Recent content by JimCan

Like most of you, I have used a string trimmer since maybe the 1980s. At the time (date?) little red ones from Japan were the nuts. But, I have always really hated string trimmers as being too fiddly ..but useful in certain situations, like around my wife's flower beds, stones, and other hard...

I am no evangelist or work for any ag company ...or farm. I am just someone who likes to live outside of town in peace. We have 25ac with the front pasture left fallow but cut for our 20+ years. I have no plans 'to use it'. I started with a Furgeson 40 and cheap rotary mower .. graduated...

I have myself halfway convinced that cutting a rough pasture is better done wet. I am a convert to a Flail mower. I sure wish I had heard of these 30 years ago... I have had two bush hogs and one finishing mower that left a nasty mess untill I got this flail. And now I am pretty sure it...

Uncle Thumbs here... Asking about replacing my tach cable. I got the correct part, and it appears to have hand-turned nuts on either end. But when I open the hood, the back of the tach seems properly buried with little likeyhood of me getting a hand in there... The FEL is still on and even...

I bought a new Caroni, 72" flail mower ...and the explicit instructions are to run it at '540 min.'. I have run a Furgerson 40 and this 1080 for 25yrs.. but never thought about '540'. My tach has a attachment symbol with brackets showing RPM ranges... in fact, two of them?! I run a finishing...

It arrived today. I am replacing both an brutish bush hog and a 'Bush Hog' brand finish mower - neither seem exactly right for a job in the middle. I have an unused pasture of about 5ac on the Eastern Shore of MD full of a full assortment of weeds and gum seedlings. I typically cut about...