How much tire chain

[Northland]

I took a bunch of pictures of skidding today and cannot find the "paper clip"
thing on any tool bar. I have them saved to a folder on my desk top just can't seem to get them to here. What's next?

Lou

Good Man Lou!

When you reply to a message or create a new messahe here in the TBN forum at the top of the window and to the right of the font/font size/font color/happy face is a paper clip icon. If you click on that icon you can browse to your desktop pictures and gettum on here

I dicked around installing my newly purchased 5 foor used snowblower most of the afternoon. It was -17C but I go it on and working

 

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Sorry Northland

There is nothing appearing on my window as you described. No happy face or font choices. The only thing I can think of is my Google tool bar may be hiding the very top. The first thing I see is "The Worlds Largest tractor Community" At the bottom under Additional Options ther is an "Attach files" box but when I go in there, there doesn't seem to be anyway to get the file on to the message reply.

From the looks of the amount of snow you get up there, that blower should come in handy. Ther was a guy on ebay recently selling a JD 850 with a 5' front mounted blower. This tractor had no power steering. The tractor had 400 hrs on it and went for $6500. That blower alone had to cost nearly 3 grand when new. Somebody got a bargin. He's definitely wanting to fit a ps unit on there. I hear those front units are a bear to handle even with ps.

 

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Lou

I am going to try and attach a screenshot of the screen Northland is talking about. I get to it by going through "Post Reply" that is after the last post. Hope this works. I saved it as a Word file. The "paperclip" is on the top row near the black and white smily face.

 

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Thanks ED

I do not get that view on my screen. It shows just the reply box w/out any of the surroundings as shown in your clip to me. I tried logging out and back in but that still didn't work. If this site wasn't free I could say that I'm not getting my moneys worth. Maybe they know I am tech dumb and they didn't want to make things too complicated for me.

Lou

 

[Danno1]

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Arrow,

I don't have all those icons either. But when you have the name of your jpeg in the attach files box you can hit "preview post" and you will see it appear in the post. Then just hit ""submit reply".

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Al of my jpg pics seem to exceed the file limit of 1000KBs. Is there a way to reduce them? Man this is so typical of stuff I get into. Everyone else just breezes thru and sends all these great pictures. Me? it becomes a government job.

 

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Lou

There are a couple of ways to resize a .jpeg or .jpg. lots of software programs have some sort of reduce size or resize commands. Another way is to lie to the computer and pretend you are emailing the picture. I LIKE lying to my computer makes me feel like I'm in charge (Ha). This is using Windows XP Pro and Firefox as a browser but other operating systems should be pretty close.

Anyhow. Single click on the picture then right click and select "Send To" from the drop down menu that shows up. Next, there should be another drop down selection called "Mail Recipient" or something like that. Click on that selection.

Next there should be a popup window titled something along the lines of "Send Pictures Via Email or Send Mail and one of the selections on that popup is to make pictures smaller. Go ahead an click on that.

Next you'll see an compose email form with the reduced picture in the attachments block, put your cursor arrow over that attachment and it will give the location of the reduced image file. Each OS and browser is different so I can't tell you what it will be but find that file because that is the one that is the reduced size and want to attach.

Jeesh, I've just written the Great American novel trying to describe something that is not hard after you have done it once or twice, sorry if I have confused things more.

 

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Thanks Ed.
They are shrunk and now exist in "my documents". How in heaven do I get them to tractorbynet to post? This is getting frustrating. Part of my brain is starting to liquify. I am wondering why myself and some others do not have the same post window as you guys do where you just click the paper clip. Hmm,

 

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Lou

If you could make sense out of that description I wrote you are are rocket scientist. After I wrote it and read it back it almost got deleted 'cause it hardly makes any sense. I'm just not good enough with words to make it clearer.

On your reply window down towards the bottom of the screen do you have anything that says "Manage Attachments" ? If you do click on that and browse to where your small pictures are and then just click on the picture(s) you want to attach.

Meantime I am going to try and figure out if there is a way to make my reply screen look blank like it sounds yours is and then try and back out of it.

 

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Ok
I'm gonna try this. I know it may seem like I have picture diarrhea but its been a long time coming so all is breakig loose. Well they seem to have shown up. It would of been nice to explain what was what on each picture. Basicallly have been doing it this for the last 20 years. Would like to have had a bit bigger tractor but the quarters are pretty tight and the 4' wide 750 comes in handy. Shes weighted down pretty good and is approaching 3000# with fel and filled tires. There are uphill sections that before w/out chains I would just slip and slide. The first picture is a tree that had broken in half 20' feet up. The part I attached to was 20" wide. I cut that to 12' long so I would have enough remaining to come back and attach to without much encumbrance.The second picture is the remaining 30'. Never would of brought this out in 2 skids w/out chains on such slick surface. Thanks Ed and Northland for being so patient with a tech knucklehead.

Lou