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The grass is for looking at after you use MSMA not for animals to eat. https://tvmdl.tamu.edu/case-studies/msma-monosodium-methyl-arsenate-is-not-for-pasture-use/#:~:text=MSMA%20is%20very%20water%20soluble,and%20continues%20to%20be%20ingested.

I broached my hub for the blade and set the keyway. Also gathered the stainless tubing needed to support the ID of the pass through for the gear box. I need to make them for the bolts so they are tight against steel vs crushing tubing. I also came across the right lovejoy couplings for...

I have a forklift mast I wanted to do that with but never have. I did make my last hay spike so it could be used with pallets though. It has a better reach than my fork lifts. Like moving a fridge over the steps up to a deck or setting something into the back of a truck past the tailgate...

One mans junk is another mans treasure. Why not just sell it? Recoup some of your loss and give someone else something to do. You could make more off of it than scrap prices, even if someone just needed a single part off the machine.

Mine do too but they have 3 pedals, the center is brake w/out decouple from trans and the left is an "inching pedal" created just for the situation you describe.

A gopher plow would be much more effective and faster. I made this one that makes a tunnel below ground and drops a thimble sized amount of poison seeds very 3ft at a presst but adjustable depth. The 1" shaft below the hopper has a blind hole in it that rotates when the depth stop wheel is...

Yeah, I have built a lot of stuff many probably couldn't even maintain. If you are having to pay someone to repair something that is much more prone to fail all the time, might as well just pay someone to haul your stuff around. Now a flat bed wrecker has much more proven parts, less prone to...

Reminds me of the old doctor joke. "I told my doctor that I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places." If you really want to find it vs avoid doing it, just douse small areas until you cause failure again, to find the exact location. First thought would be to keep...

I have polished headlights that have done that and got them back and made them better. Looking at them is a lot different than looking through them though. You can curve Lexan polycarbonate as well as Acrylic. If nothing ever contacted the window to break it, tempered glass would still be my...

It is nice but it has many parts that can fail that most other trailers do not. Batteries, switches, air bags, air compressors, hydraulic pump, hydraulic cylinder, gages, even the E track can catch debris that make it more difficult to use unless cleaned out. Simply more to go wrong and stop you.

This one is very easy to load and secure loads. And it's built like an anvil, if they had hundreds of moving parts and relied on batteries. It is easy to use though.

I want that trailer too. As is I have lots of them. Flat, tilt, dump, bumper, gooseneck... The more a trailer does the more that can go wrong with it. Add features is adding things that can fail. It's worth it until something that isn't really needed fails and you have to fix something you...

They won't understand what you want them to do and you won't understand what they want to do.

If nothing else there will be less pounds per square inch imparted into the ground without a full size human. If you can't walk on the ground, it might be sketchy. For that and steep angles, I'd imagine one like this would work best.

Looks like my rectangular tubing might be overkill.

Good questions. I figured with it out front of the attachment point, that far, it would be less hidden from view of the mounting plate (at least at the height I need it for), giving a line of sight from underneath. Would keep it level the same way I stack hay. Most lawn mower manuals say to...

To cut limbs that overhang the roads. Thinking an 18 inch blade should knock out anything my pole saw would without my back having to do the work. A poor mans version of this for lower height cuts, without the hydraulic needs...

... and I ran it for a tank of gas and changed the oil (inspected and), I think it looks like it might run for awhile but I didn't really need it. I have other stuff sitting around like a 1/2" QD plate 3x8.5 box tubing, pillow blocks and drive shaft material to connect to the 10 HP right angle...

I took this video of one the builder was nice enough to invite me over and show me how he made it and set everything up. There are a number of folks who have built them using ardupilot for creating the path. https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/best-gear-for-starting-ardupilot-mower/100684...

I'm curious as to why they put the rear bearing inside the housing?

I prefer a solid plate like in #7 if branches and such are on the "to do" list. More difficult for them to contact the tractor if they have to go through plate steel first.

Most of mine are that way, I have used the hook upside down for some of them and yes pins instead of bolts makes that faster. As long as the latches at the bottom are working it can't come off but some just make another link and leave it on the implement.

These are stronger than the hinges on my FEL's with spikes, will likely out last them too and they are simple. What hinge you might want depends on the rest of the design.

