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Good to know the rear wheels are out there, I'm not sure how corroded mine are as I suspect they were loaded at one point. And thanks guys. I guess I could have looked in my manual and found the sizes listed. Oops.

Your post displayed weird so I pulled the formatting out. Not sure if it was an issue for anyone else? Anyway, based on that the rear tires aren't the correct size. Interesting. Maybe. Googling leads me to believe that maybe the D used 8-16 and the HST used 8.3-16? Front tires are cheap on...

The tires on my B7100D are worn/rotted/leaking. The current tires are 6-12 in the front and 8-16 in the back, all 4 ply. Is this the correct factory size? How terrible is it to peel these off the rims with a manual tire changer and get new ones on? I'd rather not take them to a shop, the...

It needs to gimbal in all directions, the weight of the auger means it always will hang level. Unless you're only going to do holes from a direction where you're level side to side, that is. For me I wanted this so I could get to holes that only had very limited access, and even the level...

I don't think so, but anything is possible. He has some good ideas.

Well, seeing as how I managed to use it to auger out the 14 more holes I needed, and only bent the auger because the tractor rolled back 2 feet while it was in the hole, I'm sure I will take into consideration how it won't work.

Turns out I had another auger in the same size, but much more heavy duty. I didn't remember that until after I dug the last hole by hand. Anyway, I guess if I have to do more I will remember that.

Man, that Stihl one is 1300 Canuckistani Copecks. Interestingly, it has a 36cc engine and it makes as much power as a Chicom 52cc engine, or as much power as the Chicom engine claims to. There is something to be said for 2 strokes built by a company that actually knows how to build them. This...

I debated converting my plow truck to a giant snowblower by attaching 4 or 5 Facebook Marketplace special snowblowers to the blade. I didn't do it, but I think it's something of an affront to science that I didn't try it, just to see if it would work.

This actually worked reasonably okay. Assuming you redefine the word okay to be the same as crap. Then on the second last hole the tractor rolled back while the auger was in pretty deep, apparently I should get around to adjusting the brakes (well, ordering shoes first), and it turned the...

This is one of those ideas that on paper is trash, and in reality is not any better. I knew that going into it, but desperation, lack of mental acuity, and curiosity about things that will potentially get you killed in interesting ways, lead to me proceeding with the design (that's stretching...

I had it back in the shop for other reasons, so I kinked up some pipe to mount some old rotors for weight. I had some bike handle rubbers leftover from something else, so I put them on the ends to reduce the risk of impaling myself. The only funny thing about this is I did a big cleanup and...

Dumbbells are too pricey for me. Hence I use brake rotors or drums. 😂 I might just weld a piece of leftover pipe onto it for that though, once I have the shop cleared out again in a week or so, it would only take a few minutes.

Yeah, I'd rather use up some of the junk that's lying around instead of buying more, it's more rewarding and helps clean the place up. It actually does a decent job of smoothing things out too. Probably wouldn't cut it if things were too bumpy to start with, but for just maintaining a driveway...

I needed to pull the weeds in my driveway and decided it would be faster to just build a blade to drag them to death with. The main requirement was that I not purchase anything except the pins and a new top link (needed a new one for my snowblower, so I could justify it). Luckily I had a piece...

Use a drop hitch? I thought about it, because it's really hard to tell where the ball is if it's bolted to the bottom of the bucket, but I have the same conundrum that I don't think it would actually fit. Also, there's a hook welded in the middle of my bucket already. I guess I could weld the...

I put new seals in this thing and went back to augering holes. I did try to clean the bore up with some 400 grit and sandpaper, but ahh, it probably needs to be bored/sleeved/chromed or whatever is the appropriate repair to last. It didn't statically bypass with the basic hand cleanup and...

I trench around them in a big circle, you kinda eyeball how far away from the trunk but that big one was about 40" across I think, and I just make it a straight trench about 8" deep. I cut off any roots that go through that trench, most of them won't be related to the tree you're moving. I...

I had some trees in the back yard that decided to grow in the wrong place. I figured I'd try moving them rather than just butchering them. I have about an 80% success rate doing this, so I'm hoping they all make it. The one was big enough I needed my little orange friend to move it.

That's a lot more money. :oops: