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I agree. I had a toothbar for my JD skid steer. Twice I broke the end connection. I gave up and bought a real tooth bucket. Both buckets are heavily used and it's one heck of a lot easier to change buckets than it was to wrestle that heavy toothbar on and off.

How deep are you going? I think they went 4' deep and at least a foot in diameter on my pole barn. More than you could do by hand and probably more than you could do with a gas powered one man unit, especially if you hit any rock.

It's not just upright trees that are dangerous. Last summer we had a big tree fall across our driveway. I was recovering from neck surgery so I just pushed it off alongside the driveway at the time. By the end of November I was getting along better and decided it was time to cut it up. I...

I was a volunteer firefighter/emt. We had one guy where the saw kicked back and it got him in the face. Not very nice. One of our other lieutenants had the saw cut him in the thigh. He was lucky, no serious damage. I have a multistemmed ash tree dead and falling along one of my trails. I...

Propane was $1.77 to owned tank this year in August. Last few years they never showed up (Southern States Co-op). I tried switching suppliers. Not many options here. Suburban Propane wanted $90 for an inspection but when they showed up and saw we had a bridge across the creek, they refused...

When I bought our horse camper, the salesman said our F250HD would tow it fine. He was correct, it towed it but even with the trailer empty, I felt the rear end lean in very gentle curves. A trip across the scales showed the truck rear axle was 500 pounds overweight even with the trailer...

Sorry, my typing is terrible any more. I caught the other ten typos, missed that one. Corrected: does not apply to NON commercial carriers. Thanks for the catch.

I have heard that the lever style binders are no longer legal (federally) for commercial carriers. Federal regs do not apply to non commercial carriers although some states may use them as guides.

However, for their skid steers, JD recommends the use of their Plus 50 engine oil for both the engine AND hydraulic systems. Now, as you were saying.... Just because it is made by Esso does not mean it is not a unique formulation

I started out with a tractor and rear blade. Worked okay on almost level slopes. Note, trying to dig going backwards is a bad idea, the 3 point is designed for going forward, not backward. Bought a small backhoe (Kubota B21.) Works better than the backblade but still slow. Next eventually...

Sorry for your loss. So much depends upon the quality of your insurance company and the type of coverage you had. I have been lucky we had wind take off half the roof of our horse barn and six months later rental property I had burned to the ground. My insurance company was fantastic and looked...

Plenty of professionally controlled controlled burns have gotten out of control. Houses and lives lost. I am not saying you are wrong but there is high risk. you do the best you can but no one can win when nature takes its upper hand especially unexpectedly.

As a past volunteer fire fighter, that looks scary

The MS “blue screen of death” takes on new meaning “To error is human, to really foul up takes a computer” — old IBM sign

AFAIK. R1 tires (ag tread) have relatively weak sidewalls compared to the rating of most modern loaders. Get a good load in the bucket and the front tires well be sagging. R4 tires (e.g. typical skid steer tires) have much stronger sidewalls, but traction suffers in mud etc.

Yes, exactly! Everything is lose sand visible on my skid steer and all I have to do is flip a switch. Everything is Invisible on my M5040, and manual latching if I succeed. You can guess which one I prefer, LOL.

Yes, you are absolutely right, OSHA has no authority over your personal tractor. You might even end up DEAD RIGHT. Let some teen kid operate the tractor helping out during haying or something, never expecting any problems. But of course mistakes happen and a lawyer would have a field day...

I'm certainly no expert but the weld looks cold and too fast to me. I know, I do it myself. IDK if that would cause the cracking?

Oh they may have knowledge, but knowledge without wisdom or good judgement is dangerous.

It's not just trained linemen that get near downed power lines. Usually the fire department is the first on the scene to block traffic, or maybe the PD if there is one.

Oh, I should have added "I want to try that horse." My wife said I did very well though the first five bucks.... (No, it wasn't a rodeo horse, it was a trail horse for sale...)

Isn't that true in 99+% of ALL ACCIDENTS? Someone believes their excessive speed is safe? They have been drinking but they "are not drunk"? The gun isn't loaded? The ladder won't fall? My truck or trailer is overloaded but I can handle it? "I'm not following too close..."? Of course...

If I understand correctly, you really want to remove all the extra wiring and not bother with any generator connection. You are not looking for a better generator connection. IF I understand the current wiring, you would have to disconnect the breaker on the utility side before closing the...

Define "hill". My M5040 has 4 gears plus "road" and "field" gears. It won't take my driveway in 4th gear (road). The last section needs 2nd gear. Likewise, out on the road requires downshifting on some of the hills. My driveway averages 10% for 1500 ft.

Legally in Ohio the only measure is a cord, 4x4x8', tightly stacked. Of course that's ot the way it is normally sold. Often by the (undefined) "truckload." One time I inquired about how big the truckload was and was told "I don't know but the truck has a lot of gears".....Hmmmm

At least you have flat land! 1500 feet of my driveway is 10% grade. And we normally get sleet and freezing rain before snow! In the past, we had two 2-week periods where the only way up and down the driveway was with a 4-wheeler with chains!