Farming like row crops? Wrong tractor. Moving hay, stabbing from both ends, stacking in barn, mowing around any objects, stump grinding, tilling or any precise work where you move in more than one direction or very slow and controlled, I prefer HST and my left leg really likes it.

Sounds like a disgruntled worker or improperly trained "new guy" vs a design problem. If it was a design issue all of them would be effected.

What would be the specifications for a hydraulic motor that would run something like an 18" saw blade? We used 7.5 hp 3ph motors on them for wood defect saws. They were overkill, Boeing used them to cut aluminum (different blade). In any case, I was thinking about using hydraulics to power...

Vevor does as well and is very cheap. The one I have is holding up well and in use on a stump grinder.

In the old days they were generally square shafts that could be put together wrong. These days, most will only go together one way, being trilobal with one flat. Forcing one to put them together correctly. FWIW the OP could swap his shaft and never have the problem again or just note that...

I guess that was the point of the thread. It is easier than a lot make it seem like.

I was trying to figure out why they seem to cost so much and decided to put my own "kit" together. Looks like the tractor in question has ~8gal/min on the circuit I wanted to tie into so I ordered this solenoid I then set it up on the FEL where I wanted it (and would clear the parts welded...

Sure, if I ever have to replace that one it might be thicker but won't be a deal breaker as it has been years since I made the original there.

I made mine with 1/4" and then bolted a 3/8 one to it. Idea being I just bolt another piece of 3/8 X 2" to the 1/4" as needed.

Power brooms generally range from 60-100 gallons of water to keep dust down by sweeping on concrete and asphalt. At our place you could dump it all in one spot in July and not even get your boots muddy. I have made portable pressure washers using 50 gallon drums. I use a 12 volt intercooler...

Why not get an oil/fuel pressure gauge and put a chuck on it...

Anyone find a better deal than this on one? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097BW22SP?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_25

I've spent my life making things faster and more powerful. Neither of those are great for reliability and thats what I like tractors to be...

I built these out of a box blade, this one works great for moving material and I used an electric trailer jack so I could use it with a fixed draw bar but on the 3pt is much faster. It had a floating rear blade, so it cut a lot better than smooth as a box blade. I used the rear baldw hinge...

I have had a cheaper Seek thermal that plugs into the phone for years now. You can see what tubes in this radiator are clogged at a glance.

I have used a number of cell game cameras to see things and also have used cell phones to remotely control things, using DTMF control boards.

With the offset, I think you are correct. https://betstco.com/product/fh-agl165/

There are 231 cubic inches, 3.8 liters in a gallon (or Grandnational engine). Your 36" is probably OD and you can't count that, you need ID. In any case, you find the volume in cubic inches. And divide that by 231 to get gallons.

I didn't buy it but I sure wish I had built this years before I did. Saves a lot of work.

I've put a lot of trust in kids that I know I can.

I've got photos of lots of kids sitting on things, they are acting like they are operating. That said, I have seen some very young people that operate machines better than people ten times their age. Just being older doesn't always equal better, smarter or safer.

Kind of a problem with lots of stuff that relies on the Sun.

All of them do not but many do and it can be added to others. Most often they are a schrader valve. Open when connected, off when disconnected. Like the valve in your tires. It is most likely on the feed line in the engine bay. Something like this.

I have often used the gas tank in a vehicle to transport fuel. I connect a hose to the fuel pressure test port, put the other end of my hose where I want the fuel, then start the engine. No lifting or extra containers. Just stop soon enough you can make it back to a station for a refill.

If charging overnight does the trick but the charging system of the tractor cannot maintain the charge, it is the problem. If the batteries cannot HOLD a charge, they should be replaced. Tell the people at NAPA to charge it back up and leave it sitting for a day, then test. As you don't leave...

In that case, can I borrow your keys, for a minute... If they could have the money they waste, they wouldn't waste as much; however, they have to dump billions of our dollars places just to get a few million kicked back to them well enough they don't go to jail. Even the IOU's are on us, when...

There are specific gravity tests with water that I use from time to time.

As far as filler, assuming I don't know what the parent material is, I try and remove enough of it from the part (from an unseen location) to use as the filler. Will not only be a material match but color as well.

All of the dollars they spend are our dollars. The inflation we have felt recently is because they just "made up" more dollars we are on the hook for. All while making the one's they let us keep, have less and less value.

