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I don't know I have never had to coax any of my Stihl saws and I've had a bunch of them. Most would be still at it if they hadn't got burned up in my shop fire. I had an 051 that I traded for a 044 back in the 70's and you couldn't pile the firewood that 044 cut in a 5 ac field. It had pump gas...

They are picky about the start procedure. Never had any saw that would start on the first pull. My 261 and the 400 start on the third pull just like my old 044. When both these new saws were brand new, I almost threw them both in the dumpster because I pulled and pulled. I was trying to start...

Your thinking in that department is right on time. I get so dang fired up every 10 or 15 hours of having to quit what I'm doing for sometimes 30 minutes while waiting for this thing to clean out the exhaust. It makes me want to scream; well, it does make me scream every time it happens. This...

Dang, I was wondering the same thing about the hours people put on their tractors. Thanks for posting this. My Kubota 3301 will be 2 years old in May and it's getting ready to roll over the 300 hr mark. I never would have thought I could find so much stuff to work on when I first bought it. It...

I agree with the fabric part, but you still need to get down to some solid ground and in this case at least 3' of material would have had to be removed to get there. This would have required an excavator which I didn't have. All I had at the time was a Cat 955 K. It did have wide tracks but as...

Gravel driveways are always going to need work as time goes by. You can pack all you want and there will always be a couple spots that will hold water and cause problems. My driveway is roughly 3/4's of a mile that drops in elevation 10' from the house to the main road. When I built the road the...

I haven't actually price checked my dealer but if it was that price It would cost more after the half day trip there to pick it up. There is a dealer closer but before I went there, I'd walk through the Gates of hell and wallow in the ashes before I bought anything from Hoober again

Well Willie, I guess I deserved that.:oops:

I've looked all over Amazon for 5 gal pails, but they don't seem to have them listed.

I wonder what the freight would be on a 5 gal pail. I went to Messicks but you almost have to buy it before you find out what the shipping will be.

Sorry, LOL that's what I get for trying to read and write at the same time. I don't know what the heck I was thinking at the time. I been trying to blame it on spell check, but I guess I'll have to bite the bullet so to speak. I don't know where the 14 gals came from because it only takes a tad...

Holy s!*$$ batman I wish you hadn't said that.LOL Having said that you can get the same stuff on Amazon. I think it's right at $100 for a 2.5 gal pail and the filter is something like $38. My 3301 takes I think right at 14 gal so a 2.5 pail plus a 1 gal jug would do. I think the gallon jug was...

Yeah, I was wondering about the hydrostatic tractor fluid. I was talking to my Kubota mechanic about the fluids I should use in my new tractor. He comes to my house and does all my regular maintenance like oil changes and other general things that need to be done on a regular basis. I asked him...

Yeah, they can't, not that some manufactures won't try but if they say you have to run our brand to keep the warranty in force' then they would have to provide it for you. That's the way it was when I was a boat dealer.

Maybe I didn't phrase that correctly. I have heard and read comments about people's favorite fuel treatment that state use this and you can see the water just disappear before your very eyes. It doesn't work that way. This is off topic so that will do it for me here. If you want to start a new...

Actually, it doesn't remove water from the fuel system all it does is separate the water particles from the fuel so it can pass through the combustion chamber better. It basically wraps the water particles in the fuel into separate little cells that are suspended in the fuel. Water will always...

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You do know that the same oil for marine engines is not designed to be used in an air-cooled saw engine. Two different oils all together. Does that mean that you can't use either in an emergency, any oil is better than no oil, well maybe not any but you get my drift with that. Yeah you can go to...

Bullshitske..........

I'm just wondering what you are going to do with this brand-new saw that's never been run, and a big emergency pops up. You take it out of the box, and it turns out to be one of the late Friday afternoon saws that the guy putting it together has a hot date with a cute little hotty that has...

I just sit here and read this entire thread and there has been a lot of good and bad info passed. I've owned probably 20 to 30 chainsaws in my lifetime, and I found out a long time ago that with chainsaws like most any tool you want to work with it pays to buy the pro series tool rather than the...

I agree with that. When I bought my tractor last year, I had planned on paying cash, but that dealer talked me out of it. I guess in a way it made sense because I would have lost any discounts on the implements, I bought when I bought the tractor plus there was no real discount for paying cash...

I won't comment on which brand to buy because there are so many opinions out there on which is better. Most all of the sub and compact tractors out there now are decent machines. I was in the same boat as you are just a little over a year ago and thought long and hard about which one to buy. I...

Yeah, I hear what you are saying. I have been fooling with concrete for a long time and I get what you are saying. I had the plant come out here to look at what this pad is doing, and they basically said it was the fault of the finisher. They had the record of this pour and told me the batches...

The guy that put the building up did use that on that back wall, but it still did not seal. The problem is now trying to find something that will stick to that. I put several different sellers on there but it just peels off. I'll probably have to take a grinder with a diamond wheel to go in...

