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    Test your tracking skills

    Take the quiz and post your score. Take it in under 5 minutes like I did and don't cheat. :D Can You Identify These Animal Tracks? Boys' Life magazine I only got 4/10 - shouldn't be hard to beat.
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    How would you do this roof?

    I feel the need for a little more space and this sunroom is not cutting it. It sits on a slab of cold concrete and it is more like a 2-season room. I want to tear it off and turn it into a greenhouse and build a real 4 season room that is easy to heat. The pic of the white sunroom that comes...
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    Which of these fill first?

    This is floating around facebook.
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    So you have a small tractor and want an in expensive front blade!

    This is the best solution I know of. Swisher 62" Universal Rolled Plow Blade 285 : Rural King I know a couple of ways I would be able to make this work for less than $600 including the plow. I'm interested in hearing how some of the real fab guys would make this work. BTW. there is a little...
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    GC2400 RPM guage pegged like at full throttle after starting

    I went out and started my tractor this morning and when I started it the RPM needle went all the way to the right past red and yellow and was bouncing like it wasn't working. The engine really didn't sound different and it was just idling but I shut it off after a minute or so just because I...
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    Newbie or Veteran Tractor Safety - Please add your experience!

    I don't know if such a thread already exists for a new person to tractoring to read tips on tractor safety. Here are my tips for a new person to tractors but I have left many out so feel free to add your. First: If you have a manual read it and if you don't have one buy one. 1. Understand...
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    How are these sucker getting in?

    I have mice consantly getting into my cold air side of my heating ducts. Usually not in the hot side and almost never up in the house itself. When the duct cleaning company cleaned our ducts when we moved in he said that the ducts were full of mouse droppings. So we put glue traps down there and...
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    Buying and selling guns ?

    So I'm thinking of traking a gun to a gunshow that I bought new and selling it. If I don't sell it at a gunshow I may sell it on in a classified add. So gunshow isn't the crux of the question. If I sell that gun without any paper trail and someone uses it to commit a crime and they trace it...
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    Where is the Mahindra 2015 Made?

    Anyone know where a 2006 Mahindra 2015 was made and by what company? Looks like it has a Mitsubishi engine. Trying to talk my dad into looking at one. His old 8n is getting harder for him to operate and get on. He also needs a loader bucket with full hydro since he uses his loader instead of...
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    Bass Pro Shops to Acquire Cabelas

    On October 3, 2016, Bass Pro Shops announced an agreement to acquire Cabela's for 5.5 Billion USD. Interesting... was on the Cabela's Wiki and saw this Cabela's - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You guys remember when Cabelas, Bass Pro, F&S and Gander Mountain were all mail order? I...
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    Could Ohio make their Knife carry laws any more confusing?

    I would like to buy this knife.. seems exactly what I need and yet as I read about it, it looks like a self defense knife which I guess is supposed to be a no no. Gerber: Ghostrike Fixed Blade - theEMSstore Anyone know the Ohio laws... maybe an attourney who can interpret the mumbo jumbo on...
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    Landscape Rake For Getting Ready to Seed?

    I have about a half acre of ground that was in corn two years ago.... I mowed it last year... it was crab Grass and I'm sure it will come back Crab Grass.... Should I hit it with a landscape rake as early as possible and get it seeded or wait till the GrabGrass starts coming out of dormancy...
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    Critters you have tamed!

    Years ago we had a baby fawn show up inide of our boy's tent one summer. The dog was barking up a storm and I sent my son out to check out what she was barking at. He ran back in and said there was a deer in his tent. We kept if for a couple of weeks and fed it lamb starter out of a bottle...
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    New to Raised Bed Gardening

    I decided to switch to raised bed this year. I started working on piling up dirt yesterday out of some fertile top soil I have behind the barn which I will replace with gravel for parking equipment etc. I have three questions.. 1. Best manure and other organic to put in the bed for (Tomatos...
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    GC2400 Tiller Size?

    Hey MF owners... what are some of the larger tiller sizes you have run on your GC2400. I see a used 58" but concered that is too much tiller for my 24hp. Anyone running a 60" tiller on one?
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    Snow/dozer blade off of Skid Steer?

    Picked this up off of CL.. is it off a Skidsteer ? I have looked and cannot find anything that it matches exactly. It does not appear to have been used at all. .. it is pretty heavy built and probably weighs about 150lbs. I am debating about re-selling it or using it FEL snow plow for gc2400...
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    Home & Barn Security

    I just heard about one of my father-in-laws barns and garages getting broken into on some property that he has that is away from his house. Has me thinking about getting some security around my place. The Sherriff told him there wasn't much he could do about it. Not much was stolen but starts...
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    My Impulse Massey Purchasse

    I had someone lined up to come over last weekend to help deliver a disc. and to help cut in a drive. Long story short, they had other priorities not their fault they were trying to beat the rain too. This pushed me over the edge I had been teetering on for years (having not owned a tractor for...
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    Oil & Fuel  Permatran 821XL vs Permatran III

    I sent my son to the MF dealer almost an hour away to pick up a 5 gallon jug of Permatran III. I had called them in advance and told them what I need and specified it was for a GC2400 and that I needed Permatran III. They sent him home with 821XL. Is 821xl the same? Safe to use? I will call...
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    Considing a Kubota 7100?

    I am looking at a Kubota 7100 I think it is only 16hp diesel and would like to know if anyone has had success with this running a 48" tiller? Is it underpowered for the size of the tractor? The one I'm looking at is early 80s. Thanks
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    New hear and looking at tractors

    Hi All, I'm looking to buy something in the next few months. Have had a few tractors in the past but I am tractorless now. My username is indicitive of how I want to change things in the second half of my life. Not that I've done too bad but certainly room to improve a bunch. Look forward to...
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