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I’ve taken it for diabetes. Quit it after a month, because it works mostly by emulating the hormone the pancreas releases to tell your stomach that your blood sugar is high, and it shouldn’t release anything more inot the intestines. Thus you feel full. You also get gird, and heartburn. I...

Damned little can outrun a human in shape. We are endurance runners. The bushman of of the Kalihari shoot their tiny little arrows at animals, and then chase them as they run away, as soon as the animal tries to stop and recover from it’s sprint, they catch up, and shoot it with their tiny...

Like everything on the internet, prices at Amazon vary by the moment. They have a very complex algorithm based on your web browser history, what you have looked at, what you have bought in the past, what you bought from other vendors, and what people with a history/profile similar to yours have...

When I bought the tiny truck, I listed it on YouShip, and a guy brought it from western Colorado to Idaho, for $500. He was hauling six motorcycles from Denver to Spokane, and fit the tiny truck on the trailer with a motorcycle in the tiny truck bed. He, was semi-retired, and took loads to see...

No, they are not. Our dentition and digestive system are that of omnivores. Basically that which don’t fight back hard enough, or run away fast enough is food. Problem most Americans have had since WWII is that we became rich enough to eat holiday food every day. And as other parts of the...

Counting Carbs: Take the total carbs. Subtract the fiber, and you get “Net Carbs”. Add, the total sugar, and then add the “added sugar”. For example, the bread i found at my sisters house: 20-g per slice, 2-g of fiber, 3-g of sugar, 3-g of which is added sugar. 20-2=18. 18+3=21. Plus 3...

Is there a scale nearby? If I had questions about weight on my tractor, I’d run the mile to the scales, and weigh It. Then I’d drop the FEL, and find out how much it weighs. If I had a backhoe, I’d drop it to find out how much it weighs.

You test fuses, using a continuity tester. A good fuse should have continuity, (low resistance) and a bad fuse should have infinite resistance

Is the return line from the injector clear and working right??

I would start with the injectors. If the other two are getting fuel in the correct amourt to run, than I doubt it is the pump. The pump is simply a cam with some followers which are the pump cylinders. Check around for Mitsubishi S3L parts. there is a guy offering the complete set of three...

And by laminating as needed, you could press in structural components as needed. Want a book shelf to hold five feet of books without sagging: Roll a lip int the front and back of the shelf to stiffen it up.

The one in the living room, on the rear occasions Dad thought there was something on worth watching. My older brother upset Dad by lipping off about beign smart enough he didn’t need to do his Algebra homework. Dad’s response was to pull the back of the TV off, then pull all of the tubes...

Get ahold of some inner tubes And build an air pressure clamp system. Maximum vacuum is less than 15-psi. You could build an air pressure clamping system and get close to 100-psi pretty easily, and could go higher with a bit of design effort.

My Dad made some arched beams, with thin laminations and resorcinol glue back in the late fifties. And, that is about the only type of thing which would convince me to attempt gluing up anything even remotely similar to plywood. By the time up value your time at anything, it will always be...

The old gusseted channel frames, were still viable when the body had rusted to the point you couldn’t keep it attached to the frame.

One of my early memories is bing out with my uncle, and he had been pounding away at the hole for quite a while, trying to bust through a basalt layer. The well made a strange noise and the cable on the spudder went slack. He grabbed me and we dove under the truck. A moment or two later...

And here I was wondering where my Holley Metering Jet tap is

Back in my misspent youth, my uncle showed me how to fracture rock down hole with dynamite. Sometimes it took more than one application. Generally pretty messy, because water shot out out the top of the column. We did one deep well explosively in Las Vegas, and it worked pretty well. But...

The problem many small tractors have with their controls, and the over sensitivity, is because most valve manufacturers desing their tractor valves for 10 to 13-gpm flows, and larger. I have only seen one loader valve rated for 5-gpm. Most smaller tractors have pumps that are only capable of...

I don’t see an option other than a porous fill. The ground looks like it is below water at high water, in flood years, and has small shallow flow channels between large clumps of woody vegetation. For a pipe to work and not just silt up, you have to have some where for the water to flow freely...

I learned the lesson, when my Mom started to get older, and she had me cover over the sunken living room and get all the first floor on one level. Then, six months later she had me convert the two car garage into a studio apartment, because going up the stairs scared her. Twenty years...

I recommend that you learn at least enough, to understand what and how needs to be done. I have a small Hobart wire feed, and can sort of make a decent bead. But a lot of what i learned at the outreach classes at the high school, was how to get things ready to weld. If I have a non...

I’m about half way through designing an ADA compliant senior home for my older sister. One level, roll in shower, cabinets with an extra drawer layer on top, which can be removed to drop the counter tops, and the under sink plumbing arranged to go directly back and the toe kick removable, to...

Have you looked into Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)? If you have a contractor they go up really fast, and you are dried in shortly after that. You don’t have to hunt down framing crews, and then insulators. Biggest issue is if your electricians and plumbers haven’t built with, their...

What my Brother did. Build a shop with a restroom. Put RV next to it and hook up the water and power. Build a “Lounge Area” at the end of the shop with the office/restroom/break room. Living space which isn’t. Use the shop as storage and assemblies area during the build of the house. Set...