If it was just one low spot, that would be one thing but there are a bunch of high and low spots all over the floor.

I have 2.5" of spray foam on the walls and 3" under the roof. The whole building is sealed tight accept under that piece of 5X3 galvanized angle plate that the metal is screwed to. They put those foam pads under the bottom and top between the siding and those angle plates. Those foam pieces do a...

Well, if I did that, I would still have the same problem I have with the other two big doors in the shop and that rear wall as well. The whole problem is that the concrete was finished poorly. There are dips, high spots and places where the concrete had just about gotten away from them...

I had thought about that but decided against it because in the first place this 5" slab is poured over top of the original 6" slab and if I did drill holes, they would stop up in a very short while and I would have holes full of water all over the floor. This low area covers close to 1/3 of the...

I've thought about grinding the outside edge on a slope starting as close to the building as possible. I have a guy coming out to look at it and see if that is a workable solution. I'm going to have to get him to also cut out/grind out the areas at the big doors and put in a proper apron that...

I don't have a drainage problem as far as water not draining away from the building. There is plenty of slope away from the building once it gets off the concrete. Water hits the concrete then runs to the center of the pad. If you look at the two pics where there is no building you can see how...

An operation called Creative Mud in New Kent County Va. I like to advertise for them every time I get a chance.

Yeah, the first building was a pole barn design and all of the outside 6x6 post sit on piers. I also had that poured after the building was up. I didn't use wire on that one I used #4 rebar on 1' centers or squares because I put pex in the floor that time. This one had to be put on a monolithic...

Yeah, I put 2 runs of #5 rebar and 2 runs of #4 rebar on 6" centers, one run 1' from the bottom and the next run 6" above that one in the footer plus 7 rolls of the heavy duty roll mesh wire tied into the rebar. If he had come out the next day like he should and cut his lines, there would have...

Well, the doors are just a small problem compared to the river I have coming in under the metal from the side. If he had of put the aprons in like he should have that part would be ok. All concrete will crack if you don't put in some form of relief to allow the concrete to do its thing. The...

I don't have any pics of the back wall that can tell you anything, but these may give you an idea of what I'm working with. That middle section in pic #3 is where the water trails from.

Well, I already have gutters on the open side shed part. It's the rain that falls and hit's the concrete then in that one area. To fix the thing right I would have to take down the whole building tear out the floor and get someone that knows what they are doing and repour the whole floor. The...

I just had a 60X60' metal building put up and Everything is wonderful accept the lousy concrete pour. Aside from having a bunch of cracks everywhere there is a low place in the center of the floor where water will hit the concrete out in my covered side shed and end up piling up on the wall and...

I got out of the Navy 1n 1968 so probably 69.

I remember way back in my younger years me and several of my buddies were riding to roads looking for lost deer hounds from the day before. We were riding in a 1947 dodge, and it was about 6 of us drunk fools plus the old guy driving packed in that old car. The guy driving said, okay boys time...

Yeah, I forgot about the pollen, that's another thing you have to add to the gutter clogging list. I was wondering how that will affect how well they will do. Thanks

For years I didn't have gutters at all but about 4 years ago I had 5" gutters installed on the garage part and the back of the house. I was really in the woods when I first built my house, and I didn't want the hassle of dealing with clogged gutters. Now I only have gutters on the garage in the...

Come on now, why would you say that? If you went out to buy a new car or truck, wouldn't you want to know how much it cost before you went to pick it up?

Oh, I thought you were referring to my pic, LOL

These have made it through 4 pretty good ones since I built the house. Two of them about 10 years ago took out over 150 oak trees on my place. I was lucky, there were 10 big oaks close to my house and all of them blew over luckily only one brushed the side of rear wall and didn't do much damage...

Yeah the one's I got at Lowes were in 5' lengths. They look good and were pretty easy to install but they don't seem to work for me. Maybe it's the pine needles. I hate to cut those big pine trees in the front of the house because they were here before I built the house but that may be my only...

What dude??

That's the problem I have. I went to Lowes and bought some for the front of the house and they didn't do all that well either. leaves and pine needles pile up on top of them and eventually water just runs over the top and off the front of the gutter which kind of defeats the purpose of a gutter...

Anybody had them put on their gutters and do they really work. I've been trying to get an idea what it would cost to have them installed but it seems like no one will give you a basic idea of the cost involved. I've filled in a few online estimate forms that say free estimates, just fill in a...

Well actually it was a surprise to me also. I say 500 lb's but I don't have a scale large enough to really know for sure, but I did try to pick up a small pallet with 14, 50 lb bags of dog food off the feed delivery truck and it wouldn't budge it. I had to unload about 5 bags before it would...

Dang, I wish the hydraulics on my Kubota 3301 were strong enough to do that. Even with no rear ballast like in this pic mine would never raise the rear wheels off the ground. I guess in a way that's a good thing because you stand a much better chance of not bending or breaking something. The...

