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I have three main flatbed trailers. All bumper pull. One has two 3500 pound axles and 15 inch tires. One has two 7,000 axles and 16 inch tires and the other has three 7,000 axles with 16 inch tires. I always run metal valve stems and have run the heaviest ply Kumho truck tires I can buy and have...

Growing up in the fuel and oil business we heated the two shops we had at my folks truck stop, filling station with used oil. Back in the 60's 70's and 80's Lainair was a big dog in waste oil furnaces dripper's were the early ones then the later ones used compressed air. Before they sold out the...

I have been farming with JD tractors for close to fifty years. I have only owned one new JD tractor. Farming with mostly 20 to 40 year old tractors. Sprayer and combine much newer. The reason I have stay with mainly JD is I can get parts for a 40 plus year old JD 4440 try to get parts for a...

I have ran a bat wing mower's for thousand's of hours and always engaged and disengaged the PTO at idle and I have yet to hurt a PTO brake on any tractor. Have run several tractors over ten thousand hours and never replaced a PTO clutch or brake in one. If you idle down and disengage the...

I grew up in the retail end of the oil business. My folks had a truck stop and bulk fuel business and also had semi trucks running the road. Our flagship oil was Mobil and we did some testing with Mobil One when it came out in trucks. We also sold all major brands and some not so major. Oil...

Since you have the 240 Volts I say go old school and pickup a old buzz box off Craigslist or Facebook for a couple hundred dollars . I would buy a AC-DC one. Buy some rod and start teaching you self. That's how I did it when I was a kid. A adult class at a trade school won't be a bad thing. You...

I have two different shops and both are piped with copper. One inch, three quarter inch and half inch pipe. Use the heavy pipe and the heavy fittings on all of it. Did one almost forty years ago and one just over twenty years ago. Wasn't cheap then but I have had zero issues with it over the...

Just last winter I went to one of my MIL last cousins funeral and they played the Paul Harvey speech. There is a high school complex and track housing on his old farms. We have the city knocking on our door on our home place here. I am a first generation farmer. Grew up around farmers my folks...

This is a time and money question. Between my home place farm and my building and bin site farm I mow 10 plus acres a week with a diesel 60 inch zero turn mower. We have many other farms we mow ditches, waterways and building sites three times or so a year with a 150 HP tractor and a 15 FT bat...

You don't need to spend a bunch of money on a land plane get on Facebook or Craig's list and buy a five or six foot old harrow section off a big harrow and hook a chain to each side and to your draw bar and harrow the weeds and grass out of your drive. You can buy them for hundred bucks. I...

I have been down this same road so many times its crazy. I try to have every piece of equipment with a loader have the same quick tach but it never works out around here. I had got to the point every loader here had SSQA then I bought a JD 7320 a few years ago with a JD 673 loader that had JD...

I never tell anyone to set down and put your feet up. I have had enough health issues myself if I would have done that when the doctors told me that well over twenty years ago I would be long gone. Spend the money and buy your self a grapple. The only regret I have is I wish I would have know...

Take a look a Surplus Center in Lincoln Nebraska. I buy a lot of hyd hoses and fitting from them. Prices seem good.

The first thing I would do is make sure your tractor is going to have a enough GPM oil flow to run one. I have a friend that has had both the chainsaw type and the circular type of the limb Saw brand. He started out with the chainsaw one running it on a compact JD tractor. It had just enough...

I have a buddy that went from diesel pickups to Dodge 2500 and 3500 with the 6.4 gas engines, ten in total. They have had good luck with them. Most are hooked to gooseneck trailers all the time livestock or flat bed. They ranch and have a ag business also, seed, chemicals and ranch supplies. Him...