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They call my brother who is blind wanting to sell an extended warranty on his vehicle. The only vehicle he owns is a 1990 Chevy 1 ton dually with untold thousands of miles on it. (It has a 5.1 digit odometer) It hasn't been licenses in two years.

The OP has a Kioti 2610, a sub 25 h.p. tractor. I doubt lifting capacity of the forks is even a factor. The cheapest forks I could find will lift over a ton, so capacity wouldn't be a factor until you get over 50 h.p.

I've got a bunch of DeWalt 18v tools that work just fine, it's the batteries that are crapping out. I'm to old to start buying new tools that will get only some use, so I plan on just changing to adaptors and 20v batteries. The only 20v DeWalt I have is the grease gun, and only because there...

I was going to get pallet forks for the occasional pallet I move I have a two prong hay spear that has substituted nicely for the last 3 years, but I can't adjust the width, which I seldom did anyway. I've also found the 39" spears work pretty good for moving 8' bales of hay too, who would have...

The weather here has gotten boring. Highs upper 20s to 31, lows in the high teens, wash, rinse, repeat for as far as the forecast extends.

That would be under 3000# for trailer and load in most if not all states.

I think replacing the damaged receptacle would be one of the first things to do. There would have to be a reason for several circuits to stop working or blow a fuse, perhaps the damaged receptacle has allowed several circuits to ground out.

The OP said tandem axle, so it's either a light weight small wheeled snowmobile hauler or perhaps it has surge brakes instead of electric.

Yes it is a supply and demand issue to some extent but it is also an inflation issue. The kicker is, while supply may increase and/or demand decrease, the value of the dollar lost to inflation will never be regained. As long as the government has the attitude "We have plenty of paper, ink and...

I think you would be better off using a chain saw and buying a grapple to move the felled trees. I seriously doubt a 50 hp tractor will have enough flow and pressure on a tractor to take down anything more than just saplings. The ones I've seen are designed for a skid steer which is heavier and...

The Norwegian review said 30000 Euros and that was a year ago, that would make it about $36000 now with inflation, Where are you going to get one under $20K?

I read their web description of the tractor and I saw it was certified for European use, but I didn't see anything about American tier IV final certification. Might double check that.

Not Knowing the tractor, I'd say the gears are synchronized, but the range isn't. For transporting mine on our gravel road, I'd select my 3rd range, first gear to start and then up shift like an old car to get back to the house.

The range selector is typically not synchronized and doesn't shift like a truck. My question is, why would you want to go through the gears like a truck? Usually you select a range that is right for the job you are doing and then change gears to adjust the speed faster or slower as needed...

Looks real good. It cost me about $1400 to covert my old Ford 1715, including a new bucket three years ago, but even though mine isn't as close coupled as yours, I wouldn't go back. Before the conversion I was trying to handle 3x3x8 bales on spears 28 inches from the pins (tippy) but the new...

I saw them doing this method in Canada when they built the east-west connector to the Alex Fraser bridge near Vancouver. In my region you can't simply dredge a river or a bay to get ballast for a project. Anything that might endanger fish habitat can't be touched because of the courts...

Hauling it in and compacting worked here. When we were done hauling, they were done compacting, In places we were raising the grade by 20 feet.

That's the way we did it but rolling a little faster. Engage the PTO on the fly, lift both boxes just past the second stage of the ram, trip the trailer when the spotter indicated, counted 1,2, tripped the truck and spread it 8-10 inches thick in one continuous swath with little or no gap or...

To the average city dweller, farmers aren't needed at all. Milk come in plastic jugs from the store, cereals come in boxes, vegetables come in cans or frozen bags. Meat comes in cans, or Styrofoam trays with plastic wrap. Fruit comes in cans or the produce aisle along with the noncanned...

"One piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime..."

I haven't dealt with a regen in a tractor yet but will in a few months. I have dealt with regen in a Mack OTR diesel engine. Most of the time you couldn't even tell it was doing it except it would produce thin whitish smoke out the stack that I might notice in the mirrors. Are tractors...

I knew a Baptist pastor who used to farm a section in Idaho. One year he was having a tough go financially and decided to not buy crop insurance. As a result, he lost his farm when hail destroyed his crop and decided to go to seminary. He was the son of a Baptist pastor; he joked that people...

You all are lucky. The place I moved to has limestone scree for a floor. They used it for driveway road base and to "level" the barn floor. It hasn't packed in 20 years and I cannot imagine trying to lie down to work on any thing. It ranges from 4 inches to dust and the rock is angular and...

I use Google Earth Pro to map out my property and plan my fencing. Under tools there is a line drawing tool that will do lines, paths and polygons, giving length for lines and paths, and perimeter plus area for polygons

1. The refinery jobs weren't just fill, the material had to meet engineers compaction requirements and had to be structurally sound. 2. In the Northwest of the US you can't disturb the bottom of a waterway except under extreme circumstances due to First Nations treaty fishing rights. 3. The...

