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  1. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    I feel older cuz I remember being taught how to and actually using a library card filing catalog to find books before digital catalogs. I also kind of remember what isbn #s were. Do folks even go to libraries anymore for books not to just use the libraries computers and Internet?
  2. jjeff

    Tell us something we don’t know.

    And large flows of ice I presume?
  3. jjeff

    Tell us something we don’t know.

    Up reading late last night on the googler I was kind of surprised at all the bridge collisions from ships and barges occasionally resulting in catastrophic bridge failure over the last few decades. Quite a bit of speculation what ultimately caused the accident yesterday, Probably a culmination...
  4. jjeff

    Tell us something we don’t know.

    I think they started using partially grated decks after the infamous Tacoma narrows "galloping gertie" collapse?
  5. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    No my dad didn't go to school with bilbo baggins in Middle Earth. Hobit, fat fingers and or autocorrect. it's the white headdress or possibly blue or black depending what color ink my dad was using.
  6. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    My dad told me the story a few times when he spilled an actual fountain of ink on a nuns hobbit during nostalgic handwriting lessons, he ended up graduating from a public school.
  7. jjeff

    Tell us something we don’t know.

    Reportedly 116k tons going at 8 knots I can't imagine the size or number of bollards or caisons needed to deflect or impede something that big from striking a bridge pier and causing it to collapse. Takes away some of my confidence driving over the Mackinaw bridge a dozen or so times a year...
  8. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Here's a old fashioned hack Im trying to pass on to the kids in my life anyways. Once my kids were old enough to somewhat understand the value of money and want something materialistic they saved up for have them pay in cash in person with you in close proximity monitoring the transaction...
  9. jjeff

    Great lake boats, a good video

    Quite A few local small town historical museums dotting the shorelines of the great lakes have lots of info on ships and shipwrecks I first learned about aircraft carriers on the great lakes during ww2, visiting a small town hole in the wall museum in northern lower Michigan. I was so surprised...
  10. jjeff

    Mouse or rodent tape

    Or how expensive rodent damage can be. If some folks are ok with with dirty disease carrying rodents damaging your personal property, or inhabiting areas where you and your family live, by all means be as humane as you want to be just don't invite me or my family over for dinner.
  11. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You enjoy playing bingo with other folks? my wife and I do occasionally. lol
  12. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    I burn wood at my cabin, I'm pretty capable of safely and efficiently making wood every year imo, and I enjoy doing it. Yet in sharp contrast next to wood burning stove is a robotic roomba cleaning up bark etc, which I activate from my home over 500 miles away so old ways with easy for me to...
  13. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    I try only to be an Iowa class bb when despite forewarning, life, limb, or irreversible damage to what I'm trying to teach them to use or do is imminent.
  14. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    I heard being in your 40s is the new 20s but why does my wife and kids say and think I'm in my 80s??? So I showed them I bought an electric can opener (I phone loving tech guru wife never owned one) and a roomba with a clean base lol.
  15. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Earliest reality based TV show you remember watching was judge wapner, In the early eighties. The peoples court is also were I got all my legal advice from when I was younger lol.
  16. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Snow drift but I think the air cooled 80s and 90s rt, and single h series Honda gear drive garden tractors had double axle steering, factory three point, rear pto, and a mower deck.
  17. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Looking at those smaller pill minders is like a biographical timeline 😆. I foresee, eventually Ill probably need to use two of those simultaneously.
  18. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Nicotine patches i used years ago and stored in med cabinet have been replaced with prescription lidocaine ones In hopes of silencing whiny groans with preemptive use?
  19. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    The several decade progression of daily prescription drug and supplement dispenser sizes from nothing in my 20s to largest currently.
  20. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

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  21. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    I've gave up quite some time ago trying to memorize parts diagrams, repair procedures online. Even with a screen protector on touchscreen tablet or tough phone I cannot search and scroll successfully through online manuals when my fingers have grease, dirt, fuel, and oil on them.
  22. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You might be older if you like actual printed hardcopy paper manuals over electronic ones I'm guilty of printing out electronic manuals, and punching them to put in a 3 or 4 hole binders.
  23. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Mtv self destructed and turned out into reality TV shows of more modern generations dealing with lifes struggles, which they participated in creating imo. Pet peeve worthy. Anyone remember MTV's video DJs like Kurt loder etc...
  24. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Some Honda riders in the 80s seemed temperamental, finicky and over complicated to me anyway but who else sold a horizontal shaft liquid cooled twin with a rubber coupled drive shaft ie no belts to the transmission? I don't use my 3813 for mowing anymore after the PTO clutch burnt out on top...
  25. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Seems you hear complaints of plastic parts on components internally, expressed about other manufacturers also.
  26. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Figuring a ton of nitrogen in the form of granular urea will last three years spread on sweet corn and evergreens, and a ton of potassium in the form of granular potash should last 3-5 yrs depending on how many new evergreens I plant and how often it needs to be put on existing newer trees...
  27. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    I've come to believe that the plastic collection bin is an integral part of the suction power, and a unperforated plastic bucket seems the best I can do producing enough suction with that older shop vac.
  28. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    I don't believe that old shop vac is powerful enough to create adequate suction. Briefly tried something like that with a scrap piece of ply wood with vac cut out on top of my pull behind it didn't work, It does have enough sucking power when used over a 5 gallon bucket though.
  29. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Lol 500 mile drive north of me taken just now on webcam also suffices as occasional homesick remedy, meanwhile I may actually have to plow down state.
  30. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Currently snowing downstate,planning to service RV this weekend for so its ready for upcoming spring break travels and making memories with family, somewhat ungratefully that I have an RV to service, (darn diy mentality) im not looking forward to crawling around outside on snowy mud to...
  31. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Yep some sort of a hopper system is still in the back of my mind and I know if I get enough fertilizer out of totes initially i can lift them over hoppers cut the bottoms out and fill the hoppers but i don't have enough of what I need on hand to construct something that big. more time and...
  32. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Not wanting to reinvent wheels or spend extra time and money on this idea I sacrificed an old shop vac, that I had to replace switch on (luckily I save junk including switches lol.) anyways took the casters off and cut out the bottom fits perfectly and securely in a old 5 gal bucket. So I'll...
  33. jjeff

