Recent content by Merle Nelson

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    Oregon man who shot at arborists fired hundreds of rounds, police say

    Wow. Very fortunate no crew members were hurt or killed. I had a disgruntled neighbor cap off rounds when I was working on a vineyard property once. Paused, sheriff got involved and took him to jail, went back to working 12 hour days.
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    Pricing

    One additional facet on doing something for another.... Jesus is said to have told one guy to come down out of the tree, for tonight I sup with thee. I view that as a gift given to the tree climber, an opportunity to provide food for someone he admired and revered.
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    Vermeer SC372 Diesel

    Saw the Bandit SG40 tracked at a workshop the other day. They seem to have a lot of kinks worked out since I bought the close to original ZT1844. Tracked with adjustment, 36 or 40 hp, hydro rather than dealing with belt stretch. (If you can run one and hydro delivers enough hp to the cutter...
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    Storing a branch manager

    Ha, I thought the Avant unit was expensive until I googled "hydraulic lever couplers". Turns out they're the affordable model.
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    Storing a branch manager

    Sounds like a good present for my stepson who bought his first excavator.
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    Storing a branch manager

    I will say, this looks simple enough. If I had an excavator or something with no Avant hook up I might use this. (In the comments there seems to be several people saying it's easy to set controles to not have pressure on fittings.) But, I wouldn’t know myself. Do you sometimes need help in...
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    Storing a branch manager

    Not sure of how much time people spend with connections not working right off the bat, so I can't say. But I can say the Avant set up is 3 seconds or so. Swipe a glove or rag across the connection points to clear any dust, mate up, and toggle the handle over.
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    Diesel fuel addative.

    Yeah, that episode slowed down my stocking up on hard to get oils.
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    Storing a branch manager

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    Storing a branch manager

    That's an interesting work around. The Avant leveraged handle works flawlessly to connect and disconnect. When I've heard this discussed in the past I've thought I would get an Avant hyd connect part and install it if I had other equipment, or, I've since seen a similarly made copy of that unit.
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    Diesel fuel addative.

    I do a lot of short hop driving too. Often I used to be at the job before the regen had finished, I figured that wasn't great.
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    Diesel fuel addative.

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    Diesel fuel addative.

    Have to hype Diesel Kleen to anyone who cares. I have a 2018 Ram 5500 with the 6.7 Cummins, about 46k mi now. From new it would frequently go into regen and stay on for 15 or 20 minutes of driving. At some point I saw addatives being talked about as important to today's fuel because of...
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    Storing a branch manager

    I cut down an old pallet to be narrow enough to fit in my trailer then put extra plywood on top to handle crush. Grapple leading edge, back up to stretch dangle out on grapple, set it down and disconnect. Have since grabbed a couple of free plastic pallets to remake this once wood one is too...
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    Class 5 chipper truck?

    Two companies in Canada make nice aluminum chip boxes. Voth for pretty, and Eloquip for more highly customizable. The search function could help you find where boxes have been talked about before but I never saw a lot of info here. If you're going beyond off the shelf designs I think you have...
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