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I have 40 acres that's 65 miles from where I live. It's mixed land with open pasture, 3 ponds, and a lot of mesquite trees. The fencing is in poor condition. It has an old house that isn't livable, a shed that's pretty new, and a 30x40 shop that is full of junk that I haven't gotten around...

A few years ago I put a 20 foot post in the ground with a LED yard light. It's at the far end of our fenced in area for our dogs, and my wife really liked having it. After about two years, it sort of died, but not all the way. Some days it would barely glow, other days it would sort of...

On Monday, Spectrum ran fiber optic to my house. Yesterday, they installed it. Since then, my mind has exploded in how fast it is!!! I've never been able to upload a video without waiting several minutes for it to happen, and half an hour wasn't unusual. So far, I've uploaded two videos, and...

Exactly 2 years ago, I got serious about fencing in 27 acres of my land to create a bigger pasture for my goats and horses. The fence has to be safe for my animals, and the only thing that does that is 2x4 horse fence. It's also the most expensive fencing out there. My thinking is to do it...

My 2022 Massey Ferguson 4707 tractor has a dead battery. The date of 09/11/2021 is on the battery, so I'm guessing that's how old it is. I bought a battery for my wife's van last month, and the guy at NAPA said that batteries only last 3 years on modern cars because of all the electronics...

A couple months ago, somebody ran fiber optic down the the road, in front of my place. There isn't a sign on the box, or anything to say who it was. Yesterday we found a Spectrum business card in our mailbox from Perez, with a phone number on it, and hand written on the card "fiber optic...

I've been buying hay from this guy for the last four years. His hay is the best that I've found. It's the most expensive too, but from those times before I met him, it's cheaper to buy from him then deal with all the bad hay out there!!!! These are 4x5 1/2 foot clean coastal horse quality...

I need to build a retaining wall in my backyard so I can change my fencing around for my dogs. Phase one is about 3 feet tall, and probably 20 feet long. Nothing huge. Then Phase two will probably be about the same height, but closer to 50 feet long to create a flower bed. I have some...

I think it's a coyote. My wife is convinced that it's a grey fox because of it's tail and ears. She thinks the ears are rounded. I don't see it.

Ten years ago I proposed to my wife. I asked her where she wanted to get married, and she said that she wanted it to happen at the pond. When I built the pond, I created a peninsula to build a gazebo on, but never got around to building it. So I drew some designs out for her to look at, she...

Looks like Covid KP.2 has infected my wife and I. I was working on a house for a client on Friday, and I thought the heat was wearing my out more then normal, but I kept thinking it was high humidity and something that I could just keep pushing through to get the job to where I wanted it for...

My 4707 Massey Ferguson feels kind of tippy when I'm mowing around my pond. I've been mowing it for two years now with that tractor, and it still makes me nervous. Before that I mowed with a smaller, open station tractor, and a 6 foot cutter, and that made me nervous too, but not as bad as the...

While minding my own business, just driving along, mowing the grass, I heard what sounded like a branch being destroyed by the mower blades. But it kept going of for longer then it should, so I looked back and saw a round cap laying behind the gear box, and oil everywhere. I headed back in...

Somewhere in the past I got it in my head that Moly Lithium grease was the best for all my tractors. I've been using it for years, and guess it's doing a good job. My zero turn has three pully's that my blades are attached to. There are two belts that turn the pully's. Just about every...

Beryl seems to be heading towards us in Tyler. We received an inch of rain last night from the outer bands that was heavy for awhile, with a bunch of thunder and lightning. Our local News is saying we should get between 5 to 7 inches of rain today, and to expect flooding. They usually...

I've never had a drone. I've never seen a drone in person. I don't know anybody that has a drone. I think it's time that I bought a drone. From watching YouTube, I think the DJI Mini 4 Pro is what I'm going to buy. Does anybody know anything about this drone? Or do you know of a better...

I have an old Kiddie home fire extinguisher in my dozer that I've never used, but thought it was a good idea to have one when working around the burn pile. Last weekend, I lit my burn pile and kept an eye on it in my new cabbed tractor. I thought I saw some ash float down on top of my fuel...

About a year ago, my wife bought a cheap, $24 corded leaf blower on Amazon that I figured was a waste of money. She wanted to blow off the deck and didn't want to spend the money on a cordless Makita, which is what all my cordless tools are. I sort of rolled my eyes at her decision, but...

When cleaning up my late brothers place, I came across a lot of direct bury 12/2 wire. Hundreds of feet of it. I'm sure that I'll find a use for it in the future, but as of right now, I can't think of any use for it. I'm running wire for my garage addition and I'm out of the regular yellow...

I have no plans of buying an EV, but I also never wanted a computer or a cell phone, so it would be silly of me to try to predict what I will or wont buy in the future. I'm adding on a garage to my house. I'm running the wires for my outlets and lights, and I'm going to run power for my welder...

I have three Ledmo LED Parking lot lights that where great while they worked, but they only last a few years before dying. I've replaced the sensor on top without any improvement. They sort of die like a fluorescent light does. The amount of light they put out drops dramatically, then it's...

The more chickens my wife hatches, the more feed I have to buy. I also buy feed for goats and horses. I'm spending a stupid amount of money feeding all these animals, and I'm trying to figure out a way to save a buck so she can have more animals. Joking. I enjoy the animals too, but I would...

Seems like all of a sudden, I'm seeing tons of videos of the Farmers protesting in France, and I'm loving it!!!! I'm not up to date on all of the issues, but from what I understand, the Farmers have had enough of higher taxes and regulations, and they are not going to take it any more...