    Need simpler ideas to make this is old trailer dump again.

    Brief update after searching half heartedly for a cheap used two way hydraulic cylinder that still works, and eventual time of building an actual legitimate dumping mechanism on a trailer that cost me $50 which cant be used on public roads anyway decided to continue to use this as a push...
  34. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    That meme is hilarious and quite fitting for this thread.
  35. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

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  36. jjeff

    Kubota Parts Pricing out of Control

    Unsure of what side of tractor tie rod is broken and what's broken the adjustable end/ joint, actual rod? Anyways saved a boatload of cash, time, and fixed my tractor in a hurry in the middle of nowhere by going to a knowledgeable parts 15 miles away not the Kubota place 100 miles away, that...
  37. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You appreciate and wear a wrist watch, of any quality i wear one 24/7 I'm completely disorganized and lost without one. Was asked rather recently by someone not much younger than me why I don't just look at my phone.
  38. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    The many perennial flowers on our property which bloomed way to early this spring, my wife usually cuts and arranges to sell roadside are wilted and covered in snow down here. So I guess that tiny source of hobby farm income is done this year.
  39. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    As a bumper sticker I have tacked to my wall at cabin says "so many snowmobiles so little garage" First snowmobile I rode on frequently was my grandfather's ariens arrow 400, eventually backwoods repowered with a 440 first one I owned myself ( i was listed as owner on registration card after I...
  40. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    WI held out til they passed a law pulling federal highway funding if state drinking age wasn't raised to 21 (mid 80s). Still occasionally here stories from older folks reminiscing of xing the state lines for booze.
  41. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Unfortunately in my case and people I hung out with it didn't matter. However I'll say I did support my community by paying occasional fines and providing involuntary community service. Stupid thread worthy.
  42. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Only to raise it back to 21 in the early eighties, lol why I remember that event from my younger child hood memories was an omen of things to come I guess.
  43. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    I've somewhat mastered shifting my weight while still sitting at low speed to allow more traction for wheel that's spinning. I do wish all lawn tractors had a locking diff though.$$$
  44. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    I seem to get noticably better fuel economy with belt driven gear drive lawn tractors, than any hydro static I've operated.
  45. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    I know they used to make riding lawn tractors for the US market they had quite the interesting line up some seemed innovative imo first front and rear axle steering i saw was on a Honda garden tractor (not Deere) I own 2 old smaller 3813 lawn tractors (ones for parts) I wonder if it's...
  46. jjeff

    To CAB or NOT

    Or buy an old enough cabbed tractor driving it til the door fell off literally lol. No ambition or reason to fix it either.
  47. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Strong and durable, a foot pedal deck lift on my zt with locking pin works exactly as it should all the time every time in my experience with it.
  48. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    One things for sure to me anyway, by sharing your memories and lessons learned from departed friends and family to your kids etc, I feel at least Im kind of keeping the memory who they were alive.
  49. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Remember my grandmother always commenting her reunions were getting smaller and smaller when she passed away at 92 her last reunion was at a supper club on a 4 seat table for a noon luncheon, previously were located at banquet halls in the evening.
  50. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Filed for ch. 11 a few years back bought by a equity firm. imho quality of there products will suffer cuz of nickel and diming bean counters. Definitely hoping they pull out of it but reading and hearing of similar stories makes me a pessimist. I'll post a few links but trying to avoid a...
  51. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Seems like Briggs is on the way out, Honda is not really in the game so all your left with is Kohler or Kawasaki for engine power on popular riders and zero turns? All power equipment manufacturers have different levels of engine quality depending on model and are priced accordingly. Seems all...
  52. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Of course it snows downstate today, was planning to spread grub killer on a few acres.
  53. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Sure your Honda wasn't a GC model? Both are Honda's but built totally different imo. 4k + hrs (first digit is a 4 on that hr meter but hey plastics have yellowed lol), on this Honda gx engined gen set if that hr meter still even works. It's been physically abused, dropped off trucks, ran over...
  54. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Remove that bloody screen in the tank and put an inline filter on it solved all my continuous fuel problems with my old Honda.
  55. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    My Briggs endurance has 500 hrs on it still runs like it's new with only a fall or spring pm it also has a small external oil cooler on it.
  56. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Wonder why Honda gas gx series vertical shafts aren't more prevalent in Z-turns? One look at my 30 + yr old 6k generator and you'll understand why I drifted with that question.
  57. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    This thread got me curious and briefly looking at a few different models with full suspensions which were rare or non existent when I bought my husky. Bad boy offers full suspension on a few models and look nice and well built online anyway, always see BB suspension less homeowner oriented...
  58. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Cards are my fav teams nemesis. 1982? Later on when the brewers switched to the NL, cards had a guy named Pujols and a few others that continuously wreaked havoc on the crews soft tossing bullpen imo.
  59. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    In the 80s I think It was part of a cable package where I lived.
  60. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    I remember watching the cubs and Harry Caray, 7th inning stretch? lol. It was on wgn think it was a regional cable channel at the time, a long time ago.
  61. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    I was more of a Robin Yount, Paul Molitor when associated with my first notable memories of mlb baseball players and subsequent imagination. I grew up listening to Mr baseball on the radio, I believe that announcer is in his 90s now and still calls games on the radio.
  62. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You mean down by 3 gm 7 bottom of the 9th 2 out bases loaded full count childhood mlb fantasies were shared by other kids in different generations perhaps using different teams and mimicking favorite players? Lol
  63. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Everytime I walk into my current shop i'm surrounded by a few things tools, small work table, and a shop vac, I picked up when simplicity shut down the Port Washington WI plant in 2008. https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2007/06/18/daily47.html
  64. jjeff

