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A recent post on another thread noted the increase in the cost of US postage stamps. It would suit me if the cost of stamps covered the entire costs of using the postal system. Taking our tax dollars to cover postal waste not only hides the true costs, but is welfare for anyone using the...

With the dwindling stock of off road diesel here and some craziness in the Middle East, it seemed like a good time to get refilled. In October 2023 ORD was around $3.91 and today the supplier quoted $3.08. The 150 gallon delivery coming will get me through about a year and a half depending on...

Apparently the shooting victim wasn't injured IN the shooting. Our local TV station's headline indicates the injury was subsequent to the shooting. Don't know why this matters, but they always have headlines like "3 Injured Following 2 Car Collision". I suppose that could happen as a result...

The story is too long to cover in its entirety. Several years ago, PennDOT decided to replace a culvert under the road in front of my place. It was a flawed project from the beginning. They made incorrect assumptions about the existing culvert and had to make changes on the fly. My biggest...

We still have a land line. Recently the static / noise has become so bad that it's very difficult to converse. Yesterday Wifey asked me to fix it. I checked connections, swapped phones around and eventually went to the demark box or whatever they call it these days and connected right to the...

Made this years ago. It came out of mothballs today and saved me an awful lot of work. Similar augers can be found in stores.

Looking for some sort of sealer or finish to apply to bricks that were used as pavers for the purpose of improving the appearance at our church. Looks like someone capped steps with regular bricks when the concrete steps deteriorated. They're laid finish side up (in the position of a wall that...

Several nicely spaced horizontal rows of holes about 3/16" in diameter showed up on a couple pines at my place.

Shot a short clip today while doing the one lot at church. "Underslung" 8' Fisher, grooved tires, liquid in rears, nothing on 3-point. https://youtube.com/shorts/HlfVhWi5uiA?feature=shared

For the second time since we built here about 34 years ago, the creek went dry. The last time was years ago in the middle of a Summer drought. I remember walking in the dry bed with a weedeater in sneakers and kicking up dust. Last week I took the opportunity to walk the bed with a weedeater...

I planted an oak tree in front of the house about 30 years ago. Suddenly "it was all growed up". Although it was a healthy specimen, there were some problems. While it was growing, there was an adjacent silver maple tree that didn't respect the oak's personal space. The oak compensated when...

Here's a picture of a house being "renovated" near me. Until a couple months ago, it couldn't be seen from the road because of all the vegetation that took over. Last week they re-roofed it. The porch roof looked like it was about to fall off, so they kinda propped it up (it was sagging about...

The goal today was to clean the radiator and condenser fins. Funny how tasks have a way of increasing in scope. It was a successful day though. What really surprised me was just how dirty the fins were. I do use compressed air and the two tools shown in the first/second photos and felt my...

A route we often take has a long term roadwork project going on. Our path is East on PA283 through the intersection of, and onto US30. We enter US30 from the right and work our way into the far left lane before the US222 off ramp to avoid the unpleasantness of the road ragers duking it out in...

Yes, I know it's a tractor forum. However I DO value input from the people on here a lot more than the reviews found on the net. Looking for a print / copy / scan color printer for home use. I'm FED UP with HP and their obscene ink prices and want another brand. I've had an HP8610 for a...

OK. I probably lead a sheltered life but never heard of these before. I saw one parked outside the church when I went to pick up Sweet Pea after Bible School.

This fella should automatically be judged impaired for thinking anyone would believe such an excuse. Red line shows "truckjectory" it took: https://www.wgal.com/article/tractor-trailer-crashes-wendys-dauphin-county-pennsylvania/61578272

Other than buying some more screws, it's all stuff that was laying around I couldn't throw away. Everything can come in handy at some point :) RFM's have replaced the DIY 3-point leaf blower so it was decommissioned. I stripped the blower from the frame and made revisions to the top link and...

Judging by Sweet Pea's slumber, pretty good😁. She likes to ride along while mowing. That lasts somewhere between 5 minutes and half an hour. Today I wanted to make a run to recut some clippings from earlier this week. The normally chatty 4-1/2 YO kinda slumped and became quiet. She rode along...

I mentioned in another post that the tractor speeds were different at a given RPM and gear range depending on whether the Auto Throttle Advance (ATA) is ON or OFF. So today I took some time and made several trips back and forth on the driveway to see for myself what the differences were. All...