I keep trying. If I didn't vote, I wouldn't complain. ;)

I guess just me. Just a way to quantify performance/degradation there of. Kind of like a doctor keeping records over time to track your health vs just saying, "well, your not dead yet, see you next year."

No doubt about it. The electric vehicle was invented over 140 years ago. Motor and battery tech have come a hell of a long way, but its still not good enough for some of our uses. And thats with the .gov throwing billions of dollars at the ideas.

I have one box blade that has a 2" receiver welded into it but I really don't use it much. If I am pulling dirt I generally use just the box part, that I cut the 3 point off of. If I want to smooth it out, I use the 3 point part off that box that I converted into a land plane. I did weld...

To have a successful business you need to make products people want and can use. Thats nice and a noble goal but people don't by goals, they buy a tractor to achieve them.

I'd work on the original wheel myself a break in a thicker section is easier than building up thin. The process I would use would be similar to this repair. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/one-way-to-repair-cast-iron.461671/#post-6435511 No need to have to repair and then modify...

Be sure to post a link to your DIY version or even a place to buy.

A vacuum leak, in itself, can cause high idle. Plug the hose back on and it would be good to go. I'm not one to put kids into questionable vehicles but unless she's going to idle it 160 miles, a small vacuum leak isn't going to matter much but I'd still look for something the tech missed...

I used an 18" wide roll of sheet metal I had to go around the cylinder and line it up with itself to mark a line around it that is square, then a rolled piece of 1/4" aluminum I had as a guide. That is it on the ring I cut off, using a plasma. I used it because my roller will only go 4" wide...

It’s a trailer jack, I modified (the trunnions), it’s designed to be a couple feet behind a truck throwing road debris around, rain or shine. My guess is a long time though, not sure when the last time I adjusted it was. The only reason it’s there is that I originally used it without a 3...

Me either but why wait until things fail, if we could easily see a decline in their performance before failure..when you require it?

Thank you, that is the kind of quantitative information I was looking for. What is the brand and model?

I have a number of older compressors and wished I had wrote down how long they ran, to fill from empty. So I could see how well they were still doing. Thought maybe others had the same thought at some point and numbers could be collected and shared. One is an 80 gal with an SS5 compressor and...

We don't ever have enough snow to plow and if I am working on a road, I go down one side and back on the other side at the same angle.

Squirrel cage fan, under the bench. Blows on you, not your work. That said, now that it's cold as heck, why do I only need to use a rosebud when its in the triple digits?

You don't have to. One can make things as difficult as they like it.

It's too cold in the little shop but after a couple of hours it feels pretty nice near the 4 x 10 cast iron table, with the help of a 150k btu forced air heater blowing under it...

I have one like that, I use a cordless 1/2” impact to adjust it, it stays where I put it.

I was trying to figure out what tool was the handy one but I really need all of them at some point or they wouldn't be there. This time of year, the heater overhead is nice to have. I set it up so it will swing around to heat me at the lathe and mill too. Also have a set of wrenches that...

I find a rotary positioner to be pretty handy for making nice welds around things

This is what I did, find guy close that's bailing hay and strike up a conversation. Keeps me in ag exemption at the house, field maintained and I don't have to add equipment hauling to the list of things to do.

I don't. The thicker the wire, the less problems I have feeding it. If it is too thin for .035, I'd probably TIG it anyway.

I have spent many years working around equipment that could rip you're arm off and beat you with it. Don't become complacent around danger, that's when things get you. It's a good start being paranoid but that can fade quickly.

Looks like this one is going to be a winner. Used it for 3 days on shy of 250 stumps (mostly smaller cedar trees) but did hit a few big oak and elm stumps. This over 2' one was the largest. and 8" below grade. The teeth held up well, so far. in action.

Keeps one from wondering if the bolts are going to be strong enough and brings up a great point. The people that are going to buy a hook welded to a plate and then bolt that on, probably don't know enough about welding to critique.

This one is worth the money...

It was dark by the time I put out hay and attached it to the tractor but I had to try it out anyway. This was #1, before. And after. And less than ideal weather this morning so a decent video will be after Christmas. For now this is all I have. This is how the fire pit turned out...

A lift point.

I spent most of my career building open wheel racecars. They were $11/ea, not a deal breaker but it adds up.

