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Thanks! All in, prolly only took 20 minutes to cart all the stuff out and get it free. Sure enough there was a big ole rock at the edge of the hole.

Well folks, I did it. My borrowed time finally came due: I wedged the post-hole-digger and the lil BX couldn’t lift it out. My soil is glacial till and there’s an abundance of “potatoes” waiting to be found. They range from softball to lumpy beachball sized. I can usually work them up (or...

In the parlance of the youth: "I feel seen". It was the end of a weekend after renting a power rake and the entire starting 5 (myself, wife + 3 daughters) was out in the rain hauling wheel-barrow load after load of de-thatched moss across the property that it occurred to me it was time to find...

I think I got my money’s worth from that ounce of diesel headed up the hill to the orchard: 3/4 bucket of compost Tub of biochar Bale of straw 2x 50# bags of chicken feed 2x shovels My lazy butt

@nbryan Darn my curiosity -- is that a reciprocating saw with a pipe taped onto the end in the right side of your pic? Why/what for? :ROFLMAO:

Video On the BX, sometimes I have to give the kickstand a lil nudge to drop down.

I think you're over thinking it :) Unless you are going to (briefly) run a huge sand blaster off that compressor, I doubt you'll ever find your couplers to be the issue. Edit: as for the hard-line around the shop, I'd keep that at 1/2" as you mentioned -- hardly any cost savings in going...

Got rid if the lousy turnbuckles on the 3-point and replaced with Messick’s custom fabricated stabilizer. So much easier to manage. Only complaint is it does interfere with the large PTO shield when the post hole digger is all the way down. Meh, I don’t much care for the shields anyway —...

Ehhh, I completely get the cause for concern and hyper vigilance on all the details of a brand new machine. There were 3 distinct burning smell events with my machine: first time it actually got used for a continuous hour at medium RPM doing light duty FEL work, first time opening the...

Woah, zombie thread dug its way out of the graveyard — aim for the head before it eats your brains.

“just” push harder when coupling it 😜 Joking aside, if you can rig something to give you mechanical advantage while coupling (w/o wrecking the alignment), that will be safest. **danger follows - this is not advice** For male coupler ends, I’ve covered the end with thick towels and whacked the...

I know that feeling — wife, 3 teenage daughters, dog, half-dozen ewe sheep…. Also wouldn’t change a thing if I could 👌

Today is a Good Day — my daughter’s rabbits are officially out of the house and that festering parenting fail can start to be forgotten. ‘Nuf said about that, onto the tractoring… The new neighbors on the property adjacent to us remarked they couldn’t give away the aviary that the prior owners...

I’d read similar statements and knowing what commercial lime spreaders look like, I also had some initial doubts. The biggest issue I’ve encountered is that the throw distance is rather short; I get about 5-10 ft spread on left side and the nothing past the right wheel track. That’s fairly...

Your dilution strategy is one tactic. Is it possible to disconnect the reservoir return line(s)? If so, you could fully clean and freshen the reservoir and then operate for a short duration with the return feeding into a catch while keeping the reservoir full-enough with fresh fluid. That...

So many questions— none of which I’ll chose to ask… Remind us when you retire.

I win the lottery everyday by directing my frivolous spending to booze and tractor parts — the payout approaches 100% 🤣 When I used work in an office environment, we’d get an office pool going when the pot was north of $500M — it’d knock a couple of zeros off the odds, but it was still a fine...

Grew up in an arid and rural part ID where I could see for ~20 miles in most directions. Post college, lived in city ‘burbs for 20 years where I could see hill tops from some vantage points. Now I live amongst the hills and trees of the Pacific Northwest. It’s semi-rural and the farthest...

From the video: ZD1211 zero turn mower.

Hard-start in the cold -- that'd be another way of saying: glow plugs.