    Members vs Guests, online

    Interesting, I feel Im not logged out even when I'm not online. I'll hastily think I log out by closing my browser however when I open browser again it directs me directly to this site, where I usually get sidetracked and forget what I was originally going online in the first place for...
  65. jjeff

    Which animals you think you could beat in a fight

    A garter snake, don't read end if you like snakes. darn thing was in my barn when I was trying to do work in there so I wanted it gone, after several humane attempts to get it to leave it became agitated and decided to strike at me. Obviously non poisonous I still became pretty upset, decided...
  66. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Speaking of dialing in spreaders frequently use this small old John Deere branded yard tractor pull behind it was free of course still works unlike several others I've owned I assume it uses steel Instead of plastic gears to turn wheel anyways getting ready to spread grub killer which have...
  67. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Sounds like a fine cripesler product.
  68. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Some heard the saying cart before the horse my vast reserves of free repurposed plate steel I thought I had to build a hopper have dwindled down over the years. So back to looking for an alternative lol.
  69. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    To be clear I'm not looking for an alternative to applying fertilizer, just a means to store and dispense it into spreaders for application.
  70. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Missed that discussion probably cuz I didn't have my cheaters on lol
  71. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Imax theatre's? Still never really understood that hype.
  72. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Lol I know have cheaters permanently located at cabin, in RV, desk, and shop. To bad they didn't make a compact foldable out of the way cheater screen for smart phones lol
  73. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    One step further I guess. you look for grease fittings on stuff your interested in buying, now much rarer, never was a big fan of sealed bearings. And never had to replace a u joint that had grease fittings that were actually used on it.
  74. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Ease of fixing and servicing something yourself your interested in buying is a selling point.
  75. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Good idea probably around 1/3 yard x2 which would probably be close to the weight cap I want, and would need briefly thought of them. Worth at least looking for a broken down tailgate spreader if I find one. I'm only looking for enough volume to initially remove 500 or so pounds from totes...
  76. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Handy drifting hack I learned if your using a small backhoe or mini x with teeth on the bucket to partially empty a one ton fabric tote, roll top down to level of material with tote fabric facing outward point bucket teeth down on inside of farthest edge from mini and plunge the boom down the...
  77. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    I don't mix fertilizer hence my reasoning to put a divider and separate gates in it. figured potash is solely for my frasers and other verities of evergreens, nitrogen is for my sweetcorn, though twice a year ill put nitrogen own tree rows of new plantings. Countless times what I thought were...
  78. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Yeah I'm aware of fertilizer delivery methods current set up is the company I buy it from loads one ton palletized bags on my deck over trailer haul it to my hobby operation unload 4-500 lbs directly into spreaders if I don't need that much ill drive trailer in barn during inclement weather ...
  79. jjeff

    Fusible Link

    From experience I burned out a fusible link on one of my Kubotas it looks like a loop of wire on a two flat plug connector going from the end of one circuit to the end of another. being stubborn and cheap, moronically replaced it with a thicker gauge wire (I definitely should know better)...
  80. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Your more apprehensive of starting larger projects.
  81. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Rather than leap into projects ballz to the wall you try and prepare and plan accordingly.
  82. jjeff

    Fertilizer hopper?

