time police presence inside for the grab and run liquor "shoppers". Camera tower in the parking lot. Nice store otherwise- hope we don't lose it.

Could you clarify this?

40 years ago, when I was new to tractoring, my WWII vet/farmer/neighbor gave me 3 pieces of advice: Get an engine block heater. That tractor might be your lifeline someday. Bush hog in first gear only for awhile until you learn most of the hazards. Don't buy cheap lynch pins.

Update- turns out that series is just the 4330, 4630, and 5030. Attached is a comparison in my owner's manual which covers specs for all 3. Very similar.

From memory after a decade or two, that L5030 was the most powerful of a series of 3 or 4 very similar tractors. I ordered the Grand L 4330- 43 HP vs 50 HP for the 5030. There was also a Grand L4630 and maybe one other model. Since they're similar as far as frame size, overall dimensions...

I don't like having to decide how much to tip while the cashier or waitstaff is hovering over you.

If you don't find your answer here, you might get better exposure on the TBN "Construction Equipment" forum. This Deere forum is mostly ag tractors.

I'd bet Deere was sorry to see you retire!

OP here. One of my original beefs here was the standard battery included in each of their tool packages was out of stock if purchased seperately, but they did have a $300 battery instead. That standard battery was about $80 at the time, IIRC. They offered to notify me when is was available...

Yep, typo. 2001.

Besides buying stocks when there's blood in the streets, another rule of thumb is selling stocks when long term rising prices have sucked about everyone into the market. Might be an urban legend but someone claimed to have avoided the Depression losses by selling out after the shoe shine guy...

I think Woods bought Du-Al.

Good point but since the lease rate reflects the anticipated residual value, their bean counters might be aware of that possibility too.

My 33 YO daughter just said that she only knows 2 people that carry handkerchiefs and I was one of them. I told her that way back, I used it more for her than for myself.

Quite a few down here, still. Interesting thing about them- while bush hogging near medium sized trees, I occasionally see them on the base of those trees, trying to climb further up. That's definitely the safest place for them at that moment. Always wondered if they're smart enough to...

My WWII vet neighbor said farmers were encouraged to plant them as natural fences. It backfired as the birds spread the little orange berries.

Re: sheetmetal interior walls- When I added a 24x24' machine shop to a larger dry walled workshop, I used perforated steel panels instead. Much of the sound passes thru the small perforations and is absorbed by the insulation behind it. Much quieter than the drywall in the rest of the shop...

Worms. Lived here on the same patch for 33 years. Lots of fat night crawlers after a storm. Haven't seen any in years. Instead, smaller "fish worm" sized ones that crawl over the grass during the day. Taking a leak in the yard seems to attract them. No monarch butterflies in years. I quit...

You guys got some recognition today: https://wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/monroe-county-making-progress-on-debris-cleanup/ Excerpt: "Baker said he’s been working with various volunteer organizations, such as Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day...

This battery isolator would be a good subject for its own thread. Product link, picture of where it's mounted, etc. Extra points for battery terminals accessible without raising the hood- for quickly checking voltage, jumping, or being jumped.

Maybe one simple camera positioned over "bait"? Toolbox, fuel drum, whatever attracts the local trash the most.

But your other cutters might be SAE, not metric. 13 mm is .512 vs your .500 bolt. .012 clearance/hole is .024 total slop. (Actually, more clearance than that because rolled threads have undersized unthreaded sections.) If not, and from your pics, Id try the next bolt length up that has a...

Weird. Fractured 1/8" into the threaded part, or the unthreaded part of the bolt? (Ideally, the unthreaded section would span both sides of the shear circle.) Maybe the bolt hole on the problem cutter is metric and you're using an SAE bolt of similar size. (Or vice versa) Say, 10mm (.394)...

Checking bucket tilt on non-level, but non-bumpy ground: Put a level across the bucket- note the slope Mark the rear wheels' contact patch locations Move the tractor, put identical bricks/or other spacers on both contact patches, span them with your level, and note the slope.

