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I got a case of Rapco paints a while back, including two green variants. Tried the tan yesterday, and it matched well. If the weather holds up I can try which green would be the closest. It would also depend on how faded your paint is, but as I recall, it's in good shape. But if you pull a...

It's probably a good thing that the smallest tractor doesn't have a quick attach loader. We call that one Barbie.

It's not much as far as progress goes, but at least today wasn't a step backwards.This is a strong hint of what got accomplished.And this is how it looks.

Happy anniversary! Hope you've had as much use of, and fun with, yours as I have with mine.

That's a good question. From the looks of it, probably four, maybe five feet. I rarely need to trench, per se, but it looks like a simple way to create new irrigation ditches. I'd only need to go down about a foot and a half, and at that depth there are no rocks to worry about. From what I've...

I might be buying one next week. It would be sweet to have the suite.

Suppose that the Zika virus isn't really a problem, but rather nature's way of adapting? It seems that many people's thinking power has been drastically reduced, so maybe Mother Nature is simply downsizing the craniums accordingly.

Don't bet on that, Mark. Consider that modern diesels have urea injection installed at the factory. We don't even need to pee in the tank, but can conveniently fill it up at the pump while getting diesel. Look at that as step number one. With our ever vigilant green movement, how far can we...

Another thing you may want to consider is running on used engine oil. I made a gravity fed contraption for filtering when experimenting with used oil in an M1009, but there was a commercially available setup - Oil Cat, if memory serves me - that was literally a push-a-button approach. Well, you...

Ah, another thing we can (dis)agree to disagree on. Most my vehicles don't have an inside mirror, which is fine with me since I never use the indoor one. But I would probably rather remove the real (outside) mirrors, and be stuck with only an inside one, than have to use a screen on the dash.

Yup. And as I read your latest post it dawned on me that I would've likely backed down that hill, at least the first time. Not that 9% is steep, but I'm still allergic to cabovers on downhills after having spent time in unladen Jeep FC150s many moons ago. It didn't help that I hadn't learned to...

Alright, Bison, back to your speed/gearing comments. I'm trying to picture what you're doing, and how. For example, you say that 2nd gear is too low, requiring throttle to compensate when going down a hill, if I understand you correctly. Having four wheeled for most of my life, I always...

Never having used a real forklift, my only comparison is with using a pallet fork attachment on the tractor. I was getting decent at operating that setup, but found it a whole lot easier with the HMMH. Even though I had very limited experience with using the forklift at the time, it was much...

Mark, if the price is reasonable, I would be in for one of those heaters. By having a spare, I'd obviously never need one, and that'd be worth it.

Bison, I understand why you want a worm gear winch, but why does it have to be hydraulically powered? And while I can understand why you might prefer that, too, I would look for a separate pump to run the winch. P/S pumps have other more important duties and I'd rather not mess with those if at...

Rapidly approaching one year of having had the pleasure to learn what makes a FLU tick through this forum, I would like to thank you all for the advice, camaraderie, and laughs. Well, maybe not all of you. There are those who have given me new ideas for yet more projects to complete - I need...

Oops, missed this one. Maybe the crane isn't supposed to have a load and the engine turned off, but I wasn't about to have any more noise than necessary so I turned it off. The air noise I'm referring to is when depressing the clutch, something the SEE doesn't do so I figured that it's HMMH...

Alright, now you got me concerned. How cold does it get there in Utah? I thought I was pretty darn anal about cold starts and keeping lubricated parts happy, but all I've done is use anti gel additive in the fuel. It generally doesn't go much below -20 degrees here, and the snowblower SEE will...

Sounds like my suspension lockout doesn't work like it's supposed to, then. It simply locks the suspension. Also, I only have the one switch (that I know of) which when pulled out, and with everything else in order, locks the suspension and displays a yellow light. It kinda makes sense that...

Bison, I don't think that the lockout has anything to do with lowering the front, just locking the height at whatever position it's in when hitting the button. In my case, the lift started with the hook much closer to the HMMH, and then the crane was extended a fair bit. This, of course, shifted...