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I gotta say I never thought to remove the PTO shaft and bring it inside...

I have a pair, no the ones you pictured. they work fine. the forks say they'll lift more than my FEL will. forks 1k for the pair. FEL about 800 in the bucket. get stuff out on the forks and that number goes down.

so use the tractor for ~3 hours, wait 8 hours to use it some more. Warranty is only as good as the company behind it, company goes belly up, no more warranty. I could see its use in some cases. but my tractor is paid for and if I run low on diesel, its a 30-minute round trip to the gas station...

I large percentage of EV owners and hybrid owners switch back to ICE powered vehicles....it seems to be largely dependent on the home charging situation. Without Level 2 charging at home that number jumps to over half switching back to ICE powered vehicle. Level 2 home charging should get...

comparing people buying a vehicle. and your comment about "So I’m not totally understanding how EVs are totally ‘out of reach?’ Seems economy ICE to economy EV are at least comparable?"

around here we have apartment dwellers in the Sacramento area that commute to the SF area. That's 80-90 miles one way. 150-200 miles is certainly in the range of most EV's, but charging them at night at the apartment complex ... its California, lots of things don't make sense, but that's...

maybe I'm missing something, but the true cost of ownership has never entered my mind for my tractor. I know it allows me to do stuff that I wouldn't do otherwise, and makes things I could do manually, easier.

seems you don't understand how many people are just struggling to get by on minimum wage.

a lot of people don't qualify for a loan to buy an expensive vehicle, or realize they can't afford the payments if they did qualify. That's why they drive a $10k vehicle.

https://considertheconsumer.com/consumer-class-actions/tesla-solar-roof-price-hike-class-action-lawsuit-charging-more-than-agreed-contract-amount

one thing that you have to be careful of with Tesla...is them changing what you're going to get after your plunk your deposit down and before you get the car. I would think such things would be illegal, and prolly are, but its seems to be fairly common with Tesla.

that's cool, didn't know about that website. in December it says my location should produce 2,829 kwh for the same sized array. July, 5,792.

I don't see how it would be effective. Solar is great for states with high electricity rates and lots of sunshine. if you don't have both of those, its prolly not going to be a good buy for the majority of people.

I'm certainly no financial wizard...first winter in our house, $600/month electrical bills. spent ~$20k (minus 30% tax credit) to put solar on my house and the bill dropped to almost nothing. So pay our electrical company $600/month or put solar in...seemed like an easy question to...

mine are warrantied to be at least 80% after 25 years, but hopefully I'll be long gone from here by then. I don't have batteries, rely on a propane generator instead. If someone's electrical bill is less than a couple hundred a month, then I would agree solar prolly doesn't make sense. In...

Not Arizona, but Central California and my solar has cut my electricity bills down to almost nothing. Return on investment about 6-7 years. Course California has stupid electricity prices so that helps the ROI. Solar systems are not "worn out" after 20 years.

not to mention the rare earth minerals needed (not rare like gold). one estimate is with current technology, there's not enough of all the rare earth minerals for every vehicle in England to be an EV. Not to mention the countries that the majority of the minerals come from...which may or may...

here (maybe everywhere) they talk about having people's EV's power their house when power goes out....so then if the outage lasts long enough, I'm without power to the house and no power in my vehicle to go anywhere. Seems like a terrible idea living in a state with a 3rd world power grid.

I have almost 12kw, upgradable to another 3 or 4 kw, and I wouldn't consider an EV today, no one makes a long bed (8') EV pickup, I don't think anyone makes an affordable EV pickup yet. Glad I bought my pickup in Jan 2020 before all the stupidity started.

yeah, I picked $40k because that's what there is supposed to be available for EVs. but doubling that just makes it that much more unrealistic that average people can afford to buy EVs. Was that a car dealer over the weekend, and they're charging $10k on top of MSRP. Just a bad time to buy a...

