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Decades ago, a friend owned a Flxible bus and tried to get the lug nuts loose. He was using a Budd wrench. A Budd wrench then[1] was a HEAVY ~18" long solid steel cylinder about 1.5" dia with a socket ?cast/machined? into each end. It has a hole at the 9" point for the hard solid rod that slides...

That is SOP for anything I get done. Plus the better tape is foil-backed; the locator puts his transmitter where the foil emerges, and can then locate the whole run with the accompanying receiver.

I compare it to 1980's Radios Hack stereo amp ads: 250 watts of stereo POWER Sure, with both channels in parallel, at 10% thd, for 3.5mS....

No problem if there is enough flow; they also weld on 80,000 bbl storage tanks of gasoline. BUT they make sure the weld location had a few feet of gasoline above it for cooling.

re: 811 response I went through this on the Olympic Peninsula. In WA, you CYA by filing a 811 ticket; the utilities have ?5? days to respond. One locater did the Comcast, a different one did the PSE power. No one ever showed up for the Centel phones. I later heard the one locater had but one...

You can't get anything useful for a residence with 10G, either. A friend was a VP at Amazon, and was upset his new apartment LAN was only 2.5Gb/s until I asked him how many mouse-clicks/second that was. He shut up. We'll need 16K/3D television before you need that capacity. It's like buying...

I'd assumed the 3-pt trencher would be PTO-driven; it takes a lot of hydraulics to equal that. This is in eastern WV. Finding one will likely be a major challenge.

Having trenched in too many thousand feet of 3" electrical duct with DitchWitch's, I know how much work it can be. I'd think a tractor with hydrostatic drive would have sufficient GPM, but I'm no expert. It would be slow work with the Kioti's backhoe, and wider than we need/want. I built a...

A friend has a Kioti with FEL and 3Pt; I'm guessing it's a CX but not sure. This is for a Ground Source Heat pump which would need 3 ft+ depth. Would he be better off to rent a 3pt hitch trencher, or a skidsteer attachment for the FEL?

Go for it. The battery will limit the current it pulls with its internal resistance.

100KW-1 MW UPSi are rather larger. There are batteryless UPS's. I can't recall the name, but they are vertical shaft motor-generators with flywall mass. You could see them in datacenters. They run for 'n' seconds, enough of them for the Diesels to get up to speed.

Can you boil the water out of the hydraulic fluid?

Many stationary plants are kept jacket-heated for rapid use. None more so than the backup power at a nuclear power plant; they are ready to accept loads in seconds. Without them, you risk being the next Fukushima Daiichi.

I was just looking at the APSA and it exempts propane.

Much of #2 is refined the previous summer. Here's why: When you refine crude you get light ends [gasoline] & distillates [Kero, #2 Heat, etc.] The refinery has some control of the ratio, but it'd never be 100:0; let's just say it's 60/40 or 40/60. So in the summer [driving season...] it's 60%...

When I was evaluating the fuel choice, there were factors on each side. Getting a propane refill post-earthquake was a major minus. But the ability to bury a 500-1000 gallon propane tank was a plus; you can store the fuel forever. I was told such can survive a wildfire. And any contamination was...

Just wanted to pitch that propane is the 99% ideal fuel for BU gensets. It never goes stale or clogs the carb[gas], grows bugs [diesel], etc. A disadvantage is you usually need an electric starter because you have to have enough intake vacuum to draw in the gas; hand yanking is not usually...

I watched a friend hit a pothole with the RF wheel, he went off the seat to exactly where the rear tire would crush him. Fortunately, it stalled and he survived.

I've been out of the pipeline business for many decade, so this data is pre-low sulfur, BUT: We had tankage, as in 3-4 million gallons, for Kerosene, Diesel, and #2 Heating oil. (And of course, gasolines...) The #2 was a lower Cetane rating than Diesel, and did not have the lubricity of Diesel...

If it's cutting HP that's the limiting factor, can you buy a 4" blade and use it? Yes, can't cut close to a fence, etc. but cheaper than another hog.

I loved the Ferguson 30 I ran a lifetime ago. Continental engine. Dealer with all the parts needed. Forty years later, I used a Ford N, and was surprised how it all came back to me; the "go to neutral do I can release the clutch to get the hydraulic up and raise the blade" was fully instinctive.

Did you get title insurance when you bought the property? This is exactly why you get same; it's then the insurer's job to protect the property.

So promises made by a Beltway Bandit fell through. That's NEVER happened before.... At $1 million each, they should be new.

At a certain USG location in the {very} general region around DC, there's large fields on all sides around the buildings. (To keep prying eyes at a safe distance....) A mentor of mine, now a tenant at Arlington, was in charge of it in the 1970's-80's. He initially hired a farmer nearby to cut...

They were M-151's, I think. They had swing axles, like the original Convairs, and were infamous for flipping while cornering, crushing the GI's on board. They were withdrawn from service and scrapped. The demob included cutting the spring hangers off the body so they could never run again. Then...

Also note that synthetic oil has made a huge difference in winter (0F range) starting. Was a time you could barely crank it over without a warmer, not anymore.

Agreed. But my lesson for Grayham is that a bad battery will look good with no load; it's the voltage under load that counts.

Put voltmeter on the cable side of the terminals, not the battery post. With third hand, crank. What is the voltage while {failing to} crank??

Thanks, that would be a big help.

It's worth a try.....

Thanks. Will pursue. Also pondering if we can use it to split firewood....

nx5510 hst Got a deal on a 3-point fencepost driver. You raise it hydraulically, when you release, it goes down as fast as possible. To vent that fluid ASAP, it's got a 1" dia return line. Wondering if there's a place on the 5510 to add a port to dump directly into the hydraulic reservoir?

My friend's 5510 got a new operator. A mouse crawled into the lower seat cushion & was happy..... until my friend sat down. The next weekend, we really knew about it. We hosed it out via the bottom access hole, but there's no way to take the cushion apart and get to it. I considered filling...