    Buying something like this is very expensive if existent so Looking for ideas on smaller scale two bin fertilizer hopper to load into a three point spreader and a small garden tractor pull behind. Found it much cheaper pd per pd to buy by the ton vs 50 or so lb bags, but requires a...
  83. jjeff

    Stay away from Bad Boy Tractors

    I know, bad boy blacked out the rims lol.
  84. jjeff

    Stay away from Bad Boy Tractors

    A low hr Branson was one of my first choices when I briefly thought of replacing one of my old tractors, Better half said I'd need to get rid of one of my old Kubotas first so I shut that idea down in a hurry lol. Drifting now, but anyone get attached to various physical objects with a ice...
  85. jjeff

    Stay away from Bad Boy Tractors

    Yeah I'm guilty of solution less ranting at times but why as an owner wouldn't you want to try and figure out why it broke in the first place to hopefully mitigate future problems? weather it's operator or manufacturing error? Having owned and used a 3pt bh im leaning towards operater unless...
  86. jjeff

    Stay away from Bad Boy Tractors

    Looking at the left side of the stick looks like the steels folded over where it broke do you think you might have accidentally swung into something hard and immovable that initially dented stick that started fracture? right side looks like a clean break. What were you doing when it let go...
  87. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    There's deals out there on new vehicles just time consuming, harder to find, and figure out where to look.
  88. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Even at 65k it wasn't exactly what I wanted. Which for that price it would need to be and more. So I guess 2016 for life lol.
  89. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    I swear I just priced one out it came to a little north of 65 and I even think it was a 1 ton? However It was done online at the GM or Chevy website and I've been pretty vocal of my frustration with technology and trying to do stuff online.
  90. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    For a loaded top of the line truck, mine is not. Nor did I ever want that.
  91. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Read and been told sunlight promotes algae growth also. Reading about other folks nightmares I'll keep using power service brand biokleen at maintenance levels minimum.
  92. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Good luck finding one with a lesser option package.
  93. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    To bad it's not a 7.3 baby dump with a manual lol. I look to drive this truck into the ground learning and doing everything I can on it within reason, myself from now on lol. I'm thinking a 9k cap. two post will help.
  94. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Final bragging post no weeping trucks starting and running very good To my surprise fender liner went in pretty easy with minimal muscle and no leftover fasteners which is always a bonus they are t15 stars if anyone goes this fender liner route which for me is way better to do it correctly with...
  95. jjeff

    Stay away from Bad Boy Tractors

    There's ways to check for metal fatigue, etc by examining break more closely by someone who has experience doing it. Preliminary, before getting someone else involved I'm sure these days you can find pictures online with different types and causes of fractures.
  96. jjeff

    Stay away from Bad Boy Tractors

    That broken backhoe is discouraging, is that a stand alone with pump running off the PTO or plugs nto tractors hydraulic circuit? Next id try and figure out if there's a pressure relief, bypass valve that opens when circuits overloaded to help prevent it from happening again if you do get it...
  97. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Diana danger meet jalopy Jeff who grudgingly repairs, and is closely associated with Missy (outdoor power equipment) mayhem. Snow drift.
  98. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Always thought chain brakes were a safety device to help prevent injury during kickbacks etc. More accidentally engaged than intentional after every cut? Ive never even heard of engaging it after every cut til now. However I see the benefit of intentionally engaging it if your walking around...
  99. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Waiting till tomorrow to put fender liner back so I can see if there's any fuel seeping. But so far so good. The drain valve plastic nut was overtightened the filter assembly itself was loose on disassembly imo. Not like it really matters anymore but I think they went from the top to get...
  100. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    So far success, trucks running at idle , no leaks or weeping yet. have to figure banks monitor out to monitor fuel pressure which I'll definitely do when I get back inside.
  101. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    I think I can monitor fuel pressure with my standalone banks monitor when driving just need to figure out how to change the parameters I currently have it monitor new fuel filter assembly is in I pre primed it with a mixture of marvel, power service and shh 🤫 off road diesel. Orings didn't...
  102. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    I'm a sucker for learning hands on when around knowledgeable folks here's a picture of lower part of fuel filter weeping, it's very minimal and not dripping the shine is diesel, and is all I needed to see to justify replacing a rather expensive filter assembly. My other question is since it is...
  103. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Questions for more knowledgeable folks than me what's your method for holding o-rings in place while reassembling something like a hard to reach fuel filter, I've always used a dab of axle grease or similar around base, is there a better hack for this?
  104. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Great to get in shop instead of usual desk paper pushing desk jokeying. As my backwoods pessimistic assumption seems correct occasionally, that's diesel on my hand. filter is weeping minimally from outer o-ring i believe. Makes sense considering the truck has a problem staying running...
  105. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    New filter acquired it has 2 new orings let the pessimistic fun begin. First I'll thoroughly check newly replaced filter see if I can see any hint of seepage of fuel around it.
  106. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    In my pessimistic worst case scenario feel the system wasn't bled properly at least to the filter so if the cp4 pump is failing I'm imagining the hard starting issues initially were caused by sucking air there by further or ultimately damaging an already weak high pressure cp4 pump. This is...
  107. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Yes I'm aware of the dreaded cp4 pump issues. however my issues started after I stubbornly asked them to replace fuel filter which was due for service but running great beforehand, when the belt,idlers, and tensioner was replaced so it makes me think it's something with the fuel filter...
  108. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    Ok was on the fence about what to do about this so thank you all for the insight, and I'll admit I'm worse than a "Karen" when i occasionally have others repair stuff for me. If I remember from last time doing it myself that fuel filter assembly has the larger o-ring around the housing and one...
  109. jjeff

    My beloved Duramax needs help.

