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I've seen trailers where they used a torch to blast holes in the frame for wiring to pass thru. Metal splatter and no rubber grommet. Ship it! It was reported that up in the RV/house-trailer industry that blueprints have a note to flag certain features: PTF,PTM. "Pound to fit, paint to match"

Uh, you guys might not appreciate this comment but how about a scrap piece of 2X10, a square, a forstner bit, and a little paint?

Without rereading the thread, I think there are several comments on the bent frame component being the top link attachment. Original post says it's both side links.

My mower deck drive belt failed prematurely and the dealer speculated it was from mowing high grass. (Toro zero turn, but not commercial grade) Makes sense with heat buildup from extended mowing sessions. Expensive belt; pain to change it.

I managed to twist a scarfier shank doing that.

He's probably asking about replacing those awkward turnbuckles that stabilize the lower arms with telescoping square tubing with cross holes and pins.

Agree. They worked too hard to be scammers. Personally, I think the owner might have suffered from delusions of grandeur. Elsewhere in this thread, it was mentioned he had Congressional ambitions... And that house... Delusions could possible explain his poor risk assessment.

Makes sense. OTOH back then, burglars used to also steal the VCRs that recorded them!

This guy is a current or former TBN member. I saved his link years ago, because it made sense and I'm gonna need it someday. http://www.best-motorcycle.com/other/secretssellingcraigslist.shtml (it's not just about motorcycles)

i had AG tires back then and the dealer recommended staying out of the thornfield when it was soft. When it's dry, the tread lugs keep the thin tire carcass off the ground. Not foolproof but I had a lot of thorns in the lugs but not many flats.

Could be me but offering cash to buy a car at a dealership doesn't seem to help. I think the salesperson also gets a commission on a finance package.

"Free" credit card transactions sounds a lot like "free" shipping.

Saw a loader bucket at a farm show with scarfiers mounted on its back surface and pointed toward the tractor, for back dragging. With the bucket bottom flat on the ground, the scarfiers didn't touch the ground. With the bucket curled back, the scarfiers penetrated. If you floated the curled...

OP, from memory, I think you're right about the 4330 seat switch being different than your current model. Seems like there's a plastic arm about 1 1/2" long that pivots when it hits the opposite surface.

When we little guys need our little tractors to run a PTO unseated, we rotate our little seats forward against the steering wheel.

Nah, no dog in this hunt. I was thinking that any place on their site for public feedback would also work for, "Hey, kiss your prepayment goodbye."

Is there a working "reviews" section In the website? Might be a good venue as for customer feedback, AKA, Public Service Announcements.

Another act of desperation is not paying withholding taxes for your employees. Around here, they'll shut down the business for that.

Easy to imagine a simple gentleman's agreement to remove the barn for free. Then, half way thru, the remover realizes he bit off more than he can chew and disappears.

OP here- Thanks, All. The property with the barn in the way had a cash offer accepted yesterday from someone on its first day on the market. So, a dead end for me but your comments on this subject might be interesting to others too.

...or maybe what's salvageable isn't worth the labor?

Courts probably meant Ted's plan to orderly unwind his business or emerge from bankruptcy. Of course, emerging from bankruptcy is gonna take some customers...

I just went to a local home show and there were more booths selling gutter screens than any other product. Must be lucrative. Big thing now is very fine ss screen molded in to a plastic frame with ridges to control the water flow before it soaks thru the screen. 8 years ago my screens were...

Yep, a couple of cervical fusions over the years limited the range of rotation, but without pain. Then one dry summer with hard, bumpy ground, bouncing around on tractors and mowers added pain at the limits. Seems here to stay. Might need a swivel seat if there's room for my legs.

I've used a tree shear to cut trees that size flush for new trails. But after driving the trails for awhile, the soil compacts, leaving the stumps protruding several inches in my case. Probably more of a tire hazard than a bush hog problem. That brush guard looks good since you have to get...

My neck won't turn around that far anymore.

The walls of my original shop have 4 ft of plywood at their bottom and drywall above. When I added on, I used perforated steel siding instead, which made a big improvement in sound absorption. Comes in colors, including white. Didn't compare costs with drywall but it should go up faster and...

