Recent content by Botamon

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.

I'm amazed to see the differences in pricing in residential bulk propane deliveries depending on where you live in this country. My hot water heater and cook stove are the only things that run on propane. Current bulk price is ~ $3.50 a gallon. I believe the CHEAPEST I've ever paid in the...

I went to a pellet stove in 2017, after a lifetime of burning wood. For only one reason - firewood was getting difficult to get here in northern Nevada. For 10 years I was buying my firewood in Burns, Oregon (nearest region with large forests), making a 480 mile round trip to get a load of...

I just went through the same procedure. There was a rock sticking up about 4" that I'd been mowing around for the past 20 years. Tried to move it with the bucket on my tractor but it wouldn't even quiver so I painted the rock a bright color so I wouldn't hit it with the mower if I was...

This is my almost normal experience with USPS shipping. Package was picked up by USPS in Kent, Washington a week ago. As of today there are no updates and no one knows where the package is:

Back in 1974 I bought many boxes of .38 Special military ball ammo from a guy I worked with. Still in the original boxes, and I still have a few of those boxes and every so often shoot out a box. Works just fine, no misfires. Ammo was probably old when I bought it in 1974.

I have I think about 13 of the BatteryMinder units - one on every piece of equipment that I don't use daily. They've pretty much doubled the life I get out of a battery, whether it is on my dirt bike or on my old John Deere.

^ My problem too. Guilt feelings if I'm not out getting something done, something accomplished, every single day!