WoodAbuser
aka WoodchuckAbuser
For stirring the pot?
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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For the same reason people can't throw their trash in the trash can two feet away, but just toss it on the ground. Brain dead. And yes, always check the adjacent bins.
She should cover that up, its flabby. LOL
Yeah I think nowadays I would have also designed the splitter rebuild in CAD since I have access to the software being able to see the parts and make measured drawings is awesome when your putting it together.
HD is iffy at all the locations . I prefer shopping at Lowe’s if I need to go to a big box store . For bolts and small stuff my first choice is Trading post hardware in liberty ny . Second would be tractor supply .Hopefully it isn't one you'd find at Home Depot... especially that one by you off 84.
I was in there Saturday looking for 3/8" X 3" galvanized carriage bolts to use in rebuilding a mail box set up (multiple boxes with the base mounted on a threaded pipe with a flange set in concrete. The bins marked for that size bolt were full of miscellaneous bolts of all descriptions. I dumped the full bins on the counter and managed to find 3 bolts... had to settle for one at 2 1/2" but that was fine as the pipe was significantly out of plumb and I had to shim the top of the flange to level the base. The washer and nut bins were a mixed bag also. Had the same problem on the tool isle with the wrong tools hung up under price tags. Then the cashier couldn't figure out how to get the prices on the fasteners and had to recruit two others for help... Is that store always like that? I've run into mixed up inventory at other locations but that one was by far the worst! Can you suggest a better place to shop around there?
P.S. I still haven't gotten out deer (or any other) hunting this season... too much going on.
I actually went to HD in Kingston yesterday bought a 3 drawer base cabinet in unfinished beech wood . They had 4 in stock ,all damaged ,found one that was minor the store manager gave me a 50% discount on it .
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I have three, three-point hitch Howard Rotovators, (industrial rototillers) and they really torture the rotor tines that are each bolted on with two grade 8 bolts.
One time on a Sunday I bought 100 grade 8 bolts from Tractor Supply and bolted on a bunch of new tines on one of my Rotavators to get ready for a big job on Monday. Boy was that ever a mistake! Those bolts caused me all kinds of pain-suffering and expense as they failed one by one. Those china TSC bolts are junk!!
I never made THAT mistake again! I stocked up on bolts from my nut/bolt supply house that just sells "quality" American and Canadian fasteners! I've never had even one of their bolts fail, and over the years I've bought a LOT of bolts from them.
SR
One time on a Sunday I bought 100 grade 8 bolts from Tractor Supply and bolted on a bunch of new tines on one of my Rotavators to get ready for a big job on Monday. Boy was that ever a mistake! Those bolts caused me all kinds of pain-suffering and expense as they failed one by one. Those china TSC bolts are junk!!
I never made THAT mistake again! I stocked up on bolts from my nut/bolt supply house that just sells "quality" American and Canadian fasteners! I've never had even one of their bolts fail, and over the years I've bought a LOT of bolts from them.
SR
Sierra_rider
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The manual feed works. It has an auto feed as well, but I need to get a belt for it. Not the cleanest finish, but it's only a hole for the clevis pin.
CAD was a great tool for designing machines at the company I retired from. It would show any moving parts that would interfere with other parts on the machine. That saved a lot of money and time before production.
Thank you for the information.
I typically bring the tools and materials I need with me when I'm down that way... the vast majority of what I need I can source from the store where my son works (they have Stihl, Husky and Ferris outdoor power equipment as well as many electrical and plumbing items, paint, lumber, masonry units, etc.). Sometimes when I'm doing a project down there it doesn't work out as planned... For example, I brought lag bolts with me but site conditions dictated longer ones of larger diameter. I made the new wooden parts in my shop at home... even put spar urethane on them, drilled holes for the screws, and ran in the stainless screws to attach the new mail box. I wanted to minimize my time standing on the edge of the road in the cold!
It's not a favorite location to visit for my girlfriend either... When she moved down that way last January she went to HD. While she was carrying a light box out of the store she tripped over an ill located empty pallet near the exit. She broke her knee cap... It took a long time for it to heal and for the pain to subside. She had a house full of moving boxes to unpack so her kids came to town and helped put stuff away. Due to their help she's still trying to find stuff.
I buy most stuff at Herzog's... Lowe's and HD are the back up locations! I feel sorry for the shoppers who want to DIY but don't really know what they are looking at... so much merchandise has been "re-shelved" by customers into the wrong place that if you go only by the shelf labeling you're screwed! Herzog's has that re-shelving problem too but their staff actively correct the problem.
My father got a lot of deals at HD over the years by trolling the isles. I think the Cub Cadet zero turn was the best... a customer bought it and returned it as it didn't run right. The manager showed my father it didn't run right. Due to negotiation and a staff error my father got it for $1,500 with a few hours on it. He figured that getting it for a bit more than a third of it's original price made it worth the risk. It turns out that it ran fine with high octane non-ethanal fuel. There was nothing wrong with it!
That new mount is impressive! Makes the rest of the machine look inadequate!
53 pages behind. Heading back out on the deer stand. May catch up later, then again, may not?
That was the best ever.....he was there standing WAY too close, not paying attending and talking **** about the other splitting tools being worthless and one of them sent a split flying that walloped him in the shin!!!
I think he had a gransfors and a hultafors. He was also a walking billboard for council tools, and their mauls received terrible reviews from those who bought off his recommendation.
Exactly. He was so ridiculous with his "view" on life that it was actually funny. He talked smack about everything except his stuff (stock box store poulans and a dolmar) were the greatest thing ever. "Ported saws don't make more power just more noise" was one of his gems lol
I think he may be the first person that put me on ignore around here.
Hi guys, winter is here.
It was 1 degree on my house today although others had as cold as -10 in the area (true temp, not wind chill). We went from fall to winter in a matter of days. Some areas on the big lakes that were open last week already have 5" of ice.
About to get some relief, it is going to be 35 tomorrow.
It was 1 degree on my house today although others had as cold as -10 in the area (true temp, not wind chill). We went from fall to winter in a matter of days. Some areas on the big lakes that were open last week already have 5" of ice.
About to get some relief, it is going to be 35 tomorrow.
Next victim in the morning, i been mulching leaves for four hours then went and brushcutted around the tree so i could see what the heck i was doing. got a lot of limbs not in the pics. gonna break in the 261 on them and get to try out me new stihl canthook and timberjack. trunk is probably over three feet across.
Hope your cold weather forces some of those birdies down the central flyway. I didn't realize that big a front came through over the weekend because I missed the news. I should have been out Monday or today, but when the temps are in the low to mid 20s and the windchill in the teens, I stay home now that I'm older. I'd be out hunting in it when I was younger. Just can't stand that cold of weather nowadays especially over water.
Do you have people tell you you’re looking in the wrong place, they’re out of those? I get that sometimes. I’ll say they’re all mixed up, no telling where it’s gonna be.
I went there the other day looking for fine thread bolts, they only had coarse thread. A good selection of types: grade 2, grade 5, grade 8, carriage bolts, stainless, but all were coarse thread.
