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Just speculation, but I doubt the Bow thrusters are available for service at a whim. Probably have to start another Yanmar first. For once, it's nice when there is a fairly quick resolution of such a crisis. Too often, it just goes from bad to worse it seems.

It's dark now. Wear a headlamp and get up there with your ALCAN Ladder. lol Don't forget to take your HF meter.

My Guess is that the centre conductor of the three is the neutral/ground, and probably is also used for the primary of the transformer. This may seem odd, but I can't see them running two neutral/grounds, one for the primary and the other for the secondary and customers.

What confusion! Pictures of TRUCKS, some random wire lying on the ground with no reference where it was connected or coming from, other pictures of OTHER transformers, sketches. NOTHING giving an accurate picture of what is the true situation. Mixing up talk of single phase, three phase...

I would consider having to clean the shop vac of oil, if some got in there to be a worse job than cleaning the machine or floor. Getting oil out of the hose ribbing would be near impossible and now dirt will stick to it like shake and bake. It's like funnels. I mark some, water only, or oil...

VERY nice! Where do guys like you find the motivation to finish a project? I find it so much more fun, planning, sourcing and buying stuff, than actually doing the work AND running into problems.

I am certainly going to stop and ask the next (Hydro) electric utility worker I come across. If missing a neutral and using Earth return is no big deal. Using 4800V out here on this rural single phase line, wouldn't work very well, using Earth as a return conductor. What was said for this...

I read some years ago, that in a typical urban environment, a Tier 4 Final diesel will expel cleaner air out the tailpipe than it's sucking in. I wish someone made a kit of a bare bones 90s style mid size pickup, that one could put a similar era, non-emmissions Industrial/Ag diesel into.

(removed)S communications have special coding to activate sleeper cells.

Sure. I take off the tires too and take them in out of the sun. Pick away at the treads of the turf tires with an old toothbrush and dental pick while I watch TV. lol

I had trouble reading it too, when concentrating on it. But when I scanned it, I could! I always like the way yanks say inneristing for interesting. We have insure ance. You guys have in-surence.

YES. Survive with their sanity, wealth, dignity and most importantly of all, their manliness in tact!

I guess you have never tied to order PIZZA for more than ONE person. Just sayin. You would be better off to just buy a bunch of stuff, mark it up and make yourself some money.

Thanks. Someone that sees and questions the situation as I do.

Have you tried that with bubbles and scented candles?

Does no one run the OEM filters on their rigs, or do ya all just take them off? My POINT being, is that no injector damaging dirt is going to get anywhere near your injectors and if you have a water seperator, neither is water. Some rigs don't have a water seperator and this IS an issue for...

So the AWS log can tell what the steering gear of he ship is doing? Or just WHERE the ship went. Could it not have been a turn, but wind? For a ship that size, with only a rudder on the back for direction control, that is a HUGE surface area for wind. Those steering wheels on the modern...

Makes sense that for all the damage, sandstorm and wind would be my explanation. I know some people that would say "Black Ice", or Dog ran out in front.

If I move my body in the bath tub, I can raise the water level at one end. And it is a narrow Canal? Think about the wake damage boats do.

I couldn't wait and got the girl first. Still a friend of mine all these years later. Man sometimes I wish I had a time machine! When girls were play toys and they came without any baggage or cell phones! I'l take that over a car any day! lol

Like there are mindless, non thinking Zombies running around doing stuff, that just haven't been programmed correctly. That trailer suggests to me, that load height is a factor in their business. So wouldn't you be thinking about that all the time?

How rarely do we ever get the TRUTH anyway? The higher the level of inquiry, the bigger the lies and coverup. I haven't heard one word about who the Pilot was, in charge of navigation. Or who was steering the ship. Or much about the power outage or sandstorm. I have seen many out of...

just how many hundred years are you expecting to use those same drums? You will leak and drip infinitely more in the fueling and filling process than the drums will ever leak in the first two hundred years anyway. As for sand. So NOW you have contaminated sand. What are you going to do with...

I had some weird thought that if they could have got a bunch of ships going one way toward the stuck ship and some more in the other direction, and been at the ready to pull, it might have rasied the water level, just like the tide did.

Or take them off completely and keep them inside.

What does tick me off, is with my only emmissions of any type Diesel, my 08 GMC Duramax. Come home from town and it starts doing it's burn off routine as I'm parking . And there is no way to allow or disallow, favouring let's say a longer trip of many hours just the next day or so.

He's definitely been a busy boy. Grussen from Kanada.

Is it inside in a warm place or outside? I only ever had one Algae issue which was on a JD 770. Who knows why? Maybe it came infected.