    2016 6.6 Duramax is I'll attempt to make this quick January drove truck 500 + miles to visit my dad, idler pulley and tensioner went out far from home got truck towed to a GM garage only place up there I could find that would touch a modern Diesel. Stubbornly figured since it's in might as well...
  110. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    What's that? lol somewhere on this forum I described the first saw I used and learned on. That 16" early 80s Echo is still sitting in my dad's garage.
  111. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    I still remember my late grandfather occasionally showing the deep scar on his calf. It was a chainsaw injury and I don't recall the details. He wasn't one to wear PPE besides a steel full brimmed hard hat. Probably cuz most PPE wasn't developed or required when he worked in the woods. I also...
  112. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Those are nice and I like the suspenders however at that price I'd be more concerned at wrecking them than injuring myself by not wearing them. A couple hundred dollar max price point is seemingly more out of reach after my brief googler searches. When I get the time hopefully sooner than...
  113. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    It's probably a telling sign when you continuously receive new pants as gifts. Cuz all your pants are holier than the Pope from various activities. So not as reluctant on price as I'll probably get my money's worth, Anyways been told the straps on chaps can and do get hung up on brush and...
  114. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You appreciate safety equipment to a certain degree more than you used to.
  115. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Thanks for the insight very recently on my way to hobby farm supply store looked at an echo brand hard hat combo and Oregon branded same basic construction and components but Oregon was yellow and quite a bit less so I bought the yellow one. The rotating adjustment wheel secures the hard hat...
  116. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Ok slight thread drift now, but I'm motivated to buy proper PPE, what's a good all in one helmet to look at? Good pants? I'm kind of interested in actual pants not cheaper chaps as Im foreshadowing a tangled disorganized mess of straps, Prefer to at least see what I'm buying in person and...
  117. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    One thing Im probably over cautious of these days is getting hit in the head from broken off limbs of trees particularly not associated with the one I'm dropping. It definitely motivates me want to dig out one of my old plastic hardhats or buy a new one, and wear it At least when I'm...
  118. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    I've known a few people that were deathly afraid of chainsaws. If your not cautiously comfortable using one no matter how much PPE your wearing don't use it imo. When I make wood and have help I delegate them the limb hauling, wood splitter operator, and stacker jobs. Making sure my help knows...
  119. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    True but I really wish there was a multi purpose somewhat indestructible pair of pants out there capable of using them to weld, offer some protection when cutting, or whatever else you want to use or do. Used to think the DTC firehose pants were pretty good but I've went through a half dozen...
  120. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Do they make fire resistant kevlar chaps? I can see myself getting sidetracked and starting another project or fixing something with a welder while still wearing chainsaw chaps.
  121. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    You cut enough you'll rip your pants with a chain hopefully it's not going full bore when it can really do some damage. After reading this thread and various experiences I may invest in some more proper PPE at minimum use when I plan on making wood all day.
  122. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Snake bite kit if your cutting in southern areas. Works good in northern regions however for getting embedded tik heads out in my experience.
  123. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Bug and tik repellant?
  124. jjeff

    Woodchippers: PTO vs gasoline driven

    Kind of a drifting question but on the newer hydraulic in feed wood Max's are both the upper and lower rollers powered I know on my older with mechanical roller feed chipper only one of the rollers is powered.
  125. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Wonder how many folks when dropping larger trees in wooded and hilly areas plan an escape route with multiple routes based on what the tree may do, if sheet hits the fan. I do anyway. I understand kevlar chaps would have definitely prevented my unfortunate but thankfully cosmetic leg injury...
  126. jjeff

    What safety equipment do you have when running chainsaw?

    Steel toes, and sunglasses. Worse physical thing a chainsaw ever did to me was when I was sharpening chain in a stump vice and the vice popped out of stump the saw slid down my leg and ripped open my pants and the skin pretty grotesquely. Later that day went to hospital to visit someone else...
  127. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Those are pretty interesting imo.
  128. jjeff

    Woodchippers: PTO vs gasoline driven

    One thing is wood chips make great mulch around tree bases, for pathways, and certain plants in my experience. I've ran delimbed 15-20' Aspen and overgrown evergreen firs thru my wood max with 40 or so PTO horsepower on a 30+ yr old tractor was gratifyingly sufficient and adequate. Check...
  129. jjeff

    Woodchippers: PTO vs gasoline driven

    I own a woodmax 8" capacity has feed rollers, (not the newest model with hydraulic adjustable speed reversible rollers) you don't like delimbing? I have to delimb or Ill get a jamb. Owned for 5 yrs now, no major problems except first time operator errors. It's pto I run off my L4150 which...
  130. jjeff

    To CAB or NOT

    Went through this internal debate of cab vs no cab technically I own both. Both are pretty old. Seems from reading this forum folks have more mechanical and rodent problems with cab tractors. Yeah it would be nice hogging in ac comfort, plowing in heated warmth, until the comfort devices quit...
  131. jjeff