One of the things I look for in pictures and videos of people pouring concrete, is if they use concrete chairs to hold the rebar off of the ground. If they are not using them, that's a huge red flag to me. The same thing if they are using wire instead of rebar, that's a red flag. While...

My parents grew up in Canada, and moved to the US in the 60's. My Mom's very first job was with a bank in Canada, and my parents have kept there account open with them ever since then. My Dad passed away a few months ago, and my Mom is wanting to get her affairs in order. We have called the...

I think that I'm in the market for a brand new manure spreader. I've never had one before. I've never seen one being used before. I just watch YouTube and seen them on there. I have 68 acres, 4 horses, 50 or so goats and I'll be adding cattle later this year. Four to start, but they are...

I've come to the realization that my new Massey Ferguson 4707 tractor needs some weight in it's rear when I'm moving dirt on my land. It's really bad when I'm going downhill and stopping before dumping the bucket. It feels like the tractor wants to flip over, and a few times, I'm positive that...

When the days got shorter, I had to work in the dark to put round bales in the hay cradle. What surprised me was that the head lights where totally blocked by the hay bale. In the picture, you can see where the headlights shine on the bale. I couldn't see anything past the round bale with...

In another thread, I asked about a chainsaw which led to talking about what fuel to put in it. This led me to spending the extra money to buy Ethanol Free Gas for my Kawasaki Mule, lawn mowers and log splitter. In every case, they all start easier, run better and seem to have more power...

I pulled up to my shed to add some hydraulic fluid to my Backhoe, and thought this was a good picture. It shows most of my tractors. The dozer is off in the woods, out of the way, and my mowers are behind me, in the shed.

I saw this on FB and I don’t understand how to read it. If I have a 500 pound heifer, what would she sell for according to the chart?

https://www.trulia.com/home/72-Silver-Mountain-Rd-Millerton-NY-12546-337585374 Look at the pics of the inside of the barn!!!!!

I have several Stihl and Husqvarna chainsaws that are nickel and diming me to death. They are in the shop, or impossible to start. I'm sure it's because I've been using cheap gasoline in them, but they are all well over a decade old and I really want something new. I have an Echo pole saw...

When we got our first two goats, it was easy to feed them, along with the horses and chickens. When we where up to 10 goats, it was still easy to feed them and the other animals. But somewhere along the way of having 50 goats, things got out of control. They swarm the food, climb into the...

I've been pulling T posts with a chain on my front loader, and I'm wondering if there's a way to do it that I don't have to get off the tractor for every post? Something for sale that hangs off of the loader that I can lower to the T post, and then lift it out would be ideal. If not, I'll...

I have a Mansaver T Post pounder that requires 20 Weight Hydraulic Oil. I just got it this year and I've used up almost all of the 8 oz bottle of oil that it came with. To order another bottle from them will cost $5 for the oil, and the cheapest shipping is $20...

I bought my first cab tractor last year, and I really love everything about it except the mirrors sticking out the sides. I try hard to avoid hitting branches with the cab, but I'm not so good at not hitting branches with the mirrors. It seems like every time I go out to mow with my 12 foot...

I inherited my brothers LA175 mower with 200 hours on it. I believe he bought it brand new around 2011 or 2012. He didn't put a lot of work into it, but he didn't use it very much either. He had a 250 CA battery in it, which wouldn't start the motor. I put a brand new 350CA battery in it...

I bought my 2003 Century 2535 brand new from a dealer that started out good, but hasn't been for a very long time. I haven't been there to ask about this, but I will if I have to. My tractor is the same thing as the Branson 3510 I've had just about every electrical issue there is, but for the...

I'm working on a house for a lady who recently became a widow. Her husband had retired and started a massive remodel of their house, then passed away about half way through it. His buddy tried to take over, but wasn't really up to it. I'm finishing things off, fixing a few things, and...

Five years ago my wife was in the hospital for 30 days while fighting colon cancer. During that time I didn't do a good job of collecting eggs from our chickens, and they hens hatches 112 eggs. This turned out to be a good thing because it gave my wife the motivation to be active and take care...

I have an elderly client who is a little wacky about her cats. Her backyard has a fencing system to keep her cats in, but it doesn't work at keeping a couple of stray tom cats out. She has stage 4 cancer and is driving to MD Anderson in Houston, 4 hours each way, for treatment. Between the...

Last year I bought a 12 foot batwing, and it's been a huge game changer for me. I used to mow with a 6 foot cutter and I barely mowed my entire place in a year, now I'm doing it all in just a few days. My pond used to take me three days. Not fully days, just the way I broke it down into what I...

I have a tractor at my brothers farm that's an hour away from me. I go there once a week to check on things, do some work on the place and stuff like that. The tractor is kind of hidden behind a building, but anybody trespassing will find it easily enough. The neighbors are pretty good, but...

My wife is in the Master Gardener program here in Tyler Texas that's run by A& M. While discussing native trees, she showed them a picture of our biggest tree. A Loblolly. The instructor was amazed, and told us to measure it because he thinks it's bigger then the current Champion Loblolly...

I'm planning/thinking long term on what I need to buy. I'm in the process of buying my late brothers farm that's 60 miles away from my place. The two main reasons I'm doing this is that I believe it will significantly increase in value over time, and while I'm waiting to sell it, I want to...

My third Stihl 291 chainsaw has just died on me and I'm not gonna buy another. My brother has a Husqvarna 460 with a 24 inch bar that fires up quickly and it has a ton of power. The bar is longer then I like, so I'm looking at 20 inch bars for it. On Amazon, there are two 20 inch Oregon...