I torqued everything down, bolted on the PTO shaft, loaded it and a box blade I had to repair. Ready for a test run, once I run in the clutch. I hope, would have been nice to have had a tractor here... Keep your fingers crossed. Hmm, seems like I am a little behind on painting projects...

One of the drawbacks of not drawing out plans is you have to measure things at the end and machine to fit. I started out running PVC through all of the components and measured from there. Then machined the shaft for the hub. Froze it so it pressed on a bit easier. The weld photo must...

I wasn’t either, the first one I built, years ago now, was another scrap build that was a side to side swinging one but manual. It works but is a lot of work or I am too old. I built it when I was given this cutting head. Used an old brigs 8hp engine that I threw and electric starter on...

I have seen defective castings but can’t see what failed on the OP’s equipment without a photo or two or half a dozen.

Exact same concept though. There are a number of outifts that make them based on the same concept, not an original idea just the execution and I‘ll admit I wouldn’t build them like this, if I were selling them but I was using as much scrap as I could. I didn’t get too fancy with setting the...

Drill and tap the table top and use a cordless impact for the fasteners. Is vise is better than most for positioning, have another axis to move parts around in...

No I am going to use this with our HST tractor. The idea is the hinge allows the cutter to swing away (actually hold position) if the tractor moves and the cutters can’t cut that fast, then the operator stops advancement and lets the chipping head cut until it’s back vertical. The hinges and...

Looks like Speeco made cylinders for husky, is it this design? If so, $39 on eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/173698137053 $18 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Hydraulic-Splitter-5-0-bore-2-0/dp/B0BCFXXYXK So, yeah, the mark up is ridiculous but it’s a dirty job, not a hard one. Last time I...

No kidding, here you go.

I drilled and tapped the hinges for grease fittings yesterday and made a pretty good push on it today. I used some 1” couplers and a short piece of shafting to align the two hinges for welding. The welded it out and made two gussets out of some of the drop, for the grinder side hinges...

That works until it does’t. Only reason I mentioned it as I did the same thing for my car hauler spare tire, that sees much less debris than my tractors and if it didn’t spend a lot of its life under shelter, it probably would have rusted out by now. No single item can fit through the cracks...

I’d have made the bottom expanded metal so the chain isn’t sitting in mudd/water. The project is well executed, nice job.

I liked this concept, for a small welding table I think the ID of the rings (the brake rotors) needs to be larger and probably welded to the vertical tubes at an angle, so you can go to one side or the other for a greater total angle of adjustment. I’d probably lower the stand height off the...

If it runs and the stuff that is supposed to move on the implements, moves, I would have already done that deal before research could be done an it changes.

Have honey doo’s tonight but did drill and tap the outside hinge brackets and made anti-rotation/retaining tabs and welded them to the 1” shafting that are the hinge.

I think the pillow blocks will go before the 2” cold rolled steel shaft. I will admit to not being a fan of it, why I did press it in first and wait until after welding for final machining. I have lots of over run clutches that have failed over the years but have never had one break at the...

Thank you. I had hoped there might be some interest to keep me going. I have lots of projects that are in limbo, the ones that get finished are the ones that stay in mind. Too easy to get side tracked… I finished out welding the attachment end tonight. Then welded the piviots to the...

If you get wide and go under both sides .O. you can get them. I kind of went the other direction on my last build and put hay spikes in place of the forks, to set round bails into my above ground feeders I have to poke into them higher. But I can still use them for things I would otherwise...

I decided I wanted a little more clearance for the main shaft, it didn’t need to be as tight as I had it. So I tacked the drop back in a little high as used it as my guide. Also cut the last piece I needed from the boiler, bottom of 3 pt frame. I then turned to the hinges, I needed a...

I machine the piviots for the oil light bushings today. They are now ready to weld to the grinder side hinge plates. Also, welded the main shaft. Faced off the back side and center drilled it, so it’s ready for machining and welding on the drive hub.

If it breaks, I have $100 that says it’s not going to be the top link attachment point…

Had it out again the other day, the sand has done a little smoothing over the last decade. Stainless on the drive wheel seems to have worked out too. No sheared bolts but a ‘48 8N isn’t a power house either. If you operate one of these and do snag something, when you back up, you must...

Had Dad stuff to do again but would really like to take it out for a hot lap before next year, so I knocked out another few inches of weld. Not my best work but should be sufficient.

