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Doing some cleaning up projects where I'll be working near and across a smallish creek, in snags and brambles and such. A material that is more snag resistant maybe? TIA

Proposed Washington state bill HB 1168 . The EPA seems to think that OPE users spilled SEVENTEEN MILLION GALLONS. So pretty much a bill much like California has been proposed...

For a few days now several of the ads show as coming from a compromised website. As an FYI.

I found a solution for cleaning the glass in the door. Purple Power degreaser. I'm probably in the last group people on the planet that knows this, but the stubborn soot washed off without effort. I have the door off getting ready to reseal the glass and door. Here's my share.

I suspected a leak and confirmed that it does....somewhere. It is plumbed w/ ~200' PVC and put the whole works in ~ 7 years ago and mostly runs the edge of the driveway. There is no outward signs of leakage. Do hydrants themselves somehow leak or is it more likely a plumbing problem?

When you have 15 minutes to relax and watch a video, it makes you wonder what you just screwed on your vehicle, tractor, bike, mower. How many here have filter cutters?

I have one of those trucks that the paint falls off the hood. So I stripped it down to the metal mostly and need a good sealer / primer. The end game here is to do a vinyl wrap on the the hood to make things easy. What I need to do is protect the metal and give a place for the wrap to bond to...

My M18 2611 hammer drill seems kind of wiggy lately. The trigger feels normal, but many times you squeeze it and it starts up slow. Or then goes normal and then slows down. Next thing you know it runs up normally. Anyone ever deal with that? I've taken A couple Milwaukee things apart. This is a...

Our interior walls are 2x4 and uninsulated. Right now I'm redoing drywall in the laundry room that backs up to our master closet and part of the master bath. The wife runs one of those food dehydrators with a constant fan running. My thought was this laundry room is nice sized and could be a...

Had kind of an odd experience today, at least my wife did. Home Depot apparently sublets their deliveries now? Anyways last week got a call on delivery day from a driver asking if she could get in and out with a tractor trailer. Nope was my reply and thought darn I should have noted that with...

I use a fair amount of engine, transmission oils etc. With the uncertainty of availability and pricing , I bought it all last fall which turned out to be a good thing. Has anything really changed on that front this fall? Pricing is still at a much higher level than last fall for me though. I'm...

The misses gave me shout today saying no water. She had been watering a lot this AM and pressure went away. Smart girl that she is, she hit the web and looked for things to check. In January I put on the Square D pressure switch new that had the arm on the side and the feature to shut the pump...

I haven't seen it around me. It seems to be a resoundingly bad idea. Our Kohler engine distributor reiterated that it was not suitable in OPE. E15 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines E15 as gasoline blended with 10.5% to 15% ethanol. In 2011, EPA approved E15 for use in...

Informal poll. What's your go to mustard?

I The above picture is where my drive meets our road. It is hard to get a good pic of what is really happening here. Every delivery truck seems to find it as they cut the corner to zoom up the drive. Everything to left of the shiny stream of water is my driveway apron, to the right the road...

Everybody gets that pole buildings and their roofs are kind of good for a few decades or so. I have a ~ 25 year old pole building that I went up top with a bag of new longer screws to seal what have come loose etc. and might leak. This seems to happen more on the wind prevailing side. No problem...

Martin Evans Fri, February 4, 2022, 8:35 AM Robert Hooper used a forklift to remove the Vauxhall Corsa from his land - Crown Prosecution Service/PA Wire A farmer who wrecked a car parked on his land with a tractor has been cleared of criminal damage after he successfully used the 400-year-old...

By me the local Home Depot has a nice stack of Toro Battery mowers in the box at 1/2 price. 225$ I think. These are steel decks. ++

Stumbled across this on YouTube. ~ 20 minute video of a guy catching someone who stole from his property, the involvement of the Sherriff. A good watch.

How's everyone cooking the bird these days? I get it cooked for me this year. MY BIL was ready to do it on the Traeger, but my sister said not this year. Instead, we get smoked pumpkin pie. Sounds good!

Does anyone know what this is used for? Or even likely what grade stainless it could be? I inherited a handful of these shorter pieces and a longer length, that I'm sure is going to be useful for something someday...

California moves toward ban on gas lawnmowers and leaf blowers California sales ban in 2024 for much of the OPE market. Battery trimmers, blowers, riders, walk behinds, ZTRs are here now. The generator aspect a larger learning curve? I'm still guessing that those manual grass scissors won't...