I ended up at 53x36x14. Contractor (Morton) said it doesn't add much cost to make the walls higher and at 14', they can drive a cement truck inside to reach the hard to reach sections. Otherwise, they would have to water down the mix or bring in an expensive cement pumper. Tall walls might...

Great building, inside and out. Curious about what kind of light fixtures you used that appear to work so well? I used 4 each 500 watt halogens because they were only $10 each, but if I ever forget to turn them off, in a few days my electric bill will...

I've got a Lawnboy from the early 80's that was over $300 IIRC. Sounds like dodge man's- self propelled, AL deck. Pushed it aside when I got a zero turn and it's been sitting for 20 years (yeah, with the gas still in it...) Willing to let it go cheap if someone wants to pick it up. Manual...

Saw this one at Rural King yesterday. Looked sturdy. Online price in the link below is $2900 but there were several signs on its display skid: $2300, $2500, $2700. https://www.ruralking.com/rk-by-king-kutter-60-grapple-gp-60-2cy-kk-zr

Great minds think alike:

I wondered about that way back, when EA was making attachments in competition with attachments they were only distributing. Couldn't make them too popular with suppliers. Random thought: someone posted here that Ted was considering a run for Congress. If true, that would be one data point...

it always amazes me that a low labor cost company would invest all the time to reverse-engineer, tool, and knockoff a product- then hand all the documentation over to someone who took an English class in the eighth grade.

Can we still flog the credit card policies?

Off topic alert: Decades ago, I went to an auction of a small manufacturing business bankruptcy- selling it lock, stock, and barrel, one lot at a time. They made surgical instruments- often large government orders. Some of the failed partners were there, selectively buying things. One lot...

Could You just junk the OEM fasteners and replace them with a length of all-thread, longer than the assembled canister, and two end nuts?

Ugh. IIRC, Washington State has no State income tax, so maybe they have to make it up elsewhere. (Are WS sales taxes high too?) Doesn't seem fair to out of state property owners unless there's an exemption of some sort.

New member with brand related posts. See it a lot.

Having attended this show a few times, finding specific booths in that rat maze of interconnecting halls, pavilions, and arena was time consuming, especially with the packed walkways. My comment was for your customers' convenience. Hope you didn't take it wrong.

Maybe post your approximate booth locations, or at least, which hall you are in.

In my hands, the relative short wheelbase of a skid steer/CTL makes forward grading difficult. (Each hump or dip under the wheels is magnified out at the implement. Seems like most operators back-drag in float mode if they can. Also, unlike a 3ph tractor, if you want to tilt the blade in the...

WRT eliminating food sources: depending on what we have bush hogged recently, that swarf on the bush hog's deck might be a buffet table.

My armchair experiment was to make some kind of nesting box that is more attractive than my pickup. Maybe with a heat tape in it... And some way to quickly trap them inside when you empty it every week.

The manual for my WR Long remote kit warns that it's for intermittent use only. Shoulda been in their advertisement, IMO, not buried in their manual. (Good product and company to work with, otherwise)

Nah, no experience with concrete. Mine was just a theoretical question stemming from design work in another industry.

I get it that rebar, below the neutral plane, adds more tensile strength- my point was that the chairs themselves leave defects (stress risers) in the tension side of the neutral plane.

Anybody ever bring up stress risers in slabs? Seems like those chairs will leave some significant ones in the tension side of the (brittle) slab. Maybe positioning rebar at the right height makes up for them...

Thanks, All. This is helpful.

That's it. Thanks. Still wondering if that white nipple is for tubing. Mine doesn't seem to be as dirty as its surroundings, as though it recently had tubing on it.

It's mounted on the inside of the passenger side front fender, about half way front to back of the engine compartment. Looks like it lost some tubing.

I've got a leftover pipe for above the muffler (c-clamp attachment to muffler outlet) from my former 1920. Yours for the cost of shipping.

I have a Gehl CTL 60 from 15 or 20 years ago and it was made by Takeuchi. It even has that annoying step plate you mentioned earlier.

If TAKEUCHI is of interest to you, keep an eye out for Gehl too. TAKEUCHI makes, or made, Gehl's CTL. Very well made machine, IMO.

