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first - i set the stage 30 years ago when i welded a 25 - 30 lb scrap weight on top of my t post driver. Sunday i was using it to drive an 8 ft ground rod for lightning protection at my gate opener. on the up stroke i lifted it just a bit too high, it came off the rod and as i bobbled it - it...

I was passing a junk shop in our little wide spot in the highway and they had this 2 wheel trailer sitting there with a home made cover that I thought could be renovated into a small cattle trailer for goats and maybe mini cows. I dickered with her a bit and took it home, thinking I'd have it...

need to take your backhoe over....

Kyle, in about 2 weeks will be the prime potato planting time. I need to grab some onions also. Don -- Bernice has me working her garden - yesterday and today -- not sure what she has going or planned....I'm just the go-fer and do-fer -- I'm no gardener -- but I lift & tote purty good. Better...

But if there is any torque on the line at all (meaning the line isn't perfectly straight) then the rubber seal WILL leak - at some point. I prefer a solid glue standard coupling joint ... holds for me every time.

I've been having some problems with severe power loss - as in limping back to the barn and barely making it. It would sit overnight then be fine for maybe an hour, then lose power again. I suspected bad fuel and confirmed it this a.m. Couldn't believe how filthy the fuel in my can was. I use 5...

I have a woods 80X hoe on a NH TC45... I've had it about 7 years with no troubles til now. I was digging a trench - put no undue stress on it that I can think of...But the swing left has stopped working. I can swing right under control, but when I swing left it does so out of control and without...

putting up sheep & goat fence in front pasture (about 3 acres) ....pic of my fence crew -- ages 12, 13, 15....grandsons from 3 daughters.

making progress -- Ron - if you come in Dec to check it -- I might have it complete by then....;)

Breakfast party! Work's gonna get a late start this a.m.......;)....having too much fun.

If you look closer Bird you'll see a shiner in my hand as well. The reason Jim's eating alone is - he & Kathy were late and the rest of us were done.

L-R ...Kyle, Harvey, txdon, mikim, bindian, and sitting jinman

When I got done with it - I figured it owed me some so I put it to work in the garden.

We all talk about being able to carry tools / chainsaws on board the tractor and there are a lot of solutions out there that guys have come up with. Here's mine. Yes the ROPS is folded...My tractor and I live / work in the trees and it's safer to have the ROPS down then up as it grabs limbs and...

This is the first garden I have ever had. The wife is the gardener here - I built the fence etc and she does all the "gardening". The asparagus we put in 2 years ago so this was the first harvest year. She picked every day for 2 weeks then decided to let it go to seed for next season. I put...

put my radiation mask to work today.

Have a Woods BH 80X and that thing saved my butt again this a.m. Came out of the house and there was water bubbling out of the ground right where the water main goes to the house. 3 hours later water line repaired and I still have a working back. Without that BH I'd still be digging and...

I certainly enjoyed it -- and the shiner on the porch after was good too , thank you don. Here's a shot of the brush we were after and do you think Ron looks like he was having a good time?

wife wants a subaru for her next vehicle -- we'll be looking for one in "mud" or "dust"

here it is ...I plan on eventually mounting it to 1/2" plate on a 2" receiver thence onto my welding table that I hope to build when I get a new welder. I lost my old one to flood and it just hasn't been a priority. We moved and needed to build a new house and all. They wanted too much $$ for...

like Don - I'll be mowing some today and more on the weekend after it dries a bit. Need to get the riding mowers readied up and I'd like to burn a brush pile or 2 if time permits. Tomorrow is run to town day and Saturday is a family reunion on the wife's side. Her father passed a few weeks ago...

wants to spend every free minute with her Kindle in his lap Trevor has a Kindle Fire but I have it set so he can't access any games on it. He reads constantly. I just downloaded a new book for him this a.m. and it won't last a week. It's what he does on the bus. I have no problem with buying him...

hey hey I'm finally back on the inet. G'son burned up my monthly allotment so haven't been on for 2 weeks. 57 deg here this a.m. and raining. We got 3" since Sun ...Lovin' the rain .. would like it to lighten up a bit -- have a brush pile that needs burning. Jim -- Trevor scored above 90 on...

Wish we could get Menards down here--not likely to happen while I'm in need.

I've got my deck ready, stain waiting, drop cloth ready, just in need of some Monday morning motivation......

just remember the guy that invented those things was killed on it....

......or even less !!! Just catch oral cancer and be forced to a liquid diet for 3 months and you too can lose 50 lbs! --- (I'm at 177 down from 266 a year ago.) I think my BMI is 165..?? for 72" ?

Hauling a lot of junk from my in-laws (FIL recently passed so we're cleaning out the house) when I suddenly had a check engine light and a little rough running. Mice had chewed on my wiring overnight --- gonna run close to $1000 to get my truck back. Have to wait til Tues for parts, and labor is...

GOOD MORNING Y'ALL!!! Feeling good this a.m.....my mouth is healing enough that I'm beginning to be able to eat real food. A couple of months on liquid diet sure gets old. This a.m. I had some blueberry cobbler the wife made for me last night and I fixed myself eggs and biscuits to go with...

