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All I do know about that is all the commercial seeders and landscapers that do not hydroseed around me use wheat straw. It is almost the only thing readily available and it does not cause any problems.

correct straw for new seed
Garden and Landscape
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The frost free hydrants have a valve at the bottom as you know. When the valve is closed to water flow, a port is opened at the bottom to allow the standpipe to drain and prevent freezing. You can try lengthening the rod to push harder, but at the same time you are changing the amount that it will rise. Doing this too much will cut down on flow when open, and possibly allow the tiny port to allow drainage at the same time. Too much drainage will saturate the ground and not allow the standpipe to drain effectively and it may freeze. I have replaced 2 at my garden center recently and even new, they were out of proper adjustment.

Yard hydrant adjustment question
Parts and Repair
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If you use stone, use fabric or the stone will sink into the soil gradually. It will get dropped leaves in it but a blower will clear most of it. If you use mulch, forget about the fabric. Mulch is a decomposing organic matter that gets refreshed each year. As the oldest is broken down, weeds will just grow on top of the fabric. Also, the fabric seems to stick up somewhere as the mulch blows or washes off and looks crappy. I can see almost no residential use for the rubber mulch. It is cost prohibitive, any that gets moved into the yard, by foot dog etc. will not break down like mulch so it will be there a while. Junk that gets in it will make it look messy and a blower will likely move it as well as the mess. With the stone, you can even use a propane torch to get rid of little bits of stuff. For mulch, use a pre emergent like preen to keep the weeds from growing.

Best Ground Cover for Front Garden
Garden and Landscape
Replies 8 Post by denwood

It is really all what you are used to but the 2 stick just seems so natural and almost instinctive. I tried the excavator setup and it took some getting used to but many machines now have a switch to goe back and forth between patterns. My takeuchi was switched to backhoe mode before I bought it and must have had to have the hoses swaped around since the switch was not an option in 97. I really do love the JCBs and one is going at Richie brothers auction here in late june. It has 4 in 1 but not ehoe or forks but there is the mounts for forks. I figure it will bring 9-11,000 so I may buy it

tractorless
Case
Replies 12 Post by denwood

What you are mowing can help determine when to sharpen. If it is just weeds and brush, almost never. If you are mowing grass, you will notice lack of cutting, just swirling and pushing the grass around and ripping it. Time to sharpen. My dad mowed all over the farm for 20 years and never sharpened, but it was not grass.

Sharpening Cutter Blades
Mowers Field and Finish
Replies 8 Post by denwood

One possible compromise is the Bush Hog SQ84. It is a light duty field and brush mower rated for 25-50HP and it has 2 spindles so it is 84 inches wide but roughly half as long. It has swing away blades with lift. I have one and it does a pretty nice job as well as cutting anything I can push over. My JD 4300 handles it just fine. My favorite feature is it is offset to one side so you can reach under branches and over the bank of the pond a little.

Finish Mower or Field Mower
Mowers Field and Finish
Replies 12 Post by denwood

I have crossed that bridge, but stick built was not really and option due to size and pricem, and I would not consider a pole barn where wood is in dirt for my region. I went with all steel, looks like pole barn but not a toothpick of wood. Check out Miracle Truss or Kentucky Steel.

Pole Barn or stick built
Barns Pole Barns
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If you are planning on building one do youself a favor and do more research. While this info may work in some regions where wood is easily split and has no knots, it would only be an exercise in frustration around my region. I am not aware of any brand, even the lousy ones that use a 3" cylinder, and 4" is considered a minimum. Also I have never seen one commercially produced with only an 18" stroke. 24 inch seems standard. These are just the things I noticed in the 30 seconds I read it, there may be other issues with the design.

Hydraulic Wood Splitter information
Operating and Attachments
Replies 3 Post by denwood

ncrunch32, have you ever read any of george hayduke's books, just go to this web site to check it out http://www.campusi.com/author_George_Hayduke.htm
It is for entertainment purposes only but the books are well worth the entertainment. I read one years ago. I pity the bad neighbor to this guy. It is usually the guy with the most to lose that gets put in the pinch, so maybe you could try the friendly Ann routine for public display and then make his life a miserable hell behind the scenes and where he will not likely blame you for his misfortune. If he does not know which fly bit him, he will not know which one to swat.

Vandalism or Civil Matter
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 55 Post by denwood

It is really too late now to transplant safely. For the average person to transplant a tree this size, bare root is likely to be your best option. It will allow you to get more of the roots (farther out from the trunk) without worrying about a root ball you cannot handle or ball properly. Waiting till fall? By fall the tree will not grow any more until spring so spring is better IMHO. Sometime in march well before but break. this will allow the transplant just before the growth season so the tree will re-establish more quickly than just putting it there in the fall just to sit till spring.

Transplanting Walnut Trees
Parts and Repair
Replies 3 Post by denwood

As far as both brands right at this moment, I could not tell you if Suzuki is as good or better, Honda is excellent, and has historically been better than Suzuki--not to mention resale. I can not imagine my hondas being better, from generator to tiller to ATV to cycle to log splitter etc.