With the recent passing of my brother, I'm in the process of taking ownership of his cattle. He has a 40 acre farm about 60 miles from my place. I have 68 acres. He has 15 Herford's and one Angus bull. From what I understand, he just bought the bull for $3,500 and he was wanting to cross...

For the last couple of weeks I've been using my pallet forks a lot to unload stuff from my trailer. They have bee great for picking up thing, but also hanging a chain from to lift awkward items. The other day when I was driving home, I saw a couple of stumps on my place from the road that have...

My brother is still alive and in ICU, but his lungs and heart are on a machine that is keeping him alive. His heart stopped for 15 minutes on Sunday and his doctors have been doing tests to see if there is any brain activity. This is day three, and they want one more day to make sure. I...

I'm calling this my redneck repair because I used a toilet water line to replace part of my fuel line. For whatever reason, the metal tube became loose in what I'm guessing was a compression fitting. But there isn't anything on the metal tub for the nut to grab onto, and a 1/4 inch...

My wife is constantly increasing her gardens, which is increasing how much water she needs to water them. Last year the most I paid for my city water bill was $200. This year, she hit $400!!! My plan has always been to build a dock on my pond and install a pump so I could water the gardens...

What is the reason for having the valve stems on a brand new tractor to be on the inside? Tractor is a 2022 Massey Ferguson 4707. Dealer says that it rides best with 15 pounds of air in the tires, which is probably true, but I don't like how they bulge, so I raised them to 25 in the front and...

So I just got a bigger tractor that has 70hp. The tractor that I've been using since 2003 was 37hp. My rotary cutter is a light duty 6ft Land Pride. I don't remember what hp it's rated for. I was cutting with it today for several hours and it was working great. Then all of a sudden, it...

I have a Scag Wildcat zero turn with a Kawasaki liquid cooled 26hp engine. All of the wiring diagrams for it leave the engine out. I can't even find anything that says what start is has. One of the odd things is that since this started happening, the water temperature gauge isn't working...

About a year ago I started getting serious about buying a tractor with AC. I started out looking at used tractors big enough to pull a 15 foot batwing. I might have looked at every single brand out there, I went to quite a few places with plenty of used tractors to look at. While I was...

Game camera caught this and we thought it was funny.

A dozen years ago, maybe more, I brought my front tire into the shop to get a flat fixed and they suggested foaming them. I liked that idea, so I brought both tires in. They put brand new tires on it and then filled them with foam. The tires are now starting to fall apart and it's become...

I need to buy new front tires for my little tractor. The current tires have 7.16 R1 on them, so I'm guessing that's the same as 7-16. I've been searching online and found a great price for a Carlisle 7-16 D tire for $135. This is an 8 ply tire, where most of the others that I've seen are 6...

Here in East Texas, I've been able to buy 5 foot round bales for $50 and 6ft bales for $65, for years. With inflation this year being what it is, I expected to pay more for hay. Yesterday, I found out that a 6 ft bale of clean, fertilized, coastal horse quality hay is $85 each. Delivery...

I've heard about square bales spontaneously combusting if they are stored too soon after baling. Does this happen with round bales too?

I'm not looking for a Branson tractor, but I thought this was a really good price. I've been to this place a bunch of times and bought a few things there. If you are looking, and in the Tyler TX area, it might be a good deal for you. No, I'm not going to go there for you, or help in any way...

I have a 2wd 1998 New Holland/Ford 555E loader backhoe with 8,500 hours on it. It runs strong and works great considering it's age. I've never had any serious issues with it, just small things like dirty fuel and overheating. Yesterday I was using it and it just turned off all of a sudden...

With the cost of everything increasing, I'm trying to figure out how to spend less on feed. We started out buying 40 pound sacks of Chicken Scratch for $6 each for the last five years. Now it's $10 each, and I believe it will continue to increase. The price has been jumping every other month...

My 80 year old mom knows better, but she just fell for a scammer on FB messanger. They sent her a message pretending to be a friend from church that said that the church was eligible for a large amount of money from a donation. In order to get this money, they needed everyones information, so...

My dealer just posted this on FB. For me, the most significant difference is in the weight of the 4707 compared to the others.

I've spent years clearing my fence line, and I'm still a long ways from being done, but I'm finally at a place where I can start building it. Since I have horses and goats, I'm going to do it all in 2x4 horse fence that's 4 feet tall. I'm running a strand of barbwire at the bottom for my...

I've seen posts on something like this before, but I can't find anything that does what I'm wanting. Is there a GPS App that you can mark two points on your land and create a line between those points so you know where to place your fence? I have fence posts set at the pins about 2,000 feet...

Sometimes I do a lot of sanding on peoples homes, especially when I'm repairing all their exterior wood. When jobs like this happen, I need a really good five inch sanding disk. In my opinion, most are junk, a few are OK, and 3M is about the best I've come across. They only sell them in the...

I'm leaning towards buying an older, pre Tier4 cabbed tractor, but if I was to buy new, I think that the 4707 is probably the best one out there right now for what I want to do. In other threads, I've read that they paid around $50,000 for their tractors. A few spent a little less, a few...

I saw this tractor online and I'm sort of curious about it. Does anybody have any experience with it? Is there any known issues or things to be concerned about? Can you still get parts for it? Is there a way for the hours to be faked? It says that it only has 539 hours, but the overall look...

Are the 40 series tractors Tier3 and are all the 60 series tractors Tier4? Would a 2012 7060 Kubota tractor be Tier4 even though it's a 2012 tractor? I'm just assuming that every 60 series Kubota is Tier4. Is there something on the engine to look for to see if it's Tier4? Is there a...