It‘s funny, how many things can cut in line of a ”for fun” project… I did get the main hub machined and drilled and a little welding done. So, there’s a little progress.

10” side to side sounds like he doesn’t have any stabilizers. To control sway. and instead did something like this but used a cylinder vs steel.

I’d probably pick one or the other, unless your end goal is to kill cats…

Yeah, your going to need a wire from a fused 12v source going to the solenoid, a ground wire going to a switch and then the solenoid. I probably wouldn’t waste my time with zip ties, probably cough up another $20 for some of these myself. The FEL probably has QD fitting on it, remove them...

Fair enough but I did not see “made in the USA” in either of the links above. If I can sell <$200 worth of goods for $700 though, I’m in. Not so much if I am buying. That first link doesn’t even include the long (most expensive) hoses. Must be why it’s ”only” $625… FWIW the reason Chinese...

I think I need to sell “kits” myself, looks closer to $200 than $700 to me. Maybe the button is the expensive part…

Thats what a good salesman would say. Even if the original owner had problems with it right out of the gate and got rid of it, so it was someone else’s problem… Average mileage in my State is just over 16k a year or 1300+/month. The guy has the truck for a few weeks and then remembers the...

The valve is threaded into the tank. Righty tighty, lefty loosey… Personally, I would make sure they are empty and without pressure first.

I just don’t throw anything away. So when I need a heavy duty differential screw for a project, I bought a load binder and cut the hooks off, like to adjust the angle on this box. Then they are already sitting there collecting dust when I weld them onto something. And already there when I...

No, it would seem silly to me to buy a hook welded to something that I then have to drill holes and bolt on, when I could just weld the hook to what I want myself and skip the other work.

I am not much of a gambler but I will make a bet. I bet others would be willing to take a gamble and offer more money for one than I would. If it was an old tractor, before they relied so heavily on electronics it would be one thing, a new tractor today. That’s very risky since those are...

Might have seen some of their work…

Added a vent as well as a little more strength to the frame.

I have an older paslode pneumatic framing nailer and one of their cordless ones that works just as good. They use a battery for ignition but a fuel for combustion. They don’t have an infinite shelf life though. I got a smoking deal on it from Craigslist because the previous owner didn’t know...

Side tracked a bit but made it back for a little progress. Getting the 3 point mid plate together.

I decided I needed a way to flush rocks away from stumps I needed gone, had a gas powered pressure washer, old drum and a GM intercooler water pump. The frame is 1.5 angle, notched and bent from 1/8. Same for the bearing mounts and battery holder. Transfer screws make it easy to have...

Not just throttle down. It you push in the clutch, to stop power and don’t have an over run clutch, the momentum of everything spinning will power the tractor back through the PTO. As I said earlier, one can buy over run clutches that convert from one shaft to another. The female is one...

A bolt and nut adjusted to your liking.

Tilling next to a fence and starting fires, wire beating around inside a bunch of spinning steel, causes sparks…

If it’s something with enough inertia to “drive” the tractor after you depress the clutch, I would agree; However, not all implements will do so and there are a number of stationary PTO uses as well. For them, they are not required. One can also go from one size shaft to another via the over...

This is how mine is as well. They already knew how to make automatic tensioners by then but figured it might remind people there are grease zerks in there too. As it would happen, snugging the belt is a lot easier than changing a bearing.

I like it, my axle came off an old paint vat, trailing arms were off a foxbody and I used a load binder so I could set an angle if I wanted to.

I have had the same thought, making it a land plane that can capture some amount of dirt. Then I came across a Craigslist box blade for cheap that had a hinged rear blade so it was a great “cutter” but not as good at smoothing since one couldn’t ride on the rear fixed blade, it would just swing...

Are you going to have a hinged rear blade or is it going to be fixed? Are you wanting to dig or scrape level?

I see where you were coming from now, the shade part isn’t metal, just the frame. The cover is a “drop“ of high impact plastic I had left over from a gas powered rotary broom project. Metal will get hot in sun for sure, in the summer my smokers read 150 F Before you start the fire.

Thanks, unfortunately it’s too late for my hearing. In the first photo, you can see the worktunes ear muffs I always wear, that I hang on the steering wheel after I turn it off and just behind the seat, the backup pair I keep on it, if someone has snatched my primaries. Wish I had started that...

