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It’s almost a ditch already. Why not pull the pipe, grade a ditch and line it with rock or concrete? If you redo the culvert then the next gully washer has the potential to undo all your effort. Or maybe you can just grade a swale and plant grass. It looks like that’s pretty much what you have...

And… bonus points, you won’t be on the news for killing a family member who you forgot was coming home late and was struggling with the door and accidentally broke the door glass.

I keep my tools in bags. I have different bags for different tasks, so I’m not digging through tools I don’t need. It means I have a lot of redundant tools but I like that. I keep the bags on the floor behind my seat and it’s easy to throw one in the UTV or hand carry it to wherever I need it. I...

That’s just not a problem at all if you know how to finish drywall.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone Only darkness every day Ain't no sunshine when she's gone And this house just ain't no home Anytime she goes away

The most reliable tractors are the ones with owners who don’t abuse them. I’ve seen enough “hold my beer” tractor videos to convince me to never buy a used tractor.

This is what you need and that your tractor can handle. My tractor has 25hp at the PTO and after using this a lot for the last 12 months I wouldn’t put anything larger on my tractor. It will eat 4 inch pine and cedar all day long and 2 to 3 inch hardwoods. It doesn’t have a power feed and I’ve...

I have used them to level portable buildings and to jack them up to get rollers under them, and to lift sagging decks. Also useful for pulling fence posts. Where people get into trouble is not putting a solid footing under them, concrete blocks or a 4x6. I would never use one on anything that rolls.

Yep. They can knock your darn head off, break your arm, or even end you.

I don’t see anything in there that restricts anything in GA except selling at flea markets and swap meets. It even says there are no cases in Georgia.

Yep. Brought my Kubota back from service several years ago, parked it, and the next morning all the hydro fluid was on the ground under the tractor. New lines were only hand fitted at the service shop and they forgot to tighten them. I don’t go back to that dealer for anything. They said “you...

Oh yes!! Anything short of that and you get a tractor in the cab with you in an emergency braking condition or collision. Straps stretch and/or break. Anything over a certain weight and you’re supposed to have four separate chains. Whatever that weight is, I only remember that I’m under that. I...

Oh, yeah. That is bizarre.

The only nice metal pole barns with concrete floors around here are owned by weekenders. The real farmers keep their tractors in ancient tractor sheds with natural cedar posts and dirt floors, and probably as many just sit out in the yard.

Marvel Mystery Oil works like well... a miracle. I've used it both in fuel systems and in engine oil. Had a 'classic' car that had a gummed up lifter, put a quart or two in and ran it until it stopped ticking and changed the oil. Sometimes it takes a 50/50 mix to clean the gunk from the oil...

Why?

Yeah, throw that stuff away. What ever it is, it probably cost less than the barn you built to put it in. 😉 Not only do you have to pay for the barn, you have to pay property taxes, you have to pay insurance, you have to fix the leaks that will come, or paint something. The one thing I value...

Consumables (oil, fluids, lightbulbs, etc) are insanely expensive at Kubota dealers.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Guessing blind, I'd say they're part of the filter bypass.

About as often as I check the oil in my truck. Neither of them leak or burn oil, so almost never. I check the bar oil in my chainsaw something like 8 times a day (when I'm using it.) I'm compulsive about it. I always want to run out of gas before bar oil.

Good used mowers are rare as hens teeth. As a general rule nobody sells a ‘good’ used mower, they keep using it.

You’re missing the point. People who don’t owe money and have a pile of cash in the bank aren’t selling in a downturn, they are buying up the properties of the people who have mortgages that they can no longer pay. People who pay cash can wait to sell when markets are up. I used to work for an...

Agreed. Never own what you can rent. Professional contractors and home builders don’t own occasional use, expensive equipment, they rent.

Yep. Once you get a garden in good shape there is no need to till more than a little bit. I put clover on the garden in the fall and then till that under a few inches in spring. I do that with a rear-tine walk behind tiller that cost me $700 at Home Depot. The worst thing you can do to the soil...

