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If we have moved everything off shore, where does it matter where you move to? I think that most people just do not get this.

Thank you, Mid, this is exactly the info I was seeking.

Every road I'm on has logging trucks now. Big trees going to mills. I suspect there will be a very quick return to normal prices soon, just by how many trucks I'm seeing. We've just put off those projects that required wood for a later date. There is always something else to do that doesn't...

I'm not getting the air valves to work any more on the rear tires of my '87 Ford 1220 with Firestone R1 9.5-16 / F-51 tires. These are Calcium filled. My compressor, even at 150 psi, will not add air. I am hesitant to attempt to replace the air valves, if I can't get the old ones out or...

I guess if we all start buying gold/silver, it will solve something. :)

Understanding Maryland, and all the reasons i got out of there as soon as i could, I was not too shocked when the State took, 10% extra of my uncle's estate just because he didn't have children of his own. Maryland is the ONLY state that does this on top of the usual taxes.. Why does...

She has 300K invested, I have 260K invested, Not including the shared property valued at 600K which I did on my own, then changed the title to give her half. Which, by the way, only costed $8 at the county registry of deeds. No kids. Everything is payed off. So we don't think much about...

You've never watched traffic from the top of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. :)

And this one is interesting because some one didn't get the memo that this road is used by logging trucks. So the rear carriages always go over the little radius they built in and the curb just gets destroyed every year and then rebuilt. And I don't go to the store on the upper right corner...

Eugene/Springfield, OR, has embraced them also. This is my least favored. Just when you think you are done with one, you go in to another. A stranger to this area, wouldn't have clue which lane to be in. Three years of construction killed off the motorcycle/ag business in the upper left...

So. If you have a collar, from a former dog, its now worth big bucks.

Find a corner some where and dig down to see what they did. As in, did they make a proper drive way in the first place with a base. You need to know this first. I've wasted a great deal of 1/4 minus rock, only to find out later that the road had no 1 and 1/2 clear base rock. It just...

Yes. Take photos of everything before you dry wall with references of where the pic was taken. Print these out. I did this, and Oh my Gosh! was this helpful, 20 years later, when we later wanted to add stuff to the walls. You can see exactly where the DWV and electrical and water lines went.

Can we get a sketch of your lay out? It would greatly help us to give opinions. And do you know the prevailing winds? Put it into this sketch with compass direction. I'm sure all your ideas are good, but you asked. A review, is what you take from it, and all suggested ideas are mostly...

I have to wait till it rains again. Scraped out an area for a new patio, and three inched deep its still dry and hard. Still want to to say "Thank You Every One," locally, that followed the fire rules this season.

Don't know that much about East Texas, as to climate and such, but these are things I wish I had done, living in the Pacific Northwest, and things I did that worked after twenty-years of occupancy. Wish I had installed a metal roof. Wish I had installed a sprinkler system for the gardens and...

Eugene is in a very strange situation where by we want to give services, but these folk just keep coming in from out of state. I believe, most locals thought all this help would be going to other locals that were down and out. This is different. These are not locals. They have never...

A dead comedian is nothing to laugh about.

Back before most all reviews were created by BOTs, I would always buy lightly used goods that had good reviews as a measure of quality. People rarely use to write good reviews unless they were truly impressed. Now, everything new has a review of some sort. These are 90% created by the vendor...

For Christmas at work we would buy each other gag gifts. I knew my boss loved bacon. I got him a jar of this. About a week later he asks where I got the item. The way he asked was funny..... it was like a junky asking for my dealer. Told him it was a secret. Later, I went back to the...

Fun fact. Every stone in New Orleans was imported: Every single freaken stone. :)

If ya can't lift it, then ya gott'a drag it. Only came across six that could not be lifted. They became "sentinel rocks," as some real estate people will call them. It blows my mind sometimes to think that people will pay good money to put a Big Rock in front of their property as a status...

When people say that they have had a hard time with the IRS, not that any one here has said this, I have to wonder. I've had several encounters with the IRS, and each time they were very professional, and nice people, and figured out the clerical error on their part and once on my part: No...

This is why "right to repair" a thing for me. When I see it built in - to fail- , just to make an extra buck, it bugs me, and those brand names go off my list of consideration. And they are failing, as people have become more aware.

Very fun, cause I have a poster copy of this in my office. And Wife and I came up with the name "Casa de Piedras" as a name for the property. :) If someone stole rocks from me, I'd probably laugh till my sides hurt. :)

Visiting a friend, I noticed that there was a small crack, in the screen of a new TV he had just bought. Looked exactly like rock-chip damage on a car's windshield. He had fired up his wood stove for the first time that fall and forgot to remove a 9 MM round that was on top of the stove. The...

