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Yesterday I was cutting up firewood with my '89 vintage saw, after ten minutes of cutting, I shut it off to move wood chunks, and before restarting, checked the chain tension. The oil tank was still nearly full, but the chain and bar were really hot and dry. I took the cover off, cleaned...

How many of the members here can recognize the stuff when they see it? The back 5 1/2 acres of our property that I keep a brushpile and mow ATV trails on, is simply loaded with the stuff. Numerous neighbors use my brushpile, and the people next door take their kids back into the trails, so I...

My tractor has only one provision to hook up a conventional utility trailer, and that is by using a drawbar that fits into a sleeve located under rear differential case. The flat factory drawbar is much too short, too low, and using a hitch ball on it means the tractor 3 point lift arms...

Less than a week ago I ordered a laptop computer for my nephew thru BestBuy.com (online site) and arrranged to pick it up and pay for it at a local store. Gave it to my nephew a few days later, and all was settled. Until I read the sales insert for BB in the Sunday paper, less than a week...

Rubber valve stem on my '04 Buick was leaking air, rather that drive 15 miles round trip and pay for gas and labor to install a $1 valve stem, I decided to do it myself. First, mark the tire/rim so no rebalancing is necessary if you rotate the tire on the rim. Second, park your vehicle with a...

Attended my youngest nephews high school graduation open house last weekend, my gift to him was a $1200 wide-screen Hewlett-Packard laptop, his older brother got one like it as a HS graduation gift three years ago, both are bright kids, (3.7 GPA during high school). Anyhow, stopped to visit my...

We just endured a 45 minute downpour that left us with another inch and a half of rain. Total so far this month here is over SIXTEEN AND A HALF INCHES. Spent 4 hours mowing today and three yesterday and barely got 20 percent of my yard caught up. I am so f------g sick of rain I want to scream...

We are replacing our 20 year old GE side-by-side this week, it was a $1900 model new, with all the bells and whistles, still looks good, works fine, only has cosmetic flaws. My wife thinks we should try to sell it, me, I doubt if it is worth much, saw one like it at the local Goodwill for...

Locally, diesel has been selling for close to $4.30 a gallon for several months, while gas got as high as $4.20 per gallon recently, and slowly went down to about $3.70. What is the reason???? Why doesn't diesel go down in price?

What is the purpose of keeping forums with only a few threads, the Walker Forum for example? Dixie Chopper is another that comes to mind. With such a limited number of threads and few posts, I do not understand keeping those on the site.

Was at my step mom's yesterday, she has a John Deere 160 lawn tractor THAT STILL HAD THE OEM FUEL LINES !!!! They were at least 20 years old, maybe more, and as hard as metal. I replaced them and also the fuel filter, and while working on her tractor I got to wondering how the fuel pumps on...

My 4210 with 60-inch 7-Iron MMM has always done poorly at chopping grass clippings up, even with very sharp blades. Posted my issue on TBN, and some members there advised me to buy JD Gator blades, or a comparable Oregon blade, telling me clippings would be much finer. Well, after the first 30...

Helped my in-laws pick up their new mower yesterday, like mine, it has the 190cc, 6.75 torque rated Briggs and Stratton engine. I recommended they buy a mower with that engine as it's super easy starting, very miserly on fuel, and promises to be reliable. My dad in law watched me unpack their...

How many of you guys here want to prop up the front end of your push mower to scrape or power wash off the underside of the deck? How many of you want to support it so you can remove and replace the blade? How many of you want an easy to use blade stop? I used to weight down the handles of my...

Sun has been out much of today locally, I came in to take a break from mowing down foot high grass. Was skipping thru the local newspaper and saw a 3 page ad from one of those places that offers to buy "your old gold, jewelry, coins, etc..." I almost choked on my sandwich when I read the part...

Does anyone know of a chemical that will kill quackgrass but not harm iris? I have several iris beds that are heavily overgrown with quackgrass and it's too much work to dig everything up and replant the iris. Done that several times already. Thanks.

Got another inch of rain last nite, after drizzling most of yesterday...I have measured an actual 8 inches of rainfall here so far this month...the local weather forecast says they have only recorded 2.9 inches this month. Quite a disparity.

A strong windstorm blew thru this area early Sunday morning, causing this tree trunk to break off about 15 feet up, and it fell on the other trunk, breaking part of that one off, and they both went over onto my garage roof. Took me 2 1/2 hours to remove the trunks from the roof, and I was using...

Just a short note before I dash out to begin work again. Been trying to catch up with a huge backlog of yard care tasks before the rain begins anew. Have had four or five days with none at all, got all 4 1/2 acres cut and trimmed, did LOTS of raking up clippings, got garden plot tilled for...

Went to my in laws this morning to pick them up and take them push mower shopping at the big box stores, and provided my relatively biased opinions and a strong back, plus my truck to help them transport the mower home. Unpacked it, checked for loose parts, filled with oil, showed them how to...

I have two rain gauges and have measured over 6 inches of rainfall in the past week alone in my area. Anybody got a good used combine for sale, cheap? By the time it dries out enough to mow I am gonna need one.

About 30 years ago when my dad was living on our place, he dug up and transplanted many trees from the woods a half mile back. Most of them are sugar maples or sycamores, and all but two failed to gain in size. One of the sugar maples he transplanted was about the diameter of a soup can when...

"Where do you draw the line between a Compact Utility Tractor and a Utility Tractor".....:laughing::laughing:

Yes, it actually is here in mid-Michigan. My kitties are REALLY upset, they seem to think winter returned after a very short spring, summer, and fall.

