Recent content by Barnowl

Love my super mini Bobcat E10 mini ex! I can drive it into the basement door if needed, gets into tight spots, digs deep and quick, can lift 500#. Simple, inexpensive to maintain, easy to transport. Does 90% of the excavating I need, and am very happy I didn’t go the backhoe route for my JD...

I invested in this 3 plier set from Lang Tools years ago. It cover such a wide variety of applications saves time/money. Each size plier has full set of tips that are interchangeable and each plier switches from internal to external. Has pretty much solved any situation I’ve been in. They also...

I have similar aged Stihl, think it is the 160 with easy start. Starting was getting to be tougher and it started lacking the power when cutting. This saw does not get used regularly. Stihl no longer stocked the carburetor, but did stock most of the gaskets and fuel filter. Disassembled cleaned...

I’ll throw in my 2 cents, backed by about 10 years of real world experience and actual real world testing. I designed and installed commercial and hospital systems that dealt with sterilant, which back in the day used a high percentage of Freon 12 as a carrier gas. We reclaimed the Freon so our...

I just looked closer at the OPs picture, and yeah that sure does look like a dozer blade. And that Extension, does it have an attachment to plow that would allow plow to trip or is it fixed? And I’m realizing that the attack angle will change every time you drop it unless you can somehow make it...

So lot of good advice already given. I’ll give you my experience after plowing about 35 driveways for about 10 years with a pickup, including several that were gravel. With 35 driveways that typically had to be knocked off in 3 hrs, I needed efficiency while not sacrificing a clean driveway...

Using my tractor to pull a trailer around the our property was one of the best things I’ve ever done. And our property is only 2.5 acres. Today use it to maintain 3 different properties and it gets used all the time. I have a Deere 855. I built a single axle dump trailer 23 yrs ago. One of best...

Sorry to hear of your loss and wish you strength to start everyday fresh as you rebuild. Thanks also for posting, as it’s making us think how to prepare and do some prevention. Built my shop 16 years Ago. Always wanted a timber frame, but did put up drywall. But here I am, 16 years later...

By now, everyone else has beat me with good reasons to buy one. I have 2.5 acres between two adjacent residential properties, one rented. about 1.2 acres of grass. Grass cutting timecut in half, but then I did an incredible amount of work with that tractor in 25 years, that I never could have...