A lot of threads on this topic. Most likely cause is improper assembly. Try light down pressure on a flat surface and then loosening the mounting bolts to see if it settles.

Looks a little tippy- maybe some feet extensions too!

I'd drive my pickup to a stocking retailer and have them load it in my pickup, then I could use the hill like you did before (or rig something else up if necessary) without the delivery guy breathing down my neck. No delivery charge or hanging around waiting for their delivery either.

Update on Bloomington, Indiana volunteer outreach (but probably only of interest to local TBN members): https://www.bloomingtonvolunteernetwork.org/need/detail/?need_id=1095959

Will you be part of an organized effort? I haven't seen any Bloomington outreach for volunteers yet.

Indiana has many trailer parks, probably because much of the trailer industry is concentrated here so zoning is favorable. But yeah, some "The Simpson's" gallows humor about the risks.

I compared my odometer reading with the interstate mile markers for about 80 miles. Matched up real close. Looks like T owners should try it.

Maybe that's why Tesla chose stainless steel. /S

Boots on the ground report on repairing a wreck CT. https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2024-tesla-cybertruck-damage-long-term-wrapup.html/ Spoiler alert: they had to total it.

Or make a cardboard cutout of ballast's footprint, including the lower pins, to see if your lower links will splay enough to hook it up, and if the front ballast corners clear your lower links. Might save you a trip.

Plus left or right side tilt that you can't do with a loader mounted bucket. Otherwise- are there lynch pin holes in the lower 3ph pins? Those would be a pain to drill at this point.

My 1999 F250 has a mice walkway near where the closed hood runs along the top of the passenger fender. One time with the hood up, several fat little rascals came running out from under the windshield area where that walkway leads. Also read somewhere that for mice to get inside the cab, the...

My theory is fluid is trapped between the coupler and the control valve so when the mating side of the coupler tries to displace that fluid, there's no place for the fluid to go. What works well for me is to somehow* hold the control valve open while connecting the attachment. Also, Discount...

"If they can bring Optimus into production in the next few years, it will change the way future generations live. It will be as revolutionary as the automobile." I had to look it up. It's a $30k robot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)

Ha! Glad you figured out I was commenting on post #364, not #365 (by mistake). Another theoretical efficiency of a serial hybrid is that if the engine only has to drive the generator, they can program the engine to only run in its most efficient rpm within its power band, not the compromised...

Sounds like a "series hybrid". I think the original Volt had it. And locomotives. Could be wrong though. For one thing, a SH eliminates the transmission required in the more common hybrids, where the engine has to directly drive the wheels.

Ha! Everyone warned me and then 9973720 confirmed it.

Gotta store some stuff in my F250 bed out in the barn for a week. Wonder if mice could get into from the floor if I sealed off the tailgate gap along its bottom. Those mice do know their way around my truck, including the glove compartment.

Good point.

Dad used one to make Swiss steak every Sunday. Floured the meat and then beat the flour into it. Ours had fine teeth on one end and coarse teeth on the other. Problem was the teeth had a meat/flour mix compacted into all the teeth and I had to scratch it all out.

Seems like a question you would ask before you bought it.

Also, most of my problem saplings/brush have grown up because they're too close to nice trees to bush hog. Their roots are entwined with the good tree's roots. Pulling them out by their trunks is my best option.

Thomas Edison said something to the effect that innovation is the combination of a little inspiration and a large junk pile. Those cages are now hanging up in my barn trusses if you want a picture. The vertical rebar legs that press into the ground also act as stilts for the light fencing...

I only had 3 newly planted apple trees in my yard to deal with and I just made a cage for each of them. IIRC, 20 ft lengths of rebar roll into a 6 ft diameter ring. An upper and lower rebar ring supported 2"x4" light wire fencing. By the time the trees outgrew the cages, they had also...