I then attached the top to the frame with pan head rivets. I had an LED light I took off of something that I decided to used, I tied into one of the tail light wires for power and added another switch so I didn’t have to have it on if I didn’t need it.

I did this one a little bit different than others and it’s the easiest one I have to put on that can withstand a little running into branches. I started with a hunk of 1x3 box tube and made some 1/2-13 threaded inserts that I welded into it, then drilled out a 1/2” bolt to use as a drill...

Remember it when you vote….

Yeah, once you destroy a rim or two, antifreeze will make more sense to you. I actually use “old“ antifreeze from a local shop that keeps it separate from oil and transmission fluid because they can’t get them picked up if there is antifreeze mixed with them.

I haven’t messed with a Kubota cylinder but I have drilled and tapped lots of holes down the center of Thompson shafting (hardened 60-65C on the outside), it’s the outside thats hard, the center is softer, thats why you see more bent rods than ones that break in two, like they would be if fully...

Thats kind of the nature of the beast. If you add stuff, it can fail. Don’t get me wrong I’d rather take a trip in my 2023 F350 than my 1923 Model T but there is a LOT more to go wrong on the F350. I would be astonished (and very dead) if it’s still running 100 years from now, the T wouldn’t...

Cut the other mid plate mount and a couple of gussets today. Can see the ”from the back of the tractor” view of the hinge in the last photo. Will be two pins, as a finished produc, just easier than a fixture to align them with 1 piece of barstock.

Thank you, Don. I was finally going to use a fancy cutter….and it was smoked…so I used the lowly hole saw. Yeah, 1” of steel takes the better part of a beer. This is the main hinge that allows the grinding head to piviot away from the stump, if feed is too aggressive, so one can stop...

Have the generator running like a top now and decided I needed to borrow a part from the kids seesaw, bolted on a couple hanging door skates and it seems pretty decent way to balance the grinding wheel when I’m done with it.

I have had several sets of mighty mule ones, they are pretty crummy but will work for a few years before they bite the dust. Liftmasters are a lot better and is reflected in their prose as well.

You are HF’s target market. :)

How about making pickups so tall you can‘t reach over the bed and get anything out of it, then put a ladder in the bed so you can get in there but be sure to make it so light weight a soccer mom won’t break a finger nail but your butt will dent it if you sit on it.., Yeah, I could probably deal...

My wife got one I drive more than she does, V6, beats the 2011 3.8L Jeep I had in almost every way. I’d take the Jeeps ability to not get filthy (has a lot to do with color) and the Windshield wipers were better on the Jeep. Not much else is even close. Its the best soft top I’ve been it...

That’s a horizontal saw like this one. Not a vertical one. Once you get one of the horizontal ones cutting right, you don’t want to mess with them again, so they become dedicated. Then again, if you’re not building stuff, you don’t need much, I guess…

This is the 4th one I’ve put together and they are all slightly different but are based on some 1/4” tank feet that cracked on the edges when bent, used for the table. A ziptie holds the trigger down and I use a foot ”on/off” switch on them in most cases, clamped to the table on the right on...

I managed to make a little headway, have my non perpendicular blade mounts all ready to go. Cut a couple of 3 x 1/4 box tube sections that will have telescoping feet for storage. The remaining section of boiler plate was too far off of the main frame arch for me to have hopes of getting...

Not much today, cut and drilled 10 more parts, laid out another, I might be able to knock out tomorrow.

That’s pretty much how I have acquired my equipment, the job buys it, I keep it. I have sharpened my annular cutters by hand but I don’t work them very hard, just didn’t have one that size. I have a slip roll that I made I have used up to 2” box tubing but it’s only 4” wide, this is it...

The mag drill is a “vintage” Milwaukee. Personal projects come from, opportunity and free resources or else I would buy it. It would be Interesting to know what alloy the, Boiler plate is. It was certainly tought getting into place.

If I gamble it’s generally with very small denominations of money. If I make a substantial bet the odds are going to be in my favor by good margin. With all of the electronics in things these days, I’d pass unless they are giving them away.

I drilled the front and back plates for the pillow blocks, starting with a center punch to locate the holes. Then center drill at the punch location. Next drill the pilot hole. Then finish drill. Reset pillow block with shank of 5/8 bolt and repeat, like the first photo, showing the...

