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And note it has been reported on TBN a while back that many Kubotas straight from the dealers have had real world performance poorer than specs. It seems they were "cranked" down, perhaps to prevent failure. All I read about were able to be "cranked" back up and performed well. So when you...

Don't worry, that is Dejoy of the USPS. Run it into the ground, get rid of the equipment, make you go to a commercial operation.

Thanks, here's my results, and this must display different on different machines, because ALT0277 doesn't give me anything but ALT227 gives me a blocky pi - π list of ALT227, font name in that font, ALT0176, ALT228: π Arial ° Σ π Book Antiqua ° Σ π Courier New ° Σ π Georgia ° Σ π Tahoma ° Σ...

Another vote for the old forums image archive management.

I'd like to be able to use ASCII codes, some seem to work, some don't. For example ALT plus 227 = π (should be the pi symbol but doesn't look correct) 0176 = ° works 0177 = ± works 228 = Σ works 20 = ¶

Another reason Location matters. °F or °C, the lower it is the thicker the oil AND it also degrades battery performance.

Did you read that the OP (me) is: Running POE equipment Essentially wiring 4 separate but connected Faraday cages and was only asking (and as the title say connectors) I don't know of a WiFi booster that makes it through 26 gauge steel siding or enables one to run power.

I took James advice (thank you James) on the cable. Hopefully it will be delivered next week. I had already bought the Klein crimper & a 10 pack each of Klein Cat5E & Cat6 connectors because I've got some cabling to do in Alexandria Va. Either my older eyes or muscle skills made it much...

What are some good pass thru RJ45 Cat6 connectors for 23 AWG? Reading the reviews the Klien seem to be a little "tight", the "Ideal" brand may be better.

However you do it consider that NOW, and for the near future, you've got freezing temps. Then there will be a mud season, then probably the soil will get baked dry. If you put it off long enough you might get freezing temps again, like next year, but then in your area maybe not. My Vermont...

Thanks for the update.

What gets me is when they say they delivered it to the security guard (at my private residence).

Thanks for the name. Lowes had a 500' box of Cat 6 for $76.52 (delivered) after my military discount. I noted it's 23AWG. Amazon has it in a 1,000 ft box for $261.50 /edit - added link link to cat 6

Any pointers for a decent tester for less than $100? I don't want to spend a lot on equipment that will be used for one job. What is a quality cable? I need names if possible.

For starters - Because I essentially have 4 Faraday cages To run POE, I've yet to see Power Over Wireless. so once again - /edit Yup, and if you looked at the picture the 4 existing buildings (Faraday cages) are only separated in one place by a few feet.

POE Cameras, access points, computers. I've become addicted to being able to log onto a laptop whenever I have a question. And my need for speed. Like I wrote, the internet had been limited to 7 down, 0.7 up. That let me stream off site 2 cameras. 100 up will be a game changer. Plus I've...

I'm about to get fibered in Mississippi. By this fall the local power company expects to have the infrastructure to my door so I can get 100 Mbps up and down. Compared to the present 7 down/0.7 up. So I want to start wiring my sheds 662688 so I can put up a bunch of security cams and access...

Why not affix a 5 gallon bucket where you can easily reach it and for spot treating spread by hand. Last year I did that, put the bucket on the hood where I could easily reach it. I'd stop, stand up, scoop up some sand/salt mix, toss where it looked it was needed.

I have fond memories of my Dad eliminating moles in Northern Vermont. He'd use M-80 sized firecrackers. He was a smoker. He'd go out on the lawn in late spring, early summer wearing a pair of thick soled, heavy boots. When he found an active mole run he'd light an M-80 with his cigarette, drop...

Maybe some people are getting prepared like they should be.

That could be a very good project. It's better to start with something simple.

Did the tech bring up that you were supposed to read the manual FIRST. If the manual actually says that you should have. When buying chinese equipment there is frequently some tradeoff for the money saved.

So thats where it all went!

Brand new?? Get the dealer out there, IF you change ANYTHING they can blame it on you.

