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Sadly, my wife's father passed away yesterday. He had a very weak heart and finally could no longer maintain. He passed just after noon yesterday, with my wife, her mother, and me with him when he passed. The doctor's said they had done all they could do for him. It was a peaceful, but sad...

So Bird, are you sleeping with a mask on your face these days? How did your tests turn out? Is sleep apnea an issue? For your sake, I hope not. I hate sleeping with an oxygen tube under my nose. I can't imagine that biggrer mask.

My youngest daughter sent me a copy of the document showing my granddaughter is 3 out of 373 in ranking for her 9th grade class. I am super proud of Katie's performance. She is truly a little whiz and excels at everything she does. We are so lucky to be blessed with her. She is something...

I suppose this thread could be considered just braggin', but my LB75B TLB is such a great starting machine that I have to brag on it a bit. It seems that if I let it set for a month or two, it will still crank and start every time. Sometimes it will take a bit longer to start because I think...

I need some expert JD advice. My neighbor just signed a deal on a John Deere 3038e tractor with 305 loader. I asked him if the loader had the Universal Skid-Steer quick-tach adapter and found out it came with the JD quick-tach adapter. I suggested that he contact his dealer and find out what it...

Do you have doors in your house that are constantly left open when they should be closed? I have a door that goes down to my heated basement that is constantly left ajar. The heat from the basement just rises right up and makes the basement cold. I found a very inexpensive door closer ($18.80)...

I'm not sure this link will work, but here is a link to the newspaper story that prompted me to write a letter to the editor. I just felt insulted that at Christmas time they would give front page coverage and another whole page to this criminal who deserves to be exactly where he is. My letter...

Oh boy! With the early December ice storm, I used rock salt to melt a walking path down my driveway. Now, the surface is all pocked and chips are coming up. I am shocked to see online info that salt and concrete don't mix if the concrete is not finished with the right compound. Live and learn, I...

I have a neighbor who spares no expense for his grandkids. One year, he ordered 20 hooded jackets and got a double order of 40.:confused2: He called the seller and they said they had no record of a double shipment and he should just keep the merchandise. His credit card was never charged for the...

We've had lots of people in this country who led civil rights movements and were successful. Martin Luther King is certainly one of the greatest, but Nelson Mandela was in the majority race in South Africa and yet was subject to oppression that sent him to jail for 27 years. While countries and...

A friend sent me a very interesting link to a video made especially for firefighters by the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer's Institute. SAAMI video for firefighters I cannot tell you how many stories I've heard told as truth that this video debunks. Well meaning people sometimes...

Ol' Dez seems to have a talent for making a butt of himself. Even though he may have meant well, he only succeeded in causing his teammates to be angry at him instead of the opponent. On the local news, you can hear him telling Tony Romo that they are the "best" in the NFL.:rolleyes: C'mon Dez...

Holy cow! For a county named Wise, we sure come up with some kooky people. Here's a guy from Bridgeport, Texas who is going to try and jump the Snake River Canyon where Evel Knievel failed. Right now, this fellow weighs in at a svelte 280 lb. Give the guy some credit though. He's successfully...

This Saturday, Sept 14th, my county is having a county-wide garage sale. The local Wise County Messenger newspaper placed a full-page ad about the sale with maps of the city of Decatur, TX where there are lots of sales and also a county map showing locations of other sales in smaller towns. They...

Which do you think hurt more? Getting a bee sting or falling off a bridge?:rolleyes: I've had wasps fly down my shirt and sting me repeatedly while on a motorcycle. You just stay calm and get off the road and stop. This guy obviously over-reacted.:eek: A Paradise man was injured Tuesday...

We don't think much about it, but there is also a high instance of breast cancer in men. Several weeks ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy on August 20th. I was discharged from the hospital on August 24th and had my stitches removed yesterday afternoon at my...

Unbelievable!!! How many more people will she hurt, and how much more property destroyed before they take her license? Driving through a loophole.

The last few times I operated my G1800, I noticed it was very very s-l-o-w in reverse. I even reached down with my hand and pulled back on the treadle to see if I could make it back up faster, but no. I've been really baffled even more because it runs great in forward and seems very strong...

The story has now become national news. A very dear friend of my wife called yesterday at noon to say that her son, Montague County Deputy James Boyd had been shot while making a traffic stop in Bowie, Tx. Since that time, it is learned that his assailant was the same man who killed the Colorado...

. . . and fix that squeaky floor. PLEASE!!! :irked: I have to admit that a lot of questionable things were done when my house was built, and that I didn't know enough to demand different. Being a multi-story split level house, I have lots of floors that aren't on a slab. When they put down the...

A couple of years ago, I bought my brother a used golf cart for his birthday. It's a 2007 model Yamaha YDRE 48 vdc cart. It worked well until a couple of months ago and then just quit. He isn't very technically inclined and so I figured the battery terminals were just dirty based on what I'd...

If you are thinking of making a last minute Christmas list or getting a gift for a DIYer, here's a good buy from Big Sky Tools on a great little Hitachi air compressor. I bought one and it's a heavy duty little performer. It's comes with a quick connect already installed, ready for your hose and...

I had not used my Stihl 021, 16" chainsaw in about two years. Recently, I gassed it up, put on a new chain, added chain/bar oil, choked it and pulled the starter. After about 6 pulls, it sputtered to life and then roared. It runs perfectly.:thumbsup: I have several trees piled up in a nice neat...

. . . what would happen if I hadn't noticed something layin' on top of the fresh pile of dirt.:eek: Okay, that's not much of a hint. How about this? Do you like wearing gloves when operating machinery? When it's cold, I can tolerate them, but the tactile feedback of joysticks, buttons to press...

