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That looks really well designed and built. Thanks for posting the pics.

As others answered, the 40% state estate tax thing is wrong. All the people I know who moved out of CA did so because the greater SF bay area (where I have lived most of my life) got too expensive for them. It's a huge long standing problem and there's little movement on fixing it. Too many...

You need to pick up half the log's weight to drag it with the winch. You can calculate log weight here: Timber and Lumber Calculators at WOODWEB You could use the winch to pull logs to a landing and then drag them off with a log arch. But that's an extra piece of equipment. Some winches come...

Unless it's wilderness area, USFS land is generally open to vehicles and chain saws. Except under red flag conditions when fire danger is very high. Then they might shut down the forest and keep people out. It varies some but personal use firewood permits are usually a nominal fee like...

Yes. I always use the holes in the telescoping stabilizers, not the slots. There must be a use for the play the slots provide but I have not run into it for my uses.

One of our cars has a similar problem. On road trips I give a second fob to my wife so she can get in/out without me.

I have a dumb question: if the rebar is supposed to be in the lower 1/3 of the slab why are the chairs or dobies 2.5-3" high when most slabs for non industrial use are in the 4-5" range?

When I was riding big bore two stroke dirt bikes I learned to gently turn the engine over until it stopped from compression, then give it a healthy kick on the starter. That way you get a full rotation of the crank. The same trick works on saws.

Often the hydraulic pump is driven off the gear train at the front of the engine that also drives the cam. It will be a cylindrical structure that attaches to the back of the front engine cover and lays alongside the engine. There will be two or three hoses attached to it. One will run from the...

Or the diesel caused a lot of pre ignition which damaged the pistons. They make inexpensive bore scopes that can use laptops or phones as displays. Maye you could use one to get a look into a combustion chamber.

The Stihl Elastostart handle also makes pulling a little easier. The D handle may have an Elastostsart insert too, I haven't used one. My small Echo starts extremely easily. I think it has a small passage from the cylinder above the exhaust port into the port to bleed off pressure. Some two...

Yes but there's only 7 million people in washington state where this is being proposed. It's not very clear in the article that it's the state not federal. 17 million gallons spilled annually in washington state sounds like a lot and could well be an exaggeration. The California politicians who...

Grease the front axle center pivot. There may be two grease fittings, one in front and one on the back of the axle. If that turns out to be the source of the squeak then check that its not worn.

I took an idea from others here and built dollies for many of my implements. I can stack them in the barn and move them around by hand to get to the ones behind them.

When I took dendrology (tree taxonomy) in college in the '80s we were told they are all scotch broom. I thought the leafless variety was just growing under different conditions. My wife's gotten super into gardening and native plants and told me a few years ago that they're actually not only...

That looks like a good trick for pulling brush. Better than the spring loaded jaws thing I bought that slips off the brush half the time. That looks like spanish broom. I think it's the worst of the three brooms for flammability but at least it grows slower than the other two. Also isn't that...

1960s vehicles can be pretty beat up and need a lot of work. Many can be hard to find parts for. Compact tractors did not start getting electronic engine controls until 2015 or so. Newer ones are more likely to have useful features like four wheel assist, power steering and hydrostatic...

Then there's a meta-argument about the ban. That can be even more annoying and distuptive than the posts that caused the ban. One large forum I was a member of had a dedicated topic that reported mod actions. You wern't allowed to whinge about mod actions in the rest of the topics and the mod...

Our old fireplace looked similar but did not have outside air, so maybe it was older and not as good. It would make the house colder since it pulled lots of air from inside the house and cold air would leak in to replace it. Not much heat produced either. I stopped using it because it was so...

At my propane price ($2.75/gallon), 1 cord of Madrone hardwood is worth about $900 in propane, taking the efficiencies of my stove and furnace into account. Of course there are multiple costs involved with processing firewood while the propane just shows up on a truck. If you account for all...

Carbon build up on the piston and combustion chamber can increase the compression ratio, making it harder to pull through.

It looks like its a slightly oversize cylinder thats driven into the bore. I have seen that in a few engines. Sometimes its a ball and the case is peened over to lock it in. You could make your own plug and seal it with a small amount of good case sealant like Dirko or Yamabond #4. One concern...

The MF is probably heavy and powerful enough to run a mower larger than 6'. But at least in the USA, mowers get much more expensive above 6'. Rotary cutters will generally cost less than flails, and are probably easier to find used. If you're operating on slopes get the 4 wheel drive. Without...

A lot of prefab fireplaces specifically disallow inserts. Check your manual. You may well have the wrong flue for a modern insert. They need high temp insulated flues. Our prefab disallowed inserts and we had the wrong flue. We replaced it with an EPA zero clearance fireplace which is basically...

We have both directTV and streaming from an apple tv device. I watch mostly weird sports like bicycle and motorcycle racing where some events are only on streaming. There are some real drawbacks to streaming. You probably need to sign up with more than one streaming service to get all the...

Maybe we have been lucky but 6' high woven wire fencing has kept coyotes out of the chicken yard. We added a chicken wire skirt along the bottom and out on the ground because foxes kept digging under the fencing. And added fencing overhead to keep bobcats out. They went in over an electric wire.

