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30 x 30 on gravel, two horses - soffits under eaves 1st and 2nd floor, gable vents both ends, cupola eave vents Metal is on 2x4's on rafters. The windows are always closed, horse door is always open. Nothing fancy. We store hay on the 2nd floor. Hay bales stored in the spare stall will mold...

Getting out on the tractor - (2003, NH TC30) is a pleasure- nice to be productive doing something. - Tilling the garden.

This would be the likely tool - but have to order it from abroad - Quick-On Coupling Pliers | grube.eu

My 98lb Peter Wright - about 1850. Got it to lug around for demos back in the early 1980's. Nice to work on. Been sitting mostly now.

Close and handy - a post vice I adpted to the stump by bending the leg up to mount it.

Here's our TC30 and our horse and pony! - Kalli an arab and Tucker a hackney. Fun guys!

Old pic from the 1960's. Our ford hooked to our spreader by the ramp. When we cleaned the dairy barn, we'd push a wheelbarrow full of manure up to dump it into the spreader. I found this piece of a photo - didn't realize I had it. Good memories of that tractor.

As I age, I do less. But that has really picked up in the last year due to my shortness of breath and O2 usage. Last fall we bought a used Fisher HD plow for the truck. It works well. Just last week the battery was dead - wan't shut down properly. Of course this was the week I caught my wife's...

Move on - tell them you are going to with a deadline and if they show up good. If not find someone else. Horses need company, at least a pony. One horse will be too lonely. Also plan to build them a run-in in barn with wide doors- that you can close up into stalls. They like the run - in. My two...

I've done a lot of trenching drainage ditches with my mini backhoe. I found the best way was to pay attention to the slope of the drainage ditch, always making sure that the drainage ditch was dropping as it went along - to keep the water flowing. This was important where it cut into other...

There is always a way to get the tools together if you work at it. A brake drum forge is straight forward to make. (on you tube. The hole in the center has 3 bars welded across to let the air in and keep the coal in the forge. You can use black pipe for the air inlet on fold and weld on your own...

Interesting - Hydraulic Top Link lengths

We moved two small wooden silos as a kid. We still had an original foundation. Found a silo that fit it - tongue + groove vertical planking cut at an angle. All hardwood I think. 2" planks? We had staging all around it and the metal hoops were level and were tightened slowly to bring it all...

Our two horses enter the barn through the same door we do. Their feet mix the sawdust, manure, in with the dirt and it can get pretty thick. There is a slope to get into the barn and a crosscutting drainage slope fifteen feet from the doorr as well. It still gets mucky. I find the solution is...

I use these for tin and roofing. https://images.homedepot-static.com/productImages/6123f081-05b6-4453-a89b-94eefc46ae52/svn/dewalt-nibblers-shears-dw890-64_1000.jpg

I walk with 2 canes and this summer I started toting an oxygen tank around with me. I use a scooter to save my breath. I have two steps to climb up onto my tractor (1st one step then I added the lower step) and a hand lever attached to the pedal for braking. I've mounted the seat further back...

I have these 30" clamp on forks by Titan. Easy on, easy off. Very handy. Well made. Titan 3" LW Clamp on Pallet Fork 15 lbs Capacity Loader Bucket Skidsteer Tractor: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific

In central Maine we always get snow. When we first moved here and I was young, I shoveled the drive. Then I got a Bolens snowblower and used that. I got hold of a 1948 Farmall Cup with a blade and that worked pretty well. I picked up a Snowbear plow from Sams Club and used that for a few years...

Re: What to use to keep wooded acreage "plantation cut"? Undergrowth mowing? I use an older version of this in my spruce/poplar/maple woods with raspberry undergrowth. This handles anything (spruce) 1/2" or less. I use it to mulch (run it over a few times) brush that I am too lazy to pick up...

I just bought two 30" clamp on titan forks for my TC30. Prime 2 day delivery. They work great for brush, I bought them to use to hold a disk clamped to a bar for throwing dirt up onto a garden row cover. When I bolted the bar to the bucket, the 3 bolts sheared. Attached onto the titan forks -...

Tension your fence first, then add electric. Just turn the insulator in your pic upwards and hold it on with a couple of zip ties or twisted wire. I'd suggest electric tape wire instead of steel wire (personal preference). Amazon has many insulator types, different lengths. This one could be...