When you have leftover fireworks, a Jack-o-lantern, and a grandson, you have the ingredients for a tiny bit of fun.:D

I won't go to counseling, but I'm an admitted abuser of my rotary cutter.:eek::ashamed: Even in the best of situations, using a rotary cutter at my place is gonna be borderline abuse. I have so many rocks, trees/stumps, and uneven ground that things are gonna slam up against unmovable objects on...

Today, I went into our local TSC in Bowie, Tx and found that they have this deer corn brand - 40 lb on sale for $7.99 instead of the normal $8.99 price. The online ad says $8.49, but the store had a notice that the sale at the reduced price begins today and runs for a week or two. I forgot to...

It's now BigSkyTool.com and still offering some real bargains on quality reconded tools; especially Hitachi. I just purchased a reconditioned Hitachi EC89 compressor for $79 plus $15 delivery. It was here two days after ordering by standard shipping. Yesterday, I finally got around to removing...

160 hours and I have to replace my fuel tank. This morning while mowing, I noticed a strong smell of fuel/gasoline. I stopped the mower and checked the engine for leaks and looked at the hoses and filter closely. Everything was fine, so I just figured it was vapor leaking out of the gas cap due...

One of the things I find extremely convenient on my LB75B TLB is the Transmission Disconnect switches on the joystick and gear-shift lever. Pressing that button and shifting gears is so easy. When using the loader, approaching my dump trailer or the pile and pressing the button on the joystick...

My grandson caught a 3'+ speckled kingsnake this morning. It was up next to the house beside a flowerbed and crawled into the flowerbed to hide. He fished it out with one of those long pickup tools. Here are a few photos.

I went out today to do some more dirt work on my dam and found that my compact tractor (NH TC45D) had been used while I was gone for 6 hours yesterday afternoon.:mad: The first thing that caught my eye was my dump trailer raised just 6" up. Next, the key was in the ignition of my tractor and I...

I own a New Holland LB75.B TLB with a 95 hp turbo-charged Iveco engine. The Operator's Manual calls for an engine oil and filter change every 500 hours. The engine holds three gallons of oil and the filter a quart, So that works out to a bit over 3 gallons with filter change. I purchased the...

Here's a Ford Jubilee for sale that is priced right. This ad was first placed for a "1958 Ford Jubilee," but somebody must have corrected the owner and he changed the ad. I see no reason to think that this is a scam and could be a good buy for somebody close-by the DFW area. I'm tempted, but...

I've had great luck with the hydraulics on my 2000 model TC45D and had no problems until recently. Last year, I had my hydraulic pump seals replaced on my tractor and all went back together nicely except for one pinched o-ring I had to replace at the diverter valve. About 3 months ago, I...

Ford 600 with boom auger. Maybe a Belltec prototype.:laughing:

Even though I had some very good bites, my luck at catching fish ran out this weekend and my grandson caught all the fish. They aren't large, but he was thrilled. The crappie and bass are starting to bite in our lake with the warm temperatures.

When I post to a thread lately and hit "Submit," there is a long delay with a progress bar appearing. Sometimes it delays for a minute or more before the reply is posted and I'm returned to the forum. I've tried in Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome on my desktop and on my laptop. They all seem to...

. . . is a boy! Hudson Luke was born yesterday at 1:30 PM. Mom, Dad, and Hudson are doing fine. He was a whopping 20" long and weighed 8 lb 14 oz.:D

Got problems with squirrels? Have an old clay pigeon thrower laying around? Problem solved!!!:thumbsup::laughing: ByeByeSquirrel.wmv - YouTube

I'm always finding chunks of petrified wood on my property. The largest I've found is about 1/2 the size of a loaf of bread. I've found many pieces between 4" to 6" long and up to 2" in diameter. I could pick up several pieces each time I take a walk or do any tractor work. Yesterday, my...

First one and then the other appears. The 9-pointer is a nice rack. BTW- Turn on sound. The video is from a Stealthcam I gave to my grandson for Christmas. Two Young Bucks in Sunset, TX - YouTube

;) This is a grandparent on grandparent rant.:laughing: Last September, we had our 11-yo grandson come to live with us. He's somewhat ADHD, but not so much that he acts out because of it. He is just very busy and can't concentrate for long on things like math problems. If you can look over his...

Perhaps we are using the wrong weapons to win wars. Here's the Red Army Choir singing Sweet Home Alabama in English with the Leningrad Cowboys. Get yourself a nice shot of Stoli and enjoy. Sweet Home Alabama

For those of you with diesel engines in the 90 to 110 HP range, I'm wondering what the maximum no-load RPMs of your engines might be. It's a rainy day and I'm entertaining myself by reading some engine specifications for my LB75.B w/95 HP turbocharged 4-cyl IVECO engine. I was surprised to see...

We now have our 11 yo grandson living with us. In the past, he was a problem in school, but we've been working to improve his behavior and performance. For each success, there is praise and some kind of reward for doing good. So far, his math and science skills have taken a huge turn toward...

Things are about to get a bit tougher for people claiming Ag Sales Tax Exemption in our state. When I recently went to buy some tractor parts, my dealer's parts counter people gave me a form to fill out for the new ag/timber number requirement that begins on January 1, 2012. If you don't have...

I just saw this linked AP story via Yahoo!. It means 85 people out of work as the factory will close. SMC manufactures backhoes and loaders. Here is a link to the Alamo-SMC website.

