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Hey all, been awhile, busy building the house. i am putting a two level wrap around porch on my house. I would like the unroofed upper deck to serve as a roof for the lower, which means it needs to be water tight/proof. have been looking high and low for a 'system'. i want to be able to put a...

hey all, am looking for a used post hole auger for my tractor, any suggestions on where to find used stuff? already tried ebay, no luck so far. thanks

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hey all, getting ready to install 1000 sq ft of 3/4 tongue & groove flooring. would like to have a pneumatic nailer, running at around $480 at the big boxers. checked online and found nailers on the www.grizzly.com site for $200. much better. any experience with these? thanks paul

Hey all, i confess i've read, awhile back, some threads about sharpening chain saw blades. for some reason, my eyes (and brain for that matter) glaze over and i'm lost. kinda like my college algebra class. i was one of those kids that just took things apart to learn how they work...guess i'm a...

Hey all, it never ceases to amaze me at the amount of info and expertise given in such a friendly way on this site. way to go Muhammad!! am finishing up the new house and am going to install about 1000sqft of solid wood floor. havn't decided on whether 1/2" or 3/4" yet. the air nail guns for...

hey all, just bought a porter cable framing nail gun on my way into work this morning. this rounds out my collection of nail guns. have two bostich finish nailers and a hitachi roofing nailer. any opinions on framing nailers? porter cable seems decent and they were cheapest. don't use these...

Hey all, thought this might be of interest to some. just got a news letter from my friendly electric co-op supplying power for the new house am building. they're in the process of providing BPL to their customer service area. BPL is Broadband over Power Lines. cool, eh? this is the first i've...

i get electricity at my new house next monday...yea!!! been so many set backs my head is spinning. anyway, i have my 3rd floor wired and need to install switches and outlets. i have 12g wire with 20A breakers, so i'm assuming i need to put 20A switches and outlets in. which, by the way, have...

well is being installed today on our new house and just got a call from my wife that a "wire for the pressure shut off switch" needs to be run. can anybody clue me in on this? this is a submersible pump, have always had above ground pumps with electric going directly to the pump. does a circuit...

am building the final resting place and using hardi plank. it's a modular and the company trimed the house with composite trim. i really expected hardi trim to go with the plank, but they say this is great stuff and hardi trim is just to hard to work with. well, i tore it off and am getting...

I have to trench 2000 feet @36"x6"wide for electrical service to my new house. electric co-op is not making it easy. they want to set the cable but it have to trench and go behind them and bury the cable as they lay it. they won't let me use a vibrating plow. any advice on how to do this? is...

hey all, have a 3rd floor living space that i want to insulate...floor is already done. knee walls are 5', the cathedral ceiling is 4' 6'' on each side and the ceiling is 9' 6" across. room is 38' long. was thinking of using the reflective bubble insualation between all the joists along with...

Hey all, picked up my 2005.5 vw jetta TDI yesterday. y'all gotta get one of these. i clocked 52.6 mpg on my way into work today. they have this little computer screen that kinda mesmerizes you, it constantly monitors and updates your mpg, what a hoot watching it keep going up. just traded an suv...

Hey all, wife has a 94 plymouth grand voyager that is blowing oil out the top of the valve cover where a hose comes in. our mechanic at the local ford dealership says that means something pretty major is wrong but said to take it to the chrysler guys and they'd be better able to diagnose it. i...

well this is pretty cool to me, anyway. bought wooded land in february and am in the process of building. i've had a couple of farms with open land, so not used to woods. i wanted some pasture and after paying $2500 to have an acre cleared, decided to take my tractor out to the land this last...

Hey all, i have a NH TN65 with 4 ag radial tires. recommendation is that you not drive alot on asphalt. am building a house and the site is about 15 miles from my rental, all back rural roads, no real traffic, but all paved. would like to avoid delivery expense and drive the tractor over, have...

