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The plastic decking has a lot of advantages but cost and repairabilty are not among them, so I don’t doubt you have a significant repair cost. With the location can also see it being like a chip in your truck’s windshield right in front of your face all the time. If it was over by the rear view...

Old Paint and I have the same model chipper and it works very well. PTO shaft is shear bolt protected. I don’t see it as being any more dangerous than running a rotary cutter with the PTO shaft straight into the cutter’s gearbox and a shear bolt to protect the driveline, which is one of the...

I am now embarrassed for and by my trailer mover. 😞

I live beside my Dad (when he’s not in inpatient care). He had a 9N I started driving when I was about 8 or 9. He also had a Farmall H that he grew up with and bought back from a neighbor when I was about 16 so I have much fewer hours on the H. A few months ago he asked what I’d do with his old...

My wife has a better credit rating than I do because she has a few store credit cards which give her access to various deals and discounts. Her intrinsic value is priceless but she hasn’t generated a dime of income in 25 years. When I started regularly traveling for business about 25 years ago...

Our area was predicted to be the worst ice storm we’ve had in 20 years. Texas, part 2. We were quite blessed to get not enough ice to do anything other than take down a few spindly pines.

I had a similar issue on our property with three separate brush piles that were growing way faster than they were rotting and just were getting out of hand. Bought a Woodland Mills WC68 chipper which is hydraulic feed, PTO powered, self contained hydraulics so no rear remotes required, 6”...

If it ever quits raining here long enough for the entire property to not be a mud bog track I might take mine out of 4WD. Something to hope for anyway. For about a year now it’s rare I can walk across the yard without leaving tracks (and yeah, I’m a little fat but not that fat). I sure can’t...

Not at all sure it’s applicable to tractors but for selectable 2WD/4WD trucks and SUV’s that are left in 2WD and not at least cycled into 4WD for many years, sometimes the splines will get stuck and won’t slide to engage 4WD. Seen it a few times. Not necessarily common but a PITA if it happens...

Nice to hear a compliment on a dealer. Riddle Tractor in Winston-Salem, NC has been great to deal with for me. Their service manager has been easy to reach and willing to discuss issues with me no matter how stupid they probably seem to him. I haven’t called him a lot so maybe that helps, don’t...

The original post was hilarious, but Dave Barry could make an afternoon nap at home hilarious. Maybe I’m odd, but my experience wasn’t near as bad as a lot of my friends and relatives made out. Didn’t eat anything solid for a couple days prior to prep. That may have helped minimize the volume...

My name is NCL4701 and I sometimes watch tractor fail compilations on YouTube. (If you missed that reference congratulations, that’s a good thing on your part.) I find them cathartic after incidents of my own equipment related stupidity as they remind me I’m not the only dummy with a tractor...

That should adjust the height of the lift arms on the implement end at full up and full down. I’ve also found it useful to set those at mismatching positions once in a while as an augmentation to the previously mentioned adjustable height on the one lift arm when I want an implement at a severe...

That’s bizarre and disappointing. Fed Ex lost the first one they sent me but I couldn’t blame Titan for that. If you can’t weld or bolt a couple of ears on it for the toplink in exchange for pretty decent refund, that really sucks. Kind of makes me sorry I posted a link for Titan earlier in the...

I sometimes have the same problem as your tractor; once in a while it takes me so long to get started, by the time I’m up to working speed it’s quitting time.

The Kubota was kind of a bit player but an important one today. Had a bit of freezing rain and we were right on the edge of enough to cause damage. When it started melting, even though it was still raining, went out to check the buildings and beehives to make sure no damage worthy of immediate...

Glad I read this discussion about trailers built by anyone other than a manufacturer with a staff of engineers. We have a 5x8 my Dad built as a welding project in college using a beam axle from the front end of a Plymouth something which he found in a junkyard back in 1955 when he built it. Ran...

I’m jealous of the camo air ride seat. My black vinyl “economy” seat looks pretty weak compared to that. 🙂

A new tractor!

I know this original post was several days ago, so the smell may have dissipated by now. If you’re still having problems with the smell, depending on what type of insurance policy you have on the house, you may have coverage to help with odor abatement. The chemical produced by skunks is...