This is an interesting approach to adding a rear ramp - It is an accessory for this company. Looks like it is aluminum - 1200. - But doing the same thing in steel and welding it in place, while leaving the doors that you have may be an idea to consider. Also you might get away with a shorter...

We have a two horse Valley trailer. steel. Nothing fancy and it came with a steel ramp. It has springs to make lifting the ramp easier. However, my wife can't lift it, and I find it difficult to do so. So I installed a winch to lift the ramp. The nylon strap is out of the way when I use it, and...

40F today and 16" is waiting to be plowed out there from yesterday's late ending storm. Taking my time- a benefit of being retired! - Never lost power - that is unusual for Maine! - I'd love to let it just melt, but my wife would not be too thrilled! Here is an interesting photo I took through...

It is a heavy wet snow. Much like the last storm a week ago. It is still falling and supposed to stop by 7pm. It is above freezing and I am glad this is not rain coming down. We have not lost power which is nice! I don't mind letting the generator sit idle! Here is a pic from the front porch...

my 2003 NH TC30 and bush hog

I'm thinking one of these or similar. We use the tractor bucket to get it onto the porch- then it gets carried in 2 pieces at a time and stacked inside. This would cut handling time- load it just inside the door and then roll it to the stove. (Could make one also.)

We have an electric fence to keep clear of spruce branches. We have fallen behind. Usually I run a bush hog on the pasture side. Then I go through an snip the branches with a lopper that are leaning on the electric fence wires. I'm thinking this year of getting a Ryobi 40v hedge trimmer that I...

It is snowing now- tomorrow will be tractor time to clear the snow. Yesterday I had this guy land just outside the window, on the shingle cover over the window box where where we feed the stray cats. This a ruffed grouse (partridge}. Has been around the house. This is from the last storm -

Between 3-4' high around where I plow. I use a bucket so it is as high as 5' in places. We are due for 8-12" of snow tomorrow - so the banks will be up there again. When it gets hard to see over them in my pickup when I pull onto the road is when I know they are up there! The road I live on is...

I would not try to put a backhoe on my tractor. I'd get a mini-backhoe that I can tow or leave in place - where it moves on its own power. Here is a link. Towable Backhoe - Jansen USA Harbor Freights version- Search results for: 'backhoe' I have a minis backhoe that I bought from...

This years wood that will sit until next year, uncovered. Last year's wood that is headed in for the stove. You can see the tarp I put on in September for the weather.

We put a weather vane up we bought. I have another one up that I made. I love seeing these swing with the wind. Starlings will sit on ours. You did a nice job with yours. That ball bearing idea is good!

I put in a small road to my back field through wet clay and a boggy area. I ditched one side all of the way that was on the high side of the land. That stopped the water from coming across. I ditched 1/2 of the other side. I dumped the dirt from the ditching onto the roadway. Then I spread 4" of...

The bigger towns clear the sidewalks as well. Though usually they leave it up to the residence and store owners. They use a combination of plows, V plows, and snow blowers. The straight plow is the most common. This one is taken in Ellsworth, ME They get going when the snow gets too deep for...

I take the snow removal and sanders going past the house for granted. They are local contractors- gravel in the summer, snow in the winter. Our town has its pile of sand and salt as does every town in this area. Clicking through accuweather I came across pics of a recent snow storm in NC and...

Here is a pic of your harrow rotated so I could see it!

Old Ford 3 pt harrow ? I tried google just to see what came up- Here is a random diagram to get you thinking how things could go together. Good luck

The best in icecream - Giffords, as anybody in Maine will tell you! Ice Cream Flavors | Gifford痴 Ice Cream

In western Mass. on our farm we used this type of stone boat behind the baler. As the bales would be ready to drop we'd walk the planks up to get the bales and back, stacking them sideways. We'd drop off the bales in the same spot where the guys running the truck to the barn would pick them up...

I like potatoes and I used to be out every day killing potato bugs. I don't like pesticides and the organic type don't work well. This year I tried potatoes under row covers. The wind caught them but that was due to not using enough dirt to hold them down. They do work. I would get potato bugs...

I read that RV antifreeze is supposed to be used full strength, not diluted. But then I never heard of it before either. The antifreeze we get in Maine is either premixed and you use it full strength or you get it and add water according to the table and how much protection temperature wise you...