Seems like the ads for these pullers on You Tube show them pulling up pretty good sized trees. But looking in the backgrounds, seems like it was always trees in bottom ground where the roots are shallow and the soil is "fluffy". Pretty clever marketing!

Good thread.

A fair question. Over the years here on TBN, occasionally a brand new member will awkwardly weigh in on a thread. Often just a vague or anodyne comment. (Now, we have AI to help them with that) Don't know about Positivent yet but the other guys seemed to be trying to establish a beach head...

Have you tried heavy black visqueen? I bought a large roll at the local hardware (a "real" hardware store) Held up for years under/over a sand pile. Finally retrieved it after the old pile became overgrown and getting snagged by the bush hog. BTW, what is anti-skid material?

Long shot, but if that survey was just the GIS property lines overlaid on a satellite photo, I think those lines are frequently offset from the actual property lines.

I bought that book (Unsafe at Any Speed, circa 1968) for my dad because I wanted to read it. I don't think the book made Nader rich. If he ever got there, it was from suing General Motors for sending prostitutes to his hotel room to get some dirt on him.

Good municipal policy. We noticed the same tolerance in Baldwin MI back in the 70's, running motoX bikes along on berms between trails. No lights, no muffling, no problem.

A needed AWD and preferred a manual. Short list was Audi A4 and Subaru Outback. Outback won since it's made right here in Indiana.

Every time I try to use a no-spill can it reminds me of the old cartoon of a camel, captioned "A horse designed by a committee".

Irony alert.

My current 2013 Outback is a 6 speed. Some guy ordered it and then cancelled the order, leaving the Subaru dealership stuck with it since manual Outback's didn't sell well, even back then. They were glad to see me; I was glad to find it. Wanted a 6speed 1999 F250 and had to order it. Nobody...

Here's some intel from the other end of the stethoscope: My daughter is a young family practice MD and gets annoyed with how often male patients make inappropriate personal comments while being examined. Same with her women coworkers. So not only have they, as other posters assure us, "seen...

Probably the cheapest solution would be a hydraulic top link, especially if you have rear hydraulic plumbing. Retracting the HTL would curl the implement up, which might be enough clearance to suit you. It would also move the implement's weight forward so you could possibly get further lift...

In case no one mentioned it, Kubota had a rash of loader valve malfunctions that sound like yours and there were several good threads on fixing it if you can search for them. IIRC, the consensus was that the earlier ones didn't have the weep hole so condensation would rust the detent assembly...

I had the right of way as I emerged from an underpass. Someone on a nearby side street pulled out in front of me but managed to get stopped in time once she saw me. We were about eye to eye. Then she honked at me and gave me the evil eye.

A little OT but coffee tastes so good with chili, I thought about adding coffee to the chili recipe. Risky though.

My money's in Ratbert's Discount Lottery Tickets. While skeptics point out that they are merely expired lottery tickets, they don't dispute the fact that expired tickets have virtually the same odds as those more expensive tickets.

Shedded black snake skins are common in my barn. Even found one in the trunk's engine compartment that the mice invade. I moved that truck about 100 yards away and after several days, when I opened the hood, a black snake slithered down to the ground. They must be able to find mice by smell.

Pure speculation on my part but the way this meltdown has dragged out, I suspect the owner was trying to sell the business and to let the new owner deal with the (by now) long-ignored customers. The key was finding a buyer.

Mine's 53x36x14'. Morton recommended a 14' minimum opening so they could drive a concrete truck in for the floor way back. Otherwise, it was pumping it back there. (or watering it down- which Morton doesn't do.) They said it didn't cost much more for an extra 2' of height. Plenty of...

Too long ago to remember the details but my Dual loader lost "uncurl" force and slowed down. Bought the Dual valve seal kit and fixed it. Seems like I found part of a rubber seal in there. Kit wasn't expensive.

Thanks, but I don't know if it's an original idea. I mighta got it from some other TBN member long ago!

