Local estate/farm auction had two of these a few weeks back. 30-60k miles. One on the higher end, the other lower end of the mileage range. One flatbed, the other standard. Both 7.3.

It takes a while to recover from the frigid lunar nights.

It’s pretty rural up there. Was betting on a dollar general.

You looked at land prices lately? Prime land is going for stupid high values with no basis in expected future earnings. It’s not hard for a small farm of 1000-1500 acres to reach that threshold. Annual income off that land? Figure 70-150,000.  Though there are outlier figures.

I’ve never understood this wiper freeze to the window fear. If that happens, isn’t the whole window frozen anyway and must be de-iced before leaving. The wipers, being on the bottom of the window close to the vent, will thaw first.

I farm.  Have Deere and new Holland.  I've never come across a repair I had to call a dealer for programming.  From what I understand, it's mainly things like fuel pumps and emissions equipment that requires dealer reset.  And knowing farmers like I do, it's probably a good thing.  Most would eliminate all the…

Deere windows are very easy to install. Just put one in Friday. 13 mm, 15mm, and screwdriver everything just bolts in. Expensive, but easy. Aftermarket is available but very slow to arrive. Dealer has it most of the time in stock.

Putting wipers up is just signaling to others in snow country that you know all about snow unlike those other guys.

Right. That’s why people are constantly sick from eating meat.

Stupid? No, musk isn’t stupid. He’s likely in the 150-160 IQ range. Nothing remarkable really, but not stupid. He seems to be about to absorb knowledge on subjects he is interested in very quickly, but doesn’t have the capacity to innovate on it. He leaves that to the people he hires.  Problem is, he thinks he's twice…

Entire vehicles in his yard would simply cease to exist!

We go through a whole bottle permatex on a rebuild of one Tobacco cropper every season. Use it and things come apart when they break. Dont use it and you will spend all summer cussing when stuff breaks.

Yep.  Modern conservation tillage methods are far superior to old fashioned moldboard plowing.  

I’ve abused the crap out of an earthquake 3/4 impact air gun.  It keeps right on chugging along.  Lucky?  Maybe.  But so far it's been great.  2 years heavy farm use.  

For conventional oil changes you are definitely right. For a full synthetic pull change its about break even. Maybe slightly cheaper if you buy things on sale. And anyway have the equipment. I’ve got pretty close to a full shop, so I do it myself. If I didn’t, I’d pay somebody because driveways suck.

For conventional oil changes you are definitely right. For a full synthetic pull change its about break even. Maybe…

That’s just the way the market works sometimes. Ignore the obvious for ages then suddenly everyone sells at once when they figure it out.

We farm and fix heavy equipment all the time. I would trust my welds on our equipment. But I wouldn’t trust it on a car frame. Maybe one day, but not today.

My welds, if they break, always break right beside the bead. Just like the factory weld broke right beside the bead.

I mean, it's basically trees.  It doesn't even take long to rot.

Extra fuel IS commonly used to cool cylinder temps on forced induction engines under heavy load.