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It has a large battery. So, you could hack in with an inverter and use it as an energy source when grid goes down. It should power your house for several days.

I was my own GC when we built our last house. Since I didn't have a track record the bank demanded high downpayment close to 50%. We run out of money to finish the house. The bank inspected the work done and lent us whatever we needed without much hustle. When my wife was trying to get us the...

What do you do when you see a nuclear bomb explosion? Take a very good look at it because you will never see it again.

The key words are DIY. I installed two systems. One on our farm was 24 kW at cost about 54000 (including the concrete mixer) before the tax rebate. Installed January 2012. Paid for itself in 11 years. We sold the farm in 2021 the panels added a significant amount (estimated 70-100K) to the...

Moved to Czech Republic.

My neighbor is from hospital for some time. He was not much outside during the cold days though. So I saw him yesterday after long time. He is not on oxygen anymore, his skin looks healthy and he said he is gaining strength for spring work around the house.

I just put 3.84 kW of solar panels on a house we bought in town. 12 320 W panels to fill whole south facing roof. But I bought 7.7 kW inverter because I see electric car in our future. So we could add another 6 kW on the east facing roof. The total investment in hardware before tax credit was...

My neighbor across the road got a lung transplant he was waiting for for some time. His lungs were scared and hardened most likely due to exposure to dust during his life time work at construction sites. The surgery went well and he is recovering nicely. My other neighbor on the north side got...

At the end of the day in the outback. The roads are graded and allow stupidly fast speed. (no cops there) A cow is the most dangerous animal at night. If you keep the stupidly fast speed at night when you see them you are going to hit them. The car doesn't brake too well on the gravel. That...

I have a Lincoln 255 MIG. It started to sputter once a while. I removed the rollers but found them more or less clean and in good order. Checked all the connections etc. and found no issues. Then I looked at the cable and it occurred to me that was the culprit. It had all kind of convoluted...

How not to launch a boat.

I am building a snow plow for my tractor. I had old Grasshopper blade laying around so I widened it by 40" and build quick attach for it. While building it I run out of MIG wire so I sent my wife to get it from a welding supply. The spool cost 73.33 as before but now also plus 19.25 steel...

It is not completely equiped and finished yet but you get the idea. The white cabinet will be removed tomorrow.

I got a viral ear infection about three months ago. I was completely deaf on right ear for about two months. My hearing recovered to large degree in both ears but it is not the same as before. I hear people talking but I don't understand everything I hear. My wife is type A with patience...

While working in Texas I had mild flu symptoms about three weeks ago. Had runny nose, sneezing and coughing. Bounced back to normal four days later. Two or three days after that I woke up in the morning and had no hearing in my right ear. You need to clean your ear wax I was told. So I went to...

Our place in Iowa.

Made a smoke hood for our fire pit. The "trees" are rests for the sausage forks. I make those from SS round and my wife turns the handles on a wood lathe.

OOps.

I built a swing for our grandchildren two week ago. Originally 14 ft tall but my wife made me to cut 2 ft off. It instantly became popular addition to our place. I will post pics

Today's harvest. Oyster mushroom. The mush in the bowl will be cooked with chicken breasts and I will fry and mix with eggs the small pile on the side tomorrow for breakfast.

Morel season was rather mediocre this spring. We found only 17 morels. Our son found a garbage bag of morels on his hunting property little south from us. We found oyster mushroom first time about two weeks ago and they are still producing on several dead trees. I don't remember ever founding...

When the building was completed the space under the roof was 48 x 90. Morton specified width had to be in multiples of 12' and length in multiples of 1'.

The material is steel plate 0.125 x 48.5 X 96.5 and the stand is made from .25 x 1 steel bar. They are made from plates I purchased to make something else so the thickness is little overkilled. Since there is demand for the pots I will buy thiner plates for the next batch. This is the pattern...

Made nine metal pots for my wife's flowers. It took me about 2 hours to make one. When designing the pots I estimated less than an hour to make one but a lot of time was lost by fitting the pieces together and measuring and cutting the bar for the stand. Looks like I will have to make more for...