When you go to a much larger tractor your going to have a cat problems regardless. Would the relative be interested in a swap with added cash?

I put a large ziploc baggie around my fuel filter, filled it with hot water, emptied, repeated several times to warm up the filter.

But then you would have had a covered bridge!

I hate paying extra for antennas but I paid about $90 for a Weboost bottom of the line model about 5 years ago. Went from < 1 bar to up to 3 bars in the living room. According to my cell phone it provided about a 10 dB boost. Well worth the $90. /edit - didn't seem to improve my Mobley...

Well you may be over it, but I'm pretty sure it will be over YOU. Most of the BIG storms for the area have been in the late January to early February time frame. linky

With regards to Anchor seal - I always seem to have left over latex paint.

I use a similar method but with Maxwell House. Used to have to spread salt every year but I have only had to spread salt about 4 times in the last 4 years. Bought a 50lb bag 5 years ago, still working on it.

My team was VT UVM Football-Undefeated since 1974 :)

Was Francisca the frozen Pole?

What about this? New Generator Power Connection Kit 60 or 100 amp 3P 4W 250V Plug & Receptacle | eBay still pricy

I/ve had one on m M4700 for about 6 years. I just slid some blocks of wood under the seat to get me to the correct height. I don't travel that fast.

If you could keep it in one thread it would be less confusing, Cost of pallet forks

Most "tractors" are not the ideal tool for closed spaces. Closed places usually have a flat floor and other machines are better used, such as forklifts, and they are often electric.

Most people with any brains realize what they are getting into when they buy into an HOA that is restrictive. The big problems come when the HOA rules are changed. Face of it most of us are in a quasi HOA. I'm not allowed to build an explosives factory.

I'm becoming a bad person. My thoughts on seeing that was they should have let him hang in there for a while. It was his choice to go there,

@txdon might view that as a health benefit :)

Eddie - How accurate do you want? GPS-enabled smartphones are typically accurate to within a 4.9 m (16 ft.) linky

And do they really recycle it? For a while our trash trucks were picking up both and just letting it mix together, there was no market for the recycle.

Take your kid to work on a Sunday??

A full up SSQA set of pallet forks seems like a waste of money if all you are going to use them for is moving 35 gallons of fuel for a diesel generator every time we get a 12" snowfall. If I needed to move 35 gallons of fuel I'd get the least expensive set of clamp on forks and be done with it...

And when you move the pollution to a central point it's easier to clean up.

Are you dragging your Corgi? The snow doesn't look to deep for the Corgi to walk. /edit - sorry - forgot the smiley :)

Hardieboard is relatively thin and can either be sheets or planks of cement. These fake logs look like thicker planks. I don't really see the need for the thickness.

If the point is to cover the exterior of stick frame construction with cement hardieboard makes more sense. I built a shed (10x15) about 1986 using T11. It was a pain to paint, required repainting and the wood started to decay. So I repurposed the T11 and put up hardieboard about 2000. Easy...

For me it was a LOT faster. I was splitting inside our "rec room" in the basement. Kept hitting the basement ceiling with the maul :)

I use a lot of ratchet straps. Pack stuff tight, a decent strap doesn't loosen. Keep appropriate straps. Sometimes all you need is a 1" wide HF, but don't use too little if you value your load. Get a few sections of firehose or similar so you can slip it over sharp edges, a cut strap is...

As far as splitting goes - I bought one of those 10 Ton Hydraulic Log Splitters from HF, my fireplace of use was in the walkout basement. Used it sort of like a Nordic Track to exercise my arms while watching TV.

I had my M4700 in Virginia for a while. 660638 I placed "rails" going down from the canopy to the loader arms and put a tarp over the top. fastened mostly with 1/4" rope. Made like a small tent. That way the snow and ice was relatively easy to slide off. Moving to Mississippi into a 20x50x15H...

Why do you want to "clean it up"? And what type of pine? If the rows are 8' apart you may be doing a lot of damage to 3 yr old trees. And at 3 or 4 yrs you may not be losing much. In our area (Mississippi, Alabama) loblolly is about the fastest growing and takes about 12 to 15 yrs for the...