I'm not sure of your question. The logic behind the refinery safety officer didn't exist. it was based on emotion and his visual perception and from a distance, not logic. The double dump logic, it's faster, it's safer to keep trucks moving in the same direction, the odds of a trailer flopping...

Quite a few of our jobs were with over 100 dump trucks unloading at an average of 1 per minute. The safest way was the double spread. I'd spread mine, a grader would smooth it out and two rolling compactors would compact it, the next truck would lay his load next to mine and so on. I worked one...

I got our hay from Andrews Hay between the freeway and Arlington. Their 3x3x8' bales are as big as my little Ford can handle and we much prefer machine handling. I'm 70 my brother is 75 and blind, stacking 15 tons of hay in a loft didn't appeal to either of us.

I noticed neither truck had spreader chains, they just dump in piles. This is what we routinely did, except if you timed it right your trailer ran empty right over the start of the truck spread.

The one I was describing was a 90 degree blind side back off a busy main thoroughfare in north Seattle. The one redeeming quality was it was down hill.

I was living a few miles east of Sedro Woolley last winter and my rain gauge showed 11.75 last January and we very seldom get the convergence zone rains that happen further south. This past November when you were getting those atmospheric rivers, I had 9/10s of an inch all month. 125 miles of...

Our 4 axle pups had those, usually just one. First dump truck and pup I ever drove had a self steering axel on the front and back and had a dog that dropped into a notch to lock them for backing. Unfortunately when they locked, one would lock a few degrees off in one direction, the other would...

Meanwhile we have been having cool temps and freezing fog. Every little twig and branch is covered with a half inch of rime ice.

We just moved this year to Tonasket from western WA. We got here too late to make connections for local hay so I made 5 trips over the mountains for our winter hay from our regular supplier, 3 tons at a time. The price was approximate $300 a ton then for horse hay. The owner said they had...

No chance? LOL That one shouldn't be all that hard to back with some practice. I drove a Kenworth with a set of double trailers, actually a 1 axle semi trailer with a 2 axle wagon with a 10 foot reach between the trailers. I could back them a little, 40 ft back, pull up 20, back 40, pull 20...

"It has really well thoughout controls, all work is done one hand on the wheel, the other on the loader control, with forward and reverse there, and a gas pedal. Totally simple." The modern wheel loaders are doing away with the steering wheel making operating even simpler.

The only pup I ever pulled that had a locking pin is similar to the one in the photo. The gap between the 1st and 2nd axles is to allow the front axle a limited amount of pivot. Mine I would about 30 degrees in either direction before it hit the stop. The short distance between the front axle...

Even new ones are a pain at times, but pulling them apart and greasing the threads makes them a lot better, and they will even take laying in the rain,,, for a while, just have to remember gloves when working with them. I keep mine in a tool box on the trailer out of the weather, but I only...

At $120 a pop, I think I'll stick to straps for my tractor.

I've seen similar in the farmland on the Skagit flats. I believe they did it for a drainage channel for when the spring rains come and the winter snows start to melt.

I used to use a truckers winch/cheater bar and not have to worry worry about the kickback. The cam action binder is nearly triple the cost of a standard binder. I like the speed of standard binders over the ratchet type, but I like the ability to keep an even tension on chain with the...

One will never regret using more chains, binders or straps than necessary.

Strange, my water heater element has lasted longer than the tank. As long as it's surrounded by water, it should be fine.

The same could be said for the three point hitch, the PTO, rubber tires, diesel engines,,, So what's your point?

None of ours had a lock for backing, and there wasn't a locking pin on the flatbed trailer I pulled years ago for a lumber yard. The last dump pup trailer I pulled had a turntable lock. It was the only 4 axle pup I ever pulled that had a turntable. It could be backed unlocked, but it wasn't...

I looked at the photos and didn't see any landing gear so I would assume that trailer has a turntable. It bears a resemblance to the transfer trailer chassis I mentioned above but without the tandem rear axles they have,

You bet, if you happen to have a spare $200K. Or this used one for a mere $170K. https://www.machinerytrader.com/listing/for-sale/208990037/2019-mecalac-7mwr-wheel-excavators I am sure everyone on TBN is going to start lining up to buy one. LOL Our drivers hated these things for bending...

Yes, an idiot abusive operator.

This video would make a great Kubota add. "If Ted can't destroy it. you won't either" Lol

The modern CUT is metaphorically the Swiss Army Knife of large home/small farm power equipment. Like a SAK it's designed to do a lot of different tasks. It is not the best tool in the world for a lot of those tasks, but it can accomplish them easier and faster than doing them with man strength...

