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    Proper display of the U.S. flag... questions.

    We are on day two on setting up our new flag pole and here is a link if nobody has seen it on flag code's FAQ's Flag Code FAQ part 1: general questions Now having both of us serving 20 each will give you our word it will be illuminated 24 hours by sun or solar. We might update with a photo if...
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    Time to check to be safe

    :D This has nothing to do with tractors but there is some things to remember to keep your family and homes safe from a disaster. Check your dryer and vents for build up of lint and most of us burn wood in a stove or fireplace so clean them up. If you cook with gas take the top of your stove off...
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    Reloading Ammo

    An old Army buddy sent me a e-mail last night and I know there is some experts on here that might be able to help him go in the right direction. Here is what he sent me: I need your help find some rifle powder if you can in your area if you find it will figure how to get to me later...
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    Good Law ?

    What do you think? Addicting Info
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    New Piranha Bar

    Doing the honey do list for the wife and put my PTB on yesterday. Got a 72" bucket and she wants about 50 loads of dirt for the back of the house. Got five loads in before the rain rolled in but you will love that attachment.
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    storm shelters

    Woody you can register your shelter like we did with the county EMA (Emergency Management Agency). If a tornado hits your area and you are on a list they will come out and check on you or phone you to see if your ok. After the 27 April 2011 we had a shelter installed and it can sit up to 15...
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    Found a Widow Maker

    This tree is just inside my property and has to come down. If it snaps off some of it could kick onto the county road which could cause a accident. While looking at it this morning I found one of it's brothers that is broke off near the stump. For both of these I was thinking rope and pulleys...
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    Found a Widow Maker

    Was looking at a thread about forks and use but found this.
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    What do you do with your forks?

    With my Titan forks and this plan is locked in jello, in the morning I will pull off the RR and put my forks on then drive up to the front yard. I have a baby stump and parts to a telephone pole I need to place in a burn pile.
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    Deer Feeder "Apple Corn?"

    What works this year may not work next year it is I just never seen this before and wanted to see how my deer reacted to it.
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    Deer Feeder "Apple Corn?"

    :shocked: Yesterday while shopping I saw what was new to me called "apple corn" and so I decided to buy a few bags to place in a inactive deer feeder., When I opened the bags to fill the feeder part way I got a very strong smell of apples. This is a area right outside the front door where my dog...
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    Some Friend ( Beer and Tractor )

    :thumbdown: What could go wrong? Police: Drunk man drives tractor to S. Alabama store for more be - WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news.
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    Dish Network

    :thumbsup: This morning Dish dropped some channels from the Turner Network and once again had to make the aggressive phone call. I called Dish at this number (1 800 333-3474) and talked to the first representative which told me that he could give me $ 5.00 dollars off for the next six months on...
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    Can you have a pet spider?

    :confused3: This is Sam my pet spider that lives right outside my back door near the wasp nest. When I walk out the back door and no matter where he is on the web he will run to the center of his web waiting on a meal. Now I still do that boyhood things like pulling a fly's wings off and tossing...
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    Titan Attachments?

    I own a set of their forks with the stabilizer and was surprised on how much I could get done with them. Now I know this is TBN and you get to learn from others mistakes so just don't do what I did when I got my new forks and forget to tighten them up to the loader. I broke a simple rule called...
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    Bad Kid Grandpa's JD

    Now I know I am not the only one of this board that was bad when we young and yes I know about the boy your going to the woodshed or go cut you a switch but I knew it was serious when my mom had a hot wheel track in her hands.When I was young I figured out on how to start the tractor one morning...
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    road kill deer

    :licking: somebody had to do it.
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    Ratchet Rake - ever seen/used one?

    :cool: I had a few hours to kill so I slapped on my RR to clear up some saplings and weeds. I took some before and after photo's but still have to go over it again in the morning before the storm comes. Sometime either Tuesday or Wednesday the ground should be dry enough to put on my Piranha so...
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    Spartan 42in pallet forks?

    I have Titans myself and use them all the time and in the photo trust me there is a tractor somewhere behind that load. :D
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    Close Call "DEER"

    :shocked:I just woke up and I had only a few minutes before the store would close and drove a little faster up our driveway when all of a sudden three deer ran out in front of me. A car does not stop to good on gravel and ended up just inches away from one of my power poles so talk about a wake...
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    Critters captured on camera

    Been watching him for a long time Some of these belong to him.
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    "72 inch Piranha Tooth Bar"

    I won the battle and she said "She does not want to see what it can do but what is done with it" She got to read the post and got a good laugh out of it especially when she seen a photo of somebody and said I hope that is a joke photo and not a real human. See what I have to put up with, Army...
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    "72 inch Piranha Tooth Bar"

    :licking:My Piranha Bar just got here without the wife or dog barking knowing that the truck arrived to deliver it. I told the wife that I needed to close the door and was going to bring the lawn tractor up with sprayer to kill the weeds and some grass where she wants to place pavers. I played...
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    "72 inch Piranha Tooth Bar"

