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Current code in Oregon requires make up air if your stove vent fan is more than 400 cfm.

Plus there are middlemen like Pharmacy Benefits Managers in every process who exist only to siphon profits out of patients. AI powered consultants that insurance companies hire to raise their denial rate and thus profits. This is why the US spends twice what any other rich county spends on...

I think some of the automatic transfer switches can have the outage time that it takes to fire up the generator adjusted. Diesel generators have been more expensive than home propane generators for a long time. A water cooled diesel engine costs more to build than the air cooled propane ones...

We're going all electric for the new house and wanted to do induction. We got an induction hot plate to try it out. It works pretty well! Boils water faster than the big burner on the gas stove and will go really low too. There's been enough studies out that show that gas stoves pollute that I...

Maybe the rubber band trick will help.

That's what I did when I forgot one was in.

Be careful you don't bend the radiator fins.

One thing I found out about retirement is that not only does health insurance cost increase far faster than inflation, but you get treated differently on a self funded plan than on one paid for by an employer. The insurance company denies far more things. For my wife's recent cancer its like...

I think unless you already have some of the major components or get a super deal on them, it'll cost less to buy a used splitter. Of course you'll be stuck with the design of a cheap splitter, which is usually a horizontal/vertical unit. The ergonomics are a compromise. On mine in horizontal...

I usually leave the grapple or bucket on while mowing. I find that it doesn't block the view if you keep it low. Having the bucket or grapple low can help you find rocks before you try to mow them. When you have a big load of brush in the grapple it really blocks the view. I try to not drive...

Ballast on the rear hitch will help a lot. As would wheel weights or loaded tires. What pressure are the rear tires at? I lowered the R4s on my Branson from 25 psi to 15 and it's an improvement in traction on our sandy soil.

I use a rear remote to operate the grapple and I can't remember ever feathering it. I crush stuff until it stops moving, or at least enough to hold on to it. My grapple is a dual lid, so it's got two cylinders. The lids move pretty slow if the tractor is idling. I have to raise the revs to get...

Many loaders now come with Skid Steer Quick Attach so you can easily swap bucket for grapple or another implement. The grapple will need some hydraulics to operate. Either a third function or a diverter (usually run off the loader joystick dump/curl control). You can use a rear remote and some...

We did the same thing for our house that's in construction.

A recent Tundra double or crew cab with a 5.7 engine is rated to tow somewhere between 9200 and 9600 lbs depending on options. If you're going to stick to that you can't really use the extra 4k of a 14k trailer over a 10k trailer. The 14k will cost a little more and may have a higher tare weight...

The house we're building has a lot of those ideas in it. 36" wide doors, big kitchen/dining/living room, smaller bedrooms. Our current house has a large master bedroom and a small living room which is backwards from how we live. The two secondary bedrooms will be our offices as there's an ADU...

There's one or two Branson 6 series owners on the Branson section of this site. It sounds like there's not a lot of support for them from Branson. But you should check it out yourself. I'd be leery to buy a tractor sight unseen.

Reolink Go PT Ultra. About $200.

I have a solar powered cellular camera on my construction site. The range for identifying a car/human/large animal is only about 30ft at most. Other than that it works ok. The panel keeps the battery charged pretty well.

Yes, I bought my 3725 from Daves. They have been a Branson dealer for a long time and are a great dealer. They will ship parts.

There was about .1 inch in August and a few sprinkles but other than that the last rain here in CA was in May. It usually starts raining again for real in November or sometimes December.

It's a bummer that a new machine is leaking. But it may just be a quick connect that's dripping or a fitting that didn't get tightened enough. With that much fluid on the ground there's a good chance there is some tell tale fluid left on or under the machine. You may see drips where you parked...

The CFM of the compressor is more important than the tank size when you are running a tool constantly for more than a few minutes... like with an air grinder. Or maybe a paint gun, depending on what you're painting. Once the extra air in the tank is used up its the pump's capacity that...

I can't find any either. You'd think that battery ATVs would be perfect for small farm use where you're usually running it for only a few minutes at a time and only a few miles a day.

The place we're building is 2300 sq ft. for two of us. Single story. There's an additional 800 sq ft apartment on the garage for guests and one of the bedrooms can be used for guests too. We tried to get the house down to 2000 but felt that would make some rooms cramped. If we couldn't afford...

The cooling system is far more effective at removing heat than radiation from the block's surface. I would not have any concerns about painting it.

The NH (Ford) 3930 came with either an 8 speed gear transmission or a 8 speed synchronized shuttle transmission. If his tractor has the gear transmission, it's likely unsynchronized and he'll need to stop to shift it. My Deere 5105 is the same. I try to plan my mowing so my turns don't require...

