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I feel like you should be able to have the engine repaired somewhere. Insurance never makes you 100% whole, whether it's a car, a house, or anything else. I didn't even know you could get insurance for you damaging the engine.

Check your vent pipe(s) on the roof. If they do not extend high enough, are partially blocked, or are being air locked by prevailing wind or improper plumbing in the walls, you will get the periodic smell you are experiencing.

Ground squirrels wouldn't be in the tree tops.

They were here first. I try to find a way to co-exist if possible (except for carpenter bees, those I wish extinction on) Populations should balance out unless someone is eradicating predators like coyotes, owls, and snakes. Logging and land clearing can also drive large numbers of displaced...

Been there, done that, got the shirt. I suggest letting them be. Drive over the tunnels with your mower or ATV so they don't open up. Eventually they will exhaust the food supply and abate. If you put out bird seed stop doing that. In the meanwhile think of it as free lawn aeration.

We have reached a point in the US where you are better off to maintain your old car or tractor forever than to put up with the hassle of all the fragile and buggy systems on new units. (not to mention the absurd cost of buying new) Soon we will look like Cuba with 30 year old cars everywhere you...

Before you buy any property make sure you can do what are planning to do with the property. Most places in the US have cracked down hard on what you can do with a recreational property. You may not be allowed to camp there. You may not be able to place a trailer. You probably won't be able to...

Yep, especially their generators which often come from the same factory as the "name" brands.

I have no sympathy for folks who buy the cheapest tool they can find then complain about the quality. Harbor Freight tools are usually very good for the price, especially if you just need it for a specific project.

You really, really, really, really, do need a GC. A good GC pays for himself. You won't have any connection with or knowledge of the subs. You won't know who is good or bad and they won't have any reason to prioritize you, show up to your site on time, or do a good job because you aren't a...

Ride it, repeatedly, with an ATV. You will clear a path. Then spot treat it with a mixture of glyphosate and 2,4-d with a surfactant added. If your water has a high mineral content add some Ammonium Thiosulfate to the tank before you add the glyphosate.

This is very bad and dangerous advice. A 7k pound trailer (no matter how loaded) would very severely overload this particular pickup.

Trouble being defined as "dead."

I've never understood the fascination with putting liquid in the tires, especially on compact tractors. It corrodes the wheels, makes tires hard, increases the likelihood of punctures and makes repairing punctures more difficult. I keep an implement or a weight box on and I've never had a...

GM is pushing pre-paid maintenance plans as "insurance" that they will honor their warranty. https://www.gmc.com/protection-plans/prepaid-maintenance

A properly maintained full size pickup will last 300k miles (on average). 5 years of your commute will put 100k miles on a vehicle. I don't see how a second vehicle with added insurance, maintenance, payments, and property taxes gets you much advantage, economically. I say pile the miles on the...

Texas is projected to get almost 40% of its power this year from green sources, according to a US Energy Information Administration forecast. That trails California’s 52%, but because Texas is a bigger market, it’s produced more power from renewables (excluding hydropower) than any other state...

Wind, solar and hydro generation produces 20% of US electricity. Wind and solar will account for 60% of added generation capacity in the US this year. Nuclear power plants generate 18% of power with that figure declining rapidly. Five nuclear plants were shuttered in the last two years...

I got the WCBX42S from Titan. It handles everything I need to chip on my 50+ acres. I’ve had it for a couple or three years now and run mountains of limbs through it.

I personally never want to see a Tik Tok video in these forums.

Many times, second/vacation homes aren’t planned, they evolve. None of that would bother me.

Here's one to kick off summer. Pig 1: I never sausage heat Pig 2: Tell me about it, I'm bacon Have you got any that drove your kids bonkers?

It was here, but it left, and it's 86 degrees now. ☀️

You should have said “rides decent on my property” 😉

Works great! Thanks!

They allow you to use your impact driver with no danger of over torquing. No strong arm work for this old man. I’m not going to hand torque 32 lug nuts.

Not likely. More likely we’re fully into a recession and demand goes down.