Wife just slid a bowl off the counter into smithereenland. This set was gift to her 40 years ago and the next to the largest bowl makes it an awkward set of 3. So being Mr. Helpful, figured out she needed the Pyrex 443. First thing I see is a bowl on EBay for 8k. It ended up being another...

I was having this discussion with my BIL. He has a mid 2000s Silverado Duramax 2500. He tows a couple of Genie lifts for work off the frame hitch sometimes long distances at times. SO they get this new RV. I think it is ~ 8000 pounds off the frame hitch. They used to tow an 11,000 pound 5th...

I recall an air fry thread a while back, so it seems that just about all would have more air fry experience than me. We have this new oven that you can air fry in. Our first air fry experience was dismal, and I'm sure that the the issues were mostly because we didn't brush oil on stuff first...

Kohler has a few new videos relating to oils in general and air cooled oils.

Saw these. What do you think? Anyone tried them? Kind of refined brush hog type blades for rotary mower decks. https://meg-mo.com/

This is pretty cool. Any other examples of what the process might be? Dutch queen and robot open 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam

I've done so little with stainless steel really. I stumbled across a bit of stainless steel. Everything from channel steel, angle ,solid bar, tube, brackets, strut- and the list goes on. Lots of pipe and a pile of fittings too. Heavy and light. So far besides regular carbon steel repairs- I...

SO a little while back I posted a thread about what was everyone's best canine friend. It went well beyond what I thought it would and had great insight about breeds that had piqued our interest before and some we never even heard of. Hopefully the group got lots out of it. Now it is to the...

We had a sloped area of the yard that was partially an old building torn out which had just a gravel pad. Last summer, we filled over this with close to 3' of mixed dirt that had a fair amount of clay and expanded that area. Built a solid 60# block retaining wall around that. The goal is to...

Sure, this is like asking what is your favorite sandwich... I'm just hoping someone can spark something in our search for a new family dog. We are more small to medium size dog folks, but that doesn't matter here. Breed if you know it. What made him or her special to you.

I made some heavy duty legs for a landing awhile back, slathered the whole thing with Rustoleum. Turned out great. But what I did was set the legs onto some metal plates to distribute the weight rather then bother welding a constant bead. I'm getting just enough moisture in the legs that wants...

I saw in the owner's manual not to use the differential lock when in 4WD. It's not something that I've ever thought of in the past, though I very rarely ever lock the rear end. Thoughts?

I need to get some 30" legs under a heavy, 2 ton platform. It is basically built out of 4" channel , 8 x 15 with 10 legs underneath. My first thought was to stitch some 4" channel that I had for legs , but then thought I may be best with some heavy box or round tube. Dare I consider schedule 40...

It seems like a metal cutting bandsaw could be good thing in my future. My bigger projects tend to be working with 3-4" c channel, up to 1/2 thick flat bar, some tube. When I need a better cut, the dry cut chop saw is the go to, but it lacks precision and versatility on angle cuts plus the...

We're not having any apparent issues with the pump. Are there indicators that I can check to determine health of the pump? Like amp draw as an example? Our well is 160' deep and 25 years old. I've no clue if anything had been done with the well itself since. If logic says to replace it, what do...

So, you want to press a button- maybe an app or physical button.Not just any button. One to trigger a bang / loud noise a hundred feet away to haze birds of prey. Have WiFi. Have cat5 out there too. Don't really want to run a wire. My deal is we've been having hawk visits and chicks that we'd...

We like the taste of our well water, the stains from iron /manganese not so much. In the pump house we use a basic 5 micron spun W/H filter which I'll admit needs to be changed out more often. I see that one can buy some pretty elaborate systems, but then again- I don't want to turn it into city...

We need to temporarily move the well pressure tank to facilitate building of the new pump house. Like 10 feet. Our well is ~ 160' deep with a 6" casing. Submerged pump. Obviously I'll pull the breaker and drain the water out. What isn't so obvious is do I need to relieve the air pressure from...

I want to cut out a custom floor register out of copper. ~6" x 12" in an area with foot traffic. I've never plasma cut thicker copper before. Does it cut similarly to plate steel? I'm weighing between getting 1/4" or 3/8" and laying a steel plate under it for support. It would be great to have...

