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Tracked equipment only works decently in slippery conditions if the tracks are equipped with cleats. Bulldozers are a good example as they are almost universally metal tracks and big metal cleats on each track piece. Depending on where in the state you are, NYS has a lot of variability when it...

I paid $18,000 for a brand new Bobcat CT230 back about 10 years ago. Came with an FEL and a backblade. Nice thing about new is that you don't get someone else's problems, and you get a longer useable lifespan on the equipment. But it does cost more money. USAF figured 1200 hrs per year was...

Get a coolant tester and make sure your tractors meet the requirement. Make sure all joints are properly greased (cold and friction are deadly enemies.) Make sure your battery is good. (Test or replace.) I have an engine block heater that I typically plug in at breakfast time, and when I'm...

Now that sounds, Evil. lol

I use 2x4 wire mesh on my trees, but only because I have beavers in the area in addition to Bambi.

I've turned my heater on before going to bed if I need the tractor first thing in the morning to move snow. No problems leaving it on all night.

Speed + dips, holes, rocks, bumps, and slipperiness are your nemesis when operating anywhere near rollover point. You can go from doing just fine to looking at tractor and sky over you in seconds. And CG can change simply based on how much fuel you have in the tractor. My recommendation is get...

I spun the tire off the wheel on the rear of my tractor a few winters ago. Tire was a bit low, and the sub zero temps deflated what was left. Beet juice makes getting good seal nearly impossible. Hosed it off and ended up taking the tire and wheel to a nearby truck tire place for them to...

Semi-trailer twin I-beams make nice small bridges, and generally should last 20 to 50 years, depending on how well you maintain them (rust proofing, especially the support ends, and deck protection.) For comparison, wooden bridges generally only last about 10 years before they fail, unless they...

You do what you have to do. Trying to do jobs with too little tractor is a good way to break or destroy the machine and possibly hurt yourself or anyone else nearby. That's why the consistent advice here is to get the next size up tractor than your biggest job needs. Financing always sucks...

I would definitely go with the 50 hp tractor.

Don't put you hand on the area where the leak is coming from. You don't want to inject hydraulic fluid into your hand! However, push and pull on the tube a bit. That may cause the leak to slow, stop, or increase. If it increases, then it's probably a cracked weld and you should replace the tube.

WOT when cutting, idle when not cutting. I was burning out chainsaws cutting trees and firewood until I switched up to a commercial grade logging chainsaw. Haven't burned out one since. Size matters when it comes to heat dispersion

Too bad General Electric doesn't still make the E20 Elec Trak lawn and garden tractor.

Goats do a good job on poison ivy too.

My Bobcat CT230 (Kioti DK25) would mow 6 acres with a hog just fine, and it does a decent job of plowing my 1400 foot dirt driveway with the FEL and a backblade. (Also did a nice job moving 13 truck loads of crushed stone base when I upgraded the drive.) The problem is, you want filled tires...

"I didn't take it down. It was that group of feral hogs that run through there." That excuse also works for anything that's not buried at least a foot down.

I use the ROPS and seatbelt always. The only time it gets folded down is if I have to bring it inside the garage for some reason. I've read dozens of instances where the ROPS and seatbelt did their job. I have never seen an instance where the proper use of the ROPS and seatbelt led to death...

Here in southern NH, I just run plain old diesel in my Bobcat CT230. The most time the fuel will sit in the tractor is maybe a month if I'm not using it much. Longest I've had any fuel sit in the plastic jerry cans in the garage is 4 months (2, 5 gallon cans) Never had a problem.

If it's for less than a couple of minutes, I'll let it idle. More than that, I'll shut it down unless it's sub zero weather. The cost of diesel fuel is the main driver, and I dislike stuffing $50 bills in my tank.

Well, I've suspended enough weight off the front loader to pick the entire rear end off the ground, and basically 2-wheeled the load on the front axle to where I wanted it. I don't recommend it though.

There may be a safety switch for the transmission under the tractor that has a chunk of ice/snow/branches/whatever jamming it form closing. I occasionally run into that problem with my Bobcat CT230 after pulling logs through the puckerbrush.

Keep in mind that the Department of Transportation for your state may have regulations on inside curves of the driveway exit. Probably something between 12 and 25 ft radius.