I have a few shot guns, Mid-60s Browning 12ga over-unders made in Belgium. several grades. These are basicly unused, New Old Stock. I've sold a few. And really didn't get much for them because the barrels are are not sold as using steel or Bismuth shot. I know this doesn't matter. Buyers...

Remember the late 90's. You could day trade and make more than the Nine to Five job, you still went to? I knew it was bubble, and got out just in time. My domestic partner at the time, stayed in, and lost near everything. There will always be these sorts of bubbles. They are very...

My Kenmore washing machine gave up after 20 years. Of course the critical part I needed to repair it, the spider that held the tub, was NO LONGER available. Everything else was still available, just not THIS part. Oddly this one part seems to have been designed to fail after about 20...

The repair vids all seem to point to part 19. Which is a guide sleeve for the steering wheel shaft.

Its one of these :)

All you see was done in the last seven years. The long rock pile is just this year. There have been many other rock piles created, just as big, and used as fill, or revetment/wall building before this pile. The '87 Ford 1220, bought in '95, was the best investment I think I've ever made...

Here's a diagram for the lt1050. Check for broken teeth on part 10.

The deer here will put their feet up on the trunk just so that they can get their antlers a bit higher in to the tree. They are so sweet, with a honey and orange glazing. Birds ate all the cherries this year.

In clay. :)

Many folk here are probably looking at the "Get back to the land" sort of living. You may see some "raw land" that looks very inexpensive. I did that, and it sort of worked out, in the early nineties, yet I didn't know about some things. The biggest thing I didn't know about was rocks and...

Mine is a "Little Tractor." So its on a much smaller scale than what most folk here have to deal with. The odd part of this, was that the local New Holland Dealer said straight out that they don't take in cylinders, for rebuilding- you have to buy a whole new unit. And I called locally, to...

LD1 We are thinking the same! Was just going to ask if i could start the gland caps off while attached to the tractor. Tried before asking, and with a bit of force the loader's Gland Cap moved. Actually, I'm wondering if I can just drop the Ford 7106 loader cylinder's right side down -...

I just didn't have time to pressure wash for the pics, but I'm certain that only the seals are leaking. Did a test for this last time I had it all cleaned up a couple weeks ago. I have a tool that will work for the Steering Cylinder Gland Cap. I will double check to see if this is also...

Some pics. By the by, thanks guys for all the encouragement. Now i just have to figure out when I'll have a free couple days to work on them. I use the tractor everyday in the summer and fall. None of the other FEL cylinders leak, only one does. Should I do all four of them?

Having struck out finding any one local willing to rebuild the steering cylinder on my 87 ford 1220, I've decided to bite the bullet and do it my self. All ready bought the rebuild seal kit. Anyone know of a good instruction vid on doing this?

Liberty Caps grow naturally in my region and on my lawn. Two or three, and the whole day is a bit different and more fun. :)

Just ordered a new water pump, and some other things for my '87 1220 Ford. Local New Holland dealer wanted twice the cost of what I could find online. Do they WANT TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS? Yes, its a little bitty, 14 HP tractor. Nothing compared to the Right to Repair issues facing people...

Ethiopian cuisine. Every few years I'll try to get back into it, yet the resulting digestive issues are always disastrous. My Northern European body just can't digest this mix of ingredients/spices, no matter how well they are prepared. I can eat and enjoy just about any other regional...

Almost hesitant on this suggestion...... yet this is what I do.... I chop the chains up into 3 inch segments. Then I use these as flailing chains attatched to a spindle on my gas weed eater. This is very dangerous, yet it is the best I've ever found to get rid of the monster...

if I lost only 2 pounds a month, she'd be entirely rid of me in about 8 years. :)

First thing I do when ever i get a new trimmer, is swap out the bump feed head for a fixed line head. Much more versatile. For light duty, you can put in long thin line. For thick areas you can put in shorter thick line or even line with a wire center. The tall grass wrapping issue, as...

John Deere employee responds to Right to Repair - YouTube I like what this guy says. I've been in electronic repair for many years. This is a big deal.

I had that poster of two vultures when i was in my teens. Its fun to see someone remembered that. :)

Fortunately i knew exactly where the hatch was, so the dig was trivial. What I did find out is that the contractors that i had entrusted to do a good job were idiots, when I could not be on site for weeks at a time. They took advantage of that, to be idiots. When i dug it out, 20 years later...

Had to dig out my feed line to a septic tank. Got that fixed, but in the back fill I'm having problems. What ever i put on this is mushy. Its rained here for 2 months continuously, and even the worms are leaving ground. I want to be able to dig this back out at some time. What is the...

Right to Repair is an issue for everyone. Whether its a computer or a tractor hydraulic controller. Rossman and Ifixit are leading the charge. This is something everyone in the DIY world should look at. Its just sort of starting, the push back is small now. But one should be able to...

