Types Of Truck Wheels

One of the things I really like about living here in Liguria, Italy , is having lots of water features near my garden. During the rainy season, like now, the creek swells and the waterfall gets nice and big.

It doesn't matter if it's old and rusty—in fact, that might be part of the charm. But it's when you go off road that a farm truck can really excel. During hay season on my farm, we frequently put our four-wheel-drive truck into action, using it to pull...

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I'm knitting it for myself, since I've already given scarves to just about everyone else. Sometimes I think the creek has gone dry, but then it turns out all it needed was a creative cloudburst to start flowing again.

The tradeoff is that two-wheeled wheelbarrows are less inclined to make sharp turns—they definitely show a preference for traveling straight and require a bit more room to easily negotiate a turn.

On the other hand, a loaded stock trailer with a gross weight of 12,000 pounds requires a more substantial category V, or gooseneck, hitch as well as a truck capable to pulling it safely.

So the next time I have a need to measure a long distance—perhaps the length of a new garden or pasture —perhaps I'll get out my measuring wheel and give it a try. Models with wheels ranging from a few inches to about a foot in diameter are widely...

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“However, if you want to mow 30 acres of hay or plant 8 acres of vegetables, this should not be your primary machine.” That said, Dufour has a customer in northern Vermont who harvests 20 acres of hay with his two-wheel BCS tractor-powered 5-foot...

Connect these 3-foot sections to the back of the wagon using an 8-foot 2×4 on each side to ground edges of the 3-foot 2x4s together. I measured 2 feet from each 3-foot 2×4 toward the rear of the coop, and attached another 3-foot 2×4 to the long sides...

The wheel bug ( Arilus cristatus ) is a very common beneficial insect found in vegetable gardens and in many home landscapes across the United States. Anyone who has ever seen an adult wheel bug will never forget it.

The wise have said that the best ideas are simple. Our large lot and lack of trees allowed plenty of room for imagination. When our new house was built, its stark white siding with inviting green shutters and roof demanded color immediately.

Those temps are much higher than the average home compost pile , so it isn't as great of a concern, but take care to ensure the pile is fully composted before using it. As always, wear gloves when working with any compost or manure products and wash well...

In fact, it recently got warm enough to melt the snow and ice on the walking paths between the various farm buildings, so pending another heavy snowfall I've put away my sled for the year and have started using my trusty yard cart for tasks such as moving...

A crate can also be loaded in the bed of the truck, but it should be pulled up close behind the cab and secured with tie-downs. Always drive carefully, accelerating and slowing down gradually, and watch those turns! Don't make your animals scramble or...

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Fiddleheads, one of the first forest delicacies to emerge in the spring. ), has long been considered a delicacy in Eastern Canada and North Eastern United States. It is one of more than 20 species that was included in the diets of early North American...

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I was so proud to take all my friends to her house, because I thought bread pudding was high up on the classy dessert scale. Add to this mixture sugar, milk, condensed sweetened milk, and vanilla extract.

“We'll pull in, sell for 30 minutes and then pack up and head to the next town.” Tags gorge grown , Jodi Helmer , mobile grocery store , mobile market , revival foods The truck, a retrofitted cargo trailer designed by students from Savannah College...

We went to a modern oil press, called a frantoio , to talk to the folks at the facility. Olive oil has a long history in Liguria, and it's a good bet that the locals were making olive oil on this very spot several hundred years before the Roman era began.

Our host held half a wheel of cheese up to the flames, and when the surface started to melt, he scraped (racler is the verb “to scrape” in French) the softened cheese onto our plates.

I bought our stock trailer at a large consignment auction, on a cold March afternoon, back in the mid-1980s. Steel trailers are durable, particularly if you will be hauling off-road or on gravel roads, and durability is an important selling point if you...

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Year, however, things are a lot less focused. So if this happens to you, oh ye of forgetful watering can, take heed!They flower in early spring, and should spread happily in any zone with a discernible winter, say zonewould do well with a little bulb...

Importantly, it leaves much grey area to experiment in; especially for gardeners growing plants for unconvential purposes. Or so some say. If fresh leaves are wanted pick them under water signs, close to the full moon where possible.