How'd it go today?

[Nutball]

Did I ever post this one?

View attachment Ported 026 and XS 7900.mp4
I found the throttle on my 026 wasn't opening fully, so I'll have to bend the push rod and see how it runs.

 

[lxskllr]

ERC? I'd have milled the shit out of that. Hoping I run into a nice log some time.

 

[Nutball]

It's my saw test pile at the truck lot I service saws at. The other stuff is off limits as premium firewood.

 

[pantheraba]

Wow on that 2nd saw. What is it?

 

[gf beranek]

Just by tweeking the throttle linkage. Impressive.

 

[Nutball]

I haven't taken a video with it tweaked yet.

The red saw is a Dolmar 7900 "spicey woods ported" by @huskihl running an aggressive 20" full skip chain with 8t rim, cutting at 11,000-12,000rpm. It's uncomfortably loud to me even with hearing protection, but tolerable enough.

 

[gf beranek]

Manufacturing tolerances are pretty spot on today.

It continues to impress me how much technology keeps making machines more efficient.

Pure wonder.

 

[cory]

Gerry, your comment reminds me of this book which I have not read but it looks interesting and is on my Possibles list.

 

[Mellow]

Heading to Lowes to buy some plumbing supplies. A pipe burst inside the wall behind our kitchen sink last night and flooded the kitchen. Fun times.

 

[lxskllr]

That sucks. Any particular reason that happened? A friend of mine has highly acidic water, and it's a challenge keeping everything going.

 

[treebilly]

That sucks. Reminds me that I need to do some things at the shop to keep pipes from freezing. Got some nasty cold weather coming in

 

[Mellow]

Apparently, it just rusted away. I had to remove some vinyl siding and cut a bit of plywood to see what was going on in there.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

The suck reveal

 

[lxskllr]

Short day. It was raining when I got up, with snow forecast for later. Client seemed excited to get piles laidout, so I went in with the anticipation of getting up there around noon when the snow slowed enough/stopped that it wouldn't hurt the gear. Client cancelled for the day after getting there. I drank coffee, and pretied some hitch cord. Home now, drinking whiskey, and watching the snow. Looks like it's gonna be a good day.

 

[BeerGeek]

Doing snow work with my brother's scrapers today. Started at 3:30 am and ongoing until 1 pm. Mostly salt spreading and minor shoveling of walks in condos. Embracing the suck.

 

[biggun]

Does it pay ok?

Once established, the snow clearers around here make good coin.

 

[Tree09]

You can make an absolute fortune moving snow.

 

[Burnham]

So long as you don't need to sleep much .

 

[cory]

Everyone I know that does it hates it. Blood money they say.

I did it and loved the plowing part, hated all the rest of it.

 

[Burnham]

We have some short bits of galvanized in our house...between the copper and outdoor faucets, or on the pressure tank manifold, but most all is copper. I've had the same issue as Brett a time or two 30+ years on.

 

[lxskllr]

I was gonna comment I don't think I've seen galvanized, but that doesn't mean much. I haven't seen much pipe in general aside from new construction. My place is all copper afaik, and the few other older houses I've seen were the same.

 

[BeerGeek]

Does it pay ok?

Once established, the snow clearers around here make good coin.

It's not what I charge for climbing (about 1/2 my climbing rate/hr), but being tree work is few and far between now, can't complain.

You can make an absolute fortune moving snow.

And then some when you own the equipment. Plow gets mounted on the RAM next week. Then the money will start flowing in for flurries.

So long as you don't need to sleep much .

What was that? Huhhhh...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Everyone I know that does it hates it. Blood money they say.

I did it and loved the plowing part, hated all the rest of it.

Pretty much spot on there.

 

[lxskllr]

My new file case...



All my saws aside from my 661 are in cases, and I like to keep some files in the cases with the saws. Keeps me from having to get my toolbag out. The 5/32" files will fit in a piece of heavy corrugated cardboard, but I haven't seen any with corrugations big enough for 13/64". Remains to be seen if the foam holds up to gas and oil, but you can't beat the price.

 

[biggun]

A tip I got from old Butch.

Mcdonalds straws.

 

[ruel]

Powercare Chainsaw Sharpening Field Kit FK001PC2 - The Home Depot

Use the Power Care 8-Piece Chainsaw Sharpening Field Kit to help keep your Chainsaw sharp and operational. This kit includes a flat file and guide for depth-gauge adjustments and round files for 5/32 in., 3/16 in. and 7/32 in. chain pitches. A convenient nylon carrying case with a hook-and-loop...

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I have something like this one. Toss the two measuring gauges out and it holds a scrench nicely.