Vinyl is the most “conservative” option and probably the easiest to put on. Unless your current siding is a total loss it can go on over it. I personally would not want anything that is going to require painting in the future.

When the recession happens, anything that is optional/recreational will drop prices dramatically. I’ve lived through enough of these cycles. If you sit on cash and have it to spend in a recession you can get insane bargains on things like boats, lake homes, classic cars, etc. If anyone tells you...

Having lived through the 70s recession, 80s recession, dot com crash and 2008 housing bubble, my feeling is that anything you buy today, you will be able to buy cheaper when the inevitable recession hits, and it’s going to be doozy. This country is leveraged to the eyeballs.

Some people like working on the drive. I don’t. Our drive was a muddy mess when we bought. I added gravel every summer for several years. It’s very thick now. My thinking is that the cost of gravel spread over a period of years is worth it to have a good solid drive. My drive rises 100 feet in...

YOUR chances, not, any random person's chances. I am assuming A: that you have a tractor and B: that you are not a gang member in Chicago, Detroit, or LA

You are FAR more likely to be killed in a tractor accident, like by a factor of 1000. So I’m sure you wear your seatbelt every second that you’re in the seat, keep the ROPS up at all times, and train every weekend for how you will react in the event of a rollover. 😆

I was in exactly the situation you are now 14 years ago. There’s very few places on my property where it wouldn’t be easy to roll a tractor. A sub compact tractor is going to be more stable than a compact on the side of a hill. There’s all kinds of places I can go with my lawn tractor where my...

Smart man. All these “experts” aren’t going to do the prison time with you if you kill somebody.

Ah yes, the mythical “crazed and unstoppable” intruder, that’s “jacked up on PCP” and can’t be stopped unless he’s hit center mass with 6 rounds. Too many people think they’re going to be the hero in a Steven Segal movie. Most crimes in progress that are stopped by a firearm are stopped without...

The best firearm for personal protection is the one you have with you at the time. All of the finer points become moot in that moment.

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Interesting. I can control the fall rate with the lever next to my seat and drop or raise the attachment in quarter inch increments so I guess I would only need it to lock the position. Thanks!

I spent several weekends trying to solve this problem on my Honda Generator after I let it sit one winter without starting. Rebuilt it, cleaned everything, even tried SeaFoam. I would get it to run OK for a little while then the problem came right back. I gave up and ordered a new carb. Took...

Now that you mention it, what is the flow valve for? I’ve never touched it except playing around and then putting back at the default setting.

I’ve needed an excavator maybe 4 times in the last 14 years and I either rent or hire it done. I don’t want to tie money up in stuff that won’t be used a lot, and to be honest, usually I need a bigger bucket than I could afford to buy.

I have encountered exactly that. It turned out to be twigs and grass that got loged between the frame and the shutoff switch connected to the PTO engagement lever right where the wires connect. EVERYTHING was dead, like there wasn’t even a battery connected. Cleaned it out and she started right up.

It’s so easy to spend other people’s money. 😉 A Kubota B series is plenty. I maintain 52 acres of very hilly, heavily wooded ground and 1400 feet of steep driveway with a 33 HP Kubota. Outsource any major earth moving. A compact tractor is not a dozer or an excavator.

I leave it alone. Grease is never bad to have on and around moving parts that are put under a load. It’s keeping water and dirt away from the fitting when I’m out in the field. I wipe it off with a shop rag before re-greasing but that’s it. Have you ever seen a rusty zerk? Not on anything I...

Two words: electric chainsaw. No gasoline so it can be carried in the “trunk” of my UTV. Got tired of finding the path blocked and having to go back to the barn. I can cut up a pretty large tree on one charge and I carry a spare battery, but I’ve never needed it.

Extremely likely. How will you pull it out. My UTV can pull my tractor. Guess how I know that and how useful that's been. Wait until you mangle a hydro line 500 feet into the trees.

It's only 40 acres and mostly wooded. Smaller is better when you're working in the woods. You can do an amazing amount of work with a 25 or 30 HP tractor. A tractor that couldn't fit between the trees wouldn't work for me. Save your money for a wood chipper, stump grinder, etc.