Here at 39* N, late summer tomatoes just seem to stay green thru fall until frost. Seems warm enough for them to ripen- they just don't. Cant see a green house helping at that point.

OP here. This thread has gone unbelievably sideways. Hope the mods shut it down.

Trick question: Which administration started the EPA?

CMI was only down 3% today, despite this blow. Could be that Cummins has been accruing for the fine and their Wall Street market makers knew this.

Sounds similar to VW stunt, but larger fine: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-merrick-garland-agreement-principle-cummins-settle-alleged

Another thing is to confirm that the front of the rotary cutter is set lower than the rear. Otherwise, the blades are in contact with the grass for 360* instead of 180*. In my brush/grass, when things bog down, I just move over to lessen the swath width.

Anecdotal- my F250 7.3 Diesel (twin batteries) has always taken long cranking to start. Ran the batteries down cranking it and had to call a tow truck. He hooked up a fairly large battery pack that wouldn't crank it fast enough to start. His jumper cables started it right up.

Fallon did one 10 or 15 years ago.

Maybe the Sheriff has authority to ask him about liability insurance? Then the insurance company could apply some pressure.

Enjoyed watching that great thread.

Long shot- Do those valves by any chance incorporate piloted check valves to prevent the valves from leaking down? My top and tilt cylinders have them and so they don't open until receiving the 500 psi pilot pressure, IIRC. So even trying to feather them starts with a 500 psi surge.

I'm seeing a lot more sites lately denying access until I turn off my ad blocker. Ads don't seem too thick on those sites afterward though.... so far.

Amazon deliveries prioritized over regular mail in some rural areas. Much finger pointing. Excerpt, in case it's paywalled: "But it wasn’t the buck hunt delaying the mail in Bemidji, a tiny town 100 miles south of the Canadian border where welcome signs are written in both English and Ojibwe...

Makes sense. My Amazon deliveries are mostly various rag-tag unmarked vans, not the official ones.

I just had a close encounter with an Amazon van/probably an impaired driver. He backed out of a residential driveway into my lane from a dead stop without creeping out like there might be traffic coming. Too late to brake, I slammed on the horn. It took him a long time to react but missed me...

Fast forward two centuries: Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is a budgeting method that requires all expenses to be justified and approved in each new budget period, typically each year. It was developed by Peter Pyhrr in the 1970s. This budgeting method analyzes an organization's needs and costs by...

My uninformed opinion is to backfill with gravel and make sure the bottom of the gravel can drain. The plastic barrier might trap water eventually. That said, ties on tracks still need to be replaced despite being well drained. (surrounded by gravel) I think they dry out and split rather than...

Nice job. Projecting here, but catching a limb on that valve block might pop those plastic, inside tabs. I'd make a backup while you're at it.

As I understand it, mainsteam insurers have the volume clout to negotiate discounts from "list price". Hopefully, one function of these direct payment medical cooperatives is to negotiate discounts as well, before members write their checks.

I lived near a small town almost dominated by a Bible School which brought in students/camps/seminars from far and near. Anecdotally, some of the shadiest business men in town claimed to be religious and wore it on their sleeves. I think they found that appealing to their clients' religious...

Well, if you end up with a problem between what was promised vs what was delivered, you can always find that guy at the airport.

I've got a large screen but prefer TV on my 12" iPad from about 20". Plus, it's easier to take into the bathroom when necessary...

Yeah, me too. Got a 3 legged desk out of it.

Without seeing the space, how solid the mantle is, or the way the tv locks on to the wall bracket... maybe: stack blocking on the mantle up to where the bottom of the tv will be. make sure it can't slide forward. lift the tv up with it oriented parallel with the floor and set the bottom lip of...

Ironically, it's the "woketard" administration trying to make corporate junk fees illegal. The "asleeptards" generally protect their corporate donors.

IIRC, at some point back then Toyota was breathing down the back of GM as the largest auto company in the world. Word was that in Toyota's haste to overtake GM for the bragging rights, they made some mistakes. They might have even fessed up to it later, but I might have dreamed that part...

Nice- that's a lot heavier duty with forged shackles. Way back, and hopefully still, Bolt On Hooks published their significant mechanical testing for their designs. IIRC, they even tested the pull strength of their 2 bolt clamping arrangement on the bucket's sheet metal.