When our burn barrel rusted I built one. I cut the pattern using plasma by hand and stitch welded it all together. I made it from scrap metal I had laying around. The bottom half is made from 1/4" and top from 1/8" sheet metal. If I would do it again I would buy 3/16" sheet and make the top door...

We collect all the mushroom cut-offs and water we rinse them in. Then I throw the water with spores where I think they might grow. Here is the funny story: I used to throw cutoffs and water with spores of common button mushroom on our backyard in our previous house. A year late there were many...

We live in south IA. When oak leaves are the size of mouse ear it is time to start looking. My wife is a city girl who never mushrooms hunted until she met me. She is somewhat fanatical shroomer now. We collect oyster mushrooms (several kinds), giant puffbals, maitakee, butter mushrooms and...

Winding is any wire going inside of the motor. Primary winding is connected directly to the power (to white and black wire) the second winding is connected to (usually) white wire and to capacitor and/or the start switch.

I don't know how some people can change oil without a drop of it on the floor. I don't have the ability or is it a skill? I know a guy who will paint whole house and has no drop of paint on himself or floor. I would be covered. So changing oil and hydraulic fluid is a challenge. Specifically...

Garbage furnace after modification of the door. Now I can add more paper even when the fire is already burning without a danger some of fallimg out. Also added a screen on the top.

I already see that I have to modify the design little bit. I will split the door to make the top and bottom open independently to make it easier to dump paper in. To put screen on the chimney is excellent idea (as aczlan suggested). We have 33 ac of prairie just 50 ft away.

We used about 250-300 lb of bird feed last winter. When I saw good deal on bird feed this fall I stacked on about 250 lb to be ready. But so far this winter is is rather different. We used less than 50 lb since November. Our feeders were inundated by birds in the past. This year not so much...

The real Mountain lions were sppoted in IA. My son with few partner hunt several thousand acres of land in south IA near Chariton. They had several trail cameras on the property and have a picture of mountain lion. I have also several cameras at few places on my small 80 ac. So far they...

That exactly what my wife said. She said I should park one of our cars in the shop just for the case. Here is the offending spring. For size reference the ribs on the ceiling are one foot apart.

Bad things come in threes. Just walked in the house, sat down to check on TBN when whole house shook like something exploded. So I run to the garage. Nothing obvious there. I run in the shop. Nothing obvious there. While returning back in the house the walk in garage door was locked. When I...

I had job on a platform in the gulf many years back. When the job was finished they call heli to take me back to shore. We were supposed to pick up another guy from another platform but when in flight we got a message that he was not ready and it could take for a while before he finishes his...

I heard a story about a guy who bought all guard towers between Czech republic and Austria and Germany. There were hundreds of them built. Now he leases them to mobil phone companies in all three countries. The lower platform is open to public. The very top platform containing the equipment is...

I mushroom hunt since I was a little kid. My mother would send me to the woods to get her fresh mushrooms for soup. We also dried and pickle mushrooms for winter. I stopped mushroom hunting for some time after immigrating to the USA due to having other stuff to worry about. Then we moved to...

Found the problem. There is a spring pulling on a lever that presses a roller against a cam that centers the pedals. One of the hooks was broken and the spring fell off. Since I remembered the place when the pedals stopped returning in the center I got my metal detector and found the spring. I...

I have TYM 330 HST 1 with short of 1200 hours. The tractor was flawless until today. The "go"pedals don't return to neutral. The forward pedal when pressed about halfway will slowly creep toward the floor increasing speed of the tractor. Reverse pedal also doesn't return when pressed but doesn't...

The train goes up, the train goes down: a simple new way to store energy - Vox Just run into it. It seems to me that it is doable even on small farm size scale.

We used to have wild bees in a hollow oak tree but only every other year. The hive never survived winter I suppose. The oak made the opening smaller as time went by and closed it completely last year. I have a picture of the honeycomb somewhere on my HD but can't find it now.

