Recent content by ayak

By the book anyway, both filters and fluid should have another 20hrs left from when I last did them (HST every 200hrs and Hyd/Fluid every 400h, so I’ll do that first. Thanks

I suspect I’m likely starting to experience a little bit of this failure myself—I start to depress the HST pedal and instead of smoothly starting out, seems like more and more it finally moves along a bit later than it used to (so on the opposite end of the intended dampening action of this...

Not enough payload for decent ordnance, unfortunately. But mine does have a speaker and visible spotlight mounted (in addition to the NIR spotlight) in order to ‘greet’ them. I just have to stay above the hillbilly ack-ack is all, but if they can pling me in the dark going 50mph once I go...

The smart ones learn to just sneak behind them once they see the flash. Fortunately being criminals, they tend to be mostly dumber than a bag of hammers. I once put a good cam trained on a ‘gone-defective’ cam and saw multiple instances of them trying to sneak up behind the dead cam to disable...

Same problem here, but with IR cams in the woods and now a thermal drone patrolling, they can’t stay hidden for long. Thermal

I have 1600hrs on mine that I purchased new in 2018 and have had zero issues. I don’t idle and run it pretty hard. Also I am pretty OCD about putting good clean diesel into my tank.

“I found your damn deer…” We’d been tracking a buck into the night that I had one lunged with a recurve. I tracked low to water and had her go high on the hillside (thinking it would never go that way). Have never heard the end of that one, 38 years later 😘

1962 IH 404 I bought for $500 in 2002 (sold in 2023 for $1500)

Works great with Butter-flavored Crisco (in a pinch)