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I know it was re-aired not too long ago, but since I've received a couple of private requests recently, maybe it's time to share it once more. Since it's a little dated, maybe I should mention that one of the main figures in this greeting represents a fella who was well known in TBN land, both...

I browse in 24-hour mode and then click on messages of interest. Flat mode is my default. The attached screen shot shows what I sometimes get. Everything but the messages. If I were a bettin' man, I'd say there was an off-by-one calculation problem in determining which posts should show...

My wife doesn't always consult me on matters that I think she should, but this time it worked out okay. Whenever it's time to order new bank checks, we pretty much never agree on which free background to order. Try to imagine Tim The Tool Man Taylor "discussing" the choices with Jill, and...

<font color=red>The following was originally posted by <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.tractorbynet.com/cgi-bin/compact/showprofile.pl?Cat=&User=glennmac&Number=193779&Board=buykubota&what=showthreaded&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1>glennmac</A> and is reformatted here at Glenn's request:</font...

My fire break project is causing my brush pile to grow quite rapidly, and I'd love to start reducing it somehow. Burns are no longer allowed this year 'cuz of the extreme fire danger -- ironically the very reason for my project. I don't have a chipper nor the budget to get one, so I was...

\'Nuther Stupid Rock Might be more appropriate to name this thread "Stupid Harv", but I prefer to blame the inanimate objects. Some of you may recall some of my previous encounters with the stupid rocks lurking in the dark recesses of my property, like the one I dubbed and the infamous star...

Re: I found out why I don\'t have any fresh eggs... <font color=blue>I meant it to go into the Rural Living</font color=blue> <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.tractorbynet.com/cgi-bin/compact/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=rural&Number=172422&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=2&fpart=>Your wish</A>...

When all else fails, ask the TBN brain trust. Need a new car for the wife, which of course means a good kid hauler among other things, so it ain't gonna be no sub-compact. We've been shopping for a couple of weeks and we keep running into the same problem, namely, the driver's seats are not...

Hookin\' Up That Rotary Cutter I haven't used my rotary cutter as much as I'd like to, mostly 'cuz I'm always pressed for time up at the property, and hooking up the PTO shaft has always been a trying experience. On Father's Day, however, I thought it through a little bit and figured out a way...

Ever have one of those "one hour" projects that eats up your whole weekend? My 9-year old daughter is very big on tetherball at school, so I figured this was my chance to be a hero and whip up a tetherball court of her very own up at the property. Heck, we have 42 acres -- I figure we could...

Okay, so I'm a little short on good tractorin' stories since I've only been on my 'Bota once in the last couple of months. But since this happened right in my suburban front yard this morning, I thought I'd toss it in just for the heck of it. The telephone pole in my front yard was tagged for...

I chose the Projects forum 'cuz it says, "For the dicussion of all the things you do with your tractor!" Just saw this story pop up in the local news here, and figured it was somehow appropriate to share with this board: Man Arrested For Alleged Backhoe Rampage 02.08.02 BYRON (BCN) -- The...

On another thread, Greg H. explained how he uses his box blade in reverse to achieve some high quality grading effects. I have used my own box blade this way only a few times, usually just to push a small pile of spoils out of the way or something. Greg's point about going backwards is that...

Not exactly a crisis, but I notice that if I edit one of my messages that includes some of the new smiley faces /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif, some get turned into the longhand text version of the image tags with a dubious url. This message, for example, looked fine (all smiley faces intact)...

Seems kinda late in the game for me to be asking this question, but it's mostly intellectual curiosity at this point. In the <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.tractorbynet.com/cgi-bin/compact/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=buyjd&Number=99527&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1>Trencher Attachment</A> thread...

Well, for a variety of reasons (including nearly a solid month of rain), I haven't seen my tractor in about a month and a half. So when, at the request of my son, I was called in to oversee the repair of a tractor that was completely broken in half, I jumped at the opportunity. I told them I...