Their claim to fame is not clogging with dust as readily as paper or oiled foam filters under severe conditions. Instead they let some through. That's ok for desert racing where finishing a race is more important than preserving the engine long term. But not for normal use. I've used them in...

At one point K&N motorcycle oil filters were coming apart inside. Maybe they're better now but I won't use them. I generally use OE filters.

You can also take a partial cut in that area of thicker grass.

Another advantage of the second meter is that the PoCo guarantees that the voltage at the meter will be right. The voltage drop on a 600' wire can be large unless you upsize the wiring. I'm in a similar spot- the location for the shop is 500' away from the last pole with the current meters to...

Non inverter generators have to run at a fixed rpm to output 60hz AC. Usually 3600, sometimes 1800 for more expensive generators. Running at 3600/1800 takes power even if there is no electrical load. There's friction (mostly pistons in the cylinders) and pumping air around the crankcase and...

Productivity per employee has gone up quite a bit since the '70s but worker wages have remained basically flat. However CEO and executive pay has gone through the roof. In the '70s the typical big corp CEO made 25-30x what their average employee made. Now it's 300x-500x. This has coincided with...

Not sure what the question mark is for as the equation shows they're the same power. One advantage of the EU7000 in 120v mode is that it gangs the two sides of the generator together so you do not need to try to balance the load between them.

22.9A @240v is exactly the same power as 45.8A @ 120v.

Price has gone down since last year!

I have not needed to run the well pump on a generator as we have a 10k gallon tank and gravity fed to the house. But the EU7000i has run our 3 ton A/C unit. The well pump is only 1.5hp and on a smaller breaker so it should work. If your pump is larger then it might not. There was a price...

The crankcase full of liquid is probably what kept the crank from turning. It should turn now. If not then something else happened like a part went into the engine through the intake. If it's free then it should be fine once you fix or replace the carb.

Just from trucks I see on the road, if anything the towing/hauling numbers seem high. Yes there are some trucks that are towing or hauling stuff all the time or often. But there are an awful lot of lifestyle trucks that are empty.

My dealer said the DPF+DOC had more catalyst than the 20 series and the front axle was wider or had bigger extensions bolted on. The PTO and cruise control switches were on the fender while the 20 series had them on the dash. Also it came with two rear remotes and a block heater but I think my...

Friends of ours bought a house where the sellers did a kitchen remodel that included a commercial fridge. They didn't have much good to say about it. It was loud and it used electricity like crazy. Also they're not going to have ice makers- restaurants have ice machines. So you'll need a way to...

Larger hotels/motels in the gambling district or a few miles across the border can get some loud customers. At one place we stayed in a few times when I was there to do a cycling event we kept getting neighbors who would come back drunk at 2am and have loud arguments. Bad enough normally but...

The appliance company we're using for our home build in Oregon highly dis-recommended Bosch. There's no one in the area that services them and parts are hard to get. So check if you can get service and parts especially if you're not close to a good size urban area. Also both they and the home...

No, that's a crook.

I have some that I use for extra dirty wood, like cutting stumps flush. No matter how much I dig around the stump and brush off the dirt there is still some. But for cutting normal wood I prefer faster cutting full chisel, even if it goes dull faster. I am pretty good about keeping it out of the...

Donner Lake is a short ways past the north west end of the lake next to Truckee. What's marked Donner on the map is the ski area(s) and the houses around them. They're up Donner Pass road and significantly higher elevation than Donner Lake. Donner Lake has some monument for the Donner Party and...

Those are old enough to need restoration? Dang I feel old. Those are really cool bikes. I didn't get to ride one but I rode a number of the Harley engined bikes. They handled great but the engines were too tractor like for a sport bike for me. The Rotax one should be much more modern. I got to...

The first storms of the season are usually in October. Sometimes September or November. I don't know how much snow they drop at lake level but they can close the high passes. Looks like Tahoe City (on the north side of the lake) sees an average of 15 inches of snow in November. I think the ski...

A rotary cutter.

Stay safe! Yay!

If you can do a Ducati valve adjustment you should be able to do nearly anything mecanical. (For those who don't know it's a desmo engine with no valve springs, there are opener and closer cams)

Yesterdays' Tractors also has 3000 cylinder heads.

It takes longer to drive in, wait around for the oil change and drive back than it does for me to jack up the car, change the oil and rotate the tires myself. That's more important to me than the cost, though that's a factor too. I'd probably balk at $120 and certainly at $160. Ensuring that...