I'm sure that I over grease. I grease PTO shaft joints every day that I use them, the loader joints every day that I use the loader. Better too much than too little. I like to see keep pushing in fresh grease and pushing out any water or grit. Grease is cheap. A flexible hose is essential from...

I've never had a pothole problem, just washouts which are running downhill if there's a "gully washer" rain, and I can just drag the gravel back in place. Do you have a solid base of #2 under the road pack? Road pack (or dense grade) by itself will not hold up when the ground turns to peanut butter.

It could be a bump stock or just somebody quick on the trigger. In any case, with current ammo prices, they are burning through a lot of cash.

If only there were some solution to all these supply chain issues. ;) If only there were some way to actually make things in the USA. Yeah, I know, crazy talk.

Yeah, you would more likely overheat the engine before the hydro, which is why the manufacturer provides a gauge for engine temp. As you said, the entire case is acting as a heat sync and there should be hydro cooler coil in the fan stack as well.

Springtime in Kentucky

That’s a great backstop! 👍 But I wouldn’t want to live next to anyone who shoots more than occasionally. I like quiet and undisturbed wildlife.

In the real world, a 100 foot Chinese made extension cord plugged into a made in Mexico GFCI outlet is going to be prone to tripping. You personal experience with one setup is not conclusive. For safety you might want to consider running a permenant circuit to where you park your RV rather than...

No, you’re wrong. The fault circuit will think there’s current bleed and trip if an extension cord is too long. 100 feet is too long.

Are you shooting where you can be seen from the road or from their house? Are you pointing your firearms in the direction of their property? Are you within 100 feet of the property line? All of those things would make a reasonable person uncomfortable and so I don’t do them. While I do enjoy...

Every d***n time someone dies around here the heirs turn the property over to an auction house that promptly divides it into 5 acre lots. I get it, that’s the way to get absolute top dollar for a piece of land, but it sure is sad seeing 100 acre farms turned into 20 small plots and sold to 20...

No matter how you pronounce it, it's going to take longer and cost more than you thought it would. That applies in all regions, regardless of dialect.

My first rotary cutter would shake bolts loose (while cutting) no matter how tight, lock nuts, nothing helped, so I carried extras and wrenches and stopped to tighten everything up every hour or so. And if it didn't shake them loose it would just eat them up until they broke. The new one...

⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ This! Keep spares on the tractor.

I've had my tractor for 11 years and I haven't had to "work on it" very much and when I do a basic socket set and a few box wrenches seems to get it done. Now attachments is a different story, all manner of knuckle busting tools come into play.

Yep. I had a lawn tractor that didn't even even have a throttle control, just start and run positions.

I had a 1949 Ford Sedan. The ignition key was optional. It had little wings and you could leave it in the unlocked position and never use the key.

This is the only gas can that I don't hate. Unfortunately they cost a hundred dollars so I have one for gasoline and one in yellow for diesel and all my others are plastic junk with terrible spouts.

40 psi? You must be a city slicker. ;) I get 25 psi on the first floor, less upstairs. I can't find a plumber who even knows how to install a pressure booster. At some point I'll have to do it myself. Having had a travel trailer here before the house, I even thought about just putting in a poly...

Operating an excavator safely and effectively takes a LOT of skill. I just paid a guy for two and a half days excavator work and he got an amazing amount of work done. Assuming I didn't roll it over, it would have taken me a month to do a terrible job of it. Also, when you have to get it out of...

As soon as that started, I’d go back to the house and wait for dry weather. It’s taken me too long to get grass and gravel holding everywhere to tear it up like that.

How does it “tell” you? The hydro starts to whine? The engine bogs down? I know what my tractor can do and I don’t try to do more than that.

The closest configuration they have to my 11 year old tractor, MSRP is almost exactly twice what I paid. And unlike 11 years ago I don’t think anyone is offering anything for less than MSRP. On a broader note, if I tried to put together the property, buildings and equipment today, that I have...