Hey all, am moving along in the housebuilding process, i'm my own 'contractor' on this one. will have a basement with superior walls, about 4' will be above ground. am being adviced to pre treat for termites, guess that's pretty standard m o, but was wondering what everyones take on that is...

Hey all, am getting a well drilled and getting prices from several companies. got a reference for a co. that's been doing this 35 years. there agreement is no water no pay (really includes 2 holes is necessary, which it usually isnt in our area). anyway, the guarantee is a well that will produce...

Hi friends, Am pondering downsizing on my tractor, implements. Am building the final resting spot after moving every 2 years for the last 18. whew, buying fixer uppers, living in them while doing so, building is much easier!! the last two places were farms with lots of open acreage to cut...

whoa!! just got the price for a 3 ton, 4 zone geothermal heat pump system...26k. is it just me, or is that a wee bit high? out of my budget, that's for sure. i'm starting to think about it though and wonder if maybe the air to air could be played with. in my area, we do get enough of the below...

hey all, i've had occassion to load grease guns for about 20 years now, and i have this nagging feeling that i'm doing it all wrong. i've always been by myself when doing this, so never been shown the 'trick'. seems like you need 3 hands to pull this off. i load from the supply side of the...

Hey all, and in particular, electricians: Am selling a 75 year old house and recently the buyer had an inspector do an inspection. he stated that there were some wires on 20 amp breakers that should be 15 amp (i didn't talk with him, just got the report from my agent). not sure what he is...

Hey friends, i've gotta say that tractorbynet is the greatest site on the web. there is more knowledge here than most college campi ( which may not be saying much ). anyway y'all are a great bunch, always get help and enjoy reading all the posts. now, to the current project... am building a...

hey all, bought a piece of land that has a couple of nice creeks and beaver. i havn't actually seen them yet, just all the dams they've made and trees they've felled. i hear they're pretty wiley, anytime i'm around, they're not. so, how do you get rid of beaver? eventually i'll make a pond...

i am clearing about 10 acres of thicket with mostly 1-4" sapplings and wondered if a harley rake would work for cleaning up the stumps left after cutting?

have any of you ever used your tractor to clear thickett? i just bought 32 acres with nice old growth and alot of sapplings in between. want to clear about 10 of it. i've always had open pasture, so this is new to me. lots of 1 to 3 inch sapplings i want to clear. i have a 4wd NH TN65 w/FEL...

Hey all, am building a house and am going to put a double deck front porch on. the second level will serve as the roof for the first level and will not have a roof/overhang, so i'm toying with different ideas on how to make the second level solid and water proof. thought of tile, wife isn't to...

hey all, am putting in a road and have some culverts, 4, and person putting it in is recommending double wall plastic pipe instead of galvanized. this is a first for me. i've always used the metal galvanized pipe for culverts, any of you ever used the double wall reinforced plastic? he's...

(ie wood burning boilers) anyone heard of these or have experience with them? they have ceramic liners and claim to burn clean

hey all, anyone have any experience with these?? (see www.treeterminator.com ) im particularly interested in the tree puller or the terminator with the 5" capacity, i have alot sapplings on my property that i want to clear that are under 5".

Hey all, i have this shower that sometimes wants to give water and sometimes is stingy (ie, water pressure is never optimal, and sometimes is pathetic). was painting the basement floor the other day, so i stopped to take a gander at the pressure tank and pump. the static pump pressure reads...

hey gang, am getting closer to building the new house, going to be a modular with a third floor build out and a basement. i've considered corn, pellets, waste oil, vegy oil...well, you get it. corn looks really neat, but i have 32 acres of wood, so wood wins. i am amazed that wood still...

Hey all, am building a place and am considering putting a concrete front porch as opossed to a wood deck. my question is, how is that done with a raised foundation? is there some type of wood structure built to hold the wet reinforced cement that is removed or becomes unecessary once the...

hey all am going to build a house and have been thiinking about ways to heat it, so i thought i'd ask the most knowledgable people out there, my friends at tractorbynet. i will probably go with a heat 2 zone heat pump system or radient for my primary, and wood for secondary. i like the idea of...

