How'd it go today?

[Maximalist]

quite noisy for such a tiny saw!

The Stichl 150 has a sound output of 110 decibels, while the Echo 2511 has a sound output of 112 decibels. I bet our American colleagues think you're talking nonsense, especially since they love drilling extra holes in their exhaust systems!

 

[flushcut]

 

[WoodCutr]

they really shouldn't call something the "outlaw festival" and include rules on the sign...

speaking of, anyone got any leftover fireworks they need to get rid of?

 

[Burnham]

Git lit up by yellow jackets this morning. Five hits on my right thumb near the second knuckle. Multiple hits on both calves. My truce with stinging insects is out the window.

In case anyone in interested, I have found that the very best way to aggravate a large quantity of ground nesting yellow jackets is to run over their nest spot in the tall grass with a riding mower . Luckily, I saw the swarm before I made a second pass. No stings.

Second best way may be to set an idling chainsaw on the ground in close proximity to a ground nest. I did get stung by a couple that time .

I have dispatched three ground nests thus far this season. I'll have to buy some more spray tomorrow, and then this one will get gone too. Nightime ninja work .

 

[treebilly]

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There was an Alpine Valley venue near me years ago. I can’t remember who I saw there though. Most likely during the days where I thought I needed to make sure they ran out of alcohol every night. I’m jealous though. I have never had the opportunity to see Willie. Enjoy.

 

[flushcut]

There was an Alpine Valley venue near me years ago. I can’t remember who I saw there though. Most likely during the days where I thought I needed to make sure they ran out of alcohol every night. I’m jealous though. I have never had the opportunity to see Willie. Enjoy.

We are tailgating at the moment. Willie and Bob are why I’m here. The weather is perfect over cast 80 nice breezy temp dropping two degrees an hour. If you ever get a chance to see a show here it’s worth it. I’ll get a pic or two when we go in.

 

[stikine]

We are tailgating at the moment. Willie and Bob are why I’m here. The weather is perfect over cast 80 nice breezy temp dropping two degrees an hour. If you ever get a chance to see a show here it’s worth it. I’ll get a pic or two when we go in.

May 24th

 

[davidwyby]

The Stichl 150 has a sound output of 110 decibels, while the Echo 2511 has a sound output of 112 decibels. I bet our American colleagues think you're talking nonsense, especially since they love drilling extra holes in their exhaust systems!

 

[flushcut]

Willie was good Bob not so much. We’re not so sure Bob was even on stage. But oh well.

 

[stikine]

Willie was good Bob not so much. We’re not so sure Bob was even on stage. But oh well.

That was my take as well.

 

[Cobleskill]

In 1974 I went on a cross country trip with a college bud. We started at Tuscon where we stayed with his bud there for a while. Next was Grand Canyon at late afternoon. Stayed in a lodge and saw sun rise. Went through Vegas around noon. Neither of us cared to gamble and too early for much to be going on there. Next was Giant Sequoias. Had some buisness to do around Sacremento. Stopped in west Texas to visit a girl we went to school with. Alpine texas. Left to visit a bud of mine who was in Austin. We miscalculated how damn big Texas is and didn't get in til 2 or 3 in the morning. Had no phone number to let him know we were coming. My bud slept in truck cab. I slept, not really, on a hydraulic tank in the cap at quite an angle.
So that night was Friday and he says you want to go out? Where I say. Oh, this college bar, it's pretty cool. I say I don't think I will be able to keep my eyes open.

Turns out it was the Armadillo and Willie who hadn't made it big time yet was playing there. Kicked myself many a time.

 

[Cobleskill]

I saw Bob 20 years ago and he wasn't great then. No interaction with the crowd either. He could have not been there either.

 

[davidwyby]

Couldn’t get a pic so I had to get one from giggle

Drinking coffee and watching the Gila woodpeckers. I like having woodpeckers around, being from the trees and now in the desert. Was a cool surprise when they first showed up.

 

[davidwyby]

Next I need to go swap carbs around on one of my favorite saws to troubleshoot it not running right. I want to take it north soon to cut with some tree buddies.

 

[davidwyby]

…the woodpeckers usually live in saguaros but we don’t have them here, I assume they have taken up residence in the non native trees in town. Co existing with us humans.

Carb swapped on the saw (the loud one pictured above, a red 372xpw). It seems good but I need to bar it up and put it in wood…but it’s raining…again…which means yard is a nasty clay mud hole. It never rains in the desert unless I need to do something in the yard…

 

[davidwyby]

Success

Everyone is ready to go to work

Gave the humongous axe a swing

Curious how Euc dries like that

@Trains @Bermy

 

[Nutball]

Hickory will develop some smooth round poles in the center.

 

[davidwyby]

Hickory will develop some smooth round poles in the center.

Guys argue about if it’s ok to have sap and heart wood in handles. That makes me think not.

 

[WoodCutr]

tractor tire is fixed, oil changed, and mower deck installed, all that I have left is the hood and muffler, for right now those will wait because I don't want to hook the generator wiring back up until I get an alternator swapped into it and the hood is a huge PITA to get out of the way to do that wiring, also got a small fuel leak to fix but it'll get me through mowing tomorrow just fine as is

 

[davidwyby]

Stayed up too late watching the lightning last night

 

[WoodCutr]

mowed a little, got the tractor about 300ft down the hill to one of my smaller "fields" and the POS decided to lose all its power, smoked the clutch trying to even get moving to get back up to the shop, on a good note its back in the shop and I ain't touching it again, I got other people around here that know more about gas engines than I do


remind me to never buy another gas engine

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Cobleskill]

Racing slick.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I hate flippy caps. Stihl owes the world an apology. And an NOS 066 for every flippy cap saw ever made. And a new pair of Carhartts for every flippy cap victim.

 

[WoodCutr]

kinda thinking of trading my 200T for a 201t or a T540XP mk3, sparkplug stripped, tried to helicoil it and ended up getting part of the coil stuck in the cylinder locking it up, it needs a top end but otherwise its pretty much mint, kinda hate to get rid of it but then again, its sat in my shop for almost 2 years and I'm not paying $450 for my saw shop to put a new motor in it (they won't warrantee it without doing a bottom end as well)

I hate flippy caps. Stihl owes the world an apology. And an NOS 066 for every flippy cap saw ever made. And a new pair of Carhartts for every flippy cap victim.

let me guess, got a shower from the gas tank, or dumped bar oil down your leg? my biggest complaints about flippy caps would be when the bar oil cap gets so nasty you can't open it without a full on cleanup team LOL, my huskies don't do that, then again the only husky I run day to day is the battery saw and I never remember to put bar oil in it, things been filled up like 20 times in 3 years, keeps kicking tho