I don’t think there’s any more storms than in the past, just more information. We didn’t have the internet, weather channel and 24 hour news. I remember a summer when it rained every Saturday and Sunday from May to July. I remember a heavy snow in April. I remember an entire month of record...

You will not burn much more fuel at 2500 RPM than you will at 1500 RPM given the same load. At low RPMs you’re starving your hydraulic pump and putting excess strain on the entire system. You control tractor speed with the L/M/H range selector and the pedals, not with engine speed.

I don't get it. If I wanted 4 50 lb bags of grass seed I would walk into Tractor Supply or Rural King or Lowes and buy them. I did buy 2 recently (they're insanely expensive this year). Are you buying grass that's uncommon for your area?

It’s a fundamental part of property law in the United States, there’s no question that it “would stand up in court.”

I don't think our quarry has ever allowed retail customers to pick up. DOT registered carriers only.

Gravel is a lot cheaper here. Two quarries within a half hour. Because it's cheap I put it on heavy enough that I can pull excess into any ruts. I also don't lose much anymore but it took a lot of gravel to build it to the point that it holds.

I just have it delivered and the driver spreads it. The delivery fee is less than my time is worth. I had 30 tons delivered last year and I think the delivery fee was like 80 bucks.

The pointy being that lithium batteries hold their charge on the shelf for a very long time, months or years depending on the specific type.

That's what dealers are for.

You’re in the wrong place. You need to talk to the groundskeeper at a golf course.

Resist the temptation to clean it off. All that grease keeps sand, dirt and rain out of the bearing surface.

My Kubota tractor is 11 years old and it looks like a tractor that’s seen some things that it doesn’t want to talk about. 😉 It’s like a Timex watch, it takes a lick’n and keeps on tick’n.

With a flail mower you use different flails for different cut. Hammers for bush-hogging or blades for finish cut.

If it’s really just a 12 volt system as some have said then replace them with a single 12 volt lithium car battery and it should hold charge between uses.

I've seen fields with soybeans or corn surrounded on all sides by urban development in large cities. I know around here residential and commercial property tax rates are a lot higher than farmland so I assume that keeping real estate active farmland keeps the agriculture zoning and lower tax...

Years ago I had some property accessed from a shared private road and only two of us paid for all the upkeep. Went back there last year and the "road" isn't much more than a mud trail full of potholes now. Glad I sold it.

Yes! Trying to hand load the bucket with the engine running is not doable with my Kubota. The exhaust blows right on the back of the bucket and chokes you out.

US legal code. This is pretty basic. Have you never seen a deed with covenants? Sue them.

My mail-carriers love Amazon. It has revitalized the rural post offices. We have more carriers making more money than ever, and getting nice new trucks to drive.I don’t “hate my mail carrier” enough to see him in-employed with a bankrupt pension. Where do you think “small business” gets the...

If you order from Amazon with any frequency then Prime is absolutely worth the cost. 90% of my Amazon orders are delivered by the mailman and they almost always come in 1, 2 or 3 days. I routinely place orders of $5 to $15 that come the next day with free shipping. This is mostly stuff that they...

Eventually you’ll get taxed out. the PVA will raise your valuation to match your hold out price, Which will be hard to argue with because that’s what you say it’s worth.

You can renovate clay soil by tilling in Sphagnum peat moss that comes in those compressed square bales. I put one for every square yard and till it deep. It’s acidic so will want to mix in ag lime. I do that year two.

Good setup! 👍🏻 I have cameras everywhere. The gate cameras are solar powered. Even if they were stolen or disabled the video is already in the cloud. Ounce of prevention. I have video of every car that passes on the street or enters a gate.

The person selling the land can attach any restrictions they want to. Don’t like it, don’t buy it. I prefer restrictions and if I ever sell any of my property it will have rigid restrictions or I’ll keep it. You’re free to buy in less desirable areas.

It looks like that field could use a renovation.

OK. Then why are you asking a question you already made up your mind about?

That’s a pointless question that has no answer. What’s “best” for you and what’s “best” for me will not be the same thing. Buy something you like, can afford, and get parts for.