My LB75B has dual brake cylinders (also called pumps), and recently they started leaking. I have no idea what the previous owner used for brake fluid, but I bought and use only NH brake mineral oil. I suppose the previous owner could have put DOT3 fluid in the reservoir. If so, this is probably...

I don't know that our drought is ended, but we are 5-1/4" closer to normal rainfall. The rain was yesterday, but I waited until this morning to do a tour mostly because I wanted to reduce rutting and slinging mud all over our Kawasaki Mule. I first checked on our ponds and lake. The pond has...

Do you suppose he could be a secret TBN member? Way to go Jay! You look good gettin' some seat time. :thumbsup: Jay Leno's Garage

I inherited a Dearborn Cultivator toolbar with several shanks, feet, and sweeps when my Dad passed away. One of the things he had for it was an old lister plow converted to fit on the toolbar. TBN member GreenElephant PM'd me to ask about the lister. I cannot post a photo attachment to a PM, so...

I have to admit that I never considered turtles to be particularly smart and certainly not trainable. However, on a recent trip to the Arbuckle Wilderness in Oklahoma, we drove up to the edge of a pond and noticed the entire water's edge was full of turtles. All of a sudden the turtles started...

. . . have you spent on your JD lawn tractor/mower? Yesterday as I shut off my LA145, I glanced down at the hour meter and noticed it was 128 hours. Last week when I put new blades on it, I noticed one spindle is starting to loosen up. It's still working fine, but just indicates that I will...

Many years ago before my wife and I got married, I sponsored a Texas TBNer fishfry at my place. Of course it was also open to any TBNers and Mr & Mrs Buckle97 (Lawrence and his wife, Angie) came from McComb, MS. I believe they were in the area visiting relatives and were able to stop by...

I was mowing this morning and looked down to see this tiny little fellow heading for the deep grass (striped garter snake?). I stopped the mower and convinced it to go back across the driveway and out of harms way. I called it Twiggy because it was about 10" long and less than 1/8" diameter at...

I typically use my tiller at the beginning of the season and then once again at the end of the garden season to till under the organics. This year, we have a small garden and have lots of ground left fallow. It gets covered in weeds and nutgrass (nutsedge). I'm too embarrassed to take a picture...

I'm on TBN this morning thanks to my generator humming along in the driveway. I just have some extension cords out to the "important" things like my computer and microwave. I'll hook up the refrigerator if this keeps up until noon, but they tell me power should be fixed soon. Last night at...

Well, it was time for spring maintenance on my LA145 last Friday. I replaced the 3-yr old battery that had ceased to hold a charge and pulled the deck for maintenance. I put on a new set of sharp blades and checked the idlers. Sure enough, one was getting loose in the bearing as I suspected from...

I started my 1700 hour TC45D this morning to do a bit of boxblading and levelling an RV parking pad I'm building. After I paused at the end of the pad and backed up, I noticed a puddle of oil on the ground.:thumbdown: I looked under the tractor to see the crankcase breather tube was running a...

I know it's not much, but this is the first bed of tulips I have ever grown. Many of them are still just sprouting despite the fact that we carefully planted them all at the same depth. Anyhow, they are pretty and signal a certain change to spring. My deer netting fence makes sure they are...

I just can't share that opinion of a store that treats me as well as they do.:thumbsup::thumbsup: My wife and I are adding a bathroom onto our house. I went into Lowes yesterday to order a corner drop-in Jacuzzi tub, toilet, and lavatory. We were pleasantly surprised to find a sign at the...

Just an FYI. . . My wife used to be a tax-free customer for goat food and supplies from TSC. Now that she has sold her old farm, TSC still sends her tax-free savings. This last week we got a 15% off coupon from TSC that expires Feb 20, 2011. It has to be used soon and is $50 minimum purchase...

I have decided to buy my brother either an x320 or x324 for his birthday. He has never been able to buy anything but the average $1000 mower and never owned an HST. After about 5 years, his cheaper mowers need some good/regular maintenance and he just can't do it due to severe handicaps. His...

Well, the weather finally got me. Last night I went to check our walkout basement rec room before going to bed. The lights were off when I stepped off the last step in the stairwell and my foot was suddenly immersed in 3" of water. AARGH! :eek: :( The walkout has 3 walls that are concrete up to...

Doing it with a hydraulic lift placed in the FEL has got to be even more dangerous. One Boyd, TX resident was killed and another hospitalized when the hydraulic lift fell backwards onto the tractor. It is not specified whether the lift was a scissor lift, but that's all I can see fitting into a...

Those of us with Class III HST Boomers (TC35D/40D/45D and derivatives) have a wonderful Rabbit-Turtle switch to electrically shift our HST transmissions. Those of us with FELs have a switch on the right fender and another one on the Joystick. Both switches are in parallel and do the same...

My LB75B came with some nice single and double tiger-tooth teeth. In the first pictures below, you can see the condition of the teeth when delivered. I've put about 50 hours of digging in caliche and those teeth have lost their points as shown in pictures 3 and 4. Picture 5 is the relief trench...

My wife and I are driving down to San Antonio today to Lackland AFB. My oldest grandson is graduating from Air Force Basic Training on Friday. We will get to spend a half-day with him on base tomorrow and then after graduating Friday, he will have a town pass so we can go celebrate. I'm really...

. . . or so it would seem.;) I just bought a used New Holland LB75B TLB. My dealer was excellent and promised me that for his asking price, he would make the tractor work ready. He changed all the fluids and filters and replaced a front wheel final drive seal and rear axle seal plus he cleaned...

