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I have them, and have not had them in them in for about a week now. I figure why should I. During the day I am home alone now, out in the shop where stuff is loud already, I don't want to hear it better, or on a mower, yea I want that tuned in. It did take care of the unending...

You know you are old when you retire. Last Friday was the last day.

That car is for the sunny days in the early spring and fall when it is 40F outside, or you taking the wife out to breakfast and she does not what her hair messed up.

Can you go into a little bit more on this?

I think the real question is how bad is it in the summer. Mine hit -20 last winter, and the heat just could not keep up. I drained everything when I learned that cold snap was coming. Mine has a loft now, and I store as well as work up there, I have a "large" 240 "window unit" in the shop...

I have never bought something because of a commercial. After seeing this ad, I bought one of their watches.

I have seen many people say the same thing. Myself I have never come across that.

Rebel, be part of the resistance, get that old gal out and enjoy.

You can't really blame the belts for that one. Odd I had the same issue on a John Deere 110 I got for cheap fixed up and gave to my son. I bought some no name PTO off of Amazon and the belt would scream bloody murder each time you hit the switch. It did not take long for them to fail. Told...

You know how often I have changed the belts on that craftsman in the past 25 years, NEVER. I just replaced the deck belt on a 1984 Ford YT16 two weeks ago. Yea that belt drive is a real game changer.

EPA, same reason as this.

True, but in my line of thinking you should not have to do that. For me to move to another platform the new thing must have big plusses. I don't see what the battery mower brings to the table. The guy that bought the push mower could not keep a gas mower running for over a year, that tends to...

I am interested to see how it does a few years down the road. I know of two people that did the battery mower, one a push mower the other not yours but another "ride on" type mower. They both sang its praises year one, year two it was still going strong as long as you did not let the grass get...

My shop is roughly your size. My question would be first how tall are the side walls. Mine is 24', so quite tall. In the summer up there it is VERY hot, like to change out lights or something, you are dripping in short order. Now I have built a loft, both to store and work up there. Now you...

No that just seems dishonest. It is not a big deal to do it as long as I am not under a time crunch. That is the thing if I have to get it done by X I really struggle.

But it continued in "professional" use till the digital age came along.

And getting "thin skin". It seems I start to bleed so easy anymore. And take FOREVER to heal.

We all did, and best thing of all it is all undocumented. You really "had to be there". That is something "kids" today just don't get. They want video of everything. Nope was not a thing back then. You had stories, and in those stories you drove just a little faster each time.

Personally I want to fix SOME things. I don't want to fix my daily driver, or the wife's, but my "toy" cars and motorcycles, sure, I do that for fun. With me retiring the wife has it in her head that I can do the basic stuff on her car from now on. Had this discussion just last night. I said...

A car girl, my MiL and wife are the same way. How she has not gotten a ticket is beyond me.

Look at your mothers side of the family, I am told this is where this trait comes from. So blame your mom for going bald, same deal with me.

I have them as well, and are really tearing things up. I only have one left and he has gone to ground. I know he is still around as the tunnels keep opening back up, but dog if I can find him. The others are pretty easy to take care of, but this one went to commando school or something. My...

True, but..... The point I was trying to make here is these batteries can go poof for "no reason". In the battlebot thing, they are taking hits and damage. In a model airplane (hopefully) there are no big bumps to them. Generally when a battery gets to end of life, what I will do is shoot...

Yea I know, trouble is some of the stuff I agree with.

I look at it differently, that is going to be my kids problem. If I like it, I will keep it, If I even THINK I might use it I will keep it. But I am not the issue, the wife is. She is borderline hoarder.

I do see your point, but when the records have nothing to do with you then why keep it. It was however interesting in seeing what my grandfather paid for a corvette in 1960-something.

I am pretty new here and have not seen this popup in the "new" posts yet, so if this has already been brought up sorry. I have a class of tools that I put into a very specific group. The "where have you been all my life" tools I think will fit in here. These are things that just make life so...

I am in the same group as you, my mother had these china blue animals. She left the tags on some, when I saw the prices I had heart failure. I could not just let that stuff go, so it all sits in Christmas ornament boxes in the loft in my barn. Last time I was up there to get some wood I saw...

My wife knows just what it is worth, and what stuff is "junk" and what is "good". In the gunz, I have everything in a database with costs of what I bought, when bought from who bought, a little more detail then the "bound book" that is required for the 03FFL. I also have photos in there and a...

It is nice to know it is not a total crap show for everyone. My mothers sister was just horrid. When my grandmother died, my aunts mother my aunt was hauling stuff out of the house, and my grandfather yelled at her saying I STILL LIVE HERE. She did the same thing when my mother died, I changed...

"Old Peoples".....hell anyone over 50 has had this come up in their head. Told the kid if I have lost my marbles, pack me off to Canada and have someone hit my off switch. I will do anything to not go into one of those "old folks" homes......including suck starting a shotgun. I will not go...

Who's mower? I am so impressed with the Ferris I am just floored at how well it does. This is the video that sold me, yes it has a great deal to do with how the suspension is setup but when it is setup for your weight, it is really this kind of difference.

Mine is bumpy as fuaaaaa, and I can do it easy with a 72" Ferris. I have no hills or anything like that to deal with, just some terraces. You can mow, and get a good cut going as fast as the machine will go. Really a time savor.

The issue might be because the small size of the window AC you have been using. It likely runs the entire time. In my shop I have a 240v 25000BTU "window" ac, and it has been in there for at least 15 years now, and (knock on wood) is still going strong. It will cycle on and off if I am out...

You know when someone comes out with one of those little details and you know past any shadow of a doubt this person has driven one. You are so right on the little feet. I can't drive the car in normal shoes. So out comes the 1960's hippy stand by. These are the only shoes that I can wear...

Fiat 850 Spider, and I live in the US. They are not too common anymore.

To go a step farther, I have a very cool little old car that gets 48mpg. It looks sporty, fun to drive, and thanks to the .gov we can't have this anymore.

The AT gets 50's as well, even riding a bit stupid.

Just get yourself a ?blue? one.

Here they are treated just like an ATV or side x side. Only legal on county roads, nothing big. If I got one, or really anything for that matter I doubt I would go very fast or very far in the things. Gas station to fill up the cans would likely be its longest trip.

The mower is an Ferris IS3300 with a 72" deck and a 40hp Briggs engine. Smooth is a word you can't use when talking about my area, the "yard" is really a field I think this is pretty common for most of us. I have terraces in my "yard" as well as a very bad mole/vole/groundhog issue. In short...

Pretty popular on another forum I visit, here is one I put up there.

I will add one more thing, Some of those extra contacts on the bottom of batteries, usually when you have a two cell battery and you see four connectors this is so the voltage in each cell can be monitored when charging. Getting a multi cell pack out of balance is also bad, it is not too...

I have been flying model airplanes for roughly 40 years, the last 20 of those it has all been electric. With the introduction of brushless motors and lithium batteries electric flying has really taken off.....get it.....oh well....anyhoo. No one on the planet is more mean to batteries then toy...

I think this is one reason why the Japanese Kei mini trucks are so popular.

That is pretty common, we all want or children to have a "better" life then we did. And he did have a company, pretty large one that he ran for quite some time. I am not up on the guy so I can't really comment but there are lots of things that can cause a shift. Him finally thinking, well I...

I just flat refuse to mow that often, gas is too darn expensive and one thing that big machine likes is gas.

Mine are mounds of dirt left from the moles and voles. The wife would just bulldoze them at full speed....I think, I have never at least seen her slow down, she is a wild woman on that thing. I really need to take some pictures of this, it is really insane. As to sharpen/replace, I will...

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I just think with all the rolling, turning running and in real dusty dirty conditions what can it hurt. The only reason I don't change the oil at the end of the season is the cost of that stupid filter. I keep a good eye on it, and the oil still looks new. I guess that is what a dry sump...

I just love that. I have a feeling that time to time those memories come back to the front of your mind, time in the summer spent there, Christmas....whatever, and those memories make you smile. Don't loose them.

I think we are, and where this ties into this thread is the "I want what is coming to me". It seems like the owner of EA had a real good thing going but decided he wanted more for himself, and shafted everyone around him just so he could get his. Same thing happening today.

Yes I do grease at least twice a year. Not sure what the manual says on that one. This mower was darn near $20,000 extra grease is good for my bit of mind. And having the same mower I had in 1985, and a craftsman I bought new in 1999 tells me I must be doing something right. Oil the...

There are only a hand full of companies that make mowers. With Ferris they are owned by briggs, they also own several other brands. MTD is owned by Stanly black & decker. MTD makes stuff for a handfull of companies. Really when looking at machines what I think you need to do is first size...

My inlaws are "down sizing", and me and the kid are getting all their junk. They have really gone off the deep end IMHO, the wife tried to give them this little tool that makes opening jars far more easy. We don't need that we are downsizing, we need to thin things out. I got a DVD player I...

I love mine, just like you I have a bad back, several plates of metal and wood screws (that is what they look like) hold me together. I also have a nero stimulator under the skin to "shock" my nerves to confuse them and make it stop hurting. When I bought mine I was the one doing the mowing...

I will also chime in there with, the wife does most of the mowing, she loves the new mower: She will also mow as fast as the thing will go. Our "yard" is bumpy as all hell, but this thing really soaks up the bumps. She has bent a blade on this one, I try to tell her to slow down a little, I...

I also do my own, and I think it really depends on your specific use in this case. For me mowing my area is usually about a 3-3.5 hour affair, I will grease it several times per season, and sharpen the blades at the same time. Good time to check the blades as well, my wife has bent a blade or...

When I first got mine I mowed with it, pretty quickly I learned that the short and narrow wheel base was just hell to mow on my mole, vole and groundhog infested yard. It is like riding a bucking bronco. I went back to the old Ford 8n and woods mower and just used the BX for close around the...

I really have not looked into it, but that sounds right. I do remember they have been quite loud in years past, but this year nothing and with all the coverage I figured I would hear somehting. I just never bothered to look and see why. thanks.

I have a pretty large kill score as well. I have killed 3 deer, 2 in the car by hitting them. One hit me....I was almost past her and she just ran into the side of the car right in front of the back wheel. I have also run over an opossum, hit an owl and turkey....turkeys are darn big birds to...

90% of it is back roads, none of it is interstate or even state highway. The largest it gets is county numbered highway at 55mph. Chip n' seal and gravel are a large part of it, one reason I went with the adv bike is all the gravel and craptastic roads. I think we all know what county roads...

IMHO the mistake some people are making is thinking those humans are people, they are not, they don't view a great many of americans as people they have said so themselves. Time is coming for them to reap what they have sewn

Don't clean and paint them, they are perfect the way they are. Some of the story behind them will be lost if you paint them.

No not people, there may be some people up there but they are not the majority.

That is nutz, I live in the "greater Kansas City" area and at my house I have not seen hide nor hair of them. I am a bit out in the boonies but nothing. The June bugs are starting to show up however.

I am a 60 mile round trip from work. I have also tagged a few deer, one on the bike, killed the bike and the deer. Left me with three broken ribs, two busted thumbs, but no road rash....that gear again. That is why all the lights on the bike that will destroy the planet and make me public...

I mow about 11 of the 13ac that I have with a finish mower. In the past it was a woods mower pulled behind the tractor, now it is a big zero turn that does the job MUCH faster. I don't think there is a limit. Now if you are wanting to do all that with a big box store riding mower, that...

Agree white smoke is 99% of the time coolant, but you say the level is not going down. If there is a sweet smell to the exhaust then I would double down on coolant, if not I will go with what the above poster said. Put some pressure in the cooling system and see if it will hold that pressure...

I am not so sure you can blame China for this one.

No that would be .gov

I was reading this and thinking what the hell, then I looked and see CA, oh.

Auctions are a bit odd it seems today. When my mother died I had a 3500sq foot house FULL of "old lady" stuff.....and two gray hounds. I got lucky with the dogs as the officer they sent out wanted them, great they are yours. The cop called some family member and inside of an hour they are...

I really think it comes down to what you want to do with it. Many people will over buy for what they need, you will never hear from those people that can't get the big machine between trees to go where they want to go. Those people that did buy too large will defend their decision to the ends...

I hear you on the clay, it is real slippery when wet. I too have used the bucket to "push" me back so I could get to some dryer ground.

When I was younger I had a rule about riding, as long as it was above 40F and not raining I would take the bike to work. Now knocking on the door of 60 it has changed a bit. 55F and no rain for today. I have been stuck in rain and hail before. Geared up and looking like they typical ADV...

Thunderstorms again here....and most of the week is rain and storms. I am really getting sick and tired of this.

My building is your size, but with 24' side walls, so REAL TALL. I have a single 240v "window" unit. 28k BTU. I will run it when I am in there. I am in MO so summers are usually in the 90's with humidity about the same or higher. In the heat of the day I will start it up for about 30min...

Nice job Mr. Fancy.

Mine is also a land pride, and has AR400 stickers on it. I have not done any tests to it. I think I have been fairly mean to mine, using it on some fairly thick roots and such. It has not bent or broke yet. I got it when I got the tractor about 10-ish years ago. I would buy it again in a...