I have the 5' version of this- great tiller. 48 Inch Rotary Tiller-Tillovators

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This is a Farmall Cub with the type of International plow I have. I like this plow. It has a sprung mounted arrangement that bolts to the drawbar. It is raised and lowered with a chain to the top link. The angle/depth can be be adjusted on my TC30 by raising and lowering the drawbar. With this...

I used to plow (1 single bottom plow) with my 1948 8 hp Farmall Cub. I also used to harrow with it using this International harrow (pic from online) You can set the angle of the disks for the amount of bite you want. It did really well. When I got my TC30 I used that for plowing and disk...

Here is my 2003 NH TC30 with my 5' tiller attached. I was getting some wood to bring into the house and I hadn't unhooked the tiller yet after doing the upper garden. Bought it with 600 hours and has 1200 now. It has been a good tractor - just maintenance. 9x3 gear. I go back and forth between...

Here we are with our unregistered full arab mare at the stables 5 miles up the road. We trailer her here to get her used to new places. My wife rides her, She is 15 now and we have had her since she arrived as a boarder at 14 months. We got her after she was in effect abandoned by her owner in...

I bought a mini backhoe a while back with a 6hp engine. It was slow. I swapped out the 6hp for an 8 hp tecumseh. The original pump was a 1.2 GPM single stage. I swapped that out with a 11 GPM two stage. Just moving the bucket around into position was faster and when it came to digging it...

I buy 4 cords cut split every year. It goes the winter. I buy it a year ahead and what I'm burning this year was bought and stacked the year earlier. I've always made square corners, but this year I figured I'd use T Posts on the ends. Used the bucket to sink them in the ground and tied a nylon...

When my father passed away his 3rd wife handled all of the details. He was cremated in Texas where he died and she gave them a wooden box that fit into a cardboard box about a cubic foot if memory serves me (15+) years ago. Family and friends came for a memorial service at the cemetery (Mt...

It wasn't under sheet metal but under "electrical" and " lighting accessories". Great link - always good to deal with.

For a while the push in Maine was to build creative playgrounds for children in the different communities through the state through local fundraising. People loved it, kids included. Then it was pointed out that it was done with toxic pressure treated wood.......That is not so cool anymore! We...

Get her one of those armchairs that lift her electrically to her feet - take the strain off of her hips. Have a walker, canes handy for stability. Dry floors, no scatter rugs that can slide. no sills to step over. Chairs that don't require her to lower herself into them. Comfortable office...

I can't use my right leg on my tractor due to my arthritis. I have a gear tracor. I still needed the brake so I set the brakes to work together and bolted a piece of rebar on to the brake lever with 2 u bolts. I drilled a wood top to fit over the handle and bent the rebar so it would be at the...

Grindstone? They used a stone that would wear away.Keep it dry off the ground if you want it to last- especially if you have freeze cycles in your area. I used to use one in my forge - I dipped water on it before I'd start grinding. Nice stone. Here is an image off of google:

I have a 5' version of this for my TC30. Here is a 7' version Rotary Tiller-3-Point Rotary Tiller | Agri Supply 11518

HU and TU is designed to shear (undercut). The shoulder center of the bold remains in place when either end shears. The threads are just to hold the bolt tight with the use of the nut. They are not part of the shearing mechanism. Shear bolts are designed with specific lengths in mind. I...

I use this with my ladder against the metal roof. It stays up all of the time so that I can get to my wood stove chimney to clean the top. The brace is stable and rests on the surface of the pitched metal roofing. It holds the ladder above the roof, and above the gutter. Amazon.com: Louisville...

My daughter-in-law likes to mushroom. She checks our woods when they visit. Found a good bunch of these last year We gave her a kit over the winter to grow them and she did. Her mother, grew up in Russia taught her girls to mushroom, but Dasha is the best at it. My wife looks for chaga to make...

You might have luck with this site for an owner's manual. Mitsubishi MT2201 Service, Repair & Owners Operators Manual Shop - look for this on the page link (click on pic below to size it up - their web site is confusing so I gave you something to look for. I bought my TC30 manual from them a...

I set mine up for one barrel and a small pump. I had used it before for wood. I put a hydraulic link in and turned it in to a dumping carryall. My idea was to use my 7' plow on the bucket and put sides on the carryall which I did, and use that for moving and dumping horse manure from the barn...

This is what I did for my TC30. Nothing fancy but works. I put the first step/rung on when I got it - too high to climb up. I added the lower rung last summer, tacking it onto the first rung.

Nice tractor, Enjoy!