The problem is the wind drag if the helmet is tipped up or back or the rider turns their head. And you have to turn your head to check traffic when changing lanes. My neck hurts just looking at that.

Yea it's not a problem that you can shoot your way out of unless you can guard your birds 24/7. There will always be coyotes. You need fencing to keep them out.

Or they are broke, got taken advantage of by the loggers and don't have the ability to do the clean up themselves.

All new tractors sold in the US have to meet tier IV emissions. For engines under 25.5 hp, the requirements are easier to meet and can be done with combustion chamber shape and injection timing with mechanical injection. Engines over 25.5 hp generally need DOC + DPF systems or DOC + EGR. Most...

That's not always true. It depends on where the zero percent financing comes from. If it's from the manufacturer, they may be offering it as an incentive. There may also be a cash incentive, or there may not be. When I was looking to buy about six years ago Kubota was doing that. They had a...

They stopped selling the 25 series (3725 and 4425) after only a few years. They were not all that different from the 20 series, just a few more features. The 3520 (now 3620) was the most different from the 3725 since the 3725 is a 2.1 liter four cylinder and the 3520 is a 1.7 liter three. But...

If the sight glass is at the back of the transmission like many are, make sure the tractor is level when adding fluid. Also if the 3pt is raised there's some fluid in those cylinders. The loader cylinders might hold a gallon or more but since they are double acting rather than the 3pt's single...

I have the open station of the tractor Slim has. It's been fine. Ours are from before Brason added the ability to do a regen. Instead it's a low temp continual regen deal with a lot of catalyst in the DOC. Or something like that, they don't really come out and say it but there have been some...

I did the research for this a while ago and then didn't get around to doing it. I don't think its possible to get a cylinder that's 18" closed and 32" open. I couldn't find one anyhow. But you could get something like (for example) 19.5" closed and 31.5 open. (2x12x1.25 Double-Acting Hydraulic...

I'd use the same pressure as without ballast. I run the rear tires on my tractor at 15 psi.

If you have 120v near the water heater location there are heat pump water heaters that can run off 120v 20a (maybe even 15a) circuits. They're made especially for replacing gas heaters.

I use 50:1 with high quality synthetic oil. Not Red Armor but I'll probably switch to that when I'm done with the stuff I have. The old 20:1 ratios were because the oil was poor. Chainsaws are low power industrial engines. They don't need a lot of oil like a highly tuned motorcycle race engine...

The requirements in CA vary by county but what I've seen in NorCal and southern Oregon for outdoor grown is mostly just tall fencing with opaque panels to block the view. Of course with any lease there will be people coming and going. And the fence still looks like its hiding an industrial...

Being the USA's oldest national park, Yellowstone is also the place where there's been professional wildlife management for the longest. Pretty much everything has been tried there at one time or another. At times there has been a lot of hunting, at other times none. Hunting has always been...

Poland's a pretty different environment than the high country of Colorado or Wyoming. I was working on grizzly bear studies when they were working on introducing wolves to Yellowstone. Since then there's been a lot of good effects on the environment. For example the wolves keep the elk and...

The BH loop connects to the 90 degree fitting that goes into the top of the transmission or the top of the valve block if you have rear remotes. It's actually a 90 degree fitting and a hose end attached to it. You undo the hose end, loosen the 90 and spin it around to point to the rear. The...

There is a Branson kit for the "backhoe loop". It's easy to install. Call Dave's Tractor in Red Bluff CA to order one. Or your dealer. When the BH is not installed, the two ends of the loop connect to each other and make, well, a loop. One end goes into that 90 degree fitting on the top of the...

I think its ok if you keep the bucket bottom just off level rather than curling it all the way down.

They make jackshaft style openers that mount on the wall rather than hanging from the ceiling and getting in the way. Make sure the power outlet is on the wall instead of in the ceiling. You can get the door tracks closer to the ceiling than is typically done- less than a foot. It may require...

Tractors don't dig very well. Tractor loaders are more for scooping up loose material from a pile than digging. The suggestion to use a box blade to dig is a good one. Tractors are a lot better at pulling implements than pushing them. When you're using the loader to scoop up material, drive...

Supertraps don't muffler very well unless you only run a few discs, and then they don't flow well. Mufflers can be small, quiet or efficient. Pick two. Supertraps are small. I'll agree with the folks suggesting hearing protection (and hearing tests for that matter). But you can also improve...

some counties have GIS on line which shows flood maps.

When I'm using my SP100 I hit the trigger for a few seconds before I'm going to weld, then cut the excess wire off and weld. That purges the hose and it doesn't get too much air in it if I don't dawdle. A purge button would be much better. The 100 and 125 were pretty much the same back when I...

Sometimes there can be an air bubble in the cooling system where the temp sensor is. The gauge will stay on cold even when the coolant is hot. Sometimes the cooling system needs to be bled. I'd hope a tractor with a simple cooling system compared to modern cars would be self bleeding, but it's...