Hi all, Have never owned a trailer and would appreciate input on the subject. My towing capacity is 3500#. would use it to haul my trash cans to the dump, construction cleanup, hauling building materials. occasionally hauling a tractor implement or riding lawnmower, hay. also, would use it...

gee, seems like you can get any info on this site. so, i just bought another piece of land that i'm going to build on. it's a mile and a half off the road...you kinda find your self humming the theme song from Deliverence as you drive it. it has some...uh, places where when i go fast enough my...

Once again I plumb the depths of knowledge at tractorbynet. am going to build a house and am considering all the heating alternatives. have been looking seriously at radient under floor heat. my wife is asthmatic and figure it would be better than blowing hot air and dust around. am concerned...

Hey all, am going to be building a house (panelized) and was looking for some feedback on basements. have been looking at "Superior Walls" and have some thoughts/questions/concerns about the precast system. on the positive side , it's virtually instant, waterproof, insulated and firred for...

am buying a piece of land thats been cut over, there's lots of branches, cut trees. would appreciate any info on cleaning such debris with a grapple. i've seen that there are a few different kinds. one looks like a bucket with a clamp, probably not good for my purposes. one looks like a fork...

Hey all, anyone have a stump grinder for their tractor? what kind, how do you like it, cost, effectiveness? i'm buying a cut over piece of land with lots of stumps. i know conventional wisdom says get a dozer to do this, but i am curious about this method. i had some land cleared awhile...

Hey all Just put an offer on some land that was cutover a couple of years ago, lotsa branches, and stumps to clean up. It's 50 acres and I plan on building a house. Was going to get someone with a dozer to clear 5 to 10 acres, then thought I could chip away at it on my own. I have a NH TN65...

Howdy, I recently moved from the sticks (the name of my farm was "the middle of nowhere"), to a bit busier area. the land is very nice, but there is a very busy road out front that me and my wife can't get used to. land is very expensive where i'm at and hard to find. i found a piece that is...

In a previous post I asked about grinding vs BH for clearing land, and have become conviced that bulldozer is probably the smartest, quickest way to open up wooded land. where i am in virginia right now, you find either open or wooded land, but virtually never find a mix. ideally i like to have...

Hey all. I've noted that stumps are the number one excuse...er eh reason for getting a backhoe, which makes a certain sense to me. On a different level though...i do organic vegetable market growing, so soil is pretty important to me. i'm looking at some new properties that are wooded and...

...gotcha to look. okay, i know it's not a self destruct button, but there is this little button on the joystick that controls my FEL. i've read the owners manual, which is a big deal for me, i was one of those kids that always through the instructions away, and took everything apart. it was...

Hey gang. well, i'm discovering the wonders of owning a compressor. i tell you, sometimes i'm way to penny wise and pound foolish . i restored two and a half victorian houses before i finally got a power miter saw...how do you spell dum? anyway, i'm now of course realizing all the amazing...

Hey all. bought a 6gal 2hp pancake compressor to do my roof with. I'm afraid I just took the sales guys advice at Lowes and ran since I've never used a compressor before, and it worked fine for the roofing nail gun. I have two chimnies i want to remove and bought a air hammer, but the air hammer...

yeow, 4wd. got my new tn65 saturday w/ 32la fel and radial ag tires. i was doing things with this beauty i never would have considered with my old JD 2020. thanks to all who convinced me to go 4wd, amazing. moved a few trees that isabel left felled...were like toothpicks to this tractor. my...

Hey all, Am getting a new grading box. Have never used one before. i currently have a gravel driveway with lots of grass growing up through it. i would like to widen it and neaten it up. how do i go about doing this? do i scrape off all the existing gravel, put down weed block and put the...