Actually that is a mixed comparison, the scraper is more like a large box blade, the land plane is more like a

Apples and oranges, one is a dedicated industrial tool, the other is a farm machine engineered to do a host of tasks your backhoe can't do. Can your backhoe detach it's loader and mount a snow blower? Tractors are designed to easily do that. But like I said, we are talking apples and oranges...

Your argument seems to be that a tractor is not designed as a dedicated loader, therefore the companies who build them didn't design them to have a loader. I've operated several John Deere and Cat loaders and they are not intended to do the same job, there is no reason they should be built the...

My best advice is don't get over confident with your machine, sometimes you can get away with it but sometimes you won't get much warning before catastrophe happens. Kioti Broken in Half Ballast your tires also. With the backhoe on board you should have enough weight behind the axle for...

Washington State abides by the Federal weight laws for all roads. 56K was for a 4 axle truck but 5 axle trucks are good for 62k. This particular truck pulls a three axle transfer trailer which is probably parked nearby. With 8 axles he is good for 105,500 also. Federal max on a tandem is...

For gravel we used them all the time, increased our gross from 56,000 to 105,500 with a four axle pup. The hay haulers usually hauled doubles, that way they could break them up to get them into tight places

So I gather you don't have a loader on your tractor then. Actually, when Kubota, John Deere et al markets a tractor with a loader, (see their respective websites) it is pretty much assured that it is engineered to take a loader. Nobody said tractors were the perfect or ideal loader or even...

Just because a tractor manufacturer doesn't make the tractors and the loaders in the same plant does not mean the manufactured be it Kubota, John Deere, New Holland, did not design the tractor to have and use a loader.

You can also set stops on the draft control to raise it a bit to transport, and a little more to spread. That's what I did when I leveled my driveway. It was trial and error to get it figured out, but once I did, it worked pretty sweet.

No they are made under contract for the manufacturer, just like most tractors are also made under contract for the manufacturer, so what is your point?

That is true in their initial design 80 years ago. Big high horse power farm tractors don't have loaders, but people have been putting loaders on tractors for decades and all CUTs are engineered with the understanding that a loaders is going to be part of the package. If they weren't meant to...

The hydro units I've looked at have the brake pedal on the left side, hydro on the right. That might be what RalphVa was referring to when he said the brake pedals were on the wrong side since traditionally the brake pedals are on the right and the clutch on the left.

Lift capacity and ability is based on operating on level ground, and this was not level ground. This appears to be too much weight and a bouncing load over uneven ground.

Lol. I remember seeing a post about a Massey left unattended in neutral rolling down a slight grade hitting a tree and braking in two.

You are having too much fun with this thread, it should be reported. 😂

I bought my 1715 with loader for $8500 four and a half years ago when it showed on CL I called immediately, At that time anything that had a loader and appeared to be in decent shape was $10,000 + and they were few and far between. You didn't mention whether the 1700 was a 4x2 or a 4x4 tractor...

My 1715 is pretty easy on fuel also, about a half gallon an hour when working heavy. Moving up to a 50 hp cab soon and I am willing to bet that it won't sip fuel like my old Ford. Switching from 5 gallon polly cans to a 100 gallon transfer tank too.

It sort of sounded like a Johnny popper when it first started. I had assumed all of the 1700 series were 3 cylinder, learned something new.

I have been told thirty seconds is the max, then give it a rest. The OP doesn't have his location in his profile, so I have to wonder what the temperature was when he was trying to start the machine. My 1715 will start down to about 20, but below that cranking doesn't generate enough heat for it...

Actually it's a combination of factors. Watched an Tractor Mike video from about a year ago and he said he had expected a glut of tractors on the lots when the Covid shutdowns came, but as he said, he couldn't have been more wrong. The tractors flew off the lots faster than the dealers could...

We had virtually the same conditions in the Okanogan a little over three weeks ago. I don't know how much it snowed but we had 2-4' drifts the length of the road when it was done. Stay warm and inside until the winds die down .

I put in a barn floor about 4 years ago. I had hired a guy to put in a level pad but it was far from level. After the pole building crew was finished I used my tractor to level it out with screened pit run compacted with a plate compactor to within about two inches of final grade and topped it...

Last year we were living in a 4300 square foot home and our power bill was $7.50 per month except for February and March when they were $56 and $47 respectively. In a much smaller home this year in a much colder climate. Electricity is approximately $.0545 per KWH. Bills have been in the mid...

Looking at a New Holland Boomer 50 cab and the price will be in line with the horse power, if it ever gets here.

Yeah, that's why will can still buy cars at 1960 prices.

I found the same picture online titled Giant Fir Log, Washington State. The truck looks like one of those once operated by G&D Logging of Darrington WA. Looking at the truck I would guess mid to late 70s- early 80s

My impression of a stump bucket is that they are monstrosities that should be reserved for skid steers only. They have no business on any CUT. Just because a tractor has a skid steer mount doesn't mean eveything that fits a skid steer is appropriate on a tractor FEL. As my dump truck buddies...

