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Reading the thread about garbage cans reminded me of a book I recently read, it described various minimum wage jobs in real life. Remember how being a garbage collector was usually considered being the worst job you could have? Well, one of the jobs in the book I read was where you had to...

Michigan elected a new governor whose term began this month, in his State of the State speech last week, he proposed ending the law here that requires item pricing (individual items for sale must have a price tag attached) and that way, the prices would be only visible on the shelf or display...

Just want to pass this story along, if it prevents the poisoning of one pet it is well worth reading. Last week I was plowing the driveway of one of my neighbors, he is a K-9 cop with two work dogs. There was nobody home at the time, but when I was plowing his drive by the garage pad, I...

I have an '01 vintage Craftsman 6.75 hp self propelled, tried to start it two years ago and the starter rope broke, since I hade newer mowers I set it aside. Wanted to get it running this fall to bag leaves, after replacing the rope I tried to start it. It acted like the engine was trying to...

For those who are snowed in right now, what do you do in the meantime when not working (ugh) or killing time on LMF, or TBN, or whatever? I am in the process of cleaning up and rearranging my basement workshop (24X36) and building new lumber storage racks to keep my 8 foot long stock etc. off...

Have not logged onto LMF for several days now, seems I have not missed much at all, same gripe I had before...nobody seems to post any new threads. So here goes. Well, we have a foot of snow on the ground, and I have a brushpile 800 feet back from my house, it's about 25 feet long, 15 feet...

I have been cleaning out my home office, came across a catalog of accessories for Polaris ATV's that was printed in Y2K, in the snow removal attachment section, Polaris offered a 48 inch, front mount snowblower attachment that mounted underneath the ATV, it was powered by a 13 hp rear engine...

We got a bunch of sale flyers in the mail yesterday, among them was a local firm that offers a "Complete chimney cleaning and deodorizing (!!!) :confused2: for the bargain price of $79.95. Lets see now, they will come to my house, go to the roof a story and a half up, and clean two flues of my...

Our seven month old tabby is getting to be a headache, we have cat towers everyplace but he prefers to stretch and scratch the corners of our oak cabinets and furniture instead...I have a lot of left over foam insulation tubes from insulating copper water lines, used scotch tape folded into a...

THis area got about 3 inches of the white stuff today, and the temperature is just above freezing, tried using my single stage blower to clear the drive and walks before the snow could freeze solid, and once again my blower cannot move the slush out the chute. I end up with a plug of heavy wet...

Many people make a New Years resolution to keep a budget, I have kept one for over 20 years now, meaning I can easily look up how much I spent on groceries or diesel fuel or pet care on any certain month going back that far, as well as being able to track energy use. I am not so detailed that I...

Part of my resolutions for the new year are to be more honest, so here goes...:frown: I am spending less and less time on LMF and more and more time on TBN. Hate to gripe, but to be honest, the threads here seem so stale and mundane and very few members seem to have any interest in posting...

About 2 pm today my cop neighbor texted me asking if I knew anything about cleaning drains out, I know a good bit so went over with tools and a big drain snake, his basement bath drain would not drain into the main sewer line and sewage was bubbling up out of the floor drain. Well I tried to...

Every Christmas season, when I open a card from someone, it always reminds me of what happened eight years ago. My wife and I had recently retired together from our jobs, she had worked at the same place as I did for 32 years, I had 31 in. I have an older sister with several (six) failed...

We have a good quality kitchen sink that has lime and rust deposits built up by the drain, I have tried everything I can think of to remove the stains, Lime Away, CLR, Ajax, Bon Ami, Clorox, Comet, Iron Out, etc. Every single cleaner fails to dissolve the build up, even when the deposits are...

Is the members who ask for advice and/or suggestions in a new thread, then never follow up after others provide advice or suggestions. An example would be if I asked about a mysterious problem with my power equipment, and several of you responded with your input, yet I never let anyone know if...

28 inch drift in background

Yes, I do...an '89 vintage Gateway 386-SX, comes with dual floppy disk drives, a 220 watt power supply, and a 16 bit video card...PLUS a HUGE NEC 14 inch VGA monitor, which was a $600 option back in 1/90. The entire CPU weighs about 35-40 pounds because it's thick metal...and guess what, there...

I posted this story on TBN a few years back, got to thinking about it recently, and decided to share it with everyone on this forum... I was shopping for used books at a local thrift store, and I happened to spot a brand new, still in the carton brass halogen strip light, a premium brand name...

Can anyone advise me what to do? :laughing:

Just saw something on AOL news about this cool $2700 Husqvarna automatic mower that comes in gas or electrtic power...sorry, cannot provide a link, but the article says it is available in several colors and the electric version is solar powered and costs $300 more than gas version...however, it...

Who sends out REAL, postage paid stamped cards these days? Or how many of you use E-cards? I procrastinate, hate to scribble words out, so we usually don't bother with any of them. At 44 cents postage, who wants to spend the money? NOT US. I remember the woman I was dating back in '82, her...

How many of the JD owners here use their green machine for only mowing, for just snow removal, or for both? Mine does both.

Finally got the digipics from my Blackberry upladed to my desktop, this one shows the road gator being installed on my Frontier rear blade.

My JD has no real factory toolbox, so I cut down an old gas can and mounted it on the drawbar to carry chains, towstraps, etc. In the summer I can install a larger toolbox type, but if I extend the drawbar any further in the winter, the rear blade hits it when I swivel it to reverse it.

Still waiting for some white stuff so I can play in it.....

Lawn care, projects, pets

All summer long I gripe about the mowing I have to do, and the expense of burning diesel fuel and gasoline at $3 a gallon, and all the work involved in taking care of a 5 acre yard, plus a huge garden...and then after putting away the mowing and trimming equipment, I gripe about not being able...

Discovered Ebay five years ago, been a buyer for three now...I really should be a seller and get rid of some of my junk, but everytime I log into the site, to register as a seller, I just end up buying something instead. Go figure out what's wrong with me.

Obviously the majority of us have some mechanical aptitude, or else we would not have joined this forum. But, do you want to reveal your degree of "fix-it" skills on the ladder to the rest of us? On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say I'm about a six and one-half, or seven when it comes to working on...

Yesterday I was driving around, and I saw a new house set back from the road, with a very unique design. There was a large 3 car garage attached to the house, and the driveway from the road went straght toward the garage, then divided into a circular loop that went around the garage and joined...

The back 6 acres of our property, formerly mostly cornfield, has been permitted to grow wild for the last 16 years. There are hundreds of 6 foot high cedar trees, lots af brambles, a huge crop of poison ivy (!!) and unfortunately, probably thousands of autumn olives in all sizes from foot high...

They say cats outnumber dogs as pets in the USA...so how many of you have dogs, how many of you have cats, and how many of you have both? We have one 11 year old orange and white tabby we adopted at one year as a stray someone gave us, a three year old black and white cat my step sis rescued as...

Does anybody want to tell the others what they did for a living, or what you do while still slaving away? I've been retired for 8 years now, for 32 I worked as the lead carpenter/warehouseman/truck driver/maintenance mechanic/jack of all trades for a large government agency. Still miss my job...

I was thinking of adding a 55 watt fog light to my 5 hp Craftsman snowblower, which doesn't have an alternator. I do have a light being unused, and a nearly new 300 amp jumpstarter unit with female lighter plug outlet. It would be easy to add both to the machine, and add a male plug to the...

Shoveling is fun, for maybe ten minutes, but I do enjoy the activity if the stuff isn't wet and heavy (I term it heart attack snow) but really, really enjoy using one of my toys, which is why I have so many of them. I often do most of my neighbors driveways when we get a heavy snowfall, I'm the...

Hello all, the last two weeks I have been rewiring my two story barn so it is up to code, it had 14 gage underground wire, no service panel, and three bare litebulbs and two outlets...this for a two story, 24X36 building!!! I ran a new 12/2 UF feeder, installed a 60 amp sub panel, installed ten...

How many of the members here love to shop at thrift stores? There is a Goodwill three miles distant from us, I try to get there frequently. Last week I purchased a brand new, open box Singer basic sewing machine, a return to target (Goodwill sells merchandise returned to Target stores) for...

I went to Sears last week and purchased a pair of small 2-amp trickle chargers to keep my ATV and tractor batteries charged this winter. The devices are a small box type charger that plugs into a wall outlet, and they have a two wire pigtail that attaches to three different shorter pigtails...

Today I will be running errands, and as part of it I will be taking another 5 gallons of used oil to Wally World for disposal. I change the oil in four vehicles, my tractor, my mowers, etc frequently, and I usually end up with about 15 gallons of oil to dispose of every year. Servicing the...

I am so fricking angry at the jerks who let their dogs run loose...I just spent a half hour balancing on a ladder 15 feet up, rescuing two of my cats that ran up trees when some big mongrel decided to wander into our property about an hour ago. It didn't really seem to intend to chase the cats...

I may be a minority, but I prefer to store my power toys (mowers, tillers, chain saws, etc) for the winter with no fuel in the tanks. I usually run them until the engine dies from lack of fuel, then soak up the remaining fuel in the tank with a paper towel, and when possible I remove the bolt...

I am trying to learn if I cannot post in this forum because of a problem with my desktop computer or because the server is at fault.

At 1:39 am this morning I tried to post a new thread about my nearly new Brute mower having loose parts after only limited use, this was in the small engine and mower repair forum. When I tried to post it I got an error saying "cannot display page" and upon trying to read it a few minutes ago...

Will others post their dumb goofs? Here is my latest one: I had just finished installing a new overhead garage door on my smaller barn, there was no door there before. The brackets and cables, etc, were done, and I had wound the spring. Took the clamps off the track (safety measure) and...

Was at Wally World the other day, someone on this forum suggested checking out the mower maintenance parts on seasonal clearance, I was there for other purchases but did check the prices for mower parts. They were selling those round air filters for certain Tecumseh engines that have been in...

Former boss sent me a link today to a site named Pure Energy Systems Network where they suggest using a small amount of commercially purchased acetone as a fuel additive. I was skeptical but the information makes it sound really practical and it is claimed that adding the acetone to either...

In the past I have always used standard 10w/30 oil in my mowers, but after reading many of the opinions here I am switching to 30w before storing them this fall. Went to Meijers today, expected to find several different brands available, but the only one they carried was Meijers brand, and then...

Does anyone have one older than my '89 vintage dual stage Craftsman 24 inch with a 5 hp Tecumseh Snow King? I do have an '84 vintage Sno-Burst but that one doesn't run.