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I had started cutting trails into the 40 acres north of the creek at the beginning of the month. This has been on my list for a long time but it’s a low priority project so I seem to only work on it in spurts. After getting out of the creek bottom and up to the plateau at the beginning of the...

I’m not positive how those pins in the telescopic stabilizers are “supposed” to be installed. I know mine came from the dealer with the pins installed upside down from the way yours are in your pic. The end of the pin with the hole for the hairpin was inserted through the stabilizer and hairpin...

Long ago lost count of how much it’s saved me. Nothing beats watching someone competent do something, repeat as necessary until fully understood, then go play monkey see/monkey do. That’s why the creators who do stuff totally wrong, sometimes dangerously wrong, then call it a “joke” kind of...

As GreensvilleJay already said, yes.

I don’t have a GR so maybe what they call a HST in a GR is different than a HST in a tractor? The HST in a tractor (and unless it’s some sort of marketing crap, I assume it’s the same in a GR) is a variable displacement multi-piston hydraulic motor with a swash plate, the position of which...

Had a hydraulic top link for 3 years. The one minor disappointment has always been the range of motion for the boxblade. Not the quantity of degrees, but placement in the arc. Forward rotation is more than is useful. Rearward rotation is not as much as I would prefer. Mild enough issue I never...

There’s no reasonable way to recommend an exact weight for a counterweight. It depends on a long list of variables and honestly isn’t worthwhile to try to engineer perfection, mostly because “perfection” changes when you pick up a bucket of gravel v 90 seconds later when you dump that bucket of...

Messick’s lists the drawbar for $81.97. If you need bigger hole for some stuff and the original size hole for other stuff, might just buy an additional drawbar and enlarge the hole in one of them unless enlarging the hole is going to take too much metal out of the bar for it to retain sufficient...

Full EV’s (not hybrids) are an absolute disaster in high speed crashes significant enough to involve any damage to the battery. If enough of them ever make it to the road, that can’t be hidden. For now, it’s still not widely acknowledged and probably won’t be unless and until there are enough...

Greeeaaaat…..🙄 JD battery plant in Kernersville. Toyota battery plant in rural Randolph County. McMansion’s popping up like toadstools encircling our little patch of trees and meadows. Sometimes I think we should find a place where the bears outnumber the people, move there, and let the...

If there’s a grease zerk for the pedal, grease it. They’re not always obvious so look closely. Seems to be a common issue with the pedal not quite returning to center by itself when it gets a little sticky but not sticky enough to be noticeable in operation.

Sale of stock is one of the primary means of capitalization for publicly traded companies. Without people buying stock, companies can’t invest in buildings, R&D, personnel. It is not possible to source all the funding needed for expansion and maintenance of business operations from cash flow in...

Either get the hydraulic toplink and sidelink or at least get a hydraulic toplink. I use the toplink on mine with my pine straw rake to get it higher for backing over piles to be picked up. Ability to lift up with the 3 point and also up/back with the toplink is also helpful with unloading...

I have a similar age Howse that uses a shear bolt where your “pin” is and a circlip on the end of the shaft to hold the yoke on. The shaft is smooth so the yoke will free spin on the shaft if the shear bolt breaks. The circlip keeps the yoke from sliding off the shaft so the PTO shaft doesn’t...

Per GasBuddy, on road diesel ranges from $3.12 to $3.29/gallon within 15 miles of me in central NC. Not great, but seen worse in the not distant past.

I promise this is the last post I’ll make about the continued fence post pulling project unless something spectacular happens like flipping the tractor. Sometimes when I’m working at repetitious stuff by myself, I have some deep thoughts. Not common though, and not today. Today when I got off...

Glad you’re not severely injured and sounds like you’ll recover (eventually). I’m 57. Used to climb trees for a tree service in my early 20’s. Money was really good and it was enjoyable work, partly due to the inherent danger. I still mess with trees routinely but I don’t climb and haven’t...

Nothing fancy. Two different pieces of pipe. One to fit the toplink. Another for the sidelink. BTW, the leveling box posted by NIW are really nice. Had one on our old Ford. Could reach back from the seat and adjust it with one hand.

Initially I thought it was very weird that my little 47hp tractor didn’t have a stack. Has a pipe that exits near the left front wheel like it’s some kind of overgrown lawn mower. Maybe it’s the exhaust placement or maybe it’s the DPF doing its job, but the exhaust in the face when the wind is...