Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / January 2004

I had several black locust trees at the top of the bluff that
went down in a storm several years ago, and sometime last
winter I cut them up and left them stacked up there.  At about
the same time I cut up an elm and stacked it behind the house.

Does anybody in this group have a clutch finger adjusting tool for a
John Deere 2520? ( tool number JDE-59 ) If so could you E-Mail me with
the dimensions of it. I'm rebuilding a 2520 as we speak and I need to
adjust the clutch fingers. I have a machine shop in the area that can

It can happen anytime of year, but the winter is the most troublesome,
fogged-up eyeglasses.
And, I suppose for those of you with perfect vision (NOT me), the same
trouble could happen with plain old "safety glasses."

I turned on the feed conveyor today and one section wouldn't run.  It often
sticks and usually a smack on the side will get it to go.  I hit it, still
nothing.  I checked the pulley, the belt, tried to get it to go.  I finally
turned it all off to take a better look.

I turned on the feed conveyor today and one section wouldn't run.  It often
sticks and usually a smack on the side will get it to go.  I hit it, still
nothing.  I checked the pulley, the belt, tried to get it to go.  I finally
turned it all off to take a better look.

I want to produce an accurate topographic map of an existing
100-year-old orchard in the mountains of Southern California, at about
the 5,000-foot level.  Cr 500 ft. of local relief over 32.5 acres --
approximate location 34N by 117W .  Want to locate survey corner markers

I opened the feed shed (which is attached to the silo) door the other day
and the lights wouldn't work.  The breaker was tripped.  When I flipped it,
only two of the lights came on.
Then I noticed glass on the floor.  I looked at the light fixture (simple

There I wuz in my ute blatting along the road coming home from the Show
(County Fair is what I think that would be in US speak) humming along to
John Denver singing "Thanks God I'm a Country Boy".
He got to the bit about "cakes on the griddle" and I realised that although

Hello all it is cold as hell up here in southren Manitoba -35F there is also
3ft. of snow I realy envy you Southreners.I want to retire to some small
Mexican village
as up here you pay for heating in winter and AC. during summer very

Just wondering how the headaches have been for you. Have you been able to
master them? What worked for you?
Pablo

I own a few acres of land in central Mississppi. Texas Eastern Gas wants
to install a natural gas valve and run a third pipeline on my property.
The area around the valve is suppose to take up 10,000 square feet.
Texas Eastern has offered to compensate me for the use of my land. How ...

I'm making a brochure for my meat deal.
Do you all think it would be better to have actual photographs I have taken
of the farm (not the ones of junk piles, etc), or should I use clip art?
I've read that people don't really want to know where their food comes from,

Hello people:
It is the middle of winter and an almost young man's fancy turns to ...
greenhouses.
Anyone have any thoughts on building one cordwood style?  Would the

Hi my name is Jim I wonder if you regulars will tollerate
another semi rural  hobby farmer? 20 yrs. ago the Gov.
foreclosed on our farming operation me and 2 younger
brothers we were left with  2 quarters  out of 20 and 2 of

I was walking back from the mailbox yesterday evening and just happened
to notice that my outfront daffodils have started coming up. :-) Just an
inch or two of blades sticking out of the ground;but to me this is the
first sign that we are on our way toward spring here in NE Texas. ...