We had a 500 gallon below ground tank for gas. It had a hand pump. The majority of our fields were leased and 10-20 miles from the farm We filled the 5 gal cans to take to the fields where the tractors and machinery were. Once there, you didn't want to run out. Often someone was dropped off with...

I've noticed that the tank on my cub cadet snow blower (chinese engine I think) is made of metal. The same for my son's older snow blower and also on my cub cadet walk behind tiller. I figure things are cheaper in China- so they used steel again. They are rugged solid gas tanks- not the sheet...

Here is my 98 lb Peter Wright (1860-1800) made from a solid forged piece of wrought iron with a hot forged steel top plate. The two piece body gives it its ring. The larger anvil is my 189 lb Hill Anvil. Both were made imported from England. Here is a swedge block I won in a raffle a while back...

This or a version might help with your end of it. Amazon.com : Arnold Deluxe Universal Snow Thrower Cab : Snow Thrower Accessories : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Here is an internet photo of hauling the fishing shack out onto Moosehed Lake in northern Maine. Very popular - every lake when the ice is solid enough. Like a highway- the road onto the lake - pickups, snow sleds, 4 wheelers. Special ice augers, or by hand - you set the flag, have a beer, zip...

I picked up a carryall at tractor supply, bolted a floor on it and used it for wood. It worked well. - Same carry all with some sides and front. I have a hydraulic cylinder up top and it can dump. I had to drop the 3 pt pins down to the corner so that I could lift it high enough to dump for a...

My pickup is auto- only way I could get a heavy enough transmission for towing on my silverado. The stiff springs make it feel almost like a standard! My tractor is a gear 9x3. I like standards over automatics of any kind. I like the direct response to the gas and clutch. On snow- I really like...

The bricks start cracking and breaking into smaller pieces. I measured them and ordered new ones on Amazon. You can cut them to size with a cold chisel , scoring them and tapping with a hammer little by little. You can see the back middle fire brick is not as wide as the others. Took an inch...

I am pretty stiff and I use canes to get around when I am not on the tractor! You can see them lying against the old pile. I use a pulp hook to pick up the wood, move it, and so on. The tip is barbed slightly and keeps the wood from slipping off without a twist. Every few years I'll clean it up...

I don't burn much a winter. Just 4 cords, sometimes less. But it is the primary heat and we use a large Shenandoah that looks more like a box furnace. Ugly as all get out, but it holds the fire all night. Fire brick lined - I'm on my second set of bricks- replaced them last year. I buy 4 cords...

I bought my first Chevy Silverado in 1993. I am on my second. Tough trucks, handle well, and fun to drive. My current truck, a 2003 4x4 2500HD WT Silverado has done its share of work, wood, plowing, highway driving, hauling. Even hit a deer up front and been hit by another. Never stopped, going...

Here is a pic that popped up on google for a rock picker- off TBN. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/build-yourself/426615d1432650832-rock-picker-5981668_36l0ewtsq-jpg

We still do ours by hand- got about 500' of double rows of norlunds, red pontiacs, and russet from our last years potatoes we saved. I kill the potato bugs by hand everyday. No pesticides of any kind. I grow them under bio plastic for weed control. They are ready to dig. I go up the rows...

No! the byproduct re water is useless for anything except as a source of pollution - even gets heavy metals into what they grow when they use it for irrigation like they do in CA. (Sell it to the Saudis!?) Tasty looking fracking water isn't it! - I like spring water , or the water from our...

Another drying source of water CA: So what happens down the road when the aquifers get low? Here we have the Saudi's raising alfalfa in California and Arizona for their cattle back in the mideast. Irrigation...

Lowest level since 1935. Lake Mead 215: Photos Show Water Level Nearing Record Low As Drought Threatens Southwest

I had good luck with this. i used it to take off the top of an old chimney foundation. Easy to use. My wife even tried it.Much easier than a sledge! Amazon.com: XtremepowerUS 22Watt Heavy Duty Electric Demolition Jack hammer Concrete Breaker W/Case, Gloves: Home Improvement

I bought this:ScanTool 425801 OBDLink SX USB: Professional OBD-II Scan Tool for Windows I use my laptop (downloaded program from link provided. I connect my laptop to my Siverado and it gives me the error codes plus a bunch of other stuff. Works. 1st time doing this. Amazon.com: ScanTool...

Not towing. but heading to a Berkshire county 4-H fair- all loaded up - early '60s. Always enjoyed the trip up and back.