    Pumpkins and sqash

    If you have deer or other wildlife on your property they will eat the budding flowers failed miserably when I tried growing about an acre of pumpkins cuz of deer.
  132. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Out of decades of habit you put hospital corners in your bedding every time you make it?
  133. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Once in awhile you see those front diesel mowers at auctions both JD and Kubota shaft powered decks, If I ever turn a decent profit hobby farming I'd probably look for one. I'm kind of bewildered how much gas the wife's z-turn uses I think it's a 26 hp Briggs endurance and unlike the...
  134. jjeff

    Cat pic(s)

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  135. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You have to hold your phone way out in front of you to read anything on here cuz you forgot where you put your cheaters.
  136. jjeff

    Lubrication additives for Diesel Fuel in older tractor

    On top of marvel I usually put some biocide in diesel that won't be used frequently.
  137. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    This setup works pretty good up north considering this old 212 is well over 40 yrs old as long as it's somewhat dry out, where I mow a hill on top of a hill. Homemade bolt on weight box also doubles as wheelie bar when going up the hills lol.
  138. jjeff

    I need a new lawn mower!

    Own both lawn tractors and a zero turn wife uses 0-turn for about 5 acres I use old gear drive JD 200 series for everything else. Z-turn although much more maneuverable and quicker beats me to oblivion I preemptively medicate with multiple lidocaine patches when I occasionally use it if I...
  139. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Yeah my night vision is definitely not what it was, I think it's still good though. Up until rather recently I used paper maps to navigate unfamiliar areas and usually always picked one up at a wayside. My better half kind of put a stop to that when we cleaned out her old car lol.
  140. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    How about driving? Used to be able to drive one of my old regular cab compact, option devoid trucks solo well over 1000 miles in a day taking a brief nap In that tiny cab, on off or on ramps, and keep going, consuming copious amounts of caffeinated beverages. Now diving solo it's 500 miles...
  141. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Ok switching to building jobs and getting or being old who walked 2nd story 2x6 top plates without fall protection? Manually lifted trusses with ropes to said top plates and set them without a telehandler, skytrak, lull, Pettibone or whatever you call these now common pieces of jobsite...
  142. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Old sliding cc machines with carbon copies had a side hustle that accepted cc 3-5% the cc company charged me plus a yearly fee, portable electronic readers were just coming out and expensive. Never offered a discount for cash or upcharge for plastic but I definitely would these days. I believe...
  143. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    On second thought half my cards don't scan anyway cuz there old and demagnetized. Than theres random out of state lic holders that probably won't validly scan anyway purchasing adult beverages and smokes, Haven't been denied purchase of anything due to un scannable d.l. problems however scan...
  144. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Unsure but assuming a valid passport will work, and don't usually carry mine on me to test it. If an elderly person doesn't have a valid state I. D. I'm sure they wouldn't have a passport, anyways If store owners require employees to card 80 yr olds due to state laws using an electronic scanner...
  145. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    My state does require a scannable id card, I also believe my previous state I lived in does these days.
  146. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Or an elderly parent needs you to buy smokes or booze for them cuz they didn't bother to renew there d.l. anymore and no longer have anything thing to scan.
  147. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    9/11 definitely numbed me in terms of events that caused loss of life. still remember I used to think a plane crashing with several hundred casualties was horrible after 9/11 never again felt that same way again.
  148. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Initially they did not bleep people jumping out of the twin towers. I was in complete shock watching events transpire live on national news in my stateside barracks. Anyways as a genx'r earliest news reports I remember was princess Diana getting married in 81, on a more tragic and somber note...
  149. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Anyone remember the clapper commercials? as in clap on, clap off, the clapper. Wife tried telling me siri is like a modern clapper when she got one, that wretched thing is definitely not imo, me clapping like a moron at siri clusterfried it.
  150. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Is that a cognitive test for gen xrs? #2 s been outta business for awhile. Forgot what #6 is.
  151. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You talk about your stuff, past projects and junk more than you actually use, fix, or build something, and you could careless about past and current questionable decisions and make humor of them. I'm grudgingly guilty of all of the above.
  152. jjeff

    OK, how much gas did you spill in 2023?

    These 5 gal cans minimize spilling, this 14 gallon caddy also does, (works better using gravity to dispense in my experience) is small enough I can still manhandle it. and this 35 gal caddy marketed for gasoline with a ground clamp which I only use for diesel though, minimal spillage on all of...
  153. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Cut the sway bar off it made a few of my older snowmobiles with ifs a lot more nimble and enjoyable to use in deeper snow. Im done, maybe next year someone will start a epic snowmobile thread.
  154. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Truly enjoy my early 80s bravo it's so light that's what makes it fun imo, nor do I worry much when the kids want to use it on our property downstate. I still scratch my head when I wonder what the heck I was thinking when I bought that ton-dra. Left over model yr discount maybe, IDK. Usually...
  155. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Then definitely don't get a 600 fourstroke on a 154 even if the back rails articulate. That decision Definitely belongs in stupid thread. I'll put it this way it made me spell tundra, ton-dra and buy a foldable compact come along lol worst machine I ever owned and no reservations or regret...
  156. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    For all the haters sorry but nothing to me is more materialistically gratifying and enjoyable in the winter months than breaking trail in a few feet of fresh powder in the middle of nowhere with snow going over the cowling and windshield until of course you get stuck or break something...
  157. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Definitely agreed, I never owned anything over 600cc. I kind of influenced someone I ride with to get a 600, he previously owned an 800 likes the 600 better lol. Neither do I or understand why folks put obnoxiously loud cans on these things? I think modern 600s are pushing130 hp or so. Heck if...
  158. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Part of the problem is manufacturers are promoting snowmobiles to ride off trail, unfortunately imo some folks are buying these things with no practical common sense or limited snowmobiling experience. I feel strongly there should be a distinction between riding through someone's fields near a...
  159. jjeff

    Excavator flail.