And all the training he had to acquire to be able to use the stamp.

Summer of what year ? :)

I've taken a metal can of appropriate size (I've different size cups) and fastened them on pipes with U bolts, and on my M4700 tractor there's 2 bars across the front (I think they are for propping up the loader if you take it off the tractor) I fasten the can (32oz?) with a flat ubolt.

Also consider the size of the ICU and current conditions. In my future retirement area the nearest good ICU is 40 miles away, with 38 beds. However due to C19 it's been FULL and overfull since about July. That is delaying my return to Mississippi. SWMBO has been to ICU's and I don't want to...

Good! Time to prepare for tonight!

It's been that way for YEARS. In early 2008 I ordered a VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI. Got it in 2009. Then because of Dieselgate they bought it back in summer 2017. So we ordered a Ford Transit Connect late 2017. After a year plus of waiting we gave up and bought a Ford Escape in late 2019.

I looked into the GEK about 10 years ago. Blue Hood might have an application here if all things are near perfect. If he can get the biomass prepared properly (which includes particle size, moisture content, quantity) he could probably do it. But when I looked into it I couldn't quickly figure...

I think you have a size problem. I'm only on page 21 as of this post. I like big pages.

Have you though of printing your own? :) 8 Biggest Companies Building 3D Printed Houses

Have you tried the "pallet in fields" thread?

I've had 12 gallons on order from Walmart since Dec 27th. They keep saying it's been delayed.

I find it difficult to imagine a situation when I'd send money to a questionable account.

In Vermont we knew how to drive and when NOT to drive in the snow. And we could sort of depend on others to know also. In mixed Northern Virginia I can't depend on the driver in front of me.

I wanted something like the 1870 to get around in the yard. My 7610 is a little large.

number of vehicles registered now about 300 million couldn't quickly find similar old statistics BUT vehicles/1000 people doubled from 1956 to 2012

Makes me wonder if I moved to Florida. Predicting 72 on Jan 1st in Alexandria Va.

Pertinent statement in link:

Inflation is one thing - availability is entirely different. It's the mis-management of "just in time" plus Covid 19 affecting the factories. I use Shell Rotella T6. I've 2 Ford 7.3's that take almost 4 gallons each, and about another 3 gallons for my Kubotas, so one full oil change consumes...

They tried to do that to me. I've a house on a small hill 686692 and about 100 yards away the "shops". 666504 Both have their own meter. One of the buildings in the "shops" has a kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom w/ toilet sink and shower etc. They started to charge us at a higher rate for the...

Do you know of any on line site that reports on LED brands and actual power usage?

Just happened to me. - I had a dozen 1 gal jugs in my cart. Looked around for other things Found something, went to cart - they had reset the limit to 3, tried to check out, they would only sell me 1. Now my local Walmart is showing 1Gal T6 5W-30@$48.96, 3 Gal case T6 5W-40@$275.60 Can find the...

I've a 7.3 Ford dually, southern vehicle, no engine heater. Had difficulty starting it in the winter in northern Virginia w/ T6 15W40 when temps approached 10 below freezing, switched to T6 5W40 made a big difference.

That's the TBN effect - Another rush to buy product. :)

SHHH! Don't want to start a panic and have everyone hoarding seeds!

I'm wanting to plant a small but not MICRO garden. I looked at Burpees, 20 pole bean seeds (2 oz) for $5. To me that's a ripoff. I'm not looking for pounds of seeds. But the prices certainly seem dear.

What are you running for engine oil? 0W? 5W? ??

That's fine when you know what you want and can trust the quality. Plus if you value your time you can save a lot of time spent going to the store. Some of us grew up in remote areas and have been "remote shopping" from the get-go. I started in the '50's ordering "fishing gear" from the back...