What's the trick mentioned here several times about multiple glow plug cycles? Are they just controlled by a timer instead of a thermostat? Can you burn them out?

Good experience with a 2013 Outback I bought new in 2012. Still have it and it could be the last car I ever need. New short block installed under warranty at 40k miles.(Subaru used the wrong rings so it burned oil before) Started out shopping for an Audi A4 because they had good mileage, 4wd...

Can't remember if this cartoon-worthy incident happened to me or I witnessed it at a marina- moving a small trailer/boat/outboard with a 3PH: boat rig has been sitting outside with rain water in the bow. operator slips the the 3PH mounted ball under the socket and lifts the tongue. water then...

rScotty, you should take this concept one step further and devise a winch based solution that eliminates the pipe gate altogether. (Yeah, I know, OP is already halfway down his path) As a barrier, the winch simply stretches the cable between the posts. To pass, the winch slackens the cable...

I never used a DIY opener but had enough issues with two dealer installed systems that I was glad I could just call them- nearby lightning strike, snake shorting out the control box circuits, condensation rusting the roller chain... There's a lot to go wrong. If I were going solar though, I'd...

I like it. Seems reasonably price by today's hardware standards. And you'd be popular if you have neighbors or deer hunter friends...

Ever see a full sized TLB running in road gear on smooth-ish pavement and it acts like a bucking horse, because of all their weight beyond the wheel base? For lack of an official term, I call it "galloping". I've got the same galloping when using my 650# skidsteer grade root grapple on my...

Who would turn the steering wheel?

Makes sense to me but no experience with flail mowers. Hope others chime in here.

I'd think an operator's worst exposure would be while mowing a sharp, downhill break where the plane of rotation tilts up toward the operator. Say, a brushy shoreline, back and forth perpendicular to the shore.

5030, I don't think anyone is challenging your right to post drivel; more likely is that it dilutes the TBN interesting and useful comments. Cases in point- you eat oatmeal and a 'naner for breakfast. Also you don't like GM products. Those weren't incidental to your main point- those were...

Replacing the low cost socket is the practical thing but if you're stubborn, like me, take some shoe polish, paint pigment, or some other colored paste that won't dry soon, and coat the ball, stick it in the socket, and look for an abnormal contact position. Then decide if it's repairable.

Oil companies don't have to control the price of crude- but collectively, they can control the price of gas. They just need a fig leaf of cover.

From Rupert Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal: "Crude oil prices popped Tuesday morning after Saudi Arabia and Russia said they're extending voluntary oil production cuts through the end of the year."...

Learned this from a landscaper who used a box blade to breakup and distribute dirt clods before seeding a lawn. Should work on mole tunnels and hills as well. Most people here have, or need, a box blade anyway. Landscaper extended the bottom of his sidewalls by bolting a length of 2X4 or 2X6...

Do it when the ground is firm. With so much weight on the small front tires, they'll leave tracks or even ruts, depending.

Labor shortage is taking its toll on restaurants. Some around here had to cut hours because of it, in a college town no less. Open Th-Su. Too many other places to work; opposite of a recession, no matter what the talking heads say.

I've used a similar speced dump trailer that way for a long time. This is the closest one to it they currently make: http://ezdumperandtrailers.com/ez/itemview.php?adid=185 It's designed to haul skidsteers to the job, then use the trailer on-site, once it's unloaded. Heavy D ring tie downs...

Standard 118* drill points don't cut all the way to center. Instead, that center dead zone is "wallowed out", which takes more down pressure- more difficult in hand held drilling. 135* split points cut virtually to center, which requires less downforce. Cobalt alloy is harder but more brittle...

Did you consider adding some weld to the front of the slot bracket, now that it's cantilevered?

Your engineering partners probably have access to CAD with a stress evaluation package. Tell them to see if the runners are strong enough when you pull it thru a dip where it's only supported at each end. As I understand it, that's how long ships can fail in a storm- bow and stern each...