Yep, my stereotype of a CT fan is because it's different, and they might be just as likely to buy one if it had a ICE drivetrain. Prius was different. Toyota was all about MPG, even to the extent of pumping the coolant into an insulated container when the engine was off in case it was...

Ive inched the tractor forward and backward by plunging the loader bucket lip vertically into the ground and using the curl function.

Seems like there must be a reasonable market for a 4 footer, or manufacturers wouldn't mess with them.

Well, as crude and imprecise and slow and polluting as gas stoves are, they sure are nice during a power outage, even if you do have to find the box of kitchen matches.

Good to put a fine point on what constitutes actual "wood": Bought a "wood" toilet seat replacement from a major online home furnishings outlet, trying to avoid "polymer", aka "resin", aka plastic. The seat collapsed in a few months because the advertised "wood" was actually compressed wooden...

Back in the day of carbon paper credit card receipts and manual bad card checklists, the clerk was instructed to confiscate any card on the checklist... "Uh, sorry. Not for $1.25 an hour."

Build my house in 1992; ceramic in the kitchen, Armstrong one piece vinyl flooring in bathrooms and mud room. So, side by side comparison. Ditto about ceramic being durable, cold and hard on dropped items. Also, the grout is hard to clean if you're picky about it. Vinyl looks as good as the...

Since you're new to TBN, you can look up a TBN member by clicking on his name. 8404's most recent post here was 10 years ago, so good luck.

I worked a lot with stainless steel in the medical device business. It's rare to corrode most alloys, unless you leave it submerged in a chlorine solution and forget about it. Lately, I've noticed surface deterioration on SS kitchen appliances, grill housings, and kitchen utensils. Wonder if...

Guys know they're old when they take reading material into the bathroom to take a leak.

Ugh. What we need is an adapter to fit Craftsmen batteries to Kobalt tools... While looking for affordable 80 v Kobalt batteries, I searched Greenworks in hopes that Greenworks was manufacturing Kobalt's line. IIRC, they didn't have any 80v batteries except rebuilds, which I took as a bad...

I've seen 3 or 4. Thought about following one to see if cartoon characters piled out of it.

Success! (the first thing that's gone right on this plumbing project) Thanks square1, and all.

You are a busy guy! (Nice shop)

Thanks for the quick response. What hangs up inside the valve? Is it galling between two contact points? Changing it out will be like building a ship in a bottle while standing on my head!

Turned off both waterlines under the sink recently for a repair and now the hot side won't reopen. Put enough leverage on the handle to feel the shaft wind up a little and then relax when I let off of it. That shaft can't be that strong and might twist off. Suggestions welcome! (And I am...

I had searched Lowe's site for 80 volt Kobalt batteries and the link you found didn't come up. (Both $300 ones did!) I was thinking maybe Lowe's was phasing out the 80v line but your link gives hope. They claim that it's just unavailable temporarily. And searching that model number elsewhere...

Yes, but at the bottom of the link: "This item is unavailable. Here are some similar items ..." And $179 if it were available! This is kinda like the inkjet cartridge business model on steroids.

80v Kobalt System was a chainsaw, leaf blower, hedge trimmer, hedge-trimmer-ona-pole, pole saw, edger, string trimmer, maybe more. Local Lowe's had them all on display. Bought the chainsaw- liked it, went back and bought the hedge trimmer- liked it. Most or all tools are available with or...

Long shot, but Amazon has a delivery option where you pick which day of the week you want delivery. Maybe that somehow became your default setting? (Happened to me.)

I can definitely say, without any evidence, that restarting this business where he left off will be a challenge from a personnel standpoint. His fabricators, designers, QA, etc have probably scattered to the many other jobs available. The old-timers on the floor know the stuff that's not on...

This might be a one-of a-kind. Milled into my machete so I could find it in the shop. Long on leverage/short on ergonomics.

Once the lights are guarded, the next weak link is their wires, exposed under the fender.