I think the risk of another person accidentally operating the joystick (or moving the tractor) is greater than that of a hose suddenly failing. Also many loader valves leak which could let the platform slowly sag down and possibly damage something. I think it's less risky than a ladder. Mine...

The right way to implement a password manager is to encrypt the passwords locally before they are uploaded. If the encryption is strong it won't matter if the server gets hacked. Without the master key the passwords aren't recoverable without spending far more than they're worth. Designing...

Not really. When I'm using a rotary cutter I set the tilt so the cutter is level with the tractor's rear axle so it follows the terrain as I drive. My rotary cutter's hitch allows the cutter to pivot up and down to follow dips and hills as I'm cutting. So the top cylinder position doesn't have...

It sounds like the OP's problem isn't spam, it's that someone has possibly gotten into their email account. That's a bigger problem than spam (which should be mostly taken care of by the mail provider). The attacker may have just compromised the email account password or they may have installed...

The FCC publishes coverage maps for the various 4g networks: Mobile LTE Coverage Map I worked for a cell phone company a while ago. That was in the 3G days and back then Verizon was usually better than ATT and T Mobile in rural and mountain areas in California. With 4G they're using the same...

I've been using Sedona Coyote tires on my Pioneer 700. The 700 has a locked rear axle and goes through rear tires fast when driven on pavement. We use it on pavement a lot more than I thought we would, and I can't get my wife to stop making tight turns on pavement. I got 800 miles out of the...

The tractor's good as an assist for clearing or cleaning up thick brush or heavy forest. The few 3pt forestry mulchers are pretty limited in capacity especially on smaller machines. I use my tractor to power a 3pt wood chipper, operate a grapple and a mower. We have some acres of thick brush...

I think you'll spend a lot more time on that than you would trapping properly, and it won't be very effective. Checking traps once a week is pretty much useless. When I am trapping I check and reset traps at least once and often twice a day. If I do it in the spring before many young are born I...

It sounds like an interesting project. You can remove the DPF and DOC on your own if you're building the exhaust but you'll need some parts to delete the EGR and of course the programming to make the ECU happy about all that. I'm not sure but I think that putting a newish engine in an old...

The EPA fine was only for the engines in the RAM 2500 and 3500 trucks. That would not affect the generator engines. I think generators come under different emissions rules. Certainly the homeowner ones do.

Turbos do a lot to reduce noise. Basically they're taking energy out of the exhaust. The OP should look for a larger non performance car muffler that will fit on his Kubota. Most cars run in the 2000-3000 rpm range most of the time so a car muffler should be tuned to reduce those frequencies...

I have a Woodmaxx 8H. It's been pretty good. Woodland Mills also offers an 8" chipper which is a different design. There are some good points to that design and to the Woodmaxx. Even if you burn anything over 6" an 8" throat would be a minimum. It will let you chip material that isn't straight...

Pretty much. The vast bulk of trading is machine generated. I won't call it ai because it's not all that intelligent. The big traders all have news feeds running straight into their trading engines so they can execute trades on trending news. It's not guys with cigars in back rooms yelling...

Given the size of the fine I expect it was a blatant cheat like VW did, at least for the larger set of 2013-2019 trucks. The smaller set had some sort of undeclared emissions device. I agree that I'd like the details. Maybe it'll come out eventually. It did with VW. They detected when the...

There was a lot of talk about weather control during the cold war. It was going to be the next great weapon. But the US believed the Soviet's propaganda and vice versa, so each side thought the other side was farther advanced than they actually were. And of course there are a lot of incentives...

@repete is right about checking the clutch adjustment while you're there. My dealer did a good job of prepping the tractor but the clutch came adjusted too tight. If it's too tight it won't slip when needed, like when you pull a large rock up out of the ground with the mower. The manual should...

That's a lot of cheating for a very long time. Seems hard to believe that Ram didn't know. I wonder it they'll have to buy back vehicles like VW did? Also since GM and Ford get more power out of their diesel truck engines than Ram does yet they have the same emissions limits, it seems plausible...

If it's like my rotary cutter with a slip clutch, the "bolt" is really a tapered pin that's threaded at one end. The hole it goes in is also tapered, larger on one side than the other. One side has a flat around the hole which is where the nut and washer seat. The pin mates with a groove milled...

The reason why you plumb into the PB port to feed downstream valves is that when those valves are powering something (like a cylinder) the pressure to do the work flows through each valve in sequence. So if your 3rd function valve is closing a grapple, the pressure to do the work comes from the...

If the external PTO shaft is too long it will bottom out when the top link is shortened, and that can damage the bearings on the PTO shaft inside the tractor. The hydraulic top link may be able to go shorter than the turn buckle type, and you're much more likely to do it. So you'll need to check...

Is the pin just below the problem one free to move sideways? If so you could pull that one and drop the leg down, then there'd just be the bracket on the problem pin.

With the outrigger up the only pressure on the pin is from the weight of the outrigger itself, which isn't that much. You should be able to push up and feel it take up the slop in the linkages. Or use a tie down between the two outriggers to pull them together. Maybe with it pulled up you can...

Me too. Gas was going bad long before ethanol or MTBE.

