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Have not logged into LMF since I posted the news of my new JD. Just took a look at what I have missed (???) Yeah I sure have missed a LOT. As mundane and boring as Facebook and MTF can be, they are an improvement over bland, dull LMF. So, excuse me for bailing out. BKBrown, Twall, JMurray...

It's a Dixon, think about a 2000 model. Is there anyone here on LMF who can advise me about this mower or have any idea how to adjust the drive system? It is reluctant to turn left, although right turns are easily made. Thanks for any advice!!

Have so many leaves, I hate to mow them over with a mulching push mower. Made this deck block off plate from aluminum stock, you cannot see the "L" brackets, but they are slotted so I can adjust the distance between plate and deck opening. The pic of the leaves shows how well it will keep them...

Was at Sears last Saturday, checked out the clearance section of the lawn and garden area, they had a Craftsman 5 hp front tine model on closeout for about $225, it was a return that someone used for about an hour and didn't like it...regular price was about $400. Thought about buying it, but I...

Wanted you guys to see what I tried yesterday....was installing a trailer hitch on one of our cars, it's a unit-body car, had to drill a pair of 1/2 inch holes in the underside where the body is boxed in, the holes had to be accessed from the openings at the rear, and you had to somehow install...

Allis-Chalmers...4 threads Dixie Chopper....9 threads Jacobsen....6 threads Walker...12 threads Etc. I say combine all the low-participation forums into one "Other Brands" section.

It was proposed some time ago that LMF have a Member of the Month, as does TBN, and the idea was noted as being considered by Muhammad. Any update?

Give yourself credit for being an addict, if you would spend an hour tearing down something like this 1978 vintage Honda F-215 tiller engine just to salvage the handful of metric bolts you might use in the future. Give yourself double credit if you would think about rebuilding the engine and...

Frequently, when I begin to compose a new thread for a forum, I get a quick popup that is like the display here that tells you "you have a new private message" but it is only onscreen for a second, so I cannot really read what it says. Does anyone else experience this problem?

My trailer cannot hold my JD, but I carry mowers, my generator, etc. around with it, plus plus pick up sand, stone, topsoil, mulch, etc. Rite now it has a 500 pound stump in it I just picked up at my in laws.

Look at the attachment, and see if you can deduce what I used these kiddie blocks for when I first moved here back in 1988 and began cleaning up four acres of overgrown meadows and cornfields and making them a lawn. At one time I had 3 dozen of these blocks. Think hard, now...

As for me: Blackberry 8330 Curve smartphone Toshiba L-355 17 inch laptop Dell 530 desktop, Pentium E-2180, 4 gb ram, 320 gb hard drive, 320 gb external Western digital hard drive, Asus 1 GB video card, Corsair 450 watt power supply, 23 inch Asus LCD monitor, Canon MP 210 MFP, Canon IP2600...

We have about a dozen huge black walnut trees, some are about 50-60 years old. Many of them began dropping their nuts about a week ago, I have never known them to begin shedding walnuts this early in the year. Thankfully there are not a lot of them to pick up this season, at times in the past...

The great thing about Deere quality (and the high purchase price) is that you are encouraged to take good care of your equipment. NOBODY can convince me JD isn't the best you can buy.

While I enjoy changing the oil and greasing my tractor, as well as other tasks, I always have and always will dread the underside cleaning of my deck that is required about every 40 mowing hours. The pictures show the mess from the second time this year, as my deck weighs 400 pounds and is a...

My Husqvarna (as well as many other brands such as Craftsman) offer 3 modes of dealing with grass clippings, rear bagging with the hinged side discharge plate down, mulching (plate down but no grass bag) and side discharge with the plate holding in a discharge chute. I do mostly side discharge...

As of now, 34 members online AND 561 GUESTS !!!!! Go figger. Maybe that is why LMF never has any new posts....NOBODY WANTS TO JOIN , LOGIN AND CONTRIBUTE. FRIGGIN' LURKERS !!!! :mad::thumbdown: FOUR QUE.

And hopefully, with NO CENSORSHIP !!!!!!

On the south side of our property we have four dwarf apple trees, all are different types. This is the first year in 20 following planting that there are ZERO apples on the trees !!! We have two larger, older apple trees that are full of green apples already. The dwarf peach trees near the...

Why does it take so long to get these removed from LMF ????? I am sure I am not the only member who has this concern.

Tried out a new 2 gallon tank sprayer yesterday, and when I wanted to refill it, I had to use a section of 1X3 lumber as a lever to get the D handle unthreaded from the tank. Before I reinstalled the handle, I put a lite coat of grease on the threads. Amazed me how much easier it is to...

Local news website just reported that a 3 year old girl in the mid-Michigan area lost most of one leg in a mowing accident. She was at her grandparents, ran out to surprise her grandfather who was mowing with a tractor, and he backed up and knocked her down, the blades cut much of one leg off...

Whether on LMF, or TBN, or any of the multitude of websites I am a member of, I always wonder just how many of the views on a certain thread are made by registered members, or by guests. Suppose this one thread has 400 views, but only 30 replies. I always wonder how many of the views were made...

Their sales associates: 1. Were rude and indifferent 2. Too busy to help a customer 3. On break or goofing off somewhere 4. Either knew nothing about the products 5. Or were know-it-alls 6. Kept pressuring me to buy a service contract 7. Kept trying to bait-and switch 8 Were very poorly...

Hey guys, being new here I wanted to share my experience with my (make) (model) (generic information) that I just made my second payment on, and I can truthfully relate my experience with (XYZ selling dealer) is just one huge (expletive deleted) mess, I was so dumb that before I bought my...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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:

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.

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...