I love good puns.

And if he prevailed in court, the prosecution would have had to pay ALL of his legal fees.

Gotta watch out for that barber wire fencing. It'll shave you a little too close.

Yeah, I have similar problems on my back line. Only solution is to clear and fence. But make sure you have a survey done so there's no argument.

My suggestion is to get a copy of your county budget, find what they pay for plowing, and then show up at the highway department meeting, and county commissioner meeting with those figures and tell them they can either pay you for the plowing, or you will deduct that amount from your county...

Not any more. Cheap fix is to take a plastic milk bottle cap and it fits over the switch perfectly.

I done all the servicing on mine and haven't any complaints. Parts tend to be about 20% higher than I expected, but then I'm a cheapskate.

I don't know of any state that allows them on a limited access, or multi-lane highway. Two lane roads moving between fields or farms, not a problem, as long as the fore-mentioned lights and signage are there. I do know of a mentally handicapped neighbor who has a 25/30 hp NH that he uses to...

Rubber overalls for legs (bloused OUTSIDE the boots, lol), waterproof BDU rain jacket for head and torso.

5 gallon can. Rest it on the hood, and pour.

Problem is the compacted soil. Even with filling and reseeding, there will be a noticeable difference between where the ruts were, and where they aren't. Depending on the use of the area, you might want to consider tilling the soil up, replanting, and rolling the entire area. And then keep...

Harvest them before they get 3 inches tall and sell them to the organic markets. They're edible like asparagus or spinach at that stage.

Since it's country fair season, hit up all the fairs in your area since most dealers will have a display of their equipment set up. They may or may not have an area where you can try out their stuff there; but many of them have an area at their dealerships that you can run it up and down...

I actually read both forums as the machines were/are manufactured by the same company, with minimal differences. If it works on your Bobcat CT, usually the exact same part can be found on a Kioti CK of the same engine size.

Pulling your garden/field disks up and down the ice/hardpack to break it up sounds like a good, economical decision.

First snowfall of the year, the driveway is usually still not frozen yet. So I have to feather the blade and bucket when moving the white stuff. And yes, you have to pay close attention to the angle of attack on the bucket to keep from digging into the dirt and gravel. If you have a paved...

Elec-Trak - Wikipedia My father was one of the electrical-mechanical engineers involved with the development of these tractors. Unfortunately, he, like most of the people who worked for GE on these, are all dead today.

Exodus 22:14-15: probably says it best: "If a man borrowed an animal or a piece of equipment from a neighbor and damaged it, he was required to make restitution. But if the owner came along to help or supervise, the owner should have prevented the damage, and no restitution was necessary."

I survived a fatal car accident when I was 5 without a scratch on me. No seatbelts in the car. The car rolled around me and as I was at the center, I ended up sitting on the ceiling when it came to rest. My younger sister was thrown from the vehicle and died. My grandmother was thrown from the...

I've let people I know well and trust borrow my truck; but I'd never let them borrow my tractor. Regular cars and trucks, most people know how to properly use them. A tractor is a specialized piece of equipment and in the hands of an inexperienced person, can be deadly. It takes hundreds of...

Heh. I'm running into the same problem with my CT230. But first problem was intermittent dash gauge problems. Tightened up all the dash instruments, no luck. Then the tractor wouldn't start at all. Jumped it okay. But when I shut it down, wouldn't restart. Checked the battery cables and...

Have to agree with s219. I burned out/seized up like 3 of those small saws until I wised up and got a commercial logging one. No more problems, and the added bonus is I don't have to lift weights at Planet Fitness with that arm anymore.

How much can your FEL lift? It depends. Your bucket/forks/etc usually have a separate weight rating, how many pounds they can use before the bucket won't rotate. That figure is almost always higher than the overall FEL lift weight, and comes in handy for prying things up like boulders too large...

Neighbors where I grew up used a couple of old ford 2wd tractors for all their cutting, raking, baling, and wagon hauling. And the fields were pretty steep too.

Like the title says. Anyone use their tractor for mining operations, either hobby or business? I'm going to assume that if someone does, it's open pit unless they have VERY well ventilated and spacious tunnels, and spark arresters on the tractors.

Darn. Saw then title of this thread and thought one of our users was going to tell a story about using his tractor in mining operations.