It is closed system. We have floor heating. Each zone has its own thermostat, manifold and pump. All is operated by a DIY PLC controller that switches automatically from Heating to cooling as season changes and integrates the HW in the heating system. There are five "fluffed coils" in the pond...

My outside loop is in our pond. When the system was new I could hear air going through the flow center every few minutes. Therefore I added a "stand pipe" just above the flow center, That would collect the air I could blow off. When I was at it I added a pressure gauge I had laying around. The...

My wife wants a tornado shelter. That is very good reason to acquire plasma cutter and build a CNC table. I would like to build a 4X8 table but can't decide what gantry kit I should buy. I was looking at several brands and have two finalists. Precision Plasma and Dynatorch. Dynatorch doesn't...

That is exactly the mixer I have. The hitch pins were in the top holes from the factory or dealer and when I dumped it first time it bent the bearing bracket because the PTO shaft bottomed. After I moved the pins to the bottom holes the problem went away. I mount the mixer on a quick hitch...

We have a chain link fence with two lines of electric fence on the top. While fixing some erosion problem threatening to take our fence I touched one of the lines with my head and got 10000V hit. After I got hit I found myself somewhat disoriented laying in the mud. I clenched my teeth so hard...

We planted several thousand trees on our property. Rabbits did a lot of damage to young trees each winter. Then I placed strategically placed owl perches in few places and the problem went away. I don't have pictures of owl on a perch but have one sitting on our deer feeder because it also...

I saw six black birds landing on our bird feeder today. I was able to snap just one picture before they flew away. It was about 6F. Are those starlings? Shouldn't they be in Florida by now?

Thanks for the responses. I will check the links. We have three flocks of quail on our property I know of. Each has more than 10 birds. So our focus would be pheasants. I hear them every evening when they fly on trees to roost but there are only few. Quail pictures from two days ago.

My son is a hunter and would like to increase population of quail and especially pheasant on our property. I looked at commercially available surrogators but it seems to me that 2000 for fancy box is little too high. The place where I would like to place it is not too far from electrical outlet...

I never do. I tell her: "Please make it appear". And she does. I believe women have the power to do so. Works like a charm.

We have Davis Vantage Pro2 little more than 2 years. The anemometer broke some time after warranty expired but Davis shipped us test switch and when proved that the electronics was OK shipped new anemometer for free with only few questions asked and wanted the old bak. The new anemometer was...

My 11 years old geo compressor shorted to the ground Thursday night and blew the breaker. My guess is new compressor would be about $3500-4000 installed and new complete unit about $6000-6500. Is my guess for 5 ton hydronic unit in ballpark? Should I buy just compressor with short warranty...

Yes, I am US citizen. It was part of desperation and ambition. I am very much like my father. My father was smart and ambitious man. Always tinkering with something. His ambition was to make stuff and make world a better place. When he was about 20 years old (1945) he built a motorcycle that was...

We have several of them fighting for the feeder.

I was expecting the motor today but it didn't show up yet. The pics show the post brace, the bracket brace and pivot pin mod and the sleeve I added to strengthen the pipe after damage.

It is about 4 years old, does about 2 cycles a day in average per my estimation. There was nothing obvious wrong (burned) on the PC board, the relay was clicking but the motor would just jerk little bit. While troubleshooting it I suspected the relay but determined the motor was shot. Since it...

While driving to the "big city" in fast lane on hwy 5 south of Des Moines we saw a disoriented driver in Dodge Ram going in fast lane in wrong direction. Had to swerve to slow lane to miss him. There was a median crossover he could use to get to the other side of the road but he kept going in...

I have Husqvarna, Echo, McCulloch and Remington electric. All leak bar oil.

I have 5 ft bushhog with blades sharpened numerous times and getting rather worn out. Is there a way to weld on them new edges and if the answer is yes what electrode would you use. I have MIG and AC welding machines.

