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As a trustee of our church, I get involved in anything having to do with any repairs or construction. We own a rental property that the borough inspects periodically. The house is an old structure and on the last inspection the borough codes guy found a short floor joist with a crack at each...

Long story but after considering different implements to solve a problem with too much dirt one place and not enough in another a search on FBM led to buying the 84" Pequea blade below. It has height-adjustable scarifiers that flip up when not needed. The seller provided a very good...

There may be similar sites out there, but I miss DonOTMW (RIP), JeffOTMG, and the others. Also enjoyed the goofy adventures of Hardin / Gunkid and his tactical wheelbarrow, the recommendations for the ol' JRS and the comradery in general.

The wash cloth I used this morning had a decent sized hole in the center. First thought - toss it. Then it made me think of when we were married in 1970 and starting out. It was fun to be out on our own and we didn't miss living at home except for some small things. One of those things was...

Most of our driveway is in good shape, but it developed about a half dozen cracks over the last year or two. The original 1990 gravel driveway was blacktopped around '94 and then topped in 2009. The 2009 fix is holding up better than the original blacktop. In an effort to get a few more years...

As I posted in the "What did you do to or on your Kubota today?" the Kubota received a new RK battery. Well, today was the Trailblazer's turn for a battery. Made one early and uneventful dash in the TB to take Sweet Pea to Kindergarten and planned to service the two generators (one gasoline...

Sorry if this is old news to those of you with more life experience. It's something that I've never heard of in my 76 years. Guess I haven't gotten out much. My Stihl 94R went from running fine to barely running yesterday till it finished cutting the weeds along the creek banks. I removed...

Pretty sure that it was bought for my third tractor (and first Kubota) that I bought new in 2002. All the forum chatter convinced me I needed one. I ended up like the dog who chased cars for years and finally caught one - once I had it the interest died. In a recent conversation the topic of...

Yep, me. Apparently I can't always tell the difference between yellow and white. My loader is not on the tractor unless I'm using it. Otherwise it's in the shed in front of the tractor. The weather today was nice enough to get out and start some fab work and the loader was part of it. I...

With the dwindling stock of off road diesel here and some craziness in the Middle East, it seemed like a good time to get refilled. In October 2023 ORD was around $3.91 and today the supplier quoted $3.08. The 150 gallon delivery coming will get me through about a year and a half depending on...

Apparently the shooting victim wasn't injured IN the shooting. Our local TV station's headline indicates the injury was subsequent to the shooting. Don't know why this matters, but they always have headlines like "3 Injured Following 2 Car Collision". I suppose that could happen as a result...

The story is too long to cover in its entirety. Several years ago, PennDOT decided to replace a culvert under the road in front of my place. It was a flawed project from the beginning. They made incorrect assumptions about the existing culvert and had to make changes on the fly. My biggest...

We still have a land line. Recently the static / noise has become so bad that it's very difficult to converse. Yesterday Wifey asked me to fix it. I checked connections, swapped phones around and eventually went to the demark box or whatever they call it these days and connected right to the...

Made this years ago. It came out of mothballs today and saved me an awful lot of work. Similar augers can be found in stores.

Looking for some sort of sealer or finish to apply to bricks that were used as pavers for the purpose of improving the appearance at our church. Looks like someone capped steps with regular bricks when the concrete steps deteriorated. They're laid finish side up (in the position of a wall that...

Several nicely spaced horizontal rows of holes about 3/16" in diameter showed up on a couple pines at my place.

Shot a short clip today while doing the one lot at church. "Underslung" 8' Fisher, grooved tires, liquid in rears, nothing on 3-point. https://youtube.com/shorts/HlfVhWi5uiA?feature=shared

For the second time since we built here about 34 years ago, the creek went dry. The last time was years ago in the middle of a Summer drought. I remember walking in the dry bed with a weedeater in sneakers and kicking up dust. Last week I took the opportunity to walk the bed with a weedeater...

I planted an oak tree in front of the house about 30 years ago. Suddenly "it was all growed up". Although it was a healthy specimen, there were some problems. While it was growing, there was an adjacent silver maple tree that didn't respect the oak's personal space. The oak compensated when...

Here's a picture of a house being "renovated" near me. Until a couple months ago, it couldn't be seen from the road because of all the vegetation that took over. Last week they re-roofed it. The porch roof looked like it was about to fall off, so they kinda propped it up (it was sagging about...