Just got home from the local Meijers, shopped for groceries and picked up some 1/4 inch hose clamps for fuel lines. While in the automotive section I couldn't help but notice the stacks of Prestone coolant that is available in both full strength and pre-diluted (50% coolant, 50% water mix)..for...

Features a Yard-Man 173cc, 19 inch, 3 in 1 (mulch, rear bag, or side discharge) REAR DRIVE self propelled push mower for $229.99. I cannot recall the last time I saw a push mower advertised with a 19 inch deck, or featuring a rear drive for under $300.00. Not that I need another push mower...

Newest episode of the program "House" showed the good doctor first picking up his former work associate up from prison, and then driving to a spud gun competition....in a Dodge Dynasty !!! Sure looked like the one our LMF member owns !! :thumbsup:

I just got a new RX earlier this week for a certain medication I am prescribed...have been taking it since about Y2K. I saved the invoice for the RX of the same drug from last May, my co-pay under BC/BS plan was $40 then, and my insurance was billed $2208 for their share of the 180 tablets...

Yesterday I started a thread on TBN asking if any other members waxed their cars, trucks, or tractors. One of the members posted a reply that he washed nor waxed nothing. When I saw his avatar I burst out laughing. I replied to his post, "you tell us you don't wash anything, do you see the...

Hey all, just came in, been getting out hoses, lawn chairs, deck boxes, etc. Yesterday I got out the power washer and cleaned two cars well. I also serviced, cleaned, and stored my 3 snowblowers and removed the rear blade from my JD. It warmed to 60 late yesterday, boy it sure felt great to...

I hit the 1500 post mark yesterday, and Twall was making a joke that I just reached the 1,000 post mark yesterday... Well, I went back about a month on the Front Porch, and to my amazement I reached the 1,000 post mark only a MONTH ago (3/7/11). Folks, I will be honest here, I have NOT been...

I will answer a broad, "NO" on my part...can elaborate in depth but I am trying to limit how much I stare at the screen...you should all know why by now. Next apppointment with my doctor is in two weeks.

I do find it irritating and distracting. Anyone else feel that way?

Because the skunks are digging up my yard...I have thousands of square feet of yard out of site of the house, but no, they have to dig up the areas that I can see when walking around the house. Sojmebody told me one time the best way to solve the problem is to put out cans of dog food mixed...

Does anybody else here get one? They have nice stuff but the prices are so high I wouldn't buy anything unless they cut the catalog price in HALF.

Earlier this morning there was a first post by someone in New Members who was advertising Iphones and other smartphones, a definite spam msg. I reported it within 5 minutes of it being posted, and left home to run errands. When I got home three hours later, it was still on the the forum so I...

Just recently, the local paper had an article about a DHS (Department of Human Services) top level manager, who was arrested and charged with racketeering and embezzling nearly $5,000 worth of new merchandise by approving the purchases of said items, then picking up and keeping the goods...

This is a shameless plug for the Menards store chain, hopefully many of you will be able to take advantage of the sale price on Formula Shell motor oil there until April 3rd. $1.68 per quart and available in weights 5W-20, 5W-30, 10W-30, and 10W-40, limit of 24 quarts per customer per visit...

Is it just me, or are many of todays young adults selfish, self-centered, and unappreciative? My wife is over at my mom-in-laws house today, thery have been planning, preparing for, and paying for a baby shower for my wife's youngest niece for the last two weeks. Three years ago, my wife and...

Was at the local Menards about an hour ago, picked up a brochure about their lawn care equipment. It states neither horsepower nor torque of the push mower engines, only cc's displacment for gas powered engines, either 139cc or 173cc, and , for the two BRUTE brand mowers, only "premium Briggs...

For much of mid-Michigan tonight...just what we need....:eek:

About a month after my wife and I retired near the end of 2002, I went to the JD dealership and finalized the purchase of my new tractor, and asked them to store it over the winter. When Valentine's Day came around next year, I prepared a fancy dinner for my wife, and after the meal I gave her...

Looking at the picture of new member bakerg's Massey GC 2400 made me realize that on LMF, garden tractors are mentioned frequently, but not CUT's (compact utility tractors) His GC 2400 is basically the same model as a GC 2410, which can handle a MMM, FEL, and backhoe. My Deere 4210 can also...

Today's local newspaper has a column written by a senior editor, he just turned 62 years old. He described his week off his job, a manadatory payless one. He heats with wood, he had rented a splitter to split his firewood for next winter, and while the machine was hooked to his truck, a...

Is forecast for mid-Michigan beginning tomorrow...so much for an early start on mowing this year.

Up at 5, fed the cats and nuked water for my instant coffee, went online for an hour (TBN, LMF, Ebay, Facebook) at 7 am I went out and hitched up my utility trailer, then loaded up a ramp, several dollies, moving pads, tools, etc. Left about 8 am to help a friend do some moving work. Got back...

Early last summer the front drive control cable on my five year old Yard Man self propelled front drive pusher began to hang up, I have other mowers so I just put it aside. Took the cable off when I stored it last fall, finally got around to looking at it in my basement shop. This is weird but...

This is weird...two days here and no sign of him...what is going on??? :confused2:

Got a promotional email from Sears.com last night telling me about a great deal on this certain model. I am not interested, who wants to buy from somebody who is obviously lying about the actual turning capability of their merchandise? I think they should be prosecuted for false advertising...

I think the time change is more bother than it is worth, is there anyone who thinks it's a good idea? I don't. :thumbdown::thumbdown: