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So I got my Harbor Freight 3500 generator. I would like to build a dedicated generator shed to store it close to the house and protect it from the elements and for ease of use. I have seen online were people have built small sheds with vents and a fan so they can run it in the shed during bad...

Skunks have six shooters, I wouldn't want to bet they fired their last shot. How Many Times Can a Skunk Spray? | Cuteness Not sure about other states, but pretty sure it is illegal to relocate a skunk in MN. They need to be dispatched.

As I stated in an earlier post I am new to Sketchup. I was watching U-tube this morning and clicked on one about what was new in Sketchup 2018. The biggest change is the free version will no longer be available as a download. They have went to a web based program. Also with the web based program...

Here is PDFs of my first project. I think I must have about 12 to 15 hours into it. This is the first time I ever used it. I would love to "master it" but I know that will never happen. For my uses I don't think I will ever need that level of expertise. It is satisfying to see the project on...

I just started using sketchup and have some of the basics down. Now looking for recommendations for useful plugins.

With retirement only a couple of years away I am looking for something to do on a part time basis. I have been to arboristsite.com site and have read a number of threads over there. I am not a member so I could not post any questions. Some say they can make some OK money doing it while others...

this is really getting frustrating. Wife called the tech guy again today, he said he did "something" at the office and let him know if it helped. Well it did not. Hard to respond to my own thread as the connection is so bad I usually get kicked off before I can reply.

Been a long year, but finally got moved. Unfortunately the place we moved to have very poor internet. We only have Frontier available for a land based internet. I was excited when they said I would have connections of up to 40 mbs. The problem is the connection is very poor and we get kicked off...

Sold my home and should be closing on my new property in a couple of weeks. Had a water test done but it does not say what the hardness of the water is. Just wondering if this is a separate test or can it be determined from the supplied information? Here is a snipe of the water test results;

First off I want to make it clear I am NOT asking anyone for medical advice. I have a doctor and a cardiologist. I am merely asking for personal experience with the disease. About a year ago I was diagnosed with CHF, my ejection factor was 30% one test and then 35% on another. When they told...

Thanks for the link. According to the chart galvanized and zinc covered metal corrosion is considered insignificant.

This is the bolt that is on my trap-setter, was wondering what grade of bolt it is. I did search the internet but was not able to find a marking like it.

Not shooting either in my house. Outside is another story. He was in the process of procreating so I was able to get pretty close. I would have preferred to get the female (both really), but he had her covered up pretty good.

OK, some of you may have seen my post on squirrels in the attic. So far so good, although I have seen evidence they are trying to get back in. I have ordered a half a dozen 110 conibear traps and one 220. I have watched a good share of videos on U-tube on how to trap. Since I have not trapped...

Any advice on removing a red squirrel from the attic. The wife heard something in the attic the other night, I went up to investigate and did see a small red squirrel up there. It is most likely the one that was in the chicken coop earlier this fall. I do have a live trap set up with peanut...

Good article your daughter wrote. Is this the plucking machine you made?

Thinking about getting some meat chickens next year. Was looking at homemade chicken pluckers on U tube. They don't look that complicated. My concern is the bottom plate, was wondering what I could use for that. I went to the whiz bang site and they sell a kit, but the thing is like 425.00...

Flipped them for ya. :)

Something like this?

I want to drill a hole at the end of one of my forks to mount a trailer ball from time to time to move my trailers around. I do have a drill press but do not have a 3/4" drill bit. This is a real fork not the soft steel some of the economy models are made of. I was wondering if a cheap flea bay...

Ok, I heard back from the company that wants to purchase my timber. I have attached the letter they sent me and a plot map they sent showing what they want to harvest. What erks me about this whole deal is as you can see in the letter they said my pine "plantation" was to small for them to...

I was recently contacted by a logging company interested in buying my standing red pine, I am guessing it may be 15 acres of the forty I own. The other 35 is mostly poplar and willow. For those of you that have either sold timber or purchase timber I was wondering what I could expect; as far...

Had to take down two pines to put on my addition two years ago. Here is a couple of pitchers of the trac hoe my wife took; the trac hoe up on one side. You can see these were not very large pines either.

The well guys made it out today :) Replaced the pump, also had them replace the wire as there was a few places that were questionable. The pump they pulled was manufactured in 1998; assuming it was put in service that year or 1999 that would make the pump about 15 or 16 years old. When I asked...

I was in bed and the wife woke me up to say that we didn't have any water. The first thing I was thinking was a frozen water line; but then it really hasn't been that cold. I will have to check in the morning but thinking the pump may have died. I did a search on here on pump replacement and...

Here is what $80 a month gets you were I live.

Was having trouble with my three point not going all the way down, this spring it stopped working all together. With winter coming on finally brought it to a repair shop about three weeks ago. He is not a Cub dealer, just an independent guy that works out of a shop. I got the tractor back...