Just saved myself $150.50 today. I run out of diesel fuel today so I decided to get new supply but our Ford Exhibition 2001 din't start. Did some simple testing and determined that it was bad starter. Specifically the solenoid was not pulling. It took me for a while to dig the starter out out of...

Measure the voltage on starter solenoid when key is in starting position. You might need a helper to do so. In lack of helper put a light parallel to the solenoid. If light turns on when trying to start then the solenoid is bad or has bad connection. You can also measure the resistance of the...

Here is correct set up.

I have one for sale for about half price of new if it would fit on your mower. It has about 1000 hours. Edit: Just re-read your post. It will not fit.

Friend of mine used to be amateur radio operator in Czech republic. He told me (about 35 years ago) he could often hear taxi drivers talking on radios in New York. People living or working in Australian bush used to get state subsidy for satellite phone but it was discontinued last year due to...

Australia is still a frontier in many places. You can see people on side of road cooking food on a fire. Considering possible danger people still care about each other. Southern hemisphere has beautiful night sky because it is looking toward center of the galaxy. I wanted to get out of city...

I have been in Darwin Australia in 2000 and read about similar accident in local paper. American tourists were fishing with a guide in mouth of Adelaide river quite far in the ocean but still in murky water. The guide was cleaning the fish throwing the waste in the ocean while one woman jumped...

Here are few pics from Niah Cave. The swallow's nest harvesters climb on mahogany planks connected by wooden pegs. I was told that no male from the families licensed to harvest the nest live longer than about 40 years. Most are killed by falling in the cave. Needles to say that the jungle...

Open the hood and see if the sound goes away. Then check if there is wear (notch) in the slot of the hood support. When the hood is closed the support shakes at low rpm making the sound. As the notch gets deeper the sound increases in amplitude. I have TYM 330 so I am just guessing that the...

This is old thread but I think it wouldn't hurt to restart it. We had below average morel season. Found only about 100 white morels. But oyster mushrooms are prolific this year. We have several dead trees with oyster mushrooms on them. One has the classic (white) oyster and two have golden...

I bought new tires for our mower. The problem I was facing was that the bead was about 2" away from the rim shoulder and I was not able inflate the tire to seat the bead. I tried the trick with butane and WD-40 but nothing worked. The vapors refused to explode. But then I got and idea to use...

Few weeks ago my wife started to complain that right side of the ZTR mower had no power. I changed the drive belts, replaced broken tensioner pulley but the symptoms persisted. I called the dealer for advice and was told that the transaxles are very reliable but that the pump ring might be...

We have a lot of thorny trees on our property. Due to constant issues with flat tires on my wife's mower I pumped some slime in them. The problem went away but it created another this spring. When tried to mow first time this year left side of our mower worked right but the right had no power...

I went hunting (ducks on a game farm) first time about 25 years ago. It was not fun, it was just plain killing more than hundred ducks in about one hour by our party. I shot about 50 shells and don't even know if I hit any. Have not touch a gun until today. So yesterday my son who is avid hunter...

When we were younger we used to live in the large city in a small GI house. Then we build new house in a small town in proximity of two lakes and bike trail. We loved the schools there. Kids could walk or ride bicycles to school. When kids left for college we realized that our house was about...

I absolutely agree. We love sauna. We don't live in tornado alley but tornadoes are possible here. The probability you get hit is about one time in 50 years (I think). My wife wants the shelter because we live out in the country and the spring storms are quite violent and sound scary especially...

I am officially retired.

I don't hunt. Yet. But have few trail cameras around the property. There are two bobcats moma and a baby she is teaching to hant for birds. Babies ears are on the lower edge. Two bucks munching on turnips.

I am almost 66 years old. Based on doctor report I am in very good health. I have never been seriously sick until very recently. It is a story about how generally healthy guy can die just few months before retiring. Here it goes. I commission control systems for living. The job requires...

Here you go.

