Recent content by Botamon

Those old Broncos were real rust buckets if not well cared for...I know, I owned one for several years. So its not inconceivable that the floor was so rusted he was able to bust through.

Please clarify. Are you talking engine oil or hydraulic oil?????

Exactly. I sold an F150 because my needs changed and I needed something that would spend all its time towing. A few years ago I bought a Toyota 4Runner that had just under 3000 miles on the odometer. It has been trouble free. Someone sold it because it wasn't what they expected so they...

Yup. Funny how some of the same guys who have no problem driving a turbocharged tractor or diesel pickup seem to think that suddenly, because that turbo is on a smaller gas engine, it is going to fail. I drove a twin-turbo F150 pickup for 9 years. Absolutely no problems with the truck at all...

Spent about an hour renewing the firebreak around my buildings - bare ground to make it more difficult for a range fire to get to them.

Those bad boys were how we got all our supplies in the jungle:

All the time. Pretty much every day. I live pretty remotely so it is very quiet (and I don't have a TV or radio running all day long!) Most of the sound around my place is the birds - I have several bird feeders set up and the birds can make quite a racket. To me the "whop whop whop" of a...

When bushhogging I clean my radiator and condenser daily. If its exceptionally dusty then twice a day. I can actually watch the coolant temperature gauge creep up from where it normally runs as chaff and dirt accumulates in the screens and radiator.

Not sure when spring arrived in northern Nevada because we never had winter this year. Last night the Reno news reported that they'd broken the high temperature records for 8 days in a row. Not just broken but in some cases annihilated. Like broke the old record by 10 degrees or so...

How does EGT monitoring work with the new Fords? Do you have to install a pyrometer probe somewhere in the exhaust like I had to do in my older Dodge/Cummins?

All of us on this site who advised you to go the F450 route are happy that we made you happy!😁😁😁

When bush hogging with my M7060 I have to blow out the radiator and screen daily; I can see the temperature gauge raise up past normal as I'm working after several hours.

My 2016 M7060 is still on its original battery. Just changed out the battery in my ancient John Deere 2020 diesel for the second time. Walmart Everstart, and it lasted just over 13 years. As did the battery it replaced, which was also an Everstart. But both tractors have battery maintainers...

Keep in mind that the South Rim of the Grand Canyon is nearly 7000 feet (North Rim is ~ 8000 feet). High desert. Big difference from the low desert (elevation 1000 feet and below) like around Las Vegas or Death Valley where it is pleasantly warm this time of year...but broiling hot during the...

I was amazed to recently read that on some of the heavy-duty Ford Superduty trucks the gooseneck coupler ball will be 3" - as will the bumper pull ball! And of course the bumper pull receiver opening is 3" square. All to accommodate the 40,000 lb those trucks are rated to pull. So maybe...