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Whenever I need to replace a battery it is always with a Walmart "Everstart" or whatever they call them and I've had excellent luck with them. The Walmart battery in my ancient John Deere diesel lasted 13 years, and that tractor is notoriously hard to start if the outside temperature is below...

I heated with a wood stove most of my life. And would still be doing so but finding firewood is a problem here in northern Nevada. The last few years I used my stove I was driving 240 miles (480 miles round trip) into Oregon to pick up loads of firewood but then that source began drying up. I...

Road to the Forest Service cabins, Santa Rosa Mountains in Nevada. Love this time of year!

Wouldn't a leaking piston seal be visible? Both the cylinders are completely dry - no sign of a leak.

So is that part # 140 in the diagram? Adjust it how?

Looking for some help in diagnosing a "twitch" that's happening with the 3 point hitch assembly on my M7060. Something I've noticed for the past few months -when I have an implement lifted on the 3 point hitch, there is a twitch or slight jerk upwards every few seconds. Movement is only about...

Riding around in Nevada's Santa Rosa Mountains a couple days ago...traces of snow on the higher slopes and a neat granite boulder in the foreground.

This is me. And it is getting worse because the older I get the more "stuff" I accumulate so the more "stuff" I have to look through to find what I need!

It's not just Japan! It's called the "Green" movement which tells us we have to do away with everything connected with oil-based products and which our "leaders" in Washington are fully on board with. This is the reason all wiring insulation is now soy-based:

Came across this outdoor oven, built many years ago by Basque sheepherders to bake their bread, in a grove of aspen at an elevation of over 7000 feet in one of the most remote parts of Nevada. This thing is huge! Nearest anything is an Indian Reservation a few miles away but almost no one...

Fresh snow on all the surrounding mountains above 7500 feet elevation yesterday and today....pic from the BLM fire camera on Tenabo Peak in central Nevada:

This time of year black widow spiders begin showing up in my garage and basement. A quick squirt of WD40 from a distance kills them dead. They manage to run a short distance and then just stop. Permanently.

My cousin, mowing with a team of horses about 1950: That mower is still sitting on the Pennsylvania farm right near where the above pic was taken but I see that at some time it was modified to be pulled by a tractor (tongue is shortened). My cousin is now 94 years old and still living on the...

I've had multiple printers through the years and am finally DONE with inkjet units. Perfectly good printers - but if you don't use them every day the cartridges and printing heads fail due to the ink drying up. So, since I don't need to print display-quality color photographs I went with a...

^This! At least in all the areas of Nevada/Utah/Arizona I've explored I could ride my Yamaha Kodiak (ATV) in any National Forest without restriction. As soon as the road came to a National Park boundary the rules changed: People driving side by sides that were street legal (plated and...

I think my M7060 is a pretty darn good tractor. Been working it for 6 years now with no problems. But I find myself wondering what the future will hold with the Kubota - say 20 years from now. Will the electronics (something I can't repair myself) cause problems? The emissions system? If I...

But then how do you lift it into position and mount it on the tractor, especially if you are by yourself?

My post hole digger is ancient and doesn't look like the ones in the pictures above. And it is extremely heavy. I have a tall frame with a chainfall hanging from it. The post hole digger hangs on the chainfall which is attached to the balance point of the post hole digger. That allows me to...

Absolutely! I had a metal roof installed on my house 13 years ago (but it is metal, painted white, not galvanized) when the shingles began curling up and blowing away. The desert sun wreaks havoc with a shingle roof, and so does the wind. The white roof does a great job of reflecting the heat...

Depends on the conditions the truck has to put up with. If the trucks is used on good roads then yes, the independent front suspension does just fine and for sure handles better and rides better...and never has to worry about "death wobble"! I worked at a mine most of my life. Mine trucks run...