Sorry about your tractor. I'm thinking like several of the guys on here are, with regard to breaking welds. I'm no pro by any means but have been welding one thing or another for 50 years at least. I've never had a weld actually break, even the bubblegum ones. Well, maybe an aluminum one a time...

Even with the top cover off it was no way to get in there and file the ends of the splines where the coupler could slide off the shaft. The only way I see that it would come out is if I got in there and cut the shaft off. I then could pull the shaft out then remove the cut end out through the...

Yeah, the cap on my flu pipe at my house did the same thing, it was stuck fast and would not come off. I ended up cutting the liner right below the cap so I could work on it on the ground. I finally got the cut piece out without destroying the cap. I put a little high temp copper type anti seize...

I went out and bought a Fisher, papa bear stove I found on Craigslist the other day and I'm going to try that and see how it works for a while. I'm not thinking that it will heat the whole shop but if it stays warm enough to keep the water pipes from freezing that will be good enough for now...

I've had a lot of people tell me that what I had as a water heater would not make enough hot water to keep the building from freezing. All I did was cut the top of the stove out and then made a collar around where the flu pipe left the stove. I made it out of pieces of 6x6 SS box tube and welded...

Because once you get a 70 yard slab of concrete up to temperature it takes so long for it to cool off especially if it is well insulated on the bottom and sides. By nature it will take a couple days to get to the slab up to temp but once it is there it stays that way with very little heat needed...

It does kinda look that way but if it is it's been that way from the start. Non of this stuff looks like it's ever been taken apart before.

It would if the end of the shaft wasn't buggered up.

I went back out there and looked at it again and found what is going on. As roadworthy said about the mushroom thing, the end of the shaft where slide coupler is had been rubbing on the end of the output shaft and has buggered up the end of the shaft to where it won't let the output shaft slide...

Anybody?????

I do like the idea of not having to deal with all the trash that a wood stove creates. In my old shop I modified my old stove and extended the loading door through the wall in the shop to the outside where I built a lean to with a roof over it. I made that space big enough so that I could also...

I've been working on this tractor for a while now. Every time I fix one thing something else happens. While checking the fluid levels in the transmission and rear I found the transmission over filled and the rear was way down. I think the reason the tranny was over filled is that water somehow...

I thought about outside boiler stoves when I first build my other shop. I even ran pipping to the outside halfway from the shop to my house but never put one in. I don't think a 50K heat exchanger would do the job in my shop. And good luck in getting 50K BTU's out of one of those. Radiant heat...

I won't deny that those propane shop heaters will do a good job. We had one in another shop and I liked it. But that was when you could get a 300 gallon tank filled for a little over a hundred bucks. Now it would probably take at least $800 to fill one up. They do heat well but they burn a lot...

I've been looking for big wood stoves but haven't had much luck. Everything I've seen on Craigs list and marketplace is rather junky and I don't like anything new I've seen in my searches. Right now, I'm thinking to just do something to get by for a while and maybe build something later on as...

Yeah, I've been thinking about that. I know I heated my old shop with a homemade boiler type stove but that's not an option for me now. I lost all my pex I had in the old floor. That was the best of both worlds because I heated the floor and also got the radiant heat off of the firebox too. I've...

I'm at the point where I need to put some heat in my new shop. I have plenty of wood that I could use but I am also looking at pellet stoves. I don't know much about them, but I like the Idea of being able to load up and not have to worry about it for a couple days. I'm not trying to keep it 85...

Well, it's been a while, so I guess an update is in order. With the help of thepumpguysc and the parts he sent me I finally got the fuel issue all taken care of. I spent a couple hours chasing other leaks but in the end all is well. With the new muffler, radiator cap, and air filter cleanup it...

Yeah I've been thinking about buying a 125 gal fuel tank with a DC powered fuel pump. I bid on one at an auction last week but when it got up to $900.00 I let the other guy have it. I can buy the same tank and pump new for around $1400.00. I just haven't had that much extra cash to spend on one...

I don't know maybe I got a bad batch. I timed it one day; it took 7 minutes and 42 seconds to fill one of those at the gas station. The sad part of it is that you cannot get 5 gals in one of then, about 4.5 gals is about it. Trying to get fuel out of one is a real pain especially when I'm...

Well at least you are still here to get laughed at. Just saying............

It's funny you mentioned the blow fish effect. In my 30+ years as a boat engine mechanics I've see a lot of crazy stuff. My favorite is the guy that leaves the vent on top of the fill cap closed when he's not using the boat. One day when it was about 95 the boat was outside sitting in the sun. I...

Yeah, I've read enough of his post to feel he knows what he's doing. Thanks

Yeah, I could go that route and still may do it. He will say this and I'll say that and in most cases; maybe not in the case you told, but in a case like this they usually give the contractor the benefit of the doubt. The same was the BBB did when I sent in a review for his company, they refused...

well just let mt know what you want. There are a couple other things I asked about in those two messages I just sent to you. The plate they have on yesterday's they want $58.00 I believe but they don't say what comes with it.