I had (have?) one and it has been nothing but trouble for years, won't idle properly, lugs, requires constant fiddling just to keep it running. I think it has some kind of California compliant set up that makes it unusable. The deck was garbage, replaced spindles twice. Took too much time, money...

Since they are both cracked on one side I would guess that something was sprayed or spilled on that side of the trailer, fuel, solvent, anti-freeze, weed killer. Is the rubber in better shape on the side of the bad tires that faces the trailer? Was there ever a burn pile made on that side of the...

Embalming fluid bottle from the 50's

No, you're correct. There is massive amounts of freight moving into California and then all over the country. There are so many trucks on the road that rest areas and truck stops are filled to capacity and trucks are lined up on the sides of the off ramps taking mandatory down time. Some economy...

... and not eat cow dung.

Why not buy a heavy duty zero turn? Even at $8k to $10k it's cheaper than a new mower every 3 years. Or just bush-hog it.

1. Fill it up with water. 2. Pour or siphon the water into 55 gallon drums or any other known quantity container until you have emptied the bucket. 3. Divide the gallons that the bucket held by 202, that's the cubic yards.

That's the whole point. 5 acres isn't that big and the people who live in the area don't want someone turning it into a landfill, junkyard, used car lot, etc. The land is millions of years old, you can never "own" it, you can only use it for a while and then it will be someone else's land. You...

Yep. They do arial photo surveys here. They can see every detail of the property.

On the Kubota I’m able to use a long neck funnel and I fill it from a jug that I can manage with one hand. I’ve never felt the need for anything more elaborate than a $3 plastic funnel.

The problem is solved because it isn’t a problem. EV sales are increasing every year because they make sense for a lot of people. You obviously have a problem with EVs and the people that want to buy them. No one is going to make you buy one. An IC car is more likely to need a tow than an EV is...

Sure, you could give them a “gallon of electricity.” The electric Ford pickup has an outlet next to the tailgate that can be used to power anything from the truck’s batteries. People are buying them to double as a home power backup and for jobsite power.

This has already been thought of and solved. The car goes into power saver mode long before the battery is completely drained and leaves enough reserve power to get you safely off the road and to a power source. Also a 15 minute boost from a mobile fast charger would give you 30 miles or so more...

Many people in my neck of the woods leave their cans at the street year round and take the bags to the can when they leave for work. We are required to bag trash and the cans are raccoon proof so it works out.

Sounds great. I don’t think the HVAC companies around here even know what a ground heat system is.

Yep. Money is going to get real tight. What little discretionary money people had is getting absorbed into food, fuel and mortgage interest. I priced a barn, they want 2x what they were quoting 3 years ago. No thanks, I’ll keep my powder dry.

People (including me until a few years ago) pull 30 foot, bumper hitch travel trailers all the time with 3/4 ton pick-ups. I don’t see any reason why a 24 foot flat trailer would be any problem at all.

Those ground heat systems are even better. If it were possible to do that here I would have. Too much rock.

You should look into a mini-split heat-pump system. They are incredibly efficient. My new, well insulated house costs very little to heat and cool with this system. I have a propane wall heater for emergency heat if the power goes out (which is very rare). I don’t want to be dealing with wood...

Gigabit fiber. The rural broadband initiative has been good to us. But, no Tesla Powerwall, yet.

Some gravel roads need a crown. Short of a torrential downpour water runs right through crushed limestone, even roadpack. My drive is 1200 feet up the side of a hill and acts as a big French drain that has pretty much stopped erosion off the hill. I have a base of fist sized rock, then #2, then...

You might be better off with a Tesla Powerwall, which is just a big battery that charges off of the normal electric service and provides power during outages. If you live where electricity is cheaper at night you can program the Tesla Powerwall to charge at night and draw power from it during...

I’ll just drive mine ‘till the wheels fall off, then put the wheels back on and keep going. 😉

Does it? Really? I have gotten pretty good at changing implements. Having a flat spot to do it makes all the difference and I set the larger attachments on wood blocks so I have more vertical space to line up the arms. I don’t know if the extra weight and moving the implement farther back is...