I see a tractor in his bio. I use a tractor to move logs, branches, and wood; and I bet he does too.

Good point about the ground wire. Most people don't realize that the faraday cage has to be grounded to work.

Lead cop pieces are better protection against radioactive particles on the ground. Think Chernobyl.

Standing on the ladder leaning against the chimney, or standing on the roof alone don't provide a stable enough platform. That ladder with the bottom supported by the bucket, and resting on the asphalt-grit shingles, isn't going to slide anywhere, or get kicked out from under me. Drive around...

<b>"Now, are they pulling my leg about the added paperwork?"</b> No, they are NOT kidding abou the added paperwork. You can blame the Federal and State governments, and the insurance agencies for that. And it doesn't matter if it's a paper form, or a computerized form; doctors, PAs, NPs...

One thing that nobody has mentioned yet is that the original owner may have put the brush in the ditch as a form of erosion control.

Most important phase? Figuring the Cost per Profit or Cost per Benefit ratio before even starting.

Ed: I considered that as a need to hold and stabilize the ladder lying on the roof. However, I still need something to lift the ladder up there (I'm not Superman or the Hulk); and the FEL fits that bill perfectly, at least for the lower roof. Once I'd done that, I realized that putting a hook...

No need to chock the wheels, I just drop the backblade and it ain't going nowhere.

Tractor and FEL make getting up and down from the roof a lot easier, and provide me a more stable work area holding the ladder in place. And yes, there's a 4x4 wedged under the FEL so it doesn't come down on me or collapse under me if the pressure leaks down. I tested it and it works great!

Welcome to TBN. Yeah, ain't none of us getting younger. I'm still waiting for that mythical Super Soldier Serum they used on Captain America. Not only does he have no problem tossing round bales, he can toss the horse too!

MEOS1 nailed it.

Yeah, my youngest son was like that too. He STILL doesn't have a license and he just turned 23. Of course he lives down in Bean Town so he's got plenty of public transportation there.

1. Go large unless you have a specific size restriction. In your case, go with compact rather than subcompact. For some bizarre reason, every tractor owner usually finds more things to do with a tractor than he or she can do with the size tractor they currently have. 2. Split and expand your...

Did that once with my Dad's tractor when I was 13, only it was against a telephone pole and not a useless tree. Boy was he pissed off. Had to dig a sliding trench for the tires, and then take the truck to yank it sideways out of there.

Dude. First picture is a fine growing example of a dandelion! Second picture has more dandelions, plus a couple of Common Plantains, not to mention the grass blades. Personally, I like dandelions in the yard. The flowers are pretty. It's fun to blow the seed heads in the air. You can make...

Gotta get my back blade mount rewelded. Gotta clean the chimney. In the middle of expanding my wood shed. Just can't do everything at once! /forehead slap Generator! Heeeyyyy. I bet I can afford a new generator if I sue the EPA and the U.S. Government for false advertising. Where's all this...

Good point.

I'm averaging about 9.8% for my entire portfolio. I even survived 2008 without major losses (I did take some hits though, but recovered quickly.) And yes, if I'd started 35 years ago when I first started working, I'd be at least a millionaire by now. Rich people's kids usually learn these...

You can get concrete that has epoxy mixed into it which acts as a non-porous surface and doesn't need a sealer. It's expensive, and probably requires professional mixing, pouring, and finishing.

You should get an annual briefing from your broker, preferably in person, going over all of your accounts and holdings. If you have poor performers (anything not getting 2 to 3 times inflation rate), you need to move those funds to better performing companies and funds. If the entire brokerage...

I have a 2013, extended cab, 4cyl, 2wd, 6.1 in bed (just long enough to put a twin mattress in, but a smidgen too short for the box spring to lie flat.)

I'm with RedNeckRacin on hogging the down grass; although some of the 3pt finishing mowers or flail mowers might do a better job of chopping it fine enough and spreading it enough for the grass to grow back up through it. Of course if you were thinking of reseeding the field, then this might...

Yeah. "I DO" are two of the most expensive words in the English language; about equal to, "Oh sh*t" or "Aw sh*t", even though they are uttered after the expense condition has been incurred. On the other hand, two of the most expensive single words are "Oops", and "Yes". "Yes" almost always...