how is the person making minimum wage or just above, who barely pays their bills, going to afford to go out and buy a $40k+ EV? just not going to happen in any significant numbers. And no I'm not knocking on those people, I was one of them at one point in my life....just pointing out reality.

less moving parts sure. more circuit boards, batteries (when, not if, they die) that when they die cost as a ton to replace, sometimes more than the thing costs...which is more true with smaller pieces of equipment. I know a few Prius (hybrid not EV) owners that junked their cars because the...

is there a readily available EV tractor with dealers available? one thing I've found with the battery powered lawn equipment, (mowers, weed wackers etc) when they break people just toss them since there is no one local to fix them. With the gas powered lawn equipment, they generally get them...

my land is flat, I'm lazy and just leave my FEL on when mowing. for a field that I had never mowed before, I'd be inclined to leave the FEL on and run it as low as I could to help find any surprises hiding in the field.

I've had that happen more than once with power tools at Home Depot, printer ink (when we had an ink jet printer) at Walmart and various stuff at other big box stores.

I've switched, for the most part, from digging holes, planting the post and filling the hole around the post to just pounding steel posts directly in the ground. I use a Mansaver and a smallish compressor. The steel posts will outlast me.

shortly after a neighbor bought his house he was drilling holes for fence posts, and drilled through the irrigation district's underground pipe. He called them, they came right out and fixed it. A month or so later a bill for the fix arrived in the mail. He turned around and gave it to the...

the ground around here gets really hard during the summer. My PHD will usually dig it but its slow going and if I'm not careful the hydraulic downforce on the PHD will pick up the back of the tractor...which is a bit unnerving. pull the auger out frequently. The first time I used my PHD, I...

I don't know that a biscuit jointer would be high on my list of tools to buy first. I have one and I use it every so often, but it doesn't get used nearly as much as other power tools...router, drill, sander, circular saw, jig saw I think I'd buy those before a biscuit jointer. along with a...

tools show up in my shop...months or years later my wife might see them and ask if that tool is new......nope. I've had that tool for years. Since I've had it for a while, she doesn't get upset.

I agree. I used to use pipe clamps, but since I started using K-bodys I don't think I've touched my pipe clamps. But dang kbody's have gotten expensive.

that's not my jig. the corner clamps I made for myself is just a triangle of plywood with some 1x2 attached to the 90 degree sides. no fancy holes to cut. The the one corner perfectly square, glue/screw on some 1x2 wood. leave a notch in the corner for glue squeeze out so it does get stuck to...

only when I'm tripping over them because I don't have room to store them all...

what kind of clamps work best depends on what you're making. I make a lot of cabinetry type projects so I have a bunch of Bessey Kbody clamps, they work well every time, but aren't cheap (I purchased most of mine at various clearances over the years). good quality f-style clamps are also...

if I was buying a new tractor, I'd buy a Kubota over a Deere just because of the local dealers. I've gotten great response and service from the Kutoba dealer, and lackluster, at best, response and service from the Deere dealer. The tractors themselves are pretty competitive with each other.

I have a JD dealer that's not too far and a Kubota dealer that's a bit farther away. Based on my dealings with the JD dealer when I bought my lawn tractor from them, I wouldn't buy anything else from them. The Kubota dealer has always been great to deal with. the dealer can sometimes make the...

I have a pair of bolt on pallet forks. Certainly not as good as the real thing, but I have a pin on bucket so switching wouldn't be that easy. And I'm not going to pay to have my FEL converted. They've done everything I've asked. My pallet forks have a higher weight capacity than my FEL...

been working for a civil engineering company for 25 years now...not all engineers know what they are doing even when working in their field specialty. And no I'm not a civil engineer, I just write the software they use. I asked a couple of the engineers that I work for about something...