I called Messicks parts department, described the QA spring I needed, and he found the part number and price while I was still getting my credit card out. They could probably answer any questions you have too. https://www.messicks.com/

This might be an urban legend but a friend of mine said it happened to a friend of his, so, for what it's worth... The "victim" was traveling in the rural 3rd world somewhere and he stopped at a restaurant that served him pork. On his way out, he asked where the restroom was and they pointed...

Saw an article last week in the business press about Craftsman's attempt at a highly mechanized factory (in Texas, maybe) to make wrenches in the US. They built it but couldn't make it work. One point in the article was about something I'd noticed for years: they now make their open ended...

TBN search has 18 entries on first attempt: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/search/4481551/?q=Sabre+Samurai&t=post&c%5Bchild_nodes%5D=1&c%5Bnodes%5D%5B0%5D=15&o=date How will you control your front remotes? I bought a WR Long solenoid valve and turns out, it's just for intermittent use...

I second- checking with your homeowners policy. Agent told me the contents of outbuildings and equipment on the property was covered up to some percentage of the house itself.

Interesting TV coverage recently about our current inflation situation. Premise was, some inflation is due to price gouging rather than normal economic ebbs and flows. Evidence presented were announcements excerpted from corporate annual meetings with their shareholders, gloating about profits...

Well, they coulda pulled the old burger joint trick... 24 OZ** **pre-distilled weight

Here's the extension I mentioned, on someone else's tractor:

My former 1920 came with an exhaust extension above the muffler, maybe 10" long. Its tip curved to shoot the exhaust almost horizontally instead of straight up and it was rotated to shoot it forward. I might have a leftover extension around here from when I replaced the muffler. That exhaust...

what are hobby quantities? Seems like my local hardware sells it in 3' lengths but it's probably cold rolled. Still...

Seems like the old timers used to hand file their profile on a handplane blade blank and do them manually. Wouldn't be much wood to remove from a stepped strip of wood.

Yep, shortening the top link will creat more clearance angle under the foot when it's fully buried. As is, that heel and bottom might be plowing way down there too. it would be interesting to "streamline" the shanks' 1 1/4" x 15" or so frontal area. Maybe tacking a 15" long strip of 1/4" x...

Full depth in dry soil, no less. Nice!

For me, the bobble-head effect that also hurts a fused neck is worse on short wheelbased vehicles, like my tracked loader and zero turn. Good luck.

OP, I feel your pain. Spine surgeon who fused my neck said a spine is like an old log chain. If you weld two chain links together, then the adjacent links wear even faster. Fast forward a few decades and a lot of time on vehicles with no suspension and it made mine worse, even without trying...

Here's the guys who invented it and still make them, not far from me. They even have a section on those knock-off competitors. https://hi-lift.com/company/our-history/

I'll post this anecdote, re- just because you can lift something near the capacity of your tractor doesn't mean that you should. Neighbor asked me to move a full pallet of cement blocks to the other end of his yard. Forks on loader, medium heavy box blade for ballast. Tractor wouldn't lift it...

I had a "pet grade" fence charger long ago. Used it in a drafty old basement to keep the mice from eating sprouts under grow lights. (not pot...) It worked well and I never found any dead mice in the vicinity. Rigged it such that they were standing on a tin sheet when they pawed their way up...

At the very least, find out how those pallet racks are rated. They may be a "distributed load" rating, IE, evenly loaded over the full length. Your loading would be more of point loading near the mid-length, which would have a lower rating. Designed in safety factor is something else to...

Good catch on wiring issues. If you're using it in weeds, much less woods, any sloppy wire routing can snag. (Don't ask...) The specs on my dump trailer says it inclines to 45*, even though it looks steeper. It always dumps 99% of clay, leaves, mulch, gravel, etc. Sometimes a little bit...

Seems like like you could go both front and back with a receiver hitch mounted winch. Also, having a receiver in front is great for backing trailers in tight spaces.

Thanks. Hope you guys are right- MSRP was $35,600 when I ordered it:

Any idea what a low mileage, 7.3 of that era is worth? Mine's a 1999 F250 7.3 with (not a typo) 24,000 miles.

Anecdotal, but I've seen plastic components get brittle on vehicles after the last 20 years or so, maybe even in less time, but before they needed work. Snap fits, connector locks, even light structural components. Don't know where that will end in trying to keep a vehicle for decades. I guess...

