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  1. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Yay! Congratulations Casey! Beware, my son turns 20 today, it goes real fast!
  2. aighead

    JOHN DEERE 410 HOW TO DRAIN HYDRAULIC FLUID COMPLETLY

    I've found even doing somewhat of a total flush twice (with a long usage period between) has made mine much better. I'm sure I didn't get all the water out but most. I park it inside now too which I'm sure helps.
  3. aighead

    JOHN DEERE 410 HOW TO DRAIN HYDRAULIC FLUID COMPLETLY

    Do a search for draining hydraulic fluid, there's a few pretty good write ups. It's kind of a drag to do well.
  4. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Don't let the internet lie to you, there are parts of Ohio that are beautiful.
  5. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Garden season. This is my first spring with a pickup truck, so off to the store I go for a entire skid of dirt! It's lovely to be able to do that, so I only have to handle it once, pulling it off the skid to go into the garden. The hoe was used with the forks to unload the truck for the two...
  6. aighead

    Mulching - "The Daily Grind"

    I'm always interested in the mega wealthy homes/estates, and I assume that people like that get people like you to do big, neat projects like this to make their estate what they want. Not trying to get you to divulge anything, I just started thinking about that process recently as I was looking...
  7. aighead

    Mulching - "The Daily Grind"

    @treemuncher that is a beautiful job! How much land and do you know what the owner is doing with it? Are the people who hire you just mega rich? I can't imagine getting into this sort of stuff.
  8. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Swetz your barn looks great!
  9. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Harley, I haven't posted the two I'm worried about. The one by the barn I may have posted many months ago. I got both of the ones above.
  10. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Yeah, I wasn't really loving the idea of doing much of anything with the dead trees. I don't have any rope or chain long enough to get into these trees, but I've got one more big cherry tree to get rid of that scares me a bit. I'm considering either rope and snatch block or hiring it and another...
  11. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Got out on the hoe yesterday afternoon, after I got a burr up my butt, to take down a handful of trees that were dead and too close to the house. My wife is adding more fencing to the yard to give the dogs a bigger place to roam and these trees would also be inside the fencing, so I figured now...
  12. aighead

    Goodall Jump packs

    Good info, thanks @LCA078 !
  13. aighead

    Goodall Jump packs

    I don't understand battery tech at all but is there a reason we don't use those instead of normal starting batteries? Can we charge them with an alternator like we do with our normal batteries? I understand the fire risk is greater but it seems like an interesting option.
  14. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    To the point of sweeping gravel, my driveway, at the yard end, has big pieces of gravel 3-4 inch and upon putting the hoe away and walking back to the house I found lots of that big gravel had been dragged, with the tree, into the yard. It cleaned up fine but I was surprised. We went on a dog...
  15. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    My hoe kicked *** today! Woo! It's exciting to be back out doing stuff. After finally replacing the hose I got out. We had a good wind storm a few weeks back and my neighbor had a pine tree blow over. She asked me if I knew how to run a chainsaw and if I could cut this 30 foot tall tree up "in...
  16. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Well, it's nice to hear I didn't get hosed too bad. My neighbor has a tree that was knocked over by the wind a couple weeks ago and asked for help getting rid of it. I'd like to do it tonight if I can, so a hose fixing I went last night. That thing was likely 3-4 inches too long, inflexible as...
  17. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    New hose day yesterday for the one I blew out. The Parker store could not accommodate the 1" connection to the 3/4" line, so he asked if I wanted the whole thing at an inch, and I said sure. As he was ringing me up he said "yeah this hose is pretty expensive" and said yeah, I kind of expected...
  18. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    Man @AU.CASE that's some nice looking dirt and beautiful landscape! I went out and wrestled my busted hose off. Nothing like taking two hours to loosen two nuts (which really turned into four nuts, I hope I remember where the other big one goes). I think my hose repair shop is closed today, so...
  19. aighead

    What's your hoe doing?

    I finally got out to have my wife fire the backhoe up while I figured out which hose blew when we got snow a while back. She turned the key and it was very quickly evident that it was the big hose appearing to go into the hoe side valve manifold. It has an enormous nut on it and I haven't...
  20. aighead

    Lucky Skunk -- Flail Mower and Cable Incident

    Yikes! I have a neighbor that I occasionally helped out with my backhoe but his back yard, where I was working, if covered in grass and weeds hid all kinds of old equipment and chunks of pokey metal. I found a point where I was unwilling to do more because I was scared for my tires. Nothing...
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