If a rep told me that the attachment would destroy the PTO, I think I'd be in the market for a different tractor. One that's built right.

I've de-quilled two dogs. Never bothered to clip the ends, just got the needle-nose pliers out and spoke soothingly to the dog for a minute or two before starting the pull session. Just keep telling them what a good dog they are and keep pulling. Don't know what kind of over the counter pain...

Ford needs to bring back the Model A Pickup.

If your thread disappears, it's because someone thought it violated the TOS for the forum. I've had a couple removed over the years. Don't take it personally, and don't flame over it. Best thing to do is e-mail Mohammed or the person who pulled it and politely ask them what it was in the...

You bet! What's a shed without welding capability? Just another expanded outhouse.

Toyota makes their Tacoma, Nissan makes their Frontier. I think Dodge is still making their Dakota. Ford got out of the compact truck business a year or three ago (stupid, because their 1/4T Ford Ranger was a near perfect starter truck. Don't know if Chevy is making any more S10s, or...

I have my garden fenced in too. 48", 2x4 mesh. Deer can hop over it, if they really want to. There's so much food elsewhere that they haven't bothered to try. Ditto with the turkeys, who tend to be very destructive taking dust baths. We do have moose and bear, which would both go right...

Check all the posts in the Buying forum. That's a good place to start.

TSC had the chainsaw chains for my saw that Lowes, Sears, Home Depot, and the place that actually sold me the saw years ago don't carry.

My recommendation is to pull a bunch of scrap out of the bins at your local dump/transfer/recycling center, and practice welding on that. Keep in mind that you'll be running into a bazzillion different ferrous alloys when you do, and every one of them behaves differently. It takes a long time...

Crush injuries are always nasty, and among the worst things for orthopedists to try to fix.

I think the difference is whether it is a boundary fence or not. Colonial states all had laws, and may still have them, that a fence line is the marker between owner's properties and they share responsibility for its maintenance, and can't move it. Usually they were stone walls from each of...

The Granite State doesn't consider beer to be liquor; that's why you buy it in the grocery store. You want liquor, your go to the NH Liquor Store. Out of the half dozen broad classes of liquor: brandy, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, and whiskey; I'd say that rum, vodka, and whiskey have the...

First image that popped into my mind was a gigantic cutter bar suitable for going through locomotives.

Number one thing to understand and accept is that you are NEVER going to stop an experienced or very determined thief short of sitting on your tractor 24/7 with a .12 ga loaded with 00 buck. All you can do is make it hard enough to not be worth the effort to steal, or take so long to steal it...

Funny thing is, you can get an eye lash in your eye and scratch your cornea just rubbing the eye. There really isn't any way to repair the cornea short of going to laser surgery; and that's not really an option unless you need to have your vision corrected in the first place. Eye drops only...

I just take a rag and wipe off all the zerk fittings. Chip off any paint overs pray that might block the fitting. Then take a small punch and check the balls & springs of each fitting are working correctly. Then work my way around the tractor with a hand held grease gun. Don't have to hold the...

Option 1: Spray with roundup. Plow and disc level, then re-seed. (Approximately zero weed regrowth.) Est $$$$ Option 2: Burn. Plow and disc level, then re-seed. (Requires fire department assistance. Approx 30% weed regrowth.) Est $$$$ Option 3: Plow and disc level. Rinse and repeat...

I sharpen my blades when the grass looks like it's being beaten and ripped instead of cut.

Only time I've ever had a problem was when water leaked into a in-ground storage tank and got into the fuel. That was a God-awful mess. Didn't run right, and all kinds of black soot from incomplete combustion.

Lyme disease is bad here in NH. But an even bigger problem are ticks carrying multiple diseases at the same time. That makes symptomatic diagnosis a near impossibility. You HAVE to do multiple lab tests then. And multiple infections can have a multiplicative, not an additive, effect on...

Depends. If it's only for a day or two, and the weather is, unpleasant, and it's not duck season, I may just decide to go to another world and kill dragons, trolls, ogres, and orcs. Deer/Bear hunting season you can find me out in the woods between 100 yards to 100 miles from home. May take a...

You can also cut a slot the length of the post and then glue/tack a strip to fill it.