My tractor is a Ford New Holland 1715 with the Shibaru 3 cylinder and I agree they are good tractors. Other than mine being very cold blooded to start, it's a good little tractor. The older tractors were rebranded Shibaru tractors built in Japan. I am not sure when, but the decision was made at...

Price is going to be the deciding factor, so standard rear mount is what we will end up with. Priced a factory front mount that runs of a mid PTO and it was three times the price of a generic rear mount. We don't get enough snow here to justify that price. We just want a blower for those rare...

When you think of how easy it is, relatively speaking, to get parts for od JDs, Cases, Fords, Massey Fergusons, et al, it makes you wonder how long it will be before many new tractors are orphaned. Fifty or so years ago, there were fewer tractor brands and each brand had fewer models, There...

This is my first winter in north central Washington, so I really wasn't prepared for the snow. The first few were 1-2 inches, no big deal. Then another 4 and a few days later a full blown blizzard starting Christmas night and through the next few day with temps on either side of Zero and winds...

I used to check ride potential new hires in a dump truck, finding gears for them from the right seat was part of the job.

North central Washington. I am equally distant from jut about everything. lol,

It appears the pedals are arranged just like a left hand drive vehicle clutch, brake, throttle. It would be a sight more difficult to teach your hands and your feet at the same time. With the high price of even used side by sides, I've been considering a Japanese mini truck which are just...

Just did a Google search on regen problems entering Kubota Regen Problems, then John Deere, New Holland, LS etc and they have had regen problems, particularly in the first few years after the Tier IV Final standards in 2014. Just about all of them have been cleared up now.

We have been looking at tractors for a few weeks and the only brand I've heard serious negatives about is Kubota. Particularly the B 3350. The model has been replaced, but Kubota has left the buyers of the 3350 blowing in the wind. I won't even consider a tractor brand that did what Kubota to...

A link would be helpful otherwise your info doesn't have much meaning.

Individually, no, collectively, who knows. I am not a lefty greenie by any means, yet I consider myself a steward of my environment. A little extra expense, a little complexity aren't to high of prices to pay to do my part to not pollute any more than necessary.

Learn! The Brits and Aussies drive on the opposite side of the road. You go there, you adapt. They come here, they adapt. There is no wrong side, only the unfamiliar.

I was at a tractor dealer Thursday and they showed me around their shop. They had 2 year old 50 hp tractor in there that the owner uses as his daily driver. He can't get a drivers license, but ag is exempt so he takes it to Safeway, Walmart, etc. and clears snow off driveways and parking lots...

Exactly what Kubota did. The same engine displacement engine produced 28+ horsepower in previous editions. What Kubota did wasn't illegal or unethical, it was simply taking advantage of the regulations to produce a good tractor with a basically proven engine. Having said that, you are also...

This one isn't for sale, it's the one we left on the west side of the state. It has been on the market for 5 months, but we finally have a reasonable offer. It has a fourth bedroom but because the previous owner only put in a 3 bed septic, it has to be listed as three bedroom...

We are having a hard time selling a well built 4 bed 3 bath 4000 sq. ft. house on 6 acres with a 3 stall stable, fenced and cross fenced for $800K. Location makes all the difference

I think you are getting good advice, This stuff will not pack solid, but it will let water drain through it but not gather the speed necessary to move anything bot the finest materials unless you get a deluge. The company I retired from had a similar material, 2"-4" quarry spalls. We used...

What a beautiful post, thanks for sharing, This is the positive side of the adage, "what goes around, comes around,"

The used ones are ridiculously high and the Chinese ones are questionable at best, so I've thinking about a 4x4 mini truck here.

Got a little rain, and had a had temperatures edging above freezing, but still have significant snow on the ground to the point that the bottom wire of the fence is still in the snow.

We are considering a slightly smaller Boomer but with a cab. We were looking at a Boomer 45 but the salesman thinks he can find a 50 a lot sooner. Going to talk to him in person tomorrow about it.

In the Northwest they sure do. Take for example all the pristine Seattle, Portland (and others) city parks. Once you get past all the tents, blue tarps, piles of garbage, old pallet boards, used syringes, etc. they are nice places to visit. NOT

It seems like much doo-doo about nothing. In a neighborhood of $100,000 vehicles and a majority of the homeowners upset about road apples it would be easy to put up an remotely controlled automatic gate system that should end all whining. The other solution, talk to the offending neighbor. It...

For the $17,000 difference he is talking about, he can buy a lot of wheel weights, beet juice, plus about all the heavy implements he will ever need. Weight is cheap, $17,000 to gain 500# is not cheap.

That's your opinion, but you know what they say about opinions. I have a cheap Tractor Supply tiller that I used a lot to loosen soil to make leveling out the ground easier. My neighbor has a backhoe on his little Kubota that he uses often for different projects. Just because you have no use...

