Recent content by NCL4701

I didn’t get rear remotes and top/tilt out of the gate. It was definitely a mistake. Thought I could get by through the big (to me) grading project I had immediately, and then wouldn’t have enough use for the top/tilt to justify the expense. I did get the “big” project done with the mechanical...

How much air pressure are you running in the rear tires?

With the 16kW PTO generator with electronic voltage regulator hooked to a transfer switch, electric life goes on pretty much as usual albeit with requirement for some thought toward load management. Takes about 20 minutes to walk to the shop, swap whatever is on the 3 point in favor of the...

Congratulations! My favorite vehicle I’ve ever had was a 2005 Frontier 4 door 4WD with a V6 and 6 speed manual. I would probably still have it, but needed a bit more towing capacity than its 7,500lb. Towed a 6,000lb camper from NC to Florida, Niagara Falls, and many places in between with that...

Ours used to be shared. My brother and his wife lived in one of the three houses on the road, my mother and father in another, and my wife and I in the third. My brother moved away with his family about 25 years ago. My mother passed in 2013 and father in 2022. Our son and his then fiancé lived...

Our little private road needed a little grooming. Just starting to get wheel tracks in it, which isn’t good being it’s a long downhill run and needs the crown to get water off the sides to keep it from washing. Even shallow wheel tracks act like ditches to keep water on the road headed down the...

Driving across the dam at our pond today to refresh the wood chips on a seating area, I noticed this weird looking sort of turtlish thing about 20’ offshore. Stopped to check it out. Looked like a snapping turtle with a very long tail wrestling or mating with another turtle being held upside...

Obviously, I don’t have a LX3310. It has side plates so flimsy they have sheet metal stiff back braces that look like they’d be more appropriate for office furniture and it’s Cat 0 / Cat 1. Thinking about how it would do behind the Ford 9N I spent many, many hours on before my L, I’m thinking it...

Set a couple old cedar fence posts at the ends of a row of stones set out to define the field edge at the corner nearest our private road. The bucket on the L filled in for the wheelbarrow I don’t have. Not sure what blocked out trauma may be at the root of my hatred for wheelbarrows, but I’ve...

Good luck with the hand surgery.

Is the movement of the control lever (the one in your hand) jerky or is the lift jerky as you smoothly move the control lever?

Over the past few years I’ve saved a ton of hours by downloading the app for every hardware, home improvement, auto parts, and some other stores in my area. Home Depot, Lowe’s, Grainger, NAPA, Autozone, Ace, TSC, Walmart, etc. Particularly for stuff that may or may not be in stock, the apps will...