Whereas diesels like best to be worked, they are also TOUGH animals, and will also suffer more abuse than a gas engine. I put so little hours on my equipment, that it isn't a worry. Something to be mindful of, but not a worry. I'm not ever going to notice the difference between whether I got...

I am always surprised that farm wreckers, never bother to protect cylinders. For the little it takes and the immense value it adds to used equipment if the cylinders are in good shape. This kind of long term outdoor storage, or if the cylinder was starting to rust, would be the only time I...

Then Go Have A Hamburger. Is that it? I don't like guessing games. They say you can read something perfectly well if the words have basically the right letters, but aren't in order.

I see a Tranny rebuild in that U-Hauls Future.

Well, she's on the move with the help of the tide. I hope they give any ships with animals on board priority.

Have had many, many thousands of litres of Diesel around here since 72. And mostly very little turnover. Nothing EVER growed in it. I also guarantee you, every bulk tank I ever had or have today has water in the bottom of it and we have never made any attempt to remove it. We have large...

Some on here would no doubt still suggest sending oil away for analysis, changing all fluids and filters, after opening it up to check for filings, just in case. lol Best change out the battery too for an AGM. It's old! Good for you.(y)

Gosh darn it. Another thing invented by old despicable Whitie!

Don't quite know what you mean. Sure, you could put a single breaker into an enclosure and have lugs, but more often it's going into an existing panel.

So, do you drive into the material, apply brakes and extend the boom? Does that net more breakout force than the wheels can provide? I mean, inability to get a bucket is usually about loss of traction, not lack of HP.

One particularly colorfull mens relationship coach commented. The Miranda rights , "anything you say can and will be used against you" was meant to be applied first to women. Talk to a woman long enough on your cell phone, before you know her and YOU WILL say something to disqualify yourself.

I was reading yesterday, wondering when hydraulics came along. Apparently first machines used water, not oil and that was in Minnesota. Doesn't it get cold there?

If the neutral conductor was open circuit, the Earth would carry ALL the current, not just "unbalanced" current.

I hate to admit, I was often that kid that dreamt up stuff for others to do. Can't say if it was lack of courage to do it myself or just smart enough not to. Probably a bit of both. When it comes to matters of Romance. Women are in fighter jet, men are in wright brothers plane. We owe it to...

If you have your suction pipe appropriately high enough off the bottom, a water seperator or absorbing element is a moot point. You expect water to be in the bottom of any large long term storage bulk tanks. Just have a drain on the bottom, and drain it when paste shows that it's worthwhile...

That little Tracked Dump Rig, looks like NEW. What a find!

They became a Defense Contractor.

I believe our rural single phase system has no such grounds at each pole. Only at transformer poles. And certainly no buried ground conductor, pole to pole which would make this work in the event of a broken neutral. So that certainly implies that they are using earth to provide return path...

This constant communication world young people engage in has put Males at a serious disadvantage. What most men fail to realize is that a man has to be a challenge to a woman. You can't go to a date, here are the flowers, I love you, let's get married. A woman will go running, looking for a...

Those are IMPRESSIVE Bobcat telehandler pictures. But if your telling me you got that bucket load in one efficient movement, then I gotta say you have some kind of ground, I have never seen before.

The pic I was referring to was from Moss. I still don't understand "this" exact situation. What broke where? Doesn't matter. At least everything is under control. So this guy is saying that customers don't have a neutral connection into the PRIMARY of their transformer and it's just using...

Thanks for that. Very interesting. Everything in the Maritime world seems to operate at a snails pace. On my little trip, I remember the Stevadors doing everything possible at every port to draw things out and put them and their bros into overtime. Evryone wants their piece of the pie.

There are Many very low hours tractors on the market. For many legitimate reasons. Often a clear indication of trouble is some discontinuity. The contact is never the owner or the machine is somewhere else. Never, I'm Bob, it's my machine and it's here at my house for sale. Come and look at it.

I too was confused about the name, thinking someone made a mistake. Odd name! Two bit. Yes, some have speculated, it's just to add to the unfolding global economic mayhem (which it certainly will) . But always being the thinking one. I think they (someone with power and money) could have...

If you demand performance. Why not buy a used high performance (dedicated) machine? Dedicated machines are ALWAYS the most efficient. I once bought this Municipal machine (cheap) that could do a six foot stump without repositioning the entire machine. Chewed a ton of stumps and sold it at a...

I have videos of smaller fishing type boats being run aground and the utter failure upon failure to refloat them. Sometimes resorting to scrapping on the spot. Boats, unloaded and not 1% in size to this. You have to see something like that to appreciate the difficulty here. By bet now, is...