Had a guy get a broken neck a few years back. They decided to push over hazard trees in a campground with an excavator. Tree didn’t fall the direction it was pushed. Went sideways, and hit the cab of the truck he was in, and collapsed the roof onto him. He said he saw it coming, but still...

Do you have a power to the rear valve on your’s? If not, there is a spring return, non-detent valve on eBay. Not the complete kit, just the valve, so you would have to get it plumbed on your own. But, even buying thee plumbing separate, it would still be about half of what I spent to by the...

The literature on the valve shows two different flow diagrams as available from the factory, suing the Sam body. You order what you want/need by option codes The open center, uses P1 in, and T1 out, and the Power Beyond adapter screwed into P4, with metal plugs screwed into all the ports the...

Don’t think it is photo shopped. If you concentrate on the limb bases, you can see the dark base from the beginning on, and watch it break loose as the limb breaks loose and begins to appear in view. And, that whole tree line is dead/dying Lombardi Poplars. Which were planted by the Soil...

Is there a latching power beyond valve which fed the backhoe, and is still positioned to feed the backhoe? Everything I‘ve seen, having the oil running to the backhoe, prevents it from feeding the 3-point.

He has the valve for my TYM T233, which only has a 5-gpm pump. It is an 11-gpm valve with float. Power beyond adapter already installed. Unless someone bought them since this morning. eBay Item #295513385283

I found some old Nimco Literature, from the generation between, the generation I have, and eh current generation. They say the valve can be configured two ways. And open center setup, which uses T1. A closed center load sensing configuration, which uses T2. I’m still going to see if they are...

When current runs through the coil on a solenoid, a magnet is field is generated which pushes on a metal rod in the center, and operating the valve. Your “buttons” are the end of that rod, and you are moving it by hand. To actuate whatever your valve has in to regulate the hydraulics.

Can’t say with certainty, but it looks like your controller is all electric, potentiometer handle, and you have electric solenoid actuators. The “buttons” are the end of you solenoid rods and you push them in to simulate the coil actuating. I have no idea where you would track down spare parts.

Get, a good structural review. The exterior wall could be resisting wind shear, and cutting big holes in it could compromise the structure. It would be worth having an Engineer take a look at it.

There is a guy on eBAy with some NOS Nimco valves. i bought one off him because it is the one OEM valve for my little TYM. Has them in “medium” and “large” tractor sizes also. Search nimco, in hydraulics if you are interested.

There is a spot on both sides of the body, with the T for tank cast in. I assumed they connect within the body. Guess, I should pull both plugs and see if I can blow air between them.

Three out of four daughters, and their mother. Re window cranks: The GSA insisted that all vehicles have manual windows, because back in the sixties power windows were an option which cost about ten percent of the cost of the vehicle. They paid to delete the power doors, after they had...

I bought a second loader valve for my tractor to operate the top and float on the 3-Pt. I have the mounting and hydraulic connections figured out, pretty much just follow thee picture from the Summit Site The only question I have, is: Can I run the tank line on the first valve into one of...

bigz2-11 is the seller. Item No. 295495068969 - NIMCO Controls 10883-2s Hydraulic Valve 04-41 277650 Small Tractor Loader

There is a guy on eBay selling cable operated, NOS Nimco loader valves made in 2000 to 2006. Which is the date range TYM was using them. I checked the numbers on the one he says is for small tractors, and it matched up with the one on my T233. I ordered one for $106 including shipping. Plane...

On one machine not much. On a couple million washers over five year design life, it adds up-to a bunch of expensive copper.

We try to not bring political topics into the forum. Didn’t mean to pillory you. But there some theories of how and why the towers went down. That are just flat out wrong. Try hose who understand the science & engineering of what happened don’t like theories of what happened which rely on...

the 3/4 pin was rattling around. Probably would work, but be loose. But since I needed a double acting cylinder, to modify the rear blade I decided to buy another cylinder with the right sized mounts. If I didn’t already have an alternative use, I probably would have tried it with the one I...

Surge protectors are important if you live rural. Everything now has some level of computer to run it. Washing machines, ovens, refrigerators, tv, alarm clock, etc. And one surge can kill their little motherboard. And,, teh motherboards are damnably expensive. Lighting storm about a mile...

The latch boxes are all over eBay and Amazon for under $100. There are some vendors with the torque tube already welded in, for around $250. There are several who sell the latch boxes and QA plate. You would cut the eyes off of the existing bucket, weld the latch boxes to the plates with the...

Something to do. Would like to have a vegetable garden. It was an irrigated lawn, but but rocks would work up every winter from the freeze-thaw cycle, and I would have to find them and dig them out before I could mow. Decided that it would be less work to change to vegetables. I enjoy...

When I was 16 or so I was stying at my Aunt and Uncles place. There was already canal along their property line which separated them from a dairy. I was working in their barn, and heard a cow bawling. Looked out and there was a cow in the canal. Looked further up the bank and there was a...

I just did a quick search on Craig’s list. Reasonable price for something in the 5 to 7-yard range, that doesn’t look beat to hell, is around $15k. There are a few for $10k and under, but they are pretty beat up. Most of the single axle, 5 to 7-yd, (no CDL) are ex government rigs which...

I have a23-hp tracctor. I‘m in the process of digging down a foot or so with a rock bucket, and pulling out everything larger than 3-inches. I have about an acre to do, and it will take a couple of summers. Unless you have lots of trenching to do, I recommend renting a mini-excavator for...