I had an issue a bit like this, but it was a bearing in....I don't remember if it was a spindle or idle pully. Everything would turn just fine but if you went to mess with the (lets say pully) with the belt off you could feel the play. I am guessing when the deck was running that bearing would...

I was VERY nervous when I bought my land plane online. Perhaps it is because I am an old man, perhaps because of things like what this thread is "about". Really sucks for those that have paid and not gotten their stuff and can't get their money back. That would make me see red.

That is young love. We have all been there. One of the greatest things of growing old together.

That is what I am trying to say. Have him take out the loan, let it run for a month then pay it all off. He gets "credit" for having the loan and paying it off, and then there is no more interest. Win Win.

It is clear in the world we live in having this kind of thing on your "record" is a good thing if the payments are made. Like it or not it is the world we live in. What I would do is make sure there is no fee for paying it off early. Get the loan, let him make one month of payments, then on...

So do I brother.....so do I

This is why people that play guitars love tube amps, there is something different about the sounds....and I agree. Stevie Ray Vaughn would power up his amps for 24hrs so the tubes would get up to temp the day before his show. Mine is a smaller tube amp, and it does sound different from the...

My first job, working for a computer sales company was to populate AST Six Pac cards. This gave the PC 640k of ram, a serial port, parallel port AND a clock. What more could you ask for.

You really need to head over to diysolar.com. The folks over there can really help you out with this. To be honest you will not know till you try. There is a loss when going through the AC to DC inverter. You will need to factor in that loss. I would also invest in this thing called a...

You could say there is a general "type" of person that owns a tractor. Those are also generally not the kind to try to force it down the drain.

Fakebook Marketplace.

After we paid off the house that is one thing you really see up front and in person, property tax and the insurance. Only thing worse then insurance is property tax. With insurance if a hail storm comes your way you call your insurance company and "they" pay for a new roof. Property tax is...

Had most of the family out the other day. And you can't even see the blinding planet destroying human incinerating, on coming vehicle melting lights on the AT.

Many areas are not zoned at all. For example the county I live in there are no building requirements, no zones, no permits. I don't need the .gov permission to do anything on my own land as far as building goes. Go .5 miles down the street and you go into one of the most heavy zoned counties...

There is a pretty large bias against smaller machines. They are nothing but a lawn mower, or you will do better with a shovel. Personally I think they can live in their very biased world. I live on a flat 13ac, and have had a BX25D from roughly the moment they first came out. It is currently...

Likely because many people did not expect to live on minimum wage. Minimum wage was for summer kids, entry level jobs that kind of thing, not what you make a career doing. Wages have never kept up with inflation, why should minimum wage.

That can lead you to think something is ok but it is not. Some things like relays for flashers need a specific voltage, something over 10v. If you are in the dark under a dash and the bulb lights up you think it is good, but it is not as the stupid blinkers will still not flippin blink. So...

I have a roughly 30 year old Fluke 77. That thing has just flat held up. If anything happened to it I would buy the new version, but dog they are spendy.

EVERYTHING is political now.

Unless......

This is what I was trying to say before. Lets say this is a real extended thing and these people show up. You have six months of stuff for your family, spouse and kids. Not for the additional 7 adults that show up. The power is not coming back on, law enforcement does not exist, what do you...

It is not fear, I have yet to meet any that live in fear. They are ready however for about anything. I linked an article from someone that survived the Bosnia "civil war", it is clear many did not read that. Having a "stash" is really what the other poster said, it is "extra" food. You do...

I would say not at full charge. The one I saw the lights would come on, but it would not start the car. They pulled it into the shop, someone hooked a boost charger to it, started it closed the hood and went to put the charger away. KABOOM, bent the hood, knocked the battery out of its home...

After I retire in about a month I am going to do it again. It was difficult before with my hours.

That is my problem as well, everything from coyote on the bigger end to hawks and such. I am currently chickenless but thinking of getting it going again.

I would bet we have at least one death a year with people getting killed on a zero turn. Usually they smash themself against a tree branch and panic. I don't understand why they just don't pull backward on the levers but they don't. The number of people that have died in a roll over of...

Triumph GT6. I agree that they are a pain, and you must deal with tubes. To my eye they just look better. I do understand they are much more inexpensive for the companies to make, the real reason they are everywhere now, and you don't have to mess with tubes, tubes suck. A puncture and you...

