Recent content by Brock Mayo

Thanks nutball! I have a feeling the quick muffler mod will suite my needs. An aftermarket air filter might be a good project for someone. The 2511t air filter seems like it could be improved, though I like how easy it is to clean.

do you change the port heights on them nutball? I’ve been pretty impressed with just the muffler mod on the 2511, but might do a little grinding, just cause I have some time right now.

About to purchase a 355t. Any updated thoughts on how they’re running? I’ve been pretty impressed with the 2511t with a muffler mod. I have a feeling the 355 will be pretty solid with a muffler mod…

Nice to hear how others have attempted to sharpen handsaws. Not super fun, but I can make them sharper, just never like new. I get into a rhythm for a while, and then suffer, catching the file on the next tooth, which wrecks the file pretty damn quickly 😀

Google only seems to find your post?

Yeah, I was thinking maybe they did those special teeth for chip clearing, but then I took a look at a 1/2 meter long katanaboy and there were no odd angled teeth. I figure if you need chip clearing, you'd need it on a katanaboy? Anyhow, I'll have to look at some other handsaws, it could be part...

Just bought a new silky ibuki saw blade. Being the only person I know that attempts to sharpen my hand saws I took a close look at the brand new teeth. First thing I noticed was what I can only assume is a machining error, every 14 teeth, two teeth have the top angle totally f-ed up. Not a big...

It's a much different saw with nutball's hole drilled in the spot that echo damn near marked "drill here." No melted plastic, if you hit that spot. Adjust the carb, get a narrow kerf bar, or just any bar and chain that isn't the echo one :) (it does get better with filing). As far as being...

I’ve been running an Oregon .043 bar and stihl chain. Still bore cuts okay. Not high use for me, so not sure about durability. Huskey’s low kickback chain (comes on the battery top handles), is the only one I’ve run across that will burn the tree down before it will bore cut 😀

3/8 .043 is nice on the 2511. I’m not a big fan of 1/4 pitch, kind of annoying to file, but the narrow lp 3/8 is great!

I just saw a couple of those bridges last week. They make me nervous… looks like they moved on to a new bridge, if there was a good reason for the redesign, it’d be nice to tell these folks that still have the old version.

No worries about a good d-rail... I don't really understand what happened. At first I thought the bridge manufacturing industrial complex had shut down the blasphemous talk of non-sanctioned ropes touching their products :) Anyone know what rope/splice is going on in this buckingham bridge...

"Dyneema must be retired sooner than nylon or polyester." This is the reason I think it's a poor choice for a rope bridge. A lot of folks I know have way too much confidence in that magical proprietary rope bridge and they leave it on for way too long. I think for us old people, the front...

Good discussion! Thanks for all the info... So the Dyneema core of the treemotion bridge seems to be a good choice? Does dyneema still have a shorter life than polyester/nylon? Is polyamide basically the same as polyester? I'm going to start using a 3/4 inch block on my bridge to attain that...

Interesting that the self abrasion does not affect Dyneema/Spectra. I don't know much about class 2 fibers, but I figure when I see a small diameter (10mm or less) rope bridge, it's got to have some type of class 2 core. It's interesting that most of the manufactures are making it quite the...