
Periodically service your small farm tractor for optimal operation using this seasonal tractor maintenance checklist.

Before revving up your tractor’s engine for the workday, use this daily maintenance checklist ensure this important piece of small-farm equipment is running smoothly.
For a guy who likes tools, I really hate shopping for them. I want to add an angle grinder to my shop and have started the process.
Does anyone else ever get "neat idea" overload? I recently received an email with photos of neat ideas—like using a comb to hold a nail to be hammered ... no more bruised thumbs!
If the process of getting the bed parts into place was a hassle, it was our fault, not that of the company.

Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen explains how to safely mount a skid steer using the three-point rule.
Use a generator safely on your farm with tips from Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen.
Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen explains the importance of keeping a well-maintained generator on the farm.
So there we were with a partially unpacked bed, a floor away from where it was supposed to be. To complicate things, I wasn't sure if the construction, as solid as it appeared, could handle the torque that would occur with my wife and I wrestling it through the house and down a set of stairs.
I built a Murphy bed this weekend! OK, I actually put one together. There's a big difference.
If you decide to bury some waterlines as I did a few years ago, don't forget to map them ... and then refer to your map before working around them.
Setting up shelving can be a time-consuming process as you evaluate what you want stored and where.