Recent content by Al Smith

I normally just tarp the stacks but didn't get that done this year . What little fall rains we got hasn't caused any problems .bone dry ash burns good . As I type it's 3 below zero .Insert does good but this cold it does have an appetite for wood .Face cord every 6-7 days , about 6 more weeks it...

I don't have any "domestic " grapes but I've got some dandy wild grapes " .Some are as big around as baseball bats and reach the tops of 100 foot oaks. Those are large enough to haveTarzan swinging from them .Probabley as old as the oaks ..

This bar oil stuff some think it's rocket science which it is not .Bar oil is just oil with a tacking agent added to it .Kind of like STP in a way . To me it would make sense that $6 a gallon stuff would be equal to $20 stuff but some feel differently . Then some think salad oil would be a good...

On that bar oil usually it will go on sale around the middle of summer which is the time to stock up ..TSC got on that Husqvarna branded oil kick several years back and are extremely proud of it .Then again some think it or pre mixed fuel is the way to fly which I don't .I must be lucky because...

The above was the last eye splice I did about year ago .Fact the last time I used the 084 also

I'm kind of an old hand at it .Fact the first submarine I was on I eye spiced all 8 mooring lines which were 2 inch 3 strand nylon .The largest I personally own are 1" 3 strand nylon . Two 600 foot reels and one 300 foot reel on wire spools .

Being old school ,for one I don't use salad oil for bar lube oil .Mine comes out of the ground from an oil well .As far as gear drive pumps the most best design I've seen is on a Partner P-100 .It's all internal within the crankcase .No dirt and crud gets into to it . The worst I've seen was on...

The mention of this device my mind goes back when whoever it was,forgot asked for ideas on this forum of what to use to build it ..The last I heard it was successful but not a real money maker.Some other concern was alleged to use the same design and sell it for less causing much consternation...

A lot of these mid western premium white oak logs get sent to China and come back as oak plywood .I'm not certain if any of the premium plywood is made in North America . Fact a local yokal who has a log yard sells most of their logs to China Arrow Forest, LLC. - https://www.arrow-forest.com/ .

Typical Ohio .2 below a week ago now in the 40's .Pitter patters of rain, snow is all gone .

The last I hand threaded was a piece of 2 inch for an exhaust on an Oliver crawler using a combination die .I had to use a three foot cheater bar to crank down the die .75 years old and 40 pounds light makes a difference . As far as plumbing pipe it goes like this .Righty tighty ,lefty loosey...

It's been rather mild so far .However the hawk of winter is on the wing and it looks like the Siberian express will visit us about Monday or Tuesday .Predicting below zero with wind .WTH retired,throw another log on the fire and settle in to hybernate for a spell .Got food ,plenty of adult...

This Ekka business he conned someone to send him a Stihl 200T to where ever he was OZ NZ where ever .It developed problems evidently nobody could fix, he wasn't a mechanic .Typical run 15 minutes then lean out which is usually seals .He sent me the carb which might have been a crack in the fuel...

From my observation the small trees were saved most likely because they didn't contain enough inner bark to sustain the EAB grubs . In my case with the die off of mature trees zillions of new saplings have risen up because the sunlight could reach the ground .Those little saplings are about...