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Is it April 1 already? This has to be a joke.

"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...

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...

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...