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About a year ago I made myself a bigger welding table and one of the things that got me scratching my head was how to ensure the top was flat. YouTube was a good source of inspiration at the time and as usual, ever since it keeps throwing up suggestions for things it thinks I should watch. Most...

This morning started off perfect - clear blue sky and a hard frost, which is just what I wanted to move out some old spoiled bales without making a mess in the mud. I should have realized I was tempting fate when I took the pallet forks off, fit the bale spike and admired how tough the paint...

At 60 years of age I am perhaps getting a bit old to start learning to weld with volts and amps, however it is something I have always wanted to try. Last year, inspired to take things further by the things I have read on this forum and wanting to find out more, I persuaded a friend who makes...

Anyone prefer hydrostatic transmission tractors, but thought they could do with a few more horsepower ? The Fendt 1000 range, which they reckon is coming to the North American and European markets next year, is an interesting concept if you like HSTs. The pump drives two independent hydro...

Anyone else having problems posting pictures today ?

A few years back I started a project to restore a farm pond. Last year I thought I was almost finished and ready to stock with fish. Then, back in September, I realised that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. An initially innocuous looking alien from the other side of the world had stolen my...

I am new to 4-in-1 buckets and I was wondering what preference more experienced users have for operating the moving part of the clam from a joystick. My joystick has a push button 3rd service (not a rocker), so I open/close the clam by pressing the button, then moving joystick to left or right...

After a good few months of head scratching I finally made a decision and placed my order. Like many of you said, it came down as much to dealer attitude as it did to the capabilities of the equipment. I was looking for : Around 50 hp on ag (R1) tyres, together with front end loader for a bale...

Been looking at buying a bigger compact tractor for a couple of years now. Over the last 6 months the search became serious. I seem to have spent all my spare time reading tbn forums, scrutinising manufacturers spec sheets, then going out talking to dealers and test-driving the most promising...

While looking for a 50hp compact I came across this machine which has both a hydrostatic transmission AND a shuttle lever for forward and reverse. Having tried it out I have to say it's a very intuitive (and fool proof) way to control direction on an HST machine. Instead of two individual...

My diesel fergie (TEF20) is now celebrating it's sixtieth birthday. It's still a great machine, but now it's time to give it a bit of a rest and buy a shiny new machine. The only trouble is there is so much info here on the tbn forum that it's taken up all my spare time for the last couple of...