Cylinder reed valves used to be common on motorcycles. Sometimes they'd have windows in the intake skirt of the piston to increase intake duration (when the reeds allowed). Now most have the inlet going directly to the cases. The reeds I have seen in older small power equipment were really...

Was that with the throttle held open? If so, it's low. That will cause problems with low speed running and starting.

They do sometimes. They fair to seal completely and that affects the low speed running first. But modern two stroke yard and garden type equipment usually does not have a reed valve.

The bank required it for our place in CA 27 years ago, and the Oregon place this year. It might be a west coast thing.

Our Oregon property had a hand dug well on it that was 30' or 40' deep. Then a drilled well that was 250' or so. Both of them tested at about 1.5 gpm over 4 hours. The lender (and ourselves) wanted better flow. We had a well drilled and it needed 500'. The geology there is really variable...

Clean the muffler screen. Did you adjust the carb? They're not shipped correctly adjusted. Instructions are in the shop manual. The low speed mixture should be slightly richer than what gets the highest idle. Then use the throttle stop to set the rpm under what starts turning the string drum...

No, it's not. I mean it still happens, but not that much. I don't see people leaving car windows open so they won't get smashedb anywhere I go in the bay area. I have been some parking spots, usually remote trailheads, where there's broken glass from someone's window getting smashed. But I see...

I have that problem with just about everyone. Hardly anyone reads the entire email these days. The worst thing is when you ask multiple questions and get a reply like "yes". I'm about to start sending individual emails for each question to people.

Here's a graph of CO pollution from areas mostly in California for 1970-2018: It's too busy a graph and just one pollutant, but the idea comes across. However while the levels are lower, they're not zero. I still see a sick looking greenish layer in the air above Silicon Valley often in the...

I have some solar powered Reolink celluar cameras on our construction site. I used some mapping software to figure out which networks had good coverage and the picked one of those. I see that at least in California and Oregon, Verizon's network seems to have better coverage in rural areas. But...

Pretty much all diesels that do regens will do them while the vehicle is moving, if it's up to temperature. I think the only reason to do a parked regen is if the regular regens are disabled or are failing for some reason.

If the emissions systems work, I'm all for them. I have not had a problem with the emissions systems on my Tier IV tractor or any of the many cars, trucks and motorcycles I've owned. I like clean air. The air in the SF bay area is visibly cleaner now than it was 30 years ago, even though...

My Woodmaxx 8H has been pretty good. I recommend a unit with hydraulic (or hydrostatic) variable power feed. I chose the 8H because a lot of people here have them, and the dual feed rollers. Woodland Mills 8" has a single feed roller. In their videos it looks like it can be a challenge to get...

Where is that located? I have seen a lot of ruined old stamp mills but not a working one.

The DOT thing is federal not state. Between off road motorcycling, tractors, generators and other equipment with engines, I've filled fuel containers hundreds of times in California. I've never had anyone even look at my containers let alone check them for DOT compliance. So its far more likely...

I agree! Both diff locks and rear wheel brakes are super useful in low traction situations. Especially if you get a loader, which you really should. Be really careful about what kind of shuttle a tractor has got. "Shuttle" at a minimum is a separate forward/reverse gear box. Instead of...

It's not a bad idea to have insurance on the tractor even if you paid cash for it. Sometimes it's included in homeowners insurance, as long as it's on your property.

75hp is 50% more than you have now. On the other hand, 50 or 60 hp is as big as HST machines get. Above that they're usually manuals with shuttle reverse of some type- unsynchronized, synchronized, or power. Really big ag tractors have something else entirely but you're likely not getting into...

I have a couple Stihl trimmers, an FS85 and a FS240. I also have a bunch of their chainsaws. The trimmers get used pretty hard and have held up fine. I also have an Echo saw and a pole pruner. Both of those start easily and run well. I would consider an Echo. I have not been as happy with my...

We're going to have to do something. The utility in Oregon has picked up bad ideas from California utilities and installed quick reaction breakers. They shut off power to thousands of homes for any issue. It's for "fire safety" but really it's a kludge to make up for poor maintenance. They have...

My dealer recommended gear oil. I think it performs better under high pressure when squeezed between the gears, and has a better additive package for that use. Tractor fluid has to work well with wet clutches and that limits the additives that can be used.

Our new house in Oregon will be all electric. Heating and cooling will be with mini splits. With the electric and gas rates there, which are pretty typical for most of the US, it's far cheaper to heat with mini splits. But even more important, I've stayed in places with mini splits and they're...

My experience is that pine and fir is the easiest to chip. The wood is soft and the branches don't stick out at funny angles too often. Some of my brush like french broom, it also pretty easy to chip. Wood that is harder and has branches that grow at 90 degree angles is more difficult to chip...