    :DFew minutes ago I ordered the tooth bar of course outside while the wife was taking a nap. This will now give me two options now either use the Piranha or the Ratchet Rake to clear out saplings. I have a feeling this will cost me 10X's of honey do's that I will have to do now. You would think...
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    25 Gallon Sprayer Receipe "Weeds"

    Does anybody have a good mixture that is homemade to put in a 25 gallon sprayer? The receipe has to be land friendly because I have 2 creeks where some of this will be sprayed. I have herd of the vinegar,salt and soap but was kind of leery about putting salt into the ground. I have a week...
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    Poisonous snake, first one seen this year

    I always keep one snake shot round in the pipe at all times when out and about.
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    Don't laugh but I was ready

    For the last two days we were told how big the hail would come with the storms so I convinced the wife to let me use her futon cushions to protect the lights on the tractor. So here I sit at 3:30 am 29 April with no hail and a tractor is all dressed up with no place to go. I guess it is best to...
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    Another Honey Do

    :(Today my wife tossed me a roll of red survey tape and go walk the land so I can tie some tape on her Dogwood trees while they are still in bloom, so I don't clear them out or run them over. She gets tired of my oppps excuse when anything gets in my way of clearing brush or trees. This year...
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    Got my Ratchet Rake yesterday

    :cool2: :cool2:22 glad for you and congrats you got your new RR and yes you will love it cause I love mine. It does a great job in taking up weeds and saplings but make sure you walk the ground that you want to pass over. I made the mistake of thinking oh that is just a tiny stump peeking up...
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    Titan Attachments Experience

    :ashamed:I got the 4,000 lbs with the stabilizer bar and the shipping was very fast and easy to hook up and I know I will embarrass myself but I was to excited to put them on and the wife was saying go get those logs and I did not tighten them up. So when I made my first dump with then on they...
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    All things Snake - Boots to Bites

    For me last year seen 9 snakes that were 5 Timber's in my woodpiles and 4 Copperheads down by the creeks. In the last 4 years only killed one that was next to the house near the wife's garden but most of the time I leave them alone because they are part of the ego system. Around the house I keep...
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    What lurks in your junk drawer?

    I got bored and put together a deer feeder in the living this morning room because of the rain and then decided to clean out two junk drawers. In one of those drawers I think I found the missing link to mankind and the other drawer was enough parts to build me a bridge to cross one of my creeks...
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    Rotten Stump Removal "Yeah Right"

    :eek:I made the mistake of thinking that a small rotten stump would only take a few swipes with the backhoe and be done with it. Boy was I wrong not knowing what it was attached to and my 5 minute job turned into 1 1/2 hour job. Just another learning experience for me. Stump removal #3 - YouTube
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    Real Life Honey do

    About 90% of the time I am looking up search to answer any of my question I have on this site but seen one that came up about a R&R and Piranha Yesterday I went out to do a honey do and I am sure I am not the only one that gets those. Plus a friend asked me in a photo he seen and asked what...
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    snowed in from noth ga

    For us it's not the snow that gave most problems, it was that the freezing rain hit us first and then the snow. Today our county roads were open for us to drive but there is one mayor that gave orders to his Chief John Law to ticket anybody driving on the streets. The photo is when the storm...
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    I got spooked

    My mother and aunt drove from California to visit us in Alabama and brought stuff that would be passed on to me. My mom gave me clocks that I bought her when I was stationed in Germany that she made sure I would get them. To my surprise she gave me my great grandparents music box as they called...
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    Hunting accidents

    :anyone:I'm sure we are not the only state to have these types of accidents for not wearing anything orange. Most of the time it is a shooting death or falling out of tree stand that we hear about. 2 hunters killed in unrelated shootings in Alabama on Sunday | AL.com
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    Where do you carry your gun on your tractor?

    Most of the time I use a hip holster with a round in the chamber that is like buck shot in 9mm. It only took me one time to learn about Murphy's Law not having a weapon with me.
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    Fireplace could this be cheating?

    :DNow by no means are we short of firewood with all the trees we have but anytime we go into the city and shop at Home Depot we always pick up scrap wood that we burn in a outdoor pit. We always see folks buying bundles of logs for 4 or 5 bucks that last maybe 30 min of pine wood but our scrap...
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    Will a 72" Ratchet Rake fit correctly on 60" B7800/30hp tractor?

    :2cents: jodebg I have a 72" RR for 72" FEL and love it. I used mine to clear out saplings where I wanted to make me a burn site and it took me no time. I have only made one pass on parts for the driveway just to check it out and the wife said it did make a difference. It takes no time to...
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    Hookers

    :oHave you ever looked at and clicked on one thread link but ended watching about 30 you tube videos? I started looking at a thread called "Some basic attachment questions" then somebody put a post on the ratchet rake which I have. After watching that video I saw more and then learned how to...
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    Live in the sticks Generator switch?