Be careful what you buy. I saw “deal” on “Type 1, 3-pt hydraulic top link”. Didn’t have time to put it on when it arrived, and when I had time to try it, I discovered it for 20-mm pins not 3/4-inch. About two months after the return window closed. I probably could have used it and tolerated...

I wear both belt and suspenders. Leatherman and radio on the belt. Suspenders because I have the male pattern weight loss, and no longer have enough of an ass to keep my pants up.

I had a 1962, 28-cu-ft side by side which I bought from the Salvation Army in 1976, when I got my first house. It ran until, 2002, without issue. I bought a new side by side to replace it. Replacement #3 is now on the fritz. Wish I had fixed the old GE. Even if I would have to replace...

All heat pumps need to have a backup heat source. Depending on how many Amps you have coming in, and how far it is from the transformer, it can rapidly get very costly to run the wire to upgrade. I’ve been researching the costs of various options, because I have two old Forest Service houses...

The suspension system on tandem axles tends to even out the bumps. So, they are felt as less severe. It is easier to move a tandem axle trailer by hand because the empty tongue weight is less. General Advice: Get brakes. Where I am there are a lot of 6% and 5% grades, on twisty winding...

I’m getting ready to install a diverter valve on my loader, to split the bucket curl/dump hydraulics to run a grapple. The factory 3rd function kit came with clamps for the extra tubing which screwed on top of the existing tubing clamps. Does anyone know the part numbers so I can try tracking...

On US 93 in Nevada, there is Pahranagat Lake to the south of Alamo, Nevada. If you look at an aerial, you can see that US93 crosses sections of the lake. The Highway Department spent years hauling truck loads of 36-inch minus, 8-inch plus rock in order to build a base for US 93. The trucks...

I do know quite a bit about it. I read the report published by the Engineering Societies, on what happened and how. And have enough background to read it intelligently, and understand most of what they said. I think there were several versions. One dumbed down to a fifth grade level for the...

I’m thinking of building one of these for the tiny truck.

I’m just a dumb ol‘ engineer I’m just a dumb ol’ engineer, who aced all the structures classes, while working his way through college as a bolted steel, and fireproofing inspector, and didn’t become a structural engineer only because I got a lot better offers to go be a construction guy, and...

I wired mine together in an aluminum j-box bolted to the frame. I screwed an On at 0C, off at 10C thermostatic switch to the side of the box and the power to the heating pads runs through the switch. Ran the power to the battery maintainer through teh same box, but not through the thermostat...

The County Assessor here bases you tax rate on how many square feet you have, and the number of ridges and valleys. I’m designing a retirement home for my Sister. It will have one simple ridge.

The load shifted in an enclosed trailer, and the equipment in which the capsule was enclosed broke. Then the capsule fell through a crack in the wooden decking of the trailer. So, somewhere out there is a small capsule which is highly radioactive.

It was on a tractor forum. I think it was here sorry I didn’t post a link. The information in the tech paper I posted to should let you know what will work. Biggest issue in swaps is getting the engine/bellhousing/transmission bolted together. You dead engine as a standard industrial engine...

You need to install a bunch of big stuf until it bridges, and then smaller well drained material, (reject course concrete aggregate) until that bridges. I would probably consider lauing in some type of small culvert. From you picture it looks like there is an intermittent stream bed, flowing...

Do you actually need “structural“ bolts. They are made of a different steel with a different yield curve, than standard bolts. And will be very hard to find. The 14X1.25 is an extra-fine pitch. Do you need it, or can you get by with 14X1.5 Fine pitch? You might be able to go with the 14X1.5...

Even with a will it can get messy If anyone contests it.

I’m setting mine up with real and personal property to be auctioned, with the proceeds added to whatever cash assets I have left to establish a scholarship fund for non-traditional students, in “STEM” degrees which require Differential Equations. Different folks have different definitions of...

You could unbolt the pin hitch, and have a welding shop make up a receiver hitch. Or, get one of the 3-point setups. Or, just, install a ball into the top hole of the pin hitch.

Does anyone happen to know what the plastic the rear Fenders are made off. I have a crack in one, I’d like to fix, but need to know if it is weldable, and would need to get some filler if it is weldable. Thanks Jigs

That is pretty much the plan. Hadn’t thought about needing to put some kind of shoes on the SSQA plate. My thought was to get the loader arms down to about 6-inches off the ground, and then let the plow float in front of it on shoes. I bought the NOS loader valve, with the part numbers...

Between Christmas 70, and New Years 71. Boy Scout winter camp out, at a campground about six miles out of town. We hiked out and got camp set up on the 27th. Overnight it dropped to 30-below, with gale force winds. Wind was high enough that the tent lines were snapping. Frost bit a few...

Poly pipe is extruded, and the poly forms long strands bonded along their edges. As it gets surge pressures, it crystallizes along those joints between the strands and eventually splits longitudinally. The thinner the wall, the faster this happens. PEX, stands for: Polyethylene Cross...

You should always match the discharge on the pump, as a minimum. Most down hole pumps have a 1-1/4-inch discharge. Local hardware store stocks 1-1/4-inch, Sch80 PVC with threaded ends specifically for setting pumps. And, 1-1/4-inch pit-less adapters. If you order a larger pump, they will...