If your Canadian Solar panels are mono-crystalline they do better than rated when it is cold and worse when it is hot. Since April was cold you might have experienced several percent better performance than predicted. Also there is a phenomena called "cloud lens" when clouds reflect or focus...

Oficiální stránky Obce Dobrá Voda u Robert Whitehead was shot down and killed at the end of the WW2 near the village where I spent first half of my life. He was buried at the local cemetery but was exhumed by his family and his body was transported to the USA. Nevertheless his grave was...

I copied commercially sold steel storm shelter that I will weld from 2X2 square tubing, cover it with 1/4" steel plate and anchor it with Hilti anchors in the corner of the garage. It will serve dual purpose. I will make a sauna out of it. I have all the material bought and good excuse to buy...

Every tombstone by the transformer on our utility has manual switch. I need to add only a male plug bolted to the tombstone and connect it to switch. (On the picture: Middle lugs on the bottom of the switch.) Then the cable between the generator and the tombstone will be male on the generator...

I have TYM 330. I think that is identical tractor like your Mahindra. My is HST though. There is black box under the dash that gets all the iterlocks and then enables the starter. I don't know it also operates the headlamps but it is conencted to the dash. It failed and I had to replace it. I...

Here is a picture of my fuel barrel. The pump is 12V powered from trailer outlet mounted on the tractor. I also added a filter that is able to separate water but so far (in five years) no water was found in the fuel. There are chains attached to platform under the barrel that I can hook up to...

I don't want to hijack the thread. But there is something for inspiration. Jeep made in Philippines. It usually has Toyota or Isuzu mechanicals. The sheetmetal is either hot zink or stainless steel. No heat or AC. Philippine Jeepney - Philippine Jeepney History One guy told me they run between...

Not necesarily wrong but it is a basket case.

Exactly. The problem is there is lot of them. On the other side of the spectrum are in example immigrants. Immigrants are disproportionally successful people in the USA (and in other place too I suppose) because they are self-selected kind of people who have ambition and act. Initiative was...

This discussion started hijacking http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/275598-tractor-backhoe-homemade.html around post #490. Since it could get some legs I started new thread. Please include something about tractors once a while.:laughing:

The production curve has a bell shape. The panels wake up when sun comes up and gradually increase production to maximum at noon (Provided that they are facing south. If they face somewhat south-east or south-west the peak will come earlier or later.) and gradually decline as the sun travels...

My brother used to be a partner in a cabinet making business in Czech Republic. Since the business generated significant volume of saw dust they had a pellet making machine on their vacuum system. I used to know a guy who boarded horses. He invented a forced air fully automatic boiler burning...

We have about 32 ac of land I would like to restore prairie on and put it in CRP contract. We would like use 5-10 additional acres for food plots. Currently 32 ac were planted with soy beans. I talked to county biologist and he advised me that the prairie should have fire buffer because it...

Here are pics of modification of a leg for my blade after I broke it several times. Because I have quick attach I would just lift the blade and forget to lift the leg. Now if I forget it will just swing back instead breaking.

I bought Siemens because it came as one of the best when searched for replacement. After I removed the damaged surge arrester I took it appart and looked inside. One of the varistors was burned.

Re: we are a dyeing breed I think Air conditioning is the culprit. People spend too much time isolated in the house. In the old days before AC people sat on the front porch, sipped sun tea and talked to strangers walking on the sidewalk. People were used to be outside. Even when they do...

I just learned valuable lesson few days back. When our house was new in 2004 we got hit by a lightning that burned every single electronic switch in the house valued at about $1200. Right after that I purchases whole house surge protector and installed it in the breaker panel. Few days back...

I am in process of making dollies for all my implements. I went to HF and bought bunch of casters on sale. My shed is too low to get tractor in without folding ROP so now I just stick the implement in, lower it on the dolly, unhook it and pull it in its parking space.

My wife and I were walking in the timber on back forty and saw this recent damage to the tree caused by lightning strike.

