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5 Seasonal Tractor Maintenance Tasks

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

7 Daily Tractor Maintenance Tasks

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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.

Tool Shopping: Check the Amps

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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.

Neat Ideas … If Only I Remembered Them

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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!

Bed Building: Putting It All Together

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If the process of getting the bed parts into place was a hassle, it was our fault, not that of the company.

Skid Steer Safety: 3-Point Rule

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Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen explains how to safely mount a skid steer using the three-point rule.

Tricks of the Trade: Generator Safety

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Use a generator safely on your farm with tips from Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen.

Tricks of the Trade: Buy and Maintain a Generator

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Shop Talk blogger Jim Ruen explains the importance of keeping a well-maintained generator on the farm.

Bed Building 201

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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.

Bed Building 101

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I built a Murphy bed this weekend! OK, I actually put one together. There's a big difference.

Seek ‘n’ Find: Buried Waterlines

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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.

Shelving Shortcuts

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Setting up shelving can be a time-consuming process as you evaluate what you want stored and where.

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