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I got a LONG story on an IH H tractor. Grab your theater-sized popcorn and Coke...or bail now. This would have happened in the early 80s. I grew up on a dairy farm and Holstein cows like to eat. During the winter, we had to have a heated building so the silage wagon wouldn't freeze, so we (dad...

A little known tidbit about Packard… IIRC, they beat out Caddy, Lincoln and every one else to be the first car company to install factory AC as an option.

It’s a sickle guard for most any implement that uses a back-and-forth sickle on most farm equipment that cuts plants.

I got these photos out of archives. Again, the local mom-and-pop service station bought cases of these back around 2015 or 2016. It was supposed to be the next big thing. The store is in a very small town and I remember the flashy container grabbed a lot of attention, but when the customers read...

Im with you 100%. I don’t like giving China any more money than I have to. That being said, are there any other brands of affordable carts being built in the US? I don’t KNOW the answer for sure, but I suspect I know what the answer is. Thought #2: Everyone raves about how good Milwaukee drills...

IIRC, G-Oil was made from lard or animal fat. It used to be sold by WM and had a full price rebate offered, at that time. BTW, G-Oil still owes me a rebate check. 🤣 About that time, their stock was about $.30/share. I thought about buying some, but I watched it go from $.30 to $.02/share. Good...

The local mom-and-pop small-town service station had cases of re-refined motor oil. I can't remember the brand, but nobody would touch it. I bought quite a few cases of it for $2/quart. The general opinion is that it comes from dirty used motor oil, but crude oil coming out of the ground isn't...

For a very short time, I owned a '71 Fiat 850 Sport Coupe convertible. I got rid of it real quick because: 1. That occupants of that car would not survive an accident. A Wrigley's Double Mint gum wrapper has more metal in it than the frame of that car. 2. I'm a good 6'5". I just didn't fit in...

There have been variations of this since the early days of automobiles. My dad told me about a snake oil salesman who came to town when he a teenager (the 1930s) who dropped the oil plug on his car, drove it for about 20 miles with the public invited to follow him and he would come back to town...

The cost of new vehicles has increased at an alarming rate over the past few years. When a new vehicle is in an accident, stolen, or totaled, it costs more by the insurance company….er…I mean the people paying the rates to fix it or replace it, simple as that.

When CDs first came out, I jumped on the bandwagon. Verses vinyl, there's no snap, crackle and pop. Unlike cassette, you can instantly get to the song you like. Unlike 8-track (anybody remember that? :LOL: ), there's no jumping from one track to another IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG! But while I...

Moderator Lockdown! (just because)

^Looking at the COO here, so I gotta ask… How are these more correct than anything else you buy at a national chain store?

As a former Ford tech, I can assure you that your oil change was not performed by a seasoned tech, unless the oil change jockey was on break, sick or out or out to lunch. Your oil change was done by "somebody". Where I used to work, it was done by a lady who had an explosive personality and we...

One good thing about RockAuto is that they show pictures of the parts. Go on the site and it will show photos of the cam gear, crankshaft gear, the chain wiper and the chain.

If you are considering buying anything from HF, check the warranty on what you are interested in. The Hercules brushless tools have a 5 year warranty. Some other power tools they sell with brushes only have a 90-day warranty.

Like a lot of other posts on this site, the comments are interesting. I'm only commenting here because my wife is a computer programmer who works from home. She's worked from home since 1997. At that time, there was no high speed internet (well, in this area anyway), and we had to have two phone...

I'm not a Jeep man at all, but I've owned four 4.0 Jeeps from about the same era as your vehicle. (Two '96 Cherokees, a '98 Grand Cherokee and a '99 Cherokee) IMO, the brand of oil filter is the least of your concerns. If you have a Mobil oil filter, run it. If you have a Wix, Fram, or just...

I have TWICE received front brake pads from RockAuto with a rag in the box, except for both of mine it was a red rag. Both boxes of pads were from the “close out” section. The pads were exactly what the description on the box stated. Yea, some tech had them in his hand and returned them for some...

Waaaay back in the early 90s, I was in a bar when they were having quiz night and I won $50 because I knew he was a member of The Band. The classic rockers are all getting old and dying off.