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I know 3 people that have fallen asleep while driving home from that do shift work at either the fluff mill or steel. Not sure if they’re lazy or liberal loons but that’s not my concern.

I have a 216 and 260 and would buy another.

Nice!

She lost.

Quite a few sci-fi books have covered this topic. If you didn’t have to work would you, just watch golf, get fat then die?!?! Weird concept. Read some books there can be life after AI. lol.

My advice for CDL stuff is to call and talk to the state trooper in your state(or states that you plan to tow in) that actually does the pulling over.(not just any state trooper) There are so many threads with so much wrong information about CDL laws. I’ve

For the ones I called couldn’t understand that I wanted the CDL for driving a dually and equipment trailer. Told me it was basically set up to get big rig drivers a job and I would have to line up my own 18wheeler to take the test.

It’s why I drive a 10000 truck and 16000 trailer. The f450 was so much better but not legal.

You read TBN for entertainment;)

I’d look at an Avant mini loader or bobcat mini articulating loader hydraulic diagram. They are sold with both “open” and a system that links wheels for better traction. Comparing the two might show what you need to add.

Thank you for teaching me something. I’ve only seen them with electric.

The parts diagram says different. I’ve worked a quite a few of thes, only tractor dealer anywhere near me was a Branson. Now TYM and LS.

Weird every 2400 I’ve seen had a little electric pump that comes on when the key is on.

When the key is on(engine not running) the little electric fuel pump should be clicking. If you can’t hear you should be able to feel it with your hand.

Do you hear the lift pump clicking?

I have 6 machines and only has a cab, one has rops/fops, the others just a roll bar. I spend a lot more time open than enclosed. One of my employees runs the cabbed machine and I’m in the elements lol. I my experience anything in the woods that’s going to break a window(except leaving the door...

Yeah, hes doing a great job as a putin social justice warrior whether its on purpose or not.

I’m completely ok with you thinking that. Keep up great work.

It’s always one or the other with you. No option for middle ground and no having a real conversation. It’s almost like dealing with a 10 year old repeating what his dad says. You don’t like x well that means you must love y. That’s not how math or minds work.

Just another thought on the subject. I think Elon can both be interesting and a total tool sometimes. There are people out here twice his age that haven’t accomplished a 10th(100th) what he has complaining about him smoking or taking a pill. Maybe you should have, but probably you did and it...

I think to many people freedom means doing what they want and forcing other people to do the same.

It’s funny what people value as freedom or not.

It really cracks me up when people who post multiple times(hundreds?)that the MSM can’t be trusted. “If the LSM posts a story it must really be the opposite”. Etc. Then the second they see a lame stream media story that supports their belief they posting that thing all over TBN like it’s the...

I wasn’t suggesting not wearing a hat, Im saying you need fops. If being hit on the hard hat by multiple branch or limbs doesn’t make that clear I’m not sure why I thought telling you would. lol.

Be careful, that hat won’t keep you neck from breaking! I love having ROPS and FOPS when in the woods. To the need to get on an off guys. Do the doors on your machines not lock back? Getting in a cab vs open isn’t much different if you can fold the door back flat and leave it open.

Either that or the Russia bots are sowing discord this morning.

Thank you for the two data points.

Wha What state and do you have links to this info or do I need to start from scratch?

We were talking about voter registration so I thought that’s what your reply was about. If you want to be vague and change the subject without letting someone know, thats up to you. Don’t get upset when things get confused though.

Saw a WH press report the other day. Said it wasn’t shrinkflation it’s just cold water and will recover. lol.

lol. Say that to an eye.

What do you mean? They don’t require voters to register?

This doesn’t make sense. Does your state let anyone vote, no registration required? In mine the registration process requires a social security #, name and address. So you would have to have all of that and a fake id make to match. Also it appears many illegals values dont correspond the way...

Oh course. I thought we were talking about the city. I don’t watch any of the YouTube links to be honest, I didn’t realize they were talking about the whole state. I went to Ithaca New York one time to pick up a cousin. I saw more rebel flags there than anywhere I’ve lived or been down...

I don’t know many New Yorkers but none of them own any type of car.

Maybe the ones sowing discord are the one proclaiming we will fail daily??

The third one is on the way, I’m learning to juggle!

Sounds like you have it figured out. Good luck and God bless.

Please let the spilled grass seed in the back of my truck know this!

The future thread will be “they said a civil war would be fun and turn out like I wanted, but increasingly I feel duped”. lol. That’s if you live through it.