I’m starting to design a snow plow. If the bucket floats, the plow hooked to the SSQA will float on it’s shoes and follow the terrain. If I keep the SSQA angle constant and float the arms, it puts enough extra load on the plow that the shoes will dig in.

The Nimco loader control valve on my tractor has float on the lift. But not on the bucket. There is currently a New Old Stock valve which matches the one on my tractor. If I bought that valve as a spare, and put the parts from the lift side into the bucket side of the valve, would then...

I have the detent valve on mine, and plan to put two splitter valves on it to run the top link and one side link.

Yes you can use those ports on a hydraulic link. You would move the lever from center to flow which ever direction to the cylinder, and then return it to the center position. On my TYM, the 3-point wont lift unless the lever is in the center. You probably can’t operate the backhoe without...

Cleaning velocity is 3 to 5-fps. Above that you can scour your fittings and bends. Below 3-fps, you end up with particles dropping out of suspension.

I’d go with 1-1/2 pvc. If it develops a leak you then push a snake through, and pull back a 1-inch pex. By only digging one hole at the pitless adapter.

We have endangered fish in most streams, and the NRCS will desing systems for free, and hte power company and Bonneville Power will pay for materials to install stock tanks, and fencing to keep livestock out of streams.

Have you talked to your county extension agent.

There is a seller on eBay, ‘hydraulic-mastercom” who sell complete valve assemblies with joystick, for around $500 depending on what options you want, two button joystick, and a diverter, is a bit more. The joystick sure appears to be the cable operated assembly and valve sure look just like...

Agree with Roustabout: Wait for the next fluid change out, and take all the hoses you need to replace to a local that makes hose. Here, that is the tractor repair guy, NAPA, or CarQuest.

There is a company on eBay, out of Poland, username “hydraulic-mastercom” selling the Badestnost valves, that sill have the Badestnost tag on them. I bought a pair of solenoid operated 6-2, diverter valves about a year and a half ago, for $170 plus $40 shipping, the price included them...

Search on Google, or engine of your choice, for: “NSF certified hydraulic fluid” I found four vendors in a few minutes. Every thing you use around potable water has to be NSF certified. We ran the NSF certified oils and greases, when I was designing screening systems to keep endangered...

The flywheel housing is a 7-inch, SAE4. This link is to a tech paper on the Daedong engines. https://www.enginesplus.co.uk/pdf/Kioti-Engine-Leaflet.pdF It also shows the dimensions. So knowing that you’re a step forward on figuring out what can swap in.

Rumor is the Kubota V2203, is the same family, and can swap in. But, I have no conformation on that.

Technically it is illegal for the plant and seed companies to ship raspberries or blackberries to Idaho, because in some areas of he state they readily become nuisance weeds.

Back when they banned Asian women from entering the US, the Chinese would bring wives to Mexico. And there are remnants of that population in Tijuana today. I was in a Mexican Resuraaunt with a freind who spoke Mandarin, and we were setting near the kitchen. He got one of those looks like a...

Real counterfeiters, go to the bank and get a $100 bundle of new uncirculated, dollars bills. Then they put the new bills in the dryer, with your funny money, aa few golf balls, and some poker chips, and run it on air dry for about an hour. This distributes the real ink from the new bills to...

Go down here to the red house, then the second barn on the left, turn right, until you get to the green house, and turn left. Then go about a mile to the blue house on your left, then turn right and go up the hill, and you’ll see an old bulldozer…… I’m color blind, which doesn’t really matter...

Simpson makes moment transfer pole bases. Which replace the the portion of the pole which is normally embedded in the concrete bases. You have far less issues with pole rot, and don’t have to deal with pressure treated wood for anything except the bottom plates, if you want to close in the...

We have a twice daily, radio show, called Swap Shop, and you can call in to tell folks you have things you want to buy or sell. Second most popular thing they have after highschool sports, and the high school aged hockey show. Swap Shop is where I got the trailer the tractor rides on, the...

My local NAPA stocks quite a few, and can typically get the ones they don’t have the next morning.

if you park it somewhere you can get power to it, install one of the 1.5-Amp battery maintainers that are waterproof, and can be hard mounted on the vehicle. I installed a battery heater mat, with a thermostatic switch which turns the heat pad on at about 30-F and turns it off at 35-F.

I’ve had my debit card compromised once: I check balances every day when I get to the house and on my Wi-Fi network. Went on, and there were two transactions I hadn’t made for $450 and $1250. Looked up the companies which had made the charges. One specialized in selling phone cards to...

Immigration all comes back to Congress. Congress passed the law which includes amnesty. They get to the border from a troubled country and request amnesty, they get to stay until there is a hearing before a judge. Congress, won’t budget for more judges, or enough funds to keep humane...

The ”snow” is whipped up hydraulic fluid, because you are really low. I’d add just enough hydraulic fluid to get things moving. And, I’d put some of the UV die in the fluid, to highlight leaks. Then when you get it home, keep it just full enough to keep trouble shooting. Then when the...

No body in the family has tried a gooseberry pie since my Grandmother died about forty years ago. All the kids still make her gooseberry jello for the holidays. One of the sisters did a raspberry rhubarb pie. And I tried making Grandmas caramel apple pie, this Thanks Giving. It was a good...

RE boosting off the starter, you hook the ground from the jumper to the chassis of what your jumping, and the hot lead to the post on the solenoid the battery cable goes to. Make sure the vehicle your jumping is in neutral, with the brakes on and blocked. Take a short piece of No.12 wire with...