I have an electric actuator on my Deere skid steer and it is wonderful compared to the manual operation on my M5040 tractor. However, one other big difference is that the mount is clearly visible on the ss and 99% invisible on the tractor. If I am lucky, I can sometimes barely see the left...

Interesting, I looked at my KX-121 manual and it only has generalities such as "cold conditions", LOL. It does spec different oils for winter and summer but no actual temperature specs. My 121 is the easiest cold starting engine I have. My only difficult starting unit is my Deere skid steer...

You probably don't want rocks and sand and concrete. Rocks and sand are porous and won't seal well. Concrete seals except where it joins something else. For what you are talking about, you want good CLAY. You know, the stuff that packs hard as a rock? Clay also expands as it gets wet...

Okay, I can give you one reason: fire protection. If I lived in an area with wildfires, I would much prefer the tank below ground and protected from ambient heat and fire. Also, possibly cold protection. At very cold temperatures, propane does not convert to gas. One wouldn't want their...

That is exactly my first reaction. A few years ago in Ohio, a teen girl was killed inside her house by a rifle round fired from a mile away that missed the target! It was flat farm country like this. I would want a much larger berm and backstop before I would feel comfortable shooting. Also...

We had a damp spring and summer here in southern Ohio, everything stayed green until mid September instead of drying up in July or August. Now the rain has stopped since August and the last few days have had Red Flag (high fire danger) warnings. Indeed there were some forest fires last...

It's rough situation and I sympathize with you. I'm currently on the other side of the fence, I had neck surgery in March and at that point couldn't even stand on my own with a walker :( I have progressed to using a cane most of the time but one of my medical people think I should be using a...

I have my off road diesel in a plastic cube, should have less condensation than a metal tank. I have a spin on filter that is supposed to filter particulates and water. It supposedly will stop the flow when it's full. I keep meaning to change the filter but I never have. Same filter for...

I had an IH 2505 that I had to chain up the 3 pt arms. It came with land we bought and was my first tractor. The IH dealer had it for a couple of months, couldn't find the problem, and charged me $300. Eventually I gave up and bought my first Kubota. I gave the IH to a friend of my son. He...

We have a lot of low flying helicopters here but they are usually doing power line inspection or tree trimming.

Only politicians would want to "save daylight" in the summer when it is in abundance but not in winter when daylight is in short supply.

I think that too small hoses would only slow down the movement, not stop it entirely. I assume the tree spade only uses hydraulic cylinders, not hydraulic motors. t seems to me you have an unplanned blockage or improper hookup. Good luck.

My truck (2007 C3500) probably only had 100 or so miles this year until this past weekend when we went camping with the horses in SE Ohio, 240 miles round trip at 10 mpg :( But it was the first time since 2014 that the camper was out of the barn. Prices are ridiculous but from what I've...

Just watch out for overloading. Years ago, a crew was clearing ROW for running new power line down the road and I was getting more logs than I knew what to do with! One log was way too heavy (30"x 12' IIRC) and twisted the mount on the tractor. I ended up cutting the cross tube and rewelding...

I definitely agree with all the comments. Very poor, non- professional welds. Potentially lethal if they fail. You might call the local Boilermakers union hall and see if they can recommend a welding inspector to provide a professional opinion to back up any legal action you might consider.

I think the funeral home notifies Social Security. SS does have a small "burial allowance" (around $255 or so) but that apparently can only be claimed by a spouse or children.. The SS will probably stop immediately upon death.. If there is some error and they don't stop, SS will "reach out"...

When my dad died, our attorney told us the standard fee is 6% of the estate that goes through probate. Seemed excessive to me, but OTOH, his advice saved me more than his fee in taxes. YMMV.

Is there a will? Most wills start with "all my debts should be paid." or similar language. A will will often name an executor. If there is no will then state law usually defines how the assets are divided.

Our primary heat is wood and maybe pellets backed up with an unvented propane heater and our electric AC/heat pump. We run the heat pump above 40 or 45 degrees since they are more efficient at those temps, no sense burning wood on warmer days. When it's really cold I have a propane heater for...

Hmmm, it apparently gets more complicated, with environmental impact reports, etc. See: https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/competition-infrastructure-policy-division/tower-and-antenna-siting Anything above 200' requires lighting (used to be 170') so an antenna on top of a 200' tower...

Shipping heavy 5 gallon containers (probably hazmat?) is expensive if you can't negotiate fees like Amazon/Walmart can do. But Messick's is a good place to price check to see if your local dealer's price is in touch with reality. I don't think they price stuff in fantasyland and they do show...

Just as a reference, Messick's is $101 for UDT and $124 for 5 gallons of SUDT (plus shipping, of course.)