When people say there are “ready” I really wonder if that’s true. Can you run a 5k or even walk a 5k while carrying anything? Most people I see are very far from ready, but everyone on the internet is. lol. Anyone who has lived in a modern civil war would prefer not to. Please read more...

I made the mistake of pre paying at a station where the card reader didn’t work. I thought that last $1.50 worth of diesel was going to kill me it went in so slow. I think the previous 70gallons went faster. lol.

This is for changing buckets and being jobsite safe. Not operating a thumb.

Now I need to get a bunch of hoses made.

My heros. lol. I will laugh about that one for a few then enjoy my day. Thank you kind sir.

You said it again does that make it true? Keep repeating and repeating till not only you but the people around you believe. Predicting the end without an estimated date is a cowards game. Get some stones and let us know when you think it’s going down.

I didn’t say things were awesome. The fact that someone saying things aren’t going to end now means they think things are awesome? With that logic no wonder you think America is done.

Id think the world was ending too if I never missed an opportunity to say it over and over on a forum.

If AI is so amazing couldn’t a future person just get an AI bot to identify other AI and not get “duped”. I don’t know what future tech will bring but a smart person will find way to use it to their advantage.

That’s what they said about rock and roll. We’ll be ok.

If you read the acceptable amount of oil burning by car manufacturers it’s a pretty impressive amount for most of them.

Yes. The yanmar construction stuff is the same. It’s very good but it’s like a secret even yanmar doesn’t to want to share. Give us some dealers. lol.

This thread is funny, it has both a “distain for successful people” feel and “Im a successful person and taxes aren’t fair vibe” both at the same time.(and sometime from the same people)

I don’t think Branson makes the loaders or backhoes though.

My old mechanical quick coupler.

Here is a picture of some of my buckets and stuff.

Do we trust the media when it agrees with us?

I see many post crapping on companies so I thought I would share the exceptional customer service this company gave me. First off I bought a USED Tiltrotator from Europe saving 5 digits vs buying a new one on the USA. They had 0 obligation to be so helpful. I have bought new equipment from...

I’m sick of yall bad mouthing “the grid”. Yall wouldn’t say it to its face! ;) Dear grid. Please know I respect you and have your back.

If you have a business and make $30/hr you don’t own a business you own a job. :)

Insurance is such a small part of my underground business expenses it’s almost not worth factoring in. That’s with 5mil liability, 1mil auto, 1mil umbrella, worksman comp and equipment insured.

I spent $380 on grease just from Amazon in two years. My grease usage has been increasing as my business grow with more machines.

Do you really have a clue about how every professor in the USA handles class? If so that’s very impressive. Maybe your basing this off of your sons sample size. lol.

Seems you took offense to what I said. I didn’t defend anyone and if what I said caused you to block me it proves my point. Edited to add: I hope the hypocrisy of what you said sinks in eventually.

It’s my experience that people who call other people “snowflakes” are the actually the most sensitive.

“The gas station model” does work and now I kinda want one. lol.

Yeah. If a person does some digging almost every company has used an ansung loader at some point on their machines.

They have great prices on most lawn care related things.

I think I got the last one. Sign up to be a stens dealer to check.

I know a few people that claim to like an open station more than a cab but I don’t even think they believe it when they say it. I’ll take a cab any day, even in the woods you just have to be careful.

Thank you. I found some on Amazon too, but then thought doesn’t the plunger tell me everything I need to know.

I like the clear gun barrels and you have an air powered pump on the bulk tube for filling the guns correct?. Could you post a picture of your setup?

This showed up much faster than I expected.

10 years from now grease might be $25/cartridge and I’ll be looking at this grease thinking glad I bought it when I did. Kinda like ammo lol. Also there is a very little know clause in the bill of rights that lets you pay debts with grease or lard as legal currency!!! ;)

If anyone wants to hit me with a sob story of being greaseless I’ll mail them an envelope full!! I’m a king that thinks of his people. Lol.

I found my last order of red n tacky cartridges. Worked out to $10.70/lb this ridiculous order of grease was $2.65/lb. Not to mention the time period when this grease was very difficult to find anywhere. Ill keep it in an insulated and climate controlled shop. It ain’t milk and I suspect...

I have a bunch of them and they have been the best thing I’ve planted by far. I like the early varieties more. The late finishing ones give birds more time to eat them and sometimes they never seem to ripen.

Still researching but I’ll probably do something simple like this. Shiping was $115 which I thought was very reasonable for TN to eastern VA.

A case every week and a half or two weeks. What’s 1k, 4 trips to the grocery store?? For that I have grease for a very long time. Grease might be 4 times as expensive before I use this up.

It wasn’t a question of if it would be used it was a question of, can I use it properly. Once I saw the caps that basically turned the barrel into a grease gun for filling tubes it was on. When both excavators, the plow and the drill are running a decent amount of grease is used each week.

I think @5030 from now on when you chime in a thread with “I only fill from bulk” I can reply “well I only fill from a 55gallon bulk”.

Looks like BG products has a solution to fill tubes from a 55gallon drum. My neighbor is a dealer for them so I’ll check him first.

We used to have to drive some where and park to make out, soon it can just be done as the car auto drives. So no it’ll never be like we had it, but it might be better.

Ordered. $1054 with shipping.

I can get one of these on sale from a supplier for $980. It’s a heck of a deal but what do I do once I have it? I mainly grease machinery and have only used cartridges. I almost always grease on job sites, machines are not home often enough to grease from big tub in garage. I’m not the...

I plan to pin it on. Finally got the machine side of the bucket quick coupler circuit figured out and ordered. Maybe I can be tilting and rotating in a week or two.

Yes I had to add a case drain. Dealer wanted a couple thousand for it. To add one to a TB260 this is what you need. The port is already in the tank you add a bspp 90* fitting to whatever hose fitting you want. 18ft hose fitting double male nipple fitting 3ft hose to quick connect. Cost me...

Awesome. Is there a build thread on this one?

OK I’ve bought a motor home and a skid steer, combining the two into a grader camper per the instructions above. ;)

Messed around for a few minutes this morning. I always forget to take before pictures, but this is right next to it so it looked very similar just use some imagination. Technically the trees could be pulled faster but they can’t be pulled, removed from area and ground restored faster.

This was all the info it came with lol. Was slightly less than 2k delivered from a place called tool lots.

1) Watch some excavator fail videos on YouTube so you know what not to do. 2) Make sure you learn in excavator control pattern and not backhoe so you don’t feel inferior for the rest of your days;)

For sure. Yeah I need a tripod or something. It’s pretty cool starting at the top of the little tree and ending up with nothing but mulch. I hate that I can’t jump turn with it on though. Been so long since I turned without I forgot how much damage the tracks do.

It works impressively well. Will have to see about the longevity of it since it was only 2k. I’m going to mod it so it has a door that can open on the front to mulch tall trees and vines easier. The tree I’m holding is what we call an ironwood and is a pretty tough wood.

This reminds me of the old Audi fans thread where a dude convinced everyone he stuck the intake of his new s4 in a bucket of sandblasting media, then revved engine to 5k for a few minutes to “port and polish” the intake. Then proceeded to ask for advice about why his check engine light was...

When I put the amount of coffee I like in my Mr. Coffee it always gets grounds in it.

All the shops I worked in or owned no one wanted to use the 4 posts except for doing alignments and oil changes. Everything else 2post.

Someone request a quote. I bet a new one is $$.

Some people I know must spend all day voting because they spend all day complaining. Lol.

Worst:Track tensioner bolt Middle(almost every name brand mini): grease tensioner Best(not on any mini that I know of): auto hydraulic tension

I’m convinced that some people are only happy when they’re not.

If I was working trails with a backhoe I’d go at them backwards and do whatever bench cutting is needed to make them safe.

If you have crops near by they are probably already exposed. I hear people call deer organic and I’m not so sure. At least with how we farm around here.

Yeah I know things change. I think and hope it will be quite some time before I see the homeless camps, poo rivers, rampant crime, BLM protest destruction zone and needle piles y’all describe America as. Maybe things could even go the other way and your area gets better before mine gets...

The people I know with Kia’s are happy with them.

I live at the border of two very vibrant cultures. Virginians and North Carolinians. There are plenty of reasons not to live here, but crime and homeless camps aren’t one of them.

I’m so thankful I live where I do. I know not everywhere is nice like this but remember if you live in a crap hole not everywhere in the USA is like that either.

You realize this thread is about 5k Chinese mini excavators?

I know everyone on TBN will only buy something after making charts, doing opportunity cost analysis, reading engineering diagrams, visiting the factory to make sure they’re not wasting money, etc. Most people I actually know make whatever justification they want for a car purchase but they’re...

Also to the op. Find the nearest ped or vault and take a look inside to see if it is direct bury or in conduit. If it’s in conduit they usually leave coil of extra fiber. So it could be lowered, (which you don’t even know is needed unless you give that wire some daylight) without cutting and...

