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bitty

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  1. All the parts swap from a 400-450 . 300 steering shaft is shorter
  2. I don't want any without power steering although they aren't impossible to drive just not nice in tight areas X3 I'd be nervous to run it removed but the priority block still on .
  3. We had Mycoplasma in the dairy herd at one point. Nearly took us out . We finally had some tested and found out it was a contagious form as they all had the same strain. That was not common as usually it mutates as it spreads. We changed the protocol and finally got it handled. It took testing all the cows and segregation to.keep it from spreading to new cows
  4. 87 GMC one ton frame of my boys I put it on two engine stands this morning. It needs a little bit of work. He is making it 4X4 and dually and restoring the bodywork
  5. Yes they are weaker pushing down than lifting up IMO. Hydro hammer are hard in the q-attach so I would guess that a post pounder is not much better.
  6. I see more stupid people in cars than I do steep stupid truck drivers
  7. I agree that the skid steer q-attach is under engineered for anything over 5,000 lbs machine weight. The angles on every side try to force it apart whenever you have hydraulic pressure either direction. Euro mount is much better but I think it's latch pin should have been bigger than it is for longer life
  8. If the 9-650 series is the same as the M-450 series the hydraulic pump turns the opposite direction on the diesel ones than it does on gasoline ones do ..
  9. Was an 806 gas Wheatland at the neighbors farm since new. It sold at the auction 23 years ago
  10. The good ones are underappreciated and the bad ones get the attention it seems. I don't drive many miles per year but I see lots of good truckdrivers out there. We get some ID10T ones that go into a digester nearby. They have driven down and got stuck on a no winter maintenance road too often to count . The township put road closed signs up since. Worst thing is that it's no where near the easiest way to get there . You'd have to make many wrong turns to even get to this road anyway
  11. I have used some pre made plates . They don't take much abuse for long. Anything I have around the farm has been beefed up except for the HD factory case XT buckets have lasted good. I add gussets like this to add strength. That said I think your use it should work especially if you add two gussets to each side tip and bottom directly above and below the portion the q-attach hooks in at
  12. Our old 5140 we bought a new 520 self leveling loader for it in '94 was rated at 3850 iirc .
  13. We are highly erodable here . There is two small organic guys in the area that we are at. When we get certain weather it will be brown in the creeks . If we went 100% no chemicals across the world there would be NO increase in the price of food unless there was food shortages. I remember the dairy co-op promised to pay more for no rbst used (completely natural occurring in cows already and completely untestable) . There was never a premium that didn't disappear before they stopped talking about it. I have heard that some places are spraying wheat with Roundup days before harvest. This doesn't make sense to me. Is that done with Paraquat also? I want to use enough to do a good job on control and little enough to be the most economical when it comes to spray.
  14. Good used would probably last for a really long time
  15. We fill two tanks . Refill the sprayer from them . We do use water conditioner for spraying. I don't want to say that I have never plugged a nozzle and jinx myself.
  16. Goes to show you how much different everything is around the world let alone just the country. I don't know anybody who doesn't fill their sprayer from a garden hose out of their well around me. No municipal water within the farming community around here. None in our small town of a couple hundred residents. I do all my filling from one location. The only time I nurse my sprayer was when we were putting nitrogen on and I was only nursing nitrogen no spray in the batch.
  17. Here when we were milking cows the milk inspector would fail you if you had a stock tank with a float valve without an anti siphon device on it. Dirty stock tank water has NO danger to drink as compared to spray material IMO I want a safe system to not worry about possible issues. I've been thinking about ways to streamline my filling station . I think an electric pump for the water is one thing I have to consider. The gas trash pumps are so much work to keep useable
  18. We have an inductor on the last two sprayers we have had. I gravity out of totes to the inductor for anything using much volume per batch. I'd like to get pumps and meters aside from the cost although I don't doubt it can easily pay for itself with more accurate dosage with high spray costs . Our totes are on a steel flatbed from a consignment sale on 2x2x3' concrete blocks two high under all 4 corners . My question to those who are "Tee"ing into the water supply line how do you isolate the water supply to prevent any possible flow back towards the well if something goes wrong?
  19. We have a few Napa dealerships that have closed after they were bought out by the local one to me . I think he closed one or two out of the 10 stores he has now. In these smaller towns that didn't make sense to have one in every town. So instead of 10 miles it's now 17 miles I think to the store.
  20. Napa is the best source around here . Car Quest is probably second place and AutoZone is third locally. Hopefully antitrust will stop this but I think some in charge of the antitrust want these things to happen
  21. Paul Harvey had a way of saying it best
  22. Union Grove was 12 hours from home. I traveled along side of a guy that lives 5 miles from me and he was hauling his Super C back home from the show. I think he had a fast hitch electral on it . At our local shows he has close to every fast hitch attachment for it with an old van trailer they are hauled in and stored between shows . I remember a few license plates from the Midwest at Bloomsburg with tractor trailers and a few tractors. We were very glad they could attend. It is a big effort to get things to a show especially if not semi local
  23. I can see many if penalized to never show up again reducing the size of future shows . I can see instead of making Saturday better making the rest of the show similar to Saturday afternoon. Just my opinion
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