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Does this have a certain familiar feel? Caption too small? She says his doing house work will not make him eligible to buy another tractor.

Not sure where this should be posted. Suggestions considered. I have a collection of gasoline chainsaws ranging from a couple 16 inch Macs and some 18 inch Huskies to a 32 inch Husky and they all have the spark plug and spark plug wire sort of toward the top and or near the hand grips. As a...

Odds of injury from fireworks: 19,556 to 1 Odds of injury from shaving: 6,585 to 1 Odds of injury from using a chain saw: 4,464 to 1 Odds of injury from mowing the lawn: 3,623 to 1 Odds of fatally slipping in bath or shower: 2,232 to 1 Odds of drowning in a bathtub: 685,000 to 1 Odds...

Howdy from deep in the heart of Tornado Alley where we grow our own tornadoes. I got these 6 tornado myths from State Farm. I think they have enough experience with tornadoes through their claims to know what the real deal is. It is in their best interests to tell you what reduces the...

Danger of grill brushes identified Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:28 AM PDT Physicians have identified a number of cases of accidental ingestion of wire grill brush bristles that required endoscopic or surgical removal. Lets be careful when brushing the goop off the grill as metal bristles might...

So, in the aftermath of the Blizzard of 2009 here in Oklahoma we had a blanket of snow all over the place. I had the HD 6 ft brush hog on the 3PH as counter weight to make handling 1000 + lb round bales a less exciting activity when feeding the herd. I was cruising along at a fast walking pace...

So I'm driving across a pasture through the snow (left over from our white Christmas) with the brush hog/hay handling counter weight up in the air and hit an irregularity in the surface contour hidden by the snow. BAM!! the lower arms are suddenly fully lowered and inoperative and brush hog is...

So, you lay down your $ and buy a new truck with an OEM towing package. You get a good stout (but not amazingly so) receiver hitch, a built in electronic brake controller, a couple styles of sockets to let you plug the trailer plug into the truck as well as engine stuff like tranny coolers etc...

I friend's nephew recently hired a dozer to clear part of a 40 acre parcel and they discovered a lot of surface rock to dispose of. I got 5 dump trailer loads so far. Many of the rocks were right at the max lift capability of my loader and several exceeded it. Note in one of the pictures that...

I heard on NPR (National Public Radio) today that the 7 billion $ Mahindra and Mahindra conglomerate of India is seriously considering exporting diesel pickups and SUV's to the U.S. Any Mahindra tractor owner/operators out there who are comfortable enough with build quality, frequency/cost of...

YouTube - Best Ever,Tractor Square Dance. Recreational opportunity, good for other brands but illustrated here with vintage Farmall tractors. Note the appropriate use of steering wheel enhancements.. the spinner, AKA suicide knob. Pat

Here is a good site for getting price info for propane, gasoline, diesel, etc. Pretty handy. U.S. Gasoline and Diesel Retail Prices Pat

My DeWalt tools are ALL Chinese made. Delta is Chinese. Just today I was puttering in the shop and found an invoice for repair parts sent to me by Delta for free to fix an engineering/manufacturing defect in their infinitely variable speed bench top drill press my wife won as a door prize. All...

I have a shed on the side of my garage-shop. the garage-shop is 36 x 48 divided into two 36 x 24 portions, one is a three car garage and the other is my wood shop. the shed is 21 x 48 and is on the south side of the garage and wood shop. The shed is enclosed on three sides and has a 3:12 shed...

I have a 30 plus year old metal shop/barn with 14 foot wide 14 foot high overhead doors at opposite long ends and a small office room on the side in the middle on the north side sticking out like a wart on a pickle. There are three regular size (people) doors in the building proper on the...

According to DIS (Diesel Injector Service with web page at Diesel Injection Service (DIS Main Page)) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Low sulfur fuel (lower lubricity fuel and or fuel contamination) has been known to cause plunger and barrel assemblies in the injection pump to stick causing a...

My wife's best girlfriend went for a walk down to a pond "shared" by 3 families yesterday evening and found a tractor upside down in the pond with her dead neighbor under it. NO ROPS! He operated his tractor the way his dad operated the tractor and he was not going to let anyone tell him how...

Kubota has approved the use of B5 biodiesel (5% biodiesel and 95% dino oil) http://www.kubota.com/f/Support/Biodiesel_Fact_Sheet_110106.pdf Pat

I realize it is "ONLY" a GMC but still... Never insult a backhoe operator is good philosophy. Pat

I was out clearing some more pasture earlier this afternoon. Brush and trees take moisture and nutrients that could be used by grass that would be eaten by cattle and turned into BBQ. The brush and trees shade the ground and there is little or no grass if the brush and trees are too thick and or...

Just in time from the US Gov printing office. Hopefully it will hit the streets before it needs to be replaced with a higher denomination.

