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cuz it makes me money, but DAY-um some people shouldn't be allowed to operate equipment. My neighbor/friend Dale the Builder - and his ham-fisted crew - are a steady source of repair projects. He dropped off a 5x8 trailer for "some repairs" yesterday. Tongue jack - missing. Lights -...

I built this Franken-tractor from a John Deere 455 running gear with a Shibaura diesel replacing the blown up Yanmar. It has a slow leak in one tire so I decided to fire it up and pull it out of the barn and up to the shop to blow that tire up. I've had it on a battery tender and expect it...

"Nothing is ever as easy as the instructions say it is." However, I endeavoured to persevere and got the front mud guards mounted without undue verbal lubrication or conducting ballistics experiments with hand tools. I started on it mid-morning when it was reasonably warm and got interrupted...

The 2013 Tundra was experiencing increasingly frequent (mostly minor) mechanical issues and the Rust Moths were gathering. My car was close enough to pay off in a lump and it would be plumb un-American not to have a vehicle payment, so I've been truck shopping for several weeks. Toyota no...

Some years back, I got REALLY tired of wimpy snowblowers that would bog down in anything other than a few inches of light fluffy stuff. A friend had an 8/24 blower with a blown up Briggs and Scrapiron on it that he just wanted gone. I have a torch and a welder, so... I sprung for a 13 horse...

Having scanned the available forums, I guess this is the place to put it. Several years ago, a fellow firefighter offered me this ancient (1890-ish) Seneca Falls Star 30 lathe. Originally line shaft driven it had been converted to an electric motor drive and used in his shop for wood...

I have a pull-behind lawn roller I made out of a 100# propane tank. It's okay, but even full of water, there's not a lot of weight there. I got to thinking (which rarely ends well...:LOL: ) that if I mounted it to a QA plate, I could use the weight of the tractor. I chose to bolt it to the...

I have a roller I made out of a 100# propane tank. It's...okay. However, even full of water there just isn't much weight there. I ripped out two Blue Spruce trees and of course there's not enough dirt to go back in the hole where the stumps were. I ran the tractor back and forth over it...

Hopped in the truck to go get some underlayment for a project, turned the key and....clickety-clickety-click. Did manage to convince it to start and had NAPA test the battery. Bad, way down on cranking amps, charge state iffy. Well, after 11 years (OEM) I guess it don't owe me much. Swapped in a...

I just ordered 250 gallons of #2 Fuel Oil. That'll set me back $950 OTOH, that's a year's supply for my shop heat and tractors, so I guess it could be worse.

The Birch trees are leafing out. :D

I have a 2015 B2650 with cab and ordered it with a single rear remote. I'd like to add a second remote for a top 'n tilt. I'm a decent mechanic, is this something I'd likely be able to do myself? I'd get the valve from Kubota, what else (other than hoses) would I need?

We're pretty good friends with the semi-Summer Folk neighbors next to us on the South side. They run a seasonal antique shop and we keep an eye on the place when they're not around. They'll occasionally drop off little gifts by way of appreciation and neighborliness. Yesterday, they gave us...

My daughter knows me well...

Grandson just traded for a new John Deere (I know, I know...) 3039R and the 3 point travel isn't what it should be. If he adjusts the lift arm links long enough to get the tiller in the ground, he can't lift it high enough to get it on the trailer without dragging. Conversely, if he adjusts...

After not getting enough snow to bother with all Winter, we've gotten about 8 inches spread out over 3 days. With rain predicted later in the week and an oil delivery scheduled for today, I fired up the Cabota and blew out the drive, a path to the oil tank for the shop, and a path for the fuel...

I have a hydraulic sicklebar trimmer (Sabre Samurai) that clamps to the side of the bucket on my loader. Not terribly stiff. In fact, due to the leverage of the mount and the thin sides of my bucket, it flops around like a wounded duck. Plus, clamping it to the bucket puts the weight...

Grandson Jarod (23) running the excavator. Grandson Casey (31) supervising. (Seems fair, it's his excavator...) Grandpa (71) running the Idiot Spoon! To be fair, we traded off while digging a trench to run power to my daughter's chicken coop for a heated water bucket. Casey just got the John...

Paint job and sign are all her. There are those that claim I contributed to her sense of humor, don't see it myself...:ROFLMAO:

With the pump on that free Porter-Cable compressor. I picked up two 80 gallon two-stage 5HP compressors off Craigslist for free. I was able to scrounge enough parts off the P-C to fix the Ingersoll-Rand which is a MUCH better unit - all cast iron vs. the aluminum throw-away junk on the...