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What's a "cabient"? <lol> (I don't mean to sound picky, but spelling can be important to search engines if you are trying to get discovered).

Curious. The Amazon link lists the tires as having a Load Index of 78, speed rating B (=30mph) and max load of 937lbs. None of that is printed on the sidewall. The sidewall does caution not to apply more than 36psi when seating the bead. If that is considered the maximum pressure then I...

I doubt it's a law. But quite likely contractual. The whole tire industry seems very territorial up here. Car and motorcycle tires are generally twice the price (after currency conversion) in the Great White North compared to US advertised prices. And yes, I believe the rears are original. No...

Oddly, they don't seem to be available north of the border. And when I tried a few US websites (even eBay), they wouldn't ship to Canada.

Tale of the tape: Mounted on the rims, the Predator is clearly wider and smaller diameter than the AT2: As can be clearly seen above, the Predator is wider -- almost 2" wider. It's almost 9" wide! The extra width doesn't interfere with anything when installed though, so I think that it could...

Flash forward 6 years. I've been happy with the traction, but the sidewalls are now heavily cracked and the left one has developed a slow leak. Adding the FEL may have been a factor there. Time to replace them. Back in 2017, I paid Amazon US$153 for the pair - a little over CDN$200. Today...

Actually, since you've given it a workout: Is that one of those 43cc chinese augers? What kind of soil do you have around there?

Ah, I did not realize you had already put it through the paces. I had the impression this was a just-completed project. My bad. Carry on.

Yeah, but in that case, the centre of rotation is primarily the other end -- against the boom rotation cylinder(s) and around the pin. I'm sure the handles are much lighter material than the bucket mechanism -- but also spaced further apart and operating primarily in compression/tension. I'm...

Neat idea. My only concern would be that the backhoe is not designed to withstand twisting forces at the bucket. But hopefully, since that PHD is designed to be manually held, such forces will not be excessive.

With some sort of resistance in series (eg: 6v light bulb), I would use a jumper from B+ to the injectors and give it some pre-heat before spending more time chasing possible fuel issues.

Geez, that post takes me back. My father had a construction business and when I was perhaps 9 or 10 years old he brought home a scizzors style manlift to reshingle the roof. I was the designated helper of course, fascinated by the controls. Saturday morning, Mom headed out to do the weekly...

I've done similar with my grandson. A couple of months ago, we took him with us down to the city. I never realized what a rural life he has led until he started listing off the "firsts" -- first time in a hotel, first time in an elevator, first time on an escalator, first time swimming in a...

Time to start using it.

We've had so much rain this week that local lake and river levels, which had peaked after the spring thaw, are rising again, almost back up to the peak. If it goes much higher, my boat will be parked OVER the dock, instead of beside it.

Oh absolutely true. There's still places in the world and even within the US that use different gauges. But the "standard gauge" became standard because early on many US railroads were buying engines from England (where Romans built much of the original road network), and that was the most...

It was the width of a horse that kept man (or at least, US men and women) in space. Roman roads were built to accommodate two horses harnessed side by side. Naturally, the carts and chariots they pulled were sized to fit on the road. Those carts dug ruts in unpaved roads, which over time...

Square extractor or tapered spiral extractor? The spiral will probably come out pretty quick with the welded nut trick. The square may respond best to a freeze spray and dental pick, especially if you warm the surrounding material first.

The US doesn't use Imperial measure -- the US gallon is smaller than an Imperial gallon. Both are 4 quarts, but in the US, a quart is only 32 fl. oz. vs 40 fl. oz. in the imperial world. BUT to further complicate the conversion, The Imperial fluid ounce is smaller than the US fl. oz - 28.413...

I don't know about that. I don't have one, I've never even used one, but there's lots of happy owners on youtube, etc. . I certainly wouldn't want to dig out a foundation with one, but for occasional small jobs around a homestead where renting an excavator is overkill (and the process of renting...