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First of all, I don't want to replicate previous posts but I don't have much time and I do have specific needs. Mainly that I rarely bag or mulch and usually just discharge the cut grass. I am scheduled for total knee replacement surgery this Monday the 23rd. We have about one acre of land...

My wife and I just returned from a ten day trip in Germany and I wanted to give my thoughts on our T-Roc rental. I was not familiar with this model and figured it was new but it seems that VW has been selling this small SUV since '17. Overall impression: Our car had a 4 cylinder of unknown...

Interestingly, we live twenty miles from the Precision Museum. It's a collection of early machining history and technology. There is not much to do in the middle of winter so my wife and I checked it out. It's located in Windsor Vt. just west of the Connecticut river. The one item that stood...

It's made in China and we can't buy it here. But it is interesting.

I'm a Stihl fan but I readily admit that some of the things that they do just make you go hmmm. I have a MS311 that is my biggest saw and I don't use it much because it's heavy but I keep it because sometimes I just need the power. I recently added a longer bar to it and went to my local...

I love the new tool thread but quality tools can last a long time. I just found an old Craftsman rolling tool chest off of MP for $60 and it's not perfect but I think that it will be functional. Share your last used tool score .

Really? What were you thinking? I know and I get it. Long story short, I am a longtime Toyota owner and put 335k on my frst new Toyota pickup which I bought in '88 and paid $8800 for. I have followed the bearing failure story of the V35 engine pretty closely and the Car Care Nut on YT has...

I have been looking at buying a new truck. I do light towing and my biggest concern is comfort for my 6'-5" frame since I am tired of folding myself up to get into my wife's hand-me-down Crosstrek that I currently drive. My must haves include 4x4, cruise, and four doors but not much else. I...

I just did and it's a 2004 Suzuki DL1000 V-Strom. It's been well sorted and the seller has owned it since 2010 and has put most of the miles on it with service records. It's well cared for and runs great.

Why the captain of a US Navy aircraft carrier fighting in the Red Sea is always posting about things like Taco Tuesday and cookies https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-captain-us-navy-aircraft-113001509.html The best part to me was that he let the enlisted sailors sit in the captain's chair and eat a...

My wife and I have twin grandsons that will be three in a few months and we just bought a pair of Razor MX350s for them to get an introduction into motorbiking. The twins live in Florida and we will take the Razors down there for their birthday. For those of you who aren't familiar with these...

My wife and I have been getting along with our old reliable Honda EU2000i just fine for years. Then we had a three day outage last winter which taxed our (wifey's) ability to get by. The main issue was that our home has a well and our little Honda can't run the pump. So I recently relented...

My 2014 Subaru Crosstrek has been occasionally experiencing a momentary grinding of gears when shifting into 5th (top) gear. It doesn't happen all the time but it does seem to slowly be getting worse. Pausing in neutral before upshifting into 5th seems to help. The car has 158000 miles on it and...

I'm using my three chainsaws a lot more on our property up here in Vermont than I ever did back in Florida. The ambient temperature tends to be lower here too so I usually let them idle about 2-3 minutes before I start cutting. Is that enough?

Several months ago I went for a ride on my motorcycle with my phone on top of my saddlebag and it ended badly. My phone fell off and was run over and the screen was crushed. Amazingly, the guy at my local Batteries Plus store was able to replace the screen and it works fine. Of course my wife...

This is the most recent UOA on my 100,000 mile GS. No surprises but the comment from Blackstone that there was no water in the oil was mildly amusing.

My old '63 Chevy C10 pickup originally came with a 230ci straight six but had a later 250 in it when I bought it. The 250 still runs good but is showing signs of possible head gasket failure or worse with foamy oil at times. This truck will never be a matching numbers vehicle but I came across...

I have three chainsaws. An old Stihl 025 from the 90's that has served me well and still runs great. I recently bought an Echo CS-271T top handle limbing saw that I keep in a sheath on my Kubota tractor. It is super handy and light and I love it. My third saw is a Stihl MS311 that I want to ask...

I've been riding motorcycles since 1977. My first bike was a 1973 Suzuki TS185 that I bought from Suzuki of Tampa on Waters Ave for $450. Since then I've had dozens of bikes and I loved them all. A few of them tried to kill me so maybe "love" isn't quite right but my affection for all two wheel...

There was a thread here a while back that mentioned the Darwin Grip and it made me aware of this product. I have a bad back that limits my weed whacking sessions to about 15 minutes and the reviews look promising. Both of my string trimmers have the bicycle handles and are not compatible with...