Recent content by willfick

I have a Ford Backhoe, somewhere in the 550 series, on which I have had to have the right side swing cylinder rebuilt. I had pulled the left side to have it done ten or fifteen years ago, so I should have known what I was doing. Sadly, I am getting stupider with age. This one has two single...

Other places, a pain. I was re-working drain lines for an elderly lady neighbor, fixing it so that the showers and washing machine drained out into the woods so as to avoid $thousands to put in a new leach field. Where the new line came out through the cinder block wall I needed to fill around...

I recently found an old mower for my Farmall H to pull. The serial number on the ID tag is stamped and still plain to see, but all the other info must have been painted and is long gone. The gearbox has a logo with "SMF" and either a model number or, more likely, the part number for the box...

This summer I got a might-well-be-as-old-as-the-tractor pull-behind brushhog for my Farmall H. I added a slip clutch (I couldn't find anything that looked like a shear pin) and an overrunning coupler. When I bring the mower up to speed and then try to shift into gear the drag of the ORC...

Or "Entire Thread." I forget which it was but I almost always used it to see all the posts on one page, scroll up and down to refresh my (not the computer's) memory, so forth. Is the feature still there and I just haven't found it? Thanks, Wm P.S. Even if it's gone, this is still better than...

Dumber, maybe. Since Tuesday two weeks ago, when this happened, I've been trying to figure out how to explain it in a way that would be helpful to others and shows that I accept that it was entirely my fault and entirely avoidable, and yet doesn't make me appear to be a total donkey head. I'll...

Homemade grader \"Ugliest Implement Award\" winner I was inspired by some recent posts here on TBN to try my hand and welder at putting together a grader to work on the mile and a half gravel road I live on. It's not pretty, and it wound up costing over two hundred bucks, but it works way...