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China is bad but working hard on improvement USA under the current leadership is basically just telling the world F you Here's a comprehensive comparison of the USA and China’s carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions—covering their historical records, current levels, and predicted futures: 1...

I knew it was a common expectation to phase out ICE through out the world so I just asked AI for the details go ahead and ask AI yourself The USA is so out of line with most first world countries that it is rapidly becoming a third world country

The USA is the odd one out most of the developed world is heading this way to avoid destruction of the world via climate change The USA will need to fall into line or it will be forced to by the new world powers that will be in charge by then As of August 2025, at least 27 European Union (EU)...

it really depends on the bearing or bush I were always told by the bearing experts more high speed bearings were damaged by over greasing than under greasing but pins and bush's in mud or dusty conditions need regular greasing to maintain that dried up glob of grease that acts as the dust seal

Crane hooks are made of malleable steel not hight tensile steel for a reason it is much safer for the hook to slowly bend and give a little warning than to have a stronger but brittle hook that snaps forks made of mild steel but gusseted will bend a good operator will feel this and respond and...

Years ago there was a New Zealand firm converting Ford County tractors into ferterlizer spreaders for hill country that used the name Trucktor link to a photo here via facebook Log into Facebook

Using my chinese loader in a riverbed yesterday loading gravel very bumpy and getting bounced about a lot which seems to have caused an electrical problem the machine would not start after I had shut it down a small click but not enough juice to turn the starter after a bit of testing seemed to...

The ground speed PTO is not good for bush-hog work the momentum of the blades will drive the tractor forward even if you hit the clutch and brakes and back off the throttle to avoid something a scary way to drive. Re ratio change if what you are mowing is not to thick and demanding much power ...

Two parts to being a forklift trainer the most important part is an understanding of how to train ie how to get any message across and assess wether it has been understood. Second part is knowledge of the subject. I have trained a lot of liftdrivers in a timber yard for me it was important to...

video of what will happen if left around here often cleared by helicopter with grapple. Note you need to set up a line of floats at a 45 degree downstream as often after a few logs are cleared the rest WILL float downstream so set your floats at easy to access location on a bend in the river if...

I don't know if its available where you are but over here (New Zealand) some cell phone company's offer WiFi calling once enabled on your cell phone the cell phone works like normal even outside of cell coverage as long as it can connect to a Wifi network. I have a high power "whole farm wifi...

Water is what will do the damage to your ramp even treated timber that sits in water long term will rot. Often a paint that seals the water out can do more harm than good. The paint envelope around the exterior of the timber will get a split or crack at some stage and let water in, but because...

A little off topic but at work we were going through a lot of cartridges so we fitted compressed air female couplings on the air bleed button and a male fitting on a hand pump that fits on a 20 kg tub of grease. when the gun is empty its just half a dozen pumps to fill it again filling the...

A small tractor doesn't have much pull in a direct line but if you can get a long steel cable and a number of snatch blocks or pullys you can multiply that buy say four then you have enough grunt. To. Pull over the small tree and pull the bigger one down to a safe position I find my set of...

One thing I would be considering is the reason this happened in the first place is probably down to the timber used to make the beam was the wrong moisture content. It is likely more checks and maybe large cracks will appear over the next few years as the beam drys out at a rate of about one...