Recent content by Pen & Wrench

I bought a new Grasshopper 725 DT6 front deck mower new in 2014, with the Kubota diesel engine. 14 years later, 1,205 hours, the only breakdown happened last week, the front jackshaft bearing hanger broke and I ended up replacing both bearings and the shaft. I mow 3 and a half acres a week...

I've seen them used as a rough gate hinge.

How much do you use it? If you use it a lot then maybe a gas trimmer makes sense. If you have a relatively short run time to get done what you need to do, the cordless would be hard to beat. I used a Stihl FS 76 for about 15 years, then bought a Stihl 4 stroke FS 131R (I think). Last year I...

Another vote for an air chisel. I did that and it worked like a charm when I had to take a few blocks out of a block basement wall.

You're right, that's what I've always heard also. However, I put plenty of Diesel Fuel lubricant in my number 1 fuel and having come close to gelling it up once, it didn't quite quit running but it was extremely close, I am motivated to make sure that does not happen. It seems to burn more...

I have a Jet 20 inch drill press and I change the speeds all the time, depending on if I'm drilling a 5/8 inch hole in quarter inch steel, or maybe a small hole in wood, it has to do all my metal work and wood work. I had a small 5 speed drill press for many years that did pretty well on wood...

Good to know, I don't have a lift right now but I am wanting to get one at some point in the future.

I have a 725 Grasshopper mower with a 15 bushel hopper. Between us and our neighbors I pick up leaves from 5 town properties, dump them on the ground then load them on my gooseneck trailer with my Bobcat and haul them to the city drop off point. The blower on the mower reduces the leaf volume...

I forgot to mention, most would probably know, but the process is to clean out the existing pipe, then reline it with a fabric sock, impregnated with epoxy, resin and maybe some other things, and the sock is forced into the existing pipe with light air pressure, then the chemicals in the fabric...

Where I live there's a guy who runs a service that can do cured in place pipe like they do with municipal sewer pipes. Most of the house is plastic sewer pipe with 2 cast iron drain lines and 4 inch line from the main sewer stack to where it exits the foundation. My plan is to have that done...

That looks like a great find! You done good!

I suppose it would be too slow but if you could get behind the sheeting with an oscillating multi tool with a good blade and cut the nail off behind the sheeting, it would probably be fairly easy on the sheeting.

Hire some kids to shovel it off and place it where you want it.

I had to dig a post hole that supposedly had a line of some kind near it, and I used a water hose and a shop vacuum. I think you can blast dirt with a pressure washer but my experience was that you need to pull the material and the water out, with a vacuum, like the professionals do when they...

I had a JD F525 Front Deck mower, bought it new in 1995, that needed a new battery every 3 years or so. I bought a new Grasshopper 725 DT6 mower in 2014 and I'm still on the original battery. I always thought the JD mower battery was barely large enough to get by, but the Grasshopper has a...