Are you prepared for it to be destroyed by the changing climate? I HAD a 40' wide Versatube carport, very sturdy, in northeast Mississippi over 10yrs old. Lasted through several multi-inch snowfalls, one up to 4". But the AVERAGE is only 0.7"/yr linky Last year we got a snowstorm, followed by...

Well trained dog.

My Grandfather did that one year. Killed all of his small orchard. Maybe a dozen 5 yr old apple trees. :(

wrap some rubber around it and tighten some plumbers clamps?

Also a big factor is how much one uses. Our TOTAL USAGE last year was about 11,000 kWh, and that's in Mississippi living there 24/7 (due to Covid) no vacations. /edit So at our cost of $0.099/kWh the max we could save/year would be about $1,100.

My Dad taught me to set the oiler so you'd fling some off the tip. Back about 2009 I was doing a bit of CSM. My 60CC JD w/28" or 42" would fling fine, my small Stihl would fling fine. My Stihl 660's wouldn't fling worth a darn with bars over 20" and non-Stihl chain no matter how far one...

If he's ready to start working NOW it's a little late BUT Look into mini-splits. Unless you already have the ductwork planned for and installed it's a much easier installation.

Is that 16kWh and 100kWh totals for the day?

I think that's all due to Federal grants. Same thing is happening in Northeast Mississippi - The telephone company has been stringing fiber, MOSTLY buried for since June 2019. Last I talked to them, summer 2021, it was going to take them 3 or 4 more years to get to me. They are charging: 1...

Sort of like this? or this? That's sort of what I was thinking about.

Before I retired (2011) I wore Army cargo pants. I'd stuff an insane amount of things in the pockets, including a 11" laptop. But the Army cargo pants/BDU's didn't hold up to my Mississippi briar patches. I tried Propper, better but still a nogo. Tried Carhart, nice but then about 2015 I tried...

No, I was thinking of a solar install with parking underneath. What I was thinking of was building about this much solar panel, 5' to 7' off the ground on the low end (south) and whatever on the high end (north). attachment try 2 With a little (2'? 4'?) extension of metal roof on the north...

On another matter - Any details on your "hoop house"?

Maybe try a different brand of grade 5's.

Plus if you just have just little trimming to do you can use a small AH (much lighter) battery.

yup

That's how my Dad taught me to drive the '66 VW in the winter. Turn the wheel while pulling the center handbrake. 90 degree turns all the time.

Technically that is 4 secure attachment points. As shown early in the video. Yes, technically you only NEED 2 chains or straps of sufficient strength. I was taught on here to chain the equipment, strap the attachments. Early on (<2015) I bought a lot of HF tow chains (linky) at the royal price...

Or Walmart JD dye

Most of the branches I trim when I'm on the tractor are 2" diameter or thereabouts. I drive up so I'm below them, stop, park, stand up, trim. Sometimes I'm able to cut them off such that they fall in the FEL. Usually have to get down and manhandle them. And my ride is a M4700 utility tractor...

Reads like Santa needs to bring you another workshop.

I do for my trees and vehicles that travel my lanes.

With these on they act as bars.

Did you mean 8" blade or 8' long?

What model? And what does mean? Is the length of the saw a full 16' or does that include the nominal 5' height they crank in to their advertising calculations? My cheap HF Lynx lets me reach about 16', when I'm standing on my Kubota M4700. But it's only about 8' long. But my Echo PPT 280...

I JUST finished the 5 gallon pail of SUDT2 I bough back in 2010. So Sunday I ordered a 5 gallon pail from Messicks, got here Wednesday. My tractors and trucks tend to sit for a long time and have to be started when it's below freezing, without being able to easily get a heater to them. Like...

Yeah, those Greeks were pretty bad when they developed their alphabet. The next one may be pi.

I use a 3pt pallet fork w/ a chain and Pallet Forks, Pallet Fork, 3 Point Pallet Forks 3 Pt Pallet | Agri Supply 72511 log tong,

Nope, but I remember one of my extreme but good "driving on icey road" experiences. About 1967 or 68, Northern Vermont, lived a mile back on a poorly maintained county one lane dirt road. Had a Toyota HiLux, truck sat very high in the rear and skittish as all-get out. I worked at a small pet...