This is a fun video of a model corn harvester and farm stead. A ton of work went into it. Looks very good.

I pressed two buckets of our wild apples today, Close to two gallon- haven't done anything with it yet - just clean up. I have a sold bucket of pulp left after pressing. I filled the slatted wood hopper right to the top with pulp to start with. Pressed down just below the 1/2 way point. I am...

We have about 21 wild apple trees growing about the place. They look like Joyce apples- a cross of Macintosh and Liveland raspberry (1923 Ontario). Being wild- there are a few trees that may be original, but the majority are volunteers. For the most part they are delicious, tart, good green or...

Steve- this is the guy who wrote what you quoted. He has a facebook blog.

Google this topic if you don't like this source - Roundup in breast milk.......and nobody pays me to do this.: -Never heard of the product you posted; I would never use a herbicide, I'd rather mow. plow, or till. Scott is a chemical company- last place I'd go for an organic product. Monsanto’s...

New garden in this location- just tilled this year. We are using bio degrade plastic. So far it has been raining every few days so we are ok. No drip hose under the plastic. Because we moved our potatoes here- the potato beetles have not caught up. We did have a crow pulling seedlings up, and...

Here is a moral tale- rather interesting. Remember those watches whose hands glowed in the dark? This is the story of the girls who painted the hands with radium paint. Great ads and pics of the time. The Radium Girls The Radium Girls and the Generation that brushed its Teeth with Radioactive...

Cancer- it is serious. My brother died of brain cancer. Others members of my family on both sides have dealt with it. Coworkers, students, their parents have all been afflicted. Was it always like this? No. All of the chemical crap has done its job. CDC - Cancer Rates by U.S. State Which...

Are you referring to this? Titan 3 point hitch Pallet Fork Attachment Category 1 tractor carryall 3PT-PF $295.00Buy It NowFree Shipping 3 Point Forks | eBay

Good pic on link below, takes less tractor with a stone boat than to move it with a loader. Work the corners with leverage to shift it. http://www.mytractorforum.com/71-ford-post-1990-new-holland/153532-homemade-stone-boat.html

I planted a new garden in the back field, along with some young trees. It is too far to run a hose, so I got a 55 gal rain barrel from Walmarts and stuck it on my carryall. The siphon action was ok until the barrel was 1/2 empty. then it stopped. So I bought a small pump- 1 gal/mn and set it up...

I don't know this tractor, except from pictures. TractorData.com Cockshutt 540 tractor information Oliver Cockshutt 540 Parts - Yesterday's Tractors Equipment - INTERNATIONAL COCKSHUTT CLUB INC. Cockshutt 540 Free Tractor Data | Instant Online Info, Specs and More serial numbers of...

Great football game. New England Patriots are tough. Sea Hawks did well, out played and lost. I've always enjoyed Tom Brady and Bill Belichick over the years. Wilforks is only other player left from the 2004 Superbowl team. Good to see them win. Tough, thinking team. Gave it their all. Did New...

I don't like doctors, medicines and the whole medical process, so I am always looking for alternatives. Here are some things I have a preference for: toothaches- I use left over antibiotics for a couple of days; arthritic inflammation - ceylon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon in my morning coffee every...

Every time I go and plug my block heater in on my TC30 I can hear it, It sounds like something sizzling (antifreeze!). It is full up - I topped it off a month ago, The fluid color is good, green. I replaced the thermostat and temp sensor a year ago. It does not overheat, the fluid level stays...

This was a good documentary that I watched a portion of today. It is well done and provides some new information that I was unaware of. Luogocomune - Sezioni

Giving thanks is something we each do in our special way:

6 cords were delivered Friday. Time to start stacking. 4 cords will be for next year. I used to get it dumped near to where I stack it, but using the bucket. it doesn't matter anymore. I am finding that 8 buckets is about 1 cord. I have a five foot bucket. I keep forgetting how new wood is...

I have a new bumper pull horse trailer- this spring, and I was taking the tires off and doing some undercoating. It didn't come with a tire wrench or jack, so I got the wrench from the dealer and the jack elsewhere. So today I've got it up in the air and am taking off the third tire using the...

This is my last month at work. I've been teaching 26 years in the same highschool classroom here in Maine. Students I once had have been sending me their children! 12 years before that were spent working for the state of Mass. -mental health counselor, assistant psychologist, teacher, and group...