    Nice, some flails can shred up 4" diameter trees Ive read. When I owned my SS I cleared a few acres of overgrown Xmas trees, chipped them in a 3pt chipper used a stump bucket to clear stumps and eventually burned those. Stopped clearing after folks started buying them and cutting off the tops...
  160. jjeff

    Excavator flail.

    Nice mini and flail. Does that mower need a third line I think it's called a drain line? If so where or how did you plumb it in? Great price, new or used? Cripes have prices for even a small rotary cutter for a mini x skyrocketed.
  161. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You own an unused selfie stick? Inh my lame defense It was a gift, However I'm guilty of still having that never used thing. 😂
  162. jjeff

    Oil filter cover plates?

    Slightly added cost and more failure points? I wish all engineers and architects were required to fix cars and build homes as part of there career training 😂.
  163. jjeff

    Trailer mounted winch question

    Id Get a small solar panel with charge controller. Have one on a pontoon boat and it's worked for a few years it can be permanently mounted anywhere if it has a bracket or its easy to remove and store. Or If you have a 7 pin you probably have continuous power, don't recommend it though.
  164. jjeff

    Oil filter cover plates?

    Guilty in some cases, OEM tuff torque hydrostatic drive filters at a dealership are a rip off when there asking 40 bucks a filter. Online or elsewhere are 10-20. When most of your stuff is old but I still try to maintain it Id rather spend the money on other things. Especially if a off brand...
  165. jjeff

    Oil filter cover plates?

    Yep probably losing sleep over nothing 😂. However with the price of commercial hydros and even somewhat commercial 4 strokes it's reassuring to get other input from more knowledgeable folks.
  166. jjeff

    Oil filter cover plates?

    Last few years noticed some oil filter cover plates have rectangular openings vs circular, for both engines and hydrostatic drives. The filters are the same size. I believe the relief spring, bypass valve, threads, similar media etc are the same. To put my mind at ease, if original filters used...
  167. jjeff

    Ford 1910 blown head gasket: K-Seal or not?

    Definitely, some folks have had bad experiences with snake oil sometimes they work sometimes they don't. I've had decent luck with head gasket sealers. Curious for reference what are some other things that should be checked, replaced while that head is off on that era tractor and motor?
  168. jjeff

    Ford 1910 blown head gasket: K-Seal or not?

    Another example friend of mine did a new head gasket on his car head was warpped, got it machined within 1000 miles blew a hole in one of his pistons. Bad luck, improper assembly? he did replace all head bolts and said he torqued properly in recommended order. Whatever the op decides I wish...
  169. jjeff

    Ford 1910 blown head gasket: K-Seal or not?

    Looking at his pictures looks like a lot of coolant mixed in the oil, head gasket/rad sealers like 10 bucks a bottle it's hard to be a paper pushing wannabe desk mechanic unfamiliar with Ford tractors without at least taking the valve cover off in person who knows what it looks like in there?
  170. jjeff

    Ford 1910 blown head gasket: K-Seal or not?

    Might as well replace the water pump also. If the heads warped could be a pricy undertaking? Wonder if the experienced folks would replace the valves, lifters, cam bearing etc. not to mention does the op have a trustworthy competent tech to do the repair? Id stick to snake oil if its going to...
  171. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Lol inflation I guess going rate is like $5 a tooth these days. My youngest just started losing teeth.
  172. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Yep depression era grandmother saved everything in a somewhat organized manner, lived independently in her house to 92 passed away almost 20 yrs ago named my youngest in her honor.
  173. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    My grandmother used to make actual crochet kleenex box covers to put over the kleenex boxes.
  174. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    Oh yeah, those are great to store and somewhat organize old plastic shopping bags in. Although I've found old plastic coffee containers with a slit cut in the lid work better. guilty again lol.
  175. jjeff

    Ford 1910 blown head gasket: K-Seal or not?

    Probably not good advice and my experience with "snake oil" was a old pre taco pickup with the 22re gas motor. Head gasket was failing it was overheating, lot of gunk similar to your picture on oil cap. Anyways put a bottle of head gasket/radiator sealer in it ran for another 100k with no...
  176. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

    You see a commercial on TV for a certain insurance company and your justifiably, agreeing with the actors saving old stuff with a forewarning of becoming your folks, examples that came to mind are Old car floor matts, butter/ in my case coffee containers, and my favorite left over crown...
  177. jjeff

    Keweenaw snow photos

    Probably should be in a spring thread but spent the weekend up north, stored my snow machines for the summer even though they were not used up there never even took them out, or even off the stands, anyways Regressed, and dumped some two stroke down the cylinders was going to drain yr old gas...
  178. jjeff