Oh yeah, I can see new nuke plants being built in the U.S, right after pigs fly. Tidal will harm fish and whales and other marine life Nuke plant, if they are ever built produce their own kind of environmental problem with a half life on spent fuel rods measured in the thousands of years. So...

That's like saying some guns are killing people because they shoot bigger bullets. I drove a Kenworths, Macks, Freightliners, and others and the height of the hood never posed a problem for me in city driving, neither does the height of the hood of my F-250. It really does a disservice to...

Your charts don't support your statement at all on fuel prices. There was no outrage because prices at their highest in 2017-2020 were still averaging $1 per gallon less than 2011-2015 prices. The outrage now is the "hockey stick" increases that seem to be heading back towards the $4 range again.

I was thinking along the lines of a super volcano eruption. There are about 20 of them with different time cycles. All of them will erupt again at some point in the future. Yellowstone is one of the more familiar and it is in range in it's cycle to erupt soon geologically speaking, any time...

How old is the Earth? How far back do ice cores go? Still only a snap shot of the planet's environment

They are dismantling Nuke plants. Just try getting past the environmentalists to build a new hydro dam. Ask Texas about wind power. Even solar has it's limitations, it requires sun. Should we get a large volcanic eruption (it's not if, but when) then solar panels would become only marginally...

Recorded human history, and even ice core samples represent nothing more than just a snapshot of world climatological history. It's like science is looking at a 50 year old man and saying, 'this is the way he's always looked'. The Sahara was once temperate, more recently, the city of Petros was...

I finished clearing a 2400' driveway yesterday and saw this as I was driving the tractor to the barn. Sunset over the northern Cascades in Okanogan County. The pasture was not mowed this fall so we have 20+ inches on the ground.

So a small high tech skidder would do the trick

None of the above are in the least bit innovative. So while they are adapted to a specific need, they aren't any more advanced than a Kubota or a John Deere.

Since it is an all mechanical drive, if the engine is turning the tractor should be moving, encountering an object like a 2x4 the tractor should either stall, or roll over it. Your only point of slippage is the clutch. I have a 1715 and clutch adjustment is simple. There is a threaded rod on...

If it destroys the pivot point and breaks castings to put a loader on them, then they are just poorly engineered, at least for the North American market. Put a three point on the back of a mini wheel loader and you could do everything that does and then move snow or load dirt and gravel all day...

I found the link interesting. I scanned down as far as 2010 and John Deere made the list three times out of the dozens of manufacturers. Even more interesting, New Holland made the list nine times. So does that mean New Holland is three time better than John Deere? 😃

Same event but with loaded super B-trains. Some of these guys are really rolling coal. It's enough to make the rednecks with the earlier Dodge and Ram Cummins engines jealous. Interestingly, these are mostly, if not all, working trucks that are on the road during the typical week hauling freight.

Sound like a good redneck project, convert a Peterbilt large car into a crew cab tandem dually pickup. 😃

Don't stop with just the top three. As for electric cars, it isn't the manufacturers who are calling the tune. Washington State legislature pass a bill banning the sale of new vehicles powered buy fossil fuels that was to go into effect in 2030. Other states have either already enacted similar...

Probably just compensating for the size of something else.

I can fit a crew cab F-250 short box in my garage, but just barely. there is about 30 inches between the front bumper and the back wall, so it doesn't go in there. If I need it out of the weather I park it in the barn.

Translate that kind of rain to snow, it's no wonder all the passes are closed. With I-5 closed there aren't to many ways out. If this were an old disaster movie, now would be the time to cue the Cascadia fault earthquake and tsunami.

That is the plan for next year. Cab tractor and a snow blower. I've been clearing the driveway to 10' wide for two days and have one more day of work to go. The first day was spent clearing a path my pickup could get through so I could get more fuel. I have 3 ft. high snow berms on either...

Weather man was a little conservative on his snow forecast. Had blowing and drifting snow so I have no way of telling how much, but at least a foot. Spent 6 hours just clearing enough snow off the driveway so I could get out and get fuel. The driveway was covered by 16 to 30 inches of snow. I...

It's all good, it's less than 48 inches from the back bumper. As long as he keeps his traile tongue weight under 100# it will be good. :D

8" of snow two days ago, another 3 over night and 8" more forecast for tonight with up to a foot possible. I'm starting to run out of places to put the stuff. Photo is from yesterday.

While working for my last employer I gave check rides to several drivers. Most were okay, but one fresh out of truck driving school I wouldn't hire to drive a wheel barrow let alone a dump truck and trailer grossing 105,500. I took him to a gravel pit and told him to get the feel of the truck...

Had a brake drum fail like that once in Canada on a Kenworth left rear drive axle. When I came back to the truck after visiting the border broker I saw it. I had thought the scrap hauler that passed me in the opposite direction about 6 miles back had lost something off his trailer as he passed...

