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May 12, 2013 · No comments

Zen and the art of Kubota grass blower repair

Tweet Kubota tractors are wonderfully overbuilt, but nightmarish to work on, so much so I sense that even my dealer, MB Tractor in Plaistow, N.H., doesn’t want to do it. My latest project was replacing the plastic housing on my GC54-24B …

January a solid month for solar production

January 31, 2013 · No comments

January was a solid month for my 7 kW solar system - 501 kilowatt hours (kWh) or about 100 kWh's short of our consumption. Compare that to an

Twitter, the consumer complaint center

September 2, 2011 · No comments

The best way to test if companies are using social media is to complain about them. I had occasion to do so twice this week on Twitter. One

LED Xmas no better than cruddy old type

November 28, 2010 · No comments

[caption id="attachment_1669" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Just likework my GE LED Xmas, except mine don't work"][/caption] I was hoping LED Xmas lights would be more reliable than the cheap crappy