If the handle was obstructed when normally positioned and you don’t have a porta power, and the pump handle had clearance if you inverted it, that would be one reason.

I did look at them, they seem more at home on a “swinging” design, going back and forth across the top of a stump. The one I am building is intended to be lowered on the back side of the stump and pulled through.

Every time I get rolling on a project something get in my way… I get a call from a fellow that was trying to sell me a generator but it wasn’t in running condition, I told him I couldn’t offer anything for something I was unsure if worked, a couple months later he tells me to just come get it...

Strap the base down if it’s not on forks!

I cut the hub for the grinding wheel, it’s amazing what one can do with a regular hand torch, if it can be guided steady. 1 1/2” plate. I turned it “perfect” but it’s nice starting with something less jagged than my hands give me. Went ahead and drilled it out close to “finish” size while...

They have the same stuff in them, just a small fraction of it. You can still use them with a rosebud, just not as long. It also costs more to fill them, as far as content per dollar goes. The date will be stamped into the tank, often a number of them as they are restamped with a new date when...

I have been gathering up stuff for awhile and finally got started. The shield is the steam dome off a boiler, my Father cut up in the ‘80’s, (think I’m going to build a firepit with the rest of it) some drop 1/2” plate from a roller project, the clutched drive shaft came from vevor $100 and 34...

I know a lot of guys have them moved with a flatbed wrecker. Its a lot cheaper to just rent one of these, roll it on, then lift it up. https://www.unitedrentals.com/marketplace/equipment/trucks-trailers/trailers/hydraulic-ground-level-equipment-trailer-6-ft-14-ft-single-axle

That would depend entirely what I intended to use it for. A box blade and pallet forks are handy but if you need to bale hay, not so much. What are you going to use it for? That drives what you need. Kind of like #2 suggested a snow blade, might be the most used implement where he lives but...

The one I have also has a mode selection where it will automatically shift between “Rabbit/turtle” and you don’t have to do a thing, encounter more load and it “down shifts” when it goes away, it shifts back up. That said, I learned to drive an 8N when I was 11. New operators are almost always...

Probably because total weight you are dragging doesn’t matter much unless you need to stop it from shoving you into something. Tongue weight could be a concern at some point but even that can be eliminated… You might like this one. FWIW 1 full rail car can have a 285,000+Lbs gross weight...

It’s not hard work but it is work. Worst one I ever messed with had an odd size proprietary bearing/seal they wouldn’t sell. I ended up opening up the bore for them .015 to fit an off the shelf part. I guess that’s a diy too but you would have to have more than the usual tools at home.

A bit more expensive these days but looks like about $250 today, for the parts I used. I bought a 1/2” thick QD “blank”...

I made this little drag out of 6 catwalk steps, throw the chain over the ball on a 4 wheeler and send the kids out to find them. It works better than the harrows I have.

I am not sure why but our ‘48 front mount distributor seems like the tractor that always needs the most attention to the points. Generally just knock the oxidation off and they are good but it’s a PITA to get to them. Years ago my Father showed me this trick and it’s worth knowing. The...

If a slow death to vermin is too hard to swallow, how about something quick? http://rodenator.eu/

If you want To stop the dirt piles you need to kill the animals that are piling them up. They also bring rocks to the surface here so mowers can throw them and bust out windows. I built this implement that creates a tunnel under ground for them and drops a thimble full of poisoned seeds every...

The 3m Worktunes work great in any number of places for reducing ambient noise and let me listen to anything I can on my phone. There‘s not a lot on radio for me these days…...

The one I posted a photo of failed, that’s how I got it for free. It was ran hard, everyday at a shop for a decade or so with almost zero maintenance, the tank probably would have been ruined but there was one guy that would drain it every day. The rebuild kit cost me $157 and I have been using...

Yeah around 6 years ago I installed one for a friend on a 20ft board on board rolling gate. I didn’t think it would work from the start (all the rolling gate openers I had messed with before were well over $1000 and built more robustly) but it impressed be enough to try a couple myself.

Yes these are the ones I use most these days. Bluetooth so you can get alerts or calls as normal and listen to whatever you like or just the equipment at levels that will cause less damage...

Ear muffs. It was too late for me by the time I learned to not get on a tractor without them.