I have never had a mower live that long unless I bring the battery inside or put a tender on it. For the longest time I brought them inside and put them on a shelf in the heated garage. The cold is hard on them. I have first hand seen them freeze and explode.

Here is a good video to refresh your memory.

All that is true, but spokes just look better. I still have spokes on one of my cars.

Let me tell you how I know you are a good man.....

In the video I linked it talked about shooting the parts at the sub station. The parts that got damaged are "easy" to replace, however other things are not. Now this was last year that it happened, fast forward to today and ask yourself are you sure this could not happen again, and in a great...

Funny to say you are right, they did say that.

You want to keep it sealed and in the dark as much as possible. Then you can boil it and put it through a good filter. Collecting "steam" and using it for water will always be "clean", but you don't get anything else aside from a drink. It is a little like if all you ate was rabbit, it is far...

The "cause" of their last major issue was largely self inflicted. The reason does not help much, as it did happen. Natural gas has a bit of "water" in it, and the cold caused that water to freeze in the gas turning it into a solid. That added to the "green" push their grid had was enough to...

The "grid" is pretty weak. It is going to be fairly easy to cause a fairly "large" outage.

Mine also does a weekly test, and will run for 30min. That is long enough for it to get everything up to temp. They are really just bigger "lawn mower" engines. Everyone knows that those little batteries if left off a tender just don't do real well. It seems that if a machine has a real...

Will does some good work, he looks so darn young. The folks over at DIYsolar.com are fantastic and really helpful. It would do anyone good to check them out over there if they plan on setting it up on their own.

Disagree. If an area has a reputation of being "hard on crime" the bad guys know that and will avoid that area. For roughly the next 50 days I am working at a Sheriff's office, and have been for 20 years. Retirement is around the corner. People know when they cross into the county I work in...

I have been looking at them lately, but it is just going to have to have wire wheels. Cast on a harley is just wrong to my eye.

That will depend on just how bad it is, and you will not know how bad it is till it is on top of you. There are so many.....not so good.....things that will really come to the top when people start to run out of food. You say "many good people". Well help too many and even the most...

Mine is this: Homestead Implements, and I want to say it is under your price point. I have not had it very long but can say it seems very well built.

The longest I was out was several years ago after an ice storm. We did not get power restored for 14 days. We ran on a generator for that entire time. It was really just 4 houses that had to wait that long, everything else got restored fairly quickly. Our propane tank was full so hot water...

Well you think your propane truck will come, and I doubt it will. That is why I am saying what I am about the gas stations. I have a fairly robust DIY solar setup. I have run my stuff (fridge and both freezers) off of it for one day, then done the math. It should run about a week on my...

I figure I will also post a photo of the book as well.

Batteries and solar is good, but again not the answer for all. We have been without sun for over a week. I can't run the freezers/fridge, really the only thing that matters. I was thinking the layout of this is several months. Several months and the gas stations will be dead, looted and...

You leave out there are people that will TAKE what you have, they will not need or wait for you to give it to them. And what you do give will never be enough. They will kill you and yours, hopefully you and yours will not be "used". Doubt me that this will happen, turn on the TV. That will...

If power goes you will not be getting any propane delivered. Gas pumps that run the truck are electric. If power goes out for over a month it will be very messy.

Too young, but then that is happening a great deal here lately.

If you are talking about being out that long it will get quite bad. Most people can't feed themselves for 3 days let alone 3 months. IMHO a gas generator will do nothing but draw attn to yourself. Not generally a good idea.

I am at work at 5am, so I do my commute in the dark, just when the deer start moving.

I want to see the forest rats.

Looks like we have some of the same taste, my big girl getting more light. I don't want to be attacked by a deer again. Anyone silly enough to name their bikes, the AT is Boudica, because she is one tough B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica

My video is not as polished as the first persons. Mine is much smaller and I pull it behind a BX. The pass that is videoed was really to take care of the center mess where the grass grows and a little bit of water damage. I need to do it again with all the rain, but it is going to rain all...

Oh and currently with all the rain we have had my field is roughly 6-8" high. You can't cut it at the "normal" depth, you must raise it up, but no issues. I have seen no issues aside from that one blade with the machine.

I bought this in may of 22 according to the date on the photo. It was expensive enough, I just could not get my head around the diesel prices. I mow roughly 13ac with it. Before this it was a 5' woods finish mower pulled behind an 8n. Then a few smaller mowers for the up around the house...