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I read somewhere about your blind governor, what is it they say about losing one sense and the others improve to make up the difference. I don't know how old the boy was but we saw a blind teenage boy playing in a piano recital that beat the sighted kids by a mile. We have a couple mid size citys here in Iowa that budget constraints caused the loss of several police persons and a good many city road and utility workers. The cries from the city halls were that things would all go to pot, but I really think things have gotten better since they pruned the dead wood, they weren't producing anyhow. Frank.

blind governor
Just For Fun Off Topic
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We've had a beautiful strech of weather, so we been outside a lot too. The Mrs. and I spent nine days repainting a house and rebuilding a screen porch on it. Throw in another series of medical tests for me, the last one was this morning, plus tomatoes up the wazoo to take care of. And if that weren;'t enough I volunteered to build a piece of furniture for the grand prize at our church featival raffle. If I get any more retired I'll have to hire help. Still enjoying every minute of it tho. Frank.

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Just For Fun Off Topic
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Anyone who ever owned or operated a John Deere 3010 or 4010 from back in the 60's has used the best hydraulic couplers ever invented to couple hoses that were under pressure. You pushed the male couplers from the impliment into the female couplers on the tractor, pulled down on a little lever on the side of the coupler housing. That little lever pressed the ball of both the male and female couplers open, worked like a charm. Why they ever abandoned such a good design is beyond me. Frank.

Release of Hydraulic Pressure
Kubota Tractors
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All this reminds me of why I won't go to movie theatures anymore. Couple years ago the Mrs. bribed me to go to some hit movie. All during the show cell phones rang, people answered and talked for half an hour. The ushers would walk down and ask them to turn it off, a couple of them said "My phone I'll answer it if I want to". Finally the manager told them to leave, so big rumpus, rest of the crowd cheered as they walked out shouting obsenitys, lost our place in the movie. Last movie I've been to. Frank.

So what would YOU do with a loudmouth in a restaurant
Just For Fun Off Topic
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Being EW brought up resturants I also have a question on service. We are sort of noon "Regulars" at a local resturant. At noon they have a special, now my assumtion of a special is that it is hot and ready, you order it they put it on a plate I'll eat it and on I go with my day. It shouldn't take more than five/ten minutes from the time I sit down till the special is in front of me. The owner will only hire one waitress to serve the whole crowd at noon, (30-50), while she sits at a table drinking coffee chatting with the guests. I haven't yet, but I have saw several people just get up and leave after waiting 15-20 minutes without service. The owner is new and also a good friend of ours, so should I bring this up to her or just go somewhere else for lunch and let her figure it out on her own? By the way the food is good and plenty of it. Frank.

Having the Special at noon
Just For Fun Off Topic
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Didn't notice the diesel but unleaded regular was 3.42 about an hour ago here at a Casey's.

Diesel Fuel Pricing
Everything and Anything
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I know what you are dealing with because I to overloaded one of that style lift and it doubled the worm shaft over. Yes a new one is pricey, but fourtunately I got mine straightend enough to work. Try your best to straighten it you got nothin to loose. Frank.

Electric lift for cargo 6x4 gator
Utility Vehicles UTV/ATV
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The Farmall Data Book shows the serial number plate on the left hand seat support just ahead of the belt pulley. Your serial number would indicate it being built in 1940. The letters behind the numbers sometimes indiucated certian equipment your tractor was shipped with. Frank.

Farmall tractor
Antique Tractors
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Guess I forgot to mention that our home fuel is LP. The lady I mentioned that is auctioning off her home is elderly, getting by on social security, and would face a potential fuel oil bill of over 6,000.00 just for heat. I have an Aunt now living in an assisted living center who sold her home last fall for the same reason. Yes it's bad for all but especially hard on thne elderly. Frank.

Pellet Stoves Unavailable
Just For Fun Off Topic
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Food alergies are much more common than I ever knew, a friend of mine can have nothing containing wheat flour, that eliminates a lot of things. So long as he is carefull he gets along fine. Wow, a football team at a church supper, you better get plenty the first time thru the line. We get our corn from a neighbor who grows it commercially. I don't know how many acres he has, but even the hungryest of Raccons don't stand a chance of getting it all. We tried everything from electric fences, a radio playing all night, etc. but they always beat us to it. Frank.