Now that the year 2001 is winding down and the number of picture posts is ramping up, I am curious about the role TBN has played in the digital camera market. How many of you folks out there purchased a digital camera since the beginning of the year? How many did so with TBN as at least one...

Whilst thumbing through some of my old tractor picts, I notice I had one of my tractor as I found it on the dealer's lot. What I found interesting was that it showed the rear wheels set narrow (for pulling a cart through apple orchards). Before I took delivery, I had the wheels set wide to...

This has been covered numerous times before, but as I think of some folks contemplating whether or not to order a FEL with their tractor, I think of how it was for me. I guess I was on the other end of the scale, 'cuz my mindset was more, "I'm getting a FEL. Wonder what kind of tractor I...

Nice touch, Muhammad. Very nice.

For me, half the enjoyment of TBN is swapping experiences with folks from different parts of the country, different backgrounds, with different tractors and equipment on different kinds of land. Why is it then, that so many members these days are leaving their profiles virtually blank? I...

Okay, so I'm stuck here in the burbs, hundreds of miles from my tractor, so I'm groping for some of that country chore feeling. Best I could do was watch the removal, city style, of the tree next door, which died mysteriously almost overnight. (No, I didn't do it just for the story. ) Ever...

So I'm out there trying to scrape a few inches off a stretch of my soon-to-be-muddy tractor path using my box blade. As I've mentioned before, my soil has just enough rocks to be really annoying, especially when I'm trying to produce a "mirror finish" with the scraper. One of two things...

Has anybody but me been frustrated by the capacity of a standard bucket when you have more bulk than weight to deal with? Nearing the end of my first full season as a tractor owner, I find that I am often faced with the chore of just shuffling massive amounts of weeds, leaves and other debris...

I seem to have developed a slow hydraulic fluid leak (I think it's at the loader control valves), so I need to top off the "tank", so to speak. When I changed my fluids a few months ago, I filled the transmission with the Kubota UDT Hydraulic Fluid. Of course, I used up the whole 7.5 gallons...

Gotta question that's been tickling around in the back of my mind for a while now -- Maybe it's just 'cuz I always use the Past 24 Hours mode, but I find it somewhat confusing when the subject line has been altered. Okay, it doesn't take that much to confuse me, I admit, but I was wondering...

On this last trip to the property I stumbled (almost literally) on some beat up old junk that was so covered up with grass, leaves and dirt I'd almost forgotten they were there. Never had a good look at the stuff before, so I hunkered down and hauled it all out of the weeds and up to the shop...

It's too bad that county fairs have taken some bad press here lately. By sheer coincidence I took a break from working at Mom's place to drive my family to the nearby Amador County Fair in beautiful downtown Plymouth Friday night. I've mostly been to the state fair and some of the larger...

Although my immediate need is only tangentially a tractor safety issue, I will post it here because it might easily serve that purpose. Not to go into any detail about why I might have to be ready to be called back to the house from my tractor on a moment's notice next weekend (3 days...

This topic has popped up on the Chinese Tractor thread, but I thought it might be worth a thread of its own. It's one of those things I've been curious about for a while, so what the heck -- might as well put it out there for public opinion. As a frequent picture poster and a recent...

Okay, now that I'm approaching 50 hours of actual seat time (almost caught up with Mark Chalkley, I believe), I thought I was starting to understand the box scraper. But... NOOOOOOOOOO!!! My final chore over the weekend was to try to create a walking path for my elderly mother, running maybe...

Best Father's Day ever! The family's treat for me was to say, "Go play on your tractor all day!". Didn't want to hurt their feelings, so I had no choice but to spend over 6 hours hauling, lifting, scraping, pushing and just plain joy-riding around the 42 acres. Spent most of that time...

Things have finally dried out enough to get some actual tractorin' done. I suppose the last couple of weeks of temperatures in the 80's, 90's and 100's has helped. I was able to get past the muddy stretch for the first time since winter, and that gave me my first opportunity to work on the...

