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Save money on tractor maintenance: Replace a broken grease port!

While doing routine maintenance on your tractor, you will sooner or later come across a broken grease port or zerk. By following this simple procedure, you can avoid a trip to the mechanic and cut your repair costs down to a couple of dollars! Continue reading

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$15 can keep your power equipment from stranding you in 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. For that price, you can’t afford not to! Continue reading

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I Can Move 1000lb. Trees Without Breaking a Sweat!

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. I got set up to do this for about $100. Continue reading

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Build Your Own Low Impact Compost Heap!

The long awaited sequel to my post on boosting the output of your garden year after year for $25! 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. Let’s get started! Continue reading

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Buy a Grease Gun or Your Tractor Will DIE! More at 11.

If you end up with a front end loader at some point, you will get more life out of it with the following tips: Continue reading

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I Hate Mowing the Lawn Part 1: Learning Curves and Decorative Obstacles

When I first bought my property, I was faced with the daunting task of mowing 3 plus acres of lawn every week. I clocked in around 6 hours my first time out. Some of the things that were adding a ton of time to my weekly task were unavoidable. This got me thinking more about landscape design. Now, I’m right around 3 hours and 30 minutes of mowing a week. My long term goal is to get the entire lawn under 3 hours. Continue reading

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Tractor Overheating? Stay Cool!

This is about a simple piece of maintenance that can be easy to overlook. When I first picked up my tractor, things were going fine until a few weeks in. Suddenly while mowing one day, the coolant temp started spiking. I took my time finishing up then parked the tractor. My manuals were still in the mail, so I started to do what I do best. Take something apart. Continue reading

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