Howdy gang, am finally trading my JD 2020 in and decided to go with blue. as a final blow, my JD starter died this week, so i have to replace it since i'm trading it in . i have found JD parts to be very expensive, even the rebuilts (is that what they mean by 'green'?) are parts for NH tractors...

will soon be putting the old JD out to pasture. The new NH TN65 is in, still waiting for the FEL. the dealers around here push the alo fel, but after asking around here i decided to go with the 32la. i went by and looked at the tractor the other day. whoa, gorgeous...i'm afraid my wifes goin...

Hey all, the ph of my well water is 6.1, decidedly acidic. this is a new farm, my last one also had the same ph. i also have a very high copper content, which i figure is from the copper pipes being eaten by the acidic water. the acid level also does a number on plumbing fixtures, the water...

Hey all, looking at getting a grader box and got a price of $900 for a 84" woods or $600 for taylor way. am familiar with woods, not with taylor way. both weigh about 625#. the taylor way is looking better to me (by about $300 ) anyone out there have one of these? what do you think? thanks paul

Hey all, I bought and restored an old victorian farm 4 years ago. one thing i never really addressed was the well. it's an old drilled well, and according to the neighbors it's never run dry. being an old tobacco farm, i had the water tested (in '99) for about 150 things and the water is...

Howdy all, have been enjoying this site thoroughly, great group of folks. I asked this awhile back and am hoping to get more input. I'm going to be getting a TN65 FWD FWD FWD (that thread got alot of response . anyway, have never had a blade or box, have always used my FEL for...

Okay, am getting prices now. first dealer is offering: TN65 w/ FWD and 32LA FEL with quick attach 72"bucket & grill guard. 12.4 R20 radial front tires and 16.9R28 rear loaded. canopy, 8x8 mech shuttle trans, 1 remote. am trading a JD2020 w/FEL. offering 6500 trade and a 26500 price on the...

Hey all, Am going to buy a new tractor this month, and still havn't decided on 4wd or 2wd. Am looking at the NH TN65. 2wd is 19,500 with 32la FEL and 2 remotes, 4wd is 25,500, an extra 6k. I have been using a JD 2020 w/FEL. I use a tiller, bush hog and chisel plow. Have had no problems with...

ok this is going to probably earn me points for being a real dumb question...but here goes. i use my FEL for moving piles of this and that and moving hay around, which i assume is it's primary function. am looking at new tractors and am trying to justify the cost and am wondering if i can use a...

Hey all, looking at new tractors, leaning towards TN65. have prices from 2 dealers, both are recommending the alo 710 FEL as superior and cheaper than the 32LA. price difference is $500. any input/actual usage experience appreciated.

Have never used a grading box or blade and was interested in the differences, advantages of one over the other. usually use my FEL for the small amount of grading ive done. also, how important is size of tractor and fwd to the process?

Hey, am trading my JD2020 and the M5700 is one of the tractors (w/LA1002 loader) that i'm looking at. i use a woods 720 bush hog, a very heavy duty maschio 60" tiller and a 5 tine chisel plow. any opinions about this tractor are appreciated. thanks, paul

hey, am making the trade up from my 2020. i'm comparing the 5320 with the Kubota M5700 and the NH TN65. I use a woods 720 bush hog, a very heavy duty tiller (maschio 60") and 5 tine chisel plow. JD had nothing nice to say about NH, said Kubota is great but to 'light", course he is a JD dealer...

Hey all, am looking at new tractors (JD5320, Kubota M5700 and NH TN65). got a price of 19500 on a lease return (100hrs) with a 32la loader. not sure i want to go with used, i'm trading in a 35 year old JD2020, kind of want somthing new. opinions on the TN65? I have a woods 720 bush hog, a...

Hey all, new here, great site. was recommended by some on the garden web. anyway, as you can see from the "subject" am looking at the JD5320, Kubota M5700 and NH TN65. i currently have a jd2020 w/loader. i have a woods 720 bush hog, a very heavy duty tiller (maschio) needing 50hp on the pto...