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Saturday I mowed the swamp area to get the reed canary grass down for the year (I need something that can mow in water...) and Sunday morning walking around the shop I found something the cat drug in, a little brown and white weasel. I looked it up and apparently it's an Ermine or sometimes...

It's a big old Lincoln (idealarc? guessing '80's vintage) arc welder, don't remember the model off the top of my head but it's a big 3 phase unit with two voltage ranges, fine voltage control and some arc stability settings and a switch to reverse polarity... it's set up with a separate wire...

I need to make some intercooler tubing for my F350 so I bought a kit of mandrel bent tubing from Amazon, it's 304 stainless and apparently around 16ga thick... so, which method would you use to weld it? I have a welder (Titanium Unlimited 200) capable of scratch start TIG, MIG and spool gun...

My F350 7.3L engine has been leaking diesel worse and worse for a while now (ever since I changed the mechanical lift pump in a rest area a couple years ago) Now it's time to rebuild the transmission that is now also gross, while it's pulled into the shop I will be resealing the pump banjo...

last year I picked up a Miller Thunderbolt stick welder: Once it's going it welds fine for an A/C welder, but striking an arc is an exercise in patience... (my other stick welder is a Montgomery Wards branded Century AC/DC unit, I'm not a novice) it was picked up on an online estate auction...

I got this thing for I think $200 or $250 around 4 years ago at auction but it needed some work, it was missing a couple pins and needed some tinkering, it sat for a while, then I moved it to the driveway hoping it would get me working on it if it was in my way, but nope... then just over a week...

The water pressure dropped sometime last week so I finally looked into it today and the pressure tank is fine, pressure switch is fine but it would only get to 30psi and the pump was running constant so I went further up the line and found a piece of teflon in the flow restrictor, thought it was...

I have an old Kubota L260 with a Kwik Way loader that's undersize for the tractor but works fine... it has an external belt drive pump in the 8gpm range, the ancient loader valve is toast, my right shoe I was wearing while moving some dirt last weekend is NOT gonna rust... I'd rebuild the valve...

I have a "Smoke Hollow" brand pellet grill, apparently made by Masterbuilt and they don't make pellet grills anymore from the looks of it... I've had it for around 3 years now and it's been stored outside with just a cheap cloth BBQ cover which isn't perfect, I've had to take it apart twice and...

Got a trailer from a friend of a friend for cheap ($1500 all said and done after getting new tires and redoing the wiring at the tongue), it's a car hauler with slide in ramps that are over 6' long, two six lug axles both with brakes, the whole deck is 1/8" diamond plate, in the tire area is...

Working on a Stihl MS170 for a coworker that he got used from another coworker because it idled high I found the crankcase was cracked on the bottom... Is it likely aluminum? I'm just hoping it's not magnesium... What's the chances of that aluminum brazing stuff working? I've used it before...

This is on a weeping willow, there's a trail leading from the creek that's 40' from the tree through the grass to this. Only the bark is disturbed, the underlying wood is barely even scratched. There's been beavers in this area but I haven't seen anything from them in a couple years, I got a...

I have a mid '90's Craftsman mower, missing identifying stickers but I have the part number somewhere... Anyway, should be fairly standard, has safety switches everywhere and electric blade clutch with 3 speed high/low transmission. It will start just fine, but if I let off the clutch it will...

I have a few welders, the garage is too full to add more stuff so I've just been using flux core in the wire feeds... With the newly built shop I'll have room to do things better... Between my Titanium MIG 170 and Unlimited 200 they're capable of way more... Especially with the spool gun I have...

This happens on two different computers, both using Chrome. Click on a link to a post and it will load slowly but not give any indication of it trying, same with going back a page, click the back button and it takes 10 seconds sometimes for it to go back again with no indication. I can scroll on...

When I got my place I started with a used Montgomery Wards riding mower with big wheels (and a sweet two blade deck with a timing belt, mowed great) and I apparently broke a tooth off the transmission input gear, so I got the other mower I got in the deal going which was another monkey wards but...