The Summit kit has a high quality joystick knob with switches, and costs about the same as what you'd pay for the parts, if you got decent deals on them. You will need to fab a bracket to hold the valve, or have it made. And you'll need to run some hoses.

I have a manual feed chipper (MacKissick TH-184) and a hydraulic feed one (Woodmaxx 8H). The manual feed tends to "grab" and pull material in at a very fast rate. To the point that I made it a rule to always handle material in such a way that when it grabs it won't pull my hand down the chute...

We had a rat problem in the garden next to the chicken yard. The chicken feeder wasn't rat proof, even after I armored it with aluminum sheet. The rats chewed through it! My wife finally got a good rat proof feeder made from sheet steel and that greatly reduced the rat population. The other...

I currently live in the mountains behind your left shoulder in the pic. If you did the whole Mt Hamilton-Mines rd loop, I grew up in a town at the other end. I've ridden Mt Hamilton and/or Mines road on a bicycle many hundreds of times, and also ridden it on various motorcycles. They are fun...

That looks like the parking lot of the Lick observatory on Mt Hamilton here in California.

My BH76 was difficult to use for me, a newbie to backhoes. The boom would jerk up and down so hard it shook the whole machine, and when curling the bucket with loose material in it, about 1/3 of the time it slams into the stop and ejects most of the material. I tried a Kubota excavator and that...

Lift the cutter with the tractor and check that the wheel can rotate 360 degrees. Usually there's a visible gap on the shaft above the wheel between the tube the shaft rides in and the retainer on the top. From the pic it looks like the retainer on the top is right down on the tube. If that's...

My 3725H doesn't have a screen either. The semi-synthetic fluid I put I put in last time made the HST a little quieter. It might depend on the viscosity of the fluid. I hope the OP used premium tractor fluid, not regular hydraulic fluid.

The 1940s called and wants their maintenance schedule back. I'd check/adjust the valves and run it. What do new heads cost for it? A new head for the single cylinder B&S on my 27 year old Deere Sabre costs all of $250.

The Branson one was a diverter with the solenoid valve out on the loader cross tube. I have my grapple run off a third function valve mounted on the fender. I never use less than full flow. Even at PTO RPM the lids don't move that fast. It's a two lid grapple. A single lid model with a single...

That's how it ought to be, but Mom was sold the coins as investments. She wasn't a collector. She thought she was buying "gold". It was a long time before I realized she wasn't trading futures or buying bars.

I don't think the post office sells info. In a lot of places the info is available from the county. At our new place in Oregon we have gotten a lot of home warranty ads and other similar things marketed to new home owners.

Congrats on getting to the wiring money stage! There's a scam going around where criminals will hack into the email of the title agency or bank, and wait until someone it about to close on a house. Then they will send them a forged email with routing instructions to an account the criminals...

The Kukje is a Cummins A series with a couple small changes. Cummins sold them the rights. The A series was originally made by Onan, then Cummins bought it. Some people will argue that it's not a real Cummins engine, but they seem to be pretty reliable so it kinda does not matter. TYM had three...

I've bought a few belts from v-belt guys. They have been good quality.

Flailmaster.com has blades and parts for a lot of flail mowers.

When my mom passed I had to deal with her coin collection. I found there's a coin value book that's printed annually. There's probably an on line equivalent. I used the book to get a rough idea of the worth so the dealer didn't completely take advantage of me. BTW she had records of the...

One of the guys in my mountain bike riding group is 80. He wasn't an athlete before taking up riding at age 75. He only recently got an E bike.

Tight valves are common on some engines. If the seat or valve wear even a small amount, the clearance tightens up. I would not wait until it runs poorly to check them.

Not for the last 30 years or so. Before that, CA had Republican governors and other officials. But the Republican party in CA was much different then. The ones made up of SF, LA or San Diego would be. If LA county was a state it'd be about 14th in revenue. Admittedly it's large in area and...

The narrower .325 chain will cut faster than 3/8 chain. .325 is the normal size on 50cc class saws. That said I don't see why changing the chain, bar and sprocket would void the warranty.

It hasn't rained in my part of California since May. We get an average of 50, up to 100 inches a year, all in about six months.

I can't find the article now but I read somewhere that utilities are installing solar+battery mini power plants to serve small groups of far flung rural homes where maintaining a line is expensive. It might not be in the US, we tend to lag on some of these things.

I got a 16 gallon oil drain pan. With that I don't need to try to slide a heavy 5 gallon bucket aside and put a new one in place without making too much of a mess.

Yes the difference between fourstroking and hitting the limiter is pretty subtle. Rather than listen for four stroking while it's free revving, I listen for it when I lift while in a cut. For me that's more reliable. Also I prefer not to free rev an engine at full throttle. My Stihl manuals...