22 years in the AF + 15 years I.S. & Statistics in Healthcare. And I afford my tractor by doing my own snow plowing instead of hiring some guy to pay for his new truck.

Riding in C-130s seems even smellier, colder (or hotter), and noisier than open-sided helicopters. Glad I don't have to do that anymore.

I only use one can of each type at a time. I go through 30W fairly often, so it never sits more than 3-6 mo unfinished. I do have a bottle of brake fluid that's been open for a couple of years that I occasionally need to top off the truck or car with. It's probably good for another few years...

Tier 4 contains more parts than Tier 3. Assuming that the reliability rate for each part has not improved (a reasonable assumption), then the Tier 4 engines will fail more often than the Tier 3 ones.

Man, I hate blackflies worse than mosquitoes. Don't know if they carry any diseases, but they hurt and itch worse.

Consider this. The old Ford 8N tractor was about 25 horse, and was considered a full-sized tractor. Yet it's dimensions and hp would place it in the compact utility tractor range today. So those terms of SCUT, CUT, UT, AG, etc. are rather loose and fluid. jeff9366 gives a nice breakdown in...

Me neither. Good thing, as like an idiot, I left the window open after I emptied a load of firewood out of the back.

Options? (1) Let it heal and try to compensate with left hand, or middle finger on right hand. (2) If you have a twin (no tissue rejection), if he dies first, get his finger transplanted onto your hand as a replacement. (3) Get a non-relative transplant. You will need to take anti-rejection...

Reminds me of a spring weekend many years ago when my wife decided to drive her car down the access trail along the power lines and ended up in the back of some guy's hay field. The trail petered out of course, and she thought she'd just drive out in the field to turn around. Bottomed the car...

Depending on where in Oswego, NY cmcramer is, he might be in glacial lake bottom. Which means that mud could be anywhere from an inch to a hundred feet deep. Glad the FEL trick worked for you. You don't really need full-sized logs for the corduroy section. I've done just fine with brush and...

Yeah, but I bet it still requires a strong guy to open the lids on jars.

The slower they rust, the longer they'll last.

My Dad started me on a Matchbox. Then when I was about 5 or so I got a John Deere. Then graduated to a riding lawn mower. It just kept progressing after than. If you don't catch those addictions early, you'll never really recover from them. :D)

THAT might be the biggest consideration. Oregon is known for having a rather unfriendly overall tax structure. And taxes will exceed both savings and costs in the long run. Property taxes are one of the biggest reasons that few people plan for, or build for, the long run in the U.S. Even...

I don't know Sysop. I'm all for building things 100% overstrength, but if your trailer front and truck back are being lifted 10 feet in the air loading stuff, I'd have to say you probably ain't doing something right. I'll go back to minding my own business and eating my lunch.

@KennyG If you're sunk at both ends with a 3PH attachment on, it seems to be pretty standard operating procedure to have to remove it in order to unstick yourself. Unless of course, you have a 100 ft electric or hydraulic winch on the 3Pt.

Was cleaning up the property this weekend, raking leaves out of the ditches along the driveway, filling up the FEL, and originally going to dump them in the compost heap. First load, drove to the end of the driveway and started down the trail toward the compost area and promptly buried the...

The term you're looking for is "police state". We're at the mild end of one, the really severe ones make **** Germany look normal.

I was reading about rice growing this weekend and one of the things that came up was the purpose of paddying. Rice farmers churn the bottoms of their wet paddies into a very fine slurry that in addition to mixing the soil with organics, also compacts and seals the bottom of the paddy to retain...

"He says they see many BX's come into his shop with broken driveline parts." "a" = 1 "a couple" = 2 "a few" = 3 "a bunch" = 5 or 6 (as in the number of bananas you get in an average bunch) "many" = 4 or more Nail his buns down. Is his "many" dozens of tractors, or just the minimum 4 to...

I think his concerns were with (1) whether the hydraulics would work okay (probably, not enough chain oil to change the ?compressibility? of the hydraulic fluid; and (2) whether it would cause seal degradation the way putting the wrong fluid in hydraulic brakes could cause them to soften...

You 'could' do the whole floor by yourself that way, but 8 cubic yards of concrete is an awful lot to mix by hand, and too much all at once without buying or renting a powered mixer. If you do that, you may as well just order a truckload of cement delivered. A woodworking shop doesn't sound...