Ok, I need ideas in the next couple weeks, hopefully a couple in the next couple days... I would post in my shop build post but I think some of it is already in there and I don't want to dig... plus thought this might be interesting... I think some of the ideas were in Big Barn's thread, but...

As the title says, thinking of renting one for a stupid project I'm working on... digging post holes for my pole barn shop project I center punched a gift from a previous owner, several yards of lumber scraps... I think I'm about 15 wheel barrow's full of lumber into the clearing of this hole...

I paid too much at auction, but it was a complete tractor with reverse, only missing one reverse friction shoe thing... The stock knobby tires are even in good shape which was one of the main reason I paid real money... It had an old rope start briggs on it, don't feel like fiddling with one...

My F350 ('97, crew cab long bed single rear wheel 4x4 manual trans with 4.10:1 gears and 35" tires) is mainly used for towing and hauling, has an unknown amount of miles on the engine (around 250k miles if you believe the previous owner) and over 350k miles on the chassis. It is a '97 but I'm in...

I don't want this as a project yet so posted it here... I wasn't wanting to know about this issue, but here it goes... I have a septic system for the house, one 1000 gallon tank with a 470 gallon "dosing" tank with a pump on the outlet with floats since the drain field is higher than the tanks...

I just winged a 3 point pallet fork attachment last weekend, worked with what I had and went for it... bought some forks with a frame that was on a skid steer in the past so it was set up wrong but for $20 I couldn't go wrong... it sat around for a couple years until I needed to move a pallet...

My Kubota has a generic aftermarket loader most likely from the 80's if I had to guess and the bucket drops fast (about 6" height in 2-3 minutes when the fluid is warm, faster at slower engine speeds for whatever reason, tilt droops too but less load so slower) and one of the valves is leaking...

I've always wondered what was up with riding mower deck heights, they usually have 5 level settings that go roughly in this order: 1 Touching the ground 2 1/8" above dirt 3 not too bad but still contacts on a bump even with anti scalping wheels 4 reasonable 5 about 2" high, but the center blade...

I know there's no getting rid of them unfortunately, but as I'm fighting the urge to itch the 50 bites I have right now in inopportune locations like knuckles I'm a bit miffed and they all need to die a slow painful death... Anywho, I live on 5 acres near a creek bed that is very shallow, has...

This tractor has the "single cylinder on left side of tractor" type, we rebuilt the cylinder part which is ok but there's the bleeding portion that we are unfamiliar with and now it's leaking at the 2 O rings at the valve end I'm thinking. Any pointers for bleeding the system and dealing with...

So, I've made a post a wile ago in the rural living or something area below asking about doors for my near future shop... I'm trying to finalize my plans in the very near future... Anyway, I have an area that had grapes in it, found plans and have a quote for the complete building kit minus...

My tractor is an old Kubota L260 made in the 70's as one of the early models, bit goofy and hard to find parts for, haven't talked to the dealer but will probably call soon as the brakes are squeaking way worse than they have been... they work on both sides but squeak bad and are grabby so I...

A while ago we picked up a Taarup disc mower, I think it's Dutch from what I remember when we looked it up after purchase... anyway, all there is online from what I've seen is them for sale used and a couple non english websites... I'm guessing the thing is from the 80's so it's not new. My...

I'm going to build a shop this year, the plan I like is 36'x48' with 14' rafters but that could change once I get closer, you know how it goes... Anyway, no real snow load to consider, long way will go east/west with a prominent wind coming from the west in the summer evenings (probably 10ish...

I have 5 acres near a semi submerged creek in the tree line, IE I've gotten my tractor stuck mowing this stupid tall tough grass in August and September before, water table is just under the top of the soil. I have about 1/2 acre that is the lowest on the property and has a problem with reed...

Figured I'd give a quick intro, have ran into posts here before but decided to join... Personally I have an old Kubota L260 2 cylinder Diesel, 4 speed PTO with some generic aftermarket loader that needs lots of love... Somehow it starts with one functioning glow plug (not easy to find, easy to...