All those states have one large urban/suburban area where prices are higher. Since there's so many houses there, that drives the state average. The far out rural homes are few in number. For example in Oregon the average home price in Portland is about 10% above the state average but in far out...

Many Stihl shop manuals describe how to tune that particular engine using a tachometer.

Yea its a bobcat. Short tail and they often hold it curved like that.

Is the tension the same or close on all the belts? I think the idea of a matched set is that the belts are all the same length within a tight tolerance, so there's not going to be some loose belts and some tight ones.

I also removed the radiator when I changed the water pump on my Deere 5105. I could have done without that but it made it easier to get to things. There is a Branson section of this web site, and it contains a sticky thread that has links to service manuals. Also there is at least one Branson...

Actually it's about a requirement that they keep a minimum supply. It's not a capacity increase. The reason is because California's gas and diesel prices spike every time a refinery goes off line for "maintenance". Often when use is high anyhow, like during vacation season or when another...

Good to hear that it's progressing.

We have a year old fridge that has a temperature display. When we have outages I turn the generator off at night and for a few hours during the day. The fridge's high and low temps slowly climbed over the days we were out. And that was during winter. I think the fridge has very little reserve...

Bank of Satan. It took the local branch 9 months to close my mom's account after she passed. It was like they'd never dealt with a deceased person before. Every time I talked to them I got a different answer and was sent to a different person. They sold Mom some bogus "life insurance" that...

We started with a 10hp home store unit. It was pretty much useless. And it was hard to start- there was no clutch so you were pulling over the engine and the chipper rotor. We then got a 16hp tractor and a 4.5" PTO chipper. This chipper has manual feed, or self-feeding. When it grabs something...

Sounds like a cool project! Perfect for when you're burning brush or at a controlled burn.

It's a hard environment for power delivery. The mountains are steep, the trees are big, the ground is loose, and it rains a lot. It's hard on roads too. PG&E being a terrible company makes it worse but it'd be bad with any power company.

Power goes out at my California place a lot. Usually there's at least one week long outage per winter, sometimes more. My neighbors built an ADU and set it up for outages. It's got solar and batteries but also they can top off the batteries with a generator. Even in winter when it's raining...

In some places the electrical code requires that a whole home generator be able to power everything or that there are automatic load shed devices on some large loads. Generac makes load shed devices that don't need low voltage wiring to the generator and that work with any generator.

Deere makes a weight bracket. Or you could use these: BOLT-ON TIEDOWNS

That's why I got one. With a chain or cable I could only do pulls where there was room to run the tractor as far as the pull I needed to do. My woods are to thick and steep for that to work in most places. The winch and a quick release snatch block really open up the possibilities. It's also...

Here in central California we're seeing more moisture coming from storms in the Pacific. Not enough for rain, except maybe some localized thunderstorms in the Sierras, but enough to increase the amount of lightning. Most of CA doesn't get summer rain or lightning, so when we do get lightning it...

Try calling or emailing Dave's Tractor in Red Bluff CA. They have been a Branson dealer for a long time and their parts dept is good. https://www.davestractor.com

That looks kinda similar in design to my Uniforest 35M. All the details are different though, so it's not a copy. Does it have an integrated cable brake? Does it have a drum brake so you don't unroll the cable into a birds nest inside the unit? The manual doesn't say how to operate it at all. It...

They made production models of the original roadster for about three years. It was a Lotus chassis and body that Tesla elongated to fit the batteries. The original Lotus is very tightly packaged.

We had that problem when we bought our place in California 27 years ago. They missed some stuff that we had to get corrected. The appraiser who did the property in Oregon we bough recently did a really through job. The number didn't quite match the selling price but the bank said its close enough.

I hope you and your wife recover quickly and fully. So far between vaccinations and masking we have been able to avoid it. Which is good because my wife went through one bout of cancer and now is going through another entirely different one. She doesn't need me to catch something, covid or...

Wearing long pants and sleeves and scrubbing any exposed areas with Dawn has reduced my poison oak rash to nearly nothing. And I get a lot closer to it now than I used to. I'm pretty good at spotting it even when it doesn't have leaves. If I get close to any or run over it with a string...

I thought you wern't supposed to extend it to the side while its up in the air, only on or near the ground. But I don't own one so maybe I'm missing something. I am considering one for mowing the extensive blackberry on the fencelines on our Oregon place. Either that or a boom mower, but that's...

I don't know about Florida but in many states home inspectors are regulated by the state.