I worked in bicycle shops for 10 years through out high school and college....(1980s-1990s). As time went on more and more customers and even people that worked in bicycle shops (including a couple of owners) were either getting hit by cars or having close calls. This convinced a lot of them...

seems like all the more reason to drive my big truck...

yeah lots of trusses have what looks like storage space. Mine were specifically engineered for storage. I wouldn't store thousands of pounds in mine. I'd have go find the drawings for mine to see what the load rating is, IIRC it was pounds per square foot (though I could be mis-remembering...

when I build my 30x40 shop I went with premade trusses. The best part was the truss company delivered them and put them up on the roof. We just had to move them to where they went. I also had them design into the trusses, storage space....so some of the members are bigger than if I hadn't had...

Looking at the prices on the web, my 2020 Tundra pickup looks to be worth about $10k more than I paid for it. Last I looked, there's not a single long bed SR5 Tundra in the state to replace it with and if there was the dealer is proly charging a hefty dealer pack over MSRP.

having just hand dug 100'+ for some new irrigation lines, its not fun. But we didn't know where the previous owners ran lines and I didn't know there were private companies that came out and found them for you. soaker hose on the ground for a day, let the water soak in, dig down 4-5". fill the...

always look at both sides. When I worked at BofA, we took a trip to their cash vault if SF. They let us look at some counterfeit bills...a few of them were perfect on the front side, but looking at the back side it was obvious they were fake. At the time (early 1990's), the people at the...

last two houses we bought the title company only accepted funds that were wired to them. no checks of any kind. They might have also accepted cash, but no way I'm carrying that kind of money around.

we've always done (residential).... regular outlets, ground goes down. on switched outlets the ground goes up. when looking for the outlet that the switch works for, it makes it easy to find.

lets see.. 3 pt backhoe (rarely use anymore, used it quite a bit at first until I learned why they're not made anymore) box blade (used quite a bit) back blade (used quite a bit) PHD (used quite a bit) disk harrow (used quite a bit) chain harrow (hardly used) cultipacker (meh, maybe if someone...

my wife says I can have a girlfriend....as long as she's rich and allows us to live in the style we'd like to become accustomed to. Course she knows that's never going to happen....those kind of girlfriends are like hen's teeth.

on my LA402 FEL, its like the BX picture, just a simple piece of bent 1/4"(?) metal that the top is parallel to the bucket bottom. I've never felt the need for anything fancier, it works fine. Seems like it would be pretty easy to fabricate one.

I don't think EVs are the final solution...its a step to the next thing...whatever that turns out to be. Current battery tech is too limiting. There's not enough grid power to take everything electric, here in California building new power stations is almost impossible. batteries, solar...

I've used crushed concrete on my 1200' long driveway. went down and looked a lot like the gravel roadbase I was getting but less expensive. Haven't run across any metal in the couple of transfer loads I've put down. Unlike what Eddie sees in Texas, it seems like it breaks down faster than 3/4...

upsetting? sure.....surprising? no. Call the dealer, explain what happened and if they handle it, great. If they don't then you have a reason to be really upset...a dealer not standing behind their stuff.

Oakland hills. Had a really bad fire there some years ago. bunches of houses burned to the ground...in part because people weren't allowed to cut brush back and in part because the FD left the scene too soon and it reignited (it my memory serves me correctly.)

I live out in the countryside, with only one neighbor to tattle on me, and they have as much, if not more, to be tattled on than I do. Kind of a mutually assured destruction. I let them do what they want, they let me do what I want and we get along just fine. I'm sure eventually the battery...

20 years is a long time for technology to improve.

I don't live in Oakland, but I do live in California. They can pry my Stihl gas trimmer from my cold dead hands.

using what I already had to create a 350' drainage ditch along the back of my property....I ran my potato plow to define the ditch, then switched to my back blade to open up one side so it was wider and flatter....because when the horses stepped in the trench that the just potato plow made it...

I know my local Kubota dealer has more demand than supply. They're selling tractors before they even get them in. Not much reason for the dealer to discount them in a market like that.

when I bought my x300 at the Deere dealer, I dealt with the sales manager, it seems lawn mower was beneath him or something...no real interest in selling it to me. They didn't have one on their lot but had a few at one of their other locations about 50 miles away. Took them a few weeks to...