Ouch! I thought Deere's Plus 50 was getting rich at $160 for 5 gallons. I'm changing oil on my skid steer but I'm going to use Mobile Delvac for engine oil but I'll stay with the Deere Plus 50 for the hydraulics. Deere specs the same oil for engine and hydraulics in the skid steer.

I may be wrong but I thought welding weakens AR500. Also, the 1/2" AR500 targets I bought a few years back had minimum range of 200 yards for .223. .223 won't penetrate at 100 yards but will dimple which can result in ricochets

Is the pulley possibly slipping on the shaft?

So often we tend to buy cheap and with Chinese stuff quality control suffers. IOW, you get what you pay for... That said, we have had good experience with 20w motion control lights from Amazon. I use them inside and outside the barns. And some bigger dawn to dusk outdoor lights from Rural King.

Someone always profits from wars and other disasters. For the rest of us, of course not.

Punitive taxes on outsourcing is really the same thing as tariffs which are generally regarded as a bad solution. People want cheap goods and don't want to pay for U.S. content, physical or mental. If people really believed in "buy American", Walmart would be hurting for customers. Last I...

We are in a rural area 60 miles from the big city. Not many specialists here but otherwise regular doctor appointments are fairly quick and even going to a new doctor is only a 2-4 week wait. ER has been 0-20 minutes. Surgery? Neurosurgeon saw me on a Friday and operated the next Thursday...

I could be wrong but it seems that sometime in my past I have seen a disconnect like that without fuses.

I run the same oil both ways. Deere recommends the same oil (JD Plus 50 oil) for both the engine and the hydraulics on my JD325 skid steer.

The local post office will try to do whatever they feel they want to do. For years, they would not deliver anything that didn't fit in the mailbox. They told me they didn't have to. Our driveway is 2200' from the road, good, concrete driveway. Fortunately, my current wife used to be a rural...

This is a good thread. I keep my drill press set on the lowest speed. I think the chip comments are important, we need to be aggressive with the down pressure.

This forum will work although there may be other options also. What information do you need? Do they work? YES!, Better than replacing shear bolts. Have you read Bush Hog's instructions? They should be loosed and slipped every month. No, I haven't done that. So far, I have replaced...

honestly I don't know the quality of their current products but they sure appear to be aimed at the high priced yuppie market. IDK if the walk behind bush cutters are still well built or not. I did see where they were bought out by Generac.

20 years ago I bought a DR (walk behind) brushcutter. I was a beast, it would cut just about everything...I even hit a leaf covered concrete block and it won that battle. It was a work out on rough terrain but newer models have steering which would help a lot. I used to use mine like you...

I have had the Honda EU2000i and now the EU3000i. Zero problems with electronics and they are quiet! I also have a tractor PTO generator (15k) for longer term outages. I doin a short test run with it, no problems. This is big enough, and mobile on the tractor, I could take it and the welder...

Not on a tractor, but a local man is in the hospital after being attacked while trimming a tree. He was stung more than 20,000 times according to reports. EMS and Fire/Rescue people were also stung. https://www.fox19.com/2022/08/31/tri-state-man-coma-after-getting-stung-20k-times-by-bees/

Tried to stop the tractor and bail out but I was on a hill and I was too much of a panic to get the darn brake set! Oh, did I mention a 2 foot drop-off just below me? I finally(!) got the brake set and bailed out. ten or 12 stings. Went back and retrieved the tractor a few hours later...

I have bought tie down chains and load binders from towing equipment companies, TrucknTow is one that I can remember. They have 5/16" G70 transport chain for $1.99/ft, free shipping.

One contractor told me he had an employee working the bank of a pond and the excavator slid into the pond, deep enough to suck pond water into the cylinders. Be careful out there! Ken p.s. speaking of ponds and excavators reminds me of one video I saw featuring "Redneck skiing". They had an...

I was not aware of this new "remote ID" requirement. Does that only apply to new drones, or are older ones going to be illegal?

It depends on how steep the hillside and what is at the top and bottom. If there are flatter areas at the top and bottom, a decent 4 wd tractor with ag tires will work going up and down the hill. OTOH, if the bottom remains steep and drops of into a cliff or lake, that's a different situation...

Pressure loss is strictly a function of pipe size and elevation change. Many builders do not understand that long supply line needs to be larger diameter even if the supply is only feeding a 1/2" garden hose. The previous owner here installed our water line and wisely chose to put in a 2"...

FWIW, I bought the Harbor Freight sawmill on sale a coupe of years ago, my first experience with a sawmill. I could not justify anything more sophisticated. The mill has given me some decent project lumber around the farm but it is extremely heavy labor intensive having to manually roll...

Many years ago, I bought a DR Mower (walk behind). It lived up to all of it's promotional advertising. It cut anything but was a workout to control on rough ground. Some years later I bought a DR Tow Behind brush cutter. It has been a disappointment It was too much for a 4 wheeler to tow and...

