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I have a 2004 F250 with a 6.0 L Diesel. I bought it 3.5 years ago primarily to tow the toy hauler I camp in while hunting, a 10,000 lb dump trailer, and a recently acquired 18' flat bed with my JD 110 TLB on it. The last item is the most demanding, coming in at about 11,000 lb. Despite having...

Trying to help a neighbor with a John Deere 4410. The tractor has been sorely neglected in the maintenance department, but we are going through that and getting it done. I can't find anything on how to adjust the brakes, which seem to be dragging. Any advice? Thanks, Dave

After being snowed in at the top of our steep 1+ mile driveway, I broke down and ordered a set of chains for the rears of my JD 110 TLB. They should get here this week, but now I need a set of wheel spacers, since the clearance on the inside of the wheels, is less than about 1.5" . I intend to...

Every once in a while I will see a metal marker, usually brass or bronze, set into a horizontal concrete surface. Frequently they will have the points of the compass (North, East, South, West) on them. What are these called? :confused: I am putting in a large flagpole and a concrete walkway...

I was looking at bumper pull equipment trailers for my JD 110 TLB today. With the backhoe tucked completely in, the machine is ~21 feet long. There is about 6ft. of overhang behind the rear wheels, so I don't think I need a trailer longer than the backhoe, but what is the correct length...

3 1/2 years ago our house in Woodside, CA burned while it was on the market. I moved back to CA and as an owner-builder replaced everything except the foundation. Upgrades everywhere. On April 24 we closed escrow on the house and are now permanent OR residents. This has been a long uphill...

Is there any known downside to putting a gravel parking area over an old burn pile? How about a paved parking area? I need to burn off a fair amount of small downed trees and the beast place to do it is in an area where I will later want to put a driveway/parking area. Is there any reason not...

I walked out to check the propane level and found what seems to be a weathered hornet nest lying next to the tank. See pix. This is a 500 gallon tank and it is ~ 3 to 4' in diameter. The nest is about a foot across. Looks to me like the fool thing fell off a tree and rolled downhill to its...

My new to me 2004 F-250 with ~67000 miles runs very well once it has warmed up. But the engine is very sluggish and underpowered when it is cold. It has the 6.0 liter engine. I have never owned a diesel truck before and need to know if this is normal or is something wrong? I have a 50-50...

I upgraded my tow rig from a 2000 F-150 to a (new to me) 2004 F-250 with a 6.0 liter diesel. The primary purpose of this rig is to tow my "Redneck Hunting Lodge", a Nomad Toy Hauler, 27' from hitch to rear bumper. 2 axles, both with brakes. Manufacturer's claimed weight is 6110 lbs empty, but...

My neighbor, who is not very computer-savvy, had a piece of firewood fall on his 4410 hood and break it into pieces. When I look on the internet, I see ones on eBay for $299 with free shipping, and ones for $240 with $25 shipping. Does anyone know of a used hood which might be available for less?

Well, the catch limit at my group's favorite lake has been raised this year because they are overrun with trout. I know this is a terrible problem, but the issue we have is that we have been taking home more fish than we could eat fresh for a few years and we don't really like them frozen...

Yesterday, I went to the dump and dumped a load of debris with my dump trailer. When I went to lower the bed, I could not get it down. It is single acting cylinder type, with a battery powered hydraulic pump to raise and a solenoid valve to allow it to lower under its own weight. I managed...

While excavating for a foundation for my new garage, I discovered an abandoned 3/4" water pipe buried about 18" under the earth. It had clearly run under the old garage, and from the location of the existing water line had developed a leak and been abandoned. Anyway the left hand 2-3' popped up...

I picked up a large 5' x 6' slab of 4" concrete today, intending to drop it on the ground and break it into manageable pieces, and it slipped out of the grip between the thumb and the backhoe bucket. It dropped, almost balanced, and then fell against the extended rod of the outrigger hydraulic...

I am shipping my JD 110 TLB from Oregon to CA using someone I found through uShip. Does anyone know what kind of paperwork and insurance I should expect the trucker to show me before I wave goodbye and watch my expensive tractor roll off into the sunset? Other than riding in the seat with a...

Here is a story of a guy with a backhoe who died after apparently disturbing a bee nest. Man dies after being stung over 500 times by bees

About 18 months ago I installed Firestone Sport Rite air bags on my 2000 F-150. They have made a significant improvement in towing ability. About two weeks ago I was hauling a load of dirt in my dump trailer when I heard a loud "pop" and one of the air bags broke. Fortunately this was at low...