I think 200a @ 240v of solar is a lot of panels. When I ran PVwatts for a 16kw array it said it will make a max of 45 amps (240v) at full output on June 21. If the 16kw array makes an actual 16kw, that's still only 66a @ 240v.

Use a short wide drain pan instead of a tall narrow 5 gallon bucket. They make them all sizes. Drive it up on lumber if you need a little extra height.

I had the dealer put smaller tires on my Branson. The reason was to lower the center of gravity for operating on hills. I didn't try it both with the normal size and the smaller size so I can't say how much it affects stability, but it is pretty stable on slopes.

When I got a shop manual for my 5105 I was dismayed to find out that the engine was covered in a different manual. That one is super generic to the point of not being all that useful. The shop manual isn't all that great either. Which is a surprise as the owner's manual is pretty good.

Yea it's very similar to the Chevron stuff. They changed the name recently to Delvac. Do not use straight hydraulic fluid in an HST transmission. The wet brakes and clutches will chatter. Tractor fluid has additives specifically for wet clutches and brakes. Gear oil for the front axle.

A smaller engine will have less internal friction. Friction is a major part of the wasted energy in an engine. A six will have about 3/4 the friction of an eight cylinder. Smaller engines will need more throttle to do the same accelleration or maintain the same speed. Having to suck air through...

My 2005 5105 doesn't have a loader. The only synchro is between low and reverse ranges. You still have to clutch and shift to change direction. To make it worse, speeds in reverse range are higher than in low forward range. To back up at the same speed I have to shift the main transmission too...

The DPF is on most tractors over 25.5hp. Its not required, but most manufacturers selected that technology to meet the Tier IV emissions requirements. The requirements for engines under 25.5hp are looser and can be met with engine tuning. Most tractors with a DPF also have common rail EFI...

Is that for fewer penetrations of the building, or are hydrants better in some way? I'm going to have to make that choice soon.

You might want to post in the Branson section. I think we have one or two members with that model.

New plug and the correct fuel filter (Mtronic needs a better one than the usual one for carbs). Then try the Mtronic reset procedure. It should be in the manual. There's two different ones depending on the generation of the Mtronic.

The t post driver is a good idea. I may try that on the rotary cutter blade bolts.

Goes dull a little faster in normal use and more faster if the wood is dirty. I like the pico chain on my small Stihl and Echo. I ran narrower .043 chain on the echo for a while but it didn't cut all that much faster and cutting speed on the Echo isn't much of a concern since I use it mostly for...

One of the new neighbors brought by his new electric saw for a short lesson. I wasn't impressed with the saw. I don't remember what brand it was but it was one of the new companies that made their name with electric tools. Greenworks is one of them but it could have been a different one. The...

Over asking is a thing if it's a desireable house in a hot market. Of course it depends on how the property is priced. The last house we sold, the realtor deliberately priced it a bit low to make sure people saw it, then told prospective buyers we were accepting offers on day X and there would...

It it used to work properly under the same conditions and you have replaced the thermostat, the thermostat is not the problem. Maybe removing it or cutting it down can make up for the real problem, but it won't fix it. I kind of doubt that a fully open thermostat is that much of a bottleneck so...

The owner's manual should say. But nearly always the full or do not fill above level is the top mark. Usually there is a lower mark that indicates the level at which you need to add oil. Between the two is the ok zone. Often there are cross hatches in that part. If there were two holes I'd say...

If you accept their counter I hope everything goes smoothly and the property's better than you expected.

Extendable lower links for the 3710 are $385 each from Messicks. For about $750 I'd do that first. For my Deere they're $1100. They are easy to replace for the home mechanic. Hydraulic top and side links that you can operate from behind the tractor also make hooking up easier but the...

If it runs all day, it's got enough fuel flow. And the ignition system is probably ok. That sounds like it's too rich for a hot start. Don't use the choke and open the throttle some to lean it out.

Just like a modern car or truck. You can drive it pretty much right away but don't work it hard until its warmed up. I wait until the temp gauge on my Branson starts moving before engaging the PTO chipper or mower.

The HST makes it much easier to change speeds while mowing. For example a lower gear when heading up or down hill or a higher gear when on smooth ground. With a shuttle that doesn't have synchronized shifting you have to stop to change gears. If you need to back up to get under trees very often...

A while back we got an energy audit done on our house which told us what was cost effective to address. They did a blower door test for leaks and used an IR camera to find where the insulation was lacking. It was worth the cost. We're definitely going with a heat pump water heater in the new...

When I decided I wanted a backhoe I called the dealer who sold my tractor. They happened to have a used backhoe for my model that they'd just gotten in. It cost a bit more than half what a new one cost. There was a factory kit to add the hydraulic ports for the backhoe that worked with or...