I'm just starting to look at getting a bigger tractor so I can pull a batwing mower. There is a Kubota for sale that might interest me with just one single rear remote. It's a 2004 M9000. From the pictures inside the cab, it looks like there really isn't another way to add a second remote...

I recently paid off the loan on my wife's mini van and I'm thinking about buying another tractor. I don't really need it right now, so I'm not in any rush, but there are a few out there that kind of interest me. I'm not ready to go and look at them in person, I'm just kind of curious how the...

I'm sorta, kinda, looking for a cabbed tractor. I'm in no rush, but I would like to buy something before everything starts to grow again next year. One of the tractors that caught my eye while searching online is this Kioti DK90. I'm not familiar with Kioti. My impression of them that...

This is for sale locally and I was wondering if there is anyway to know if it's Tier 4 or not without actually having to go see it in person or call somebody on the phone? I'll probably do that next week anyway since there have a few tractors there that interest me...

There is a 2650 for sale locally that caught my eye. It's not exactly what I want, but it's pretty close. Since I don't know anything about Massy Ferguson tractors, I was hoping for some advice...

I've spent years clearing my fence line. I've just had a surveyor here to mark my corners and I've started buying posts. Now I can't find any fencing. I don't care what brand I use, I don't believe there is any difference. What I want is 2x4 woven wire fencing that's 4 feet tall and 200...

There was a discussion on here awhile ago about mower blades and a few comments that it was hard to understand how quickly Bahia grass wears out mower blades. I go through 3 sets of blades a year on my Scag zero turn mower. I changed my blades yesterday. This is when I scrape my deck and do...

With the price of meat skyrocketing and inflation getting worse every month, we are wanting to start processing more of our own meat. Most of it would be for making dog food. We have wild hogs on our land that we can hunt year round, and a bunch of roosters every year that turn into the devil...

For years I was able to avoid the new types of gas can spouts that are so awkward to use. But then my 20 year old gas cans started to leak and I had to buy a new one. The threads on the new can wasn't the same, so I couldn't use the spout that worked so well anymore. I knew the new style was...

I'm in the early stage of converting my shop into a Great Room. It's 24x30 with 12 foot walls. The way things get done around here, it's probably a 2 year project, so I'm not in a rush for this, but I want to finish the interior walls with flat, live edge pine logs from my land and chink...

When I built my house, I built a lean to onto the side of my shop that has proven to be a good place to store stuff, but it is also an eye sore that I don't care to see every time I look at it. I was going to pour concrete, but that never happened, and I won't make that mistake again. As you...

I'm in a long, drawn out process of adding on and remodeling my house. One of the things I'm doing is adding Natural Gas to my house. I have the gas line next to my house, but I haven't built my garage yet, which is where the line will come into my house. I plan on having a manifold in the...

I have PRO T855 thermostat for my HVAC system. It's been replaced twice and it's not working again. I'm tired of them replacing it with the exact same thing. The first two times it was under warrantee. Now it's gonna cost me. I might complain enough to get them to do it again for free, but...

My wife and I have been thinking that we need a way to be able to find each other if there is an emergency. Might also need this for my parents as they get older too. The main reason for this is that she drives a long way to drop off and pick up our show dogs. If something happened along...

I was looking at some tractors that are for sale on a local website and saw something that I never seen before. A John Deer 85F orchard tractor. They are asking $21,500 for it with 277 hours...

I'm sure that I've read that answer to this somewhere, but so far, I haven't found it anywhere. If all goes well, which is never does, I'm sort of, kind of, hoping that I might actually buy a cab tractor later this year. If that happens, the two concerns that I have is Tier 4, and computers...

Next door to me is a natural gas line with a tap that the gas company is currently working on. They are in the process of running a new gas line down the road and in the evening, they park the excavator inside the fenced area around the tap. Yesterday I went out front to mow the weeds along...

I'm not ready to buy a batwing yet, but I enjoy looking at what's out there. One of the things that I don't understand is the ring that goes around the stump jumper. What does it do?

Wednesday night, my wife and I are watching a show on Discovery called the Foods that Built America. During a part about Kellogg's and how they invented Granola and then Flake cereal, I told my wife that it would be funny if I started getting adds on FB about Kellogg's cereal. Neither of us...

I'm casually, but not seriously, looking at cab tractors, and there is a used Mahindra MForce 105P for sale that looks really nice. One of the things that I like about it, is that it's made in Korea, not India. Did the stop making the MForce? Are the 8000 and 9000 series the same thing or...

Every couple of years it will snow here. We ended up with 5 inches. The next day it was 50 degrees and the snow was gone by the end of the day. It was fun while it lasted, but we both stayed home and kept the fire going instead of going anywhere. Here are a few pictures that I took of my place.

Just received the phone call and it's official. I did the nasal swab last Friday. It wasn't too bad, but it's not something that I want to do again. They only tested me, even though my wife was in the car with me. They came out to the car and the RN did it all through the window with me...

Just over 2 years ago we had a new Amana 3 ton, 16 Seer HVAC system installed. Since then, the coils have become plugged up from very fine dog hair and dust. The coils are in an upside down V shape and I'm able to get under them and clean off some of the hair with a wire brush so air flows...

I've been replacing my driveway area lights with these LED lights from Amazon. They work really good with a very clear light that we really like. I paid $129 for them and the link is $10 more. I'm guessing that Amazon is adjusting the price to get a little more out of me if I buy another one...

About 15 years ago I cleared the trees, moved a bunch of dirt and created my entrance. I built the columns and installed the white vinyl three rail fence. Over the years I've sort of lost interest in the white vinyl fence to the point that I'm going to remove it and go with wood. But that's...