That fracking pond is going to become a toxic waste site. You won't be able to use it afterwards, it will have to be capped, sealed, and monitored for decades afterwards. Like fishheadbob says, you'd better go back and check the original real estate deal and the contract about mineral rights...

Jurassic Park makes a coffee maker? ;-)

You know, just a regular garden hose sprinkler would work. Either the rotating head kind, or the oscillating kinds. Just move them around under the vehicle every 10 or 15 minutes to get everywhere.

Yeah, we got 2 inches here in Strafford County. I don't remember ordering any more of this white stuff. Can I send it back?

Only have one shingle to replace from this winter. I'll be using my old reliable mark I, Sears/Craftsman claw hammer.

I noticed that your log contact points are smooth. You might want to weld a couple of pointy things on each arm so the log isn't as likely to slide off.

Welcome to TBN! I'm a retired USAF member who was stationed at Florennes AB while they had cruise missiles there. I rented a country house down in Regniessart. Only problem I had was when some logging truck ran me off the road and caused be to blow out two tires at the same time when I hit...

Kioti CK30 ~= Bobcat CT230 Not sure if there's any difference between the two for mats and latches. Never had problems with my mats. My hood latch did give up the ghost last year. I'm currently using 2 cloth covered bungee cords hooked over it and to the frame to hold it down. Thinking of...

Better hope he has cloth seats on his tractor. Hot metal or leather on the sensitive parts is no fun!

Every accident I've had with a bicycle (and I've had several), a helmet wouldn't have done a darn thing for me except put more torque on my neck. Face, chest, elbows, hands, knees, shins, ankles, buttocks all take the normal contact points. You get a head hit bicycling without a helmet, you're...

DKCDKC mentioned, "I'm lucky to have a great farm stream on the property so I have plenty of rich, black creek-bottom soil to fill the beds with - along with compost. I use very little fertilizer to get great results." I have a marsh on the back side of my property which I've pulled muck out...

Now that the snows hard and not too deep, I had 4 in the back yard on Palm Sunday. They all look like they did very well over the winter. Still no idea where they yarded up, but can't be too far away.

Can you drill it out?

Commissary/BX parking spots closest to the doors should always be designated for disabled military. All other disabled privileged to shop there can shuffle or roll a bit farther.

Bah, a mere sapling. I spent several years in Washington State. They have REAL trees there, assuming the loggers haven't cut them all down by now.

"Pay It Forward" was the best movie I watched in 2000.

The top of my tank was between 2 and 3 feet down. The last time I had it pumped, I built a feildstone dry well down to one of the pump outs, and put a removable cover over it. However, due to the frost going down a couple feet each year, I really need to get either a large block of styrofoam...

Ask an insurance company about risk-cost-benefit ratios. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, until you get to 17 ounces of prevention.

Bah. Nobody should be driving them new-fangled automobiles. Get a horse. At least they know the way back to the barn on their own.

Thanks SSdoxie!

First of all, I grew up around tractors that didn't have all the safety bells and whistles the current ones have. That requires a different set of behaviors to maintain a safe working environment. No roll bar, then you hitch the tractor so the load doesn't tip it, and you don't drive on slopes...

I'm with slicing it in half length-wise for two arches and build knee walls. You nearly double your floor storage cube-age that way, as well as preserving more walkway room. Even setting it on end "requires" you to put in a footing to put it on, otherwise it will settle into the soil it's...

That's why I like watching Pawn Stars occasionally. They have a better appreciation for how much other people are willing to pay for an item, which determines how much they'll offer the seller. They sometimes get nice stuff, but if nobody else wants it, it's just junk value.

Welcome to the forums!

Hitting an immovable object, especially at speed, is NOT a fun experience. I still have a bit more cold hammering and re-welding to do to finish fixing my back blade from hooking a boulder plowing this winter.

At the very least the power company owned him a letter in advance telling him they'd be trimming in that area on those dates. Also need to check the lease as responsibility of DISPOSAL of trimmings should be written in there somewhere.

I'd probably have gone with a garden tractor rather than a scut. If ou have a big job or two on 3/4ths of an acre, it's probably more cost effective to rent the bigger equipment for just those jobs.