If you can get something to hoist or jack up the loader you can tie the loader joystick in the up position so it can be raised. Don't forget the cylinder stops when working under a raised loader.

Oregon seems to have a pretty good system for keeping farmland in farms. Each town or city has to declare an urban growth boundary following state guidelines. Outside that, it's usually tough to change the zoning or subdivide though that depends some on the county. It seems to have greatly...

Is the starter engaging? Is the engine turning but not firing up?

What part gets hot? The hydraulic fluid? Or something else? There isn't anything that should generate heat. Just bearings. Some chinese chippers used a simple valve instead of a real flow control. That might make the hydraulic system get hot.

I use LocTite 545 for NPT hydraulic fittings. JIC and o-ring I assemble dry but corrosion is not a huge issue here.

Lets not have this thread sidetrack into politics please. No one's going to change their minds based on a few posts here.

If those were 60lbs dry, there's also the weight of the water that is incorporated into the finished concrete.

How do you do that?

What a confusing document. But one of the examples says you need a class A to tow an empty trailer with a GVWR over 10k lbs. That's pretty straight forward and probably not what you wanted to hear. I think that with a 3500 and a 15k GVWR trailer, you're likely to also be over the combined 26k...

Septic, well, driveway and foundation for the manufactured home all add to the value. Not needing to get a permit for putting in a new house can be valuable.

Unless your loan rate is well below the rate of return of your investments. Then it's better to invest the money instead of paying the loan down early. The long term average rate of return in the stock market is somewhere between 7 and 10% depending on how you count it. If your loan's 3% and you...

It is to the vast majority of people. I wouldn't assume anything based on that except maybe that they don't deal primarily with large rural properties.

I'm going to have a 3200 sq ft shop built on my Oregon property this year. I have the building itself and some of the other subs lined up. If you're zoned EFU (exclusive farm use, how most Oregon farms are zoned) it should be pretty easy. Per Oregon law you're allowed to have a farm shop where...

It's likely a nylon bias ply tire, which is pretty typical for UTV tires. Yea I know it says radial on the side. But the company's literature doesn't mention radial while they do for other models. Most UTV tires are nylon bias ply. Either way you can plug or patch it like normal.

Some companies make extra quiet add-on mufflers for UTVs.

When there's a post from someone you have on ignore, the post is blanked out but the software adds a link you can click that says "view post".

I'm sorry about your wife's cancer. I hope she has an easy time of chemo and recovers fully. Sometimes its hard to see the level of the fluid in the glass, especially if the fluid is not dyed. You can test by parking the tractor facing slightly up hill and see if fluid appears in the glass...

I think one advantage to roof mount panels in the summer anyhow is that the panels shade part of the roof.

I have a bunch of users on my ignore list. Post about politics in a thread that's not about politics? Ignored. Say ignorant stuff about California? Ignored. Say something mean? Ignored. There's no reason I need to read any of that. Sometimes I read posts from ignored users if the context seems...

Are you sure they true up monthly? Every net metering scheme I have seem true up annually because of the season effect you noted. If they do true up monthly that's a sneaky way of not really doing net metering.

These days nearly all vehicles meet 50 state emissions. Back in the '90s there were a lot of 49 state vehicles that didn't meet CA emissions. You still should check though. It's on a sticker under the hood.

Does anyone know about the engine heat reduction kit pn ST1082488? It looks like an alternate water pump (high flow?), smaller water pump pulley and shorter belt. I'm going to try the new belt first of course. I'm just wondering since I spotted it on the parts site.

There's a kit that consists of the bearing, seal and impeller. But to replace them you need a shop press which I don't have at this location. I replaced the pump, radiator and some of the hoses. It was still indicating in the red but the bottom of the radiator was cool while the top was hot...

Our place in CA has hard water but it's not been enough to need treatment. The place in Oregon has a nice new artesian well with iron, boron and fluoride. We're looking at a whole house RO system to remove the boron and fluoride after the water is treated for iron. Boron is often found in well...

Every person who reads a thread with your pic in it has to download the pic to their computer. It happens automatically via web protocols but it's still downloaded so their screens can display it. The people who have poor bandwidth will have a wait.

Double cab. I think they were not sold in the higher trim levels like Limited, or if they were there were not many of them. I found a new double cab Tundra in 2017 that had been built to what I call "old man" spec- relatively low spec SR+ 2wd with driver's assist like nav and parking sensors...

The vast majority of Tier IV tractors between 25 and 75hp have no problems with their emissions systems. There's been a few bad models like the Kubota B3350 and some makes like LS where some units seem to do regens really often but mostly they work fine. Operating in cold weather and idling a...