    :smiley_aafz:When I want to ask a rookie question I sometimes find the answer in the search box which is great but does this stop others from putting their input in on a topic without getting slammed by somebody say check search? I do have a questions and seek your knowledge that I could not...
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    Church got me but have you seen this before?

    :confused3:Me and the wife's church have a agreement where they leave me alone but when they need help I will help them out. During the summer I will build them something for their summer vacation bible study for the kids and in the winter I will build them a Christmas Float for the Parades. A...
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    New member to the family

    On the way back from city shopping I told the wife lets go to the Humane Society and I want to rescue a dog. So now I have a German Shepard Mix puppy and he is now part of our family and most of the wife's cats have no problem with him cause they never seen a dog. In the morning I need to rotate...
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    My second project "Clearing Driveway"

    :cool:Few years back I had loggers come in and cut me out a road that is over 1/4 miles long so we can build a house. She has been on my back almost everyday to start clearing the scraps but I always told her not until you let me get a tractor. I won back in August and she gave in LOL but I took...
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    Okay need a little info and help clearing a small area.

    I might be bias but I love my ratchet rake cause it is so easy to take off and on and gets the job done. I got my 72" from the TBN store and was here at the house in just a few days.
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    Good scare for me

    :confused3:My first project was to clear some land to make me a burn area away from my trees. My wife wanted the driveway cleaned up from what the loggers left behind. I had me a good pile ready to go to be burned. It was on 16 Oct.2 photo's below that I got to burn it and I thought I sprayed it...
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    Hostage and Surrounded

    :licking::licking: Yesterday afternoon while watching the news from another room I can hear the wife screaming and grabbed the pistol and ran into the breakfast area and said what? She told me a mouse ran into the house from the side door and when I saw it it was only a chipmunk. This chipmunk...
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    Embarrassing Mistake

    :ashamed:Well I had my oppps mistake when I put my new pallet forks on the bucket. The wife has been on me for over a year to clean up all my wood piles along the driveway so I cleaned me out a area where I can safely burn. Well I went up to get my first load to get her off my back and...
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    Outlaws

    :eek:Well the outlaws showed up last night to crash at my house for the Saturday reunion and it looks like I will be taking pulled pork up to the church as soon as I sober up. Last year we had over 200 folks that showed up but the worst part is that most of the family staying with us are Auburn...
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    My first project and small

    :DJust a small update and I know you folks love pic's but I took dave 1949 advice and I went out and bought a load of small red flags. Some of these cedars and oak stumps are only two inches tall so I still have to walk the lanes that I want to clear. Up to this point I have cleared around 20...
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    Piranah, WR Long or what tooth bar?

    I love the ratchet rake got a 72" got it from the TBN store with free shipping.
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    My first project and small

    Seeing I did not get my tractor in the late of the year and got to use my Ratchet Rake I got from ordering off of the TBN store I will not be able to make deer food plots. So I went out and bought a deer feeder plus 25 lb blocks of lick to feed them over the winter. So my first project is to...
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    44 Magnum shot load

    Before I walk out the front or back door I always chamber a 9 mm shot that I use for snakes. Now I don't shoot the snakes when I am in my woodpiles or checking on my creeks only when they are to close to the house and my family. Rattle snakes don't bother to much, it is the Copperheads that I...
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    Thank you TBN Members-Ratchet Rake

    It would have been nice to get it during a close out but I did not have a tractor back then. I love that tool it clears and rips up the small tree's with ease. Anytime I use it I have to walk and mark the path where I want to clean up just to make sure I don't hit any cedar or oak stumps hiding...
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    Backhoe BACKHOES LETS SEE THEM

    Going stump hunting in the morning.
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    Video how to get a tractor off

    Not sure if this is going to work but this is what my wife sent me Tractor is here! - YouTube
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    Ever been taking to the wood shed?

    When I was about 11 years old I started my grandpa's 1962 John Deer Tractor and got scared because I did not know how to shut it down. The tractor ran all the morning, afternoon and when he came home that evening he shut it down when he came home. I knew I was in trouble when I herd those words...
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    I got my new tractor

    I have yet to even sit in the seat and will not until I read all these manuals from front to rear. It has been over 30 years since I drove a tractor and plan to take it slow. I had loggers come in and cut me out a road and clear about 10 acres so I could build the wife a new house and they left...
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    Rotary Cutter  I just got bad news

    I just got a call from Northern Tools where I placed a order for a 5' bush/brush hog and paid $899 dollars plus free shipping. It left Minnesota 4 days ago and now sitting up in Atlanta but before they can deliver it here to Alabama.I have to pay $85 dollars for a lift fee to take it off the...
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    New here and say hi y'all

    We are both retired US Army now and own a small valley that took us almost 10 years to save for so now we need to clean up after the loggers cut some trees down for us. We needed some type of rake to put on a FEL and that is how we found this site and we are going to buy the ratchet rake here...
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