Always properly shore up anything not too stable when excavating. Pat

This feller I met over to the TBN site siad they builided hoiuses with straw bales so I thought they'd be OK for a temporary scaffold. Maw sure wants them fancy fish scale shingles. Pat

Always properly secure your elevated vehicle when performing inspections and maintenance. A good "ROCK SOLID" arrangement will ensure your safety. Pat

As if plumbing with PVC were not dangerous enough... Having heard that ladders are frequent causes of accidents, these safety minded DIY plumbers are avoiding ladder use just to be on the safe side. Pat

Here is someone obviously interested in safety as they have a helper to steady the ladder, well at least the first ladder. Pat

This is to introduce everyone to Kubota's new FEL mounted scaffolding with the easy bungee attachment. It is being demonstrated here down south of me in Durant (pronounced DOO-Rant), Oklahoma by a graduate, magnum *** naseum, of Durant HS. The driver, not in picture, is the lad's dad and...

A friend of mine is building a house and is concerned with theft of tools. Another friend who recently built a house had the door to his garage kicked in and all his power tools, including table saw etc) and other goods too, taken, never to be seen again. I told both of them a penny spent on...

Note: Allow your imagination to be stretched and you may make a connection between this post and the heading under which it is posted. What movies have depicted tractors and or associated equipment actually in use and what if anything could be learned from your observation. Did they get it...

I'm hoping we can get some input on legal weight issues relative to pickups and trailers. If you buy a really HD pickup, especially getting into the medium truck designation aren't you getting into a whole new world of regulations? I have recently heard complaints that a 1 ton pickup with...

How would you like to own and operate a diesel with the thirst this baby must have? The Emma Maersk (largest by volume self propelled object in the world) now has the largest diesel engine. She packs a 118,000 horse diesel engine. Click on the URL below to see the most powerful diesel engine...

Quote: Originally Posted by jsborn Pat You made reference to a DIY waste oil heater do you have the plans or could you send some info on this unit? I would be interested in making one for my shop. PM me if you don't want to send it in this thread. Thanks No problem, dude. IF you don't have...

This post does involve tractor work (but not the central theme) so let me know if I shouldn't ask it here. I will be building a new fence. It will have the hollow vinyl posts and vinyl slats that are supposed to be good for holding in livestock. I have a 3PH mounted PTO driven cement mixer...

I think most of us are at least a little less safety conscious about lightning than is prudent. A "BOLT FROM THE BLUE" (lightning when you are under a blue (often cloudless) sky has killed several people. Lightning strikes several miles in front of an approaching storm or behind a departing one...

Anyone have experience successfully painting or staining wood that isn't cured? A friend and I are each going to build a pole barn and our lumber source is logging timber, and having it milled. We have no access to a kiln and won't wait for it to cure. We are building his first and the...

I have a couple diesel fuel and foreign oil dependence sort of questions-topics floating around in my head that I'm not quite sure how to express but here goes: 1. I don't understand why diesel fuel which is easier to refine than gasoline is more expensive. Didn't used to be that way. What...

I have been skidding some logs and need something better than just chaining to the box blade but not nearly so advanced as the fancy arch things with wheels and such. Here is the dialog for the 4 pix: #1 shows MDF templates for cutting round pieces of steel with the plasma cutter, two each...

Homebrew2, OK you asked for it... I have been intending to build some more feed troughs out of plastic 55 gal drums but couldn't decide on a design. The last ones were too labor and materials intensive. Today I did. I split a drum in half, lengthwise longways with a skill saw. It cuts easily...

I have been doing a little more than my average logging lately and have tired of improvising. Here is my trial baloon... What do you think? 1. Cut a piece of steel, probably 4 inch heavy wall steel pipe or square tubing (1/4 or more wall thickness) to fit between the 3PH lower arms of a class...

I have been doing a little more than my average logging lately and have tired of improvising. Here is my trial baloon... What do you think? 1. Cut a piece of steel, probably 4 inch heavy wall steel pipe or square tubing (1/4 or more wall thickness) to fit between the 3PH lower arms of a class...

For those who may not have been aware of this site. Kubota Tractor USA - Ten Commandments Pat

Just wondered how prices vary. Latest ad here in south central Oklahoma (Ada) is a 50 Hp Kubota M5000SU with Kubota loader, 6 ft Land Pride brush cutter, 6 ft box blade, on a new 18 ft tandem trailer with all electric brakes for... $19, 895 Seemed like a pretty good deal but then I have only...

I have always had problems with the pins in my LA 852 loader. Digging in a gravel pile, dirt, even using pallet forks handling brush I seem to knock a keeper out and then the pin works its way out. Sometimes I find them sometimes I don't and have to buy more. Eventually I welded chain to the...