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    BH hydraulic hose routing?

    Mine does the same thing also. I keep taping it up, but eventually it's going to start leaking. @Fordtech86 That's a great idea. I'll be doing that when mine finally fails. Thanks!!
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    Everything Attachments - Bankrupt?

    Dusty, There is no doubt that having a grapple will make easy work of clean up duties! "BG" (before grapple) our two young sons and I would cut, load, and haul the brush/trees and then unload at the burn pile. When the boys graduated and moved out, I bought my EA 55" grapple. Now "AG" (after...
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    I fixed my tire

    Now that's what I'd call an "Industrial Boot"!! :unsure:
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    Hanix Mini Giant excavator?

    They do make it look so easy. :ROFLMAO: It was/is hard to judge the size/materials just from the pics of your parts. But I was thinking along the same lines as you....using .023 wire at a low setting to start. But first, dial in the settings right on a practice scrap piece of material before...
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    Hanix Mini Giant excavator?

    I've never had reason to try it.....but I've heard you can run a bead of weld around the inside of a steel bushing or broken bearing race that seems to defy all other methods of removal. The cooling weld will shrink the inside diameter of the bushing/bearing race and break the bond between the...
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    Mooring a houseboat

    That is very cool!!
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    Cleaning air filter for 100 hr service

    Hi motherfarmer. Wellcome to OTT! I started a conversation with you regarding some information on snow ingestion into the air filter as Hkb82 mentioned in post 15 above. Select the "Envelope" in your top right corner of your screen to open the conversation. Great Tractor, by the way...
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    Open Discussion

    My biggest disappointment with a salesperson (and usually when buying a big ticket item as in car, truck, etc.) is when within a few minutes of the opening discussion on what I'm looking for, the salesperson will ask "and how much can you afford for monthly payments?" As if the options wanted...
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    What Attachment?

    No doubt the Fred Cain will do a better job quicker on the heavy initial work of breaking up sod. That's a nice heavily built cultivator! The "S tine" is a little lighter duty. But mine has easily busted up a 2.5 acre undeveloped rural building lot that was a mix of sod, weed, small brush...
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    What Attachment?

    A 3pt cultvator sized for your tractor can be found reasonably priced on the used market, most likely. You can then hook a couple of used drag sections behind as you go after you've loosened everything up and maybe cleaned up some of the small saplings ripped out. Here's my cheap outfit put...
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    Daily Chuckle

    A photojournalist on assignment was traveling through the African jungle when he spotted a pygmy standing beside a very large, ferocious, but dead lion. Wanting the pygmy's story, he walked up to him and said, "Wow!! This lion is HUGE!! Did you kill him?" The pygmy replied, "Yes, I killed...
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    Farmall H restoration

    "Nothing wakes you up like the smell of cutting oil in the morning"!!
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    Side Hustles / Hobby Business

    Up here in the north country....winter storage for boats, rvs, campers, ATVs, etc is a big thing. When I built my 50 x 70 storage shed, I rented half out for seasonal storage over the winter. Whatever was stored was in by end of Oct. (or earlier) and didn't come out until spring,....or around...
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    BX2816 Electric Chute Rotator

    A spring loaded, center off, double pole, double throw switch (DPDT) is what I use to directly control my electric chute rotator and linear actuator on the chute deflector. the motor and the linear actuator draw such little current that it doesn't take a very heavy duty switch to handle the...
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    Leaking coolant valve on LX2610 - hoping isn't too bad

    You might save a bigger mess if you just get a clean pail to drain all the coolant into. Replace the valve and then poor the coolant back in the radiator. You'll hardly waste a drop! It'd be no different than when you drain/replace the coolant during the scheduled maintenance when that calls...
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    Mystery bolt

    I had one problem bolt like that. It would work itself loose. I'd tighten it. Then it disappeared on me. Picked up another and lock-tighted it in place. Now it stays. My trouble maker bolt attached one corner of the hoods plastic side grill to a metal bracket. Apparently that location had...
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    Too much snow?

    I have a Rohn tower like that, but the plan is to use it for its intended purpose....a tv antenna tower. :LOL:
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    Multimeter question

    Here's a nice beginner's tutorial with pics, descriptions, examples, etc. The meter used is very much like yours....but with some additional features and extended ranges in the volt and amp settings. How to Use a Multimeter - The Home Depot
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    Multimeter question

    RMS, your welcome! As long as you start out with understanding the basic settings of your meter and how they're used you'll avoid letting the "magic smoke" out of the devices you're working on....or your meter itself.....hopefully. But sometimes we all get in a hurry & without thinking...
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    Multimeter question

    Russell, Yes, it jumped out at me right away that someone legitimately asking for some basic help in using a multimeter would have initials of "RMS". Nothing more than an unusual and rare coincidence! :) Same with your initials, if by chance you would have went the route of an EE (electrical...