I once had access to unlimited alarm wire. Tel Quad. Ran it 1000 down the driveway buried, in thin plastic pipe. Ran a hundred volts to it through an isolation transformer. First ran a 12 volt bulb at the gate with another transformer but they cost money and don't last long, so later a...

Aren't they afraid of ripping off all the sensors?

I pretty much remember the modern Jap ship I was on had electric Compressors, and three Yanmar Gensets. 1 Always for standbye. Could go back and look at old video. Everything on the ship was electric from the Cranes to the Galley. So having an Electric compressor wouldn't surprise me. Then...

So that picture does show TRIPLEX going to the house service.

It is air cooled so I guess they use the 100 litres or so of oil for cooling. Canadian Cost guard Light House service. No hours at all from this 60s era machine. It had really unusual field voltage though. He is lucky he found the right one, between help/info from Stamford and Flight...

I thought Non Metalic Wet was direct burial. Although I never have, but put it in pipe. NMD (Dry) Romex for Indoor.

Buying up the good old companies to eliminate and destroy them forever! A friend recently struggled to get this 12KW beast going. VR issues. Ended up ripping out a pile of descrete equipment to replace it with a $20.00 E-Bay Generic VR. All good now! Tank underneith is OIL resourvoir, not fuel!

That's when I get on the phoen and say, listen guys, forget all about it. I HAVE AN ALLUMINUM LADDER, I'll just go fix it myself. Amazing how quick someone get's there. Done it. It works. Forget about press this or press that, or use this AP!

Now, I am quite confused what the situation in this case was. A downed neutral, but feeding his transformer? So he was just getting service to his X-Former primary via ground resistance? We have issued here that there is normally voltage between neurtral and ground. But within spec. Means I...

I worked for a BIG fires safety company once in the 80s. It was practice when re-certifying extinguishers to shake them to see if the powder still moved freely. Not a great definiitive test if you ask me. But the whole business was quite the scam! I like my water and CO2 extinguishers...

It does remind me. After the individual alluminum conductors for our main 200 amp service (after the meter) have been in the ground since 72, I should do a high voltage insulation, to ground test. Like I said, you could loose a lot of power over time through a leak. I installed a NMW CU 6/3...

I'm surprised, it has two bow thrusters. One 2cycle Low Speed Diesel Engine, fixed propeller and 4, 8 cyl YANMAR Generators. Probably some of that capacity is for the Bow Thrusters. For those interested. Many of those ships engines are started and reversed using stored compressed air in HUGE...

I have 100 pair between house and garage, about two hundred feet in plastic pipe. From the 80s, EXPECTED some major expansion some day I guess!

I take it you are talking TRIPLEX, overhead service. Loosing just the Neutral is often the worst possible thing that can happen. It's why neutrals must never be switched. To better ensure they don't fail, because you can get nasty voltages on one leg. Loosing a neutral feed and it's...

I made the mistake many times over the years burying jacketed electrical cable like NMW, thinking I was just doing GOOD. Still, although against code, I am assured many years later that the cables are in first class condition. I found out, that a leaking buried cable to ground can cost you...

My Dad always believed in buying base vehicle, on the lot. Find out what the asking price was, make saleman a 'CASH" offer, which was always refused. My Dad would bid the salemans a good day and proceed to leave with the salesman following at his heels like some irritating little dog. A deal...

VERY NICE! GREAT Pictures. Thank You. You gotta love old skool quality and things a man can repair by himself. In todays world, (for it's age) that thing would have been obsolete a hundred times already.

All kinds of weird stuff to SAVE MONEY that simply never existed before. Like "powdered Gears" and such. All kinds of el-cheapo alloys (aka, melted down bicycles and bbqs) . Stuff unheard of in the 70s.

That Never Green hadn't barely come to rest and it seems crude oil prices SPIKED!

If it were me and questionable. I would make sure, no algae, and don't suck any water off the bottom and just add it to a bulk tank prior to fresh delivery. In that case, I wouldn't even bother to filter it.

NO FRIGGIN WAY! What bad advice! I have pulled thousand of feet of cable, wiring, whatever. You never pull anythng seperately in the same conduit. It's a hundred times more difficult and you risk burning off insulation. Rules dictate conduit fill but not dificulty over distance in various...

Yes, quality of rod is paramount to resistance to corrosion. SALT, manure and other chemicals has to be the worst. Looking at a cylinder, one has this notion that it is naked steel and has to be protected. It already is. Probably, far better than any other piece of your machine in fact.

