Recent content by RolandW

"The next reason to form a business is that, with a business, you can deduct the cost of materials, gasoline, oil, special clothing, advertising and about anything business related from your income at tax time." Well of course you can. Who would be crazy enough to start a business if you were...

I like to encourage entrepreneurship, but in our area at least, grass-cutting seems to be very competitive. Companies come and go, and a lot of them are flakey and unreliable. Most customers probably will want more than cutting, so you can't do much with just a mower and a truck. You'll also...

It wouldn't be so bad if politicians taxed you and then took the money to Vegas and blew it all on gambling, drinking and hookers. But instead they take your money and then use it to make your life worse.

I had a similar predicament with a brand-new Kubota UTV. The first time I checked the oil I found that they had overfilled it by a lot. So I got out the oil suctioner that I use on our push mower, which doesn't have a drain plug. I inserted it into the dipstick tube and sucked some oil out. But...

A neighbor wanted to kill weeds in a grass field, but was afraid 2,4-D would harm the fish in his pond down the hill. Our state's University Extension Service recommended DuraCor. I have not used it myself and thus cannot comment on its effectiveness or safety.

I have a Walker diesel mower with two decks, but nowadays I use the 62" side-discharge exclusively. The Walker decks create a tremendous amount of lift, which is great for a nice-looking cut, but clippings build up like crazy. When the grass is long and juicy in the spring – or worse yet, if...

This appears to be correct. That's a good tip to unscrew it to the 1.000 mark, which is easy to identify. Then when you seat it again on the object you're measuring if it moves about half a thousandth, it is about 0.9995. Since I got spoiled by digital micrometers a long time ago, I use this...

Chin up. My advice is to be steadfastly nonviolent, but know who caused this catastrophe-in-progress: politicians. Rising prices are not inflation; they are a consequence of inflation. Inflation is an increase in the money supply. When the Federal Reserve creates trillions of dollars out of thin...

A few years ago the guy who was renting some of our farmland for corn, instead of planting end rows just turned around on our neighbor's soybean field after every pass. That did not go over well...

There's certainly plenty of blame to go around with the 737 Max tragedy. In both crashes, the trigger was a faulty angle-of-attack sensor. In the second one, the pilots should have known about MCAS and how to take back control of the aircraft when it malfunctioned. But the bottom line is that...

As has been the case over and over during my lifetime, US involvement surely will make things worse, not better. Aside from the obvious horrors of war, what is disturbing about this is how – once again – any thoughtful opposition to US involvement is denounced as traitorous. Critical of the...

I get tired of excuses for the Postal Service. Bottom line is that when you do not have to earn a profit to stay in business, you're going to suck.

I got my wife one for Christmas and she's been using it almost every day. Brand name is Cosori. Chicken is very good. Steaks are the next best thing to grilled outside, plus it doesn't stink up the house the way broiling them in the regular oven does. Some things aren't necessarily better than...

Politics is the worst way ever invented to make decisions. America became a great place because people were once free to do whatever they wanted so long as they didn't hurt anybody else. Now, any time there's a decision to be made, we have to vote on it and then force the result on everybody. Or...

To be qualified to answer this question, you have to understand that the American state is not the same thing as America. It's obvious that the world would be much poorer if not for the ambition and genius of American entrepreneurs. But it would be much better off without the American state, at...