Quick attach forks will put the load's CG closer to the tractor. With the same load on the forks it will be less likely lift the rear wheels. But it will also let you lift heavier loads, so you will need to temper your desire to heft heavy objects or you'll be back to lifting the rear wheels.

If it's unleaded it won't damage anything but it's a waste of money. Your equipment only needs a minimum of 87 octane, or 89 for many Stihl products.

There are federal requirements for a certain amount of ethanol blended into fuel. It's a bulk amount, not a percentage in the fuel. If the bulk amount adds up to say 8% of all the fuel sold, then they can sell E0 as long as 80% of the fuel sold is E10. Those aren't the actual numbers (and...

Seems like that'd make it come to an instant stop. Sounds like a good project with your skills.

Honda's gone backwards then. My 25 year old Honda generator's burned many hundreds of gallons of E10 without issue. The original fuel lines are in good shape.

I tried some disconnect under pressure flat face couplers and it takes so much force to connect that they're unusable, at least by me. I switched to Parker ag connectors which are much easier to use. If you don't tip the female end down after disconnecting you won't loose much oil. I keep a...

Ethanol has less energy per unit volume than gasoline. However the difference between E10 and E0 is small, about 3%. It makes old carbureted and early FI engines run leaner. Often that means they run cleaner as a result. But there's not a lot of them on the road. Making fuel from plants that...

On valves with a tank and a power beyond port the PB port feeds downstream valves. BUT on a valve with just one output, like all the 3rd function solenoid valves I have seen, the single output is called the tank port even though it feeds the downstream valves like the PB port on a normal valve...

I forgot we have foxes too. And mountain lions. We had a hen disappear from inside the fenced chicken pen a few months ago. No feathers or other sign but the other hens were acting nervous so we don't think she got out on her own. Eventually my wife found a few feathers well outside the pen...

We have coyotes, raccoons, bobcats and hawks. All will eat chickens. The wild turkeys here seem to survive ok once they're adults but domestic turkeys don't have the survival skills that the wild ones learn. The only solution we found is fencing. Maybe if you had one coyote and a lot of time to...

Your tractor has an open center system like most CUTs. Each valve, when in neutral position, flows to the next valve in the chain. Right now your loader would be first in the chain and the 3pt second. You can't tee off the pressure line ahead of the loader, because then flow will take the path...

$550 will buy you a nice 3rd function kit.

If your internet reliably has good bandwidth, wifi calling should work. Our local telco Frontier is terrible. They buy systems from other carriers and then don't maintain them. They won't even put downed lines back up. We dropped the land line years ago.

This manual for Prince loader valves shows how the detent springs work: http://www.princehyd.com/Portals/0/valves/LVManual.pdf Page 11 is a center detent. Yours is likely similar. The balls get forced out into a groove in the detent sleeve. If you can feel the center detent when pushing the...

It sounds like the upper spool is for the loader raise/dump circuit. It's not seating in the fully closed position. When the 3pt is raised, especially if there is an implement on it, there is back pressure in the system. That sneaks past the slightly open loader spool and raises the loader. It...

In WWII there were wage and price freezes. But employees were scarce and employers needed a way to attract them. Offering company sponsored health care was one way they could do it. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-the-us-has-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.html...

You're right, I was thinking of Roundup.

Foliar spray Triclopyr works well on poison oak when its growing. The advantage is that it won't kill the grass. 2,4d will kill everything. If your PO is in tall bushes or even short ones you need to rip it out or mow it down first. The best time is in the winter when the leaves are off. The...

Cruising on the highway takes a small amount of power, so the throttle is only cracked a little beyond idle. In that mode, engine internal friction and pumping losses are significant.The engine's more efficient when making full power. Running off the batteries and every once in a while starting...

They make mechanical locking devices that slide upwards on the rope but are always locked in the downwards direction, without waiting for weight on them. You have to manually operate them to move to a lower position. When I was a rock climber long ago we called them "Jumars" but they're called...

Its common for modern hydrostatic transmission CUTs use the hydraulic fluid for the transmission. Mine does. I can't think of one that doesn't but there's probably one somewhere. HSTs need clean fluid but don't need special additives. Some (not in tractors) use 10w-30 motor oil instead of...

Regular hydraulic fluid is missing the additives that make tractor fluid play well with wet brakes and clutches. TractorSupply carries Mobil Delvac which should work fine.

I'd use 1/4" hoses and adapt the tractor end of the hose to the 1/2" quick connect. 1/4 hoses are easier to run and work with, and if the implement cylinders have 1/4" JIC then they won't be impeding the flow. JIC is a lot easier to deal with than NPT, so I try to use JIC everywhere except when...

If you ever get a chance, check out the giant Sequoias in California. They're the largest tree species in the world.

Anything that uses an app is suspect from both a privacy and reliability perspective. Since you can open the gate from anywhere using your smart phone, Mighty Mule is seeing and controlling your gate opener events. Their security is likely not very good (very few companies do this right) and you...

I've been really pleased with my HF Daytona floor jack. And the set of wrenches and sockets I got to leave in the barn for working on the tractor. HF's stepped up the quality of many of their products.