Too hot to work outside and all the inside stuff is done for the moment.....headed to Randolph for the fun of it. (haven't been on an AF base in several years) Get a haircut, go to the BX, maybe buy waterpark tickets --kids are coming from Houston to spend the week on vacation. They like it...

Diagnosis came in Thurs eve. Told the family. Find that it is a very hard short little statement to repeat. "I have cancer". I have a mass in the left side parotid gland which is one of the saliva glands. Biopsy shows it malignant. Suppose to have surgery next week. Then radiation to follow...

It's not raking leaves that is such a hassle to me, - it's picking them up and moving them to compost ......unless....If I line the grapple with fence wire and then ......darned if it don't work.:laughing::thumbsup:

This is the type of Rain Gauge the NWS provides to volunteer weather observers. The top is 4 1/8" in dia into a 1"?? (not sure...don't remember) tube. It measures increments of .01. This is from Gemplers for about $40 but might be able to find them elsewhere.

Bought a sub soiler from TSC to do some light trenching and 100' later took it back with a busted weld. I heard "snap" and looked just in time to see it twist into a pretzel. The weld was just awful. I can do better and I'm awful. They gave me my money back no problem. Now what do I do about...

Wife and I bought this place 6 yrs ago and we started working in earnest around a year later. ....making progress....1) needed to clean up and clear to see.....2) like this ...spotted house site ....3) there it is.

20' tandem axle trailer....Have no idea how I managed it but somehow the front shackles on the rear axle have flipped up so that the rear tires aren't even touching the ground. :mad: The idea I have for fixing it scares me so I'm hoping y'all have a better idea than me tieing the axle off to a...

trying to measure across a creek that I can't get across. I seem to remember knowing how (40 yrs ago) but have forgotten. so if I use a rt triangle, and side B(base) is 100' , and side C is hyp, and angle BC is 52 deg, leaving angle CA to be 38 deg, (AB being 90) how do I solve for side A...

anybody know of a brick & mortar retailer for dakota alert? I need a driveway alarm and wireless intercom for the guest cabin and thought I'd like Dakota but I need to looky touchy. I'm old like that.

From the time I was in high school (too many years ago to count) I have drawn floor plans of houses I'd like to build / live in. Well - it took awhile - but I'm finally making it happen in retirement. I drew it up on my old drafting table / T-square, had it done up in CAD, made the rounds...

so I decided I felt like doing a little mowing....changed blades, greased everything, 10 minutes into the pasture and the tractor slows to a stop. no noise, no nothing, just stops and won't move. PTO is ok and still running, fel works, but not moving -- in any gear. With clutch out I can...

We moved to this dirt road 8 months ago. No water - drilled a well, no phone -phone lines end up the road a mile or 2---cell only --and AT&T only--and needed a repeater. We have sat TV, and were looking at sat internet....but just before Christmas I saw a new signal booster / repeater in Best...

from Mike, Bernice, and Trevor here at our TBN guest cabin. It's a TBN guest cabin cause we got it from Txdon back in Jun. It has been serving us quite well since then as a place for friends and family to stay when they come to visit. Our hopes for a joyous season and happy new year go out to...

Been talking about it for years and making preps ....and now the time has come. We're moving to the country! Currently all we have to live in is one room finished off in the barn (400sqft) but we want the grandson to finish the school year there so he has a chance to meet friends for the...

You can actually walk around in it without tripping over stuff. Thought I'd better take a picture or two -- it'll be a long time before this happens again! Chipper belongs to a neighbor who doesn't have any shelter up yet. I'm storing it for him for now....might need a favor from him someday...

We always have a hard time getting a time when all the kids can come to the house at the same time. This year the family Christmas was yesterday Dec 21. The big guy in the center of the one pic is my son. The babies are his twin boys. There's a shot of the cousins - 6 boys 1 girl. and a shot...

I want to collect water off the roof of my metal barn ...and in looking for poly tanks I'm finding the above ground tanks are 1/2 the price of below ground. The above ground ones I've looked at are heavy duty ....thick ...so can somebody tell me why does a buried tank have to have ribs and why...

Did the search thing for "backhoe feet" ... way too many hits to find anything. I started this in the Kioti forum cause I think what I'm looking for was on one... a fella had bought and installed feet on his backhoe for better traction ... anyone remember? :confused: .... doing a search for...

Sometime ago -- maybe a year ....??.... I saw a thread about some feet that someone had installed on their backhoe for better traction ... and I think it was on a Kioti (hence this post's location) Does anyone remember? He posted pictures (of course) ............ do you know how many hits you...

I have a 1997 Sabre with 15hp Briggs ....did have a 38" deck. The starter is refusing to turn it over. I replaced the starter and when that didn't work I took it back where I got it to tell them they were no help. The tech there told me there is a compression release valve somewhere on it --...