Before the 1970s or so, cars were designed to be serviced by the owner. My ‘49 Ford, every thing was easy to get to. Some cars today, you have to unbolt the engine mounts to change the spark plugs.

You won’t regret it. I love my Kawasaki Mule. It’s a beast. Goes anywhere. I’ve had it for at least 10 years and like the Energizer Bunny it just keeps going.

A water trailer is pretty darn handy to have around for fire control, irrigation, etc. I’m limited to a 100 gallon tank in the truck bed. Is it beyond repair? A poly tank that big is going to be pricy.

Can you grade a shallow swale to keep water from standing where the line is?

It wouldn't surprise me. I just know they put in metal with PVC risers when they did mine.

I thought the national code required metal conduit, but in any case the conduit should be sitting on and covered with #2 crushed rock and then cloth and hazard tape and then the top soil so that anyone digging will hit the rock and see the tape before they hit a live wire. The rock will act as a...

I see a lot of Saturn cars with the plastic body parts that are 20 to 30 years old and still look new. I think GM discontinued the line because they last too long.

That actually sounds about right. Unless it’s just beyond salvage I would bang out the dented one and looking at it every day would remind me to not push the machine beyond it’s limits. My tractor is dinged up all over. It’s a tractor not a sports car.

On my tractor the check links keep them from hitting the tires. His seem to be missing.

2 for 2 then. I think you just defined succeeding in life. 👍

You might like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur

I move my car hauler with a 33HP tractor on very hilly ground. It’s a 7k# trailer. I don’t know if it would handle anything bigger. I can’t back it up a hill unless the ground is completely dry.

I had some of my property mulched. A forestry mulcher can take out everything and incorporate a lot of it into the top layer of soil. Shouldn’t be any need for clean up, nutrients go back in the soil, helps prevent erosion.

“Tractor” and “chainsaw” should never be used in the same sentence. And if you throw an extension ladder into the mix make sure you have the hospital and the funeral home on speed dial. 😉

OK, well it sounds like you may be out of luck then. Sorry. I am able to get what I need.

Maybe, but probably not. The physics and chemistry of the universe is pretty well understood by human science at this point. Basic stuff like you can’t make steel under water or without iron and oxygen and carbon (and yes, you will need steel to develop the tech for space flight, and yes, you’re...

Bought Rotella at Tractor Supply this morning. Sorry about your luck. Look around, you can find what you need.

To create a technological society capable of space travel, a species needs certain baseline attributes. Bipedal, freeing at least two arms with hands with opposable thumbs and fine motor skills for manipulating objects and tools. Stereoscopic vision so two eyes. Language is a must and can't...

A non-resident hunter who resents being respectfully approached by a neighbor, that's the kind of guy you call the sheriff and the game warden about. Just, "Hey, I'm uncomfortable, please check this guy out." Too many situations where somebody's dad, uncle, buddy at work, knew the owners 30...

Yep. Bringing a gun into a situation where you anticipate getting into a conflict, and where you are on public record as having a dispute, and where you could have chosen to avoid the conflict entirely, is a really, really, bad idea. The kind of bad idea that often lands people in prison.

Yeah, California is outlawing round bales… because the cows can’t get a square meal 🤣

Yep. The wiggle method works great with sackcrete as well. Just pour it in (dry), wiggle the post until it tightens up, check level then pile dirt around the post and tamp it down.

The implement I’ve gotten the most value out of is my 3-point chipper. No more weed choked brush piles and no more burning. Worth every cent and then some.

Yep. Cutting a beautiful old tree just to destroy it is something I would never do. There’s responsible harvesting of lumber and then there’s this.

1. More like 100 gallons a day, not 1000. 2. You’re lucky you didn’t kill yourself and or destroy your tractor. 3. It doesn’t look like you exactly live in the forest so you probably just decreased the value of your property. 4. Pine trees can live up to 1000 years, that one was at least a lot...

The deer and raccoons eat all of the poison ivy around here. Generally if you have a lot of poison ivy it’s because there isn’t much wildlife around. Lots of poison ivy in municipal parks and sprawling subdivisions.