You can usually feel even one brake dragging at low speeds even on 8 axles. A driver checking his mirrors occasionally can see the smoke in daylight hours before it gets to bad. Trucks and trailers have automatic slack adjusters, one or two may fail and not adjust, but not 10. The walk around...

Good point to consider. Unless you have a bunch of work for a backhoe in mind you might consider forgoing that option and renting a mini excavator when you need to dig. On the other hand, I have purchased some tools I needed for one job and found myself using it a lot more than I had thought...

Obviously you are an experienced truck driver, prosecutor, collision investigator and forensic scientist, so I will bow to your wisdom and experience.

Saw a guy using a propane torch fire up an old worn out crawler in 27 degree weather without glow plugs. He pulled the air duct shot the propane flame into the intake while turning it over and it fired on the third or fourth cylinder.

We are looking at a New Holland, which are in short supply. Our salesman warned us of a 10% price increase this spring. He is trying to find one of lasts years inventory for us that will be at the old price. He suggested a Boomer 50 instead of the 45 as there are no 45s in the region, but he...

Someday, someplace, somebody will put a slice of bread in the toaster and send the whole country into a blackout.

No reputable contractor goes door to door trying to sell millings. Personally, raw millings aren't the best driveway material for a top coat, the size of the millings can vary too much in my experience.

Living just south of the border for a long time, I found that often a company would send non-English speaking drivers with another truck with a bi-lingual English speaking driver who would act as guide and translator. The following non-English speaking driver would sometimes do some very...

Of course there were other factors, the truck driving school teaching in Spanish. The state doing written and skills tests in Spanish. The company hiring him not checking his language skills etc. The company sending him to a mountainous state without being sure he was trained well enough. The...

Don't buy into media hype. The media doesn't have a clue about what they write, they just grab the most sensational factoid they can and blow it out of proportion. The term "brake issues" means nothing without context. A barely audible air leak is a "brake issue," one brake out of 10 being an...

I just used a medium weight cheap tarp and ball and loop bungees. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DPLM62G/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1 They are easy to loop around hydraulic cylinders, loader arms, 3 point lift arms, ROPS, etc. Took about 2 minutes to cover my old Ford...

Taken out of service does not mean condemned and and headed for the scrappers. It can be anything other than a burned out bulb. A loose frame bolt or lug nut, a broken spring leaf, a small crack in a cross member, just about anything. It is at the inspectors discretion whether the truck is...

The national out of service rate for all trucking is about 20% Safety Rating & OOS Rates (As of 01/02/2022 updated daily from SAFER ) Not Rated Out of Service Rates Type OOS % National Avg % Vehicle 14.3 20.9 Driver 0.0 5.6 The above chart is of a subsidiary of the company I retired...

8 inches of fresh powder on a 12" base, 19 degrees and no wind. I feel like I'm giving a ski report. It is warming a little, this is the first time it's been this close to 20 degrees since Christmas. I've only seen above freezing temperatures on 3 days since the first of December.

I don't much credence to reports like this without details. Violations in a CVSA inspection can be, and often are, trivial. Anything from a marker light burned out to a barely audible air leak is a violation. Secondly, how many trucks operate under Volt trucking authority, 1 or 100. "Safety"...

It is the same here from my experience, ~60 psi to release the spring brakes, all non steerable trailer axles have spring brakes. Drop axles don't have spring brakes, self steering axles don't have spring brakes. Here the air lines are referred to as the supply line and the service line. The...

I was taught not to down shift going down a hill loaded. It's too easy to miss the shift especially if inexperienced like this guy was. I think that is the reason he was coming down the hill in neutral. The downshift is made before the downgrade. The runaway ramp is in English with no pictogram...

You would think the CDL test would be in English only since the ability to read and understand English is a requirement for a CDL driver.

It's all the camels and camel flatulence they had 6000 years ago that caused the climate to change resulting in what is now a desert.

Unlike some of you who seem to be able to afford a half dozen vehicles and use whichever suits your need or desire at the time, I can only afford one vehicle. That vehicle must be able to move 4 or more people, carry a ton of wood pellets, haul 6 tons of hay on a trailer over mountain passes...

I did the same, but my local tire shop only charges $35 to swap them. I had them do it because I was still doing the move and couldn't find my impact wrench and torque wrench but at that price I will probably have them swap them back in the Spring

Unfortunately we only have one side of the story, however, no one property owner has the right or authority to authorize a nonresident to use a road jointly owned and maintained by 5 people. My suspicions are that the road was there before the land was platted for the 5 lots and was either...

That was going to be my suggestion. if you expect to have good neighbors, you should start by being a good neighbor and go over to the offending farm and talk to the owner. Most likely he has live in a rural setting for a long time and to him a pile of horse dung is just a part of the rural...

