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Have you given any thought as to how you are going to secure them? For my house, nails did not work, so I ended up using screws. I drilled 3/8 holes about 3/8" deep and intended on filling them with plugs made from a drill press, but that is a lot of plugs to make. I am making some tables for Katie ...

There are about 30 different ways to bind books, so how your manual is bound I am not sure. You did mention glue however, and yes they can be reglued. A lot of people do not know this, but Elmer's WHITE Glue was originally designed specifically for book binding so that is the glue to use. A lot of v...

Anyone have a Shop Dog? Being a sheep farm, we had a sheep dog (Great Pyrenees) that always watched out for the sheep. 24/7/365 days, our dog was outside protecting the sheep. Over the eight years she was on patrol, she got (5) notches on her collar; (2) fox and (2) coyotes and (1) eagle that swoope...

Deere is about the only older skidder worth having for the safety conscious. The older 440 and 540’s had a hand activated parking brake, large wet disc enclosed on the rear of the transmission. For Clark and others brakes were an after thought and probably didn’t last past the first year. I’m curre...

Cutting Edge...I share most of what said about flail mowing. "Been there and done that". It has it's moments of shear pleasure and it's moments of shear hell. Hey, I have RESEMBLED that picture before. I think a person has to mow the road ditches to appreciate just what is there. One town I mow, ha...

Here are a couple of pictures of my homemade grader. These two photos are of the grader being bolted to my log loader trailer. This worked the best, but had to be taken on and off the trailer. I need a stand-alone grader as I use it so often. https://images2.imgbox.com/29/91/JwEnJR2S_o.jpg https://i...

My first homemade grader was when I got a USDA grant to build a road across my farm. I had a grader blade on a 3 point hitch, but that does not work very well because it is cantilevered; go into a hole with the rear wheel and the blade REALLY drops, and likewise when you go over a bump, it really ri...

Running a grader is whole different game than any other equipment. Mine is galion 503 with a 10 foot blade, ideal for small roads. Did not have anyone to show me, so watched videos and started grading. First job I did, had it just about where I wanted it, thought one more pass. Big mistake, spent t...

No 555, but I have a 666... No joke! Clark used to make a 664 Ranger skidder, and made a larger size 666; we always affectionately/not so affectionately called it a "Satan Ranger" because of the 666 number. I got it now, but I am not too happy about it. Another logger had it, but did not like it, so...

One of the first things I was told when operating a grader is, "Everyone will tell you how to do your job, and think they could do it so much better than you, but they could not ever do it themselves." It is about the same way mowing a boom mower. I actually had a guy pull his car in front of mine t...

What was told to me by a tour guide at the Deere foundry many, many years ago was that Deere has all of the patterns for all the parts stored somewhere. He also claimed that they would tool up a piece if someone needed it. Now my assumption is that he was incorrect at least on the last part, or at ...

Last summer a friend came up to me and asked if I would help him out, he needed someone to operate his John Deere 4355 with 18 foot Flail Boom Mower. I was sick, but operate tractors I can do, so I jumped at the chance. In the end, he paid me well, and I spent two months mowing the roads for four to...

Okay, I have an idea. I'll give you $100 in advance for a copy, give me an address, I'll send you a check, you send the book when it is done. Lavoy As generous as that is, the book would never be that much money, but I suspect that is just your kind nature. It is your way of helping a guy out, not ...

Hi, I think the way you do. We are talking as if we were in the same place. I have always thought that way online. That is because I have been in amateur radio much longer than online has existed. I began in the traditional way: Morse Code. Not voice, so I am not bothered by not hearing anyone's vo...

Alright, I got some pictures... The first one is kind of cute, I am cutting those Pine Trees for my flooring, and explaining to my daughter about why cutting trees is not a bad thing, especially when using them for your own home. The second one is tugging them out of the woods with ye ole Kubota And...