Brusselsprouts, remove disgusting parts, stare at empty hand. 😉

Trimming? What’s that?? 🤨 Seriously though, I’m with you, keep trimming to an absolute minimum.

Oh yes.

We buy a lot from Amazon. Pretty much weekly. Everything from shoes, to tools, to dog food. Why drive to the store just to find out they don’t have what we need? Most things are delivered 2nd day. Bought a set of tires for my UTV, they came the next day. And anything that doesn’t pan out you...

Guten Morgen liebe Leute 57 heading to 85 today. “Rolling in clover.” Literally.

What kind of trap do you use?

How big is the jack hammer? Do you have any info on model/cost.

All the time?

No. Nuff said.

Get yourself a set of torque limiters. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000LZ91WC

I doubt it. Ethanol is used as an octane booster. Ethanol boosts the octane number of fuel, which helps prevent pre-ignition knock. Incidentally, the octane rating system for fuels was originally developed by Penn State chemist Russell Marker in the 1920s. The octane rating (Anti-Knock Index...

Wire stripper 🤷‍♂️

Also this, but not so much anymore.

Like a boss! One that people ride in, err… no.

No. They’re just general purpose cable ties but made of stainless steel. Example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XBZZ16S?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_ZQENFS7YT98F0TKSRE4Y

Anybody tried stainless steel zip ties?

Oh no! I use them for everything.

I just run the mower or tractor tire along the length of the tunnel.

Those people are not to be associated with by decent folk. Oops!

If someone owed you $3500 would you let it go or would you want to get paid. Now imagine the resources available to the state. I’d pay it.

I don’t disagree with you, which is why I bought the zero turn, but it uses most of it’s 5.6 gallon capacity to mow 3 acres. I haven’t measured precisely but I have to switch tanks to get it done. I can cut the whole thing with my tractor and barely move the gauge on the 8 gallon diesel tank.

Yes, they can. IMHO It is never useful to run anyone down, for any reason. You don’t know everyone’s situation. Maybe he’s a super nice guy. Maybe he volunteers at the hospice. Or maybe he’s a jerk, but YOU decided to lend him your stuff. Get it back and let it go is my advice.

Yep. My “lawns” were all woods and cow pasture a few years ago. They would beat me and the mower to death if I tried to race around.

Probably not. It really depends on how you use the computer and what sites you visit. I have never run any AV on my Macs.

How much gas do you use mowing 7 acres? My zero turn uses a lot more fuel to mow the same area as my tractor does. The tractor is diesel.

I would not do that. It serves no purpose. "Neither a lender nor a borrower be."

The last thing I loaned out was destroyed. Luckily not too expensive. Give him the phone number of a rental store.

Windows Defender in Windows 10 and 11 is, in fact, superior to the other options.

This is my area of expertise. Windows Defender is absolutely all you need. It's far better than McAfee or any of the other alternatives. You should never leave McAfee installed on any computer.

Everybody talking about how fast they can mow. I didn't move to the country and buy a bunch of land to spend as little time as possible out on it. I put on my noise canceling headphones and some music and I can stay out there all day. It reminds me of golfers who brag about how fast they can...

I “upgraded” from a JD x300 that was nothing but trouble to the cheapest Cub Cadet rider and it has kept going through 8 years of abuse. Just bought a new CC zero turn because I’m mowing several acres now.

I see you

I have the same problem with a Bernzomatic and with the one that it replaced. It just won’t stat lit. Won’t burn when inverted for more than a few seconds. Basically makes it useless. Sounds like the $20 unit is garbage and the $50 unit works as designed. I wish companies would stop selling...

Some folks out on the highway tried to keep horses on a too small piece of land. Eventually the whole place washed out and is now just unusable for any purpose. Horses need a lot of space and you really need to be able to rotate them in and out of pastures to allow the grass to recover...

Yes. But does your bank account want one?

You can share directly from your respective phone without using YouTube. From an Android phone you can open the video from the photos app and click the share button below the video and get a link to share from google photos. , For Apple click the share icon. And choose “Copy iCloud Link”...

You might say we have a few rocks

I doubt it. Video is expensive to process and store. You can convert to and upload animated GIFs if you just need a very short clip.