Sorry for your loss. Unless you have to, I probably wouldn’t get rid of any of his stuff until you know you and family are for sure, not interested in any of it. I’d probably see if any of his friends would be interested in one just to bring up memory’s of him from time to time. That would be...

I have several but the Zero blast n peen and my pressurized blaster I use the most always worked best with the 40hp screw compressor in our last building. The QT-5 is only 17.7 CFM @ 90 psi, lots of blasters consume more air than that. It’s probably less annoying to have one that doesn’t use...

I do run a sand blasting cabinet with mine, I actually run 3 compressors (Quincy, IR and CH, 280 gal total tank capacity) for large projects. The IR is the one I use the most because it was free and works well after the rebuild. I did tie into the pressure switch, on one leg and put a 110v...

Here is an 80 gal 2 stage for less than that 60 gal single. https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/ingersoll-rand-80-gallon-5-hp-reciprocating-air-compressor

Hydraulic seals and piston cups go bad. It’s common enough many businesses exist that rebuild them. It’s not rocket science to rebuild them though This is the seals to rebuild the lift arms; https://tractorparts4less.com/seal-kit-hydraulic-lift-cylinder-kl401-kl451-kl551-p-n-m7530-41271/...

Oh, they’ve been in use for a couple years now, installed them before the insulation was blown in. The openers have torque sensing too, so if your gate rolled into something in the driveway they reverse. For the roll up doors, the most sensitive setting is where I keep them. More force would...

I’m not really sure why but roll up door openers seem to bring a premium while rolling gate openers can be found fairly cheap. So I picked one up a few years ago to see if I could make it work on my roll up doors. These are the style I have but they don’t have the vevor name on them but were a...

For low quantity bracket needs and such I made this many years ago and it has certainly been worth the investment in time. Figure out what shape you need. Make a template out of something, wood in this case. Fire up the torch and cut it out. Very little clean up needed, no grinding...

Only to the people that didn’t understand what they were doing in the first place. Just conformation for the rest of us. My wife’s Uncle was involved in shipping all of their castings to China. it’s only funny until it sets in…

Only if you accidentally went there or slipped and fell. If you went there on purpose and it blew, it would just be a natural disaster. Not an accident.

I would go as far as saying every accident involving a human, could be traced back to human error.

I am too far myself but really want to see some photos of it.

I make mine so I can square not just the frame but the legs too.

I always heard it as, “Locks keep honest people out.”

This would do it with flow to spare...

I like AC and heat until I have to maintain or repair the systems. I still think I should make lexan windows for common tractors. Around here broken windows cutting hay is ridiculously common.

If it’s Federal, they ignore the rules down south where we only see snow plows on TV. In the city it’s common to see mail boxes that are much more solid that a typical 4x4 wood post.

Land planes seem to be more rare around here and I never could find a good deal on one but did find a Howse box blade for $350. I cut the 3 point attachment and rippers off the box and mounted the blades on 6x6x.375 angle iron. Mounted to side plates with slotted holes punched in it for...

First thought ^

I use water and antifreeze, my Father and Grandfather didn’t and have either had to repair rims or replace them altogether because what they used cause major rusting of the wheel when the tube is punctured. Generally the worst around the valve stem. I’d rather run around dry and add weights...

I hope it does. I was just giving you my observations over decades of using both MIG and TIG on aluminum.

Have you taken a look at Hobart information in the machine. Their window on thickness they are capable of welding is only between .048 and .250” (At 100% wire speed). Why I asked about renting. It probably won’t take the OP very long to realize the limits of the machine and MIG/aluminum...

Is there no one in your area that rents tanks out, or do they all have to be owner tanks?

I really only use a MIG for Aluminum for production. Small jobs are almost always easier with the much more versatile TIG. With a TIG, you can sit there adding heat without material until the part is where it needs to be. Being new to welding aluminum and starting with a MIG, seems like the...

How about you look for a used TIG welder and see if you can get a tank or two with it. Not only will you have argon but you will have a much better machine for your aluminum projects as well.

I have switched a tilt style, scissor lift trailer over to an actual hydraulic dump but the GVW didn’t change, so there was nothing to change on the title.

What are you going to do with it? If you are going to cut it up and have a bit of drop left over, I have found that often I can have the parts water jet or laser cut locally for less than anyone local will sell me just one sheet for. They purchase at much better prices than I get and the drop...