The RT Hummingbirds are a little late this year in comparison to last year. Cooler. Same for the tree swallows. The intermittent frosts seem to have held them south of us in the Augusta region along the river from what my son says. Nothing in our area. I saw 5 lessor yellow legs earlier this...

While it was 17F this morning, spring is here I suppose! We have the usual birds- robins, redwings, grackles (common and rusty), juncos, sapsuckers, flicker today, song sparrows and a fox sparrow singing this last week. The winter snows have brought back our flooding fields (it has been a long...

I always have used Mastergold 10W-30 year round in my 2003 TC30. Never a problem. I went and bought some hydraulic and engine oil a few days ago and drained the engine oil today. When I went to fill it up I saw they had thrown in 15W-40 instead of 10W-30. I stuck it in, (needed to use the...

I bought a class 6 pto shaft from you recently for my pull bush hog. Did the trick- been using it this summer!

That's a shame. Too much manufacturing heads to cheap labor countries. We've lost our steel and along with it the industries using steel. Our scrap iron leaves the country as well. It has a terrible ripple effect downward. Good luck with the job search!

For years I never minded oil or grease on my hands- part of life. About 10 years ago I was changing the oil on my truck, laying on my back and unscrewing one of those filters that screws upward (same as on my tractor/hydraulic). There is no way that I know of not to get oil all over your hand...

I saw my first robins of the year down between Albion and South China yesterday. It was a flock of 5-6 in sumac by the dirt road I was on. I saw them there last year about this time. We still have about 5 inches of snow on the ground, but the temps are in the 30's and low 40's. It was snowing at...

How long do you leave your tractor plugged in? Just when it really is cold, or all the time? I've been wondering what's the best way to go. I'd like to leave it in all the time. It's handy but that constant heating makes me wonder about the gaskets and the need to rebuild the engine. I had a...

Some interesting charts from Global Climate Change Indicators show the Evidence - Climate Change - AccuWeather.com Of course it is all lies and scheming GW stuff- somehow the dollars will do a rainbow arc from your pocket to mine- you must be a leprechaun denier...

Climate Insurance Climate change can have adverse impacts on climate insurance affordability and availability, potentially slowing the growth of the industry and shifting more of the burden to governments and individuals. Most forms of insurance are vulnerable, including property, liability...

For the last year and a half I've been using a cane. I have arthritis in my hip and it helps me to get around, especially when I am stiff. I make my own canes -rough. I've made 6, from ash, apple, and maple. I've put hame tops on 4 of them. They work pretty well and my design improves as I go...

Toppop is ok- just adds a bit of spice- keeps things from getting boring! Ok that aside- nominations are now open for the Ostrich Club! ...global cooling may be coming to Maine- been in the 40's today and a few flakes were visible. Chili-dogs days ahead. I don't know what we would do without...

New NCDC Map puts Months into Historical Perspective - Climate Change - AccuWeather.com How Did September Temperatures Rank Globally? October 08, 2012; 5:17 PM September 2012 was unofficially the 5th warmest September in the satellite record, which began in 1979, according to Remote Sensing...

Years ago I bought some excellent mixed hay, leafy and green, full bales. It was dry, dust free perfectly conditioned. The farmer told me he was putting sludge on his fields and the hay was really growing thick and tall. I was impressed. That winter my 2 horses and pony colliced. We almost lost...

I have a mini Northstar Trencherman backhoe that I picked up 20+ some years ago from what was then Northern Hydraulics. (Modified since from 5 hp to 8hp and 1.2 gpm pump to 11 gpm 2 stage pump- faster) Lent it to a friend and it came back with a screwed up cylinder. I ordered a couple seal...

Hot Summer of 2011 Rewrites Record Books Published: September 8th, 2011 Hot Summer of 2011 Rewrites Record Books | Climate Central Not only that, but NOAA announced today that Texas had the warmest summer for any state in the US going back to when instrument records began in 1895. Oklahoma...

Record Low Snow Extent Jul 9, 2012; 4:22 PM ET Snow cover extent in the northern hemisphere for June 2012 was the lowest in the 45-year record for June, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. According to the NSIDC, this rapid and early retreat of snow cover exposes large, darker...

Just drought info. Drier and hotter than it was in 2005.

I posted this in another thread. So much for the "cool" spots around the earth and new cool records set- they are not enough to offset the heating of global warming. The combined land and ocean average temperature was 1.53ｰF above average. "What makes this impressive is that it is not following...

