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Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

dustinp said:
You might consider investing in a good blower. With winters like this one plows can only last so long before places to pile it dwindle down to nothing. We'll be heading back to winter reality in a couple days, and I'll get to see if the old JD 855 and 5ft blower are up to the task.
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It took about 5hrs, but the 36yr old JD was up to the task:)
 

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Ken & Peggy said:
That Oliver 550 is a 1958 owned by a friend in Viroqua, WI. He's also got a '52 Ford 8N. Both run. We've worked on them together, which reminds me of working on cars back in the early 70's - lotsa room and no electronics...
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Yeah, before I got this diesel JD, I had a 1942 JD "A" model. No electric on it, you had to turn the flywheel on the side of it and partially open the petcocks on the cylinders to lessen the compression so you could turn it over. They all had their own idiosyncrasies, which if you figured it out, they would start on the second or third turn, but if you didn't you could turn that flywheel until your hands blistered, and it still wouldn't run. It was dirt simple to work on, but it had a bucket loader on the front, and as you can tell, our driveway has trees all along it, which made places to push the snow difficult, and very time consuming. The blower was definitely the answer. Not quite as simple as the "A" to work on, but not too bad.
The "A" went to my brother in law in exchange for a bunch of sheet rock work when we added the pole garage shop, and a storage room in the garage on the house.
 
dustinp said:
Yeah, I'm not sure when JD, Caterpillar, and I'm sure some others made it near impossible to do repairs yourself, by refusing access to the needed info/tools, but it didn't make them any friends. Glad to see some legislation to end that practice.
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<Rant: On>

I just bought my last iPhone probably my last apple product, because of this. The only reason I did now was that I have 1 (one!) application that I can't get and must have that I use with my parents as they age in place. It's their lifeline app, and it is the one thing I need that I can't do with any other solution.

Every other task --- email, phone, calendar, browsing --- can all be done with free and open-source software on hardware that contains no proprietary parts, so if it breaks you can fix it yourself or pay to have it done by an independent shop. You are not held hostage by a "genius" who just last week was asking "Do you want fries with that?" before they were replaced with a touch screen.

If I can't replace my own battery or a screen....do I really own it? Not really. You're only renting until the part breaks.

All the arguments about "security" are just strawman arguments. Apple, Samsung, Deere, Tesla...take your pick all make flawed products. The flaw aren't the problem. Holding me hostage that only 'they' can fix things is the issue.

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