Well Jack Frost has finally had his way with my tomatoes. We have had fresh tomatoes on the vines until last week. Now, my wife has picked the last 15 pounds of semi-ripe tomatoes and they are ripening indoors. I have cherry tomatoes from my garden on every salad and even slicing tomatoes...

I bought a carb rebuild kit from Briggs & Stratton for my LA145's engine. It was delivered about 6 months ago after I discovered that I could get around the problem by blowing low pressure air into the inlet hose to pop open the valve when it sticks. The engine would run perfectly after one...

I know the show is pretty lame, but it's filmed in Texas and fun for me to watch. Tonight's show is supposed to be episode #4 and features one of my friend's place near Waxahachie, TX. His private airport and house are supposed to feature prominently in one of the scenes where they chase an...

I talk a lot about my land and gullies because at least half of my property has deep gullies from eons (aeons) of erosion. I have slowed much of this erosion by terracing and controlling where water flows, but there is probably no telling how long ago some of this terrain formed. Now that I've...

This strange question came from my aerobic septic system service guy today. "No, we love meat," was my answer. He then told me that our filter was the cleanest one he had ever seen. He had been told that undigested meat was a reason for extra sludge. I could see he wasn't fooling. He was really...

I purchased a used New Holland LB75.B loader-backhoe this week from my local NH dealer, McMaster New Holland in Decatur, TX. The tractor has 3670 hours and has been worked hard, but it seems to have been properly repaired when something needed attention. The dipper had one bushing replaced, but...

I learned something new yesterday. That's not all that abnormal for me, but what makes it embarassing is that I have told people our Class III tractors don't have a fuel lift pump when they certainly do.:o It's been staring me in the face all along, but I never put it together until yesterday...

I think I've found a decent 2005 New Holland LB75.B 4x4 at my local dealer. This is the same dealer who sold me the new TC45D back in 2001. I obviously like these folks and trust them when they tell me something. I also know they are in business to make money and don't owe me any big favors...

My wife and I were cutting grass in our yard today when she notice some large brown spots. On closer examination, the brown areas were thousands of striped blister beetles. They were massed in a patch about 3' wide by 12' long and covering the grass. I went about 25' to our well house to get...

I have to admit, I made the young lady repeat that question and then told her I had a sharp pencil. Would that do?:confused: Nope, it needs to be a toothpick or paper clip. "Okay," I said. "I'll get a toothpick and come right back.":confused3: So with toothpick in hand, I returned to my...

Holy cow! I was at Sam's Club yesterday and found 1/2 gallon jars of pickled okra being sold under their Members Mark label. A whole jar is less than $4 (I think it was $3.88). I haven't tasted this yet, but if it is any good at all it is worth the money.:thumbsup: I bought two jars.:licking: I...

I guess I should call it "Franken-reel." I have two plastic hose reels that are my all-time favorites. I installed one on my wellhouse over 10 years ago and another on one of my outside faucets on my house. Evidently they have quit making this exact model because I can't find it anymore. What I...

Just exactly 30 days ago I planted three hills of yellow crookneck squash and two hills of butternut squash. On July 5th, I took the picture below of the yellow squash seedlings. I've never seen anything pop out of the ground so fast.

I have a neighbor who told me he bought some round bales of hay for his mules and later found out that human waste had been used to fertilize those fields. He said he rolled the hay off into a gully and will not feed it to his mules. Personally, I don't see what the big deal is.:confused...

I've tried not to dominate garden threads this year with my ceaseless talk of my garden's successes and failures, but I have to post a few pictures. For our 4th of July cookout and fireworks this year, we had about 35 people as our guests, and they all commented on how nice our garden looks. Of...

I don't know how long this link will be good because the newspaper updates on a daily basis; however, here is an interesting story about a 18 year old girl who loves working on tractors. She loves them so much that she got a '66 John Deere 2510 High Crop tattooed on her back. Knowing how tattoos...

Well, I guess I am officially out of the stone age of communications. For several months, my phone company, CenturyLink, has been sending me offers for DSL. In the past, I'd go online and type in my zipcode only to find DSL was not available. With this lastest offer, that didn't happen. They...

Yum! I'm sitting here eating a big bowl of locally grown ripe peaches while typing this thread. Yesterday, I stopped at a local roadside fruit stand. We have these big fruit stands around here that are as big as barns and some with air conditioning. This particular one is my favorite and I've...

In general, I really like the design of my LA145 mower because it seems to perform well for a grass-cutting-only lawnmower. The problem I've had with the engine's carburetor and sticking float valve are more related to ethanol in the fuel than a problem with the B&S engine which performs...

Surely this was a huge mistake and there is no telling why the company was drilling a hole for a electrical transmission pole in this location. I have a map that shows the pipeline location, so it has been known about for a very long time. The auger hit a 36" gas transmission line and it...

Well, my well is not well.:thumbdown: This morning it worked for awhile and about 10:30 am it quit pumping. I checked and the thermal overload is popping on the motor controller. When I throw the pressure control to off, the thermal overload holds just fine, but as soon as I put it to the...

Last night we watched a very interesting story on Hornets on the Science Channel. It's on a 2010 Series named "What on Earth?" The program name is Violent Hornets. It already ran again at 1:00 AM this morning, but will run the third time tomorrow morning at 5:00 AM EST if someone wants to TIVO...

My wife and I just completed a 5,000 mile trip to the Northwest, down along the northern California coast, and back through NV, AZ, and NM. While we certainly didn't take pictures of all/many tractors, there were some that just "begged" to have their pictures taken. The first is an old JD at...

