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I just saved this little gem to share with my boss: I'm a Federal government employee and this seems to ring true for me... -Paul

Last estate sale I was at, I snarfed up a couple of lots of old gas cans...without the modern nozzles. I think I got 6 of them for $7.50. A couple of metal ones, a few plastic ones, and a 5-gallon jerry can. -Paul

Ya, when ring clearance gets destroyed, a diesel engine basically uses crankcase oil as fuel. I've run a burned piston in a Cummins for about 50 hours, and it was burning a quart of crankcase oil every 10 hours. Not a harbinger of imminent catastrophic failure, just a sadly inefficient engine...

All these decks use the same ball bearing to support the spindles. It's a stock bearing, a "6205". Thinking about putting some Timkens on the shelf for next time... https://www.ebay.com/itm/225095204209 Who knows where they were made... -Paul

You must be super-excited at the prospect of a change in scenery! Reminds me of my MO on wilderness canoeing/camping trips: 1. Find little-used ATV trail on Crown Land. 2. Don mosquito dope and limber up chainsaw (for downed trees on the trail). 3. Put 'er in 4-Low. 4. Proceed down ATV trail...

Enjoying this off-topic thread! I've probably repaired a dozen or more appliances. Usually pretty simple stuff. Once you go 'under the hood' a few times, it becomes much less intimidating. When an appliance goes suddenly, it's always a mini-crisis that needs to be dealt with immediately, if...

Nice tractor! I'm envious. I've kicked around the yards at a couple of these large multi-state used equipment dealer/auctions. One thing I noticed is that often, they have a HUGE pile of discarded tires-on-rims. I dunno, from parted out tractors? Some of them are painted Kubota orange. In...

Ya, some of those stationary coal draglines in southern Ohio were so large that, they had to build them on site. There is a dragline bucket along the road in Miner's Memorial Park in SE Ohio that is so large, it holds an entire HS marching band. Photo attached to the bucket to prove it! 220...

For me, I just need concrete to roll a creeper or a floor jack around on. So, to me, paying for concrete floor that's just used to park machines on is a waste of money. For my (small, 1000SF) shed, I'm going to concrete just the half that will be the shop/workbench area. I will have a couple...

8-pointer! That's about as big as they get around here (southeast PA) also. Since we've had the dog (1.5 years), the deer pressure on our ornamentals has dropped off a lot. But just lately, they're sneaking up to the house in the pre-dawn to take the hosta (aka Deer Candy) leaves. [That used to...

Love the replies, guys. Thanks! I saw the sale bill for the August 12 Manasse sale in Lancaster Farming. Actually, I live in SOUTHeast PA, and the NY state line is a 2.5 hour drive for me. I didn't see anything in this sale that would make me want to drive that far, but I'll watch for the...

Find the part number for the grill on your tractor and then look at parts diagrams for other similar tractors to see if they share part numbers with yours. Messick's website is a good place to start... When I was hunting a headlight assembly for my G1800, I discovered that the T-series mowing...

Is there anything wrapped tightly around a spindle under the deck? Does anything associated with the mower get hot as the engine stalls? Smoke? Smell? Sounds? Vibrations? [I'm a clinical veterinarian, and when I'm vexxed, I automatically ask myself, "Have you used ALL your senses?"] -Paul

I spent a long time looking at the Kubota L-series models. I was looking for 4-cylinder, Direct Injection engines. Four models fit the bill for me: L3250 - V1902 DI L3450 - V1902 DI L3650 - V1902 DI L4350 - V2203 DI Also, many or even most of the late 1990s and 2000s tractors use a lot of...

Thanks guys. I'm not looking for a tractor to restore or to show. The less wrench time I'll need to invest to make it fully functional, the happier I'll be. The things I saw in the pics that give me back-bidder's remorse: - virtually new front tires. - Bone-straight bucket (screams "not...

...but probably should have bought it! https://www.tractorhouse.com/listing/auction-results/225801937 Selling price ($10,500) includes buyer commission and sales tax. The only things I did NOT like about this tractor at that price was the hours (2355). And, the fact that it sat almost 600...

Ya, Wolfman. For smaller livestock housing projects (low sidewall height), typically we'd arrive on the jobsite to find a poured stub wall to set posts on. Typically, L-shaped brackets made from 1/4" steel strap would be embedded in the concrete, with holes in the long arm of the L through which...

Thanks Jeremy, As I hope you'll appreciate, there are a TON of tricks-of-the-trade that make projects like this flow smoothly to the finish. Took me years to appreciate many of those. I'll try to share as many as I can think of. In the meantime, you must be resigned to a certain amount of...

This installment: Framing, phase I But, first, a bit of insider info. These large national commercial pole barn companies build the trusses and precut all the lumber and siding for the buildings they sell, and send the materials out on flatbed trucks to the jobsite. In the design process, a...

I have been searching for a good deal on a used L50 series for almost a year. Over the last couple of years there has been a pretty strong run-up in prices for used tractors ( a side-effect of supply chain issues affecting availability of new tractors?). Nicely equipped used tractors have about...