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To make a long story short, I am planning to sell my tractor and implements. I am hoping to get some advice from this forum on what it is worth. I had a couple of back surgeries and did not get all the results I had hoped for. I plan to sell the equipment in the next few months. I live in N...

I have a question about how strong should electric trailer brakes be?? I have a 21' 10,000 GVW Hydraulic Tilt Flat bed trailer with 2ea 6000Lb Electric Brake Dexter Axels and have noticed that with the trailer fully loaded with a combinded weight of ~9500lbs, I cannot lock up the trailer brakes...

I have been accused of overkill in the past, but this takes the cake... I though some of you might enjoy this.... Yesterday I was building some sides for a 21' flatbed trailer and seemed to be taking forever. The wife wanders into the shop and notices the precision jointery, planed boards, and...

Some great news (to me anyway). We had a DirecWay 2 way Satellite (downlink/uplink = 400/128Kbps) system installed last night. What a huge difference. Web based DSL tools measured the actual speed at 591Kbps download and 234Kbps upload. Since moving into our new home 2 months ago, we have been...

I am looking for a gift to a friend who did about $20k of free professional work for me. We have known each other for 20 years since college and have a standing rule that we only give each other beer as a gifts. This work clearly was above and beyond the call of duty and saved me and my...

I had a interesting but potentially dangerous event happen today with my box scraper. I was scraping in reverse with the 3ph all the way down and the box tilted all the way back/down in the rear using the TNT. It turns out the hoses connecting the hydraulic scarifiers were about 3" too short in...

Need some advice on how thick should asphalt or concrete driveways be constructed to allow a LARGE double dump transfer truck to pass without tearing up the roadbed. Here is the plan: I need to put in about ~800’ of driveway. The plan is the first 300’ will be concrete and the final 500’ will be...

I had a really bad day... Today I had to RENT a 13hp gas rototiller and worked my a@$ off pushing and pulling it around the garden. It was one of those really heavy, hydraulic drive Barretto models that must weigh 400-500lbs... None of this would be so bad if I didn't already own a L4310 and a...

I have a question on how hot should hydraulics get on my Backhoe? I have a Woods 9000 Sub frame backhoe with the PTO driven hydraulic pump. Today I was working the unit pretty hard, digging 6'x12" trenches for about 2 hours when a rod seal started leaking on the boom cylinder. The cylinder was...

Thought you might like to see this picture of a Cat 963 Track loader. This thing just finished loading my old house in serveral End Dump trucks.