Only if there is a bunch of stuff(paved driveways,etc) in the way. In most areas I work I can plow 1000ft of 2 “ conduit 38” deep in less time than it takes my crew to position and get the drill ready to go. That’s not even counting the time of getting water, mixing the mud, etc. The drill is...

I very rarely find tape(almost never) and I put in more locates than average. On average I call in a mile of tickets every week or two. Only one city had tape famd for sewer only.

I think some people have confused this thread with the “who has the least expensive car thread?” lol.

You should hand locate the line before worrying about anything else.

Some metals rust almost immediately.

A friend with an orchard has a pto mounted blower for misting/spraying trees on their 80hp tractor. It didn’t look inexpensive.

Humans, at first, then Ai.

In 10 yrs a civil engineer will just say the the design requirements to a Ai personality that will do the work in .38 of a second;). Maybe, maybe not.

Want me to mail them to you? ;)

Happy with these. I'm going to replace the center two teeth with single tiger teeth so I can straddle conduit with them to set peds. Original teeth were very worn when I bought machine a few hundred hours ago.

Even name brand machines are like that.

Mine just has a regular pull start not the ez start:(

Where would one start this research?

I bought a br800x last week. Happy with it so far. It replaced a redmax brz7500. I use it to blow off trails at home and pine straw in the plow path at work. It's amazing how 1 inch of pine straw builds up and pushes a plow with 20kftlbs of vibroforce up and out of the ground!

I think it's funny that the government could be "together" enough to have a plan!

Maybe they don't expect the rest of the machine to last long enough for it to matter? ;)

I cut an unmarked 200+ pair verizon copper main earlier this year. I didn't have to but I dug it up to help out verizon dude, he said only 4 wires were still in use on that main. Always take pictures! Even though the Verizon and utilquest damage inspectors came out, both saw no marks, told...

Someone dumped some pigs(not hogs) on our farm. I wanted to shoot them but usda set up a round trap that they monitored by cam and caught them all in one go.

Wait!?!? Since it's MSM doesn’t mean lies and the opposite is true, now EVs are great! Remember the media can't be trusted, unless it supports your currently held position.

At some point all labor will be done robots/ai. *I think.

If you have a pile in my area you can hear the pine bark beetles crunching away on dead pines from 15ft way on a quiet afternoon.

Or a subdivision/solar farm/storage units.

Look at it this way. You are very fortunate to be able to have time to complain about things that don't matter at all! Like someone else said 5 years it's composted an regrown. (And I'm very fortunate to have time to read it and make a response that probably isn't very helpful)

I'm always amazed how much people think they know about people they've never met.

Ford didn't have to make it ugly though. (Ugly is being generous)

I went by a Ford dealer and they had 15 or 20 electric mustangs. It is not a pretty car to me.

Did it lock up solid or spin freely after the slew went out? Something to think about if you ever have a person helping you near the bucket.

Wait?!?!? Taxes aren't fair. Lol.

Ouch. What happens if you're "caught" using a 2 stoke weed eater where you live?

I'll get on the bat phone right away:) But you know all those other claims are thrown around as facts regularly. At least be brave enough to give a time frame. Virtually anything can happen given infinite time. I'm "think" these politicians making these end dates will crumble when the future...

I know 3 people that own EVs and all three are very happy with them. I don't know anyone with one that plans to get rid of it. How many people know someone who bought one and didn't like it? I don't have a clue if evs will make it or not. It be cool if all the people making claims, EVs...

I was behind this drw to srw conversion the other day.

I'm outta touch but I really didn't think anyone gave a crap or thought about that dude anymore.

TBN the only place Al Gore's is still relevant.

I bought my first excavator new and my second one used.

I work on the rural internet project and one thing I really like about it is everything I've seen put in the ground is USA made. The conduit, the mule tape, the fiber, the 12x12s, vaults and bullet peds all MADE IN USA. It surprised me in a good way.

Seat belt.

It still amazes me how polarizing electric cars are! If yall keep arguing you'll get it figured out.

Whi is saying you're winning? I need a cheerleader like that.

It's seems like we as Americans just want to see the "other side" fail, even if that means we all fail.

Obviously it was a self-defecating joke, since I'm on here reading and wearing adult diapers. ;)

@haydude here's an old man workout. You start with a 1lb sack of potatoes held out level at arms length. Keep using that until you can hold it for 2 mins x 5 reps. Then you just slowly work your way up 2lb sack, 5lb sack, stopping at 50lbs. Once you can hold a 50lb sack for 2 mins x 5...

You read TBN for entertainment. :)

After playing soccer in college I didn't watch it or touch a ball for years after. Lol. Was burnt out from so much training and playing.