Yep! I have been saying the same thing about evacuations for months now. No one come up with any answers. You don't need the power grid to fail in a blizzard, just a small backup on the highway and then a few dead batteries and then it will collapse, thousands of dead vehicles blocking...

Of course the manufacturers and dealers love it this way, thy can add expensive options and pricing and the customers have two choices: pay the piper or go pound sand. I'm 75 and have pretty much only bought new vehicles my entire life. (Last new vehicle was 2006.) That won't happen again...

Oops! I calculated ONE acre foot, not two. Thanks for the catch. (I will correct my original post.)

Here in southern Ohio, cisterns are probably more common than wells. The cisterns are supplied either by rainwater from home gutters or commercial water haulers who bring in water. My house here has two large cisterns although we now are supplied by a private county water system. As for...

Inkjets get very expensive if you only print a few pages a month. I gave up and went to a laserjet. I have had no problems using aftermarket cartridges with the current Canon MF210, which I've had for 8-10 years. If I ever need a color print, I will send it to Walmart or some other picture...

The better drones, such as DJI, have an automatic Return To Base function if they lose the control signal. A BIG safety factor. Ken

One of the local state routes was closed. A guy told me that despite "no trucks" signs, semi trucks were coming down his road and getting stuck on a sharp corner. He finally figured out the solution: "not passable for trucks" signs in SPANISH!. It seems that too many of the drivers could not...

The incident commander will always be conservative and play it safe. It's better to evacuate too many people than not enough. And, he or she doesn't know wat else may be there.

Where I used to live, we went 12 years without losing power. Where we live now.....sometimes it's not worth resetting the clocks on the appliances :( We have been lucky, 24 hours was our longest outage but at my wife's previous location power was out for a week. One the 24 hour outage, we...

That is why I put it in quotes. It is, however, somewhat free of cash flow. I do have firewood falling at my feet sometimes!

I believe the problem was failure to follow directions. They could be left in too long and that was the problem. Used for heavy times and changed properly, they were okay.

Vegas doesn't require much water to flood, the ground doesn't absorb rain, nor hold it back. Years ago I toured Death Valley and was greeted with signs "road under water" on the main highway. It was difficult to reconcile "desert" and "road under water".

We have a pellet stove but it's for supplemental heat, not our main heat source, which is wood. Our wood is "free" and pellets are not. Furthermore, our pellet stove (Harmon "Advance") needs frequent cleaning and it's a real bear to clean.

Times and needs change. Population growth was important when humans were scarce and potentially eradicated. In current times, probably less so and the danger may be the opposite. However, just because a politician or bureaucrat claims something is a problem does not necessarily make it true. Ken

Discoveries are neutral. Good or bad depends on how they are used. Guns are used by good people or good purposes. They are used by bad people for evil purposes. By some studies, the good use far outweighs the bad. Even the atomic bomb saved millions of lives. Evil people will find ways of...

That is not necessarily true! Many discoveries are positively enhanced by other people for the benefit of mankind. Ken

The best solution I've found for honey locust thorns is a contractor with a D-6 dozer. While the contractor was here doing a pole barn I had him clear a pasture with several honey locust trees. Knock on wood, I have not had any thorn problems in that pasture and it's been 12 years now. It...

Let me guess, the sun is off to the left? It's internal reflections in the lens, aka sunglare.

OMG! I had forgotten about the ant farms! I had one of those!

So much depends on the type of coverage you have and the insurance company. Some tout their low premiums but when it comes to payout time, that's the bad news. A few years ago, I had a total loss on a rental house (inherited from my dad.) The insurance company went out of their way to be...

That's what I was thinking!

Would a rear discharge rear mount mower help? Ken

then again, underfilling makes the tanks easier to carry! Every pound they keep but charge you for is done as a convenience for the buyer! Just ask them! (>)

They can put out a lot of heat, but burn a lot of wood in the process. I don't think they are all that clean or efficient. When we bought this house, it had a wood furnaces in the basement. After a few years, we put a wood stove upstairs. Much less wood consumption. Old furnace is still...

I ay be wrong but my understanding is that triple wall is for manufactured fireplaces ONLY. A wood stove requires insulated pipe (or a clay liner chimney).

I will second the reco for Pacific Engineering. We have had ours for 15 years. Start it right and it is very clean burring. I went about seven years without cleaning the chimney and finally hired a chimney sweep. he took a look at the chimney and said "you don't need to clean this". I had...

I have a Bushhog 2515 batwing and it's rated for running the blades with the wings up. That makes it nice for trimming the side vegetation along the driveway or trails. It only cuts about 5' high but that's still a help. Bushhog requires slipping the clutches monthly. The clutches do...

I remember a hermetically sealed can containing padding and a Mylar sealed pouch containing: (1)-switch-waterproof. ( This was USAF surplus electronics.)