The entire assembly with friction plates, drive plates and baskets for both clutches is just over $2k at Messicks. You should not need all of those parts unless they're really damaged. The friction plates are about $220 each. At a minimum I'd replace those and the throwout bearings. $10k for...

https://summit-hydraulics.com/product-category/hydraulic-kits/third-function-kits/ These look pretty good, and are a good price. The joystick handle is a quality part.

We have a lot of computers and all the usual home equipment. I've been running them all off a 25 year old 5kw Honda generator during our frequent and often extended power outages. I have not had any electronics fail due to the generator's power. However I don't run the well off the generator as...

They do that sometimes. But also, the factory maintenance schedule is for "normal use". The way the factory defines it, most people's actual use is ore like "severe duty". For that the maintenance periods are more frequent and there are often more items. For example the normal schedule may never...

Sweet potatoes need to be cured in order to be sweet. They need to be warm and humid for a period after harvest. If the climate and weather are right that may happen naturally, or you may need to do it artificially.

CUTS usually have the relief valve set to somewhere between 2200 and 2600 psi. It's hard to tell from a picture but the hose end looks a little larger than 1/4". It looks like female JIC but I'd verify by looking into the end for the taper seat. These might help, especially the PDFs...

Ask the dealer what kind of quick connect fittings to use. It's likely 1/2" "AG" (ISO 5675) coupler but there's a number that look about the same from the outside. You will need hydraulic fittings to adapt the hose to the male coupler. Don't use pipe fittings, they are not rated for the...

Sometimes oil that's too slippery will not work right with the synchros. It can be a problem with wet clutches as well. I've had some manual transmission cars that were really particular about the gearbox oil.

It won't "void" the warranty. Look up the Magnuson-Moss act. If you have a problem that can be traced to a mod you made, the manufacturer can not honor the warranty on that. But for an unrelated problem, they have to honor the warranty. Of course dealers or manufacturers may try to make you...

Even if it doesn't work very well and only catches leaks in a few cases, it's profit for the insurance company. They're not paying for the installation. The people I know who have them complain about numbers false positives where it shuts down your water even though there's not a leak.

Some of the leak detection systems don't require an internet connection. You have to look in the manual to find out. They'll have a non-learning mode. Of course it may be less accurate. Some carriers have been requiring these for a few years. With all the cancellations where I am, lots of...

There's a 3725R on Tractorhouse with 285 hours asking $18k. The 4225 is basically the same tractor with the injection pump turned up for 5hp more. I don't know what the price difference was when new but I expect it wasn't huge. I think an H would go for a little more.

2017 Toyota Tundra: 15 2016 VW Golf R: 20.5 Both are long term averages. Living on a mountain has its disadvantages.

If your vehicle has TPMS sensors in the wheels you can get the data via ODB2. I do that on my Toyotas with a third party device (ScanGauge III). It shows tire pressure and temp. I also have the ScanGauge set to display transmission temp, gear, torque converter lock state, speed and engine...

If they just need a rebuild you could have a hydraulic cylinder shop rebuild the JD cylinders. You can adjust the loader valve's relief valve to reduce the peak pressure that goes to the cylinders.

Do Chevy dealers tell owners that the transmissions are "sealed for life" and don't need the fluid changed? I've run into that with other brands. It's technically true- the original fluid will last the life of the transmission. But that may be a significantly shorter life from what it could be...

If you double-nut some nuts on there and leave the outer one slightly proud of the end of the stud, that will protect the threads. But if you're changing them you don't need to care, except if you can't get them off and decide to put the wheel back on with the original studs. I try to not...

They don't need any significant travel. There's no pressure plate being lifted, just pressure being applied. If your springs are sacked, the clutch would slip more readily, not less. But those rusted plates are not going to slip easily. Its probably easier to buy a new clutch than to refurbish...

That's pretty rusty. I'd clean up the clutch surfaces at a minimum. You're supposed to loosen and slip the clutch once a year to ensure that it's working. There should be a spec for the spring length when the nuts are tightened down. I found with my rotary cutter that the spec had it too...

This outfit has been selling electric tractors for a number of years and has prices: The Best Electric Tractor Manufacturers | Electric Tractor vs Diesel Tractor

Getting the polarity reversed on some speakers will have an effect on sound quality. The twin lead cables are easier to run and manage than separate wires. I've always used regular speaker wire, no Monster cable or oxygen-free wire. If your shop has metal siding you may want to run an external...

The only time I have regretted spending on a cat's vet bills was when the cat had to be put down not long afterwards. It wasn't the money that was the issue, it was that all I'd done was prolong the cat's suffering.

We had the toughest outside cat I've ever seen. She had bulging muscles! I've never seen that on a cat. She'd bring home two rabbits at a time and eat them both. We thought that she'd never handle being an indoor only cat. Something grabbed her and she barely made it home. We took her to the...

If it was me there'd be no question of getting the surgery if the cat needs it, especially if I liked the cat as much as you seem to. He plays fetch with you! That's rare. He's only about four years old. That's far from old age. Poor guy's going to be in pain for a lot of his life if it goes...

