Recent content by Dieselbob

I have been in the trucking business for almost 40 years. In all those years, I can count on one hand how many recapped tires I've seen come apart because of defects. 99+% of the tire casings you see along the highway are because the tire was run flat and came apart. Original tread tires do...

My employer has four waste oil furnaces to heat our two shops. I have an old 25 gallon farm chemical sprayer tank that I set up with casters to roll around, and fork pockets. When the tank is full, I pick it up with the clip on forks on my tractor bucket and load it in my truck and take it to...

My typical year is 110-130 hours, with 90% being grass and leaf pickup and 10% being snow blowing. I was running conventional HD 30 in the summer, and 5W30 in the winter (unit is stored in unheated out building). When I was using conventional oil in hot dry weather, I was often seeing oil...

When I bought my new Kohler engine for my Grasshopper two years ago, I contacted Kohler and told them after spending 2K on a new engine, I wanted to use the BEST possible engine oil. Partially due to hard use and partially because the Grasshopper grass collector box sits right over the engine...