I'm in process of repainting the outside of a 1909 cast iron bathtub for the misses. It's is pretty much stripped and it is not necessarily a smooth surface. Some pits in the casting , seams etc. I find that I can blend the seams a blemishes with flap disc pretty well, but would like to smooth...

Time to rebuild the pump house. The current one had a rotting greenhouse attached to it and I tore that out and enclosed the well components for winter. The goal is to rebuild it either as one or two buildings so that we can can have a nice clean room with a freezer and prep area on one side of...

I have a service truck that has a 5000 watt power inverter in it. It is ready for new batteries soon, so I was cleaning stuff up, checking the system and found something peculiar, at least to me. As I have an extra core, I wanted to save the best one if the need for one came up and return the...

It is a sad state of affairs really. The old toaster has this habit of not shutting off, plus because I mainly toast sourdough pieces that are too long- thought it time for an upgrade to a long slot model. With my cup of joe and a laptop found this is a rabbit hole and there ain't nothin' shiny...

Inevitably that paint can that you kept clean had to be reopened and the lid just doesn't fit quite right or there is a 1/4 of a can or something that you don't want to waste. We had painted the house this fall, so I probably want to get the remaining house paint out of the bucket, trim cans...

I think that I may be making this harder than it needs to be. Our layout: At the house we have 24 gig broadband internet. Our wireless we use is an Ubiquity station on the outside of the house. One CAT 5 runs underground to the shop which is 225 feet away. At the metal pole building shop I...

Project Farm has many rounds of oil testing. Today the subject was "Would switching to synthetic oil cause leaks?" The video did interesting comparisons between the two oils. Will Synthetic Motor Oil Cause Engine Seal Leaks? Let's find out! - YouTube

So, I'm not sure if you heard- but wives can sometimes make things interesting. Our stove of the last few years has a warped black porcelain top, coil burners. We use either Stainless (non magnetic) or cast iron cookware. Sometimes big, big pots too. In practical experience, have you used cast...

Not quite all homemade but awesome none the less. Home smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion, butter, mayo and avocado on jalapeno sour dough bread. Hopefully tomatoes out of the garden next weekend.

No really. Some lady had a 10' piece of pipe laying by her garage that she said she wished get husband would get rid of. I volunteered to help as I rarely let free steel go. Threw it on the rack and just had a look. Had some black coating and some writing on it. Turns out that it is 3" cast...

So I seem to have inherited an older Delta table saw. I spoke up for it if no one else wanted it as mine is one of those plastic deluxe models. It is a pretty heavy saw and will need to be rolled in and out of the corner of the shop and of course have lockable wheels. When I look at the basic...

-Last year's model? Would look great in a man cave!:thumbsup:

Can You Identify These Tractors from an Image? | Zoo My lowly score: Can You Identify These Tractors from an Image? 43 out of 50!

Did some magic on a few Behlen mesh gates which are a nice forest like green. Perchance has anyone used an OTC paint that is a good enough match and would know the color? My Rustoleum green that I have seems too green. Thanks.

We have a secure area for the girls, covered and all to keep the hawks and resident owl at bay. That area is only about 400 square feet and we're going to extend the run using one existing fence line and putting new up to the tune of 400-500' of fencing. Our main predator is the coyote, but...

More specifically is there a big difference in handling when rousting blackberries and light brush from slopes, ravines and such? The current beast is a FS Stihl w/ handlebars. We're actually using the Rhino blade set up from the Home Depot instead of the various blackberry type blades.

We just had a teaching experience that I thought it may help if I share. The short of it is that we have a 19 y/o grandson that was denied entry to the country when he arrived at the airport in the UK. What we know at this point about the reasoning was a combination of funds that he had with him...

So I have this directional chimney cap that doesn't know how to behave. I have no clue how old it is , though it seems to be in good shape- or at least I can't see the defect. It was virtually noise free for the first year or two that we've been in the house. Then the squeak began. It has a s...

Has anyone made a secure area for charging and storing their tool batteries? The reason I ask is that every once in a while someone has a fire that they point back to a tool battery being charged. In my shop, I have 4 M18 chargers in a row and if one would malfunction, the whole building would...

I've done some searching on the web about differences in fiber cement siding. A couple lawsuits back 5 years or so back, but nothing came to really show a comparison. By me we have Hardie, Certainteed and Nichiha available. We had the last house done with Hardie, but now I see the different...