Mowing starts, for me, any day now and goes through October, a little into November.

Everything is “chemicals.” Nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous, carbon, plants don’t care how the molecules were created as long as they are available in the correct proportions. An NO3 molecule in a bag of fertilizer or in a cow pie is the same exact thing.

Yep. And if you want your dealer to be a “good” dealer, be a good customer. Buy some stuff from him, even though it’s cheaper on-line. Be patient with the kid behind the counter. Don’t get frustrated. Your dealer is the BEST conduit to the manufacturer for resolving issues and finding parts. You...

Yep. The first thing a new tractor owner should buy is a bunch of assorted lynchpin, clevis pins, cotter pins, and a few hillmans. Also replacement bolts in various sizes for the rotary cutter (that are going to shake loose and fall out while operating).

I don’t understand people letting junk cars sit until the tire rot when someone will come drag it away *and* give you some cash.

Exactly. Although it should be easier to get satisfaction the bottom line is that if the complainant isn’t serious enough to get a lawyer involved then the police don’t want to get in the middle of feuding neighbors. Trying to “get even” is a recipe for disaster.

A seller can ask any price. You can pay or walk. It’s pretty simple. How badly do you want it?

You have to spend money to solve this. Hire a good lawyer and get the lawyer to deal with both the neighbors and the police. Both will take a letter from a lawyer much more seriously. Don't escalate.

Oh yeah, a thousand pieces of barbed wire and rusty mangled oil cans. Sadly, Curly’s gold was nowhere to be seen.

I can only imagine. The only flat spot I have is the back porch 😉

Looked at the Kubota but ended up getting a Cub Cadet with the 4 wheel steering. Sticks on hills like Velcro.

Those two weeks of summer are brutal 😉

All of that is true, and it looks better than unmaintained property. Ticks love tall grass but stay out of regularly mowed areas. Overgrown fields develop bare spots that eventually lead to erosion. I like a mowed area and then ‘feather’ the edges from tall grass transitioning to woods. Holds...

I’ve gone electric for everything, trimmers, chainsaws, blowers. Never going back. I still have two Stihl 2-cycle chainsaws but they hardly get used anymore. No starting issues. No gummed up carbs. They just work and when you let off the trigger, total silence.

Good luck. Lumber, steel, tires, electric wire, and energy are all more expensive that two years ago. I just re-decked my car hauler and spent half the trailer’s original cost just on lumber.

I have more things I want to do than I can possibly get done in the time remaining. That will never be a problem.

Your budget is probably too low unless you go used. Under 3 grand they’re all pretty much the same. I paid $7k for mine and I expect it will out last me.

All the time. Anything that’s not critical, give it time to solve itself. I live where there’s a mix of hobby farmers (me) and real farmers. The real farmers don’t spend a nickel unless they have to, to make a dime.

That’s great until you’re in the woods trying to plug a tire that’s full of water and the tire’s wet and you’re wet and you’re standing in mud.

Fill it with sand, not concrete, so you can empty it to move it or sell it.

Yep. I’d much rather mow with my zero turn. I have 52 acres and also mow 6 acres like you with a zero turn. A 33 hp B series has done everything I ever wanted to do including a lot of tree removal, ground work, wood chipping, bush hogging, raking, plowing, box blading, maintaining 1500 feet of...

That’s like a car dealer who won’t sell new cars without dealer installed under-coating. It’s about the 💲💲

No oil shortage in general. Don’t know about Walmart but Rural King, Tractor Supply, AutoZone, etc. have all you want.

OK, you said “Just tell me” so… After you put in a house, drive and yard around the house you have at most 4.5 acres left. What would you possible do with a 50 HP tractor on 4 acres? A 16hp Kubota BX series with a belly mower will be able mow, maintain a gravel drive and till a big garden.

Yep. Flail mower is the way to go.

10 acres rented out, 6 acres woods. How are you going to use a tractor 100 hours per year on the 2 acres that are left? Sounds like you need a zero turn mower or maybe a SCUT with a belly mower at most.