Profile says last post was in 2018.

Just to "wrap up". Finally took out and replaced the hydro line, there was a small tear in the line about half way along the length. But because of the fabric covering the line it didn't show a leak where it was torn.

Along the lines of building inspectors - in a rural area they might be OK, but in my Fairfax County area I met some Prima Donnas and major PITA's. On one remodel "inspector A" tried to tell me I had to tear down a shed because it was to close to the property line. The shed had been there for 40...

If you know you lack the contacts you've lost the battle. I had to have a lot of minor repair/upgrade work done - replace stairs, build dormers, etc. Even though my wife was from the area (and we had close family that were doctors, lawyers, etc. and lived there) the subs treated us as a bunch...

Before I retired (in 2011) my job, training the military, had me on travel at least 1 week a month and sometimes the whole month for decades. So I got used to working on my computer wherever I was. But most of my coworkers had the routine 8 hours a day, 5 days a week jobs. As it seemed did...

Needs a big red bow :)

Updated Jan. 15, 2016 7:22 pm ET Can you at least find a source from this decade?

Lowes sells them linky Home Depot sells them linky

How many of you have tried 40 garlic chicken?

That walmart article was Mar 17, 2016.

Well I rarely use my Mobely when I'm in Virginia because the house has a pretty good internet package we pay for. BUT this morning my router was down. So I pull out the Mobely and just put it on a table in front of me, hoping to get a connection so I can connect here and surf the web a little...

Or so they say.

You had to bring up Dad's :) My Dad was known for his harvest technique - A 12 gauge. Usually one shot. We didn't need big trees. He'd go out rabbit or deer hunting and he'd just blow the tree off. Always had the landowners permission. Uncle was staying with us one time he did that and was...

Compare the price of steel and labor when you bought it. Has it rusted out? Got all bent up? Probably not. And how much did you look? New 16" Heavy Duty Excavator Bucket for a Bobcat 442 with Coupler Pins | eBay

Some people don't read the thread, they read the last page. They also don't know how to fix the original system. What's your fuel consumption at idle? Could you just let the tractor idle overnight?

That is nice but I only use about 20 squirts of WD40 per year at the most, and I buy WD40 by the case every few years when it goes on sale. Down in Mississippi I use a lot of Water Displacement formula 40 for rust prevention on exposed metal, that and sheep lanolin (Fluid Film and Woolwax)...

Only about 24/7! Glad to see you posting. I like to see tractors, backhoes and chainsaws on television. But I'd rather see them for different uses. Keep us posted if you can about the recovery.

House in Alexandria, Virginia - Bought in 1984 at an extreme discount. The previous owner was retiring with his wife to West Virginia. Don't think he could tell a screwdriver from a hammer. They had been in the house since 1972 when it was built by a very respected builder. The house has a...

I learned by about 3rd grade to not shovel the end of the drive until the plows went by. But we rarely got over 2' of snow in one snowfall in Northern Vermont.

Well I found this thread extremely interesting. My Father was a "master" machinist at IBM Burlington in the 1960', 70's and '80's would frequently make "special" parts, but he did not "bring his work" home so to speak. But he did leave me with a love of good tools. OP - in your quest for tools...

Somewhere along my learning curve I remember Ether/Gas - OK, Ether/Diesel - no-no. But I have been successful with WD-40 on diesels. I've one Ford 7.3 that I uses it on annually.

Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) can be milled and be especially useful if you are building boats. It will curve and twist hard enough to pull nails out. I've milled it and when a 10' piece was laid down right off the mill it was flat and then twisted to a foot high a day later. It can be a...

Because for the most part, once again, the buyers are spending "other peoples" money. Loan rates are extremely low. Seems like we went through this in 2008.

Thread wrapup Got the IPA MUTT, popped in a 12V battery I'd bought, loosely hooked it up, plugged it into my trailer, all lights worked! Looks like it will be easy to use and more important it might be fairly easy to "teach" others to use. Big thanks to Randy for pointing it out. I'm sure I'll...