Start your own goat business! - farm & garden - by owner - sale I'm casually looking for a male dwarf pygmy goat for my girls and came across this ad. I admire the creativity of their marketing, but really hate to think of anybody falling for it. $450 for a doe is more then twice what they go...

My grandson will be 4 in a few weeks and he has asked me to build him a playground. He likes to swing and go down a slide and climb the rock wall, so those will be part of it. I'm also thinking about a fort up in the air, maybe attached to a tree in my back yard. Might make the slide go down...

I have a small 1,700 gallon pool that I fill up in summer and drain in the fall. It takes about 3 hours to fill it up, so I sometimes fill it and drain it several times during summer. I've decided to use Bromine to keep it clear and stop algae. I'm also going to add a Nature2 system to it...

I have a small, in ground pool that I'm building myself. It's only 3 feet deep and 12x16 feet wide. It holds about 1,700 gallons. My original plan was to do salt water because I heard that it's safer for dogs to drink. Recently I've learned that the small amount of salt in a pool is still...

My 2003 Century tractor is missing some of the foam between the radiator and the shroud. When I touch it, it crumbles, so I'm going to lose a lot more of it fairly soon. What would you use? I might swing by Napa some time this week, but I was hoping to find something online that can handle...

For awhile I was happy with Accuweather, but then they started hitting me with ads so much that I had to find another site. Weather.com was pretty good, but now they are pushing to upgrade all the time and I don't want to pay $10s s month to watch the radar. Who do you use and recomend?

5 years ago I paid almost $900 for a very nice, super quiet, KitchenAid dishwasher. For the first two years, we loved it. Washed and dried great and you couldn't hear it when it was running. Then it started making noise during certain cycles. Nothing real bad, just something that we could...

My 1998 New Holland 555E backhoe's hydraulics idiot light keeps lighting up, which indicates the hydraulics are overheating. It happens fairly quickly, but not always at the same time, and the harder I run it, the quicker it lights up. Most of the time I just use it to bring a bale of hay...

I've removed almost every wire on my tractor and I have it running better then I can ever remember. Best of all, I can now start it up easily every time I want to use it. One of the downfalls to my drastic actions is that I no longer have a working water temperature gauge. It worked before I...

My 37hp Century tractor is losing power. My first thought is to change the fuel filter and blow out the fuel lines. I'm also wondering if my aftermarket electric fuel pump is putting out enough psi. I'll have to buy a gauge to measure that. This kind of started last year when I gave up...

With people buying up some things in the stores, we've learned that our large supply of eggs puts us in a good position to trade with friends that have stuff that we want. Friday we traded 6 dozen eggs for 2 cases of wet dog food. Yesterday we traded 14 dozen eggs for 20 pounds of fresh, farm...

Wild hogs seem to come and go here. Sometimes you don't see any sign of them for weeks at a time, other times, they are tearing up everything, everywhere. This happened overnight and it's pretty extensive. My neighbor said that in one weekend, he counted over 300 on his 240 acres. I've...

Last summer my Ford/New Holland 555E Loader Backhoe hydraulic overheating temperature idiot light turned on. It was hot outside because this is East Texas in summer, but it had never overheated before. I cleaned out the radiators. There are three of them, and one is just for the hydraulics...

We are about ten days away from having our first litter of puppies and my wife is losing her mind. She has gone full crazy on having to have a camera to watch them when she is at work, or more importantly, to watch the mom to see if she's going into labor, so she can leave work and be home with...

I've been wanting to do this for awhile, but struggled making the decision on what to buy. Too many options and opinions that overwhelmed me. Then last week our Dish stopped working. They had to have somebody here for them to fix it, which I understand, but with our schedules, that meant...

This morning my wife successfully defended her Dissertation and officially earned her PhD. On Dec 13th, she will receive her degree at the graduation ceremony. What impresses me the most about this is that she is a High School drop out that was married with her first kid when she was 16...

For the last five years or so, the biggest bass that's been caught in my pond has been 5 pounds. We catch one pound bass over and over again and sometimes get a 2 pound fish, but that's about it. After my wife went through Chemo for her colon cancer, she has been very sensitive to the heat...

I saw this picture in an advertisement and was wondering about why they did a few things. If anybody knows, I'd appreciate the help in understanding it. Why 4 top plates? Why are there 3 cripple studs on each side, above the header? Thanks

I just saw this on FB and got to wondering how it could happen? I'm guessing that the tongue weight of the trailer along with whatever is in the back of the camper must have been so heavy that it leveraged the frame of the truck. But I just can't believe that frame would bend like this before...

Welcome This is the website for a club that my wife and I belong to that helps out the breed of dogs that we show with AKC. It's a registered charity that holds events a few times a year and then sends checks to different groups and people that are doing good things for Akita's in need. Over...

We've had a really good year in the garden this year, and my wife has gone crazy canning stuff. Her salsa is AMAZING!!! But now I'm struggling to open the jars. I had a plastic handled thing that was OK, not great, at getting them lids open, but I broke it last night. Today I really...

Couple of years ago I couldn't get my little Honda generator to start. It's always been easy to start, but that day it just sputtered and died. I thought it was a fuel issue, so I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out and even bypass the gas tank and run a separate fuel line without any...

My 1998 Ford/New Holland 555E loader backoe has water in the hydraulic fluid. I first noticed that the idiot light for the hydraulic temperature light was on. I cleaned the radiator, but it wasn't very dirty, and that didn't fix the light issue. Then I replaced the filters and saw that the...

Friends of mine North of Dallas are adding on to their house. I don't know anything about their contractor. They asked me to do the job, but it's two hours each way and I'm not going to drive that far with so much work available close to home. Take a look at the first picture and share with...