If you don't have a cab, I'd wonder about the monitor screen being washed out by the sun pretty often. I've got a bad neck too, and no cab- holding out for something like a practical version of Google Glasses that would be cheap enough to try.

Checking stainless with a magnet can be misleading. 300 series stainless can be either way, depending on how much the mill cold worked it. Most 400 series (often called cutlery alloys) are magnetic, and also the common precipitation hardening alloys.

I was lucky to find this old thread. This post is for the next guy. It was as easy to fix as Bird described it in post#2. 14mm socket on two bolts, flip off the rubber cover and blow all the accumulations away. Here's mine removed from a Grand L 4330, still with some debris in one of the holes.

I think I've seen bolt shanks smaller than their thread OD and I think it's because they use a rolled thread. The rolling process displaces some of the metal, which enlarges the threaded portion's OD, so they have to start with smaller stock to compensate. That doesn't account for SAE stock...

Could you just use an upper plate and a lower plate with two regular bolts?

Mice chewed thru my garagedoor/floor seal. It's just a hollow rubber extrusion. Stuffed some steel wool into the opening they exposed, just as a temp fix. It's now been keeping them out for years, since it didn't fall out yet. Maybe you could just partially caulk your holes with whatever...

My dealership wired in a hidden switch to the fuel shutoff thingy. Tractor wouldn't even sputter otherwise. Figured if the scum could diagnose that problem and then find the hidden switch, he's probably smart enough to have an honest job.

Is it odd that a flatbed doesn't have many tie down points? Ive hauled my side by side several times in my 6' 8" wide dump trailer and had to load it to the right side in order to open the driver's door enough to get in and out. 1' high might clear your door, if you even have them.

Update. Excerpts from a paywalled site: {Avengers star Jeremy Renner has given his first interview since he was critically injured in a snowplow accident in early January. In the interview with Diane Sawyer, set to air on ABC News on April 6, Renner recounts how he was crushed by his...

Just a general comment about package deals- unless a package buyer happens to need every item, seems like selling some individually might bring more. I think auctioneers face this dilemma too.

You left out the best part: It was made in Indiana! (I bought a 2013 Outback instead of an Audi for that reason) Your description of all those safety features reminded me of a State Trooper's comment. He mostly drove a regular cruiser and other drivers usually yield or get out of his way...

20 years ago I priced tractors online and they were well above what the dealer quoted. Might be like car MSRP's are/were to make us think we're getting a ton for our trade ins. Best to get a quote from an actual dealer, IMHO.

Read somewhere that the reason the same scam comes from many different sources, and over a period of time, is that scamming entrepreneurs develop the scam package and sell it to a bunch of freelancers. For awhile, I was getting many different scams, all with the same woman's voice.

I didn't open all the links so did anyone mention a stump bucket with a grapple mounted on it...

Alexa does a good job on conversions if you ask her right. Just tonight- "Alexa, how many pounds is 66 grams?" "...about 2 ounces." "Alexa, EXACTLY how many pounds is 66 grams? "...about 2 ounces." "Alexa, how many pounds is 66 grams EXACTLY?" ".... 0.1455052...pounds." And Siri converted it...

A "hide this thread" button (and maybe, a "hide this forum" button) would sure make scanning the "Today's Posts" a lot faster.

Maybe they used the carne asada trick- fry it up in lard.

A TBN post from years ago was about occasionally leaving tools, chains, etc in the FEL bucket, forgetting about them, and then dumping the bucket. The poster suggested slipping an empty glove over the joystick as a reminder there's tools in the bucket. Maybe all we need is a...

That must be a thing. A few years ago a local unsavory resident stuffed two of his acquaintances in barrels and stored them on his own property.

That layout confirmed a lot of raised eyebrows. In the real world, the new "thread" would probably look even worse, attempting to free-hand the tap in straight. (IIRC, they were in the engine block)

You can roughly measure the pitch on the bolts you're replacing with dial or digital calipers. Just visually line up the caliper's inside measurement points with the thread crests of, say, the first crest and the 11th crest and divide the measurement by 10. (N-1) Spanning more threads...