I don't know why it is not showing up below his avatar, but Egon has been selected as TBN Member of the Month for May 2010. Congratulations Egon.:thumbsup::)

Last fall, I bought a G1800 with about 1700 hours on it. The fellow who sold it to me had several of these mowers he had bought in an auction. This particular one had a hotwire jumper for starting with two bare wires that you held together to energize the starter solenoid.:eek: The seat had also...

If you are familiar with the phrase, this is probably not what you think it is.;) I'm talking about pollen.:rolleyes: We live in the middle of oak woods, and the oak trees are in full bloom. That means everything that is outside is covered in a yellow haze of pollen. I rinsed my car off on...

I have an old Dearborn cultivator tool bar that I use with the traditional plow sweeps to lay out rows. As a kid, I've plowed acres and acres of vegetable crops, but I prefer to use this cultivator to lay out rows and then use my little Mantis-style tiller to do the cultivating after my veggies...

Today was Bird's 70th birthday and we had a heck of a party for him.:D:D:D What was best was that it was a total surprise.:eek: His daughters have been planning this for the last year and he didn't know about it. Behind the scenes, they contacted several of us who know Bird well and we passed...

Two days ago, my Stihl 021, 16" saw just quit working. Earlier this year, I found the fuel line had dissolved and replaced it. The saw has worked perfectly since, up until now. I have a 1-1/2 month-old mix of fuel in a 1-gallon can that has been stored inside and is a perfect mix with Stihl...

My daughter has a problem. Her two-story house is flooding downstairs, but neither she nor the plumber can find a leak. The meter shows no flow whatsoever with the house pressurized. We ran all the showers, sink drains, washing machine, and toilets. Nothing caused any leaks. Her carpet is soaked...

Every morning I get up and start a fire in our fireplace. My normal routine is to put a big back-log on the rear of the grate and then roll up a sheet of newspaper and put it directly in front of the backlog. I then put on one of those fire starter bricks and stack a small log in front of the...

It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. These are pictures of the peak of the storm on Christmas Eve. This morning the skies are clear and it's a beautiful White Christmas.:) Note: In the pictures below, the last picture is looking out onto my yard where I have failed to take down my...

We've probably all heard the similar joke, but this really happened. Sheesh! Massage Student

I hope everyone has a safe and joyful Thanksgiving.:)

Uh. . . Some assembly required.:rolleyes: The crew was supposed to be here today to start, but because of Thanksgiving being tomorrow, they want to wait until Monday. I don't blame them. Thanksgiving and the days around it should be spent relaxing and enjoying family and football. Say what you...

As the saying goes, "Some days you get the bear and others the bear gets you." This week I feel like I got the bear.:) I've already reported about my successful repair of my Stihl chainsaw. What I didn't tell was that I used my HF chainsaw sharpener for the first time and also filed the rakers...

I've owned a Stihl 021 with 16" bar for around 10 years. It's an occasional use chainsaw since I cut no more than a cord of firewood per year. It's mostly used for cutting down dead trees or trimming them to push into a burn pile or gully. I admit that I haven't been emptying out the fuel when I...

I've often said that deer have no problem going over stock fences and I still think that's true. However, even deer do things so often that they become careless, it would seem. Saturday morning I heard our driveway alarm and looked up to see the postman delivering mail to our house. He...

I just petted it a little and it wouldn't go away. Can I keep it? P_L_E_A_S_E . . . .:D:D:D

I'm considering buying a B5100E with a RFM for cutting parts of my lawn that are really too rough for my yard riding mower, but areas I'd like better looking than my rotary cutter. After all, my rotary cutter is pulled behind my 45 hp tractor that weighs close to 5,000 lb. I could put a RFM on...

I'm creating this thread with a good title for searching because many TBNers have asked about what a restrictor orifice looks like and how it works. I was at my New Holland dealer yesterday and picked up a spare orifice fitting. This one is about 0.030" and is what I use in my TnT setup and my...

I have a screwdriven Chamberlain garage door opener on my garage. I bought the 1/2 hp opener at Sam's Club and installed it back in 2002. It has worked perfectly until about two weeks ago when the rack that runs back and forth on the screwdrive started skipping. It's a plastic gear and the teeth...

. . . at 6:35 am. It's still very dark outside and we aren't anywhere near to the shortest days of the season. My road has the first/earliest pickup for the schoolbus. There's a little 10 yo girl (daughter of a fireman) who rides the bus to school about 10 miles away. Knowing what I know about...

Here's ours! Kinda says "country" doesn't it?:)

I'm hoping some of the TBN brain-trust plant experts will be able to help me with identifying a plant. It's in a flowerbed where I planted all kinds of different flowers. When it first came up, I thought it was a flower I had planted, but I'm beginning to think otherwise. The reason is that the...

When you need a quick lunch, what could be better? Olive Oil - Salon De Provence, France Veggies - Wise County, Texas, USA I guess I'm dining with an international flair.;):D

I just read this article in the local newspaper. What about you vineyard owners on TBN? Is 2,4D drift a problem for your area? This particular vineyard, Brushy Creek, is located right beside a Burlington Northern railway and US Highway 287. I can understand his problem with herbicide drift. I...

I bought a JD LA145 riding lawnmower about 1-1/2 years ago. I now have 56.1 hours on the clock. The mower has been very good, but it has had a howling idler pulley on the deck for probably 25 hours. The 48" deck has three pulleys and three idlers. Only one of those idlers is spring loaded. The...

I feel sorry for my neighbors who live in Montague County, Texas. It seems all the news is bad news or embarrassing. A few months ago, the sherriff and over 20 jail workers were arrested for making crack cocaine and runing a house of ill repute in the county jail. Early this year, wildfires...