FEMA brings to mind, "Heck of a job, Brownie!" Hurricane Katrina's Brownie follow-up from 2015: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-katrina-anniversary/heck-job-brownie-where-disgraced-fema-head-now-n400436

IIRC, Walmart had trucks in after Katrina before most or all organizations that specialize in disaster recovery got there.

Two posts and counting. Here's her other post: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/how-to-make-railroad-ties-last-longer.472435/page-3#post-6940238 Maybe she means well but probably she's just establishing a presence here (clumsily) before introducing some commercial agenda.

Could you temporarily mount your e-track parallel to, but offset from (say 1") the e-track's permanent position. Then make a jig with a 3/8 stub for the etrack holes and with a 5/16 drilling hole offset 1" from the 3/8 stub?

Beautiful door, Dave.

Used 5 sliders in a new house 30 years ago. Architect noted that most people end up leaving them open most of the time. He was right in our case. Now the rollers need to be lubed so the doors need to be disassembled somehow. Hope it doesn't require removing the trim...

And maybe counting barb spaces might might save you some measuring post locations.

Ha! I had guessed this would be about untangling fences from under a rotary cutter.

They make a 3ph mounted dumpable box with a cutting lip used to back into what you want to move and scoop it up. Seems like they also have a removable tailgate, for transport. Various sizes and their capacities looked larger than a FEL bucket. Kinda like a high capacity slip scoop with a...

Wonder what God told him about stiffing customers.

"And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all."

They used to be an old family company in Logansport, IN. Quick search shows they might have been purchased by Kasco. Here's a link to their parts: Herd Parts - Results Page 1 :: Edney Distributing Co., Inc.. I didn't check for your model.

Glad you dredged this old thread up. Some of our TBN members who were early e-bike adapters might have useful updates!

And for us older guys, the light is a lot better out there.

An MD friend who was hospitalized by a ground nest looked into it and said when you swat one, it releases pheromones that is a call to arms for the rest of the nest and they swarm you. Seems like it would be hard not to swat one, under the circumstances, and just retreat under light attack.

Ugh. I went thru that at my shop which had a residential grade utility door, lock, and deadbolt. From the looks of the first break-in damage, they probably only had to kick it once. The door jamb was very light weight pine. I reinforced the jamb with angle iron and it held up better during...

My Kubota manual, IIRC, is also vague on those holes. Reminds me of textbooks that flog the intuitive points and just dutifully mention the less obvious stuff.

Don't know about that liquor store's situation but when unemployment is this low, sometimes hiring the unqualified is better than nothing. It probably gives some of the reluctant hires a chance to get experience and life skills. But yeah, some hires just need a place to hang out until they win...

Low reservoir oil level might let it suck air. I've had that bounce and I've had low oil but don't remember if the two faults were related. You don't have a schematic but do you have the manual? Afterthought: my ez-dumper uses automatic transmisssion fluid. The reservoir level line is for...

That looks a lot like the underbelly of my EZ-Dumper. I bought it new from a serious hydraulic shop, not a "Trailers-R-Us" sales lot. Try calling the manufacturer or their competent distributor.

Good thread. If a DIY project, maybe the mesh should be a replaceable insert instead of welding it in. Make two or three while we're at it. Or lay the bent one down on concrete, drive over it a couple of times, and remount it...

In case anyone else was wondering about when Ted's pot arrest was, it was in 2016. Probably not relevant to his current problem. Paywalled by the local paper but some pro-pot magazine picked up the story...

Book from decades ago, "The Millionaire Next Door", documented everyday people that became wealthy through their own effort. Among the observations: Most common vehicle: F150 Most common watch: Timex And that their legacy was often squandered by the third generation.

Good driving too.

If you mentioned how big an area you're working, I missed it. Have you tried scooping your 4 in 1 bucket somewhat full of rocks/soil, cracking open the bucket just enough to retain the smallest rocks you want to remove, and rattling the bucket so the dirt falls thru the crack at the bottom...