Hi, I got the nuts off the blade bolts on my 6' Brush Hog with an air impact gun but could not get the bolts out of the blade carrier. I had a lot of penetrant, an engineers hammer and a length of pipe, and also tried an air hammer. I'm hoping to have another go at it with a propane torch (all...

And you will probably be doing a lot of digging. The stumps I have dug out with a backhoe took way longer than I thought they should. No way would I have been able to pull them out with the tractor.

Software that does anything beyond extremely simple like a calculator is a huge complex mess of unpredictable junk. It's impossible to prove that software will never do something bad. The best you can do is to test it under a lot of conditions, and then the best you can get is that under your...

I got a Mahindra branded Kodiak with my Branson. Its price from the dealer was about the same as ordering a Kodiak and having it shipped. It's been a good implement. But $3k seems like a lot. I'd check out the IronCraft units. First price I found from a dealer for the 1206 was $2200. A local...

I've done pretty well with cinch traps but it takes some persistence. Gophers are easier to trap.

This graph shows soot production as a function of power and rpm. BMEP which is effectively torque is on the vertical axis and rpm on the horizontal axis. You can see there is a sweet spot of low soot right in the range where its putting out some power at a range of operating rpm. I don't know...

My Branson's tach has a green band from about 2000 to 2500 rpm. The manual says to keep the engine in that band for best DPF performance.

I went there this week and removed the radiator and water pump. The bearings seem good. As far as I can tell from looking and feeling in the pump ports the impeller's there and turns with the shaft. I drained the radiator using the valve near the bottom and there was some fluid left inside...

I'm on my third turbo car. The first two went well over 100k miles before I passed them on. All of mine have been tuned though not radically. My wife just bought a turbo car. We've had zero problems with the turbo systems and few problems over all. I suspect this Toyota problem is with a...

Hmm that's interesting. I ran it for about 20 minutes cutting grass, then parked it for a few hours while removing irrigation pipe and fence wire from a field with 3' high grass, then fired it up again. I got maybe 10 minutes more grass cutting before I looked at the gauge and it was pinned in...

HVAC Load Calculation - Maunualj - Whole House Loadcalc has a simplified manual J and S which is what (some) HVAC contractors use to calculate heat gain/loss and size equipment. It's kind of tricky in that there are some innocuous looking fields that are really required and can change the...

I think this 2005 model doesn't have a computer. But the problem could be in the gauge. I have seen a few threads here from people with 5105s who have had the gauge in the cluster go bad. But those usually have the gauge not resting on the pin when cold, or pinning the needle immediately when...

All I had was an air compressor, so I blew out the radiator fins with that. I got a lot of dirt out. But I think if the problem was only that the external fins were clogged the whole radiator would get warm, and also when run for a while it would start blowing coolant out the overflow hose.

The Deere 5105 I bought with a piece of property is overheating. The only sign is the gauge, which when I work the tractor heads into the red within 5 minutes or so. It's not steaming out the radiator overflow. There's no oil in the coolant or coolant in the oil. I replaced the thermostat but...

For loader work, it depends on how fast you want the loader to be. Sometimes I run the engine at PTO RPM (2500 on mine) to get the loader moving fast. Sometimes less rpms works fine.

Her Costco aids were pre-Jabra.

My wife has Jabra hearing aids. She likes them much better than the Costco ones she got before the law changed. They cost less too.

The standard in code for passive vent area is 1/300th of the building sq ft, on the intake and the exhaust. Or 1/150 in some cases (this is from memory so it may be wrong, look it up if you want it correct). You need a low intake and a higher exhaust so the hot air will rise out the upper...

Packing generally does not absorb sound as well as mufflers with tuned chambers but it's more compact. If your muffler is over the engine under the hood then it will have some size constraints but if it's external you can go larger. You might need bracing for a heavier muffler so it does not...

Why is that faster? Do you need the exact center so there's no cleanup on the edges, or is being sort of close still faster?

No. I kind of wish they did. When I am stopped at a light I sometimes look at the tires of the cars around me. I see a lot of partly bald tires that have been run under inflated or with a bad alignment.

Yep, 1976 and newer get tested. And if you're in a strict testing county like most in the bay and LA areas, it's got to not only meet the limits on the test but it's got to have unmodified OE equipment.Try getting smog parts for a late '70s car. Or finding a tech who can recognize what parts...

It'd be a lot simpler to just charge more for registering EVs like Oregon does. Imperfect but simple. Or switch how the fund roads from mostly usage taxes, which largely come from fuel taxes, to mostly from the general fund. But that makes people who don't drive or don't drive much subsidize...