Can anyone give me a pointer to the pull-out strength of a 5/8" x 12" foundation bolt, wet set in 2500 psi or 3000 psi concrete? I thought this would be easy to find on the internet, but was I ever wrong. This is the L-shaped bolt, sometimes called a mudsill bolt. Thanks Dave

Rebuilding my burned out house, I am having to jump through a lot of hoops the Town is putting up. One is that in many places I can not increase the overall height of the house, not even by an inch. The problem that I am facing is that my old roof was built 100 years ago from 2x4 rafters. To...

I need suggestions on the best way to adapt this plate to a standard skid steer mounting plate. It is on a BobCat Model 10 Auger. While it looks like a skid steer attachment plate it is smaller than the standard. This plate is 36" wide, while the standard plate is ~45" wide. I have been...

I re-set a sandstone patio and tightened up the spacing condiderably. This meant that I had to get some new stone, and what matched the sample I took to the stoneyard doesn't match at all, now that I have it set. Much too light. Is there a way to stain or color sandstone like concrete can be...

I have finally demolished my burned-out house and am starting to move along on rebuilding. One of the questions which a contractor brought up is the question of how an I going to handle the fact that I now have a 20 year old foundation with old, plain steel foundation bolts (a little rusty, but...

I have a 2000 F-150 with the V-8 Triton engine, right now 75k miles. Based on some threads on TBN, about 2k miles ago, I changed the oil to RotellaT 5W-40 synthetic. Almost immediately I started hearing a noise which I have always associated with valve tappets (rat-tat-tat-tat-tat...). Almost...

Well, the time has finally come. I knocked a couple of zerks off the hoe. I noticed it, but ignored it until the next greasing was due, which is before the next time I use it. I went down to HF and got an assortment of American-sizes of zerks, and an assortment of metric sizes, so I think I...

The Truck: 2000 F-150 4x4 v-8 Triton, Automatic. 72,000 miles. The Problem: It spilled a lot of what seems to be transmission fluid in my driveway. The Terrain: My driveway is ~700' long with a 15% uphill grade coming in. It is gravel. The Weather: Clear and hot, 105 degrees maybe more...

My JD 110 TLB manual says to grease the FEL and the Backhoe every 10 hours or daily, which I have taken to mean that if I run it 8-10 hours all in the same day, I need to grease it. It is rare for me to run anywhere near that long in one day. Usually it is an hour or two in one day and an hour...

Terre Haute man tries to tow crashed car with tractor - WTHR | Indianapolis Never drink & drive an 8-wheel tractor...

Since DW and I stuck here in CA for the house rebuild, and the weather finally turned HOT, DW put he foot down and demanded a grill so she wouldn't have to make the kitchen any hotter. Went down to a local store and got a medium-low quality gas one, since it only has to last for two summers...

Well, today I got distracted in the kitchen and late this morning one of my labs ate the meat juice absorber from a WalMart package of beef. This thing has a black plastic cover about 4" x 6", with about 3/8" of some kind of white absorbent material inside it. One side is perforated to let the...

In Oregon the law requires a contractor to give a one year warranty on a new house. Our house was finished in November of 2007. We have a deck on the second floor, which I had finished in tile. Special, outdoor porcelain tile. Before the tile contractor installed it, I told him that this was...

The time for an engine oil change has come, and when I look in the manual I find the attached, highly educational diagram. It is easy to understand, except for the fact that there are no numbers on the thermometer in the diagram. Does anyone know either where the numbers are supposed to be on...

This is hillarious: The Country Today

I bought a container of 3 in 1 oil today and while I was waiting in the line at the register, I read the little plastic bottle. It turns out that it is now made by WD40. Does anyone know when this happened? I have always had a much higher regard for 3 in 1 than for WD40, ever since the time...

Our house in Woodside, California burned up two days before Thanksgiving. I say burned up rather than "burned down" because the shell is still standing, although all windows and doors are gone, and the interior is a complete loss. We had it on the market for 6 months and it hadn't sold yet...

Has anyone ever seen an adaptor which would plug into a 7 pin connector on my truck and give me a 12 V cigarette lighter socket? I need to plug in a 12 V compressor in the bed of my pickup. I know there is 12 V somewhere in the 7 pin socket there, and this would be the perfect solution.

Actually, it should be "moderately cold weather grease". It was about 40 degrees F today, and I greased my tractor. The old grease I wiped off the zercs had the consistency of taffy. Really hard to get it off. The new grease was stiff and hard, but not as bad as the old grease. Is there a...

I have a 2000 F-150 that I use to tow two trailers. According to the manual, the max allowable trailer weight is 7400 lbs for my model. Both trailers have electric brakes and I have a Prodigy brake controller in the truck. First trailer is an enclosed 16' one that I bought primarily to move my...

I need recommendations for a good FRS/GMRS radio. We use them for hunting and they are quite useful, but I seem to have very bad luck. There are three criteria I have is that it has to run on AA batteries, replaceable, not rechargeable. Anyone who has ever been hunting for 2+ weeks knows that...