Yes

The cause of half the problems in the world. Leave it better than you found it.

Took my tractor to dealer for hydraulic work. Brought it home, parked it, next morning hydraulic fluid all over the floor. Mechanic loose fit the lines and forgot to tighten any of them. Sadly, you have to check up after everyone who does any work (from mechanics to home repairs, etc.) these days.

If your tractor can lift 2000 pounds then it already weighs a lot more than 2000 pounds and the water in the bottom of 2 tires isn’t going to make much difference.

If I need a vehicle then I need one, and if I don't, I don't. Timing has never come into the equation for me.

My tractor is smaller, 33hp, I have never, in over 10 years, felt the need for fluid in the tires. If I'm using the loader I will generally have the rotary cutter on which weighs more than anything I would lift with the loader. I'm pretty good with situational awareness and maybe some people...

If you can find a forestry mulching service they can wipe out an acre of small to medium stumps in a day

I have ground at least 60 stumps over the last 10 years and always put the chips in the hole. It’s hard to impossible to tell where the stumps were. It’s not a golf course, use clover and a pasture grass mix and it will turn green. BTW: I used a rental for half and had the other half done by a...

Sales tax. You have it in Texas too.

That’s like asking “what flavor of ice cream is best”?

At these prices I'll keep my 2014 pickup truck forever. If something breaks or wears out, I fix it. Much cheaper than replacing the truck. The key is fixing *everything* that breaks so you aren't driving a beater. I drive a small, high-mpg, car unless I need to haul or tow so the truck should...

Just use what the owner’s manual calls for.

I was thinking a lift isn’t worth the expense until I saw your pictures. 👍 Putting the implements up is brilliant. Doubling your covered space makes it pay for it’s self.

When the power is out (very seldom) I can get by with a Honda portable gen and it gives good clean power that won’t heck up my TV and computers, and sips fuel in economy mode. And the Honda gen can go camping, tailgating, RV’ing. The other benefit is that the tractor is free to push snow or tree...

Yeah, I worry about putting stress on the loader arms and the bucket that they aren't designed for. I'll move a utility trailer with the bucket but anything heavy I use the 3 point hitch or the pickup truck.

I have 53 acres, mostly wooded. I bought this chipper one year ago. 3-Point Wood Chipper Attachments Best purchase I ever made. I have run mountains of brush through it.

OK brother. You do you. Good luck.

Man, you must HATE Dave Ramsey then. Helping people to be more successful and build wealth is a noble pursuit. Watching people crash and burn and saying nothing, well, not so noble.

Yeah but he has 2k hours on his. Most of those have 200 to 300 hours. 2000 hours is a lot of wear and tear.

Borrowed money isn't "your money"

The truck driver is paying more for groceries, tires, oil, boots, etc, just like everyone else and he needs to make more just like everyone else.

1. Things that are in short supply bring a higher price and everyone here tries to get the best price possible when selling anything. 2. There are plenty of tractors for sale, you might have to drive to another town or state to get the best price. I would have no problem buying a tractor and...

Price pressure is what drives everything. A farmer can’t keep farming land that Amazon will pay $50k an acre for to build a distribution center. When a new highway comes through and the land you own can be sold for 10 x what you paid you’ll sell and move farther out.

If those people don’t want the land developed they can get together and buy it. The other option is what they have in England where all land use must be approved by the government and you need permission to cut down a tree. Pick your poison. The English model works really well if your primary...

There are creosote soaked pine posts and untreated cedar posts around here that have been in the ground for 100 years with no concrete. There are cedar post fence lines in the local impoundments that are flooded People way over use concrete when setting posts. A good post set deep isn’t going...

I was at a Kubota dealer yesterday. The lot is full of tractors. Why are you so sure you need 55 hp?

There’s a reason that the settlers didn’t clear and farm the ridge lines.

Actual cold 🥶 weather here is 3-4 months. I have a heat pump. 😉 No cutting, working on saws, no ashes to clean up, no smoke on the walls and ceiling. Seriously, I don’t spend enough on electricity to make all that work pay off.