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    Thought some might be interested in seeing this.

    Back in the days of the Napoleonic wars, British navy ships were sometimes sent on long missions to distant seas ,often just one or two or three. There was no access to drydocks, so they had to find a natural bay, then lighten their ship by putting all the cannon ashore, then beach it at high...
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    Farmall 560 restoration or replace questions.

    I would take it to my friend that does hot air heating. He has the metal stock, the shear and the brake to make a new one in five minutes.
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    new Zero turn mower choices

    It sounds like it is the pedal design. I bought a new tractor with hydrostatic drive in 1986. The forward reverse pedal required that you old your foot on it in an uncomfortable position which made it difficult to maintain a constant speed.
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    Flat Tire

    Wonderful!
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    Second cutting underway

    I always like my orchard grass. It seemed to be always high output and no stem after first cutting.
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    Need some DURABLE 0.155 trimmer line (not steel cable)

    On July 17 I posted about the Husqvarna line that I had just installed. It is holding up way better than what I had on before
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    Flat Tire

    Saturday I was up fourteen feet on a ladder sanding and painting the soffit boards on my shop building. It is fifty feet long so it took me two days. I ran into carpenter bee damage so today I plan to move one of my two traps to that east side. The twenty-four foot extension ladder which used to...
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    Just curious

    I am just retired from haying after 35 years. Soil and weather conditions here in the Northeast dictate that you ted your hay to get it dried down as quickly as possible. Here is the procedure that I settled on: I usually mowed in the evening so that the first rays of sun were drying my hay. I...
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    Trailer recommendation

    Generally speaking when someone puts up a post on a public forum they are inviting the world to express any and all views.
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    Tractor flip

    Well how does this "thrown clear" business actually work. That is something that was common to hear before seat belts came into common use, but very little in modern times.
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    Trailer recommendation

    So are you figuring this out now?
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    What'd the boys drag home this time?

    The little oil bath air cleaner makes it appear that the Briggs motor is original.
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    Tractor flip

    Actually ROPS stands for Roll Over Protection System. The system part includes the seatbelt.
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    Tractor flip

    Conventional wisdom says the two need to go together.
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    Before auto tie balers

    Our club has a belt powered stationary baler that is operated at our local fair in late Sept-early Oct. each year. there are wood slabs that are inserted every so many inches-feet-flakes whatever that facilitate pushing the wire through. This is at Deerfield fair, just outside of Manchester NH...
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