Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

211 MASSEY FERGUSON 2615
going to look at this tomorrow. Much more than I wanted to spend, but easy at my local Kubota dealer,
they just took on trade. Made in India, 49hp, basic 4 speed with two ranges, large three cylinder natural diesel, almost new.
they would do twelve even with tax and all fluids and filters changed. Book is allegedly 14k.
My only concern would be parts; started a thread on that.
Seems to be a lot of tractor for twelve grand and likely very durable.
Reroute the muffler downwards and this would make a nice woods tractor for me.

Isn't Christmas pretty soon?

Tier II sounds good to me. I looked long and hard at the comparable, made in India John Deere 5xxx series. They have big, wide, thick, and strong rear fenders, since the India market demands a place for the 13 other riders to sit. At least that's what I was told.

Good morning. Another day yesterday without rain and hopefully the same today. I've been waiting quite a while for the steep bank at the back to dry out enough to get on with the mower. Cutting downhill is easy, uphill needed diff lock a few times.

Slope cutting with our Grillo Climber is about the same sensation as riding a roller coaster - possibly even more buttock clinching, as I can never be sure where the rabbits have been digging their holes in the longer grass. For those of you unfamiliar with Grillo as it's an Italian manufacturer you may not have come across, think of a racing kart for hills that just happens to cut grass too Climber 9.22 Grillo Spa - Agrigarden Machines

Eric, is yours the AWD model? Looks really neat
Here's the American tool sold here: TSM Class

RNG, OH CRAP! I hope it stays away. Put your phone on video record and be there when your neighbor gets back. I want to see the look on his face too. Will pray for some rain there. Buckets of rain.

Seriously, when we had the big Bastrop fire looming here, my wife has a plastic, "portable", file holder. We took all of our important stuff out of our plain steel, big file cabinet and put them in the small plastic file cabinet for just in case, got to grab it and get out fast situations. Unless you have some super high dollar fire proof safe, your stuff will burn.

I Googled it, and it is not contagious. It can cause you get chicken pox, if you haven't had it before, but not shingles itself. But the house wasn't that dirty anyway, and I'm $60 richer now

Has anyone got the shingles shot? I want it, but until a certain age, you have to get a prescription from the doctor and I don't know if insurance will cover it. I had chicken pox at 8 years of age, and my mother got shingles when she was in her 60's.

 

[Larro Darro]

Has anyone got the shingles shot? I want it, but until a certain age, you have to get a prescription from the doctor and I don't know if insurance will cover it. I had chicken pox at 8 years of age, and my mother got shingles when she was in her 60's.

No to the shot. But yes to chickenpox {as a boy} and shingles {about 12-15 years ago}. The shingles was a pretty mild case. I've been told the chicken pox was bad. I was too young to remember.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I wonder if one could put their sprinkler/irrigation system on turbo mode and protect one's home...
probably water pressure would have dropped too much

The fire took out the electrical line that feeds my home and everyone up the line from here, and it happened just a few minutes after the fire started. With no electricity, the well pump went down and water stopped, too. I was wetting down the plants in front of the house at the time, and depleted the pressure tank in the process. So there's no way a sprinkler system would do anything unless there was also a gas or propane powered generator wired via transfer switch to the pump, or a feeder tank located above the point of use. I'm now looking at both options, along with several others for dealing with fire emergencies. I know it will happen again.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Glad to hear you are safe and your property came thru unscathed.

Thanks, but that should read "relatively unscathed".



The dozer work basically undid five years of establishing erosion control plantings on the meadows surrounding the house. They're full of rocks, drop offs, ruts, and dozer cleat marks, and will need a lot of work with equipment heavier than anything I have to make it right. Two Calfire reps were on site walking the damage with me and talking about the remediation options, so I'm hopeful I'll get some help. The west and south sides border on California park lands, and I spoke with one of their biologists today also. We're pretty much on the same page as to what should happen, but I think may not be so well matched on the matter of degree. None of the people I talked to had given much thought to maintaining the land to keep it fire safe after the remediation, and were thinking to just fix the ruts and let it go back to nature. Nature really means noxious weeds and brush that acts as fuel for wildfire. I tried to get them to understand that I need to be able to mow a mix of erosion control grasses in order to mitigate the fire hazard, and it was a new concept to them. It shouldn't be, as most of the surrounding hillsides are mixed oak and grass meadows, and all I'm really suggesting is that this original state be restored, not the brush choked mess that resulted from clearing for Lake Oroville.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Well, I traded a almost brand new washing machine worth about $400 for this fancy angle grinder kit.

I hope I did alright.

18v Brushless 4-1/2" / 5" Braking Grinder Kit (2783-22) | Milwaukee Tool

It all depends on battery life and motor stall torque. Get a piece of 1/4" bar stock and put a cutoff wheel on it, and see how many cuts you can make before the battery goes flat. Pay attention to how much pressure it takes to stall the motor, and whether or not you have to some sort of reset dance when it does. Then compare the results to what you get when using a corded unit. My Mikita is a real POS by this measure, and sits in the bottom of my tool box unused as a result.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG WOW! no way I could have stayed that calm.

It took some effort, but I'm not new to these types of situations. It was a lot like having a loved one go into the hospital, in that the situation is totally out of your control and all you can do is roll with the punches. Like I told the firefighters that were with me that first night, plan for the worst, hope for the best. And that's what we did.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

It all depends on battery life and motor stall torque. Get a piece of 1/4" bar stock and put a cutoff wheel on it, and see how many cuts you can make before the battery goes flat. Pay attention to how much pressure it takes to stall the motor, and whether or not you have to some sort of reset dance when it does. Then compare the results to what you get when using a corded unit. My Mikita is a real POS by this measure, and sits in the bottom of my tool box unused as a result.

I was worried about that. This one came with the 5 amp/hour battery IIRC, which almost twice the size of the normal lithium battery.

I guess you are telling me to keep the wilton 220 volt 6" belt sander/disk sander as an option to sharpen my riding mower blades?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Has anyone got the shingles shot? I want it, but until a certain age, you have to get a prescription from the doctor and I don't know if insurance will cover it. I had chicken pox at 8 years of age, and my mother got shingles when she was in her 60's.

I got a shingles shot a few years ago at my local Costco pharmacy. I don't remember if insurance covered it or not, but I think the cost was around $35. I did have chickenpox as a child, but all that does is put the virus in your system so that later it can emerge as shingles.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I guess you are telling me to keep the wilton 220 volt 6" belt sander/disk sander as an option to sharpen my riding mower blades?

I guess what I'm really saying is to try it out and see if it does a good job for you. If it doesn't, it's sure not worth the beating you're gonna get when your wife finds out she'll be doing the laundry with a washboard and a tub.:laughing:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I guess what I'm really saying is to try it out and see if it does a good job for you. If it doesn't, it's sure not worth the beating you're gonna get when your wife finds out she'll be doing the laundry with a washboard and a tub.:laughing:

We have an old family washboard hanging by the laundry room.

BTW, my wife made "Lake Elizabeth" tonight. Just as I was getting home at 8 pm, she came out frantically yelling "Bring the wet vac, I accidentally left the tub running to fill up!!!" So what reminded her that she had left it running to fill??? When she started filling the other bath tub and had no hot water.... I would guess about 15-20 gallons over ran the side. Also would guess that the water comes out of the spicket faster than it can drain through the overfill drain hole...