I put proper rated bar tires on my Kubota ZD323. Much better traction, less lawn damage. But make sure you get something with a proper weight rating. You don't want an overloaded tire letting loose when you are cutting across a hillside that shifts extra weight onto the one tire.

You don't HAVE to final plane to 3/4". Thicker boards will be stronger of course and extra strength for shelving is often useful. BTW, I have read not to try to season green lumber in the basement, the humidity is too high. YMMV.

I bought a case of the Traveler Extreme Duty Moly on sale last year but it seems to be thin and separate and be runny. I'm not convinced it will stay where it is needed. So now I switched to Valvoline Crimson. It's supposed to be an EP grease. Rural King has it for $3.49 vs. almost $7 at...

Yeah, when I first started, a guy at work told me I could bush hog anything I could drive over. He was wrong, there is a lot of stuff I BACK over to bush hog that I won't drive the tractor over.

The manuals for my smaller Kubota equipment just specify a "multipurpose" grease so I think you would be okay with any quality grease. As many have said, ANY grease is better than no grease.

Do any of your energy saving settings trigger at 8 hours?

I agree with the earlier comments. Nice, flashy ads, pretty guns, but not 100% reliable. The first Kimber I bought was great, when they first started and ran circles around Colt. The last one, a TLE II, occasionally has feed issues with premium defensive ammo (Ranger T, GDHP, etc.)...

Are you using bio-diesel or a bio-diesel mix? That is a lot more susceptible to microbial growth. Is your tank outside in the heat and cold where condensation can form inside the tank?

I strongly recommend filled rear tires as a first step, beet juice is a good fill. My first tractor, a Kubota M4700 (45 hp) was 2wd and did fine without rear weight until I added a loader. It performed poorly with the loader and was dangerous going downhill with a loaded bucket. I tried...

I have taken an old rear blade and welded it's 3pt mount to a QA plate. I also welded a 2-5/16" hitch ball to the top and use it as a gooseneck trailer mover. If you have damaged the 3pt mount, basically you will have to fabricate a replacement. Ken

B2710 with MMM bought in 1999 , and I bought a ZD321 zero turn a dozen years ago. ZT is a lot faster but we didn't save as much time because we doubled the size of the yard, LOL. Seriously, the ZT is faster on the straight stretches and a lot faster maneuvering on turns, etc. Removing the...

they used to mix it in a mortar boat, a 3x4x1' pan. I've done 80 cu ft by hand in a wheel barrow (when I was younger). from cement, sand a gravel. I agree, mixing in a loader bucket might be too much to mix well. These days, I would find a project to use additional concrete and just get...

With the price of lumber these days, you don't need 6x6 extensions, 4x4 would be adequate. Your eyebolts would be fine but would allow slack to slide back and forth. I would just fasten the chan with 5/16" lag screw and washers. Your chain is not galvanized. It will rust and the rust...

Right here there is a Kubota Lawn & Garden forum and a general Lawn & Garden Section. At the very top of your page, click on "FORUMS" for the list of the many forums here on TBN. Ken

Honestly i haven't followed firearms closely in the past half dozen years, but I am not aware of any significant reliability issues with Sig firearms. i would trust an out of the box Sig for reliability long before i would trust a Kimber, Colt, Taurus, Browning or Springfield. As you say the...

Sig is one of the top notch firearms manufacturers, based in Germany but they have U.S. headquarters and manufacturing facilities in N.H. Well respected in military and law enforcement. I have several older Sigs, solid reliable guns.

My B21 TLB hoses started leaking last year and every time I replace one, another one starts leaking. There are a lot of hoses on that thing and some (in the backhoe) are hard to get to. I bought it lightly used 19 years ago. I probably need to do a wholesale replacement of the hoses...

If the post gets hot, it is probably a dirty connection on the post.

Initially RK prices were better but I don't see that any more. Besides, too many things at RK don't have a price, or the register has a different price than what's marked on the shelf.

When RK opened here locally (in a closed K-mart building), we were very impressed and had doubts about TSC remaining open. initial impressions were very good. However, the bloom is off the bush. Inventory is a mess, finding anyone to help you is a challenge. TSC, on the other hand, is...

All the trails I've worked on in the state parks have been bridle trails (horseback riding). That particular trail had run out the ridgetop and then dropped straight down the steep drop at the end. That had turned into an eroded gulley, dangerous at best even on foot. I went back 500' on the...

The goals around here are to keep the trails wide enough and in good shape to allow a mid sized tractor with bush hog to keep them mowed, and also to allow emergency access for utility vehicles to bring in EMS and assist removal of injured people. It's no fun trying to carry someone several...

On steeper hillsides, the miniexcavator works well and feels a lot safer.

Wow! i just ran across this thread! Many of the pages I cannot access, i get a "prohibited" response!? Anyway, I've been doing bridle trail maintenance and building in southern Ohio for 15 years or so. State parks and forests and on my own place here. I have logged more hours on the bridle...