That station gets thousands of people through it every summer as they float the middle fork, and we close it for the winter. We do have one lookout, in the middle of the wilderness, that you have to hike five miles to get to after you get to the end of the horse trail. Been to it once, about...

It may have one on a plate on the engine block, between the distributor, and the oil filter. This plate was on with helical drive rivets. So, it may have been removed down through the years. Or it may be stamped on a flat spot some where low on the block, on either side. So, sayeth the...

Some Vevor is good some is bad. The are building for certain markets, and their quality and quality controls Vary greatly. Some they make, some is rebranded from other manufacturers. If you go with Vevor, be sure to buy from someone who will let you return it, if your not happy.

My local NAPA has them, or you could get a remote filter base. The dedicated ones for diesel transfer pumps would be your best bet. They have the water separator. I’m pretty rural, and there are a lot of guys with transfer tanks in their trucks. So, the farm and ranch supply, and...

Any chance you could add a “solved” status click book in the titles of threads. The JDM mini-truck forum I follow has that as an option for the OP. So folks don’t continue to answer questions after the problem is solved, and so you can filter for solved questions when you are searching fro...

Buying out of Asia, a manufacturer has to be very careful how they wright the contract. Because they will do tings as cheaply as the contract allows them to. You need to specify everything, specify what standards of inspection will be, and clarify that they can’t sell the seconds they may...

It is adjacent to the busiest dirt runway, in the Lower 48, which we grade with a horse drawn grader. I got into big trouble my first year with them, when I first started, because I asked the new Ranger for permission to take an air compressor in, and rin hoses from the run way to the buildings...

A link to teh manuals for the T233 and T273. https://www.smithsenterprise.com/tym-t233 If you need one for a different tractor not listed on the TYM America Page, Smiths archived them manuals before TYM took them down. You can probably get information on different tractors by changing the...

Smiths Enterprises, was where I got the manuals I have for my T233. The only difference in the 233 and 273, is which version of the Mitsubishi engine they have, same block, different bore and stroke. So, just about everything cross references. You should be able to get a full set of manuals...

One of the Forest Service compounds I take care of is in the middle of a wilderness. I got told I had to get a street address for it. Called the County who issues addresses. She usually looks on the map, and assigns addresses by miles up the road, to the 100th of a mile, odd on the left...

We have the normal small town in the west politics, mostly dominated by LDS folks, because they vote as a block. Hive minded folks. We are the commercial hub for two counties, so though the town in only at about 2000 people, the service area gets it up to about 4000. The big towns are 2.5...

Depending on how mechanically inclined you are, you could take the solenoid off by undoing the two Phillips head screws in your second picture, and clean the contacts. When you put power to the 1/4 spade connector, it energizes the coil in the solenoid. That pushes the starter gear forward...

I put them on my tiny truck in late fall, after first snow, because it was really hard to get him running when seriously cold.. It was probably mid twenties when I put them on. I have them on the engine oil pan, and the lowest flat spots on the transmission, and transfer case. The truck...

Best Sandwich I have ever eaten was a sourdough baguette, served open faced, with fresh crab, and extra sharp cheddar over the top of it and a quick flash under the broiler to melt the cheese. The sharpness of the cheese really complimented the crab.

I‘ve got a Blackline, full hydraulic plow on the tiny truck. I’ve had it for about 7-years now. I replaced all of the bolts the factory installed as pivots, and replaced them with grade 8 bolts. And had to replace the tabs which keep the plow from tilting back to far. And, I had to replace...

Look online and get a manual for your unit. What the manufacturer wants you to do, can vary year to year. And, it is nice to have the manual.

It is a shame there are antisocial folks like you who think individuals have the right to impress their responsibilities to the society and the rest of society. You ***** about everything and feel you have nothing but “rights” without realizing all of the “rights’ you have, come with a...

Deezler: They require the first so many feet be hard surfaced, (normally to the edge of Right of Way, which is their property), because the rocks which get moved into the travel way get launched by tires on vehicles coming by, which can result to damage to vehicles and injury to pedestrians...

Engineer Hat On: The Entity (NCDOT, or County owning the roadway) will probably require a permit, to do anything in their Right of Way. Typically they have standardized engineering drawings, which you can get for free. They should have one for commercial driveways. And, you can typically get...

You might be able to get it turning over by towing if it has a manual transmission. Hook it up in high gear and tow it a little ways to get the block warmed up. Then do it again with the fuel on.

You would connect the negative to the frame or block near the starter, or a starter mounting bolt. The positive goes on the solenoid positive where the lead from the battery connects.

First are you sure the battery is flat? Is the ground good? Are you sure you haven’t killed a fusible link or fuse? Can you get to the starter to hook up directly to the solenoid?

The guys want a mini excavator to trench utility lines with. Somehow they got a line on a Skid steer being surpluses on another Forest, which they can get for the asking, and want to get it, then mount a backhoe attachment on the skid steer. I hven’t looked at the backhoe attachments for...

I have two cell phones. One is works, and I have to deal with all of the spam callers. the other is mine, and if you are not in my contacts, it doesn’t ring. If they leave voice mail, I will call them back, if they are someone I want to talk to, and then add them to the contacts. “Contacts”...