While I have my walls and attic open and easy to get to, I want to add cables for security cameras. One will be inside to watch the whelping area, which is motivation for this project, but then I also want another camera to watch outside the side of the house in that area. Distance for the...

I'm planning on building my permanent fencing for my goats and horses. Currently I just have three rows of white tape electric fencing that has worked fine, but it's aging and ready for replacing. I feel that class 3 galvanizing is worth the additional cost, so that's all I'm looking at...

One day, probably years from now, I hope to have a pump that I can get water from my pond to water my gardens. I don't know how big this pump will be, or if I will put it next to my house and run a thousand feet of pipe to the pond, or run the wire to the pond and put the pump in the pond. It...

I'm not ready to buy my big cab tractor yet, but I do enjoy looking at them from time to time and day dreaming about the day I can make it happen. Some of them have these buttons on the back fender and some don't. I'm guessing that they have something to do with the lift arms, but that's just...

I might have a job that will include welding, or maybe brazing, some copper. I will fold it over one inch and I need to connect the bent over part. This will be a cover that will go over a cabinet. It will be 22 mil thick, or 24 gauge. Its pure copper. What would you do? I might just take...

My projects around the land revolve on what my wife feels needs to get done first. Recently coyotes have become super aggressive at killing our chickens and she has decided that it's time to start fencing in more of the land. I've been looking for a dolly type fence unroller that I can pull...

I've read a bunch of threads on this topic and sort of got it in my head that they didn't work on long driveways with trees in the way. Then just recently it hit me that I didn't need to put it at the front of my property, but that I could put it fairly close to the house. I know it's kind of...

We've had a weird year this year and I'm in a bit of a situation getting hay for my horses. For the last three years, I've had great sources that lasted a few loads, and then got out of the hay business. Then I find another supplier that's even better then the previous one, and they disappear...

I've been going about this all wrong and hopefully I'm slowly figuring it out. My first mistake was not fencing out the horses from where we have to walk to get to the feed, and then having them behind a fenced area when we feed them. That's done and it's been a huge improvement. Next I will...

So the year started out pretty bad for us when we found out that my wife had cancer. Treatment was horrible, and recovery was even worse, but she's strong and she's a fighter. Every month she got a little better. Last month she went back to work. Now she's enjoying life again and doing one...

Three years ago I bought a Priefert Tombstone feeder for around $240 that I really liked. It worked perfectly and I thought at the time I bought it, that it was a good one. It was the most expensive one that they had. Tombstone Feeder Last year it started falling apart. I used the...

Kami, our little girl at only 23 months old, and only 82 pounds, was just listed as making the list for Top 20 Akita's in the country at number 14 for Breed, and number 9 for All Breed. National breed organizations are a little different then the regular AKC in that it's breed specific, and...

So nice being able to wrap a chain around the post and pull it out!!!!!

I'm still clearing my fence line, so this is just pure research. My original plan was to raise livestock by having one or two males, and the rest females for the maximum stocking rate that I can get on my land. A client runs 20 heifers on his 60 acres and one bull, but rotates the bull and had...

So I met my wife, we fell in love and got married. I had started on a pasture to have a couple of longhorns and she mentioned that one of her dreams was to have horses. I didn't see an issue over having a couple of horses instead of a couple of longhorns. Both are grass eaters and something to...

The wiring on my 2003 Century/Branson tractor is a mess. I've been struggling to get it started for a year now and it's time to do something drastic. I can bypass the key and run jumper wires to start it, but I'm wanting to make it semi normal by using a key like everyone else does to start...

I've become more and more frustrated with Google, and trying to find links to things that I've read in the past that went against Google's political leaning. I've also come to believe that if a company doesn't do what Google wants from them, they hide their website from their searches. Add to...

We have four dogs with over an acre of fenced in yard for them to run around in. The fence is 2x4 and we thought it was small enough to keep out most critters. We have had a few racoons climb over it over the years. Last night, just before dark, we had a skunk inside the fence. I'm not sure...

Our little girl is 18 months old now and she has become the Giant Slayer in the dog show world. She achieved her Championship at 9 months, and then her Grand Championship at 17 months. She is 75 pounds and the smallest Akita in the ring. In almost every show, the male usually wins. They are...

When I met my wife, she had never shot a gun, or even thought about hunting. Now she has three guns, and has taken 3 wild hogs, 3 axis deer, 2 springbok antelope and now her second whitetail buck. She can't decide if she loves hunting or fishing more, but either way, she is more exited for...

Kaminari is now 14 months old and one of our two Akita's that we show. Our other two Akita's are pet quality. Matsu is the other show dog. He just turned 8 months old and he did OK in the ring, but it was new for him and he was a little distracted by all the new smells, sounds and other...

I have a ten year old American Standard AC system with the filter at the bottom and the return air coming in below the filter. I do not have a pan. It sits off to the side of my garage. Over the last couple of months, it's periodically flooded the floor with water. I've tried cleaning the...

I have a 2010 Scag Wildcat zero turn mower with a 26hp Kawasaki water cooled engine that has been both great and riddled with electrical issues from all the safety sensors on it. I've bypassed all the safety switches after wasting too many hours figuring out which one wasn't working, only to...

While looking at what's for sale in the Farm and Garden section of Craigslist, I saw a really good price on an older Ford tractor. I copied the gmail address and googled it. Sure enough, that same name, kelliebennett32@gmail.com, was listed all over the country selling tractors and other...

I have a Scag Wildcat zero turn mower with a Kawasaki liquid cooled motor that has been great while working, but it's been giving me issues this year. I replaced the battery in the beginning of Spring and had a few issues with it. I thought it was a dud because it went dead on my right after...