I'm pretty sure the op said dealer had another unit on the lot but "TYM won't let them cannibalize it" to paraphrase. The issue is two fold: 1) A good dealer would have pulled the needed part then fought with TYM to get made right, not make the customer to do the fighting. 2) A good OEM...

Sounds like they'll need it back there to steal other parts off of in the future. Lol.

This! If the dealer cared he would have taken the needed parts off of the the other tractor on the lot. The thing about TYM telling them they can't sounds like BS from my experience.

Very nice! Are you going to put any protection on the glass for mowing? I have a flail for mine but haven't had time to use it or even hook it up. Lol.

Bad scientist! No! Bad!!

You want another covid shutdown so we can get there again? Worldwide demand matters.

What about Jansenusa minis? I almost bought one a few years ago. After reading this thread now I wonder if it is one of these Chinese minis rebadged and marked up?

"I don't trust a EV to get to the grocery store and back! but it tells me there are ghosts and an afterlife, I believe!" That's a funny stance to take.

Yes and I did.

Depends on how much he made on the new tractor sale.

"Don't factor in incentives or rebates!" Lol. That's a terrible way to run a business or household.

"Assembly center" doesn't that just mean bolting the wheels and loader on?

I don't think a house framed with screws will pass inspection here.

For this site its no meme, no credibility. Lol.

AC or just heat?

Do any of these tractors have a soot meter? On my yanmar powered excavator you can check the soot level on the cluster. The excavator has done one regen since I bought it, I wouldn't have known it was happening except for the light on the cluster. I kinda like the emissions stuff because I got...

Low hydraulic fluid seems a more likely cause than a sensor or something that would make a hydraulics stop working. You should be able to operate an excavator at angles that require seatbelt usage without anything stopping.

Many times I have read on this forum that more weight=more traction not less, at least with tractors.

More cutting power also. The 2ah will cutout sometimes even when full. The 5ah does not.

Might end you up in jail. Lol.

Put some digidamitous earth in your mouth tape it shut and you will wake up with all your issues cured or you won't wake up. Either way no more worries;)lol

Yeah. You always have to factor in the angle % Well this machine is killing me with downtown. Working a job and the mud pump stopped working. Next day aired another to me because the project is behind. $825 in shipping. I guess I'll try to rebuild the old one. I've had a couple good days...

Definitely. I think some people on here have statements saved as a copy and everytime they see a thread they just hit cntrl-v. Lol.

I did my longest drill so far last week. 580ft swamp bore with a S shaped bend to dodge underground power. Everything went fine till a bearing went out while pulling back with 240ft left to go! It too everything my 6ton excavator had to pull all that drill pipe out so I didn't loose it...

Who need facts when they've got memes.

I made a post hammer for the excavator and like it. Did a couple horse farm fences and made decent $ with it. I prefer hammering in flat bottom posts because they go in straighter.

We have snakes everywhere here. People are very scared of them for some reason. The only people I know that have been bitten are people that tired to pick up posionous ones to show off.

To the suggestions that third shift workers are poor. Most of the third shift workers around here either work at the steel mill or paper mill and definitely make enough money to buy an EV if they wanted.

A new tractor is only new for a day.

Buckets, forks and brush.

That's weird, I've run many different brand hydrotractors and think Kubotas are one of the smoothest and least "whiney" sounding compacts.

I my opinion the turbo failure rate is way over stated. Especially in tractors/equipment where the boost pressure is very low. Almost everyone I've seen failed on cars or trucks was from using crap oil or running with a boost leak that then overspins the turbo because it can't reach desired psi.

Hopefully I'll have time to unload it tomorrow and get some better pictures for yall.

Ec206, 18", 24" and a 48" scandi bucket. Pallet forks and a 48" heavy duty sweeper. Will be a few weeks before I get time to fit it. Excited it showed up and made the trip from England.

I know a good concrete dude. He says if a contractor can get to you job in less than a month or two it means they're either new or bad at concrete work. All the quality crews are booked up solid.

Honey bees weren't in North America till Europeans brought them over. Just a fact I thought was interesting when I learned it.

Lol. I was thinking Over Greaser.

I'm definitely an OG.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. Chant it while you work. :)

You spend 30 seconds every two years in a voting booth yet some people spend every waking second thinking about it and being upset.

@newbury is your thread working like you thought it would? :)

Complaining about that is funny to me. Just put a vent hole in it or use a funnel and pour without the spout on it.

I thought the point of that knot was to put something small but heavy to weight it for tossing a rope over something.

Was born but couldn't vote yet.

When did this happen??