Honda or Suzuki ATV
Utility Vehicles UTV/ATV
Replies 9 Post by denwood

My 4300 does that foggy crap too and here I thought it was my problem with too much humidity, but none of my older stuff ever does it. Now I know it is like all the other glitches, an American lack of R&D like usual.

4310 hydro won t move
John Deere Tractors
Replies 16 Post by denwood

It sounds more like a fuel solenoid problem which JD has had many problems with. Does your machine even have an electric lift (fuel) pump, I know the 4300/4400 models do not.

Fuel Pump Problem
John Deere Tractors
Replies 2 Post by denwood

Yes toyotas are great, hondas too. My aunt got a highlander several years ago, first foreign car and she loves it, no problems. Heck, I bought a 93' pickup with 113,000 miles on it that had poor maintenance. Original plugs, wires, air filter, fuel filter and a slipping clutch cause the guy let his mom drive it for the past year. That was three years ago Now at 151,000 and I am still on the same clutch although I have maintained the rest of it. Clutch only slips about 15 minutes a month ( I think when I get it real hot)and I keep waiting for it to get worse. It hasn't yet. Nothing else has ever failed and it has never let me down. It burns and leaks no oil. I had a customer 2 weeks ago with the same truck and I asked her about it. It was a 91 with almost 300,000 and no repairs but wear items. They said they just can't part with it. I am shopping for a tweener truck right now. Tween now and when Toyota makes a full size crew cab diesel.

small suv s
Website Operations Howto
Replies 13 Post by denwood

I have never seen any heavy square tubing in the scrap yard. Mine came from a previous project that never got completed and I did buy it new but before the prices were high. I just lucked out having it on hand.

4110 pallet Forks
John Deere Tractors
Replies 30 Post by denwood

Please.... Back in the eighties and beyond every farm had a dog that ran free, many still do. It was their territory and if some loser didn't care about keeping their dogs on their postage stamps, what can you do, lock your dog up when it did nothing but protect the livestock. No one sicced the dog on anything and the dog never left the farm. The loser didn't say anything because he had no reason to, that is why he knew better. It is not that he was not a nice person, just a loser of a pet owner. I was 10 at the time, a huge bully, and the neighbor was a gearhead pothead his late 20's, that raced anything he could tinker on up and down the dirt road so fast I could never ride my bike there when he was home.
Duc, no offense taken, you obviously have the perspective of someone with a limited experience of life and the world around him. Not everyone comes from a postage stamp in a cute little middleclass neighborhood in a subdivision named after what used to be there before the houses, like Meadowbrook, Hickory Hollow or such. I keep my dog on my property and he does not run free unsupervised now that I am the adult. I have chastised 2 neighbors for letting their dogs run in the road or on my property, and like you care deeply for my pets and would dispatch any threat to them unless they were in the wrong. You are not the type of person who causes the problem, because you keep your dog in your control. From your capital letters, it seems you may go to the same lengths to protect you pets if they are threatened while under your control. I am sure your dog never gets out of you control, but accidents happen, the kid opens the door and out it goes. If it runs over to the neighbors and starts chasing the chickens, he has the right to kill it. What goes around comes around and I accept the fact that if my dog accidentally gets away, he may die, but I never negligently let him free.

Man serves time when Dog Kills Cat
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 31 Post by denwood

Sounds pretty well summed up. price for name brand, used, 25-35 hp, hydro, 4x4, with loader and less than 1000 hours, $10-18,000. I bought my 2000 JD 4300 hydo 430 loader, with 299 hours for 14,500, private sale. If you think you do not need a hydro, you will be punished one way or another. Either in using it or reselling it later. I have almost all woods and can't imagine all the tight manuvers without it with the mower and the loader.

Suggestions Please
Operating and Attachments
Replies 7 Post by denwood

Keep in mind the FEL has freed many a stuck tractor that otherwise would have to be pulled out. If you think there is little chance of actually getting stuck, yes take it off.

Traction
New Holland Tractors
Replies 4 Post by denwood

and you will probably need to wear a dust mask. I know when I chip old stuff it nearly chokes and blinds me.

ok to chip older branches
Operating and Attachments
Replies 6 Post by denwood

$ever been to Bermuda. They hook all the rain gutters to the house tank since almost no wells can get fresh water. The hydo fracturing is something I looked into a little. Seems there are a few ideas. the chewing tobacco method was to drop a stick of dynomite down and hope the casing doesn't go into orbit. the other method seemed promising where they send a balloon down and inflate it then pressurize below it to crack the rock. Some folks around me still insist on pounded wells over drilled for the cracking they produce. I like drilling. The others were right about the exercising of the well to increase production. I think I would try that first. Most of my neighbors use cisterns to collect the water from their windmill pumps so that method can work although I think there may be more issues with contamination, algae freezing, maintenance etc.$ Considering Options To Deal With A Low Yield Well
Home Improvement
Replies 12 Post by denwood