Nice. The bluebird makes the shot.

Here we hit limestone, and when you do you have to move the post because they’re often the size of a dining room table, or a Buick Roadmaster. 🪨 Now when I see fences with posts at irregular intervals, I know why.

… in a squirrel cemetery. 😉

Can confirm

Creeping Red Fescue does well in shade. Nothing is going to grow where there is very little sunlight or tree roots capture all the water.

Not at all unlikely. Rural cooperatives often run copper phone lines with a walk behind trencher at the edge of the road. When I moved into this house that’s exactly how they ran the phone line from half a mile up the road. Thankfully we now have fiber up on poles.

I wouldn’t tow that rig with that car at 70mph if you gave it to me. I’ve seen what happens when things go wrong and you’re pushing the limits.

You should post this to the “people towing improperly” thread.

Yep. They come up on the porch where the feeders hang and just hover there. Sadly very, very few birds this year. Something went terribly wrong on the return flight I suspect.

Dead trees are an essential part of the forest eco system. Leave a few for the owls and woodpeckers.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006K8GKBO

I have a dealership that I stick with. They carry more than one brand.

Please feel free to kill all the carpenter bees.

We have chipmunks. They burrow everywhere. I tamp down the burrows when they pop up and count it as free lawn aeration. Never kill a snake.

Everything in chain restaurants is smothered in garlic to the point that nothing tastes like anything but garlic.

I don’t know that I’ve had elk. I have had caribou and it was OK.

My thoughts are that fluid and filter specifics are SWAGS anyway and that oil doesn’t need to be changed unless it needs to be changed. Back in the day, you checked the oil, you felt it between your thumb and forefinger, you smelled it, you knew if it needed to be changed. I don’t think oil...

Yep. Just always do the right thing, because it’s the right thing.

Lamb. Hard no. Goat, even worse. Deer. Fugget about it. 🤮

Do you have young male children? Is someone doing donuts in the driveway? 😉

I think you are going to need a new refrigerator my friend.

http://www.tennesseeriverimplements.com/

I don’t think that’s true unless you abuse them, and even then nothing some touch up with a welder can’t fix. I’m not even sure what would constitute a “high end” rotary cutter.

In gravel driveways is where grass thrives around here. I bought a 3 acre lot that had a short gravel drive, 7 years on you can’t tell there was ever gravel there unless you dig a hole. All I did was not stop it.

They’re real slow showing up this year. Maybe the recent storms in the south pushed them up the eastern seaboard.

I am not a lawyer but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last week. I would think gross negligence on the part of the employer (if provable) would take it out of the realm of workman’s comp.

👍 Was ready to pull the trigger on a 100 series pro but the day I was ready to buy they didn’t have one ready to go. I thought maybe I needed the ROPS but it’s incredibly stable so I’m happy.

You like a lifeless, monoculture, desert of grass? Rabbits gotta eat man.

1. If Jeep doesn’t immediately move in to protect the customer then I would suggest that having a vehicle serviced at any Jeep dealership is too risky. 2. Given that there are probably more Jeeps sold with manual transmissions than any other brand, how does Jeep not train all service employees...

A tractor is not a bulldozer.

Most of my “grass” is about half dutch white clover, with red and crimson on the tree edges and right-of-ways where I don’t mow as often.

Tennessee River is good. Had a Big Bee before, it was constantly shaking bolts loose and there was no access holes to change the blades.

Pretty much everything is 30 miles from my house, except the doctors, they are up to 70 miles.

52 ℉ heading to 80. Time to plant the garden.

Cilantro. Disgusting!

I haven’t adjusted the valves on anything since 1975.

Hey Siri play __________________ So much better.

Yellow, of course. I am not now nor have I ever been a communist. 🇺🇸 ⚾️🌭🥧 😉

Mine stays on the porch under the roof.

Equal length halves gives the largest range from shortest to longest operating length.

iPhone / iPad app Angle Pro

https://support.apple.com/manuals The days when they killed a bunch of trees are long gone. They were fun though.