They make a sturdy bench at a useful height if you span an upright pair with 2-by's.

Might make a difference of what kind of stone that's available. We only have limestone around here, which is famous for retaining moisture and clumping when cold enough. Haulers warn about spreading #53's* when it's freezing because of clumping. * part gravel, part limestone dust, for packing

Lowest hanging fruit: Check under the frame's upper lip to see if there's wasp nests or weld bead interfering. Then, with the fork frame's upper lip securely engaged over the SSQA upper lip and retaining pins retracted, jiggle the joy stick to seat the attachment if it's not seated fully...

Also, any chance of seeing the left end that's hidden in the picture?

A picture is worth a thousand.... The second one from a scrap tire might be easier, especially with multiple rungs.

For a home-brew step on a tractor, I'd borrow the idea on a lot of utility trucks' rear steps- make the uprights from 3/4" to 1" steel cable. Stiff enough for support; flexible enough to survive hitting something.

Odd break for a casting that's mostly in compression. If the casting doesn't look defective, then maybe the cylinder is still pulling after the bed is fully down on the frame. In that case, the next cylinder may fail too.

Sounds like a marketing strategy called "skimming". Peel off customers willing to pay a premium during a temporary monopoly, then introduce lower prices/models after that sweet spot. Maybe prices will drop?

If the upstream creek runs thru a wooded area, it's just a matter of time until culverts are blocked by sticks, then leaves, during a gully-washer.

I have a different setup and they do fall randomly and occasionally, In my direction. Mine are mostly trees less than 6" and using a tracked loader. I wouldn't use it on my open tractor except for saplings. Plus, ground level visibility would be an issue on a tractor. That video doesn't show...

if you're tempted to call us snowflakes, I'd understand.

An old farmer told me that the problem with letting people hunt is that the people you allow eventually bring their friends; and then their friends eventually start coming out by themselves; and so on.... Looking back with my own property, giving someone hunting permission should of had an...

Good thread. This was reported around 8:30 EST Friday and suggests we haven't seen the worst of it yet around the Great Lakes: "The incipient storm system over the Great Lakes is about to undergo explosive intensification that will result in a fledgling low pressure system becoming a...

As recommended by others on TBN, instead of a hydraulic link on one side and the OEM fixed length link on the opposite side, I replaced the OEM fixed length with the OEM adjustable link for extra tilt when it's occasionally necessary. Can't see which was used in the picture but it kinda looks...

Yep on more traction for your anvil. If the log wasnt cut off squarely, one of the split segments may not even be touching its anvil lug.

Using your torch to anneal the hardness is worth trying. We used to buy 300 series SS round stock that came from the mill in a workharden state, for strength. One Dr wanted his pins to be more bendable. Just a propane torch on some 3/16" diameter pins worked.

Nerd alert: I think that starting with iPhone 6, there is a slow motion video option that is wwwway slow. Might be interesting to film a few suspicious logs to see what is actually happening when they pop.

Seems like a lot of drill presses are geared more for wood than steel. Assuming 304 SS cutting speed is 100 surface ft/minute (I didn't look it up), that would only be 190 RPM with a 2" cutter. And yes on the work hardening risk. Your hardened zone may not be deep. Can you start it again...

This is counter-intuitive to me. To turn sharply downhill, you need the uphill wheel turning faster than the downhill wheel. Braking the wheel you need to turn faster (uphill wheel) doesn't make sense.

Whenever I've "limped" around the house after an accident or surgery, what I longed for most was an OVERHEAD handhold in critical areas- maybe hanging from the ceiling, an arm's length above the edge of my bed or over the toilet. Those handicapped, wall mounted bars in the bathroom are better...

There's a long thread, probably in the Rural King forum, about a rash of buckets that didn't sit flat. IIRC, the solution was loosening the bolts holding the loader to the frame, seating the loader bucket flat on the ground, and retightening the bolts. Edit: Loader - Unlevel bucket

I've got the same problem on a lighter blade- I thought it needed more weight but looks like it's more complicated... Maybe a softer edge than UHMWPE, like a strip of stall matting?

6 minutes. Frank discussion about Titan Attachments vs Titan Implements. (now Ironcraft) Also short blurb about FEL mounted mower taken off the market for patent reasons. (Trail Blazer, maybe?)