This year elk season opens 3 days after deer season closes. The place we hunt elk is only a few miles from where we hunt deer, which is about 150 miles from home. I am thinking of just leaving my hunting trailer where we will hunt elk and driving the pickup home for 3 days of hot showers...

I have about 1/2 mile of private road to maintain and blackberry bushes are encroaching on both sides of about 1/4 mile. Yesterday I set out to trim them back, I put a generator in the back of my pickup, and started using the electric hedge trimmer which had worked so well in our suburban back...

One of the things I forgot to mention about the tractor rollover incident from a couple of days ago is that I managed to break a HF, grade 43, 3/8" chain in the process of righting the Ford 4000, Essentially the Ford FEL bucket had jammed itself about 6" into the ground in the initial turnover...

My 77 year old neighbor was coming down his very steep driveway yesterday. When he was at a section where the driveway is about 5' above grade, on top of pit run shale (about a 45 degree angle of repose) a front wheel went over the side. Soon both wheels on the left side were over the side of...

This picture was taken with the camera held true horizontal & vertical. Yes the trees really do lean that much. The one I am concerned about is the evergreen which has broken about 30" above the ground. It is about 40' tall, and at about 25' it has hung up on the branch of a live oak. It is...

I don't know whether this belongs in Safety or Attachments, possibly a moderator could help me. But, I need to bring everyone's attention to a serious safety issue with Payne's Clamp On Hitch Receivers. I have one of these and use it on the 4-n-1 bucket on my John Deere TLB 110, which has the...

Well, our new house was finished about 6 weeks ago, and we are starting to move in. We have about 1000' of driveway, 14' wide. Most of it has a grade of 15-16% and is pretty well made -- fabric, 1' to 5' of base rock (pit run shale) with 6" of 3/4" minus on top of it. The 3/4" - has been...

I may need to move a gun safe (1000 lb) at some point in the future. In the past I have done this by working the safe up onto wooden blocks with a lever dolly (http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_35452_35452) until I could get a pallet jack under it. Then I...

We are putting a propane built-in fireplace in the living room of our new house. Our GC has suggested a supplier who only carries Lennox brand. Does anyone have any experience with this brand? Any other brands we should consider? Any brands to avoid?

When we started building our new house, our General Contractor wanted to wait until the framing was done to have power put in (1000 feet of new service, plowed in). He wanted to use a generator. Costs were: Rent from rental yard : $80/day, Rent from contractor: $40/day, or buy one myself. I...

Is there any minimum separation distance from a propane tank to a house, or to a heat pump outside the house? Around here, the propane companies want the tank to be within 75 feet of a drivable surface for their truck, and I think I have a good spot, but it is only 15' or so from the house and...

I am planning enough small projects that I can forsee the need to compact clay, decomposed granite, and 3/4" minus crushed rock, several dozen times over the next few years. Areas would usually be ~100-200 sq. ft. at a time, with a one-time need for ~2000 sq. ft. My experience with this kind...

We are in the process of building a house, and my contractor has asked if he can use my backhoe on the house. He has his own skid steer, but this is not his only project. He feels that this will be a cost savings to me, since the backhoe is already on-site and that I will only have to pay for...

I have a JD 110 TLB located in Grants Pass, Oregon and am thinking about getting it trailered to the SF Bay Area in CA. I am building a garage and driveway in CA and my choices are rent a small backhoe/skid steer in CA, or have the one I own moved to CA and then back to OR, after I am finished...

Where we are living now, we have a natural gas clothes dryer, primarily because they are less costly to run. When we move to our country property, DW wants a new washer & dryer. Natural gas is not an option. Does anyone know which is the lower operating cost choice?

I need to cross a winter creek with a 120 volt electric line. The basic question is do I go over it, or under it? The stream bed is 10-12 feet wide and at some times the water is 12" or so deep. I can burry a plastic conduit up to about 6' deep if necessary, but I worry about any small leak...

Can I attach a drawbar to my 110 TLB with the backhoe in place, so I can pull something with a chain? If not, how can I pull something safely? I see where there are slots to attach hold-down chains for transport, and these are below the rear axle. Can I attach a chain there for pulling?

I was skinning a deer last week, when I slightly nicked a finger with the knife. I tried to wash off as best I could, but was at a fairly primitive camp site, with no running water and a only a creek 100 feet away. I know there must have been some contact with the deer blood. Are there any...

I have been using Sta-Bil in the gas for all of my small engines for years and it works well. Recently we have acquired a few cars & pickups that are not driven very often and I have been using Sta-Bil in them also. Now I have started to wonder if this is necessary. I always thought the reason...

After reading the thread on "Tankless water heater code question", I have a completely different question. Which is going to be lower cost to operate, electric tank-type, LPG tank-type, or LPG tankless. We are building new, and can have it installed any way we want for minimal cost...