Not sure that’s correct unless you buy from the gas station or dollar store. Walmart and Kroger move eggs fast and the eggs that we get from both are indistinguishable from the $6 a dozen “pasture raised” eggs. The 60 egg boxes from Walmart are very fresh, thick whites that stand up and nice...

I painted an aluminum sided house 40 years ago. The most important step is getting ALL of the chalking off. I think I used steel wool on the whole house. I would use a metal primer and then a finish coat. Oil based. It’s possible that there are modern all-in-one water based enamels that will do...

… and take out the rhubarb. It’s like the recipe for cooking carp. Clean it. Put it on a cedar plank. Season. Bake for 15 minutes at 375 degrees. Throw the carp out and eat the plank.

Sell here, buy used there.

I have an X300 that was terrible from the day it was new. Max cutting height is too low and it is impossible to level.

When the highway department (around here anyway) needs to keep soil back for a project they leave it in a pile and let nature take its course. I suspect that’s the best way to keep it from washing away. Honestly, I would find a place to use it. If someone brought me 5 tons of good soil right now...

🤣😂😂😆🤪

It’s not lawyers, it’s judges. This should have been thrown out as soon as it was filed.

13% 1981

Learn to live with the floor as is. You can tile it, you can level the cabinets. A floor drain is good to have in a mud room. Every commercial restroom and laundry has a floor drain.

I have heavy clay soil as well. When it’s at all wet no amount of weight will allow you to steer a straight line. It’s like grease.

You need to meet more people. 😉 I eat more than a dozen eggs a week by myself. Two every morning.

I don’t use a wrench on the top link nut. I just hand tighten the turnbuckle against it.

I am NEVER in a hurry when using a tractor. Slow and steady wins the race and gets the job done without hurting me or the equipment. For many of us this tractor thing is a hobby, slow down, enjoy it. I actually enjoy figuring out how to do a thing with limited equipment/resources. Anyone can...

I have a negating corollary to that rule. “First time buyers almost always think they need more tractor than they really need”

A credit score is just an indicator of how profitable you are to lenders. For many years my credit score was zero because I had no loans and no credit cards.

My Rural King is stocked to the rafters, but a few weeks ago it looked very bare. If you have a Rural King there’s no point in going into Tractor Supply. For non-farm home supply Menards is the absolute king.

My zero turn sticks to hills like velcro

Powdered milk Pork brains Calves liver Rhubarb pie Souse Blood pudding

You were taught wrong then. My company exists to serve our customers, our community and our employees and improve people's lives. Making a profit allows us to continue to exist and to continue to serve our purpose. No one worth knowing starts a business unless they are passionate about what they...

Yep. Step 1: Plant corn Step 2: Crows, turkeys, chipmunks dig up corn Step 3: Go to step 1

I don't trust a man who has a 9 year old mower that looks brand new. ;) :D

This is why I can never buy a new tractor, or anything really. I am sick to death of things I paid for telling me what to do and when to do it.

Yep. Don't complicate it. "One grease to rule them all" 💍;)

We find a lot of racoon, I think. We find mostly the lower jaws but this one stayed in one spot and I glued it together.

I hate mayapples, can't mow them down fast enough.

https://ariel-lim.com/blog/real-purpose-of-business-why-exist

That’s not true. In fact it’s patently false. It’s something that is often said by people who have only the most rudimentary understanding of free market systems.

I have some guidelines that make purchase decisions easier for me. Don’t finance toys or hobbies. Don’t buy anything until I have proven I can’t accomplish the things I want to with what I already have. Don’t buy what I can rent A dollar spent today is a dollar that you can’t spend tomorrow...

Whatever the manual calls for. The manufacturer doesn’t spec an oil if something else would reduce warranty work.

Yep. Grass managed just fine for millions of years. Let’s say that you DO get a little better germination with a seeder. How much more seed can you buy for the cost and maintenance of a seeder? I just wait until there is rain in the forecast then mow and over seed.

Why don’t you call DR and get the manual?

Interesting. My FEL will lift the front end in all conditions. I have to go easy on the lever when digging into a pile of dirt or rock (in forward gear) to keep the front wheels on the ground. I can drag in reverse with the front wheels off the ground when spreading topsoil or gravel.