I think JJT is right, keeping the area mowed will kill off most of the undesired seeds that germinate. It's as different story than using the composted manure in a garden. Ken

I have no other experience for comparison but I have been very satisfied with my Hypertherm

Amazon has it for $130 for 40#, including shipping. Likewise walmart.com

increasing taxes on coal and gas companies operating on public land is just more taxes on us, the owners of the land. Government profits 60-80 cents per gallon of gas sold but does virtually nothing to produce or provide it. OTOH, major oil companies profit about 3 cents per gallon while...

Thanks for asking! And that is the mistake people make. Spring and fall, (old) dead vegetation dries fast with spring winds and low humidity. The ground may be muddy,. too muddy for firetrucks, but the vegetation burns with a vengeance. Things may be dry in summer but it still greener...

You are going to sell off your EV charge. What happens if you have a late night emergency, or even the next day you have to drive to the hospital. Or there is an emergency evacuation and you and 500 others are blocking the egress routes with your dead batteries? Or there is a storm and power...

Of course "high demand, low supply" will change if everyone has to charge EVs at night. Supply will vary depending on sunlight and wind possibly hundreds of miles away. Sounds like a real mess trying to charge based on variable supply and variable demand. Of course this whole boondoggle is...

Please be aware of your local burning restrictions. Ohio, for example prohibits outdoor open burning statewide in unincorporated areas during the months of March, April, May, October, and November between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. This ban includes burning of yard waste, trash, and...

I have a Kubota KX-121-3. It might be a little small for some of the jobs, but it loads on a 14K GVW trailer nd keeps my total weight below the 26K that requires a CDL. I've had it 14 years (950hours) and it's been a good, reliable unit.

I agree, they are very useful. The one I built is mounted lower, at ground level, so that I can roll heavy firewood on to it rather than having to lift it. Mine is setup for a quick hitch so that I can easily switch back and forth. Ken

Wow! I hope they get it back on their scheduled time plan. Reliability seems to be going down anymore. As far as Long winter outages and water supplies some years back we had a 24 hour outage and there is a utility pumping station across the road and they put a generator on it during daylight...

Absolutely! i replaced my OEM turf tires on the ZD321 and it does less damage to the yard and rarely gets stuck. Looking at my Amazon orders, i bought Carlisle WT300 tires. I can't get to the barn right now to verify that. Ken

Eisenhower warned about the danger from the "industrial-military complex".

Li-ION batteries create very difficult fires to extinguish. Typical gasoline car fires only take a couple of minutes to extinguish. Electric cars fires often takes several hours and have required as much as 40,000 gallons of water (a typical engine carries 1000 gallons or less).

Canned goods are usable long after the printed date. As I read that reco, if things get really bad, you may need the ammo to defend your stock of canned goods. And, excess ammo can be bartered for just about anything once the gov't issued currency is worthless and society has broken down.

Be extremely careful when they are on charge. FDNY has documented many fires started by charging bikes, including some major fires and fatalities. https://www.silive.com/crime-safety/2021/10/fdny-issues-stark-warning-after-e-bikes-spark-multiple-fires-in-1-week-span.html...

IMO, gold is a hedge or speculation, not an investment. I did hear one reasonable answer to the question "what to buy now?" --CANNED GOODS AND AMMO.

While you are correct, inflation decimates long term savings. $500,000 saved up in a retirement fund won't pay many bills 20 or 30 years after retirement.

Green (or bare wire in the Romex cable) is ground for the outside cover, the motor frame etc. On a 110v device, black is hot (+110) and white is neutral (the return circuit for the black 110.) A DC ohm meter will not give you an accurate measurement of the AC impedance because you are...

it has a short to ground. When you tested it (white and black) there was no ground so no problem. However, it was dangerous, you could have been hurt f you touched it and ground at the same time. When you wired it properly, you heavy current to ground. It is defective, don't use it. Ken

Plus, of course, they magically expect the reduced electric capacity to charge the millions of electric vehicles they plan to force on us. Where is that additional power coming from? Just wait, of course, for the windless, extreme cold winter nights when blackouts occur. Homes will be frigid...

I doubt wind or solar are cheaper than anything if you take away government subsides and enticements. Plus be sure to include the full cost of backup systems for those very cold, windless nights when demand is high.

Remember, in this day and age, they need warnings on Tide Pods and McD's coffee. The younger generation will get their finger smashed and call a lawyer :(

And in DC it's corruption and hot air.

I agree, a new line would be less expensive and more reliable. We have 45psi at the house and about a 200' run to the barn and get around 10 gpm flow. I used the black (polyethene?) roll of pipe, maybe 1-1/4", i don't remember. The barn contractor thought it was unnecessarily large but he...

I have been adding Stabil when I fill the gas cans and Seafoam whenever a chainsaw, etc. is hard to start or runs poorly. Seems to work well. However, the local Stihl dealer claims Stabil is junk and it's much better to use Seafoam in it's place. IDK but I may give that a try. BTW don't...

