Recent content by stephenh

All Stihls: 500i, 441, 026, 211. 28" with square-filed chain on two big ones [RSLF], and 18" RS full chisel on others.

Linseed oil thinned down with paint thinner. Warm dry day or two. Will smell like llinseed oil for a little while. I thin it way down: too rich a mixture and it can leave a stickiness. Been using it for such things 40 years or more. I recoat every few years, if I remember to.

Last summer I bought a weed whacker from Costco.com and soon received mssg from USPS that it was waiting at the local Post Office. We don't have delivery in our county, you gotta pick up at PO [everyone also has a PO box]. Drove to the PO, they couldn't find parcel. They checked online, their...

Description says 0 bathrooms.....what "facilities" does it have? Outhouse?

By now everyone knows this was a wide-spread outage and ours came back late last evening. However, this morning it is gone again and has been since I arose at 4 a.m. and it's now 10. Oh well.

Two propane companies in my strate told me, back in early 90s, that it was illegal for them to transport a tank that had any propane left in it. Don't know whether that is true [what about homeowners transporting the 20-pounders for the grill, in their cars???]. Anyhow, I found a deal back...

I am not experienced with that model tractor, but could one also use the bucket to lift the front end a bit more and see whether the piece will roll to the rear of the fuel tank so it can be seen and maybe grabbed? Just pondering here.

Brand new banjo. I won't take it along on the tractor however.

As far as the Medishare thing goes, a friend told me about them when one of his clients raved about them. I contacted them and was sent a large brochure outlining the qualifications to join. They were things such as we had to prove we were Christians and were members of a Christian church and...

I am not familiar with your model, is it one of those with two oil drain plugs? If so, did you open both plugs when draining?

I am thinking there's more to the story. Very weird. The deal does not make sense for the buyer.

I tiptoed into electric last year with a chainsaw when Costco had some on sale. Turns out I use it as much as the Stihls. It works fine for felling and cutting up trees about 10" diameter or smaller. But I go with 60-70 cc gas saws for the larger trees. I don't need a string trimmer for much...

Good to hear. I bought a Wallenstein splitter some years ago, and it has been flawless in operation.

My 4701 is "newer" and I bought it in 2019. Took me a little while to get the regen thing down, as I'd had two previous Kubotas and neither had regen; and the service manager at the dealer was clueless how the system worked and what to do. The operating manual was not exactly helpful. However, I...

When I was shopping for my 1st tractor, I had no initial preference for brand, I was in need and had only ever used a Ford when I worked on a farm as a young guy. Figured out Ford was now New Holland, no dealers near me, so I stopped in a John Deere dealership with financing already approved by...