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That's exactly the same price I saw for diesel at the local Love's a few days ago! In December it was $2.73 a gallon! We are getting ripped off!

Driving a dirt road across the Nevada desert yesterday I saw a blinding light way off in the distance. Took me a second to realize what I was seeing. This is the Crescent Dunes Solar project near Tonopah, Nevada. The town of Tonopah is nestled at the base of the mountain on the horizon at the...

Getting heavy for me also. I'm thinking of going with something like this because I have several Milwaukee M18 batteries. Plus it will run off a cigarette lighter or any 12v battery: https://www.amazon.com/DIYtoolifz-Cordless-Compatible-Milwaukee-Batteries/dp/B0GQYW1R46 I've used one of these...

It rained yesterday for the first time since May. Put down .33" per the National Weather Service. That makes just over 4" of precipitation since the first of the year.

Absolutely true. But as you get older there's another factor....steadiness of the welding rod. Now that I'm about to turn 80 I find my hands are shaky...on another forum I saw a member call it "tremors". How do you put down a good bead when your hands shake? So far I've been able to get by...

Working on his new Ford F450.............................

Our local farm supply store stocks those bushings in two different lengths. I have both lengths as I too have implements that take the longer ones.

All I know is that before I retired my company required me to be on call - work from home - at night and on weekends and they supplied the VPN connection - only way to connect to the company web site. I HATED it!!! Very hard to connect to, and the connection would drop and quit like as not...

Recalls - issuing recalls - seems to depend on the corporate philosophy of the manufacturer. I drove a 2016 F150, bought new, for 9 years. Completely trouble free truck - all I ever had to do was change fluids and filters and rotate the tires. It had 3 recalls issued for that model truck -...

My friends get about 17 mpg empty. But that's here in Nevada where the speed limit is 80 mph. Towing (usually just a trailer with a vehicle on it, or a small horse trailer) I believe she told me about 10 mpg.

I have to agree with GeoHorn. The limitation of a 1500 is not the engine or tranny. It's that soft, cushy suspension that makes it so nice to drive down the road empty. Put a lot of weight on a trailer behind it and the tail begins to wag the dog. Been there, done that!

My area of northern Nevada - on-road diesel is anywhere from $5 to $6 a gallon...a bit higher if in a remote town. Paid $5.92 a gallon for regular gas a couple days ago in Gerlach, Nevada...only service station within 100 miles. Too scared to check the price on the diesel pump!

I also have an older 2500 with the Cummins diesel. But I have some very good friends with, if memory serves me correctly, a 2019 2500 with the 6.4 hemi. They love it - it has been trouble free at nearly 100,000 miles now.

I don't have a clue as to the cause of your hydraulic problems. But as the satisfied owner of a 2016 M7060 HDC12 I want to correct your assertion that you have a M7060 with a "12 speed hydrostatic transmission". M7060 never had a hydrostatic transmission. It is a "shuttle shift".

Wow! A Harman P68 pellet stove sells for right at $5000 now.