We used to have an electric fence that kept the deer out. The pictures are the best I could find. The fence was built using 8ft T posts and poly string. The key was, as you might see from the pictures, addition of outside pointing cantilever that also carried charged string. The cantilevers were...

Drilling holes for concrete footing. Week one. Making footings. Week one and two. Footings for one array. End of week two . Building first array. Week three. Ditching for the main cable. Week three. Last batch of panels on improvised forklift. All done. Week four.

I am computer literate but can't figure out how to edit my signature. I go to My profile where I can edit everything except signature.

Here are few pics of what was done so far. I have two arrays completed and on line. Attaching "solar rails" to the supporting structure. Tightening clamps. Inverters and cabling. Two arrays completed. The rails have room for one more row I might add later on. At this point there will be...

We have supporting structure for one bank of panels ( for 30 panels) completely built, main cable laid in the trench and main safety switch We started installing panels but found that the inverters came without mounting screws. I ordered the screws about a week ago but still didn't receive them...

This is my right hand. Drilling 5ft deep holes. Got one stuck too. Panels, Inverters, Ephase cable and bunch of small grounding parts are in. Still waiting for rails, clamps etc, galvanized bolts and main cable for connection to the grid. Still has to finish 24 concrete (out of 52)...

I am strongly considering installation of large solar array on our farm in south central Iowa. Here is what I am planning: 1.) Get a loan. That seems to be harder than I thought. Iowa gives interest free loan for 50% of the project provided that the other half is comes from a bank. Since the...

In fact I can supply exact numbers. The left image shows our consumption at 11 c/kWh rate and the geo consumption at 4.2 cents. The right image shows air/air heat pump installed in the guest room also at rate 4.2 c/kWh and total consumption of the house. The basic load of the house excluding the...

Since we have draught we use pond water to water trees. I put two 55 gal barrels on my single axle trailer and fill them at the hydrant down the pond dam. I position the barrels such a way that the trailer has some weight on the tongue. So far so good. Then I pulled the trailer uphill and since...

While on a business trip I got a call from my wife. She just arrived home pulling a trailer with her Ford Exhibition, stepped on the brake and it just bottomed to the floor. Fortunately it was on flat part of the property so the truck rolled little farther and stopped. When I got home I checked...

It seems to me that there are enough members from Australia/New Zealand and Europe that they deserve to have their own Regional Forums. What do you think?

Here are some. I and my wife constructed the inside walls, hired a guy to do the drywall and then we finshed the guest room. When it gets warm we will tile the bathroom and finish my office.

Friend of mine found this goose on his property looking pretty sick. He gave it some water and started feeding it. After it got healthy it followed him everywhere he went or drove. pet_goose.MOV - YouTube

Some time back I posted a thread about a car accident resulting in injury of a guy who was supposed to harvest my soya beans. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/safety/222960-wear-your-seat-belts.html So here is the rest of the story. The guy (Randy) is still not doing well. Therefore his...

The building is 36 x 75 x 12 built by Morton Buildings. Construction started late November 2010. It is a retirement project but we decided to finish the inside even before I retire some time at the end of the next year. There is a 14 x 16 guest room, office 14 x 11.5 and half bath. Following...

Wear your seat belts guys. I just learned that the guy who was supposed to harvest my beans got in serious car wreck few nights back. He hit a deer in his Bronco, went to a ditch got thrown out of the car then the car rolled over him. He is alive in a hospital with four broken vertebrae, four...

Picture shows standard (not after market) front heavy duty bumper on our car. You can really hit something (like kangaroo) without damage to the car. It has a mount for a winch able to lift the car from the ground hanging on the bumper. Passenger cars, trucks, buses have similar bumpers.

I am working in Pilbara, Western Australia. Seems to me that the cars have much larger fuel tanks than the US version. First picture shows amount of fuel to top the tank when it was initially only about half full. The second picture shows why. 118 l = 31 gal 632 km = 393 miles

Hi, I am Ladia's wife, Julie. I am writing because someone I know, I am not going to name him, really outdid himself today. In fact, I had to leave because I could not watch him. This man, who I am not going to name, was working on connecting 220 wire from our new shop to the electric company...