Years ago I was driving a dump truck on a county road and saw a cyclist about a mile ahead of me because of his bright clothes that were clearly visible even as he rode in the shade. 200 yards behind him was another cyclist wearing dark clothing in the sunshine, I didn't see him until I was...

Not according to somebody who seems to know. The type you are referring seems to be an old no longer used system on most cars. Do an Amazon search for tire pressure monitor and see what you find.

There is nothing that says you can't remove the monitors and put in regular tire valves yourself, but why would you want to?

It isn't the weight of larger vehicles, it's the flat front profile. The pickup cited would be just as deadly as an F-250 because of the flat profile. It's only advantage is with it's narrow width it would be easier to dodge. Some things that are missing from all the handwringing articles about...

That is a given. My point is that the primary cause of the accident and the damage had absolutely nothing to do with the size of the given vehicles involved. An inattentive driver in a Smart Fortwo will do infinitely more damage than an aware and attentive driver of a jacked up big tired Dodge...

Or perhaps a vehicle height mismatch made his bumper ride over the top of yours resulting in excessive damage to your vehicle which could have happened with any modern pickup. It isn't the size of the vehicle that makes it hazardous, it's the skill and attentiveness of the driver. I operated a...

Partly because there are so few other people around there is no one to show off to.

Put a sign out by the entrance to the road PRIVATE ROAD FOR THE USE OF THE RESIDENTS ONLY---ALL OTHER USES PROHIBITED. Unless there is some binding use agreement with them. But first, I'd go talk with them and explain the problem and possible solutions. All else fails, install a gate on the...

I worked for a gravel and ready-mix company before I retired. The founder of the company affectionately known as "Chief" had a riddle he told often: "Do you know why there is only one seat in a mixer truck? Answer: "So the driver will know where to sit." He had been dealing with drivers of...

And I would have had a hard time carrying the ton of wood pellets I brought home today, and the mile and a half walk from the public road to the house would have been a little difficult, especially if I were carrying those pellets.

It's an absolute nonsense story and makes not one valid point. Statistically the fatality rate per mile driven is about the lowest it has ever been. Fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles in the 1960s was over 5+. In this century it is around 1.2. The number has been steadily declining...

There is a lawyer ad in Seattle that cites a traffic video that "proves" the dump truck driver was at fault in injuring a pedestrian. It shows the dump truck going around some kind of a traffic circle and a woman walking across the center and right into his path as if totally oblivious to her...

Ritchie Brothers who provided the data site is an equipment auction house. I doubt they pulled the numbers out of their,,, hat. I am reasonably sure the low weight is with just enough fuel for it to run, no ballast in the tires etc. But even at 16k, it's loaded on what looks to be a 10k...

I'd be interested to find out the name of the store that reported that to the police so I could avoid ever stopping there for any reason.

Its been above freezing once for about 3 hours in the last 2 weeks. It hasn't been above 10 since Christmas. Weather Underground has a forecast of 8 more inches of snow in the first week of the new year. Last snow on Christmas came with 25 to 40 mph winds and created a drift running the...

I love Attenborough's Life series. Absolutely the best nature docuseries ever produced.

Those took to be 5000# axles judging by the 6 lug pattern and in many states only one axle is required to have brakes. I'd rather get another pilot vehicle and road it wherever it's going rather than chance it that way. From RitchieSpecs: Operating Weight - Maximum 24251 lb Operating Weight -...

It doesn't. It has a 2100# rated axle and 12" tires. Mine has been retired to farm utility work.

Hey, they got to do something to get a leg up on the other porch pirates

I had the same problem right after I got my tractor. I effectively had a 3 speed no reverse tractor. The linkage that actually changes the gears has come loose. Mine required the tractor to be split to be fixed. I found this diagram at the New Holland site. The parts numbered 41-46 were the...

It requires common sense. Obviously Pennsylvania law makes a felony out of shoplifting which in just about every other state is a misdemeanor.

Pointing out the ridiculous doesn't really qualify as a valid argument. What you cited is a singular exception to common sense. A 1st year law student could get that removed from a three strikes count.

I've been watching the original 60s TV series" The Untouchables" for the last week or so. It amazes me how narrator of the series rattles off a litany of charges and convictions of the hoodlums, yet there they are back at it. While the stories are fictionalized, many of the characters and rap...

I hope the winds stay on that side of the hump. Sunday we had 25 to 42 mph winds and snow. The road is drifted closed so we hired a bulldozer to clear it. He worked 5 hours today and will start again tomorrow on the last half mile. Seven more inches are in the forecast starting on Sunday...

I saw a Good Works Tractor YouTube video about that but he didn't finish and never got around to the results. We are looking to get a newer tractor that will have R4 tires on it and it would be interesting to see how well it works.

I have those powers too. All I have to do is move someplace and we will get the worst winter in the last 20+ years. Definitely worked this time.

