New England B.S. Thread

I have the same Honda and while I maintain it well, it’s been flawless for me.

They’re $800 now. I paid somewhere in the $400s in 2013 and it’s been worth every penny.

I used it for my full yard for a couple of years, now it’s just a detail mower.

 

This is exactly what I have. I bought a Ryobi weed wacker and leaf blower to go along with it. You can use any of the batteries in any of the tools but the lawnmower came with a 6ah and the others came with 4ah. Great for a 1/4 acre

 

Does anyone have a Firestone lifetime alignment? I had one for my old 4runner but i didn't utilize it enough to justify. Most decent shops are $150-$200 for an alignment these days so $180 for the firestone alignment seems logical. My local shop that does service while you wait burned me twice at two different locations. I don't plan on having adjustable UCAs or anything complicated. It would be nice to get my tires re-balanced and an alignment done annually.

 

I'm doing it for my Tundra this summer

 

I was going to get a lifetime alignment at my local Firestone. They tried at align it and told me the 2 1/2” lift made the truck too tall for the alignment rack and they couldn’t lift the truck.

 

I have the VIP lifetime alignment for both the runner and Rav4. After seeing the factory tires on the rav after like 35k, I will always get a lifetime alignment if I can. I had the runner aligned a couple times before the lift, then took in the paperwork from my lift and they have now aligned it twice. It has been recommended to do an alignment every oil change.

 

I have a Makita one - works great! I use it for the edges and sometimes the lower section next to the river, like this time of year because the ground is softer and the tractor (Kubota BX) will leave a mess. I have around 1/2 acre of total lawn.

 

Who knew 2-1/2 additional inches would get your banned lol

 

Had it with my first 4Runner and might do it again for the GX

 

I got the lifetime alignment once I had the lift installed. This way I can get it done annually.

 

Does anyone buy the Purdue preseasoned individually wrapped chicken? I just made the Italian flavored version, just throw it on the grill. So good!

 

It's super nice to have a small front end loader! I do understand why people say to consider not getting the mowing deck and buying a cheap lawn tractor in addition instead, though. For mowing it's slow, cumbersome, and heavy. That combination would be miserable if you were mowing a huge area or if you have a lot of obstacles to go around. Fortunately, I have neither so it works okay for me. Kind of a jack of all trades/master of none situation.

 

To cut lots of grass fast, nothing beats a zero turn

 

why is it slow? just the size/turning radius?

 

Partly that, partly because I cut in low range. Low range gets a nice looking cut. It has enough power to cut in high range but the result is much worse. It would be fine for a big field or something but I find the grass doesn't lift well when you go too fast and it causes an uneven cut where the tires were.

 

If I was bagging the leaves, I would get 50 something of the large bags. Used to have to do it with a rake and bags when I first moved here. Fk all that.

I think my push has a Briggs/Stratton, had it 20 years. Barely gets used except as you said for yours but thing always fires first pull.

 

Back in 2016 i purchased this cherry, 1-cali owner 4runner while i was living in Indiana. I got the opportunity I move to upstate NY for my job. My wife and I went from living in Midwest farmland country homes to living in a brownstone mansion apartment two blocks from the NY state capital buildings (in our first year of marriage).



It was quite the cultural adjustment and very difficult to find our place. For myself, i really wanted to get into off-roading and the overlanding trend that was exploding at the time. Like most, I had my "keeping up with the instagram jones" and dove into spending money modifying my 4runner. Buying cheap parts and wasting money buying the right parts the second time around. I learned to do maintenance like pressing ball joints, overhauling my cooling system, building custom drawers and even learned to weld in the process. As great as that was, I wasn't getting out and using my 4runner. The part I wanted the most was the experiences, the adventure, and getting to meet like-minded people. Between the hours spent on 4runner forums and other social media platforms, someone told me to join tacomaworld. They told me there was a good group of active members that were always doing events in the northeast.
I joined Tacoma World and immediately (yet tentatively) asked to join an outing that Zach ( @SR-71A ) was organizing to the Dorset VT caves. I didn't know a single person and these unknown attendees were referred to me by yet another unknown person.
It was a shady proposition telling my wife we were going camping and wheeling with people i had never met and I didn't even know their real names. It was awfully awkward walking up to a campfire circle and introducing yourself by your username. 7 years later, i have a tacoma again and have still been active on this forum primarily because of that weekend. Life is always changing. I am currently typing this while waiting to wake up and feed my 7 week old daughter one more time before i go to sleep. I'm taking this rare moment of calm to think about my time since moving to upstate NY. There has been bad times but always more of the good. My wife and I have fostered children, adopted our 6yr old daughter, and just had another in April. I am only 32 but have a lifetime of memories and experiences since moving here.

Anyways, back to the Dorset Caves weekend. It may not have seemed like much to others, but we felt genuinely welcomed (at a time while we were learning to acclimate to our new and very isolated feeling lives).

Rob spotted me first time ever off-roading. He reassured me that the clicking and popping noises was fine lol.
Zach let drive into his campsite at 10pm at night and setup camp on top of his setup.

@mach1man001 @m603holden @SR-71A @Skierrichy @Bruce988jl
Thank you gentlemen.

to this day, my wife still randomly quotes Rob yelling "The other passenger!"

 

Love this community..and your story, especially the part about adoption.