What valve? Mark it down as sold and do you have the gasket..

I see on yesterday's tractor parts they have those covers. Now I'm wondering what's going to jump out when I take it off. They had a used pump on there for a little over $400.00 awhile back. I started to buy it but let it slide.

He,he,he......Yeah it was a fight alright I did a post a long time ago about it. I was bush hogging and ran over a nest of yellow jackets and those black and white hornets at the same time. They really lit me up. I didn't know they were there until I looked down and saw my shirt had turned grey...

Yes I did I may have sent two. Thanks

Well, a guy came out this morning from the batch plant. It turns out that I know the guy from a ways back and we had a nice chat. We walked over the floor and as I pointed out the many cracks he would take notes. He seemed to be more concerned with the places that were holding water than the...

I was thinking the same thing. I went to the plant where the concrete came from but no one was there. I sat there for over an hour but nobody ever showed up. I'm going to run back over there this afternoon to see what I can find out. Stop....I just called the batch plant and finally got someone...

This just keeps getting worst. I had to take a break from this tractor for a day or two. I had ordered a new muffler, injector lines and a few other things and most of it came in a day or two ago. Yesterday I had a little time and decided to replace those injector lines and install the new...

Amen on that one...... Hopefully I'll be able to make some of this a little better but it's going to take some work and more money. This girl is going to be hard to dance with; she's a big girl and she keeps stepping on my feet.:oops:

The sign of the times.

I know what you mean, a few years ago I would have hired a few guys and done the job myself. But at 76 I'm a little too young for that.;) I'm not as worried about the low areas as I am about all the cracking that's going on, I think I can fix the low spots. I'm afraid that once winter gets here...

I've thought about that. It would be possible to move a couple machines and a line of shelving, but I put metal siding on the inside walls and there is also the metal siding on the outside walls also. I really don't want to pour leveling concrete right up against those walls. I could maybe tape...

I had to rebuild my shop after the old one burned down. After cleaning up the mess the first thing on my to do list was to put in a new floor so the guys putting up the building could do their part. I talked to a bunch of different cement contractors and they were all running behind schedule. I...

Ok I mis-spoke in that post I started it and had to leave for a bit and when I came back just put down what was on my mind at that time. To begin with, I'm not working on my truck. I have three other trailers that work fine hooked up to my truck. The problem lies with this new/old trailer I...

Nawh, that won't be necessary I really don't want to cut into my truck wiring. If I do install a box, I'll put it on this trailer. All my other trailers work just fine. Thanks anyway though.

I guess they do that so when something goes wrong you have to take it to them to get it fixed.:censored: I guess I need to find out just how this truck is wired; weather it's wired 7 way traditional, or 7-way RV standard. I pretty sure it's not wired 7-way heavy duty.

Would you add them to the pickup or the trailer?

I'm thinking you are right about that. That connection box that's on there is a dead giveaway. I'm Also wondering why they have the clearance/side markers and the tail/running lights tied together by that jumper wire. I always thought of the clearance/side markers and running lights being the...

I can see how that box would be helpful. On this trailer there is an electrical box mounted where all of the connections are. The difference is it doesn't have studs the wires are all connected by butt connectors and wire nuts. I had already thought about replacing that with something like you...

I think I mentioned that in my second post at the top of this page. I have been to e-trailer and read those answers. As someone else said why not just put a new Rv style plug in on the trailer? I tried that and I never got it to work. None of those drawings show that jumper that jumps the black...

And to, LD1.......I only bought that adaptor so I would have lights for the 60-mile trip home but I never got out of the parking lot with it hooked up because of the brake issue.

My truck already has a factory brake controller and I really don't want to change the plug type on the truck I have 4 trailers that I use and all of them use the 7 pin spade plug-in type accept this one.

That's what has been the problem the plug on the trailer is the heavy-duty commercial type plug, 7 pin round on it. My truck has the 7 blade spade type connector That is what's on the trailer. 7 pin round pin plug.

I wasn't worried about the brakes as much as I was the lights. I have a 2019 Ford F250 that has a brake controller built into the dash so it has a 7 pin spade type plugin. The problem is this trailer has a 7 pin round pin type plug so I had to buy that adaptor that dangles behind the truck. I...

Does anyone here have any experience wiring older trailers to these newer trucks. The trailer has electric brakes. It has a round 7 point pin connector on the trailer and my truck has the spade type connector. I bought an adaptor but when I hook that up the brakes lock up when I try to move. I...

Hey......I'll try that, thanks.

It's a 1973 Ford 3000 3-cylinder diesel with the CAV pump. It's hard to tell exactly where the leak is, I mean, I don't see fuel squirting out in any particular spot, but I can see a lot of fuel dripping from the bottom. When I first looked at it I thought it was coming out of the gasket that's...

