Made a jewelry box for my wife . I bought her Indian Mālā beads and didn’t want to throw them in a little bag . Used some slab cherry I had dried . Finish is just Johnston paste furniture wax . Going to use some green felt inside 
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Bought it this morning 
So that's the war wagons replacement 
Seen that a lot. 8' worth of candle wick. The rest bone dry. Wicked moisture seems to dry out much faster that sap.
Awesome kk!! That will be nice.
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Lesson learned about recruiting trail users!
On a National Forest adopt a trail program we wouldn’t be able to do that, not on the spot. They need to do paperwork and turn it in ahead of time, participate in a goals & safety briefing, and be wearing PPE. That process puts them on workers comp, they can’t participate without doing it. What would have happened if that woman was injured while helping you?
You sure your quad can pull that???
Did you notice that was the base price MSRP?
Here is is a 1975 Scout II with the original sticker price. These are what I recall being in stock at the place I worked at. This one had a $6,785 price tag on it. Click on the window sticker to see the price listed at the bottom.
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Good point...
I do volunteer chainsaw work for a variety of NGOs on private properties. Some of them require vetting and approval of those running saws, some don't. When it comes to volunteers who aren't running saws some have a formal volunteer program and some don't. On the particular privately owned trail upon which I was working only those running saws are vetted and "approved," other volunteers aren't.
Regarding properties owned by municipalities or the state (we have no Federal land in the area), some only use their DPW/Highway Department staff, some use staff and volunteers. I've cut on municipal and the best any of the management did was put my name on a list (of course they all knew me already
).The couple who helped... they probably wouldn't have if it was anyone but me. I know them from Cub/Boy Scouts and a city advisory committee that the husband and I served on. I know he has a chainsaw as he bought it and has it serviced at the shop where my son works.
This is interesting enough that I'm going to ask each NGO what their boards, lawyers and insurance companies want and let that dictate my actions in the future. I know I'm personally covered by the land trusts' and club's insurance but not how others are or are not.
And, why I never bothered doing any official trail clearing when in Cali.Good point...
I do volunteer chainsaw work for a variety of NGOs on private properties. Some of them require vetting and approval of those running saws, some don't. When it comes to volunteers who aren't running saws some have a formal volunteer program and some don't. On the particular privately owned trail upon which I was working only those running saws are vetted and "approved," other volunteers aren't.
Regarding properties owned by municipalities or the state (we have no Federal land in the area), some only use their DPW/Highway Department staff, some use staff and volunteers. I've cut on municipal and the best any of the management did was put my name on a list (of course they all knew me already
The couple who helped... they probably wouldn't have if it was anyone but me. I know them from Cub/Boy Scouts and a city advisory committee that the husband and I served on. I know he has a chainsaw as he bought it and has it serviced at the shop where my son works.
This is interesting enough that I'm going to ask each NGO what their boards, lawyers and insurance companies want and let that dictate my actions in the future. I know I'm personally covered by the land trusts' and club's insurance but not how others are or are not.
I would have had to travel over an hr to an evening “course” on chainsaws that I could well have done a better job teaching than whomever the FS had there…for several nights. Screw that.
I cleared trails for nearly 30 yrs in the areas I spent time.
government just ****s thing up for people who just want to help.
not my problem anymore.
As a USFS certified evaluator/instructor I always make an effort to emphasize dealing with hazardous situations! Back Country Horseman of Washington has a very good saw program, led by a couple retired loggers that each have about 50 years of woods, and "professional" training experience! We maintain several hundred miles of trail every year, including a lot of wilderness trail that has to be done with crosscuts! Beginning (A level) sawyers are only allowed to work with a B or C level sawyers, so there are LOTS of "training opportunities"!
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That's right! It soon will be! It soon will be!She ant loaded unless it’s overloaded
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Thankyou, Much appreciated!
Any of you real old timers ever seen one of these air pumps. I contacted the Hemmings old car club up in Vermont about it. The gentleman told me that he has only seen one in all his years of working around with old cars. I'm trying to find a value of it. I searched everywhere and can't find one like it. It screws into a spark plug hole and uses the engines compression to make the pump work. I don't have the hose for it just could easily make one up.
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Around here the training opportunities are rather limited. I took the GOL training so I could cut on NYS DEC and NYC DEP lands for Ruffed Grouse Society habitat projects. The government entities ended up squashing every project that RGS and their forestry folks worked out... management turnover was the biggest problem. The NGO trails... outside of construction project crews I believe I'm one of 5 people in the county working on the trails with training and experience--the other 4 got their training in the GOL 1 class I hosted. Part of the problem is there isn't a long formal history for maintenance on these rail trails... Most were abandoned rail corridors that people like me starting using 40 years ago. The NGOs took control of two of them about 10-11 years ago.
I'm helping train the future trainers. If I'm lucky I've got 10 years of cutting left in me... I figured out that I will in fact not live forever!
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Negative! That is war Wagons off "OVERLOAD" tender!So that's the war wagons replacement
