While doing routine maintenance on your tractor, you will sooner or later come across a broken grease port or zerk. Â By following this simple procedure, you can avoid a trip to the mechanic and cut your repair costs down to a couple of dollars!
A working grease port is necessary to keep linkages or bushings operating smoothly!
Firewood is used by many homes in colder climates to offset heating costs.
Many people in colder climates turn to wood heat in the winter months. Â It’s a great way to offset other heating costs, and is used especially in rural homes. Â If you use a wood stove, fireplace, or wood boiler, you’re going to need to know how to stack wood efficiently, safely, and correctly. Â Here’s how I do it:
Your weapons of choice to protect your fuel supply from the cold.
That’s right! for the low low price of $15, you can help keep your snow blower, chainsaw, tractor, generator, snowmobile, ATV, UTV, log splitter, or anything else with an engine running smoothly through the winter months. Â For that price, you can’t afford not to!
Fiery leaves, crisp air, tons of @&#$ to do.
Kubota B1750 Set Up to Skid Logs.
Shortly after I got comfortable with my chainsaw, I realized that if I was going to make any kind of headway cutting my own firewood and maintaining my woodlot, I’d need a way to get heavy logs out of the forest. Â I got set up to do this for about $100. Continue reading
A typical manual chain sharpening kit.
If you have any kind of a woodlot on your property, or if you intend to use wood as a heat source in the winter, you’re going to need a chainsaw. Â If you’re going to get a chainsaw, you’ll have to keep it sharp!
Your owner’s manual should give you all the details like angles and radii, but seeing someone else do it can’t hurt!
Ah, the long awaited sequel to my post on boosting the output of your garden year after year for $25! Â I bet you didn’t think I’d pull it off! Â I almost didn’t thanks to mother nature and some emergency roof repair.
After about 2 weeks of bad weather and interuptions, I finally got a free day and some good weather to build a low impact compost heap from recycled materials. Â Let’s get started!
6:30 Thursday morning.  The Tropical Storm seems to be done for now. You’re getting dressed for work, and you notice something new on the wall in your closet…  What are you gonna do?Follow me as I discover, diagnose, and repair several types of roof leaks.  These fixes can keep you dry until a new roof can be put on your home!
We meet again...
Last week, I said I was going to post about a new project I’ve been working on, or there would be another tractor maintenance post. Â We got the tail end of Tropical Storm Nicole on Thursday and Friday, and the storm won. Â More on that soon.
If you end up with a front end loader at some point, you will get more life out of it with the following tips:
It's a heap... of fun! (boo)
If you don’t know what compost is, I’m sure you have at least some idea. Â You know it’s good for your garden, you know you should be using it, but how do you go from garbage to greenage?