The other point I will make about modern "EPA" non-cat stove is low emissions. Normally with ours, if it is reloaded properly, I only see smoke coming from the chimney for the first few moments when reloading. Otherwise, you can't tell from the chimney that a wood stove is operating. IMO...

My uncle had a delivery route and took his big German Shepard with him. One day he came out of the store and the dog was out and barking at the would be intruder who had climbed to the roof of the truck to escape the dog.

Your 600 posts area good start but you have a long way to go to reach the top. IIRC, a few members are over 50,000 posts.

As they say real estate, location, location, location. Not much developing around here. I bought this place 20 years ago and there might be one or two LESS residents in a mile radius than there was 20 years ago. (100 year old topo maps show more houses then than now.) We are in the steep...

The discussion forums at hearth.com have a wealth of real world experience with various wood stoves, pellet stoves, etc. That's what lead me to my Pacific Engineering stove many years ago. Ken

I don't have a cat stove but I remember why I made that choice: 1) more finicky on startup 2) eventually you have to replace the cat element ($$$) Instead we bought the Pacific Engineering Summit model, an "EPA approved" stove. Clean burning? YES! I visually watched the very top of the...

Our Kubota zero turn (ZD321) is much faster than a Kubota B2710. Fast enough that we enlarged the size of our yard! ZT much better around obstacles and also much faster on the straightaway. Yes, I had some problems with the ZT getting stuck but that was solved by replacing the turf tires...

walmart.com shows Rotella, Delvac and other oils available although the prices have jumped

if we only had DSL :( Heck, even dial up was only about 16k, the lines are so noisy we cannot carry on a phone conversation. When they fix a line around here they just wrap it in a garbage bag!

Or the bandwidth limits. The best we can currently do s 50GB/month of moderate speed (5-15 Mbps.) $110/month. Cellular internet not available. I'm signed up for Starlink. If we get it i will be sllghtly cheaper with no limits and 30 times faster. IF we get it.

When I complained to our county map department (GIS) about errors, I as told the maps are just general and are not to be used for accuracy.

Bingo! Adverse possession varies state to state and over time. My lawyer told me it is very difficult to successfully claim adverse possession in Ohio. YMMV Ken

That's a shame. Government permitted monopoly. Bad news.

We had Direct TV for a while until we could get out of their contract. Service was okay but nothing but lies, lies, lies over billing. They never met the price the salesman promised in writing, and every month there was an increase. We got very tired of fighting with them and the lies. As...

Before putting up farm fence near the property line, check to see if your state has any farm fence laws. Your local extension agent or soil and water conservation office may be able to provide guidance. Ohio requires "field fence" woven wire, which may have a strand of barb wire above it...

Have you checked your state farm fence laws (if any)? Ohio gives property owners the right to access the other side of the fence (within 5 feet) for maintenance. Likewise that 5 feet is supposed to be kept clear of brush. Other states will vary, of course. Ken

I had gutters put on the horse barn. Eventually I ripped them back off. One of the problems was that the downspouts created permanent mud holes. Also had problems with snow and ice sliding off.

969 rpm? 16 rotations per second?

Wow! I've never heard of putting someone on hold to verify their authenticity! Yikes! Our VFD policy was a minimum 3 person crew for the first truck. That's pretty bare bones from a safety standpoint. I do know of one department with a 2 person paid crew at each station and the volunteers...

A fundamental part of our legal system is that everyone is innocent until adjudged guilty in a court of law. A presumption of innocence means that any defendant in a criminal trial is assumed to be innocent until they have been proven guilty. As such, a prosecutor is required to prove beyond...

I had a summons, the deputy didn't bother driving up the driveway, he just put a yellow stickie on the mailbox telling me to pick it up at the sheriff's office. So I drive the 25 miles to the SO, deputy and summons aren't there, he is in another county doing something! Geesh!

I looked for something like that for years. Or attach a lawn mower blade to a horizontal shaft motor mounted on the side of the loader bucket. Finally I got a LaneShark, which is a side (or other) mount brush cutter that mounts on the quick attach. Does a pretty good job.

I never have been a Superbowl fan although I did watch it the other time the Bengals played in it (Pontiac '89?) After that I totally lost any interest in football. That was the last football game I watched.

Oh, you didn't realize that the little slide has micro holes in it that the camera can compensate for? Just kidding.....maybe.

If the car was on fire and still moving, there is no telling what he could have set fire to. Call it in. As a past volunteer firefighter/emt, I've seen enough impaired drivers. Call it in! There was one day we saw a propane delivery truck weaving back and forth. We called it in and gave 911...

The problem with solar is that good daylight is scarce on a short winter day especially when it is snowing. I've noticed our outdoor lights with solar panels are pretty useless in winter although they put out good light on summer nights after a sunny day.