My 2003 Centruy 2535 has always been super dependable. It's always started quickly and easily. I was pulling a sprayer on a very warm day for a couple hours, then refilled and sprayed another couple hours without any issues. I parked to put some water in the sprayer tank and then tried to...

My wife and I currently have four Akita's. For those that don't know the breed, they are big dogs that love the cold. Since we live in East Texas, the weather is a bit of a challenge for them. They also enjoy going into the water, so we buy a lot of children's pools every year for them...

Just wanted to share a little information that we've become aware of about our dogs and the new version of the Dog Flu. As most of you know, the flu evolves every year and the vaccine for it in humans has to change to deal with it's mutations. The latest version of the Dog Flu is real bad and...

Since getting chickens, our mouse population has exploded. We have two coops and the mice eat the chicken feed all night long. Once the chickens wake up in the morning, the mice hide until they go to sleep again. Any mouse that comes out during the day is killed by the chickens. We're in the...

We're run into a bit of a situation getting a puppy that is currently in North Battleford Saskatchewan. The owner of the puppy thought she could just take it to Edmonton and put it on a non stop flight to Houston. That's a four hour drive each way from where I live, which is worth it for a...

A couple years ago my wife said she has always wanted to show Akitas. She has no experience with this, and really didn't know what made one show dog better then the other. She already had one female Akita, but even though it's a pure breed AKC with papers, she knew that she wasn't show...

I'm in the planning stages of building an entry gate for my place and keep going back and forth between a sliding gate or a swing gate. I have power to the gate already, so that's not a concern. The gate will be on the heavy side, but I haven't made it yet. As of right now, I'm thinking 8...

At 2:30 this morning, a coyote must have hit the hot wire close to my house. It was probably the loudest yelping I have ever heard from one of them, and it went on and on and on. I grabbed my cordless spotlight and AR15 with a scope on it and went outside to see if I could find it. I heard...

Last night while sitting on the porch with my wife, our oldest Akita took off after something along the fence. She got it, whipped it around, and then came back to us like nothing happened. We wondered what it was, so I grabbed my flashlight and saw that it was a two foot long copperhead...

Beginning of September, my wife and I drove up to Cheyenne Wyoming to pick up Kaminari. Her names means Japanese Goddess of Thunder. Our male Akita is named Raiden, which is the Japanese God of Thunder and Lightning. Raiden showed first and won his class, but didn't place against the other...

My wife and I have been looking at SUV's to haul the dogs around to shows, pick up horse and chicken sacks of feed and just going back and forth to town. We've come to the realization that the full sized SUV's are too much money, and the small ones are too small. Her dog show friends all drive...

This is about 3 feet from the side of my house, and I haven't mowed in two weeks. I just noticed it today, but figure it's a couple days old. The dogs are on the other side of the house and behind a four foot fence. They cannot get out. Our 15 egg laying chickens hang out on this side of...

Not really. We where fishing at the pond this evening and this group of six wild hogs showed up on the dam. I'm sure the grass will be all tore up there, but at least it was fun seeing them.

I've been using shotshell rounds in my 357 revolver for years now and I'm getting low. It's been perfect for snakes around the house, or while out mowing. But in the last couple months, I haven't been able to find it anywhere. The stores in town that used to carry it either say they haven't...

While running power and water to a chicken coop that I'm building in my garden, I decided to add a night light out there. One of our dogs had knee replacement surgery, and we are having to take her outside at all hours during the night on a short leash. Having a light should just make this...

My wife is into dog shows and needs a mid sized SUV to haul the dogs, their crates and gear in. From what we've seen, the Ford Edge is just about the perfect size. We've read up on several reviews and talked to a few people that we know who have them, and it's all been positive. Before we...

I have an AC DC arc welder that I'm comfortable with. I've been clearing my fence line for years now and this fall and winter, I would really like to start building my corners. To do this, I feel I need to weld the pipe together in place. This means I need power for my welder. I would...

Two years ago my wife was given some chickens and I built her a 10x20 chicken coop. We're now getting about 16 eggs a day from them. Last year she was given guineas and needed a coop to keep them in short term, so I built her a 12x12 coop as part of our horse barn. After releasing the guineas...

Recently I've had the exact same thing happen to me with my backhoe and my riding mower. I started it up just fine, moved it to a different area, then it wouldn't start. No clicking sound, nothing. The first time I figured it was a fuse that had blown, but I couldn't find any that where bad...

I'm a big fan on online shopping and Amazon is my go to source for most things. Either to actually buy it, or just read the reviews and look for a better price somewhere else. Sams beats Amazon all the time, but you can't get hydraulic filters at Sams Club. I have a commercial account with ABC...

My wife and I have been talking about doing something after Christmas and before school starts up again for her on Jan 18th. She is a teacher at the University of Texas and gets 6 weeks of for the holidays. We thought about a cruise, and have been in touch with our travel agent, but the ones...

I'm still clearing my land for my fence, but it's raining today and I'm taking the day off, so I'm researching ways to keep coyotes out of my land. The most common way that I've been told is to install a predator fence on the ground outside my fence and tie it together like shown in this...

It's funny, but I really have to wonder how they got this far into it and nobody said anything?

A friend back in CA passed away last week and I've been wondering how his wife is going to get by. He owned his own business, rented the building, and has a fair amount of inventory there all the time. If she doesn't have the cash to pay the rent, I don't know if she can move their inventory...

When I built my house, it was mostly a workshop with a living area attached to it and a lot of plans that I no longer have any interest in perusing. Along the side of my shop I built an area that I've been using for storage with a porch area in front of it that was only 4 feet deep. I also had...