I have a friend with a Lantz Bulldog , "Hot Bulb" Diesel Engine. He jokes, saying it will even run on Butter Milk. THOSE were the days!

Mits 2.6 or 2.2? They got the 2.6 which never gave them trouble but what an ugly running little engine. SAD days in US auto manufacturing. Funny, my Mom claimed it was on it's last legs, because it would chug, shake, and rattle, making it's way out the ramp of her underground parking. I...

I hope the rest of the ship moved too. That ship only has a draft of fifty feet. You could put all manner of tugs on the normal upper pulling points, and simply flip the ship. A friend told me he heard they welded on pulling points. I guess lower down. IT"S COMPLICATED!

I have mentioned it before here. An experience I had in the 80s when my Step Father bought a Dodge 600. Salesman was the nicest guy you would ever want to meet. My step dad had some issue and approached the man, when he went to pick up the vehicle. The man was with potential customers and I...

I as an absolute non swimmer spent days at about age ten hanging onto a raft in the St. Lawrence river with a younger friend than I. I don't for the life of me, to this day know where my friends parents, that took me there, were all day. Maybe in fairness, they had no idea I couldn't swim...

Like almost every other simply stated question on here. It depends on various factors that aren't that hard to comprehend. Environment is the biggest in this regard. Putting grease on a cylinder could do more harm than good in my (thinking) opinion. It might make contaminents that could harm...

In Canada there is no issue recording a conversation not telling anyone as long as you are part of the conversation. You can't record unsuspecting people having a converation. Which now makes me wonder if you are having a conversation with two other people and they talk between themselves...

I had a fuel dealer graciously give me a little in a pill bottle.

Why would it have anything in it? Where would anything come from? Suck it out with a pump that has a filter on it AS YOU USE IT. Avoid the last bit. Maybe check that for sediment. Any good equipment has good filtration in the fuel system. Why make extra, unecessary work for people, with...

Nice work.(y) Man, isn't it nice to have a tractor that you don't need a laptop and software to repair? That sounds like a real bargain to get the cylinders done. In general, do you like that tractor? Do you find it's a pig on fuel?

No trouble at all as I would see it. Especially if there is little air space in the container. But that begs the question in my mind. You hear fuel cans popping and expanding/contracting with temperature changes. Some massively bloated. How does a 55 Gallon drum handle these changes?

Friend got a used ASC (TEREX) tracked loader. It has never worked once for him when he wanted to use it. Major Electrical issues on safety circuits. Kubota my friend, KUBOTA! I'm certain, MAJOR reasale difference too.

Never learned to swim either. I too don't even float. Mom didn't know how and my Dad would have drowned me with his lack of patience in such matters. Friend "assured" me he should teach me in his man made lake. Don't you just love people with their constant positive unrealistic BS...

All depends what you are intending to do with it. Boulders, vs, sand, vs, snow, vs corn, vs gravel, well you get the point. Digging (which an ag tractor isn't meant for) or removing from a pile?

It's because all the bad guys ae in cahootz (sp?) and this is a powerfull weapon against bad people. Of course if the court simply won't hear the case (because it's run by bad people) then, what's the point, I guess?

RSR. Well it works two ways. You say dealers that put, (not their customers) to the back of the line will do so at their peril. But this also means that those that don't obviously don't reward their "loyal" customers either. And really, the biggest reward you can get at a dealer is some...

Many large ships cannot do any maneuvering on their own. No Bow thrusters, One screw and engine that has to be reversed. Everything has to be done with tugs. I'm shocked that heavy winds have never been a problem on the canal before, possibly mandating passage by tug escort only. And what of...

I once did some late, very wet fall, rake work with the extra wheels on the Steiner. Same thing! Funny, because the rims are pressed together, but dirt still gets pressed in there somehow.

I would always go with a non turbo or slightly larger naturally aspirated engine. Never once have I thought to myself with a non turbo, diesel, Gee, I wish I had a Turbo. So why? Why the expense, complication and opening oneself up to possible problems and expense? I have two turbos, one in...

Curious where you found the micron filtration levels of the NAPA filters. I mean, that kind of matters. Aside from them just screwing on. And generally speaking OEMS won't disclose what filter specs they used for obvious reasons.

I always lay the cards on the table and am totally honest. Explain to a local dealer exactly what my options and dilemas are. This usually works out well. No one is upset or feels offended. Sometimes it's just a matter of them asking the question, if I can do something for you, are you going...

Used to be the standard I believe was what they called Panamax, maybe 1000 foot. That Evergreen Vessle is 1200 feet or something like that. Kind of reminds me of the Concordia disaster/stupidity. Costliest salvage ever, apparently. Seems to me, that the benefits of technology in our lives...

I think often containers have to be relashed. With thousands of containers and increasingly reduced staff, I can't even imagine that is possible. As for Suez. Read 400 million/hour in losses. Curious if they don't require pilots. One account says wind, another says blackout on board (Don't...

My Dad has found a ton of those car carrier hooks on his walks. There are different styles. Handy to have, although thinking about it, I have maybe only used the car hooks twice on someones car with no other attachment point. Some of the chains are handy three feet long ones with the special...

And this:

Imagine minding your own business, sailing your dinky, environmentally friendly sailboat and hitting one of those containers?

Bet that ship has a few tickets stuck on it's windsheild. Don't they have Tugs? BIG Tugs. they must. And/or dredging equipment that really never stops working a canal. I'm guessing the current (yes and certainly wind) is really messing them up. End of story, is that those things are only...

There is some truth to that. The penny pincher probably had his truck or tractor paid for before it left the lot. The real penny pinchers I know (myself included) don't have equipment that isn't paid for. Not that a dealer makes anything on that. I have been in the security bus. 25 plus...

Looking back, I can also say it would make sense to get the most expensive first. Then when you chew up too much turf and figure you really could use a tractor too, it's not so hard. Having a CTL really is like having a small dozer. A tractor is NOT an earth moving machine.

Warranty work usually isn't paid well and diverts resources from potentially better money making work. Also some times involves a lot of hassle that doesn't get compensated. Any you might actually have to fight for your compenation! Thirdly, sometimes the customer who is so penny pinching is...

Shows how inexperienced the person installing the wheels was. Typical dealership. I was just thinking. In a way it's hillarious. Probably a tractor built oversees, and the ONLY thing we had to do was put the wheels on, and we couldn't get that right.

Any explanation why that thing had the effects it did?

That dealer that wouldn't give you the money back on a "wrong" filter in a package doesn't deserve a nickle of anyones money. If they have RULES and can't make a simple thing that that right for the customer, can you imagine the BIG STUFF? But seems to be the big corporate mentality. Tell...

I run my heater elements at 120, but have both on, not in a wig/wag configuaration. Less calcium buildup. It's always been the positive note. Good amount of pressure built up in water pressure tank, hot water stays warm a long time. No electricity required to remove sewage (That's a biggie...

Some times it only takes one "good" guy to make a dealership good. So, you might want some kind of a written guarantee that "nothing" is allowed to change, no one is allowed to quit, they can't get bought out. Yeah, me thinks I'm gonna keep buying the tractor first.

My feelings too. Just what the world needs. More MERCH! Even the sound of that word is disgusting. You want Merch? Go to Thrift stores and Flea Markets. They are just drowning in it.

Make sure you bathe first.

Get a skid loader. Then you are off the races in a construction grade machine. Kind of like asking someone, do I get a Vespa or a Harley.

I only had this problem on a JD 770. EVERYTHING had to be cleaned! And all at the same time. Pressure washed fuel tank. It's like cancer, you have to get it all. Only real dollar cost was the fuel filter. Well more than one, because I didn't know what was happening. Start at the fuel...

I have even given my buyers who have not squabled about price, the usual haggled discount I build into any price. That is, when CASH changes hands. Always nice to see their surprise! I'm not RICH, but I guess I believe in that stupid saying about what goes around. Mo, Glad you got the top...

I guess if you have lots of money or aren't "cheap" then bigger is better. But if you can have a little diesel keeping you out of the dark, warm showers and hot food, fridges/freezers kept cold AND there isn't any appreciable fuel cost adding up day after day in extended outages, well that's my...

You have what you have. I simply don't understand, with all the building codes, how it is acceptable to build a house that requires a sump pump, to keep the basement dry. That would seem like a totally wrong place to build a house, if you ask me. At least, one with a basment or toilets.

I have said it before. It's kind of the Elephant in the room on this site. An $800.00 sale would matter to me. And something, where I would give a little patience to make the sale.

Unless you are really selling something "special" I think most sales people just have to develope a thick skin, for their own good and profit. I remember a friend who worked in a Radio Shack in the 80s. Certain groups of people would just pass the Saturday with their families looking at stuff...

I just see that as part of the game. It's when people don't have a clue about what they are responding to that gets me. Tried selling an expensive Control Circuit board (ONLY) for an Onan generator. Person asks if it has Wheels? You can't make this up. Told him wheels cost extra! lol As it...

I can't say that noise has been any issue at all with the steel vs cedar shakes. It's installed over 3/4" (real life) boards. Many cracks between boards and knots. One reason I felt a little safer with steel was fire risk. Steel roof, brick house. Not a bad start.

Sorry. Maybe I'm just really bad at expressing myself. Whole house, whole farm, that's not the point. Is Every last thing being used or almost nothing? BIG DIFFERENCE in genset requirment. Just for instance, if you absolutely NEED a good sized compressor, electric pressure washer or welder...

Kind of off subject, but I never give it a thought pulling off the highway in my 6.6 and shutting it off to get fuel. Should it have a cool down period for the turbo?

I tried the tough talk in clasified ads. It scares away the good, bad and stupid alike. My God, there is no shortage of stupid people.

Aside from high demand loads, which there are actually few, many people have no idea how little power they need even for a large house or spread. In an outage, LIGHT is certainly the number one in terms or importance and mental well-being. And that, requires almost nothing. Maybe the next is...

Almost certainly a safety switch. I had PTO trouble too. Turned out to be a speed sensor FWIW. How many hours. What tranny? LF reverser?

I really wish people would stop using that TERM, WHOLE HOUSE. It's kind of meaningless for a number of reasons. One it can mean, that you have a transfer switch for your whole service and a generator that will handle every load in your house and possibly property at the SAME TIME! That would...

Switched my Cedar shakes which did not give me the lifetime of service that I was expecting for Steel. A product that goes from Peak to Eave in one sheet put looks like shingles. First dismay was ease with which product dents when being walked on. And yet was heavier in gauge from the (high...

Relieved! At least nothing Racist!

I look up places on Google street view too. But my favorite is to lie in bed a goodle Obits. Tough that women (the good ones) change their names.

I have four Diesel Generator of various sizes. All sow runnning except for my 3.7KW air cooled Yanmar Screamer. I prefer smaller rather than larger. 3.7 - 12 .5 KW. Call it a hobby. Power didn't as much as flicker all winter! I also have a 3KW Telecom Inverter that runs off my 48 Volt...

Folding ramps store so much nicer. I use arched aluminum ones now, that don't fit very nice in beside the tractor and bed. GMC 2500 bed is so fricken high! Nothing got damaged. Just my schedule.

Nice to see someone adding a bit of interesting spice to these threads.

Make sure the ramps are up to the task. Those are heavy little tractors. I just had to find out how much safety margin this manufacturer built into their folding ramps. Apparently Nothing, I found out. Notice, I put no weight on the tailgate. Good thing lady friend returned them or I really...

The abrasive slurry destroys them. Especially those useless Disc brakes that I don't need and don't want! And the Salt on the highways. I don't use my brakes! I look a mile ahead at lights and traffic and drive accordingly. The way I was taught.

These gravel back roads take their toll on brakes. Brakes cost a lot more on a 3/4 or one ton! Paying to have brakes serviced and replaced that you have never used!

The smaller the deck, the better a cut you will get. It just follows the ground contour better. Get more decks rather than a bigger single deck if you want to overcome this. ALSO, don't forget that you need that overlap, say conservatively 6 inches. So 54" VS 60" is really 48" VS 54". When...

I notice way too many people are waaay to **** about this. Sure, knock down and get rid of the worst and of course BIG stones, but it's amazing how totally the gravel disappears when the grass grows. Can there really be that many people looking for something to do? Every spring the concession...

At least that diesel truck will be the easiest thing they ever had to sell. Maybe given certain market conditions, a very low miles unit could even fetch more than paid. At least that may help pay for heavy loss on the trailer! I would have liked nothing better than not take my lumbering...

Anyone in the bus. will tell you not to use Teflon tape in hydraulics, for reasons of where it "could" end up. I STILL use it, just very carefully. Easier to use, isn't messy and redoing/cleaning the fitting isn't such a big issue either.

How about buying a gargantuous 5th wheel trailer AND a Diesel truck JUST to pull it. Talk about a double wammy of don't need and (almost) don't use.

Paper is always strongest at the perforations.

I have sold written off equipment, and irritated my accountant by asking, how do I declare this income, and he might as well have asked, are you just slow, boy? Like financially speaking, it doesn't exist anymore, and you want to bring it back from the dead and PAY TAXES on it again? Is that...

Why won't metal places take fence? I could understand if it was plastic coated. But even that is no worse than a car, for contamination.

This are a few words that are etched in my brain forever!

I had good luck with Plenty of Fish myself.

That's certainly an accident with bragging rights. Hope they remembered to keep their arms and legs inside, until the ride came to a complete stop. The worst part must have been listening to the dogs repeatedly asking "are we there yet?"