The other day my control valve started to leak. It turned out to be leaking from an allen screw. I tightened it up and it stopped leaking, but now I am wondering if by tightening the allen screw if it made any type of "adjustment" to the loader hydraulics.

When we moved to our current house a little over four years ago, the wife wanted to buy lake property again; myself, I have had enough of it as we owned lake property for over ten years and lived on the lake for about the last three. To many regulations and close neighbors. We ended up...

Almost happened to me two years ago while brush hogging in in June.

OK, so I put up a tent shed to house my tractor last fall. Located close to the house so I would have electric to plug in the tractor, with plans on moving it this summer after I take a couple of trees down by my other shed (no room for tractor in that one). Now the problem, I placed it to...

here is a snip of it for when it is sold.

for the e bay ones you need to scroll down on the page.

here are the specs on the belkin. it is suppose to handle 1800 watts.

I would like to add a Wi Fi outlet that I can plug my tractor into. I did a short search on the internet and saw some Wi Fi plug in outlets. I was wondering if those would handle the 1500 watts of a block heater. It would be nice to be able to "plug" my tractor in while I was still at work so I...

It is pretty neat, only about $22 grand, for the small one. I think the bigger one was like $33.

Purchased a tent type shed to house my tractor. The poor girl has been sitting outside for the last four years since I moved here. The shed is 12 wide X 24 long X 10 feet high. My issue is how do those of you that have them unzip and zip the opening? I thought of adding a rope to the zipper to...

I purchase a grapple load 10 cords for $700 or $70 a cord. I do have forty acres but it is mostly poplar and pine. I do burn some in the shoulder seasons. Last year went through 12 (full) cords. Old inefficient wood furnace; this season I have yet to light a fire. I purchased a new epa wood...

It says he sold 10 of them and has a 99% positive feedback.

Glow plugs are not working. I checked the glow pugs and they are showing 12.6 volts, which my internet search shows they should show they are good. While trying to pull off the wire clip the cover of the relay came off. If I manually trip the relay the light comes on and will stay on until I...

A repurposed dog kennel, it was here when we purchased the place and have no use for it. The wife only has a little yapper dog that stays inside all the time. Holds around 7 full cords, burned about 12 cords last year. This year added a pellet stove and a new epa wood stove. The problem is...

I am looking for a hesston round baler 5800 service manual. It is for a friend of my daughter and son-in-law. Anyone know were I can get a pdf copy of one?

Thanks for the pictures, we all like pictures. The rear lights are something I need to add. I use my tractor to blow about 1/2 mile of drive/township road so I can get to work in the morning. My drive is lined by trees so I can plug a hole to get out in the morning, but when I get to the...

Just had my septic tank pumped. We have been in the house about 2 1/2 years now and this is the first time we had it pumped. I do not know how long it had been since the last pumping. The only access for the pumper was a 4" PVC pipe. I was at work when it was pumped, the guy told the wife we had...

I have a shed in the back part of my property (about 1,000) feet or more from my house. There is no electrical on that part of my property. The shed is old (but sound) about 12 X 40. No windows and two doors. This is not a typical machine shed, it was build about two feet off the ground with a...

Shipping is a killer.

It gets down to the definition of "truck" here is a snipe from 49CFR 390.5 So, if you are not a commercial operation you do not need to stop. However if you look like you could be a commercial operation they may "run you down" to check.

My northstar splitter has a horizontal shaft. The speedco has a vertical shaft. I deleted my earlier post as I had my vertical and horizontal mixed up. :o

There has been much talk on the corrosiveness of calcium chloride on this forum. My tire on my mower went flat over the winter. Since it had been sitting flat for a while I could see the tire was shot. I used my log splitter to break the bead to remove the tire. My tire was filled with calcium...

I have been dealing with a frozen shoulder since before Christmas. I have been going through therapy without much, if any improvement. I went to the doc today to discus my options, I have decided to have surgery next Friday. I was told this is a twenty minute procedure preformed under general...

It is my first year burning wood. I do not mind the css it is the feeding the beast every four to five hours that I do not care for. I did purchase a ten cord load of red and white oak for $70 a cord. I also have a lot of poplar on my property I can harvest. Right now I am in the...

Currently have a Northern leader wood furnace, was thinking about upgrading to a new EPA wood furnace or even a wood boiler. Has anyone upgraded to the newer wood furnaces or changed over to a wood boiler? New wood furnace looks like it would be about 4 grand and if I went with a new outdoor...

Found this when I opened up the walls when doing my kitchen remodel. Also found similar "issues" behind a closet wall and in the attic.

Just so you don't wake up some morning to this, :)

I plan on building something like this, not with the spear forks but with pallet forks. I would give credit to the member that made this but did not save the name. I did a search but could not find the post again. I think this would be a good compromise between the clamp or chain on forks and...

