Recent content by Botamon

Make sure the tractor is perfectly level when you check the oil level. AND make sure that you don't have all the hydraulic cylinders (like front end loader) fully extended when you check oil level. Those things hold a lot of oil!

The deer population around northern Nevada has dropped drastically in the past 50 years. Replaced by antelope. This handsome fellow comes to stand in the shade of my trees. There's water there to drink also.

Annual tarantula migration going on now in northern Nevada....the body only on these things is a good 2" long, legs and all you're looking at 4-5". Here's one crawling around on my old Honda:

Must be nice. Around here there are only two propane companies. Both have a policy that they will not fill a tank they don't own.

For comparison, here's an ad I saw tonight here in northern Nevada (where's there's no forests to cut firewood and why I use a pellet stove):

Telephoto shot of some wary wild mustangs, keeping an eye on me below the rimrock in Nevada's Quinn River Canyon.

That's exactly the same price I saw for diesel at the local Love's a few days ago! In December it was $2.73 a gallon! We are getting ripped off!

Driving a dirt road across the Nevada desert yesterday I saw a blinding light way off in the distance. Took me a second to realize what I was seeing. This is the Crescent Dunes Solar project near Tonopah, Nevada. The town of Tonopah is nestled at the base of the mountain on the horizon at the...

Getting heavy for me also. I'm thinking of going with something like this because I have several Milwaukee M18 batteries. Plus it will run off a cigarette lighter or any 12v battery: https://www.amazon.com/DIYtoolifz-Cordless-Compatible-Milwaukee-Batteries/dp/B0GQYW1R46 I've used one of these...

It rained yesterday for the first time since May. Put down .33" per the National Weather Service. That makes just over 4" of precipitation since the first of the year.

Absolutely true. But as you get older there's another factor....steadiness of the welding rod. Now that I'm about to turn 80 I find my hands are shaky...on another forum I saw a member call it "tremors". How do you put down a good bead when your hands shake? So far I've been able to get by...

Working on his new Ford F450.............................

Our local farm supply store stocks those bushings in two different lengths. I have both lengths as I too have implements that take the longer ones.

All I know is that before I retired my company required me to be on call - work from home - at night and on weekends and they supplied the VPN connection - only way to connect to the company web site. I HATED it!!! Very hard to connect to, and the connection would drop and quit like as not...

Recalls - issuing recalls - seems to depend on the corporate philosophy of the manufacturer. I drove a 2016 F150, bought new, for 9 years. Completely trouble free truck - all I ever had to do was change fluids and filters and rotate the tires. It had 3 recalls issued for that model truck -...