I ordered two Scandinavian type recliners/ottomans from one of those type of stores. They weren't their top of the line, but seemed like a good price for leather. Turns out, that "leather" is some composite fabric where one of the components is leather, but the fabric itself has a polymeric...

Yeah, I think product descriptions must be automated. Like when you want the size of an item, they list the size of its box.

I keep finding new uses for my hydraulic lift, roll-around shop cart. Discount tool outlets sell them. Heavy items in your pickup truck can be slid onto it at tailgate height, rolled elsewhere, and then eased almost to the ground where you can deal with it. Or reverse that process to load...

Are airlines charging for barf bags yet?

Yep, that's awkward. My neighbor had an auction in which one of the items had been a gift from his friend. Turned out, the friend was at the auction and was pretty upset with my neighbor. I think you could truthfully tell your friend that you would like to have the 1210 to restore and see if...

I just priced some screw-in, carbide tipped studs and was surprised how much they cost by the time you buy their recommended number of studs. Haven't priced chains lately but suspect stud prices would make a pretty good dent in the price of chains.

i saw something similar for retaining walls on either side of a riverbank cut for a boat slip. Looked really old and it looks like the premix bags were either burlap back then or they mixed their own into burlap. You could still see the bag texture. Each concrete "pillow" was uniform...

I've had tubes added to tubeless tires on two different WBs at a tire store with good results. Maybe real tire stores have better tubes?

Since you asked... I'd be concerned about the wet wood, as the packed snow up in the tracks melts in your garage. Whatever protective finish you apply will probably abrade. Could you fill the tubes/tires with something that will set up firmly yet still allow you to cut the rubber off the rim...

Those curious cattle are funny. Same thing happened to me with the neighbor's herd. I "chomped" the grapple several times and they scattered.

Robots is never having to say you're sorry.

From the sounds of it here, I wonder if any of these smallish, imported winches have ever been tested for their pull capacity. Easy to print any capacity on the box...

Better call Raul!

Wonder if your dad fell because something was already accelerating his decline and the first sign was it also caused his fall. So, the other way around. To me, that makes a difference in agonizing over his fall while alone vs mourning that it was his time to go.

That works. They probably get slapped in the face more than they get poked in the face.

Excellent point. Verizon may not go out of business but the independents might come and go.

My lense too. Following. Also, its wiring apparently wasn't protected very well under the fender so that needs attention too.

Maybe a pic with a Tpost gripped in it?

Hope you report back. I need something for backing up a UTV. How does the GoPro connect to your phone?

Your math is either correct or we're both wrong.

Every time I blow out my radiator fins from the engine side, I resolve to make a nozzle with a 90 degree tip in order to get a better angle on the fins. 30 years now, and counting...

Without looking it up, I think my R4s have an 8 ply rating. No comparison to a lawn tractor tire. I did manage an ugly puncture once-- a deer antler. Tires are less likely to be punctured when the ground is dry.

Start with the paper clip icon at the bottom of your post. TBN made it much more intuitive recently than it used to be. Back then, it was trial and error each time for me.

You can have 1018 case hardened. It's just a thin, hard case but it might be an economical compromise. Or, since you're designing your own teeth, you could make their profile with a depression that supports a small, properly hardened insert, or a replaceable soft insert.

S & H Green Stamps factoid: The family behind S&H funded Yale's rare book library. The panels are translucent onyx to reduce damaging light. The family wanted to use green onyx but architects discovered there wasn't enough green onyx in the world for the job.

Every time I asked my parents to let me buy that junk in the back of magazines, they said the reason it's mail order is because if you could actually see it first, then you wouldn't buy it. Finally my buddy and I scraped up $3 for a western style revolver "that fires real bullets". We were...

Don't change out of your scrubs. Smear some ketchup on them. Tell'em you gotta get back....

Make sure it has a hefty hinge pin. (Or baby it)

If you anticipating TRIMMING short pieces, pay attention to the vise. The kind with a swiveling moving jaw won't safely clamp on a piece not long enough to extend to the left of its pivot. One work-around is to add a block to the left side of the pivot, the same thickness as your workpiece...