Cats like a Mule. My little kitty, Batman, wants to go for a ride in the "batmobile."

Everyone who has read my posts probably knows by now that I have a tract of land with about two acres of bluebonnets. Some years they are spectacular and other years they are ho-hum. It just depends on weather and many factors. Unfortunately, I have very few bluebonnets near my house. The...

Is this how the piggy-wiggy flu got started?

I built a folding set of "ears" for my Mule bed that allow me to tote a garbage pail very easily. I'm sure the design could be improved, but this is a very easy to use tool that allows me to tote this pail at full speed with plenty of ground clearance. I posted pictures in the Customization...

That's what I call my contraption I built for the bed on our Kawasaki Mule. It's shown in the pictures below. Does anyone want to venture a guess what these "Mule Ears" are used for? I'm going to start a little guessing game by showing pictures of my ears without showing what they are for. After...

So Kathy and I were about halfway between Huntsville and Waco Texas yesterday afternoon when her cellphone started ringing. "SUNSET IS BURNING!" came the exclamation on the other end of the connection. "IT'S ALL OVER THE NEWS!" the caller shouted. "ARE YOU OKAY?" Maybe some background info is...

I've been plotting and planning to build a nice 40 x 60 metal building for a long time. As I was excavating in my sandpit recently, I suddenly had an epiphany moment and realized I have the perfect place for a very large underground structure. I've included a picture of the site. I was thinking...

Tuesday afternoon I sent an email to Texas Pride Trailers in Madisonville, TX to enquire about price and delivery of a dump trailer. Yesterday at 10:30 am, they called me on my cell phone and asked when I wanted delivery. I'm 225 miles from Madisonville, so I was shocked. They charge $1 per...

Apply within.:rolleyes:

What the heck am I thinking? Sheesh!:rolleyes: I've picked about the worst spot I could think of to put in a garden. It's only redeeming values are that it is close to my house and a water supply for irrigation. The rest of this is gonna be a battle that may take me two years to win . . . if I...

The Dallas company is called "Milemeter" and their slogan is "Auto Insurance Buy The Mile." I saw this on the local news last night and went to their site to check it out. It seems they are licensed to sell insurance in Texas and are trying to be approved for other states. I checked what it...

I set my Moultrie Game Camera to movies last week and got several 10 second segments that I pasted together for a longer movie. It's only 320 x 240, but it's fun to watch the turkeys milling around my feeder. The last two segments show my kitty, Batman, coming into the picture and watching the...

. . . jackrabbit, that is.:D Holy smoke! I grew up in Denton, Texas and loved to hunt rabbits as a kid. I can't ever remember seeing jackrabbits on our place, but when you would get a few miles out of town, it was fairly common to see them hopping across a farmer's field. My Uncle had a 20 acre...

If this has been posted here before, let me apologize, but it has to be a classic. I got these photos in an email from a buddy yesterday, and it's taken me 24 hours to stop laughing.:D:D:D The first picture shows the 5th wheel all rigged and ready to roll. Probably had 160 psi in the rear...

Any of you folks around Nashville ever see this little Helicron? A buddy just sent me pictures and a description of this unique little car. I bet it could sure clear pedestrians out of an intersection.;) In the late 1930s this one-of-a-kind Helicron was > placed in a barn...

Am I just slow? I've never noticed v-belts at Surplus Center, but their latest brochure shows both 1/2" and 5/8" v-belts. Their prices seem to be very good. I know where I'll be ordering them from now on.:)

This next Sunday, I'm going to look at an Int'l 250C track loader. It's very similar to the Dresser TD20, but it is a loader configuraton with a 2+ yard bucket. I just want a dozer to use around my property to build ponds and do some dirt moving. Has anyone used one of these? I'm told this one...

I was clearing brush along the property line of a tract I have for sale. My method was to back the rotary cutter into the brush and then use a bypass-loper to cut limbs up to 1-1/2" diameter. I was in a particularly thick bunch of postoak and blackjack oak trees when suddenly my HST pedal...

Or maybe that should be pole vaulting grapples.:rolleyes: I was moving some telephone poles for my neighbor with my grapple yesterday. Most of the poles were about 10' long and I could pick them up from the side and maneuver them through the trees. This pole was almost 20' long and I discovered...

I am pretty immune to seeing spelling errors on fast food signs and those portable billboards and such. I've seen so many that I just smile when I see one or point out the worst ones to someone for a good laugh. You know, the ones that say, "Applictions being accepted," or something similar...

I didn't plan it this way, but it seems I am now amongst the retired TBN crowd.:D:D:D I'm so happy, I'm almost beside myself. This morning I got up and don't have to drive 70 miles to be miserable for 8 hours, and 70 miles back home feeling like I've taken a beating all day long. Last Friday, I...

Minor League baseball with a sense of humor. AirHog Promotion

Two game wardens, three sheriff's deputies, and several firemen and rescue workers have just left my place after spending most of the night and all day today looking for the body of a drowned man who made a horrible judgement error on our lake. His life is over at the young age of 35 and he...

Basketflowers, that is.:) We didn't plant a garden this year and I just left the tilled ground from last fall. I figured it would be covered in weeds, but to my surprise we have the most beautiful garden of basketflowers I've ever seen. Between the basketflowers and the purple horsemint, we...