Truth is democracy is an aberration in human history. it only existed for about 40 years in Athens. Somehow we still think this is a standard. Even if it hasn't happened again, for thousands of years later. We still have Kings, that are called something else, and we still have...

How close is this?

I use to be very organized. I'd clean it up, and one week later, lts like this again. Does getting old mean you lose your ability to put things away, or is it that you are just too tired and say to yourself that you will take care of it the next day. I don't know. All the projects got...

These have plastic parts that deteriorate over time. Most likely its the Head Valve Number 10 in the diagram: a 5 dollar plastic part. You are correct that there is no spring to return the driver. The cycling is all done by air pressure. Had this exact same issue with my Porter-Cable gun...

Look at where Katy intersects with the pipeline. Is this near the site of the property? Don't know why people have turned this thread into some sort of property rights issue. As Dodge Man has stated, the pipeline builders have already done the feasibility studies including their legal...

This worked very well for lifting rocks.

Air bag gas cylinder.

Background. We are building a fire break in the form a lined pond that is down hill from our house. The pond area was originally a site that was dug out for a pond. But over the span of 20 years I never had the time to finish the pond, so for years I was dumping rocks and dirt from...

I'm not sure if I can trust my tire gauges.. One is electronic and the others are the Slide Type. Getting very different readings. The valves spit water, even at 12 oclock. Electronic says 18.5, the sliders just give me 7 or 8 PSI. I can set the air compressor at 20 but it will not fill...

All of the neighbors have decided to do some road repair on an easement that we all share.. The lower part is paved AC Grindings that I don't think was applied correctly 7 years ago. It has pretty big chunks taken out if it, from heavy trucks, pot holes and places where later repair layers...

Found this at a garage sale in Hawaii. Apparently they use these to de-husk Coconuts. I've used it to open coconuts and it works perfectly. The blade breaks the husks, and works as an auger to drain the milk. And then the Knob is used to break the shell. Never seen one in the US. ;)

Friend got a new Quad about 4 years ago. He rode bikes for many years but this was his first Quad. Last time I saw him, He was showing me videos of himself riding through the woods. It was a fast Quad and he liked to ride fast without a helmet. I suggested that he take it easy till he got...

I have a lead where by I can have all the old fry oil from a local store for free. 20 Gallons a week. Has any one done this before? Have you made your own Bio-Fuel, and how did that work out?

This might not be what people think of as a tool. The utility people left this on my work site. It was an entire spindle of Mule Tape. The good stuff 1800Lbs rated. I tried to return it to the utility, and they said its okay, its yours. I have used this Mule Tape for 20 years off that...

100 and two year old square.

When you really need to bust that nut. :)

Serious pliers. :)

Does any one have a DIY method of dust control of a rural gravel road?

I had a small triangular file in my tool set for well over 20 years, never knowing what I was going to do with it. Had no idea what it was for. Tool **** Friday made me look it up to see what it was used for. Its used for sharpening cross cut hand saws! So I spent the better part of last...

One of my all time best tools. This is a Bell System KS-6854 Bridgeport. Flat head Screwdriver. It is special designed to work on old bell system telephones. This one tool refurbished many 100's, if not a thousand, vintage phones that were put back to use.

Some tin snips going back at least 50 years. :)

This one has had me puzzeled for many years. It is very old, and very well made. The odd part is that it has brass faces, that look like washers, on the heads. No Markings.

This is my personal all time best tool. They are called Duckbill Pliers, and rather hard to come by these days. This is the single tool that has saved the day for me when nothing else worked. :)

I wonder how many people know what this tool is/was used for? Says "No. 428K - DMFG. CO. Lancaster. PA"

I've had this little gem for over 30 years. It says "Diamond Calk Horseshoe Co. Duluth Minn." Otherside says "Diamalloy Steel Made in U.S.A."

Left Pic taken in 1982, thats me on the right at Crater Lake with a 1980 SR 500. Right Pic is the same Bike taken in 2018. I now look much older than the Bike does. :)

Collens and Co, Hartford Conn., Hammer. :)

A for-real Vice-Grip :)

Just Remember: No Hammering and No Extensions. :)

Starting a new thread, called TOOL **** FRIDAY. Bring out the the old tools, USA made. Here is the first entry:

If you go outside the dealerships, there is a precipitous drop in what things cost. I thought this was odd at first. I've even had a salesperson tell me what I wanted to buy was insanely priced. I don't understand what the dealerships are doing. They price things in insane ways for anything...

Thank you for letting me join. This is my first post. I need to replace the brakes in my 1987 Ford 1220. Adjusting them doesn't work anymore. I have the I and T Shop Manual FO-46 Ford Manual Fourth Edition. Changing the Brakes is described in Paragraph 143. It says I need to remove the...