My daughter (35 yo) has toyed with metal working for a while so she took a basic one night class for cheap where you get to cut some metal and tack it together. Neat idea and the bonus was she sent me a video of her cutting and the end result. Steady hands for having a torch in her hands the...

I wanted to give the little LS a bit wider stance. I bought a set of 2" spacers from an EBay seller PE-Motorwerks for 100$. They fit great. I'll need to procure longer wheel hub bolts though as the spacer is slightly thicker than the wheel where the studs / bolts slip through. 2pc | 2 inch |...

And if you act in the next 30 minutes, you can throw your chain in the back for free!

Anyone buy C25 this year yet? The tank from fall was a 50 dollar bill. The tank from earlier this month was pushing 80$. 150 cu foot cylinder @ the Airgas.

I swear that the misses has no fear. My best guess is that a cross slope we cross on occasion at the top of our yard is 15 degrees. There seems to be varying opinions to which degree loading the wheels , wheel spacers due to help with stability. Even varying opinions on what bolt pattern as...

I have an MS250 Stihl saw which seems to run up well, oil well but I'd like to expect more out of cutting performance. Bucking up firewood should be easier than it is. I've never been great at hand sharpening chain, basically grabbing new chains (Oregon 22lpx068g) until they try may patience...

You know those 60,000 mile tires? Never even begin to see that on my service vehicle. 245/75R16 I think they are an E load rating. The long and the short of it, I'd get 30,000 miles if I ran them into the wear bars. The truck weighs close to 9,000 on the scale. I've tried Firestones, Michelins...

Down our one lane road I come back from the mailbox. Delivery truck heading my way. I stop, back up the hill- then as I look forward and see him pull to the side of the road to let me pass. I cringe as I know my service truck wouldn't like that grassy, wet slope. I go by and wait. And he just...

My other half told me that the boom lever on the backhoe was sticking. I pulled the panel and the boots and had a look. They had a bunch of rust and water inside. I remember when I checked the PDI that the allen head cap screws were loose on one stick, don't remember which one. I scraped and...

Anyways, has anyone made up some of their own panels for under the rail? I made a landing which is basically 11 feet long with a 5 step staircase on both ends- so ~ 20 or so feet long with a continuous rail. Tiled and turned out just fine. I essentially have to make up 3) 43" wide panels and 4)...

I thought this could go in welding forum too. I wonder what gas / wire a guy would need to weld a trailer hitch on the back of a rocket? :confused3: This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat

Last week I had 2) 4.5 inch corded Dewalts and 2) M18 grinders. I killed the one older Dewalt and was thinking about getting a larger one with a little more snot. I was told that the 7" packs quite a punch, but is heavy and harder to manage. I also see grinders that are listed as 4.5- 5" and...

We've not had an issue with our sand mound. The inspector that we hire says not to pump as it may raise a red flag with the county. When you look on the web, you see lots from septic companies saying every 3-5 years w/ 2 people in the house. So I'm just curious what folks do.

A year ago I asked for the email specials from a dealer in Astoria,OR before I bought. Today he sent out another special sheet. The 2025H TLB I bought was about 400$ cheaper than I got it. LT125 @ $9999. Seems good? I know beans about the dealer, but for those looking - maybe they do discount...

I've seen several rant threads on USPS and the lack of rural delivery, here, there on Amazon etc. There was some directive about delivering 1/4 or 1/2 mile down a private road was at the postal carrier's option. Happen to run into my carrier at the end of the road today. Nice guy really. Always...

Dumb question, but better than spending days building something that won't cut it. Our drive is 500 feet with close to 300 has that lane look with the grass strip down the middle. Am I shooting myself in the foot building a blade with a pair of scarifiers to freshen up the gravel drive? My...

I've seen bits and pieces on the forum on these and different makes that the front axles leak at the breather and fill caps. I've been keeping it in the mid safe zone on the stick. Ours will do this intermittently. I can't hardly think that new caps will correct the problem. Am I wrong? Has...

Since we've gotten the new tractor, it has rained. And rained. And rained. It gives me time to do things like customize the bucket etc. Today in between rain and sleet, I got to play more with the forks. We picked up a couple of stacks of pallets to put yard stuff on to move out of the way so we...