Your insurance will probably require your wife to enroll in Medicare (do it early, Medicare starts on the first of the month of her birthday, IOW April 1 even if her birthday is April 25.) Your insurance probably will not provide coverage if she is 65 and not on Medicare.) She should really...

What I use for spotting the gooseneck ball is a rubber bungee cord. Stretched across the bed just an inch forward of the ball, with a colored piece of tape or haystring wrapped round it in the center. I can see that in the rearview mirror and aim for it. If it is perfectly setup, it puts the...

No, it's a half mile. My wife is a retired rural carrier. From the USPS webpage: For Accountable mail items and oversized parcels (not postage due), the carrier must try to gain the attention of the recipient, which includes honking their horn, in order to get them to come to the vehicle...

18 mph on flat ground is about the best our X1100 has ever done. I can hit 25 mph going down our 12% grade driveway.

Yes, but not on an RV 5th wheel. Even if you could attach the chains to the truck, there is no attachment point or chains on a 5th wheel RV.

I had Fedex do that, leave a package in the open under the mailbox at the edge of the road, and clim it was left at the front door. I raised holy h--- . Ultimately the district manager assured me that the driver would not be delivering any more packages around here. Ken

The information I received from the local Soil nd Water Conservation district was that 50% of the area should be at least 6' deep. With typical sloping, that requires about 100 foot in diameter. We have a 100x60' farm pond here that has never had any fish but plenty of frogs and turtles...

I haven't seen any Amazon deliveries transferred to the Post Office for a while. All the Amazon stuff here come via UPS, our best carrier. I think the PO delivering UPS packages was a deal swap between UPS and USPS. USPS doesn't have planes but made a deal with UPS to fly the mail and in...

They are required to deliver up to 1/2 mile. Ken

I am not sure if the sonic booms were the real cause, or the excuse. I was a co-op at the GE engine plant during the development era (I was a lab tech in component development) and worked on component testing for the GE4 engine, the U.S. entry into the U.S. side of the competition. It was...

Can you choose what kind of hitch you get on trailer? I had a B&W gooseneck ball hitch installed fr the horse camper when I bought my truck (2006). When we later added a 5th wheel camper, I added the B&W conversion which bolts down to a square tube that replaces the gooseneck ball. It has...

I was beginning to wonder the same thing (alternate day delivery). We were supposed to received some tax stuff Saturday. Nothing. Monday a holiday. Tuesday, nothing even though I had the flag up for outgoing mail, which was not picked up. It finally came Wednesday. They are still...

As mentioned above, notify the credit bureaus and lock any credit reports. And notify your local sheriff. There is a Federal Identity Theft website and probably one at your state level (State Attorney General, probably). Report Identity Theft Report identity (ID) theft to the Federal Trade...

One of the most productive things I have done was to haul my bucket 25 miles to a weld shop to get a couple of hooks welded on. After watching it being done, I concluded "I can learn to do that!" I bought a welder and taught myself. I've done many projects over the years, from farm projects...

Yes, that's normal. I think it is just going from a wax emulsion to a wax coating. Ken

FWIW, I bought a Wintec 16kw PTO generator. It can run on any of the tractors although it's normally paired with the Kubota B2710. I don't have to worry about periodic running the generator or maintenance since the tractors get their regular maintenance. Diesel, of course, stores better than...

Check with local farm fuel suppliers, they will deliver reduced tax diesel to your place but they may have a 100 or 200 gallon minimum. Ken

FWIW, my wife and her first husband built their house by themselves. They contracted out the foundation but did everything else themselves. That was 40 years ago. A neighbor was a home builder and chided them for "measuring twice, and then again" before cutting a board. He said he could...

Wow, very nice! She sounds like future Olympic material! I'll bet that team doesn't disrespect our county. Personally I can't see the need for a $50,000 rifle. I can miss just as well with a 10/22, LOL. But then I didn't start shooting until I was 38 years old. Ken

I bought a Delta lathe probably 30+ years ago. Didn't do a whole lot with it for many years until one day I saw an interesting chunk of firewood. That started my bowl turning. My newer shop equipment (bandsaw, planner, dust collector) are Grizzly and I've been satisfied with it.

Honey locust is nowhere near as rot resistant as black locust. OTOH, I think honeylocust has some nice color and grain. I have lots of honeylocust here and anyone is welcome to them as long as you take ALL the thorns with you!

Sycamore has some nice brownish color, even a green tinge at times. OTOH. sycamore is often hollow and cutting hollow trees can be dangerous.

Start at a survey mark and use a good compass to sight along the line. Spot a landmark tree on the line and walk to it, repeat as needed. I had some property previously where the above method seemed to take me in the wrong direction. It didn't, the previous owner didn't know where the...

The ultimate way to avoid gas problems with the mower is to get one with a Diesel engine ;-) If you thought your mower was expensive as it is, well, maybe Diesel is not a good idea, LOL. I am with the Stabil and run it out of fuel with a fuel line shut off if possible. Now my local Stihl/Cub...