You need it very little if you don't sign up for any of their services. Apple generally does privacy and security better than other companies but I'm not letting them store my photos for me or back up my phone. The only time I need my apple account is when I'm buying an app off the app store. I...

SBI who owns Osburn is known to have good customer support. My stove was a low priced brand they used to sell but it's internals are the same as an Osburn model. They were pretty good about answering my questions via email.

I find that I get two kinds of deposits: thin brown gunk that cleans off with ashes or window cleaner, and thicker sticky black gunk that does not clean as easily with those two methods. I only get a little of the latter, mostly in the far low corners where the fire brick blocks the radiation to...

Because when you're really sick they withhold treatment. There's another Medicare thread here where a couple guys who sold Advantage plans quit doing so because so many customers came back and begged to go back to traditional Medicare when they got sick. You can't, it's one way. The more I read...

The replacement dipstick looks like it presses in. If that's the picture of course. Also its got quite a serious rubber stopper there. I could see that being hard to remove even when in good condition.

When I was on thinning crew in Arizona we ran bars like the one in the back, but with full guards top and bottom. The trees we were cutting were 8" and under. The bars worked well and were very safe (for chainsaws). With the stinger seated and the chain cutting I could take one hand off the saw...

Is it to bleed air from the block? 3/8 isn't going to flow much coolant. If you're confident it's to bleed air you could either do the bleeding another way like opening the thermostat housing or run it to an appropriate fitting. Like get a tee that goes in the upper hose and has a 3/8 nipple.

VW does that. I think some other German cars do as well. It's kind of a pain when you're mounting a wheel. My Kubota B7100 had a mix of bolts and studs on the front hubs, from the factory.

I recently cut up some tree service wood where the tree service had been instructed to cut into firewood lengths. Someone even marked 16" cuts using lumber crayon. The rounds were still long or short by quite a ways. My 16" rounds aren't perfect but they're way better than this was. I had...

Tractor fluid is hydraulic fluid with additives to make wet clutches and brakes work properly. If you didn't add all that much hydraulic fluid, like a few quarts, it's probably fine. All you've done is diluted the additives a little. If you added gallons, I'd change the fluid.

7.4 cfm @100 psi beats 5.3 @90 any day. It won't matter for the impact wrenches but might for the die grinder. The tank size is just the buffer before the pump starts.

$2500 for bodywork after I hit a deer. I only had liability insurance on that car since it only cost me $2500. But it was a clean one owner low mile first gen Eclipse I'd bought from a friend, and it was a lot of fun to drive.

How did you rule out the battery being bad? The first thing I'd check is the battery voltage.

In addition to all the linkage and suspension parts, rack bushings, etc, worn tires can affect steering.

I usually put it in after I get the full cans home. It's not like castor based two stroke oil which did not want to stay in solution and required a lot of shaking, like oil and vinegar salad dressing. It readily mixes with fuel. You don't even need to shake the can unless you're going to use it...

There might be more than one drain plug though.

The Subaru WRX and WRX Sti are fast affordable small cars. They have been making them for a long time so there are affordable used ones out there for kids to buy. Just like in my generation when kids were buying '67 Malibus or whatever and hot rodding them. There's also the BRZ which while it's...

We found something similar recently when we got pre-qualified for a loan for rural property. A lot of lenders have restrictions on the property size or zoning, like not wanting to make a loan for ag zoned property. Was that Farm Bureau advice for a loan from them, or from lenders who specialize...

You might get better response with this in the Chinese tractors section down in Other Brands. I don't know Jinmas but will try to answer generically. The knob that is often under the seat is the bleed down valve. It controls the rate at which the 3pt hitch lowers when the lever to raise or...

They're changing both pressure and flow in those tables, which makes it look like flow has an effect on torque. But you can find any text book on hydraulics to tell you what affects motor torque.

A lot of insurance companies won't allow wood burning stoves in shops. Vented gas/propane shop heaters cost less than a pellet stove. A lot of people are putting mini splits in their shops. They use way less electricity than resistance heaters and can cool and dehumidify too.

We used a buyers agent to buy a couple houses a few decades ago. It was worth it then and I'd use one now too. The buyer's agent knows the area and the market and can give you a lot of advice. And then they do the negotiating with the seller's realtor for you. The first house we bought the...

I've owned a number of turbo cars, many of them tuned. I change the oil every 5k miles and use good synthetic as recommended by the manufacturer. The oil for my VW is a little more expensive than to the 0w-20 synthetic I run in the Toyota trucks but the trucks take nearly twice the amount of...

When it does move out while the tractor is moving, is the tractor engine rpm higher than when you're try to move the head with the tractor stopped?

This paper is a good summary (with tons of references) on the various damages caused by PM2.5: Recent Insights into Particulate Matter (PM2.5)-Mediated Toxicity in Humans: An Overview

Here's a web page that lays it out: https://www.medicare.gov/basics/get-started-with-medicare/sign-up/when-does-medicare-coverage-start

Dave's Tractor in Red Bluff CA. They even answer emails! They ship parts all the time. Big Tex in Texas. There's a guy who posts in the Branson section here who works there. He's super helpful so I expect the dealership is too.