Does anyone know how to estimate temperatures at shallow depths, say at the bottom of a 2' or 3' backfilled trench in high ambient temperatures (summer)? The real problem is this. My contractor has already installed 700' of 2" schedule 40 PVC pipe from my well to my house, without ever asking...

OK guys, I need some help here. I installed a thumb on my JD 110 last weekend, and when the welder finished welding the mounting plate on the dipperstick, he spray painted it with primer. Then I spray painted the while thing with JD yellow, and managed to get specs of overspray on the chromed...

I have a JD 110 TLB and just bought a new Rock Bucket with grapple for it. The bucket fits perfectly and is easy to change with the exception that making the connection between the hydraulic lines on the tractor and those on the implement (either the new rock bocket or the old 4-n-1) is...

A few years ago my MD retired and I had to find a new one. A luck would have it I delayed until I finally just chose the woman GP my wife sees. Sort of worked out OK, but today she was worth her weight in gold. About a month ago I smashed my thumbnail really nice, and it turned black in a...

The sales brochure for my JD 110 says: "Mounting plates on the front of the 110 are identical, not an imitation, of those used on skid steers." Does this mean that if I buy an attachment with a "universal" skid steer mount, it will fit, or is there some hidden gotcha that I don't know about...

Has anyone ever used a rock bucket on a FEL, and how well did it work? My property is about 20-30% rocks by volume. There is an occasional washing maching sized one, but for the most part they are bowling ball size down to baseball size. I would leave the really big ones alone, but there are...

We had just moved our motorhome to a more-or-less permanent spot on our 40 acres in Grants Pass, OR last Saturday afternoon. About 8 A.M. Sundy morning, two wolves walked by our window about 30-40 yards away. The looked like gray German shepherds and were clearly much larger than our two...

We are building a home on 40 acres. There is a Public Utility easement which crosses about 60' of a neighbor's property, and right now the electric and phone lines end at his property, right at the beginning of this easement. I have talked to the power company and they would like to run the...

I need a generator for two purposes. 1. Powering a 5 hp well pump for up to 30 minutes at a time (~4kW) over the next 12 months, and after the house construction period, 2. Serving as a backup generator for the house we are building. No idea of kW rating, but it should run reefer, freezer, and...

This is a two-part question: We are building home on fairly mountainous property. The well is going to be located about 400 lineal feet from the house and approximately 100' lower in elevation (~50psi just from gravity). There will be a power transformer within 30' of the well, specifically...

I have a pretty new TLB 110 with the 72" 4-n-1 FEL bucket. There is a row of evenly spaced holes just behind the front lip of the bucket and the JD accessories catalog shows that there should be a bolt-on wear edge which can be added to the bucket. I am thinking that I should do this now...

What are the short (maybe 3' high) electrical poles that RVs plug into at RV parks called, and where can I get one? They usually have a 30 A RV receptical, a 50 A RV receptical and at least one convenience outlet. We are building a retirement home, already bought the land and we are just...

I have 40 acres with a lot of rocks, some just lying on the ground, some partly burried, and anywhere I dig about 20% by volume seems to be rocks. So far they range from softball size up to washing machine drum size, with bowling ball size being fairly common. Most of them can be picked up...

As part of my land-clearing activities I need to remove quite a few trees. Lets estimate ~100 over the next 3 or 4 years. Until I got gas heat 20 years ago, I burned wood exclusively for ~ 15 years in the winters. I have a 12" Stihl chainsaw which is now about 30 years old and has not been...

I need to put in a 20' culvert to extend a road to an RV pad I am building. I need to be able to drive both a 14,000 # motorhome and my 8000 # tractor over the culvert, not at the same time. I have seen both metal and plastic used, the costs are close in my area. Which is the preferred type...

We bought 40 acres in Oregon last summer and are building a house on it. The house will probably not be ready until March of 2008, about 2 years from now. The timing, based on when we will move, not the builder's ability to build the house. In the mean time we are at the property a lot of...

I dug a few trenches through wet clay with my backhoe, and the bucket is now packed full of very tenacious wet clay. How do I get it out? I shook the bucket with the hydraulics and the clay stayed in, I whacked it against a log lying on the ground and it laughed at me. I faced the bucket...

I have to dig trenches for water, power, phone and sewer about 600' long on a very rocky hillside. Average slope is 15% or ~ 8 or 9 degrees. All the trenches can be pretty much straight up, no real sidehill digging. The John Deere sales guy came out to the property, looked at the earth and...

I have a JD 110 TLB. I just got a Tilt Meter for it, but neither the JD manual nor the Tilt Meter instructions gives me any idea of just how much tilt is safe and how much is too much. Is there any rule of thumb for this? I don't want to find out how much is too much by watching the meter as...