Bowie, TX is a small town with a population of about 6,000. Guess what is coming to this little town? I was shocked to drive by and see it. This should save me over 20 miles on a round trip to the next nearest store. Woohoo! With this and a Super Wal*Mart, what else do you need?:D

Was browsing through my critter-cam pictures this last weekend and suddenly realized we have a new visitor to our feeder. DANG!:mad: This is the first time I've seen a feral pig on my place, ever. Unless this is another neighbor's pig that got out of it's pen, I may just be doing some early...

I've posted other places that our bluebonnet crop this year was really sad. I'm posting a picture of Kathy and me in our best patch of bluebonnets.:( We are surely disappointed, but maybe next year we'll have a bumper crop. On a side note, I brought in some bermuda grass sod last year from...

Let's go flyin'.:eek:

That's what came to mind when I saw these game camera shots.

I just found this TC maintenance guide while doing an unrelated search. It might be handy to print or save for future reference. Page 2 lists all the part numbers for filters and such plus in the lower right corner there is a guide to fluid quantities and service intervals. I think it answers...

Last night, when I got home from work, I noticed two turkey hens in the yard and then did a double take because one of them had one little chick following behind her. I got as close as she and the chick would allow to take this picture. In the end, I startled her a bit and she started to walk...

I was rotary cutter mowing last Monday for most of the afternoon. As I was almost finished, my wife came driving up on our Kawasaki Mule to bring me some cool water. I shut off the tractor and had a drink before attempting to restart, but the infamous PTO lamp was on with the PTO disengaged and...

I work right off of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport and drive around the perimeter road each day coming to work. I often see a red 3010 Kawasaki Mule with cab and bed sideboards that belongs to the airport. They use it daily to pick up litter around the airport. They do a great job, which has nothing...

Although I used my tractor extensively in the beginning of my garden this year, I haven't used it lately for much. So I'm moving my photos and thread from the Projects Forum to here because the projects forum is supposed to be mostly about tractor projects. I'll put a link in that thread to here...

Is anyone else in North Texas experiencing an infestation of fleas? Suddenly, a walk through our yard, garden, and everywhere outdoors gets us covered in fleas. We've sprayed and dusted the garage and barn at least twice. We don't have any house pets, but we see fleas in the house too. I guess...

We've had rain...lots and lots of rain. By my rain gauge, I'd say at least 10 inches this week. Earlier in the week, Scotty (scott_vt) heard there were tornados in my area and sent me a PM. I told him we had some heavy showers, but nothing severe in my area, only a total of 5" of rain. Then...

When you work right next to the airport on the 4th floor of a building with a view out over the runway at DFW International Airport, it's hard not to be a bit distracted at times. When you see five John Deeres pulling these big 20' batwings to mow between the runways and taxiways, it can lead to...

Only in Texas? Probably not...but you have to admit they have something to sell for anytime of the year. Now, if we can just figure out what to sell in a donut shop in the afternoon, we can make money there all day long too.

It seems all of W. Texas has blown into N. Texas. Here is a picture looking northwest from my balcony. The sky is all orange and everything has an eerie glow. Weird!:p

New paint! ...needs engine...U-tow...best offer.;) Saw this abandoned/dumped by the side of the road and could not resist. I suspect it was stolen for the engine. It wasn't there but a few hours and someone either took it for parts or it was towed to the police impound lot only a mile away...

...from my neighbor. It has about 330,000 miles and runs like a top.:D It's also very nice inside and out, but she thought it had a blown headgasket. I found a pinhole leak in the heater hose and fixed it for her, but alas, she had lost confidence in the car and wanted to get rid of it. So, I...

The last time I used my tractor, I noticed the temperature gage was hardly registering at all. I thought the thermostat might have stuck open, but did my "test" that the service manager at my dealership told me about. If you ground the lead going to the temperature probe on the engine (with the...

It's so hot in Texas that squirrels are using birdbaths as swimming pools.:p It's so dry that wild turkeys are drinking out of birdbaths and armadillos are diggin' in.:rolleyes: How hot is it in your area? Got pictures?:)

This could be an Andy Rooney routine... Have you ever noticed how new car lots don't have fences, but new tractor lots do? I know I have.... You know the rest of his routine would be a rant of some kind. I don't mean to rant, but I drive by five new tractor lots on my way to work each morning...

My 5-1/2 yr old OEM battery just gave up this weekend. I went out to start the tractor yesterday morning and the instrument panel lights were so dim I could hardly see them. I temporarily replaced the OEM battery with my trolling motor battery since I now have a battery box because I made that...

I have a friend who has a Shibaura SD2200 with about 660 hours on the proofmeter. The tractor also has a 60 in. RFM and 60 in. KK boxblade. The RFM has recently had the three spindles replaced and it is a J-Bar brand made in Georgia. Of course, I know what he wants for this tractor, but I'm...

There's nothin' like "veggin' out" on the couch.:rolleyes:

Does the attachment in the attachment belong in the Attachments forum? Hmm...probably not.:p :rolleyes:

So what did you expect to find on a hose reel? (Eddie Walker: Take a deep breath before viewing.)

Proof that aliens have landed in my garden.

Well, it's garden time for me. I've been wanting to put in a big garden for several years, but didn't have a place to grow one that would not require a huge deer fence. I got married last year and my wife's place has a perfect area right beside her dog pen where deer do not come. Here are some...

Okay, I'm a New Holland guy, but my wife has a little Kubota tiller she was given by a friend who had no more use for it. It's a tiny little FL850, 36" tiller for a BX7500 or similar sized tractor. My NH is a TC45D, 45 hp tractor and seriously oversized for this little tiller. But hey! It's only...