I use mine all the time. Ice, mud, and slippery logs and boulders; can't get over them otherwise, even with split braking. And you really don't want to drop your FEL load, or unhook your 3PH equipment just to unstick yourself when a diff lock will do it in a jiffy.

I understand armadillos taste pretty good. "The diets of different armadillo species vary, but consist mainly of insects, grubs, and other invertebrates. Some species, however, feed almost entirely on ants and termites." Which means, except for their digging holes in places you don't want...

I had a washboard problem with my drive due to the neighbor (who also lives on the drive and owns a tractor) just trying to scrap it smooth without really understanding what he's doing. (1) Like Sysop says, every time your wheels go over a bump, it raises your 3pt and the blade, causing...

Strange. I've used the back blade a couple of snow seasons and the only problem I had was hooking a boulder, coming to an abrupt stop, and bending mount where the blade connects to the 3pt mount.

Bobcat CT225/230/235 key is kind of on top of the dash It looks like the Kioti CK25/30/35 key is in the exact same location I never have any problem with my knee hitting the key, and I'm 5' 11".

I wouldn't use a wheeled tractor on that. I think you'll want a tracked dozer/excavator, if only for the stability.

Just remember, wheels are just a recent addition to tractors. The first ones didn't have any.

That's a rather interesting thought. Does anyone on this forum actually RAISE milkweed as a human consumption health food vegetable for sale?

What Wilson and oldpilgrim said, in spades.

Oils will soak into the concrete and there's nothing you can REASONABLY do to get it all out. That said, there's a couple of less reasonable ways. (1) If you seal a hose to the concrete and apply a vacuum condition to it, the oil will slowly flow out. We're talking days to weeks for that...

Too early yet. Frost is still in the ground, and the fines have waaayyyy too much water content yet. I'm resigned to needing a couple truckloads of driveway mix (broken stone, sand, clay) this year to bring it back up to grade.

I'm not going to say the dowsing doesn't work. But I'm also going to say that there isn't a single dowser in the world who's willing and able to prove he or she isn't a fraud. "The James Randi Educational Foundation will pay US$1,000,000 (One Million US Dollars) ("The Prize") to any person who...

It's possible to gauge the sugar content by the size of the bubbles formed in the pot while boiling. After all, the Native Americans didn't have thermometers or hydrometers to check when they made it.

Kind of looks like a primitive box blade.

Just point out where the milkweed grows to the natural foods people. They love harvesting the shoots while they're less than 3 inches tall to cook just like asparagus.

Might want to consider starting a thread here listing the Bobcat part name, part number, and Kioti part name, part number it crosses to. I'm sure we'll fill it up with commonly replaced parts real quickly.

That's EXACTLY what I have. It's saved me many a lost hour of work time from a pinched blade. And even expert loggers get pinched once in a while.

Try dowsing for buried gold or other precious minerals. Go to the beach and dowse for lost coins, mark the locations and then test again with a metal detector, then dig to verify.

I occasionally get blue green mold on the top of my syrup. (We use wide-mouth, mason canning jars.) Usually just have to skim it off, refilter, reboil, and rejar it and it's fine. You do have to remember to clean and sterilize the jars before reusing, just like you would with any other canning.

No syruping for me this year. Can't seem to find my bucket of taps and hooks. I know I washed them and put them away last year but they're not where I usually stored them, and they're not with my brace and bit and auger, and I can't for the life of me figure out where they are. Duuh!

Reminds me of a BC comic with the snake and the Fat Broad. Only in this case it's a whole bunch of Apteryxes ("wingless birds with hairy feathers".)

Stephen King's, "Lawnmower Man."

If you buy a car every couple of years, then you probably should consider leasing. If you get it and drive it into the ground over a decade later, you should definitely buy.

Knee high wellingtons, if you can find them. Make sure you wear a pair of thick wool socks before trying and buying.

An epoxy coating keeps out things that can soak, grow, or eat into concrete. Things like mold, mildew (that nasty smell can also trigger allergy attacks - and can spoil hay or other organics stored in direct contact with the concrete), oil and water can't soak into it (although water can soak...

Looks like the same company my father got his from 15 years ago, which is now sitting in several pieces in my garage waiting for me to finish the basement before setting it up. Requires adding a 220 line to it though.