We had a big scare this morning. One of our dogs,. Raiden, was lame this morning in his back legs. We noticed that he had trouble getting up on our wood floor yesterday, but thought it was more funny that his feet kept slipping and never thought that there might be a problem. That was a HUGE...

Does anybody know if you need anything special if you want to install LED lights and have them on a standard 3 way light switch?

I just read this and was shocked at how bad it is. Thought I'd share it with those on here interested in dams, why they fail and what might happen with the dam at Lake Lewisville. This is just North of Dallas, right above DFW Airport when looking at a map. Lewisville Dam: The dam called...

I think the battery on my backhoe is just a few years old, but I can't say for sure. Time flies by too fast to remember for sure. It's been working great and the engine usually fires up right away. The last two times I started it, it was slow and took quite awhile until it caught and fired up...

As part of our home remodel, we had to change the location of our bed. This meant my wife didn't have enough room on her side of the bed for a night stand. All she needed was a place to put her Ipad, so I figured this would do the trick.

After sitting in our deer blind this morning watching for deer and hogs around the pond, I just had to take some pictures of our gazebo. This is my favorite!!!

I've never felt the need to own one, but I also never thought I would want to carry a pistol either. Seems like times are changing and I would rather have one and not need it, then wish I had one and couldn't get it. My only experience with them is from when I was in the Marines and we had the...

Food plot is finally coming in, but the acorns have dropped and we're not seeing very many deer on our game cameras anymore. Then this guy showed up and changed everything!!!

My goal for some time next year is to build an addition onto my house that will include a 16x16 basement that will be used for storage and when needed, a storm shelter from tornadoes. I don't feel it is practical or even possible to install a drainage pipe under the basement because of the...

As some of you already know, Texas is home to exotic hunting on ranches. Most of it is done behind 8 foot tall fences on properties ranging from hundreds of acres to tens of thousands of acres. Their are animals from all over the world on these ranches, and some species exist in Texas in...

Deer season is still a month away, but we have been doing a lot of target practicing for a free range exotic hunt in two weeks. This afternoon a friend came over, so we put off going to our range and while Karen showed her around and they talked horses. While driving around on the Mule, they...

This is something new to me. I have a client who owns an older double wide mobile home with some soft spots in her floor. Normally this is a pretty simple repair, I remove the carpet, cut out the bad area of particle board and install new particle board. When I pulled up the carpet, I saw...

So we went and picked up to young female pygmy/nigerian cross goats a month ago. Our fencing is for the horses, and just like everyone said, they walk right through the fence like its not there. But they love the horses and follow them around without getting to far away from them. Best part is...

We're making that transition from square bales to round bales. Before every trying it, I thought I could pick up a round bale with my grapple. I could, but then it would start to squish together, then fall apart on me. By the time I got it from the trailer to the hay ring, it was a mess with...

Buddy of mine who owns his own pest control business called and asked if one of the local news stations could interview him about mosquito control at my pond. I said sure, and they where here an hour later. I took one picture of them from a distance, and then this is what we saw on TV. We got...

I've been wanting a canopy for my tractor for several years now, but I haven't been able to decide on which one to get, or to fabricate one myself. Then when I'm ready to commit to spending the money, I usually decided I needed something else more and put it off again. So after a lot of...

Last year I built a gazebo at my pond to get married in. I made it as nice as I could possibly could, and when it was done, we thought others might like to get married there too. We are a long ways from being able to offer it to others, but for friends and family, we will do what we can to...

One of my goals in life is to breed and sell exotic hoof stock. For the size of the animal, there is a lot more money to be made doing this then cattle or anything else out there that I'm aware of. You just need to get the animals that people are willing to pay top dollar for. This way...

I'm having some issues with power loss. I'll be out mowing just fine with everything working perfectly, then the engine drops down to a rough idle. Surging up and down. I disconnect the PTO and take it out of gear and wait a couple of minutes. While this is happening, nothing happens when I...

My current plan for when I grow up is to create an event center on my land overlooking my pond. My thinking is that I can make money having weddings there and also rent it out for uses. What I really want is to raise exotic animals. Elk, axis deer, fallow deer, ibex and springbok are the...

I have a Scag Wildcat that is about 5 years old that I bought band new from the dealer. It has the Kawasaki water cooled engine and a 61 inch deck. It's worked perfectly since buying it, but this last weekend when I went to start it, nothing. I assumed it was the battery, but after putting...

I'm looking at buying a 16 foot bumper pull stock trailer and I'm not sure that I understand the significance of the two sized available for the ball. Some say they have a 2 inch ball, others are 2 5/16. I understand that bigger is better, but why? Does one hold more weight? If it has the...

I live in Tyler TX, which is about 100 miles East of Dallas. Shreveport LA is an hour and a half away, Texarkana is 2 hours away and I can get to Oklahoma in about 2 hours. I'm looking for a 16 foot, bumper pull livestock trailer that is 6 ft wide and 6ft, 6in tall. I want to buy brand new so...

Karen wants another Akita. We have a female and she wants to get a male puppy. She was been looking for awhile and tonight found one for sale fairly close to us. She sent a message to a 508 area code. My first red flag, but not too bad because so many people keep their number after they move...

I was talking to a guy who said he uses his VA card to get ten percent off of what he buys and Lowes and Home Depot. He asked if I did the same thing, and I told him I wasn't eligible for VA benefits since I was only in for five years. He said he was only in for 4 years and he gets them. I...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=723634891065427 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grdd5JnEfFw quickfencerusa I came across this video on Facebook this morning and wanted to share it with everyone. I've been playing around with ideas on how to build a small trailer that I could unroll...