Have seen such power unit?

I just completed several small improvements. 1.) Put concrete tiles in section of my shed so I can move my implements on pallets that I am going to build. 2.) Installed wheels to my chipper. Now it is easy to move it around as long as the ground is hard. There is a picture of modification to the...

I just pulled a trigger and ordered new building for a future shop. The building will be 36 X 75 X 12, fully insulated to R12 walls and R35 ceiling. I have about 6 months to decide what type of heating I will use. I like floor heating but the problem is that is has to be ON pretty much all the...

When we built our home about six years ago we needed only building permit and septic installed by licensed installer. There was no inspection of electrical installation or plumbing necessary. They don't even asked question where on property and what type of house we wanted to build. In essence...

We talked to Morton building about building a barn/shop on our property. The building will be fully insulated to R19 walls and R35 ceiling, 5" concrete slab with rebar, fully lined inside with metal, two walk in door, two double pane window, drains for toilet, vanity and floor drain and roll up...

I must have been good lately. My wife bought me Lincoln 255XT MIG today. It is first MIG I have ever owned. So far I used Hobart AC stick I bought new about 22 years ago. I have several small projects and one big one planned. The big one is a tornado shelter bolted to the slab in the corner of...

The chipper came in a crate partially disassembled. I followed the instruction and assembled all parts. While attempting to grease all points as per the manual I found that the Chinese zerks are somewhat smaller so alignment of the gun is essential to get grease in instead around. I checked...

I bought Jinma chipper and wanted to lubricate the bearings. Before I did that I removed the zerks and looked inside the hole. There isn't a port in the bearing itself that would allow grease to go inside. Do I need to take it apart and turn the bearing in "holder" to align the port with the zerk.

This accident happened past Saturday (May 1, 2010) on stretch of the road near Moravska Trebova (Czech republic). Audi A3 traveled almost double of the speed limit at 150 kph (93 mph) while the truck traveled 90 kph (56mph). According to the truck driver the guy in the Audi was looking for...

My wife got a chainsaw for birthday. We have about 30 ac of forest. I used to cut and she pulled the branches and stocked the logs. That is hard work. So she got her own chainsaw. She will do the cutting and I will do the hard stuff.

I struggled with attaching my PHD to the tractor but I think I found good and easy method now. I lay the PHD flat with the gearbox supported such a way that end of the top arm will be just about at the height of the top link bracket after the draft links are connected to the draft pins. (Pic 5...

Hay dust is as explosive as gas. Make sure there is not dust in air or preferably wet the area before you strike the arc. I was installing temperature measurement at a grain silo many years back. They hired husband and wife to maintain the silo clean specifically sweep the grain dust. I was...

My tractor developed a leak of hydraulic fluid level sight on the back of the transmission. The dealer gave me new improved part and advised me to park the tractor nose down slope, pull the sight out and press in the new one. There is a slope about 25 deg on side of our driveway so I pointed the...

It just showed up in my email today. http://www.enform.ca/Attachments/safety_Alerts/sa09_12.pdf

I just saw this add on traction wheels in India. The outfit apparently does brisk business. You might see stacks of rims ready to be welded into traction wheels. Looks like every farmer in the area has the dump trailer, rice field plough and traction wheels made by those guys. They make two...

There are several manufacturers of tractors in India but Mahindra is way the most popular. The tracors are very basic two wheel drive but apparently do the work.

I bought homemade BH while ago and used it to dig about half mile of trench. It worked reasonably well in the beginning but then all the cylinders became "soft? When the valve was in neutral I was able to move the cylinder to some degree and when the valve was moved there was a delay before the...

I have two vehicles that require periodical lubrication. Zero turn mover and CUT. When I grease the mover I can easily pul the grease coupler from the zerk, but when I grease the tractor I can't pull the coupler of the zerk unles using brute force acompanied by faul language. The zerks look the...