Fresh Sweetcorn
Everything and Anything
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Kinda look the same as the "Gator's" to me. Maybe the reverse lift would just push the grass back into the ground and there wouldn't be any clippings to worry about. Yup, my Uncle Verner Von Krautsinduzer, had a 200 MPG carburetor on a 49 Ford but some oil company paid him millions to just burn the blueprints. On and On they go.

Eliminator Blades
Mowers Field and Finish
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Hettric; I won't comment on your using super UDT in a Deere, you're on your own there. A few pieces of metal usually looking like a small flake are normal, getting more than maybe a half teaspoon is not. Frank.

Hydraulic fittings
John Deere Tractors
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I don't remember their web address, but Baldwin filter co. has about anything you can co0me up with.

filters
Kioti Tractors
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I've saw tarps be worse than sitting under a tree. Frost will form on the under side of the tarp then the sun hits the tarp melts the frost and the water goes right on the cutter. Frank.

Brush Cutter Winter Storage
Operating and Attachments
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Alez; Tell us a bit more, are you using landscape timbers or railroad ties to contain the soil? Are you bringing the soil for the beds from another location or building them from the surrounding soil? A three point hitch box blade with scarifier teeth will move lots os soil short distances, but for long distasnce a front end loade on your tractor and some kind of small dump trailer will work too. Frank.

raised beds attachment
Operating and Attachments
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Hettric; Sometimes I think I remember everything, but as the Mrs. tells me, "Your fire has gone out, you're just blowin smoke". Enjoy your Sunday. Frank.

JD 955
John Deere Tractors
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Over the last 40 years I've been on and off our parish council several times. About 30 yrs. ago I was put in charge of hiring a cement contractor to tear out and replace an aprox. 5 ft. high retaining wall in front of the church, the old one was probably 80+ yrs. old and was shot. Anyhow I hired a young fellow from a family of cement type people. I knew very little about retaining walls, so the young fellow explaind to me that a solid cement retaining wall will never stand straight for very long unless you make provisions for drainage of the water from behind it. When they poured the wall they put 2 inch PVC pipe thru the wall from front to back at the base just above the ground on the bottom side spaced about 6 ft. apart then filled behind the wall with coarse crushed rock to drain the water from behind it. His comment was that if there is water behind the wall that the freezing and thawing of that water over the years wiil eventually push a wall to a leaning position. He must have been right, the wall is just as plumb today as it was 30 yrs. ago. Frank.

Working around retaining wall obstruction
Garden and Landscape
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DRankin; I read the same chart in the owners manual for the 4310. Our oldest son works for a major oil company doing senminars for engeneers and upper level maintinece people from various heavy industrys, so I posed the question to him about the super thin engine and transmission fluids of today. His response was that with the super close tolerences of the bearings in todays engines and transmissions you need the thin products to so to speak get between the bearing surfaces. Another comment he made was that if you choose to use to use for example a 10/30 engine oil instead of a 0/15 that the owners manual may call for the first engine componet to fail will be the oil pump, the thicker oil is just too much for it to push. After listening to him perhaps the reason the Deere service people ask us to use the Lo-Vis is that perhaps the transmissions and hydraulic componets have the tolerences that the Hi-Vis just won't fit between. Having car and pickup engines that will last 2 or 3 hundred thousand miles with just normal regular oil changes etc. is really great, now it they can figure out how to keep the body from falling off with a good engine still running fine we would really have something. Frank.

new 448 backhoe sags
John Deere Tractors
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If I'm thinking of the same stuff my neighbor has it on his house. The house was built in the mid 70's and the siding is beginning to show it's age. It needs painting but other wise is in pretty good shape. Steel buildings I built in the same time frame now need to be painted, especially the roofs, they are starting to show some rust. Why don't I paint them? I don't own them anymore. The product the neighbor used was in 4X8/9 panels, don't remember for sure, but where one panel joined the next from above looked like it would be a good place for leaks to start. Frank.

Hardiboard vs Metal
Barns Pole Barns
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I used to try to keep up on the new models of the blue, green and orange brands but have given up, that could be almost a fulltime job anymore. Any of the three can build you a tractor that is almost talor made in size and equipment for what you need. I'd think that pretty soon the manufacturers would settle on a good time proven design and leave it alone for a period of time. Kinda like Chevy pickups till the styling change they made in 07, one year model was just like the year before and the year after. I one time ask the service manager at the Deere dealership how many models of lawnmoweres that Deere has procuced over the years, he had no Ideaa, but said it was far too many when it comes to having parts in stock for all of them. Frank.

kubota bx25 vs john deere 2720
Kubota Tractors
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