OP here. Thanks, All. Easy fix!

Hadn't started my 7.3 diesel for a few months but it's been on a battery tender most of that time. Hood had been up. Fired it up and got an immediate boom and heard something hit the barn wall. Turns out, it blew a (3 cell) battery cap off one battery. Looks like one cell is barely covered...

I did the same thing with my BH on red clay fill for my pole barn. Interesting- it seemed like I was over-compacting it since the clay would eventually delaminate a few inches on top. No cement cracks after 20 years though. As an aside, the cement contractor recommended #5 crushed limestone...

I've got a problem with mice in the barn. They like the truck's engine compartment and occasionally find their way thru a vent and into the cabin. I once found a black snake up in the engine when I popped the hood. Found a skin in there another time. Snakes know...

You sure it wasn't, "Give Mom the rack Dad always wanted." ?

Insult to injury, Toyota will rent injured owners a loaner for $55/day while they fix their problem. "Lexus and Toyota have said vehicle owners can request a loaner vehicle for $55 per day. Owners are advised to contact NHTSA safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 with any questions." - WAPO

Maybe find a vehicle made in Canada? My 2003 Honda Pilot was made up there and it was a great vehicle.

Local Toyota dealer has just a smattering of new inventory. The SUVs I looked at had a $5000 "market adjustment" added onto MSRP, probably dealer added, IIRC.

As bmaverick suggests, slop between two shearing components is tough on shear pins, key ways, etc. Too much clearance in the bolt hole, or between a tube inside diameter and inner shaft outside diameter.... Also, is the unthreaded section of your shear bolt long enough to clear the shear zone?

Irony alert.

I've done similar with mine. (Steel bed) With the right tilt, you can pull it in fairly easily with a rake, or push it in from the bed with a rake. Extra points for putting down a tarp where some inevitable spillage happens.

Credit to OP for properly titling this thread so searchers will be able find it more easily. (Some titles are pretty vague...)

Have you looked into what Indiana requires to road it? I'd assumed turn signals etc, in addition to plates. Maybe even insurance. We used to truck our MX bikes up to Michigan to run the fire trails. They let you ride on the berm, even near town. Seemed like a good business model.

I've seen trailers where they used a torch to blast holes in the frame for wiring to pass thru. Metal splatter and no rubber grommet. Ship it! It was reported that up in the RV/house-trailer industry that blueprints have a note to flag certain features: PTF,PTM. "Pound to fit, paint to match"

Uh, you guys might not appreciate this comment but how about a scrap piece of 2X10, a square, a forstner bit, and a little paint?

Without rereading the thread, I think there are several comments on the bent frame component being the top link attachment. Original post says it's both side links.

My mower deck drive belt failed prematurely and the dealer speculated it was from mowing high grass. (Toro zero turn, but not commercial grade) Makes sense with heat buildup from extended mowing sessions. Expensive belt; pain to change it.

I managed to twist a scarfier shank doing that.

He's probably asking about replacing those awkward turnbuckles that stabilize the lower arms with telescoping square tubing with cross holes and pins.

Agree. They worked too hard to be scammers. Personally, I think the owner might have suffered from delusions of grandeur. Elsewhere in this thread, it was mentioned he had Congressional ambitions... And that house... Delusions could possible explain his poor risk assessment.

Makes sense. OTOH back then, burglars used to also steal the VCRs that recorded them!

This guy is a current or former TBN member. I saved his link years ago, because it made sense and I'm gonna need it someday. http://www.best-motorcycle.com/other/secretssellingcraigslist.shtml (it's not just about motorcycles)

i had AG tires back then and the dealer recommended staying out of the thornfield when it was soft. When it's dry, the tread lugs keep the thin tire carcass off the ground. Not foolproof but I had a lot of thorns in the lugs but not many flats.