    You Know You Are Old When

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  179. jjeff

    The Tractor Scam 2018 Kubota Grand L4760

    Reverse picture and or description searches I'm not tech savvy by any means but I figured how to do that at least.
  180. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Imo if it's a 150 hp 500lb snowmobile ill call it a snow rocket, or occasionally and unfortunately a coffin. I've snowmobiled for over 40 yrs.
  181. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Yeah I'm thinking I'll use it in my pontoon up there probably sooner than later lol. No ice on any of the bays.
  182. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Still having some copper dog festivities around Calumet MI main race is cancelled though. Hard to believe some snowmobile trails are still open north of Houghton. Can't imagine the abuse these overpriced snow rockets are taking just to say you went riding. Heard on local news they only put 3k...
  183. jjeff

    Amazon Stuff That Doesn't Suck

    I'm a sucker for free shipping and to cheap to pay for prime I usually buy several of something or shop around for consumables ill eventually use, to hit the minimum qualifying order cost. For less expensive stuff I don't mind not seeing it in person returning stuff is easy fortunately. Cuz...
  184. jjeff

    What is the oddest machine you have worked on or operated

    Something like this thing, what that made it odd to me was it ran off jp8. It was very heavy, even with a decompression valve hard starting, and you didn't want it getting away from you in a trench.
  185. jjeff

    What is the oddest machine you have worked on or operated

    Diesel powered jumping jack compactor.
  186. jjeff

    Waterproof Solderless Heat Shrink Butt Terminal on sale

    Somewhat water resistant junction box/bus bars work great on larger trailer wiring. Crimp style split splices make me cringe. As mentioned earlier Marine style heat shrink has adhesive/ sealing properties on inside. Quite a few different options out there not requiring soldering.
  187. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    https://www.wnmufm.org/rescue/2024-02-14/delta-county-personnel-rescue-person-after-4-wheeler-goes-into-lake-michigan
  188. jjeff

    Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

    I remember going to my first harbor freight when I lived in California over 20 yrs ago. I think it was located around simi valley? I remember thinking these tools suck, and went to Sears, fortunately as time went on more more of there stuff ended up being developed into pretty decent and...
  189. jjeff

    Wood window questions

    Put new windows in a project of mine, they were vinyl sliders it was new construction so had a nailing flange, one step above lowest builder grade the store had with brick molding (much simpler to install vinyl lap siding into it). A year ago had a bird strike one of the windows and broke it...
  190. jjeff

    Wood window questions

    As others mentioned bondo absorbs water. Ive used this two part epoxy on boats however high moisture areas like windows I think it will do a great job and it's pretty readily available at most marine supply stores, pretty pricy though and prep good, I use acetone.
  191. jjeff

    Who is excited for snow season? Not us! We're depressed due to lack of snow.

    Poor mushers and dogs, wasn't the jon bear grease race cancelled earlier in the season?
  192. jjeff

    Great lake boats, a good video

    Here's another Great Lakes shipwreck found recently, on the bigger "mill pond) lol stories been repeated several times on the local early news down state tonight. Wreck of ship that sank in 1940 found in Lake Superior
  193. jjeff

    What is some of your Pet Peeve's

    Yeah it's a fine line I walk in my household between balancing screen time and actually doing and learning something not using the googler preferably out doors. Definitely doesn't help my argument of getting rid of these things when the kids family members like grandparents, aunts, and wife have...
  194. jjeff

    What is some of your Pet Peeve's

    Yeah probably, but you are definitely asking the wrong person if it's apple based or need tech support lol, I use an android based OS switched back permanently after my somewhat brief 4 letter word experiences with an I phone. I will say I'd probably be an apple guy if that's what I originally...
  195. jjeff

    What is some of your Pet Peeve's

    Kids electronic contraptions and pushback of me wanting to destroy them all in my household. My youngest rather recently was on an iPad that was supposedly child proofed and inappropriate website protected. Some how she managed to get into an adolescent, young adult game website. It was...
  196. jjeff

    What is the oddest machine you have worked on or operated

    Not a wenkel rotary combustion two stroke engine I mentioned earlier but I currently have a few older rotary valve two strokes. They are pretty interesting and kind of odd at a small scale level. Especially if compared to reed valves imo.
  197. jjeff

    What is the oddest machine you have worked on or operated

    On a much smaller scale, kind of worked on a wenkel rotary engine was in my grandfather's old Evinrude snowmobile. Quite interesting and definitely odd for me at the time.
  198. jjeff

    Searching for a truck I may never find?

    Seems there's a few in your wheelhouse at dealerships on the equipment trader magazines I pickup occasionally at gas stations.
  199. jjeff

    JD 260 fuel pump loses prime when sitting for a few weeks

    Quickest easiest fix seems to be putting a fuel shut off in and seeing if that works plus I have a few on hand. I'm thinking in between filter and pump. If it's real tygon it won't get brittle or harden or at least the fuel lines I've replaced never have.
  200. jjeff

    JD 260 fuel pump loses prime when sitting for a few weeks

    I've probably mentioned this elsewhere but I swear whoever designed the 200 series lawn tractors must have had tiny hands. Cuz you need tiny hands to occasionally fix these things imo.
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