What do you think ? I think they're getting too much $$ for 'em ... I got this for almost $4k ...course it doesn't have the extra motor ....but it does have reverse (didn't know there were any without reverse) and it gets us around our property jus' fine thank you. wife really likes it...

How hard can digging stumps be? Find chair, get cool frapper from fridge, sit back and watch the wife enjoy her new hoe. -- easy --:D :D

Made a deal with my dealer for a Woods 80X BH .... subframe mount, 18" bucket, & 9" bucket, all installed and ready to go to work...$7000 even. After he figured his discounts etc it came to $7031 - he made the huge gesture of knocking off the $31 ..:rolleyes: ...but I'm still thinkin' it's a...

I belong to an association that keeps up an old cemetery from 1831 (before Texas was even a republic) and I have a place there for me & the wife when our time comes. They spent some time & effort over the last 3 years and got a Texas historical marker for it. Alum Creek was a big deal town...

attached is my NH bucket after I cut off the pin on brackets (setting on top) and got a plate welded on --- and the QA I got from NH .... This much ran me about $600 total.

New toys are great Here is proof (to my wife anyway) that the only difference between men & boys is the price of their toys. Just as soon as I got it mounted - the first thing I did was take it apart .... but I don't have hydraulics to it yet and those grapple tines were gonna be in the way...

My wife & I are beginning to fence in our 20 acres. The ground is hard black clay after 6" of sandy loam and driving tposts by hand is real work. She doesn't like the idea of standing under my bucket holding a post while I try to push it in - go figger. She found a pneumatic online from Rohr? I...

The wife & I took a week vacation -- funny way to vacation - but we enjoyed it. We bought 20 acres in Feb and the way into it wasn't too great and needed improvement so we picked a spot along the road and went for it. This is a before shot of what it is like all along the road. The heavy brush...

asked about seeing the skidplate I made for my TC45 - here's pic 1 -- poorly made holes for oil drains ... oh well they work

Went out to the 20 acres we just bought to do cleanup and mow pasture this past weekend - Saturday I was busy using my new bucket forks cleaning up piles of stuff - and generally running wild with the tractor doing stuff - for hours - .... wife sat in the truck listening to the radio and...

Seems bucket forks are a real popular first project for beginners with a welder - ... for me too.... here's mine -- in progress

Have a screen room where the cat lives - yesterday morning I noticed the bag of cat food was torn and food scattered - cat doesn't do that - found a hole in the screen - last night the wife watched and discovered a racoon trying to come back for seconds ... this is IN TOWN ... guess I'll have...

IT work isn't always at the keyboard - We had to run a cable from our old building to the new one - seen here on the right down the street -- from our old one about the same distance to my right. 2000 feet of cable - 400 pound reel - first problem "how do we get the cable off the reel so we can...

Folks ... the "tropics" on this rock is suppose to run from 30 deg N. lat down to 30 deg S lat and I'm in that zone at about 25 deg ..... So what the H is all this white stuff doing on my lawn ??? 6 inches ...and no snow removal tools of any kind at my house or probably in the whole county ...

I don't normally look - but noticed today that my post count doesn't seem to be incrementing .... looked back several months - unless the count updates old posts as well ---- am I missing suppin'?

i may have asked before .. but ... anybody in the Houston area know where I can rent a 3 pt tiller ... say within a 50 mile radius? I'm in Angleton and haven't found anybody in Brazoria County that has one.

I want to change the gear oil in mine - but the owners manual doesn't tell me what the capacity is - it says "fill it til it runs out the side hole" or words to that effect - anybody got an idea - or an idea where I can find the info? I emailed woods but haven't gotten a response. dealer wuz...

unable to change info at\"home\" went to home to change display settings and was unable to get any response when clicking on anything in the main config area. ???

Way back in 1971 my wife's older brother bought a cheap mobile home for he & his new bride to live in and parked it on his parents property. He sold it to his sister (my wife) 20 years ago and for the past 12 years we've used it as a weekend getaway. Now the folks are selling the land and the...

netscape 7 on rh7 - all the graphics and pictures are fine, but the text looks like dogcrap ... too small and sorta cut-up... what do I have to do to fix this? any ideas?

just uploading - i hope

Started with 8 acres that all looked like this. Had to clear with chainsaw and brush hog just to see what we have. Discovered some big oaks arranged real nice so...

I ordered a new PC from Dell online on a thursday night -- received it on tuesday -- the fast delivery is the only good part of this story. It came with XP loaded - no choice - and the roxio cd creator software didn't work - out of the box it didn't work. I loaded some other programs that don't...

Anybody seen or heard of a foldable ragtop for a TC? I've seen 'em on JD's in the field ... I'd like to buy one ... but failing that will have to make one. I need to be able to fold it down whenever I fold the ROPS which is very often. mike

on another post someone said they were looking for a little good help... Hope his interest hangs in there for about 10 more years.

OK - after several months of reading this forum and lookin and feelin I have decided to go blue. In an effort to be sportmanship like I sent 6 dealers in the area the specs of the tractors I am considering ordering. I figger - let the games begin - and may the best (not necessarily cheapest) man...