I've been working on this tractor for a couple weeks now. At first all I had to do was change a leaking fuel shut off valve. I ordered three different valves and they were all wrong, so I took the guts out of one of the wrong ones and fixed that problem. I changed the filter and finally got it...

Sorry, I just looked at your pic and I see it's a 6 cylinder. thepumpguysc is correct and I was wrong. some injector pumps have an injector primer on the pump that you can bleed the air out of. My tractor doesn't have that setup. Some systems are harder to bleed than others usually the more...

First you need to bleed the filter there should be a fitting on top of the filter bracket. Open that and crank the engine until fuel flows freely out of the bleeder screw. Next look on the injection pump there should be a bleeder screw on the pump. Open that and crank engine until you no longer...

Thanks but there is for sure a small rough spot on the bottom where I think it has rusted through. And yes when I worked on it a couple weeks ago I filled it full and they didn't use it much over an hour at the most when it ran out again. Its an old tractor and they have abused it pretty badly...

I ran on over to where the tractor is and the tank does have a small spot where it is seeping out on the bottom. A few weeks back one of the guys ran it out of fuel and I had to go bleed the system. While I was there, I changed out the fuel shut off valve out because it was leaking. I also...

My hunt club ownes a Ford 3000 tractor and one of the guys call me yesterday and told me the fuel tank was leaking. I haven't been out there yet but was wondering what is involved in replacing the fuel tank. It's a fair ways away from me and I would like to take the right tools to do the job...

You are being a little hard on the man aren't you?;) Contracts and written papers are one thing but the end results are all that really matters. On small projects like this, all the paper in the world is not going to fix something like this unless the guy that did the job is willing to admit his...

It doesn't matter what kind of gravel you use it all depends on what the desired color and pattern you want in the end. There are different colors and different size stone to think about and that should be relayed to the batch plant where the concrete is dispatched from. Weather it is larger...

I Feel your pain, I had the same thing happen to me when I first built my house and even now, every time I look at it i get pizzed. Yours like mine was just a shi**y job, The concrete got away from him before he applied the retarder and nothing at that point could have changed the outcome...

When I built my house back in 1992 I had then put in a 400 amp service because I knew one day I was going to have a shop out back. About 15 years later I started my shop. I started with a pole barn style but later decided to frame up the inside walls so I could add insulation. That's probably...

26 ga metal is some pretty tough stuff. In my fire the metal didn't fail or burn through. It came down because when all the wood framing and OSB burned away the metal had nothing to hold it up. The fire went through the roof in 5 places where I had skylights and once that happened there was not...

Yeah fire can be a good thing but can also be a really bad thing in cases like this. I really feel for anyone that has ever gone through losing everything they have worked so hard for. I'm getting ready to head over to Powhatan in a little bit to pick up a machine from a guy. He lives somewhere...

The problem as I see it with drywall is it not very good at taking a beating and easy to poke a hole in. My walls are 14' 6" tall there are no truss to speak of because it is an all steel building. The inside is completely open so drywall is really not an option there. I'm putting medal siding...

Thanks.......

Not knowing what LWS the owner of the business uses It's hard to say. There may be some small supply houses that still do things like they did in the old days. Airgas has bought up just about any store front that has anything to do with welding or gas supplies and I know the corporate office...

The tanks on those carts look to me to be the large 350cf tanks and around here they won't sell you those tanks and you have to lease them. I think the largest tank size you can actually own is around 150cf. There was a long time ago that you could own those larger tanks but most of those have...

Oh, just for your information.......Those tanks on those welders are rental tanks so make sure they don't go out the door with the welders. That's around $6500.00 worth of tanks and somebody will be responsible for replacing them if they are lost. that would put a pretty good dent in anything...

Where in Virginia is he? His shop looks like mine before it burned to the ground. I had both of those millers. My Dynasty was a little newer than his but still an awsome machine. It's really sad for a man to work his entire life and for it to come to this but it's something that happens...

Blasphemy!! Beer good and besides you might get rich selling the empty cans it comes in.💲💲

10/4 on that good buddy. Before I bought anything I would have whoever you are buying it from to go out and lift something that weighs 800 to 1000 lbs and walk away with it without to much trouble. I learned this the hard way, I wanted something that would handle stuff in the 1500 to 1800 lb...

Nawh it was hunting season and I had not done anything in the shop for like 2 weeks before it happened. Also I had almost 3500' sq feet of osb on the walls and most of the celings. That was the main reason the fire was so hot all of the heat was contained within the medal walls until it finally...

I had a 316 ss border as a base board in every room in the building. Also I had medal panels 14' high on all of the walls where I welded and at my plasma table. The walls that were exposed had 2 coats of fire retardant paint. I don't know what else I could do accept maybe find a new hobby like...

Yeah but how long ago was that? I wired my other building myself and I had over $10,000.00 in it and that was 15 years ago. I need 4, 50 amp circuits and one 60 amp circuit and the runs are going to be roughly 34' to almost 60'. The wire alone is going to cost a bunch, have you priced wire...