In battery tools, you need for purposes of simple economics to get one battery type, and manufacturer and stick to them. I run Dewalt, mostly because I looked for a drill/driver with adjustable torque settings, and a cord, 25-years ago. They were in the catalogs for Milwaukee, Bosch, and...

Not yet. Folks have been mounting them out by the highway, next to the mailbox, for as long as I remember. Mailbox is at the highway, the ranch compound might be miles away. The mailman might bring your packages out, but they wouldn’t leave the pavement. So a tradition, of a parcel box...

Speed goats go under fences. I have only seen a few actually jump a fence, and all of them are in one band in central Idaho. I hunt them by unclipping the bottom strand from two adjacent post, and raising it about 6-inches, h which leaves them an easy go-under spot. And the sitting up the...

Manuals for the more modern tractors are on the TYM website. tymworld.com One of the dealers, smiths enterprises, had the foresight to load copies to an archive site. I found the manuals for mine by searching for “TYM T233 Manual”.

I have a ”job box” mounted out by my mail box, 48X36X36. 4-inch letters saying ”Parcel Box” ”USPS, UPS, FedEX” “Leave parcels here” And, I go into the relevant phone app, when I get a shipment notification, and filll out the delivery instructions, telling them to leave the inbound package in...

DIY My Way, has a series of videos on adding a “from the seat” electrically controlled release/attach system to the SSQA on his Kubota. Looks pretty straight forward to do. Definitely worth looking at, if you have a SSQA system.

RK are TYM. TYM has had SSQA on all of their smaller loader attachments, for a couple of decades.

Late reply but for others: I have a 72-inch on my 32-hp tiny truck, and it does fine. I’m planning on adding a receiver hitch female to the my fork attachment, so I can mount the plow on my TYM T233, which is a 23-hp tractor. I’m confident the tractor will push snow with it, if I have...

I wish they would read the delivery instructions. I have a job box chained down next to the mailbox, that says in big reflective letters, 6” letters - PARCEL BOX 4” Letter - UPS, FedEx, AND USPS 4” letters - LEAVE PARCELS HERE They have to drive past it to get to the house.

Like all things electric, you have voltage drop as a function of run length. The higher the voltage the better it works over distance. The amount of heat you generate is directly related to the number of Watts in your System. Low voltage works ok for a 3X5 typical bathroom system. 120...

The one pictured has a single double acting hydraulic cylinder to push the jaws open and pull them closed. If you have power to the rear, or a kit is available for your tractor to install it, it would be quite easy to get power to it.

If you’re goIng to install floor heat, be sure to put some foam under the floor. Contrary to common thought, heat goes to cold. Warm fluids rise, due to lower density. But, heat goes to cold. If you don’t insulate the floor, you loose a great deal of heat trying to heat the earth. On ADA...

The owner/operators of backhoes and excavators, grease the working joints every morning, as part of their morning inspection. It gives them a chance to check for loose bolts, cracked welds on the bucket, etc. I have started doing the same on my little 233, becasue it keeps loosing linch pins.

The 150c is an arborists trimming/limbing saw. Called the younger brother he used them when climbing, and they do fine on 5-7-inch limbs. So, they would work ok on trees. But he doesn’t think they have fall notches. You can probably find a manual online to check that.

Commercial eggnog. Nasty stuff bearing only a passing resemblance to the real stuff.

Engineer hat on: The codes are proscriptive. Meaning tht if you follow them you pretty much can’t fail. Doing something else, because codes are not in effect where your area, invites failure particularly if you don’t have enough understanding of what the code is trying to accomplish with what...

I knew a guy named Bobby Takewaa, who worked for FMC building APVs he was small enough to go into the metal ousting which held the fuel bladder, and grind the welds smooth.

Personally I’m not worried at all about Russian nukes. Early in the mess when it was apparent that the Russian military was an inept bunch of clowns, and their general officers had been steeling at least half of thier budgets, instead of maintaining their equipment, I watched one of one of...

I was building houses in Vegas, during the wettest 90-days on record. My subdivision, had turned into a bog, but my boss had insisted we keep trying to work. A kid practicing on a Case 580 got it stuck in the mud. So, his foreman went over with the 680 chained on and tried to get him out...

I would negotiate for them rebuilding the road, when they are done and maintaining it in the interim, if they are doing much. Basically, a “Leave it as good or better than you found it, and don’t inconvenience me by your use.”, stance. They have the right to get there. But typically not...

A properly fitted pair of boots, is a dream to wear. Bad ones are a nightmare. Everybody has a. Different foot shape, similar but different. I’ve worn Redwings for ever, my foot has grown to match the last they are built on. so, they fit me really well. They quit making my favorite...

I have wake up dreams, ones which get progressively stranger/scarier until I wake up. Had one last week, where I kept waking up in bed with different women i have lived with down through the years. They were still the age they were when we broke up, and I was 65. We’d talk for a few...

When i was working in Vegas, my Secretary came in one morning a bit frazzled. so, i asked her what was wrong. She explained that sometimes she sleep walks, and does things as if she is awake. I told her that wasn’t too bad. She said she had this dream that she was sawing her car, and...

Basically, a lead acid battery is a lead acid battery. I’d take the old one into NAPA mid week, in the early to mid afternoon, and put it on the counter. Locally they might not have it in stock, but would have one out of the warehouse in Salt lake the next day.

