Recent content by Tim Horton

Not water soluable....... Chuckle..... Stored off the ground on a pallet, blocks, osb board and a bit of cheap grease on any cutting edges helpes..

Where we lived in the ....bush.... my experience with keeping anything covered it was an invitation for one or more hives of wasps and the like.. I did park attachments on blocks, osb board and the like to keep them out of the dirt, but a cover was sure to get my immune system tuned up when I...

At my age now..... .....Friends with benefits..... means someone who can drive after dark.... :(:cry:

VERY soapy water... Bead leaks are also hard to detect at times.. You may not get ...bubbles... but a very fine foam like suds reaction.. Luckily I had a brother-in-law who was a tire guy and I would just take things to him and say .....fix this @#$%$#@ thing.... Then I would owe him big...

I had 2" spacers on the rear wheels of one of my compact tractors... It didn't seem to be that much help.. I wouldn't spend the money again unless I needed clearance for chains or other issue like that.. And the little I've read says any more than 2" spacers can be extra hard on bearings and...

On the rare occasion I had my phone with me on the tractor, I used a secure belt holster... Where we lived in the north ....bush.... it was more important to carry a rifle in a Kolpin ATV type case.. We had 2 kinds of bears and other large ...predators... way too close, way too often around...

I guess I ....lived dangerously.... in that I used a pallet with pallets around the 3 outside sides.. This all chained to the pallet forks and a significant other who was an well experienced operator.. This set up to maintain the motion lights and such around our buildings..

A thought..... If your mower isn't useable now, put the new parts on and try it.. If you have a vibration or other problem, take the parts back and raise hell with the dealer.... What could possibly go wrong ??

Trivia.... Both my tractors came to me with bucket level indicators.. Like said, you run it enough you know where it needs to be to do what you want done.. The place the ...indicator... came in handy was changing back and forth between the bucket and pallet forks.. That required a wrap of...

Umm.... I had pretty good luck with a box blade and using the center 2-3 ripper shanks to loosen the hump and grass in the middle of the drive... Then grade it all flat and run over it to compact it well again.. To add.... I made a pair of kind of ugly, but useful outrigger kind of skid...

I had good luck pulling all the ..tillage.. equipment I had in our ground with liquid loaded turfs and 4x4... Give it a try, with chains if you find you need them.. It will likely be a cheaper alternative to new tires, rims.. Good luck.

Like said in post #2, valve stem at 12 o'clock = 75% fill.. I did DIY fills on both my compact tractors to good success.. But then I had a brother-in-law who was a ..tire guy.. and made sure it was right.. ....Rim Guard.... web site should have a chart to tell how much ..fill.. for your...

Both my ...compact... tractors had liquid loaded turf rear tires.. They worked well enough for all the jobs I needed done.. In the ...far frozen north... I ran 2 link, V bar ladder chains on the rears.. Some people said ..that won't work.. Then they would have a hard time keeping up with...

Good score..... Trivia.. I made ...homemade... skids for a couple 3pt back blades and a set for my FEL bucket.. Nothing fancy, but useful..

I'm going to guess if your not overly .....harsh.... in how you use it, this will likely do many jobs you need done.. Maybe with a bit more ...seat time.... than heavier equipment, but then that would cost more.. Trivia.. I was able to get a 5' cat 1 box blade at my local farm, auto store on...