I heard that, been there done that and it didn't turn out very well. I want to put something up for at leaste 10 ft. Medal will probably be a real bear to deal when installing receptacles and switches on the walls. I had an electrician come by yesterday to give me a ball park idea on what it's...

Hey, I was wondering what you guys are doing about your inside walls with spray on insulation. What you are covering them with? I was thinking about white 29 gauge siding but I'm sure there has to be something better. I'm surely not going wood framing and OSB.

here are a few mor pics.

When I did my first building I was going to make the side walls Desert tan with a sandstone roof and ash grey for the trim. Then I changed my mind to make it sort of match the colors of my house. Yes I asked about that and the guy that was putting the building up said that medal for a diry...

I get you on the light colors, I really do. It gets hot here too but I still like some color in the things around me. It's a give and take world out here. ;)

You know, it's funny because now that I think about it I also know of several other buildings that have that in their buildings and it seems to be doing well. We built a small building at our hunt club about 5 years ago and the stuff in there seems to be holding up ok also. I'm guessing there...

What are you calling regular insulation? Is that the vinyl backed stuff or the bubble wrap. There was some confusion when we got to that part I was thinking the vinyl backed stuff but got that bubble wrap stuff. All that is, is basically a vapor barrier very little if any R value and it wont...

Is that Tracy Nesmith you are dealing with? I'm going with spray insulation and roll up doors on mine. I thought about building my own doors like I did on my other building. I made those with two panels that swung out with a locking device in the center. I made them out of 2" box tube and had...

I'm not sure about the fire proof vinyl welding curtains. I had one of those separating my work shop and my sand blast room. Also I had two on the walls on swing out brackets to help protect people as they walked past my two welding booths and I also had them surrounding my plasma table. When...

Man that sounds like a killa shop you will have. Who did you get your building from? I used Quicken Steel, they are based out of Georgia. I don't think I could have better. Their buildings are way over engineered it seems to me. It's really is nice now days for a company to do exactly what you...

Well I haven't been back in awhile I've been really busy but I guess it's time for an update. I got my flool poured finally and that went ok all exceot the follr developed several cracks that I really don't like but it's nothing I can do about it now. About a week after it was poured the guy's...

WHY?

We have that problem here in Va. too. they tried to put in 200 ac of them down the street from us. Then a group got together to fight it and won but it took money to do it. They sent out mailers to every home in the area and asked for donations to help with the cost of fighting the project...

The more I think about this the more I don't like it. I know the gubment has the final say in what and how manfacturers can build stuff. But this thing of having to run my tractor WFO all the time just to keep it out of the shop has me a little, well just say not happy. For the past couple days...

An yeah they come pretty fast after the first one.:oops:

Yeah that's what I told the salesman. On a tractor or any piece of equipment for that matter it's bound to get a bing bang on it sooner or later. Usually every scratch has a story to go along with it though. Sadly, there is no story to tell on this one, accept maybe it could be a mystery novel...

I called my salesman back this morning to see what they had to say about that big ol scratch on my hood. Of-course they were like sargent Schultz on Hogan's Heros, They knew nothing. I didn't want to argue about it because I wasn't for sure if it was there or not. All I'll say is I never noticed...

Ok, Tacticalturnip just for you. It's not a very good pic of the powerking because the sun got me. Nor the Kubota but I never claimed to be a photgrapher.

The world will never be the same.

I hate to tarnish my reputation like that :oops:. But it is hard for these guys to keep up with regulations with the way they are changing now. I'm glad at least some manufacturers have figured out a way to deal with it. I guess if you have enough hp available you can make anything happen. EPA...

Me either but it had a little over 22 hp when they popped up. There's a sticker right on the rear fender telling you what to do when this happens witch when followed did not fix the situation. According to the service department, when those lights are flashing and the warning horn is sounding it...

Well after three tries trying to get those dang lights to go off I called my salesman back and he put me through to the service dept. After a couple minutes of them trying to explane all the things I had done wrong, I said wait a minute, don't you think someone should have told me about all...

I hear what you are saying about having to run the tractor wide azz open all the time. I don't mind it, in fact you need to run at high rpms to get some things done but there are many times you just don't need to be in the high RPM range all the time. Sadly it's not the engineers or the...

Well run into my frist little problem. So far I have logged 22 hours on my new ride and yesterday light's started flashing and at first I didn't know what was about to happen. Seems like it had a fur ball and needed a flushing. I stopped and pulled it up onto the concrete set the parking break...

Yeah I have already decided to buy one of those 100 gal truck tanks with a 12v pump and hose setup. I used to have one of those when I had heavy equipment to work with. I also looked at those plastic gas caddys that hold around 30 gals. The only problem with that is my fuel man won't just bring...