I went through this whole process, over several years, at a previous house. Eventually got tired of the hassle, ripped it all out and planted grass. Put the flowers in planters and raised beds.

My opinion is that they’re pretty useless compared to a front end loader.

I cannot imagine how anyone would need to own a backhoe just to use on a 3.5 acre lot. Rent a backhoe, get the backhoe work done and move on. A tractor, especially a compact or sub-compact is not a bulldozer, is not an excavator, is not a stump grinder. Rent the equipment for each of those tasks...

This is a very simple equation. If having it catch on fire where it is would be a catastrophe then either move it to open ground or spread it out so it’s about a foot thick. There is a non-zero chance that it could catch on fire the way you have it now.

Finally got it out yesterday. Made two passes before one of the inner tubes blew out. Fifty mile round trip to get a replacement. An hour fighting the tire off of, and then back on the rim. 😖 Got two passes done on the whole thing before rain started. Probably going to give it one more turn...

Exactly! Until recently all I had was a 42 inch baseline riding mower that I was mowing 3 acres with. Now I have 6 acres to mow so I stepped up to a 60 inch zero turn. It’s inconsistent to claim to “need” a big mower and them brag that they get all the mowing done in 90 minutes.

It “ran fine” when you parked it, but you’re sure it’s not a fuel or a carburetor issue. Maybe it just lost the will to live.

I would buy new. You’re going to get your money’s worth out of it. Buying used just shortens the amount of time until you have to buy another one.

Diesel vs gasoline just isn’t relevant to the discussion. Any heavy duty zero turn with a 60 inch deck is more than sufficient to mow two acres. I mow a lot more than two acres, closer to six. I mowed two acres for 7 years with a cheap, big box store, 42 inch rider, still have the mower.

If you left fuel in the carburetor bowl at those temps you probably need to rebuild the carb.

They conclude that the primary differences in flavor have to do with the Maillard reaction and differences in cooking methods such as boiling versus roasting. As to the final sentence, you could just as easily be raising a breed that tastes worse than the breed from the KFC chicken farm, as...

It is impossible to raise chickens on a small scale without spending a lot more than you would to buy the same amount of meat and eggs at the grocery. And no, your chickens and eggs are not “so much better tasting” than the ones from the grocery. Biology dictates the chemical make up of any...

“First start of the year” I try to start everything at least once a month. Hopefully it’s just bad fuel. Did you have stabilizer in the fuel?

Yep. People drive 5 hours to “save” a few bucks then complain about the “terrible service” from their local dealer.

Something you have installed is stopping cookies being saved. Most likely an ad blocker.

Or if they ask you where they can buy 55 gallon drums close to Lake Mead. 🐟

Thank! That’s exactly what I need. Low cost and can go away in the winter. What size battery is needed to drive that?

We’re still in the warming part of a cycle emerging from the last of a series of ice ages. We’re not going to “slow that down” by paying out the nose for fuel. I don’t understand how people can look up at the giant nuclear furnace in the sky and say “Yep, must be those pesky SUVs that are...

Rain coming, 74 degrees, time to work for the bees. The flower is the size of a quarter BTW

You just taught me how to install electric fence in four paragraphs. Epic!

It depends on how much you want to split. I paid about $270 for an electric splitter and I’ve used it for 5 years now. I’m not in a hurry though and I only split wood for outdoor fires or just to get it to easily burnable chunks. I split about a pickup truck load each year.

Good post! I plant black oil sunflower out of the 25 pound bags at TSC. The get really tall. The squirrels and birds plant a lot of them for me, as they scatter them all over and rain washes them into little knocks an crannies around the yard and edge of the woods.

I’ve never had any problem with R4s tearing up my yard just going across it and I haven’t had any issues with traction in the fields or woods. I don’t think turf tires would cut it for going back my trails.

I’ve let buddies borrow it I think I see your problem.

Food grade often just means that a product can be used to clean or service machines, tools, containers, in food processing facilities. There are some food preservation techniques that use lye as well. And lye is used to turn corn into hominy.

