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Agree with @Oleracer. Have seen it happen with heavily loaded flatbed semi trailers. With heavy loads, suspect you’ll find you have to unload about half of one side, move over and unload the other side, move back and finish unloading the first side.

Sounds like you’ve eliminated most of the usual suspects. I’ve seen a handful of situations where the interior surface of the fuel line starts to degrade and release very tiny particles into the fuel as it flows to the carb. They can be so tiny they’ll flush through the jet but the engine may...

I have a boxblade and back blade, but I agree with the land plane crowd if you’re just leveling things that are already in the right general shape such as an existing road, finish grading topsoil that you’ve spread reasonably evenly with the loader, etc. If you’re planning to create/clean out...

Just curious, why are the rear tires backwards?

Not a big fan of getting up the leaves, but they are pretty. And while getting up leaves, found this Cope’s Gray Tree Frog under a pile of leaves on a chair outside. Blew off the leaves and he resisted the blower with a death grip. Wouldn’t so much as twitch while I got inches from him for a...

Start of the day at the two houses at the end of the road. About 60% of the leaves are down. Rain forecast Thursday so time to clear gutters and get up some leaves. Too many on the ground to let them get soaked. Tenant works from home but was out of town so it was a good time to make some noise...

Will definitely try that. 🙂

Been dry here so I’ve been letting the leaves pile up and blow off on their own but with rain forecast later in the week figured I should blow the gutters on the three houses and get at least most of the leaves mulched/removed. Needed to take the winch off the L and put on the leaf rake. Before...

Much excellent advice above. If not the one that came on it from the factory, the below is inapplicable. If it is the first time it’s been changed it may have been installed before the tractor was painted and the paint has it glued on. Not hard to tell even if you’re not the original owner; if...

In hindsight, it probably would have worked better if I’d told the lady at my father’s PCP office that I was him and I needed to cancel my appointment because I died two days ago. I don’t think she would have questioned that at all. BTW, hope your wife’s recovery is progressing well.

That reminded me… Shortly after my father passed, I checked his calendar and saw he had three upcoming medical appointments: dentist, audiologist, and a routine checkup with his PCP. Called them all to cancel. Dentist and audiologist office staff were no problem; very understanding. Appointment...

I don’t have a quick hitch so please pardon my possibly blatant ignorance of this question I’ve had for some time. Cat 0, 1, 2, etc. are differentiated by both spacing of attachment points and pin size (as detailed in @mcmxi post above). There seems to be a significant volume of demand for...

I saw one of those at the equipment dealer when I picked up my forks. Looked interesting, but probably impractical. Asked the owner about it. He said he’d used one on a CTL to trench in about 150’ of drain pipe and it did work, but far from ideal due to no side swing. Have to move the whole...

It’s quite frustrating when you have the knowledge, expertise, and experience to do things you no longer have the physical ability to do. I’m just at the tip of the iceberg on that down hill journey. If you don’t have family nearby who are both willing and able to take care of at least the...

I have one of those. Came in a camper trailer leveling kit I bought several years ago. The kit had two low rise things shaped like that for leveling the trailer at a campsite. Put them on the low side and pull or back onto them until it’s level, then chock under the ramps and chock the tires on...

Pulled a bit of windfallen wood up to the wood lot today to get started on firewood for next year. This small hickory fell several months ago. Pretty dry now but still solid aside from the little bit of rot toward the bottom that predated its fall. It was on a downhill slope just off the edge...

I’m not the most experienced operator and way far from the most expert operator, but I’ve operated enough equipment with controls in such a wide variety of places and types it’s kind of hard to imagine a treadle or twin pedals being a deal breaker on buying a piece of equipment, but I guess it...

Congratulations! 🙂

As you’ve explained, draining and checking fluid is useless. Suggest following NIW’s instructions to check for excessive wear in the gears. If wear is excessive, either open it up to see what needs replacing and fix it, or run it until it fails and fix it then; whichever you prefer depending on...

What I’ve heard from some of the greenies is the real problem here is the cow farts causing environmental damage. Which concerns me because I’m retired and if the greenies in our U.S. government start taxing farts (they tax everything else so why not?) I’m pretty sure I’ll have to go back to...