Could be me but offering cash to buy a car at a dealership doesn't seem to help. I think the salesperson also gets a commission on a finance package.

"Free" credit card transactions sounds a lot like "free" shipping.

Saw a loader bucket at a farm show with scarfiers mounted on its back surface and pointed toward the tractor, for back dragging. With the bucket bottom flat on the ground, the scarfiers didn't touch the ground. With the bucket curled back, the scarfiers penetrated. If you floated the curled...

OP, from memory, I think you're right about the 4330 seat switch being different than your current model. Seems like there's a plastic arm about 1 1/2" long that pivots when it hits the opposite surface.

When we little guys need our little tractors to run a PTO unseated, we rotate our little seats forward against the steering wheel.

Nah, no dog in this hunt. I was thinking that any place on their site for public feedback would also work for, "Hey, kiss your prepayment goodbye."

Is there a working "reviews" section In the website? Might be a good venue as for customer feedback, AKA, Public Service Announcements.

Another act of desperation is not paying withholding taxes for your employees. Around here, they'll shut down the business for that.

Easy to imagine a simple gentleman's agreement to remove the barn for free. Then, half way thru, the remover realizes he bit off more than he can chew and disappears.

OP here- Thanks, All. The property with the barn in the way had a cash offer accepted yesterday from someone on its first day on the market. So, a dead end for me but your comments on this subject might be interesting to others too.

...or maybe what's salvageable isn't worth the labor?

Courts probably meant Ted's plan to orderly unwind his business or emerge from bankruptcy. Of course, emerging from bankruptcy is gonna take some customers...

I just went to a local home show and there were more booths selling gutter screens than any other product. Must be lucrative. Big thing now is very fine ss screen molded in to a plastic frame with ridges to control the water flow before it soaks thru the screen. 8 years ago my screens were...

Yep, a couple of cervical fusions over the years limited the range of rotation, but without pain. Then one dry summer with hard, bumpy ground, bouncing around on tractors and mowers added pain at the limits. Seems here to stay. Might need a swivel seat if there's room for my legs.

I've used a tree shear to cut trees that size flush for new trails. But after driving the trails for awhile, the soil compacts, leaving the stumps protruding several inches in my case. Probably more of a tire hazard than a bush hog problem. That brush guard looks good since you have to get...

My neck won't turn around that far anymore.

The walls of my original shop have 4 ft of plywood at their bottom and drywall above. When I added on, I used perforated steel siding instead, which made a big improvement in sound absorption. Comes in colors, including white. Didn't compare costs with drywall but it should go up faster and...

I ended up at 53x36x14. Contractor (Morton) said it doesn't add much cost to make the walls higher and at 14', they can drive a cement truck inside to reach the hard to reach sections. Otherwise, they would have to water down the mix or bring in an expensive cement pumper. Tall walls might...

Great building, inside and out. Curious about what kind of light fixtures you used that appear to work so well? I used 4 each 500 watt halogens because they were only $10 each, but if I ever forget to turn them off, in a few days my electric bill will...

I've got a Lawnboy from the early 80's that was over $300 IIRC. Sounds like dodge man's- self propelled, AL deck. Pushed it aside when I got a zero turn and it's been sitting for 20 years (yeah, with the gas still in it...) Willing to let it go cheap if someone wants to pick it up. Manual...

Saw this one at Rural King yesterday. Looked sturdy. Online price in the link below is $2900 but there were several signs on its display skid: $2300, $2500, $2700. https://www.ruralking.com/rk-by-king-kutter-60-grapple-gp-60-2cy-kk-zr

Great minds think alike:

I wondered about that way back, when EA was making attachments in competition with attachments they were only distributing. Couldn't make them too popular with suppliers. Random thought: someone posted here that Ted was considering a run for Congress. If true, that would be one data point...

it always amazes me that a low labor cost company would invest all the time to reverse-engineer, tool, and knockoff a product- then hand all the documentation over to someone who took an English class in the eighth grade.