It’s been working that way for 16 years so it obviously isn’t hurting it. As they say, “If if ain’t broke, mod it till it is.” Golf carts have worked like this for decades, and the gator is basically a golf cart.

Absolutely it does. Everyone who can make it better has their hands tied by the federal government. The industry would love to increase drillling.

The problem with that comparison is that 2nd half of 2020 is when oil future prices went below zero and the refineries were shutting down process units and operating at huge losses, because fuel consumption was so low that all of their storage tanks were full. Air travel, cruises, even driving...

Worn out water pump would be the next thing to check, not enough flow.

Oh yes. You can cut the weeds to the ground and dig out the roots and a week later they’ve grown back from a little piece you missed, but vegetables will die from being bent over by the wind. Somebody, bio-engineer some un-killable sweet corn please.

Yes. They “doubled profit” coming off of some of the worst years in their history. What you should be worried more about is that refining remains profitable enough that diesel and gasoline production remains a large scale, economical, operation in the US. Nobody misses the water ‘till the well...

Once in every few years someone will spot a bear in our area but they are extremely rare, which is good.

Nice train. I like the cow catcher on the front. 😉

A grand for a tractor seat. No, I think the standard seat will do. It could be a lot worse.

I like to have my mower be a separate piece of equipment. It would not be practical (or fun) to have to use the tractor to mow around the house and gardens, especially with the loader attached. I also would not want to have to drag around a MMM all the time or have to take it off and put it on...

Stupid question from flyover country. Why isn’t the crawl space sealed? Even the spiders can’t access my crawl space. https://basc.pnnl.gov/resource-guides/unvented-insulated-crawlspaces

Exactly. And yet, my GMC pickup, which will nag you incessantly about the windshield washer fluid being low, will not make a peep or give you any warning that you’re running 40MPH in 4 wheel hi. 🤪 As far as my tractor, I (somehow) always remember to get out of 4wd as soon as I no longer need...

How are you planning to get the logs lifted onto the mill? That would be the sticking point for me. I have some big white oaks that are dying and I don’t know if I want to let them become woodpecker habitat or try to turn them into a rough sawn board fence. A 20 inch diameter white oak log is...

Good luck brother. Personally, I wouldn’t put too much effort into writing a garden planning app, unless you’re just doing it for fun.

Yep. We freeze, tomatoes, sweet corn, onions, peas, green beans, okra, egg plant (cooked), summer squash (cooked), potatoes just keep in a cool place. Also string white half runners with a needle and thread and hang up to dry. Dried black beans.

Yep. I’ve been writing apps for 35 years. Love apps, but most of life you just don’t need an app for. KISS principle.

It’s supposedly being done in the name of “fairness” and yet the small landlord is being royally screwed over. This is driving out the small investor and consolidating rental housing into the hands of large corporate entities. The net effect is going to be that once rental housing is controlled...

Deer (unless desperate) usually won’t touch pumpkin, eggplant, summer squash, okra, onions, so I generally grow those wherever I want to without any fencing. They will eat sunflowers but I’ve been able to grow lots of those without too much getting eaten.

Deer, like horses, will not jump a fence unless there’s enough room on the other side, which is why you see double fences around horse farms. I’ve had some luck making the garden plots 10 feet wide with t-posts and wire down both long sides. The deer won’t walk in to the ends. I guess it’s...

I can’t imagine any reason that I would need an “app” to plant a home garden. I can lay it all out in my head.

The old timers say there’s only two things that grow well here, rocks and sassafras trees. I think they’re leaving out cedars.

Welding is like playing the guitar, you don’t get better by buying new guitars.

The key to a stick welder is having the right sticks for each use case. It makes a huge difference.

Pretty black soil. I wish I had a spot like that for my “human plot”

April showers bring May flowers.

Honey Locust tree

The entrance to Mammoth Cave

I buy any major brand of multi purpose grease. The color of the grease is an indication of what color dye they used when they mixed it. 😉 I’m putting 30 or 40 hours a year on most of my stuff. I was in Texas several years ago when GM was rolling out the “Texas Edition” pickups. I asked a dealer...

They look like superheros with capes.