When I was 19, I took my Dad’s truck, (“Heavy F250”, The stock F250 with the springs and shocks from an F350 under it. Dealers in Utah used to special order them, so the farmers could buy them, and get the license as a 3/4 ton, to save on taxes, and load them as a one ton.), to the gravel pit...

From what I’ve seen, by the time they get to the signs, and now the canker balls, are all to close to the bridge, and they have no exit route.

You need to heat it up to get red loose. Which assumes you can heat things without damage. But with a little heat it pops loose. I cut the tip off of a tube of the green penetrating grade with my old Leatherman. It penetrated into the hinge, and it wouldn’t move. Two hours in a 350...

Red on the bolts which hold the loader mounts to the frame. They were backing out once every fifty to one-hundred hours. Not no more. Hopefully I’ll never need to take the mounts off for any purpose. I sure can‘t think of any reason I would need to. I browsed through the Service Manual...

The tractor was aa bit too large for the trailer. Which resulted in the tongue weight being too low and the trailer whipping. But, Hey, He did a damn fine job of binding it down.

They sure look interesting. The ability to dump to the side would be handy in many situations. I like my scissors lift a lot. We have kid in town who is a disabled vet, and gets to hunt from vehicles. Fish and Game have him on a list for depredation hunts, if the deer or elk start breaking...

It is a Suzuki Jimny with a slightly larger engine.

When I worked for UPS in the late seventies, the fist national contract was up for a vote. I was a manager and we had enough money in the bank, to pay all of the management salaries, and minimal upkeep on the trucks and equipment for 9-months longer than the union‘s strike fund would last...

We had an orchard. I drove the tractor while Dad and my Older brother stood in the trailer with the sprayer and doused the trees with DDT and/or Malathion. My buddy up the street’s Dad was a plumber. My buddy’s job was to mix lead shavings and asbestos 50/50, stir them up, and put the mix in...

Since I was one of the folks whose government personnel file was compromised when they broke inot the Office of Personell Management, and I had a clearance with full FBI background check to work for one of the alphabet agencies. They know who my preschool teacher was, and the first girl I kissed.

Call or email him, and he can probably figure out a figment and add it to his listing. He didn’t list my tractor either. I sent him an email, telling him that i have 6 on 6-inch 16.5 wheel with 12X16.5 tires mounted, and what the thread pattern for the lug nuts/bolts is. He replied the next...

I can highly recommend a Blackline Hydroelectric plow. I really like mine. had it five winters now, and the only issues have been due to stupid me mistakes.

The elected officials made decisions years ago which are still trickling down with regard to public employee pensions. One every decade most States require that the Stae and all political subdivisions do a compensation study, to determine what a fair salary for their workers is. Then they...

Be careful. There are Chiwanese knock offs of about everything on eBay. There has to be a a guy over there who searches eBay for things people search for, and commissions knock-offs. The guy we sold my Mom’s house to had a business in China rebuilding the Ural, copies of the WWII era BMWs the...

Get teh wheels lined up, and adjust the tie rod until it slips in.

Anybody ever watch a movie called “The Gods Must Be Crazy”? There is a scene in it where the guy gets the Land Rover stuck in the river. He wades ashore with the line from the PTO winch, and gets it hooked over a large tree limb about twenty feet in the air, gets the Land Rover unstuck...

I strip the wires, and put the largest one forward to the front of the finger puzzle, and bend it back into a hook. Then keep putting them in a little further back until you have all of the wires in the puzzle then tape the whole thing. I haven’t had one pull loose that way yet.

Who was the guy in the Jeep? There was 50-gallons barrel cut in half tha tDad had as water trough when he put the horses in the upper pasture. The neighbor girl was 3 and I was 4, my little brother was not quite 2. We could deposit him in the half barrel to be thw side kick, and he could...

The rule of thumb for a self extraction winch is at least 1.5 times the weight of vehicle. So for most ATV or SUVs a 3000-lb winch works. Tiny truck weighs 2500 fully loaded, so I fitted a 4500-lb winch. For a recovery winch you need about twice the weight of the vehicle you want to...

I’ve been wearing “Smart Wool” as liners, and wool boot socks for about twenty years now. Cotton always just felt soggy to me. But I live in my boots. Steel toes when around equipment or working around the shop. “Fire” boots when just out in the woods. They are pretty much the same boot...

Taco Tuesday: Place in Boise had ten for a buck.

The critical difference between GL4 and GL5 is that the GL4 won’t attack copper alloys, and GL5 might. But many of the GL5 fluids say they are yellow metal safe, and are fine to substitute for the GL4.

I took apart the folks alarm clock when I was about 4. Clock spring sprung forth, out of of it’s casing and wrapped around my arm. I started to try getting it off, but being stamped metal it had nasty sharp edges, and cut my arm. I decided it would be better to take the spanking, than get all...

Never understood the desire for Sea Salt as opposed to salt mined underground as a solid. The salt from under the ground tylically deposited long before man started mucking up and producing waste. While sea salt has some level of contamination for all the muck we dumped in every water way on...

Brake cleaner, the kind with chlorines in it if you can get it. It messes them up bad enough, and fast enough, tha they come out of the air like you tied a brick on their little tails. the vapors are toxic enough to them, they just curl up.