You might want to consider a used E-Gator. Basically a 48 volt Golf cart, with a bed that can carry a lot! I absolutely LOVE mine! It get's used constantly in the warmer months and the Diesel Mule sits unused. It is the most used and enjoyed piece of equipment I own. WARNING though. Parts...

I would love a little Diesel, as in little pickups. I just can't see myself buying more computer, than engine. It's just WRONG!

When resources are limited, it's not uncommon for dealers to conveniently avoid the less money making ventures. Or sometimes warranty stuff, where they make little money. Maybe even lose money, considering their people could be out making money on an install. I know an Onan dealer in the City...

I think I might just buy a Wind Sock! Albeit, one with a light in it. It's probably more MY SPEED. I hope that high tech doesn't come back to bite me. Transport Canada Approved. 1000 WATTS!!! Any possibility that is designed to melt snow and ice?

Not saying this is the case here. But you gotta love people that are so impatient to buy, agree to a deal, then find a better deal and try to undo or ammend the first.

"Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance" Hendrick Willem Van Loon. No idea who that is.

I drove a 94 Dakota 6/auto and a 2K Dakota 8/auto. I would say them and my 08 Duramax all get about the same mileage empty.

That's what I have in all my equipment. But no, not expensive, they are dirt cheap on the used market and E-Bay. Even high Tier Radios for police and Fire that cost thousands of dollars a piece can be had for peanuts! You can buy a low end (but still high quality) Motorola VHF or UHF radio...

I'm not some lab rat that pushes buttons based on stimulation. Gotta love people that are such simpletons that one can't criticize anything about someone without being accused of not liking them. Now, go press this and that, be sure to ring the bell, subscribe and wear four masks because THEY...

Like Hydro (electric utility) outage maps that eventually shows your outage and then "pending investigation" sometimes for days, then the power just comes back on, with no information ever having been provided. I have ZERO use for that kind of technology. Hop in the truck and find a lineman to...

I can't even imagine the mindset of someone buying a piece of someone elses broken track! Or like some crazy price someone paid for Britney Spears used bubble gum. What is their major malfunction?

I have one siting in the back floor of my truck that I bought for maybe ten bucks at a thrift store. Plus a mag mount Larson Antenna, costing many more times than the radio. If I get caught in a traffic jam of unknown origins, I throw that on the roof and I guarantee you, I will know within...

Of course when a vehicle is expensed or written off for business, it can't be compared to personal use. A diesel truck you can totally write off on your taxes, and then still enjoy the good money you get by selling it off the books! It almost feels wrong!

I don't follow sunspot cycles so don't know how it was in the mid 70s. I just know you couldn't hear the person down the street but ARKANSAS was blaring in loud and clear and when he wasn't talking, the noise level was not to be believed! Remember one guy cursing "watch out where you swingin...

Any possibility of directing a salamander heater to the block to help get fluid moving? I never had luck getting a seized tractor engine moving by pulling it.

I would go with the VOLVO name before JCB. Made in the same building but with better QC. You see the tracked one arm telehandler? Never forget one large rental outfit and JCB dealer telling me "They Come Broken"!

Like I was saying. DATES MATTER! IF he had his Genie lift, I would cut it up above the roof line and the suspect trunk so it doesn't barber pole, and pull it away. I don't see the big deal. Without a lift, it is a different story.

I have their Ditch mower/chopper with hammers. It is from Holland. I could give you the name of the outfit I deal with near Niagara Falls Ontario Canada. They buy parts once a year in a container. Or did, a few years ago. They make high quality equipment for the commercial user. A lot of...

I wonder if U-Haul still have their slogan. "Adventures In Moving" That never sounded like a particularly good thing to me.

You have to know what you want. A friend worked for Motorola, and I set him up with a difficult friend and neighbor who has a Golf course. Guy says he JUST wants to talk from his house to the club house. So we get him a base at the house and a portable. Next thing he complains. Wife drove...

I'm guessing my 08, low miles, never towed (almost never) Duramax is still fetching good money and is in demand. I doubt the gassers that old are fetching much. This is also a fairly uncomplicated Diesel by todays standards making it maybe even more desireable.

I don't know anything about MURS. Did a little reading. I see no mobile radios. Walkie Talkies have their purpose for sure, but for a fleet, mobiles is what you want. They are always there, no batteries, good loud audio and an outside antenna.

I too have the Mantis 2 stroke. It's OK but it doesn't go very deep. Had it about ten years and last year all the fuel lines rotted off of it. Replaced them but I still have problems. Told the guy I bought it from, and he just laughed at me and told me to buy another one. Like, having the...

