Recent content by PHPaul

@Runs With Scissors I REALLY want a shear, but fortunately the price tag and lack of space keeps me from getting froggy.

The 3416 tractor runs and drives. Made up a new set of cables and put a good battery in it. After ensuring that it would start and run, changed the oil and drove it up to the shop. The "shuttle shift" is actually kinda neat. If I run into too much trouble with the 7116 Hydro, I can certainly...

Pretty fair batting average so far. Snow blower starts/runs/operates without issue. On Craigslist. Engine on pressure washer started second pull (Honda GVC160) Guy said he thought pump was trashed. Debating, but probably yank the engine and trash the rest. Tiller is a 1968 Model Troy Bilt...

Damn Craigslist... Two Simplicity tractors, both 16 hp Briggs, one with motor-generator and gear shift, the other with an automotive-style starter and hydro. Two mowers, a 5' sickle and a midmount. Spare bar and sickle. 3 snow blowers, one tractor mounted, one walk behind, one corded POS...

Same here on the cell. On the landline, I either let it ring until the machine picks up or (if I'm feeling generous or expecting a call) I pick up and say "Hello" once. If the entity (I was going to say person, but that's often not the case) doesn't say something within 5 seconds, I hang up...

Rice and Cane tires. I have a set off a Shibaura I parted out.

Mowed the fields for what is likely the last time (or at least next-to-last) for this year. Today, the State is cleaning ditches and while they're working within a reasonable distance of my place, dumping the spoil on my patch. I'm sorting through it with my skeleton bucket (aka rock bucket)...

Welcome! I have two brothers in AZ, one in Green Valley and the other near Flagstaff.

Took me a minute to spot it. :ROFLMAO:

Bugger. Missed that. I guess that'll save me a lot of screwing around.

I'm still considering getting one of these offset flail mowers. My big concern is how the 2650 will handle that much weight (600 pounds) offset to the right. I'm reasonably sure appropriate counterweights will solve any potential problems. My first thought for a counterweight is a cast iron...

A free 275 gallon heating oil tank (lots of people converting to propane for some reason) and a manual "rocker" pump that I don't remember how I wound up with . Top it off once a year - hopefully when prices are down - and problem solved very cheaply and efficiently.

Disclaimer: I am NOT a machinist. Now that we have that out of the way, my first thought is that your tool is not set up right. I believe standard threads are 60° and the tool (cutter) has to be at 90° to the work. They make a little gauge for checking that:

Man is the only critter that buys tools to make tools for his tools.

Safety-Nazi's Look Away! I got tired of forking out $40 every time that switch failed, so I built a jumper. No problems in several years now...