From the usps web site. DMM 508 Recipient Services

Here is a picture of my drive. This was taken before the recent snow we had. I have a cub 7305 rated 30 hp and I believe 24 hp at the PTO, I have a five foot rear mount blower, I do have hydrostatic and I do not have a problem blowing snow. If it starts to bog down, I just slow down. I would...

How do you guys keep your well pit from freezing? This is the first house I have owned that has a pit. My other houses I had, the pressure tank was in the house. I plan on getting some straw to put over the top of the pit. I did see the previous owner had an extension cord running to the pit...

Here is one link I found, not cheap. 24-Watt LED flood light

No food plot, but these have been coming around eating what is left of the plum and apples. There is four of them, but could only get three in one shot at a time. Just moved to the area this spring, 40 acres, haven't seen any bucks just does.

Here is the add from the OP, it will most likely be taken down shortly. I did this because sometimes I do not see a thread until later and the link is no longer available. This way others will know what you were looking at.

Here is the link to the other manual I was talking about. 323 pages, 93mb. The snip is the models it covers. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25809725/Cub%207305/Copy%20of%20Cub_Cadet_7000_Series_Compact_Service_Repair_Manual.pdf

I also have this manual. It is 323 pages and the file is pretty big. I have no affiliation with either company that is listed on the cover. Not sure about copyright material, I will look at it further to try to determine if it is. If not I would be willing to make it available for a short time.

Yes it is the 7000 series, Models listed are 7260, 7265, 7300 and 7305. The file is quite large 9.08 mb. 139 pages. Here is a copy of the cover.

Here is a link to a copy of the owners manual for 700 series cub tractors. I looked to see if this was copyright copy. I did not see were it stated that, so I assume it would be a free copy you would have got when you purchased the tractor new from the dealer. I will leave this up for awhile...

Just read the thread of the barn razing cleaning up the past. I am looking at purchasing a piece of property with an old barn that collapsed just this winter from the snow load. The barn is about 60 X 120 I think. Talking to my mortgage broker he said he did not think a loan would be approved...

Picture was taken from another site I am a member, here is the link How To Make A Better Mouse Trap....for Free! - DIY Chatroom - DIY Home Improvement Forum It is not showing the ramp needed for the little varmints to scurry up on.

I have one, more trouble than their worth. About half the time I ended up distorting the fitting making it useless.

Was able to clean it up a bit more with some software I have. Same file.

Found this on line after a short search,

I went through all the old post and missed that, can you point out the post # or give and example again. Here is a snip when a health card is needed and when a CDL is needed. This is from the MN site but it mirrors the federal regulation.

The snip is from the class D license. I think were most people are getting confused is the need for the correct class license and the need to follow the federal regulations that govern commercial carriers. One still needs to get the correct class license to drive your vehicle, however if not...

Here is a flow chart, When checking the weight rating check the GVWR, not the GVW. They look at what the unit is rated to haul, not the weight of the unit. They also look at the actual weight, so if you exceed your rated weight, you may not only be cited for that, but also for having the...

I just realized the first chart I posted did not have my size tire in it. 41X14-20 (turf tires) This one has it so I thought I would post this also. Looks like mine will hold 32 gallons. The weights listed are for Rim Guard, other liquids will vary. Rim Guard weighs about 10.7 to 11 pounds per...

After doing a little more research on the Internet, I found two different types of valve attachments for filling your tires. The ones pictured are from Gempler's (http://www.gemplers.com/tech/tire-liquid.htm), but Tractor supply...

Here is the add for those who look for it after the posting is flagged. I had to snip it in two sections. I left the email address out as not to encourage anyone to contact him/her.

Stopped at Lowe's last night after work and picked up a tone generator kit. They did not have the one you had so I picked up this one. (I also had some Lowe's gift certificates I had not used :)) Picture grabbed from the Internet. I played with it a little this morning and I can see how it...

I was just wondering how far most of you commute to work. My commute is 90 miles one way, yep 180 miles a day. I do have the farthest commute of those I work with, however, one has about 77 miles one way, two have about 60 miles one way, one 40 something, one about 20 and the other three live...

I had a little time today. Spent a couple hours trying to trace down the problem. I went to my cub dealer and he had an electrical system diagram he printed out for me. One of the mechanics happened to walk by and the counter guy asked him his opinion on what might be wrong. First thing he...

Sisters boy friend, gave me some forks off an old fork lift. I wasn't home at the time and told him to unload them with the tractor, (It was the whole assembly and pretty heavy). This was Tuesday, went out to the shed this morning to change oil in the tractor and mount the snow blower (yep...

Something else to consider, when considering surge brakes.

Here is a surge brake trailer weight ratio chart. It is used to determine the maximum trailer a truck can pull with surge brakes.

Here it is from the federal regs. Click on thumbnail to make readable.

I have been lurking for a couple of weeks now, just joined today. When I join a new forum my first post is explain your username as a way to introduce myself. On another forum I frequent someone started a similar thread and you find out some interesting things about people. I will start...