Yeah they are amazing machines and you can get a lot of work done with one. I hate to admit some of the things I have asked that poor old tractor to do. I think dragging big logs out of the woods an up to my wood pile was just about the worst. The little 3 point hitch was just not cut out for...

Well I went and pulled the trigger on a brand new L3301. I got the front end loader, a spreader box and a heavy duty pallet fork for just under $30,000. I'll probably be going back and get a chipper and a bush hog a little later. So far I have logged 16 hrs on the ol girl mainly scooping up...

Lifting that much weight would not be an everyday thing. I do need to unload my building off of the tractor trailer when it gets here. I found out yesterday that a couple bundles on the trailer are well over 2000 ibs so that puts me way out of business on that one. Hopefully I can sweet talk my...

Oh my the spelling police will be along in a little bit.:oops:

i know I'm lucky in some respects because I have friend that are older than myself that would not attempt half the stuff I have done around here. The thing is I know my limits and most folks when they get older they work smarter. My eyesight and hearing.....my wife calls it selective hearing...

That's good to know. What would a kit like that cost and what does that do to a warranty?

Sounds like a solid good plan and a profitable one at that.

I don't want a grass cutter I got a Gravely ZTR for that but I may think about a bush hog later on. I could prolly keep that for a year or two then sell it and get almost that and then buy what I want. And I liked the no emissions thing thing too.

On the way to the Yanmar dealer I stopped in a kubuta store and kicked a few tires. I looked at a L3301 I think it was. Right away I knew that was what I wanted. They wanted right at $31,000. That was taxes and the other little charges that they all add on and a new spreader box too. If I...

Yeah, I heading over to a Yanmar dealer in a little bit but from what he was telling me, is that they are in the same price range as the green and orang ones

I don't know I have ran a JD 3033 and that thing would do anything that I need one to do. A friend of mine has a 35 hp Kubota and that is a nice tractor too. I know I don't want a sub compact but I don't need a 75 hp machine either. The main thing I'm looking for is something with a loader that...

So, I left out the e on the end I never said I was to good at spelling and this sticky key board doesn't help much. Old farts are entitled to a mistake every now and again anywho.😀

Yeah I have been on their site. Thanks

I don't know about that,The JD 3033R and the L3560 HST are around the same price at $29 to $30,000.00 depending on what you get on them. I could go that high if I could get what I want. I'm just looking around now and hopefully something used will pop up.

I'm thinking about buying a new tractor in the 25 to 30 thousand dollar price range. Would like something in the 30 to 35hp range. Witch one is the best bang for the buck?

Well I am finally getting somewhere. This whole affair has driven me almost over the cliff. Before I did go off I decided to take a couple days and forget about this whole mess. My oldest son, myself and a few friends hunted the last two days of rabbit hunting season. My, my what a couple days...

Richard, the only input I could add to this is State Farm like most insurance companies are trying to sell you a product and will tell you a lot of stuff just to get the deal. Things change though when you read the fine print. They will tell you a lot of stuff but there is a lot of stuff they...

So far USAA has been very good in helping me deal with this fire claim. It has been a little slow over the past couple weeks because they are overwhelmed with frozen pipe claims from that last big cold snap. It didn't matter me much because I have been so busy with clean up. It's the dang...

OK Guy's and Gal's just wanted to come back with an update. I got most all of the rubble and equipment out of the building foot print the only thing is that connex. I have called 3 people mostly friends who have heavy equipment to see if someone would come by and yank that thing outta there...

I'll agree when you start porting and working on squish clearance and velocity it's time to jump up to VP 110 at least and with tighter squish clearance you'll need to bump it up more. VP has changed the numbers on their fuel since we stopped MX racing but I think we ran what is now x85L. that...

You know I have heard this but always wondered about it. In theory maybe but running 40:1 in a saw that says they recomend 50:1 I don't think it makes all that much difference. Actually over 90% of the oil never makes it to the combustion chamber to begin with it gets slung off and used to...

From what I see in the pics it's pretty clear. You have gotten some really good ideas but I understand the "just a woods road thing" and I also know the "fix it with what I have thing". Sometimes the last is a good thing but at times it may not work in your favor. The big concrete chunks may be...

Just for poops and grins, how long is this road and is it all like what we see in your pics or just this one spot? Does it dry up in the summer or does it stay wet? Not that it matters because you seem to have made up your mind as to what you plan to do but I'm just generally curious.

I went back and looked at those pics again and although it's hard to really see the whole picture but it looks to me like the general area is not like what I would term as swamp. Generally speaking swamps are swamps because the topo is flat and slow draining. Looking at the type of trees you...

Yeah I remember going out with my dad on weekends to run his errands which usually ended up at Louie's bar and Grill. I thought I was really something sitting their next to my dad drinking my Nehi soda and eating peanuts while he and his buddy drank down cool one after cool one. And, I do...