Welcome from New Hampshire. Romania must be blessed some how. Seems like all kinds of bad things have been happening in countries all around yours for the past 20 to 30 years. Serbia, Ukraine, etc.

Volunteer your house for a movie company to burn or blow up.

Here's a good paper if you want to figure it out for your own personal situation. Economics Behind Buying versus Leasing a Car

Never had a GM product that didn't rust out faster than anything else on the market. Never had a GM product that the alternator didn't give out at the 2 year point. That said, never had problems getting parts for a GM product. Okay, that ignores that fact that GM makes a LOT of replacement...

I understand that guinea fowl like to eat snakes. With that whole flock, I suspect that serpent, even as big as he is, is in for a very bad day.

The sooner we get self driving cars, the safer we'll all be. Too many people driving on the road today are doing too many things other than actually driving the vehicle. Which is why they don't see people slowing down, brake lights, ice, snow drifts, traffic barriers, missing spans to bridges...

That clutch probably was the 'problem'. Maybe the previous owner tightened it up because it kept leaking down from where it was set? When sold new, the owners manual was in the plastic carrier on the back of the seat. It shows all the grease fittings on the tractor, as well as the service...

Live long enough, and you will. May you live that long. ;)

How about a feature that allows me to take the tractor 10 minutes backwards in time so you can avoid making that horrible screw up you all know we sometimes make?

Actually, for us more honest folks, what site did you go to to order the CDs? Or was that directly from Bobcat?

astrohip: You might want to check with the building inspector on that rain cistern system. Might not be an issue in Texas, but plenty of municipalities in California have all kinds of eco-freak regulations about capturing and holding rain water.

It's all about supply and demand. Good Professional athletes a few and far between in the entire population, and they have a short professional lifespan; plus they have every sports fan in the nation as their demand level. Brady is at the top of his game, there's only one of him, and he's only...

Lighter, matches, big magnifying glass (6 in dia), flint and steel, bow and spindle. Haven't tried using a compression tube which looks kind of neat.

Welcome neighbor!

(1) Number of scans equals number of items. That was 12 items, not 14. (2) Items match what I bought. I'm sorry, that package of boloney is NOT a roll of toilet paper. (3) Total is in the ball park of what I rang up in my head. $124 +/- a buck. Of course the store discounts sometimes...

Dr Jerry Pournelle is still alive and kicking, although he's still recovering from a stroke he had about a month or so ago. His latest works have been collaborative ones with Steve Barnes and Larry Niven about a slower than light colonization and the consequences of interacting with an unknown...

My wife occasionally tells me I lost my mind. I haven't missed it in years.

Try backing off the angle of attack on the blade.

Here's what I did. When I first got my tractor, I let it run at idle for about 10 minutes. Thermostat was stable and I just took a magic marker and marked where the normal temp was. Now when I'm done, I just drop the throttle to idle, drop the bucket and blade, turn off the lights, and let it...

From your description, I see the yield sign on the right is only for drivers turning into the mall, because the left turn from the main highway must immediately clear the intersection as they are the greater hazard. The left turn from the highway has the right of way over the right turn with...

I don't drive my tractor on the road during the winter. :-)

Daily high temperature is largely irrelevant. We consider it "warmed up" once the last of the ice melts off the lakes and ponds, usually late April/early May.

Considering what a good general workhorse the B-52 is, I'm almost surprised that someone isn't building new ones. On the other hand, the ones currently in service have probably had every single piece of them replaced at least once or twice during their depot rebuilds.

At the very least you should be able to deduct 100% of the costs of remediation from your taxes. If not, then you need to take them to court, very publicly, with invitations to major news networks, and the ACLU.

Have you tried marinating one in the other?

New Hampshire: No sales tax, no income tax, just don't own any expensive property. You know what's really amusing? The non-native Free Staters are more conservative and more like the Granite Staters of old than a lot of folks who were born and raised here. Granted, there are some really...

Shaped a little like South Carolina.

Thing is, elderly parents, "that rely on you (or anyone else for that matter) for that little extra help" aren't really independent. It's an illusion of independence. Back 100 years or more ago, the elderly stayed with their family, where a son or son-in-law became head of the household. Care...