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This part from NCL4701 is a critical issue a lot of people miss. Make sure that you have liability coverage because the potential financial loss from that is far greater than the cost of replacing a tractor and implements. Where a lot of people have risk exposure is when they use their tractor...

Well, you have to save something for your next trip to the gulf coast! New Orleans used to be a fun place to go and they had some cool kids attractions like the haunted New Orleans tour but it isn't somewhere I would go these days unless I enjoyed being a target :( It is a lot of fun although...

I used a portable for years, I bought it the morning after an ice storm hit when my daughter was 6 months old. It worked reliably for years and saw a fair amount of use but I knew I didn't want to spend my retirement years fooling with it. It stayed in the barn and when the power failed...

I bought my first diesel pickup in 1995 and I had to get used to the oil turning black immediately after an oil change unlike my gas powered vehicles. It will look pretty clean on the dipstick, as explained by Magicman, but as soon as it starts circulating through the engine it is no longer...

Very nice photos! Did you get a chance to take him deep sea fishing while you were on the coast? Rodger

I have been through Varna a few times. A stepbrother used to live not far away on the other side of the river in Henry, he was an engineer at Cat Mossville designing large displacement stationary diesel engines. Rodger

They do need more maintenance but in fairness to the park service, Katrina happened between when I took my daughter and you took your son. Poor Ship Island has been through a lot, it was once a single island but Camille Cut happened courtesy of hurricane Camille when I was a kid. Rodger

The three coastal counties are very different than the rest of the state and a large percentage of the population migrated from elsewhere. There are numerous government installations along the coast that brought in a lot of people to the coast. My father was born in Minier IL but spent most of...

Fordtech86, Thank you for posting those and I am glad that you and your family enjoyed your visit! I grew up in Gulfport and went out to Ship Island many times. Mississippi has changed a lot since I left the coast but I still sometimes miss it. Rodger

Think of the front wheels as the fulcrum on a teeter totter. As the loader lifts material acting as a lever and the rear of the tractor is unloaded, then more of the total tractor weight is shifted forward to the fulcrum point which in this case is the front wheel/axle assembly. Any weight...

Propane is no problem for the smaller generators but if you go with a larger genset, make sure that your propane tank is large enough to provide sufficient vaporization rate to handle the generator, heat, and any other gas appliances during the coldest weather. The tank has to provide...

That is a great question! When I first installed my 40 KW diesel standby generator a few years ago, it "slobbered" a little oily residue out around my not fully tightened connection to the muffler. I suspect it had idled a bit after its initial load testing after assembly and before shipping...

Gorgeous shot!

You won't need to know much with a good well company but you will learn a lot which is good knowledge to have about the system. Once a well system is in good shape, they tend to be pretty trouble free. But especially with the difficulty of accessing the pump, I would add a good surge...

When I saw that I was trying to imagine how they pull the pump out of the well for replacement or worse trying to pull and set a new screen. Work probably requires a plumber and a carpenter... Reminds me of Gibbs building a ship in his basement on NCIS :) Rodger

That setup is "interesting"... I assume the well predates the structure. I can only imagine what my well driller friends would say about a structure being built over the well! It looks like either permitting/inspection of water systems is very relaxed in your area or the previous owner cut...

Some more crop spraying photos this morning, not a job I would want :) Rodger

There was a food prep area safe insect control marketed in the 1980s that used diatomaceous earth along with a food safe desiccant that was aimed specifically at controlling roaches. The diatomaceous earth penetrated the little roach's "skin" and the desiccant dehydrated them. The desiccant...

I woke up to these little pests this morning hanging around my coffee pot, the nerve of the little critters to get near the most important appliance in the kitchen. I don't like using poison in the kitchen and I found the effective way to end the problem with them is to use "scrubbing bubbles"...

Exactly! PTO shafts are waiting to catch the unwary, blades themselves can shoot off fragments if they contact a solid object, high pressure injection lines (particularly on a common rail diesel) can shoot a blinding stream of fuel, etc. Farming is one of the most dangerous occupations because...