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It was 70+ and sunny today. I cleaned/polished one of my motorcycles earlier in the day. I thought about taking that bike out for a 2/3 of a day ride, but I resisted the temptation. I cleaned/polished my other motorcycle yesterday, and took my first bike ride for 2025, about 45 minutes. We've...

I did get the replacement mower deck safety stickers installed the other day when it was warm. I degreased the newly painted surfaces with brake cleaner before installing them. The OEM Kubota mower deck Model number / Serial number sticker is an entirely different matter. I was successful...

I am a good neighbor if left alone. And if you respect my many NO TRESPASSING posted signs. If you trespass or F*#^ around with my rural property, I will be your bitter vengeful enemy. If you have any questions at all about the Cuddeback/Cuddelink trail camera system, and are not comfortable...

My brand new Cuddeback/Cuddelink trail camera system has arrived! One home camera (central image collection/transmission device) and six remote cameras for out in the woods. One of the remote cameras will be set up in surveillance mode, and continuously watching the recreational property...

My safety decals/stickers for the mower deck arrived at the local Kubota dealership and I picked them up. The OEM decals/stickers were casualties from repainting the 60" mower deck. For the second time in the last month or so, the Kubota dealership offered me a job. I keep telling them sorry...

$1645.93 from Messicks for new. Plus shipping. Note: You will have to call them, due to a serial number break someplace in the production run. Here: https://www.messicks.com/catalogs/kubota/rck60b23bx-60-side-discharge-mower/mower/a00403-bevel-gear-case If I had a hard parts failure on a BX 60"...

It depends where you live for the in stock/in a physical store, availability of odd/weird sized taps. When you're doing a job, and you need a tap RIGHT NOW, locating/sourcing a tap just can add additional pain & suffering to the job. When I do threading on a lathe, it's usually because it's...

I built this three point counterweight for my BX from an empty solvent barrel and scrap steel. It is filled with concrete and it's ~ 450 pounds. It's in close and tight to the rear of the machine, with about half of the counterweight forward of the ends of the three point arms. it's tough to get...

My RCBS RockChucker single station press is so old, it was not even equipped with a "ball" on the end of the OEM steel straight solid bar stock press handle. It had a relatively hard plastic "bicycle" handlebar grip instead. Even worse than a handle with only a ball. So I also have felt the...

There is an opportunity for a potential settlement for the recreational property unauthorized timber cutting/road building/property destruction/trespassing problem that I had back in late summer 2023. Any settlement offer will likely come with the requirement of signing a non disclosure...

Hey RCW, what time do you want me to stop over for dinner? I'm usually not a big fan of chicken, but that looks yummy. We have been getting our beef from a brother of a neighbor. Someplace in the Hudson valley. It's pretty nice beef. Some years back we went in with a different neighbor and...

I've been having some chronic trouble with rusty door hinge pins on a 40' hi-cube shipping container. I have tried every commercial rust buster/penetrating oil product on the market. Kroil, Liquid Wrench, PB Blaster and several others. Also ATF, motor oil, and gear lube. The only thing that has...

I set the yesterday painted grille guard out in the sunlight & wind today. The fresh paint hardened sufficiently for installing that formerly putrid gray/silver used grille guard. My mission is completed! I will never rub peanut butter on that faded plastic. Not in a million years. My barn...

I still have the intact model/serial sticker, I just need to reattach it. I did try some automotive detailing spray (Chemical Guys brand) with zero improvement. Yuk! Peanut Butter! It sounds like an awful mess.

I now have the mower deck refurbished and reinstalled. New plastic deck wheels also, and they have grease fittings! I painted the used front grill guard that I acquired. When the paint is dry, the grill guard will get bolted on. That Kubota Orange paint is a really good color match for brush...