But you have not anwered: A very common problem is the 3pt hitch speed control linky a co

So in theory if you had gotten a 15 yr payback 20 years ago you would have been paid back for 5 years. On another slant - Has anyone seen a good DIY solar carport implementation? If so any good links? I've got to replace a carport that was about 20x40. Basically I need to roof over the area...

One persons stocking up is another persons hoarding. If you use something routinely and you can stock up on it it's prudent to do so. /edit - With the supply chain shortages a 6 month supply of everything one can store makes life easier.

I just always seem to have a scrap piece of 3/4 plywood kicking around to screw on top of the regular dolly.

Yeah. at $8@. The coupon you linked to expired Feb 29, 2020. Now they are $13@ That was my anniversary :) I've got about 30 or so of them and have managed to break about 2. /edit - 30 or so moving dollies, not anniversaries :)

You left out the most important tools - the grandson, his parents and anybody else, like his friends, that might use the trail. How good are your brush hogs? As explained earlier on the forum: Bush Hog Use on (2-4\") trees How do you do it? You can often hog them down.

Well after Amazon messed up on two deliveries I chickened out fter reviewing it on youtube I ordered a MUTT from IPA via Northerntool. Then today after looking it up again on Youtube 5 DIY solutions show up. The correct key words seem to be "trailer light tester". So enjoy: Still...

RE:Amazon - I've been trying to get some parts for fixing my trailer wiring. Little $10 parts. Some were to be delivered Tuesday, whoops Wednesday, changed to Friday and Saturday when I checked an hour ago. Now some of those parts are out for delivery. These parts were coming from about 40...

This is but one of the significant numbers. In our area of Northeast Mississippi ICU beds are extremely scarce. My BIL is a family doctor. One of our close relatives required ICU care for non-Covid medical care. He couldn't get her admitted to the hospital. She had to get round the clock...

I can just imagine your pick up line - "Would you like to come over and see my organ" :)

Darn, just when I thought I had found a remote place.

I recently got my Mississippi Private Applicators license and the law is probably much the same throughout the US. We've got to keep our poisons to ourselves.

And the tires don't need all the sun they get in some of the storage lots. Has anyone read of how quickly that stock build up is cycling? I've been saving my $$ and a newish truck might be a place to dump them.

That looks darn interesting, but I just dropped about $50 on parts to MacGyver something and I'll wait and see.

Any recommendations on brand of plugs to use for rewiring? /edit - I'm referring to the 7 blade trailer plug.

Do LED trailer lights work fine on 12v AC?

One of MY problems in trying to find parts for making my own test "box" is that about 10 years ago I bought an "extension" cord for the 7 way with a vehicle (male) blade plug and it doesn't have the housing with the little "flip" cover. Has worked great for me, but now I can't find one WITHOUT...

Thanks guys. Looks like I'm going to have to gin up something. HS's solution is too costly, Moss's is a lot better but would still require an adapter to blade. Now if I could just run it off the trailer battery. I'm thinking alligator clips to trailer battery or car charger,

Thanks, but sometimes it's all about sex. Those are females. The plug on the trailer side is female. I need the mail counterpart with a way to supply power so I can plug it into the female fitting and turn ON the lights. /edit - and since reading other responses - I have several of the ones...

I'll admit I had to force the ones I got into the cap but a "slightly" different size I would expect from cheap chinese knockoffs. /edit - Dexter sells a 2 pack for $11.54. 4 caps w/ shipping would have cost me about $30, versus the 12 pack for $8.25 delivered.

I'd like basically a 7 blade male plug I could plug into my trailer side so I could easily test my trailer WITHOUT getting a vehicle hooked up. I called up etrailer and they suggested I just rig one up. I'm sure the separate parts would cost as much as a designed product IF there is one out there.

Perhaps Dr. S. actually was good for you. Seems he really got you pi##ed off! I had a similar problem (about 15 yrs ago) where after they transferred me to a better doctor and finally gave me a diuretic I got rid of 7 liters in about as many hours. Please keep up the thread.