Up here it has been forever since anyone would find a good deal on a slightly used Diesel truck. Everyone says the same thing. They all want NEW prices, so might as well buy a new one.

I had a 430MAX with the Liquid Kubota Gas Engine for a little while. I don't like gassers, and still had to fart around with that stupid choke, but man, was that ever a sweet, smooth running engine.

Kind of depends how legal you want to be and how close to population centers you are to get away with bootleg operation. I like Analogue VHF FM, 10 maybe 30 watt. A lot of high quality Motorola Gear available cheap! A few miles in hilly terrain, mobile to mobile is asking a bit much. And...

Few people in the bus. give away top soil. So it's Trucking and cost of good soil. Unless you can find someone looking for a place to dump "fill". Then, they pay everything. And sometimes you can't argue over what is showing up.

I heard that Pol Pot doesn't snore.

I would listen to any CG who fires an Electric Minigun across my bow . lol

My criteria would be to have a system without integrated inverters in the panels, so YOU could use the power if needed in an outage. Maybe not immediately, but having the possibility there. Being able to tap into the DC from the panels.

I have an 08 Diesel. Never used it for towing. Just wanted a Diesel and got it FREE with the Allison when GM went into bankruptsy. Been a good truck, engine wise, but hard on fuel and extra weight hurts me for registration. I can legally tow less than if it were gas equipped. Like 500#s...

Kind of the way I feel about JCB. Very forward thinking and innovative, and I would love to have certain pieces of theirs, but market perception is such that it will take it's toll when selling or trading in.

May be two unrelated things entirely. Anyone who has troubleshooted enough stuff knows of what I speak! lol I have hit a key with a knee or stalled a tractor that wouldn't immediately start without taking out of gear and turning off the PTO. Just sayin. So, it does still sound like a...

K0ua RE: NASA. I'm guessing they were referring about humans going any higher than that. Hey, this or flat vs round earth. Moot point if we just live in a computer generated (matrix) world right? Kind of on a different note. Been wondering. If GATES (and others) wants to depopulate the...

I gotta get at this project I had been planning for my business phone system. I have a button marked F-Off. When I see one of those suspect numbers, I press it and the annnouncer answers the call and plays the recording " Im sorry the number you have dialed is no longer in service". I have a...

I rented a Stihl auger when I was forty years younger. In this stoney ground, it was a killer. You need a Gorilla on each end! Never again.

You DID disengage the PTO right? Sounds like a safety circuit.

Only lab rats are supposed to push this button or that based on stimulation,treats or shock. lol Even the banks are now wanting me to push this button or that after an interaction. Sorry, no thanks. Give me a place to write text, and I will tell you plenty. Man, sheep are so easy to train...

We all make great allowances to the lack of daylight. Who really cares what the hands on the clock are saying? Can the time changes! Typical Governent solution to things, make them more complex and involved.

Why does the verbiage for everything (it seems) have to change these days? Why did "You have a whatever "message"" become something about a "conversation"?

Must be like me. Incapable of (effectively) using mirrors for backing. Just turn around and look out back window. So much easier. lol

My Dad used to say, "Haste Makes Waste"

Masks aren't humiliation/punishment enough. Now the Chinese (apparently) are suggesting **** Swabs. Waiting for the "Me Swab You Long Time!" jokes. lol Discouraged to hear tonight that my Mom got the JAB!

Sorry. I thought it was obvious, although I guess there is little visual reference in the picture. Boat appears to be floating in mid air. O.K. Now I wonder. That picture is around by a number of sources, and was apparently on the Cornish coast. Then I find this. So, Who knows what's real...

Thought this kind of alarming. Temperature Inversion.

What does it mean when you get an E-Mail saying someone wants to engage in a conversation?

Kind of like I have never seen a FUGLY Woman in a Country Music Video either. Unless it was meant as some sort of joke.

I remember when a teacher left the classroom to go to the office and promptly spied on us through the Intercom. It would have been funny, if someone had always made sure to flick the lever switch to "PRIVACY" when she left the room.

Just one Question. What are you going to change your handle to? lol Sig/slingshot has kind of a nice ring to it. I have seen enough stuff to not personally have any idea if they went to the moon or not. And from NASA themselves. Saying on numerous occassions that they are not able to go...

I really only care (wish I wouldn't) about Youtube. Nice thing about AppleTV is Ads were rather few. I think Lady friend is cancelling Left Flicks (Good ridense (sp?)).

Anyone remember the combinaion to my container of coffee beans?

Not as for CARDIAC health. lol