My apologies to anyone who has seen this before, but since we TBNers are all about power, I just have to post this link. Honestly, I may be a little weird, but this had me laughing so hard it brought tears to my eyes. 747 Fun

Dear Santa, We've been good. Please leave our presents under the tractor. Jim & Kathy <font color="red"> Merry </font> <font color="green"> Christmas </font> <font color="blue"> TBN </font>

I've mentioned many times in other threads that I have a couple of 3/4 acre ponds and frontage on a 20 acre soil conservation lake. The ponds and lake were started in 1940 and finished in 1941. That means it's been 65 years for silt to collect in my ponds. Lately, we've had a long dry spell...

Can\'t help it.... Happy Thanksgiving! Well, I just can't pass up the chance to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. I've had so many good things happen to me this year that I won't even try to list them all, but by far the best has been my marriage to a wonderful woman. I guess I also have to...

I think they meant it to be reversed, "veg oil to diesel." (see attachment) Gosh! I hope so.

Don\'t stand under a tree in a thunderstorm Maybe this belongs in Photos, but it's more of a Related Item to tractoring since you could easily make the mistake of taking shelter under a tree in a rain storm. Here's a tree on my place that was hit by lightning and exploded. There are no burn...

Some interesting photos... Thankfully!

Several family members have asked me to look for some B-I-G rocks to put in their landscaping. I'm also planning some large multilevel ponds and will need rocks for spillway/waterfalls between the levels. My wife owns about 22 acres of scrub oak and about 1/10 of her property is covered in huge...

There has been a lot of discussion in this forum about hydraulic pressure and how it is set. One member, Spencer, even bought a pressure testing rig and loaned it to other members by shipping it from TBN member-to-member (although it seems to be "lost" at the moment). Lately, I've been...

Please don\'t make fun of me. . . . . . just because I have big ears.

In the last couple of years I've had several requests by PM to tell someone where the post is located about removing and installing the 16LA loader. While I don't mind telling them about the post, it's probably better that I make this post with an easily searchable name so it can be used to find...

Txdon and Karen, may you have many more.

Who-Who Can\'t Read? I went to feed catfish last night and I had a tresspasser.

If you go to check the oil in your tractor and the dipstick moves, you might just find out what your own fluid levels are.

Recently I purchased a rock bucket for my tractor. I have lots of rocks on my property and using a normal bucket, even with a toothbar, was less than ideal. The rock bucket I bought is a Houle 5-foot bucket with 1-1/4" tines. It didn't take me long to see three things: 1. I'm gonna love using...

Tilt no mo\' I was using my subsoiler today to dig up some shallow roots in brush when I heard a crack and looked back to see that a lynch-pin had been plucked out of the left lower link. As a result the arm came off the pin and the subsoiler twisted. the stress was enough on the remaining...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Yesterday, I was at my local TSC and bought a 2005 tractor calendar. I'd scan the image of the back and put it here, but the darn thing has copyright notices all over it and I don't think Muhammad would appreciate my posting a copyrighted picture on his site. ...so there won't be a scan. What...

Digital cameras are great, but they have a much narrower field of view than most 35mm cameras. If you get to the high pro-sumer level, you can get replaceable lens, but not many folks want to spend around $1000 or more for one of these cameras. I've found with knowledge of photo retouching...

Let\'s help this fellow get the right info There is a poster in the Case-IH forum who has received price quotes on a new tractor and I think something is not right about his prices. He is saying his quote for a DX40 with LX116 loader is under $19,250 and a DX45 with loader for $21,000. I don't...

I have a co-worker who is a retired American Airlines pilot and he sent me these photos of a 747 landing on a very, very narrow strip. Here is the description of the attached photos in this and the following message attachements. They say the importance of landing on centerline cannot be...

Did you ever get the urge to tie some balloons on your tractor while out mowing. I think it would really make a statement and get some attention. What do you think? INCOMING!....

Jim\'s Boomer Battery Box One of the most frustrating problems with the older (pre-ugly lights) Class III Boomers is the position of the battery and leaking battery acid. I call the old Class IIIs " <font color="blue">hole-in-the-roof Boomers </font>" because the hood has that large open...

This ain't Fat Albert, but it's a lot of hay. I mentioned seeing a field full of hay in BIGUN's nice post about baling hay. Tonight I stopped and took a couple of shots. I'm no expert, but I do believe this is 8 or 10 bales per acre. The first time I saw this field I almost ran off the road. I...

Yesterday I managed to pop my third OEM hydraulic hose on my 16LA loader. All three hoses have been the short 18" bucket curl cylinder hoses. I have one more original left and I bet it won't be long until I'll need it too. The first hose broke when I was pushing a pile of brush with the bucket...

I sometimes think the "RC" abbreviation should be for "rock cutter" in my case. Everytime I use my cutter, it borders on abuse because of the number of football sized soft limestone rocks I hit while cutting native grass and brush. On a good day of mowing, I'll use less than the four shear...

Here's the recipe: 1. Two bored 13 year-old boys 2. One Ford Explorer, keys in ignition 3. One executive jet hangar in Buffalo Mix two boys with Explorer for a few minutes of joyriding around the hangar's ramp. Crash Explorer into hangar door and into hangar. Thoroughly trash one Falcon 900EX...

I keep hearing that there are dealers giving people blank looks when they ask about top-n-tilt cylinders. I think we should post photos so when someone wants to get TnT for their tractor, they can just print out the photo of the setup on a tractor similar to theirs and take it to their dealer...

State of MN decided you don\'t need to know... ...the actual dealer's cost for New Holland tractors. I was looking on the State of MN website today and noticed that they have removed all the "factory codes" from the New Holland price lists. Do you think all the New Holland dealers were...