Then later you can build a bigger one.

Put the 5 G pail in your tractor bucket and use a siphon. /edit - the Rotella T4 web page doesn't show a 10W40. Shows 15W40 and 10W30.

But at least you confirmed what was happening. You didn't HAVE to view the entire 4 hours. Sixdogs only has about 7 spots. Video record, then when a NEW spot appears search back through the record to see when it first occurred. I do that frequently with my Wyze cams. (which seem to have a very...

And please keep recounting. The war with Covid is not over yet.

What truck? And with or without whitewalls?

Here is a chart to refute the "Never been higher than now." statement. Very convenient to select only the last 5 years. And also not using inflation adjusted dollars skews the graphs.

Not much has changed since 2015.

I deal with this both rural and suburban. The only way I've found to deal with it is first don't order stuff that HAS to be delivered only 1 way, to the billing address. For Mississippi I'll order stuff to be delivered to my BIL (thank you Mike!) or my MIL, both "townies". "Stuff" to be...

The weather was beautiful, the family was wonderful and a usual 3 to 4 hour commute in holiday traffic took less than two. :) Good day to all.

Update - Well I added more fluid and maybe got it slightly overfilled. It's just a tad over the "full" bar (that's a metric "tad") But to answer: "how full I should fill the reservoir." I put hydro in to about 8.25" below the top of the fill hole. /edit Somewhere I read a poster recommending...

Well I bought an inexpensive 12 pack from Amazon linky , my main criteria was quick shipping. advertised for " Fits Most 2,000-3,500 Pound Axles" Fits my dust cap holes just fine, replaced them all.

I'm very interested- How current are all prices? Steel prices have come down greatly since and are about where they were at the beginning of the year (when my 40x20 carport collapsed).

Have you tried plowing with a moldboard plow? Regarding the arguments about horsepower - my 63VW only had 34HP and I think my friends VW vus of the same vintage only had about 50HP.

Yup, that often seems the place for gardening tips.

I'm just wondering. It seems there are a lot people that have gotten in the habit of getting free food from various charities. I first started noticing it last year, lines and lines of relatively new fancy vehicles driving up and getting their trunks filled free, usually no questions asked. I...

That's the new system, FERS, it relies on SS, your pension, and the TSP (Thrift Savings Plan). The key is to invest wisely in the TSP. SS is probably going to die. Under the old system, CSRS, we got a higher % but no SS and not as much TSP. That's the way it was throughout my career. Most...

My favorite sweet corn is torn off the stalk, warmed by the sun. Tear off the husks and eat, often before leaving the field.

A good part of the problem with gov't employees is the overwhelming bureaucracy of rules built up since 1776 and the inability to reward a job well done. I spent 37 years working as a scientist at an Army research lab. In "private" companies office politics don't change every 4 or 8 years. In...

Yeah, 5 gallons of fuel has grown heavier over the years. But luckily I have a FEL with bucket. Put the container in the bucket, siphon into tractor. 684876 Also works with my 14 gallon container.

I prefer BBD (Big Bad Dog, preferably barking) and Mossberg for security. The main thing is to decide what you want to do. Are you: Checking up to see if there was damage? Need real time warning of intrusion? Want the LEO's immediately? You need to check with your local law enforcement to see...

Tractor By Net number? Or Total Base Number :)

Purple paint may be nice but if I have to paint a tree or put up a sign every 100 feet it would be a pain. I've 7 separate lots and about 50,000 feet of boundary. That would mean marking 5,000 trees. I'll have to live with Mississippi's law that all unauthorized access is trespassing.

Thanks! That's what I suspected.

Just found that one of my 4 trailer little rubber axle dust caps rotted through - only 2 yrs old. These are on a 10K rated trailer with dexter style e-z lube axles. Seems everything on Amazon is rated for 2,000 - 3,000 rated axles link. I don't have anything as handy local. So I called up...

Backhoes are not just for burying bodies.