Can we still flog the credit card policies?

Off topic alert: Decades ago, I went to an auction of a small manufacturing business bankruptcy- selling it lock, stock, and barrel, one lot at a time. They made surgical instruments- often large government orders. Some of the failed partners were there, selectively buying things. One lot...

Could You just junk the OEM fasteners and replace them with a length of all-thread, longer than the assembled canister, and two end nuts?

Ugh. IIRC, Washington State has no State income tax, so maybe they have to make it up elsewhere. (Are WS sales taxes high too?) Doesn't seem fair to out of state property owners unless there's an exemption of some sort.

New member with brand related posts. See it a lot.

Having attended this show a few times, finding specific booths in that rat maze of interconnecting halls, pavilions, and arena was time consuming, especially with the packed walkways. My comment was for your customers' convenience. Hope you didn't take it wrong.

Maybe post your approximate booth locations, or at least, which hall you are in.

In my hands, the relative short wheelbase of a skid steer/CTL makes forward grading difficult. (Each hump or dip under the wheels is magnified out at the implement. Seems like most operators back-drag in float mode if they can. Also, unlike a 3ph tractor, if you want to tilt the blade in the...

WRT eliminating food sources: depending on what we have bush hogged recently, that swarf on the bush hog's deck might be a buffet table.

My armchair experiment was to make some kind of nesting box that is more attractive than my pickup. Maybe with a heat tape in it... And some way to quickly trap them inside when you empty it every week.

The manual for my WR Long remote kit warns that it's for intermittent use only. Shoulda been in their advertisement, IMO, not buried in their manual. (Good product and company to work with, otherwise)

Nah, no experience with concrete. Mine was just a theoretical question stemming from design work in another industry.

I get it that rebar, below the neutral plane, adds more tensile strength- my point was that the chairs themselves leave defects (stress risers) in the tension side of the neutral plane.

Anybody ever bring up stress risers in slabs? Seems like those chairs will leave some significant ones in the tension side of the (brittle) slab. Maybe positioning rebar at the right height makes up for them...

Thanks, All. This is helpful.

That's it. Thanks. Still wondering if that white nipple is for tubing. Mine doesn't seem to be as dirty as its surroundings, as though it recently had tubing on it.

It's mounted on the inside of the passenger side front fender, about half way front to back of the engine compartment. Looks like it lost some tubing.

I've got a leftover pipe for above the muffler (c-clamp attachment to muffler outlet) from my former 1920. Yours for the cost of shipping.

I have a Gehl CTL 60 from 15 or 20 years ago and it was made by Takeuchi. It even has that annoying step plate you mentioned earlier.

If TAKEUCHI is of interest to you, keep an eye out for Gehl too. TAKEUCHI makes, or made, Gehl's CTL. Very well made machine, IMO.

Here at 39* N, late summer tomatoes just seem to stay green thru fall until frost. Seems warm enough for them to ripen- they just don't. Cant see a green house helping at that point.

OP here. This thread has gone unbelievably sideways. Hope the mods shut it down.

Trick question: Which administration started the EPA?

CMI was only down 3% today, despite this blow. Could be that Cummins has been accruing for the fine and their Wall Street market makers knew this.

Sounds similar to VW stunt, but larger fine: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-merrick-garland-agreement-principle-cummins-settle-alleged

Another thing is to confirm that the front of the rotary cutter is set lower than the rear. Otherwise, the blades are in contact with the grass for 360* instead of 180*. In my brush/grass, when things bog down, I just move over to lessen the swath width.

Anecdotal- my F250 7.3 Diesel (twin batteries) has always taken long cranking to start. Ran the batteries down cranking it and had to call a tow truck. He hooked up a fairly large battery pack that wouldn't crank it fast enough to start. His jumper cables started it right up.

Fallon did one 10 or 15 years ago.

Maybe the Sheriff has authority to ask him about liability insurance? Then the insurance company could apply some pressure.