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Leaving an engine running in the garage is a great way to get carbon dioxide poisoning.

What do you mean "it is the PTO" ? Because the thing you circled in blue in the picture you posted is part of the three point hitch, not the power take-off. I suggest you try writing without using the word "it"...seriously...it will make it a lot easier for us to help you. Also, it's time to...

And I was just starting to feel ok about not having $20 IBC totes 😢

Today I learned that I'm glad I never found a bunch of IBC totes to store firewood in because my BX23S wouldn't have been able to lift them on forks. Pretty effing brilliant of you to use the bottle as a rain cover. I never would have thought of that.

Color me jealous! I thought about using IBC totes for firewood a couple of years ago, but I haven't found a local source anywhere close to that price. What a score.

Oh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about now. I have a small gas-powered towable DR chipper and have read the instructions on checking and adjusting that.

Looks like you dogged a bullet. Hearing the sound of the casting break must have been a heart-stopper. What do you mean by "check the bed gap"? Is that the front-to-back movement, parallel to the shaft axis of rotation? Like what a thrust bearing would adjust? Also, my condolences. --eric

Today I continued using the box blade on my driveway, future maintenance area and future flower garden ... mostly using the rippers to loosen the soil and bring larger rocks up to the surface. Then I mounted my new landscape rake to see what it could do. It's a very useful tool. I am realizing...

Ralpha-- I've been looking at your VB code and some of the other viscosity calculators out there. This morning I started writing my own version in R. I have a couple of questions about the code you posted: 1) There's a comment in your code about calculating viscosity differently for cs...

Glad I have access to the code for the viscosity calculator ... I'm learning a software tool (r/shiny) and this gives me a simple calculator to mimic.

La-da-da-da-dah It's the m*** teal double G

Thanks!

The attached file contains the javascript for the Widman calculator that Hokie is using, in case you're curious. It's not very good code, btw.

Here's a Link to the YouTube playlist ... 47 videos Excellent series by Jim Pytel. I'm really quite chagrined that I forgot one of the basic things I learned, (pump speed affects flow, not pressure) which lead to @Dieseldonato correcting me. Jim Pytel has a bunch of videos on all sorts of...

Hmmm, I actually was aware of that (I watched an entire 43 episode series recently on hydraulics). Next time I have a bucket full of rocks, I'll have to pay more attention to what's actually going on. Thanks!

Oh yeah ... forgot that little tidbit. So why does it seem like I have to increase the engine speed past a certain amount before the FEL will lift a heavy load? Am I just misperceiving what's actually happening?

The engine runs the hydraulic pump, so increasing the engine speed increased the volume per time that pump can supply to whatever hydraulic device is using it, be it the transmission, front-end loader cylinders, etc. I have a BX23S, so it has a backhoe, and I can definitely tell the difference...

I think this is what I meant but honestly not 100% sure. Sounds similar to the speed of a wave travelling through water. The wave has a speed, but the water is only moving up and down. Speaking of water metaphors, I think this is about as deep as I can go in this round. Thanks for an interesting...

Actually, I think the thickness of the film gets to the very heart of the matter. Surfaces are not flat ... they may be "globally" flat, but there is always a grain structure/roughness (think about scraping techniques to make surfaces flat). So the the thickness of the oil film and the...

Got it. I was coming from the perspective of "how does the gear design affect the required properties of the lubricant", and you were more about "what's happening to the gears assuming that the lubricant is working". @TheOldHokie you posted an empty reply to my post. I look forward to reading...