Well, it was only 3 weeks since my last trip to the property, but oh what a difference 3 weeks can make! Last time up I tip-toed gingerly across the still soft "muddy stretch" of my tractor path and hiked out to check on all 3 of the culverts I installed last year. The weeds had started, but...

This is as about as far off topic as you can get, but it's one of those things that just has to be shared. The photo was emailed to me fairly anonymously, so I don't know the exact source, but it's quite possible that some of you may have already seen it. It's an incredible panoramic view of...

Muhammad - I just noticed that the pictures that accompanied the Pouring That Diesel thread can no longer be found. Did you at one time say something about pictures posted last year, or am I thinking of something else? Maybe digital picts have a half-life?

I was showing a picture of my Kubota to an older fellow at the gym this morning. He spent much of his life working on highway crews, and gave me a lot of tips on how to use my tractor to build my culverts. He was politely impressed with my L2500, but I thought it was interesting that the first...

Some of you may recall my very first tractor project last October was to build 3 separate culverts which were designed to give me tractor access to the "back forty" of my property. (For those of you who missed this exciting saga, you can find the thread or check out the Cliff's Notes version on...

Didn\'t like THIS surprise... The weather finally let us spend a weekend at the property. Uneventful, but enjoyable for that very reason, if you know what I mean. Before we left for the trip, as I mentioned in the "Wild Game Photos" thread, we had begun our annual swimming pool pre-season...

According to his recent post, WVBill is going to favor us with some pictures of deer in his yard. I find myself looking forward to seeing them, and got to wondering if others of you have similar pictures to share? Maybe it's 'cuz I'm still a suburban boy that I enjoy my trips to the property...

Muhammad - I'm going to risk embarassment here and ask if it's my imagination or is their something different about our TBN pages? As a web developer I've always thought your title banner across the top of each page had a pleasing look about it, but all of a sudden I'm even more pleased. New...

Following a tip in ClayG's post in the "Tip 'N' Tilt" thread, I just spent the last half hour downloading and reading through the operator's manuals for various Bush Hog implements. I don't own any Bush Hog implements (yet), but these online manuals are chock full of useful information and...

Signatures (cont\'d) [It may just be my poor choice in browsers, but long threads really slow me down. Hence, this continuation] <font color=blue>I recently saw an L2500 at a rental store near me and they are quite a bit bigger than I thought.</font color=blue> Ya gotta remember, Fishman...

What\'s going on in California? #2 The original thread has gotten too long for easy viewing, so ... Yup, Rat, I'm on good ol' PG&E and loving every minute -- NOT!!! We've managed to dodge blackouts here at our house, but even after cutting way back on our usage, our bill still went up over...

Bird - About time I pulled this thread over here into <font color=orange>orange</font color=orange> territory. This is actually a reply to your last post in the "<font color=green>Check it out</font color=green>" thread. Your air cleaner system looks identical to mine, except for the size...

Del - Since you seem to be back in action here on the board, I'll ask you a question I've been meaning to ask you for a long time. One of my all-time favorite TV series was a show called "Northern Exposure". I loved the back woods small town atmosphere, and I always wished I had friends and...

You guys are going nuts! If I've left you out, just say so and accept my apologies:

I generally try to stay out of things like this, but this one is just too cute (see attachment). Please don't kill the messenger.

Yesterday (Sunday) I finally had occassion to take my 'Bota out on the road. I was using my bucket forks to transport a large, modified doghouse out to the well head to use as a protective insulating structure. Because of the recent rains, I had to circumvent a marshy area, and the best way...

Muhammad - I realize you're in the process of making changes, but since I'm taking off for the property in the morning, I thought I'd jump the gun and ask about the new display options. At the moment, I have lost my font size adjustment that used to occur when I logged in to the board. On my...