Recent content by PHPaul

Same here on the cell. On the landline, I either let it ring until the machine picks up or (if I'm feeling generous or expecting a call) I pick up and say "Hello" once. If the entity (I was going to say person, but that's often not the case) doesn't say something within 5 seconds, I hang up...

Rice and Cane tires. I have a set off a Shibaura I parted out.

Mowed the fields for what is likely the last time (or at least next-to-last) for this year. Today, the State is cleaning ditches and while they're working within a reasonable distance of my place, dumping the spoil on my patch. I'm sorting through it with my skeleton bucket (aka rock bucket)...

Welcome! I have two brothers in AZ, one in Green Valley and the other near Flagstaff.

Took me a minute to spot it. :ROFLMAO:

Bugger. Missed that. I guess that'll save me a lot of screwing around.

I'm still considering getting one of these offset flail mowers. My big concern is how the 2650 will handle that much weight (600 pounds) offset to the right. I'm reasonably sure appropriate counterweights will solve any potential problems. My first thought for a counterweight is a cast iron...

A free 275 gallon heating oil tank (lots of people converting to propane for some reason) and a manual "rocker" pump that I don't remember how I wound up with . Top it off once a year - hopefully when prices are down - and problem solved very cheaply and efficiently.

Disclaimer: I am NOT a machinist. Now that we have that out of the way, my first thought is that your tool is not set up right. I believe standard threads are 60° and the tool (cutter) has to be at 90° to the work. They make a little gauge for checking that:

Man is the only critter that buys tools to make tools for his tools.

Safety-Nazi's Look Away! I got tired of forking out $40 every time that switch failed, so I built a jumper. No problems in several years now...

Just once? That'd be nothing sort of a miracle for this old fart.

I am SO envious! I got to play with one whenever it seemed like the best approach when I worked at the cannery. By the time I started there, they'd long since closed down their in-house machine shop but had the sense to keep the Bridgeport and a humungous Hendy lathe. The other maintenance...

My grandson runs a site prep/landscaping business and is completely fed up with Mother Deere. Working on trading his Deere excavator for a Kubota. I got there years ago, but I thought it was just my local yuppie/horsey dealer. Apparently not.

Two additional points: 1. I take some pains to park my stuff on level ground. It is indeed more difficult if things are askew. 2. This is modified somewhat by my top-and-tilt system. I can get "close enough" and adjust the lower arms and top link as needed quickly and easily. Some of the...