Yeah your right too...........I keep forgetting that it seems that kids in this day and age are different than they were back when I was growing up. Hell, when I was 8, I was going around the neighborhood cutting other peoples grass wearing out my dads lawn mower and burning up all his gas, in...

Yeah you are right about that. It's a weird world we live in now. But I'll still have to go back to a point I made eariler, what's that silly screen or those push pull caps going to do to keep a kid or an adult for that matter, from getting burned while playing with a gas can?

Who ever thought it would be a good idea to let an 8 year old play with a gas can????

There are many ways to fix a wet spot in a road but in my opinion using large hunks of concrete in a place like you have is not a good fix. If you were filling in 3 or 4 feet then yeah maybe but just looking at what you have those big chunks are alway going to be a problem. If you have a cinder...

yeah, and maybe the chain brake on your chain saw that one has saved a few fingers and hands along with some skin and bone a time or two. All change is not bad it's just the feel good change that some of these people come up with that will drive ya crazy. One thing I don't understand is just how...

Here here........nicely stated.

They are still a pain to pour from the cap always seems to get in the way especially if you are pouring fuel into a tight place like when trying to get fuel into a skid steer or even the tank of your truck. I had probably had 10 of those in my barn and hardly ever used them. I did cut a hole...

It's not really the arrestor screen that's the big problem it's the pour spout that you have to turn, push, pull, bend and almost destroy to get the dang fuel out of the can that will make you want throw the whole thing in the fire. Personally I like to put the spout in the tank and have the...

They ain't got that far yet.

I don't know if this was pointed at me but thanks for the link. The ones I got were metal with the pull lever latch. But for me it's not really the money that bothers me but paying for something that is a pain in the butt to use if you can use it at all. Trying to lift and hold a 5 gal can of...

Yeah all my gas and diesel cans were burned up in a fire that destroyed my pole barn and I had to go out and get some new ones. You can't find a gas can that you can actually use any more. I went to Lowes and picked up 2, 5 gal safty cans. They were marked at $54 but by the time I got to the...

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That's funny, I had a stihl 044 and a 051. The 051 that I bought in the 70's and the 044 I bought mid 80's and all both of them ate was reg. pump gas and the stihl brand oil and neither one of them ever had the screen cleaned. The only thing I ever did to them was to keep the air filter clean...

Well not all of them. I was a boat machanic for 30 years and ran a boat dealership with Mercury, Yamaha, and Force engines. I never once had a factory engineer or dealer rep state that you should run non ethanol gas in their engines. Now I have been out of the business for 12 years and maybe...

Thanks bud, You live in one of the places I always wanted to go to. Almost got there one time when I was in the navy. We were headed that way but had to turn around and steam to North Korea when they captured the USS Pueblo. That was the dangest place I ever went to, the only place I ever saw 6"...

I had most all of my grinders pipped into a line of duct work on the wall behind them that went straight out the wall. My biggest beef with grinders is all the dust they create. I would try to do most of my grinding on a bench outside with angle grinders. I had one bench grinder on the end of...

Yeah It was really hard yesterday when I had to snatch out my metal brake and my three welders out of the rubble. I have pulled over a 55 gal barrel full of C clamps, vice grip clamps and just about any other clamp known to man out of the charcoal.

Dat gummit, it seems like we have a lot in common. I blew coffee all over my keyboard when you came up with that packaging thing. I spent 20 mins the other day trying to open a battery charger and battery combo pack. My small scissors wouldn't touch that dang plastic. I had to dig out my...

Thanks guys and sorry for your loss too. Yes it was a special place and something I dreamed about the better part of my life, having a place for all my tools and toys. I know I'll never build back what I had there because too much thought and work that went into that building. I built it a...

Yeah I think I'll try it that just to see what it looks like on the inside. I won't be able to mess with it for awhile but I'll get some oil in it and hopefully that will help.

Not really sure in that part of the building but I'm thinking pretty hot. I was thinking since it was still bolted up and somewhat covered it may made it through it. Most of the paint is still on the housing but it did get hot enough to bend the saw blade a little. There were 4 really expensive...

Hey guy's I was wondering if it would be worth trying to reseal a F11 motor that has been through a fire. My shop burned down taking just about everything in the way of tools I ever had along with it. This pump was on a saw head that I bought a year or so and it was going to be part of the new...

Those pics bring back long ago memories. My dad was a mechanic and had a small shop not far from here. I got most of his tools when he passed and they were all craftsman tools back from a time when a tool was really a tool and not like the stuff they are putting out now. I had one tool box in my...

Yeah me too, that's one good thing in all of this. Same here with regard to questions about the stuff I had. They wanted as many before pics as I had but a lot of the pics I had were lost on the computer I had in the shop. I have been dragging out stuff for the past week and taking pics of them...

Yes it is quite overwhelming to say the least and it's also mind boggling to realize just how much you can accumulate money wise over the years. I believe I gave her a base idea of what I paid for each thing then she depriecated them at 25%. Some items a little more like 4 wheelers and lawn...