Last night Zero equals nothing, right? 20-30 mph winds -22 to -26 wind chill. Even if it weren't broken, my open station tractor is staying in the barn. Found out this morning there is about a half mile of drifts across the private road, according to my neighbor who is trying to dig out one...

Don't forget to mention the humidity when it's 110 in the shade. Here I have a balmy 3 with a wind-chill of -19.5 according to my weather station. It will get well over 100 in the summer, but "it's a dry heat" Humidity in the mid 20s to md 30s Beautiful pictures and a really nice looking team.

It look darn nice in the photo let alone 20 feet away. That is the same phrase I used to describe the brush on paint job I did on my Ford 917L flail a couple of years ago. After 2 years, it's a 50 foot paint job.

I have no idea how much snow I got in the last day or so, it all went sideways and piled up across my driveway about 36" deep buy 30 feet or more. I'll know where not to park next year:(. Of course my tractor is down with a bad starter and a new one is on order, but the driveway will have to...

TractorData.com hydraulic pressure for a John Deere 755 Pressure: 2050 psi 141.3 bar I would think a half inch steel line is a pressure line, so if you can find a fix that will take that pressure all will be good. Otherwise, you might have some wrenching to to

Hey! Kermit thinks she's cute.

I usually use a box blade for ballast, but bought a ballast box for one job, leveling out a barn floor between 6x6 posts on 12 foot centers. My box blade is 60" the ballast box is about 28". Effectively rounding the corners of my tractor as I brought in the fill material for rough grade and...

That is on the warm side of the state. The predictions for here have moderated a little with Monday's high being 6 and the low -8, but only a little snow.

In Sedro Woolley where I moved from they are predicting eight inches of snow over the weekend followed by cold, down to two degrees Monday morning. Here in the north Okanogan they are predicting 3 inches of snow and 12 below on Monday morning. I doubt I will be clearing much snow next week...

In the Okanogan valley we have had 4 snow events since the first of December. The first two melted away, the last two have stuck around. No more than two inches in any one snow event, but there is about three and a half on the ground. We haven't been above freezing for a week and the forecast...

What does a statistic like that even mean? What is the point? I am willing to bet that in each one of those 85 bottom countries there is a multimillionaire who doesn't give a hoot about his fellow citizens except to think of ways to take even more of their money for his bank accounts. If Bill...

If leveling out your soil just involves smoothing with out moving, a land plane might be the answer. If you have high spots in one area and low spots in another that requires moving dirt any distance, then the box blade is the better tool. A hydraulic top link would be a good addition, but...

I thought the mantra was "measure twice cut once." I worked with a retired carpenter from our church on a few projects around my old place, that was his saying and practice. A third time might be a little excessive, but it was their time and their dime.

I hope there are no sharp corners between there and where he is going.

There is also the possibility of a service brake line failure, but that would still allow the driver the option of pulling the red and yellow knobs or taking a runaway ramp. But that wasn't the case here. In reality it seems this guy either had inadequate training. You would think they would...

Been there, done that with barbed, high tensile, mesh and 5/8s wire rope. The wire rope turned out to be part of a 100' coil the previous owner had tossed on the ground and let self bury. I had to use an angle grinder to cut that out. I ended up pulling 15 or 20 coils of various sizes and...

My dad bought our home in the 1940s for $3500. According to the inflation calculator I have on my phone, that $3500 in 1948 would be worth about $35,000 in todays money, his income at that time translates to $18.75 per hour today. . When my dad died in 1991 we sold it as is needing a new roof...

From what I've observed the necessary things are becoming more expensive for the wage earner, particularly housing. Gasoline has stayed about the same. In 1970 I could buy 10 gallons for an hours wage (union job) and now, I can still buy 10 gallons of gas for an hours wage, or I could before...

The quarries used excavators, but the gravel pits used wheel loaders as in many cases the drivers loaded themselves, either from stockpiles of dredged material or from a natural gravel bank. In most cases we were loading natural glacial till deposits left over from the ice ages. Quarries and...

Sorry, I worked in the gravel and aggregates industry so I just automatically assume everyone knows what I am talking about. 4 inch to dust is the description of the sizes of material, properly it should be called 4 inch minus, i.e. everything that will pass through a four inch screen, four inch...

If that were my driveway, I would be hooking up my drag harrow with the tines up and run up and down the driveway a few times to smooth it. Otherwise, it looks pretty good for the kind of material you have to work with. It looks similar to what I have which is 4" to dust. It's good road base...

Dollar value is just an arbitrary number. The real denominator is the value of the average hourly wage. Judging by living standards of ninety years ago compared to now, I'd say we are doing pretty darn good. The average wage earner has a much higher standard of living and way more disposable...

I was surprised at how fast I got used to the excavator I used in the above mentioned trenching project. It became not much more difficult than telling my arm and finger to scratch my nose. It was like the machine was just an extension of my body and my brain learned it quickly, Within an hour...