I'm considering buying property in a place where a lot of the rural properties grow hay. While I grew up in a ranching area where there was a lot of hay grown, my experience is on the consuming end. The farm land in the place I'm looking at usually has irrigation. It looks to me that they...

I've pulled some big poison oak bushes with my grapple. The trick is getting it to grab the stem. A tree puller should do much better there. The drawback is that there's not big jaws to crush the bush down and keep it away from you. If you can get to the stem you can spray it with a mix of 25%...

They're very probably 1/2" ISO 5675 AG couplers. That's the standard for compact tractors these days. Those can come in poppet and ball ends, which are almost always interchangeable.

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Auto throttle is linked to the position of the HST pedal. No pedal, idle. A little pedal, a little throttle, lots of pedal, more throttle. Cruise control locks the HST pedals in place. They're different but both are useful.

I bought an assembled Farmertec 440 clone a couple years ago. It leaked both oil and fuel from assembly errors. Not too hard to fix but frustrating. It runs ok but it's not as nice to run as my Stihl 362 or even my MS460. The 362 has better spring based anti vibe. The 460 is rubber the same as...

Diesels are only "lean" if you think about them like gas engines where the air and fuel are completely mixed. They're not. Think of a diesel idling. It's still getting a full flow of air (no throttle plate) but only tiny squirts of fuel. Only the area right around the injector will have fuel...

In a spark ignition engine the fuel is mixed with air before the compression stroke. Near the end of the compression stroke, the spark plug(s) fire and ignite the mixture. The engine designer's goal is to make the fuel/air ratio the same throughout the combustion chamber at the time of...

They were popular in the '50s and '60s but I can't think of any made now. It's all diesels. Diesel tractors over 25.5 hp mostly use a DOC or DPF but not DEF like diesel pickups and mostly not EGR as well. DEF and EGR are the bulk of diesel pickup problems. Most tier IV tractors emissions...

It's just a cable so I could slip it out of its lever. But I've never wanted to disable it. It's never bothered me and I'm pretty picky about machine controls working right. I wouldn't say that I would not buy another tractor without it, but it's pretty useful. It keeps the revs lower than I...

I got a cheap one that connects to the USB port on a computer. I've used it once, to retrieve a bolt I dropped inside my wood chipper. (I taped it to a coathanger and a mechanic's claw). The advantage besides being cheap is that you get a nice big display. The disadvantage is the risk to the...

This isn't mine, someone sent me the picture.

The mechanical linked throttle on my Branson is really useful. It's not jerky or weird at all. I leave the hand throttle in "idle" and let the auto throttle work when I'm just driving around where it's not too steep. If it's steep or I'm operating an implement I set the hand throttle. The...

I'll second that. They're relatively inexpensive and easy to change. Pick up some caps when you're buying new couplers if you don't already have them. I like the Pioneer 4250 which had a sleeve that unlocks with a pull or a push instead of only pulling it down. That makes connecting the...

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They are but they're made to Stihl's quality standards. Chinese companies can make high quality products but the buyer needs to pick the right company and monitor production to ensure quality is maintained. They can also produce cheaply made products for buyers who want that. Buyer here not...

It does not take much of a temperature change from when the implement was last disconnected to make it difficult to connect. If I take the grapple off and set it in the sun to use the bucket for an hour, the grapple connectors won't want to connect when I put it back on. Hydraulic fluid expands...

You very likely have AG couplers on the tractor. The ones in the pic are shown front on instead of in profile but they are probably AG couplers too. If they're the right size and also AG couplers, try them. They probably work. The ball and poppet types of ISO 5675 are supposed to interoperate...

https://www.discounthydraulichose.com/v/vspfiles/downloadables/qd_sizechart.pdf The ISO 5675 AG couplers come in both ball and poppet types. Mine interchange but some folks here have reported them not working together. Try it and see.

I'd get ones made by a well known company like Pioneer or Safeway (not the grocery chain). Not no name ones. Last time I bought some which was a few years ago TSC had as good prices as anyone.

The cylinder end of the hoses on my BH are JIC-6. I don't know about the valve end- I did not look at the hoses when I had that cover off. I'm guessing its not JIC though there could be adapters. A lot of valves have SAE ports. If it was me I'd get an adapter for the valve port to male JIC and...

The pro saws have much better ports than the open ported 250. That's mostly where the power increase comes from. Open transfer ports are just troughs in the cylinder wall. Real transfer ports have a shape that flows better. The 250 has a pretty good power/weight ratio for a homeowner saw but...

Last time I looked I could find copies in the $400 range. Any idea where there's one for a reasonable price? Activated Radical combustion. It was a way to make cleaner burning two stroke engines. Basically it worked by having an exhaust port valve that could shut down more of the port than is...

Gordon posted those snatch block mods before I bought my winch. They were part of a whole thread or sub-thread about snatch block problems. I took those problems into account when selecting a snatch block for my winch. I ended up with an Igland block which has performed well for me without...

There's a TYM/Branson dealer in Klamath Falls OR about an hour from I-5 in Ashland. There's a Branson dealer in Santa Rosa that advertises a lot of small Bransons. And somewhere in the sierra foothills there's a new TYM dealer I think @ning mentioned in a recent post. There used to be a Branson...

