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Murf, methinks your meter is broken. We used 4011 kWh last month with LP hot water, dryer and cooking. And we live in a pretty tight and energy efficient house that has above average insulation and has passed all Energy Smart tests (blower door and duct blaster tests). We turn off all lights when not in use, many of them are automatically controlled. The only appliances on all the time are two refrigerators (relatively new ones). We do have a well and septic pump but they are checked every couple of months and seem to cycle normally. Of course there are a couple luxuries like in-floor heat in the master bath (~100 watts) and the occasional use of a space heater or electric blanket by the wife.

BTW, I don't know how they get those numbers. If they are a "per-meter" value instead of a "per residence" value it will be misleading since lots of rentals are not independently metered.

Earth Hour March 28th
Everything and Anything
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I installed the Alexa toolbar into Firefox. It causes a noticeable slowdown when changing tabs, maybe because of lengthy turnaround latency on satellite connections. I'll run it for a few days but will probably remove it later.

Alexa Toolbar and Site Traffic
Website Operations Howto
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If the objective intent is to fix the problem, and "firing" the CEO was a legitimate repair, then firing the unions should also have been a legitimate repair since they clearly are a big part of the problem.

Mark is right, unions are off-limits.

Communist-Americans are running the country now, and soon the poor, middle and upper classes will be reduced to two - the government class and the proles.

BTW, what's the difference between Socialism and Communism? Two months.

GM CEO Rick Wagoner Resigns -- US Govt Presses On
Autos SUV Trucks
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In the case of NH I wonder if there are some bolts that need regular tightening that aren't on the maintenance list. Anyone know of a TSB on this problem?

New Holland TC33D Tractor Frame broke in Half
New Holland Tractors
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Dennis, I think you've got that wrong. Unbalanced minds lead to unbalanced ideas...

Trade a Clunker Get a Hybrid Credit
Everything and Anything
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I've got a set of those in SAE and metric and really like them.

Gear Wrench Ratchetng Box Wrench
Shop Tools
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A very hard question to answer. With the poor economic climate leading to excellent dealer discounts and financing getting a good price on a used machine may be difficult. My guess would to start with an asking price maybe 15% off of what you paid for it and then be willing to drop to 25% off. And that's a guess.

2350 Kubota price
Kubota Tractors
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There was nothing wrong with your shibaura - toshiba - chinese post. FWIW, moderators do not have the ability to delete threads. That's why spam posts get heavily edited and the topic changed to SPAM instead of just deleting them.<br>
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If threads disappear when new posts are added to old threads it sounds more like a bug.<br>
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Oh Dennis...

Is This Forum Censored
Website Operations Howto
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If it's anything like my 4310 look for a rocker switch that has a side view of a tractor with a line that wraps around the front tire and ends with an arrow pointing forward.

The 4310 owners manual documents it, it's surprising that the 4710 doesn't.

4710 4X4
John Deere Tractors
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It's difficult to compare 3ph lift specs. They often are not measured using the same method. Maybe they are measured at the pins, or two feet behind the pins, or.... Seems to me unlikely that two tractors of the same class had that large a difference in real world capabilities. The only thing that matters is that they will lift what you need lifted.

If it were me I'd buy the JD simply because the local JD dealer is much better than the NH dealer.

If the dealer quality was reversed I'd lean toward the NH.

Having a good dealer with good support and fast parts and service availability is worth a lot.

TD 5050 vs JD 5101E
New Holland Tractors
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When you say it's not working very good, could you describe what it is or is not doing? If it's jerky, sometimes the controls are very sensitive and the operator needs to develop a feel for them. If that's the case, feathering the controls lightly will smooth out the operation.

mini backhoe controls
Loaders Back Hoes
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At that price it seems that it would be worthwhile to find a radiator that fits size-wise and has the same basic cooling capacity. Then fabricate a mounting system and new hoses as required. Maybe the radiator shop can even build a new one of the same size (they have access to tanks and cores) and you can take it from there.

Need a radiator for a Ford 1200
Shibaura
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The do-gooders here spend most of the road taxes on BS projects like light rail, bike paths and parks while the roads go unmaintained. They are quite clear - they want to make drivers suffer to get them out of their cars. Of course their solutions offer nothing for the majority who work, pay road taxes and commute to areas in the 99.9% of the region that have no transit service.

But they do feel good about themselves, I guess that's the important thing.

Trailer comes off at 75mph
Pickup Trucks and Trailers
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[QUOTE=cfd1104;161161] advised it took three hours to repair, should he have known this at first quote? [/QUOTE]

Hard to tell. If the mechanic hasn't done one before, and they bill on straight time and materials and not shop rate, then maybe not. Not sure if there are shop rate manuals on every tractor made.

I'd have a friendly talk to the dealer, calmly and honestly, and ask them why the difference and where the mistake was made. Maybe they will meet you halfway on the difference between the estimate and final bill.

2160 LAWN TRACTOR HYDR LEAK AT AXLE
Cub Cadet
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Sure it's a coincidence. And the media is independent and totally detached from the administration too. :-(

Worthless gadgets
Just For Fun Off Topic
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Check this out. <br>
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I can picture guy cutting down a tree with a 20" trunk and having it fall on him.<br>
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Am I wrong?<br>

Anyone used a Tree Terminator
Operating and Attachments
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I'm wondering if the iMatch technology in the JD eHydros would overcome the problem that Mark described. That said, there's no denying the ~10% power loss that comes with an HST.

dump truck or dump trailer
Parts and Repair
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What Greg says has been my experience too. The only thing keeping fuel from the crankcase on most mechanical pumps is a diaphragm. When that ruptures it leaks right in.

Gas in oil
Garden Tractors
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I haven't looked up the code, but for safety switches it seems easy to just jumper across them and see which switch is causing the trouble.

Deere 4710 Error Code
John Deere Tractors
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[QUOTE=Murf;161038] The factory rep. pointed out that the US importer of Jinma tractors alone, and bearing in mind it's just one of many brands coming in, imports about 600 tractors a MONTH. He went on to say if they were junk, you would have heard about it the news, there would be lawsuits, and they would not be in the catalogs of big national company's who wouldn't risk selling garbage and losing clients.[/QUOTE]

Were there consumer lawsuits over Yugos? I don't remember.

In my mind a low purchase price equals low expectations. When a Harbor Freight tool breaks I shrug my shoulders, toss it out and buy a good one.

In any case it seems easy for a distributor to close up shop, then pop up again under another name selling the same machines relabeled with a new brand. Seems that's happened a few times in the chinese tractor business.

Jinma Tractors Are They Worth It
Jinma Farmpro Agracat Nortrac
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