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It looks like an international The light switch is for an international and the hood is that of an international. International uses a hood and gas tank that are one piece like that one. That fender style is called an orchard or vinyard style fender. They use them a lot in southern mich in blue berr...

The bar graph tells how much elec is used in each month so this will tell me what months have a heavy usage. With us it does not seem to vary much summer to winter as we don't use air in the summer. The useage goes up starting in Sept and the next few months it levels our before dropping slightly in...

Ours was installed a year ago. I had been reading about them on another forum and the problems they were having with them but ours went fine until Mar of this year. The elec usage shot up threw the roof. It showed we used 3 times the elec as normal and the elec company said these meters cannot be wr...

How about a cranky old man section

I also went to a small high school in a framing town. Last Jan there were about 20 of us got together for breakfast one morning. I found out that all of us except one had gone to the Army and 4 of us never went to Nam but to Germany. The ones tha went to Nam several got purple hearts. Several of us ...

That big buddy heater will not put out the heat you think it does. I have one for my fish house and it works but not great. If you are going to use or store it in a shop area where there is any dust in the air you will have problems keeping it going. Unless they changed the design there is a vent tu...

I use mine in my workshop when working on my tractors. If you take the top one and drop sawdust within a foot from the front of it , it will burn right now. I use that one for heaating up my skid steer when it is -30 out

I have the top one you listed and it put out a lot of heat but makes a lot of noise. I have another on that is an infra red that stands about foot tall and is inches wide that does a better job. I have use it when it was below zero in my shopworking in a tee shirt. I got that one at TSC and it comes...

They cannot give it away around here

Our pickles and squash is coming on very slow this year,BUT I hit the jackpot today. I have about a 1/4 mile of road frontage in front of my woods that I brush hog down once a year. This spring I hauled about 20 dump trailers of horse manure in this area as fill. I f you know anything about horse ma...