Call your extension Agent. WSU Spokane County Extension Jul 18, 2022 https://www.spokanecounty.org/directory.aspx?did=165 Location 222 N Havana, Spokane, WA 99202 Phone Number 509-477-2160

A foot of new pipe, and two “SharkBite” or Orbit “PVC-Lock” fittings. One is just a coupling, the other fitting is a longer one which lets you flex the pipe, and then push it back onto the pipe your joining. Or just go old school and glue in a union.

My parents bought a new Volvo, in 1969, and picked it up in Sweden, then did a hosted tour of Europe to get 5,000 miles on it. Best break in period you could dream of. They went form town to town, with a parts van of the parts which weren’t euro standard, and everywhere the spent the night had...

Worst shipping experiences I have had were a Rock Bucket I ordered which came from Missouri by truck freight, about 150 to 200-miles at a time. The trucking companies would move it from one depot to the next one, sort of headed west and north. took two months to get here. Oh well it was free...

Same companies make jack systems. But truthfully I wouldn’t be too uncomfortable jacking it up with hi-lift jacks.

The containers are designed to be supported at the ends, where the lifting and tie down points are. I’d be hesitant about adding spring mounts which didn’t transfer load to the ends. But I’m a dumb ole engineer who knows enough to be worried. For short distances empty, I would spend the...

Confusion reigns because it absolutely varies by State. And thee Federal Constitution guarantees free trade between States. If you go across state borders, you hit a gray area. If I go to Montana to buy things, I’m supposed to keep track of how much I spend on purchases in Montana. Then...

It probably sat in a container, until Customs were ready to receive it. Which makes it look like the shipper is the issue instead of Customs.

Or, a cutting torch not lighted. Run some oxyacetylene down the hole and touch it off great fun for all. There are videos on YouTube of folks blowing up the yard. On the serious side

flexible exhaust hose, and gas em.

My brother had to take down a dozen trees to get fire insurance for his place. He has a 1000-gallon tank on the hill above the house, and keeps the chemicals to make fire retardant slurry at the house. You can buy the Phos-Chek slurry mix in five gallon pails. Home Depot carries it in some of...

We had a 10-meter small bore range in the basement of thee Junior High. Tuesdays and Thursdays, if your academic progress and citizenship were good in all your classes, you skipped Home Room/Study Hall. Where you went to classrooms where the teachers taught you their hobbies. (If you weren’t...

I’m pretty sure we could figure it out. The archeologist just recently figured out the purpose of the thousands of round rocks they kept finding at Stonehenge.. They were ball baearings which ran in oak tracks, from the river where they were landed to the site. They have known about the round...

Vegas gets very little power from Hoover. The State of Nevada, didn’t see any use for it when the agreements were being written, asked for none, and were pissed that the Bureau of Reclamation made them take some. Las Vegas Valley Water District and the Southern Nevada Water Authority do have...

And, they know immediately if power is out. The smart meter transmit on the power lines, and get pinged every few minutes. If they loose all the meters fed by a line or transformer, they know something is wrong and they dispatch the line crew.

2022, so fifty years ago was 1972. Chrysler Kit Car. A body/rolling chassis with a coat of white paint on it. You bought a kit car, and a donor car with the drive train you wanted. then stripped the engine and transmission out of the donor, and install them with just enough wiring, to make...

My first subdivision, 8-per acre. “Z-lots” a sort of shared driveway. One garage in the front, the other in the back. Minimum legal setbacks. Then I got to help on one that covered a square mile with a park, then another about half a mile away. Again minimum legal 2-0 setbacks, 12 to the...

I pulled into Ely, Nevada at about 0230, To get fuel and some coffee. I’m color blind. Pump had five nozzles. White, light green, green, dark green and black. Figuring black was the highest octane of the bunch, I pumped 10.5-gallons into my 13.5 gallon tank. Grabbed coffee and pack of little...

Hard wind snaps it over. It then grows upward. You can bend them and make canes, etc.

The bearing on the inside of it is a 6208. The OD should be the same.

WHAT? The Blue friction plate moves out and contacts the surface of the red disk, which is attacked to the outer plate which connects to the wheel. Thats it, kind of half a disk brake. Which probably puts quite a bit of stress on the wheel bearings.

Since deliveries through Amazon now can take 7 to 10-days: If there is something I need, I go show it to local brick and mortar shops, and ask if they have somethings similar within 15% to 30% in stock, that I can walk out of the store with. I would expect that my local NAPA would have a...

Daihatsu uses teh van seat track which can go further to the rear. One of the guys on the minitruck forum a few years back, added a hint on the front of the tracks, when he moved his tracks back. So, he could still get the seat base tipped to access teh engine. Honda are mid engine, and...

My T233 has a Mitsubishi engine. One of the guys on the forum was looking for a new injector line for his T273. He was shocked at the cost. I looked around on line, at parts for the Mitsubishi L3 engines, which were used in everything from air compressors and generators to CAT skidsteers...

We have a Forest road, which mapping software says is the shortest way to and from a mine. It is not however the truck route to the mine. Truckers are given routes by their dispatchers which send them on the shortest route. Which is our single lane with turnouts, twisty/winding, tight...

I doubt there is anything distinct on the pump you have all it does is lift the fuel from the tank to the real pump. Just guessing but, 12-volts, 3 to 5 psi, 5-gpm, electric pump should work. You aren’t pulling moving gobs of fuel, and it just needs to maintain positive pressure to the main...