I have a 2003 NH TC 30. Great tractor, but due to my arthritis, it feels more cramped than it did when I got it. Today- after bush hogging my back field and neighbor's field this week, I finally decided to move the seat back. I was tired of sitting on the fender and standing as I drove- though...

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I bought a Sears 42 " Briggs & Stratton 24hp ztr back in early March on sale. I finally had a chance to take it out today. I've always used a Sears GT 26 hp garden tractor for mowing, cleaning the horse barn, rocks, dirt etc.. I even used it with a blade for plowing. It's muddy in my area so I...

I saw 3 hooded mergansers swimming in a small brook yesterday by the road. Heard a cardinal singing and two purple finches were in the door yard. Tons of robins, redwings, and some cowbirds have shown up. There is still a fair amount of snow around, but it was sunny and in the 50's today.:)

I put a hand lever on my foot brake today. Nothing fancy, just took a piece of rebar and ground it smooth to take two cable fastening u bolts minus the sliding piece. The rebar is up against the pedal with a u bolt below and above. Behind the pedal I've got a 3/16 piece of flat stock drilled to...

Last year I used the bucket on my TC30 to move snow. This summer I fixed up my 7' snowbear plow to fit on the bucket. I doesn't swivel but I find I can push the snow where I want it to go. I plowed my two drives today - 8" of new snow. Basically I was leaning to use the setup so that I wasn't...

I'm putting in a threaded temperature sensor this weekend in my NH TC30. I'm used to using teflon tape and pipe dope for threaded plumbing joints. Should I do the same thing for the threaded temp sensor and just screw it in straight? Sometimes threads are cut on a taper and as it tightens, it...

I replaced the fuel filter on my 2003 TC30 yesterday. I discovered a few things. One was that my 2000 TC30 was really a 2003 TC30. I bought it from its 3rd owner last winter and went with what he said. However, in changing the filter, I found the date of manufacture on the motor. 03 looked like...

My 2000 TC-30 has the temp gauge out. Just happened last week. I was taking the radiator screen out and cleaning some leaves out. Is there a wire connection near the radiator I could have knocked loose? Where is the temp sensor a wire would go to? The fuel gauge right beside the temp gauge...

On my 2000 TC30 the manual says to shift the lever forward to engage the front wheel drive. My experience has been that it engages into 4wd by pulling the lever back. Anybody have an idea of what's going on? What am I missing?

Local parts guy told me that I don't need to use NH 134 hydraulic oil in my NH TC 30. He had another hydraulic oil 20-25 dollars less than the 134. I asked what was different. He said the 134 had some additives for moisture. He said to just add a bottle of dry gas to the 9 gal. of oil when I...

I have a 2 piece rops on my NH TC30 that is joined and pinned above the seat. I want to lower it 5-6 inches so I can drive it into my barn without a worry- 1.5" clearance now. I thought to cut the rops on either side, remove the unwanted length, and insert a piece of square tube, pin it, and...

I've had a mini backhoe from Northern Tool since 1990 (smaller than the one they sell now). It has worked well- ditches etc.. I replaced the 5 hp motor with an 8 hp Tecumseh. The 1.5 oil pump was replaced with a 2 stage 11gpm pump. I've split and twisted the leg support frame and had that...

I got tired of replacing electric winches, controls and wiring on my electric snowplow mount for my pickup. It always quit when I needed it and the parts had to be ordered. I bought a TC30 last winter and used the bucket. I got thinking that it might be faster if I mounted the snowplow on the...

Hooked up my 2000 TC30 (bought Feb 2011) yesterday. I bush hogged my horse pasture that was overgrown with goldenrod, poplar, spruce, choke cherry, dogwood, thorn, apple brush. The biggest was 2 in thick and a couple taller than I was on the tractor. First I hit them with the bucket, kept going...

The TC30 lower left link lift arm was bent - quite a bit on one side. I looked it up and NH had it for 160 or so and TSI for 30-40 for a generic Ford arm. I tried straightening it with the bucket and lifting front end up off the ground. That didn't work. So I overhung the ends on 2x4's and hit...

I've got a 7' snowbear snow plow I want to use with my 2000 NH TC30 - 30hp. I'm thinking of cutting down the snowplow mount so that the mount sits inside the bucket pretty close. I plan to bolt the snowplow frame to the bucket using the holes in the bucket that are already there to add teeth to...