Seems like you have speed. Try 6 down. .6 up.

Thanks. Since the FEL, 3 point and drive all seem to work my panic has subsided. I suspect my son did not use it much.

I just got my B7610 back from my son. He's normally pretty good on checking fluids etc. But today I went to use the 3 point and accidentally bumped it into "raise" position, where it sat for a minute or so. It dumped like what looked like a lot of fluid, probably a half pint at least. Yet when...

Did you even READ your link? (a) A person commits criminal trespass if the person enters or remains on property, or any portion of property, without the consent of the owner. Consent may be inferred in the case of property that is used for commercial activity available to the general public or...

Heck of a way to do an oil change.

Could you elaborate on that? Perhaps we need a reliable dictionary. I'm planning on putting up a couple of Ubiquiti U6-LR access points to shoot a strong signal around my house, yet also provide a signal ~200' away to my metal skinned "workshops" where I'll also bring the signal inside and...

Well a Used Oil Analysis (UOA) may let you keep using the same oil forever. And still be safe. A UOA would also discover things like abnormalities that a simple eyeball might not. As far as color of oil that may depend on the way your engine works. My Ford 7.3 diesels have a High Pressure Oil...

So young'un you've got about a 50cc saw. To adequately run a 28" bar with some oomph you'll need more HP. The Stihl 500i is EXPENSIVE for a chainsaw. But you can expect to get 661 performance from it. I've run my 660's quite a bit but my 088 only a little. 673226,673228 I'd suggest a 500i and...

Yup, the only thing is if the quality can easily be decreased by delivery. If I'm buying something that can be easily mangled I'll try and at least pick it up at the store. But what is worse to me is the vast number of things no longer available at the store but only available by delivery...

Good looking project. My main question is why didn't you just widen the hole and put in a double header?

As a retired couple of modest means we missed all the gov't handouts. While most of our neighbors in Mississippi were getting an extra $600/week for not working we just plugged along. Now as higher prices hit many have a substantial cushion of cash to soften the blow. At least I can now afford...

Since it seems we are on driving speeds - I grew up in Vermont, where the STATE speed limit WAS 50MPH at least until the early 1970's. Not 55, not 65, not 70. (They also banned car CFC a/c for a while.) So when I started driving in the 1960's I was accustomed to "slow speed" travel. And being...

At $4/kWh I'd probably start burning wood for heating. But with electricity at $0.09584/kWh, and our bills rarely over $100/month (including about $20 of fixed charges) it's not worth the effort.

If it's going to be fixed permanently it will probably be better to go with wired. I use Wyze cameras for occasional backup cameras, a camera, powerbank, and mobile hotspot all fit in a Ziploc bag and its easy to hook up to whatever I want. But if you want reliability run a wired cam.

There's several threads on foam filling. I recently bought a new set of rears for my B7610, mainly due to age. Now I've got "my" Gorilla carts and wheelbarrows getting flats from cheap chinese tires. I and my family have about 6 of the carts, so that's a quantity of about 30 tires, all 13"...

Well as the guy in this thread that gets the green OP hash - It look like Christmas "delivery" (or non delivery) period is here. Wife ordered some stuff to be delivered from Walmart. Was told it would be here Monday, 8 November. We are in a quiet suburb on 1/3 acre lot. Our driveway is...

When I was about 18 I got a summer job as a stableboy at a small private girls camp :) There were 4 of us "boys" and maybe 20 or so horses. We had an ancient 2 ton "farm truck" to haul the manure. One day somebody parked it where we emptied it with a full load in the morning. On a hill in...

You guys have nothing to complain about yet. Have you been following the "hands free" driving trend? GM has "Super cruise" What's it going to be like when a large percentage of the driving population doesn't even keep their hansds on the wheel? /edit - and of course Tesla

That's one thing that I hate. I take insulin. As of this writing it's about $180/vial retail, off the shelf ($10 through my insurance). Years ago I just kept it refrigerated and used as needed. Then that changed, now I've been told repeatedly to throw it out after it's been opened for 30...