Dish soap (I use Dawn) and water works pretty well to break it up. Agitation and high pressure water helps the soap remove it. It's entirely resistant to all petrochemicals I tried including spray carb cleaner.

Mine does the same thing. Also after pulling up a good size rock out of the ground and bashing it for a while before I could lift the mower, sometimes when I start it the mower vibrates and doesn't stop. I have to stop it making sure its come to a complete stop and try again. I've inspected the...

Or you can put one of these on the end of your winch cable the cable goes in one side of the opening you can barely see on the lower left, loops around inside and comes back out the other side. There's a wedge inside the body that locks the cable in place. It's a reuseable way to terminate a...

A 24" bar (Stihl calls it a 25") is their recommended limit for a 362. It's not all that fast with that bar fully buried in doug fir and would be slower in oak. The oil pump could go a little higher for that length bar as well. There are mods you can make to the pump to increase its output...

@Slowpoke Slim sorry to hear about your health issues, hopefully things get better. I think a little grease on the threads would be ok. The plastic has to be a fuel resistant type so it should be ok with grease. It does seem to get a little sticky on the threads or maybe it's the rubber...

The UTV trailer's hitch fits that ball fine. I think I have a 2" ball for the truck somewhere, I can try that. I didn't even think of that, this is why I ask these here. I got the splitter used and maybe its hitch got bent. I've bought some really well-used trailers before and never had a...

What would be ideal would be to lift the butt of the log with the 3pt but pull from the drawbar.

The hitch on my wood splitter has always been hard to get on and off the ball on my UTV's hitch. I have to stand on the tongue to get the ball to seat and crank up the jack and push down on the frame of the UTV to get it to release. I have checked about 20 times that they're both 2". I've...

Last I looked some TYMs used Kukje and some used another engine. On my Branson the only electronics are a data recorder that monitors the DPF. It will run fine with the data recorder unplugged. They use a low temp continual regen and there's no way to do a normal regen. It's worked fine for...

I have patched bike tires by gluing a piece of donor tire or tube inside the casing but it seems pretty sketchy for a tractor tire. Hit a rock at the right part and that contact cement will rip free. A tube would help but not prevent that. If you do it you will need a piece of donor tire that's...

Oh no. I almost did that with a full rack of race bikes on top, driving a team mates car home after a race. It made me vow to never buy a roof rack. It's just too easy forget they're there. With a rear rack you see the bikes every time you look in the mirrors.

That's a slick idea, thanks. I'll second the top and tilt. That makes box blading a lot easier. The top link is more important than the tilt as it controls how hard the blade bites. The tilt is needed when you want the blade to be at a different angle than the rear axle, like when you're trying...

My Oregon has a really dumb and potentially dangerous design flaw that I think other H/V splitters may share. As the wedge travels back and forth, it will bring some log debris (bark etc) backwards along the beam. That debris then falls off to either side. On one side it lands on the engine...

I already explained why I don't like H/V splitters in vertical mode. It's great that it works for you; it doesn't work for me. Telling me how great it is for you won't change that. People are different. Nearly all the log splitters at the more affordable end of the market are H/V models. So its...

Some people like the horizontal/vertical splitter in vertical mode and some don't. I tried it once and hated it. Working close to the ground you have no leverage with your back and legs so it's all upper body strength. My back and legs are a lot stronger than my upper body. I can lift a pretty...

Make sure the throttle is moving the arm on the injector pump. Have someone move the throttle lever at the operator station while watching the arm on the pump (with the engine off). They are connected by a cable. It might have broken or become detached.

I agree. I was executor for my mom's and my dad's (separate) estates. Both were so small that they fell under their state's no probate limits, which means the executor gets to handle all themselves. Dad's credit union was super helpful and had his account closed within weeks, even though I was...

The other option is to stand on the ground and use a hand t-post puller. They work pretty well for me. It doesn't take much effort.

I was assuming that it popped out of gear but yea a fried clutch could let the tractor run away down a hill. I think it's clutch rather than gearbox since it provides some drive in low gears/low throttle. That's classic slipping clutch behaviour.

Glad no one was hurt! It sounds like a badly slipping clutch. Maybe its out of adjustment because something got damaged. Or maybe it got oil on it.

275 gallon IBC totes hold about 1/3 cord. It's about .38 cord by measuring the volume. 1/3 is close enough given that it depends on how you stack them. That's to the top of the cage. The ones in the 2515r Dude's pic that are higher than the cage are probably 1/2 cord or a little more. My...

I wonder if restrictors might help reduce the weird BH cylinder behaviour?

Do you have an implement to put on the 3pt hitch?

How are you feeding the splitter? It's common for a spool valve to have both a power beyond port, which would then feed the 3pt hitch, and a tank port. And it's also common for those valves to send all the output to the tank port when the valve is moved from the neutral position. So it's...

Yes I'm bringing back an old thread on purpose. Has anyone got more recent experience with renewable diesel? Not bio diesel, they're not the same thing. My local station switched to renewable diesel. Here's a couple articles about it...