Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I liked ur tac job on the 3-pt hitch! I have one for my small diesel M-F. cat 1. bar, 2 uprights, and ball in center.
I have mixed up a brew before, too. based on gear oil... 140 wt. and I have used some other's bar lubes, too. some brand name, some just cheap generic. I tend to think the Stihl's extra stickiness is a benefit of their formula. last gallon I bot was $22! my other stuff I will pour off into qt containers. easier to service in field. but the sthil I pour directly from the big orange container... slowly! especially when almost full. lol. but invariably, as with changing any of my small engine's oils... I never fail to get some overspilled or out onto the concrete. and it always sets me off!
Happy March everyone !!!
did the battery survive? wondering if, as they say... a fully charged battery can take freeze temps.
Nice. My SIL is on her third marriage at age 44, hoping third time is a charm.
It all works!I have mixed up a brew before, too. based on gear oil... 140 wt. and I have used some other's bar lubes, too. some brand name, some just cheap generic. I tend to think the Stihl's extra stickiness is a benefit of their formula. last gallon I bot was $22! my other stuff I will pour off into qt containers. easier to service in field. but the sthil I pour directly from the big orange container... slowly! especially when almost full. lol. but invariably, as with changing any of my small engine's oils... I never fail to get some overspilled or out onto the concrete. and it always sets me off!
Unless someone has cheap or free stuff to use, bar oil is the best bet. But I’ve seen saws that had never seen true bar oil that cut a lot of wood and the bar still looked good. Saw was a mess though.
hi MM - the QB is originally from NY... she tells of some cold winters... my garden just rolls one season to another... summer to fall, fall to summer... always in. more of less. some tomatoes recently picked small I had kept for grilling some shish-ka-bobs... both my current summer and old fall tomatoes producing. these rains have been a bit tuff on the plants and the fruit. can see a spot on one on plant and by end of day half of it has half rotted.
hence lots of fried green tomatoes... some pix. and picked just as ripening to stave off the water intake. vine or counter, pretty much the same to me if garden grown.headed to the grill.
some inventory, counter ripeneing...
I don't mind having to trim and work over some of the tomatoes... fried green tomatoes always a fav of mine!
but always some good exercise and a feeling of a job well done!
this pile, recent scrounge... is still calling me. lol
Those of you that have to move saws about inside your car, mustang, suv scrounge wagon, truck cab, this sort of thing look ideal surely? its what i'd try if i was doing that (I'm not, i only buck and noodle, only cut at home....the 50m walk up the street wit hthr Swede was the furthest my saws have ever been!)
That one is a mere £8.19 on Amazon UK....its tempting to get a pair just to cozy my saws up!
can you post the link?
Only Stihl I have seen with this color chain brake on it. Plastic .Only needs a Magnum sticker on it and it'd be awesome!
PS. Is the chain brake make of wood?
nice piece! but I am wondering if the bear thought he had a chance to get... would you really need that scope? or actually use it?...
ahh-h, hey mister! ...
I continue to be amazed at stuff people loose or toss out... scrounge-able. other day, I picked up along side of road when out biking... a perfectly good Sharpie. recently picked up a piece of brake tubing... 14" long or so. clean cut. and this n that... like small crowbar in the weeds... perfect condition other than tweak surface rust... roofing shovel... then there was the 4' long, 1/2" copper grounding rod! picked that up and dint look back.
so this gets tossed out to curb last week. just one man's junk. I had passed by it couple of days. then went to investigate. hmm, kinda liked it. [true scrounger's creed! lol] and imo not in too bad of condition all things considered. so decided it needed a new home and the trash pacter at the city dump was not its ideal! box, matching lid, dirty but intact. minor break in lid, but nbd. just junk!
so cleaned it all up... u know the usual, then q-tips and compressed air. and all the while thot... my! that would be a really good cedar kindling tender... and so that is what it became. I like it...
picked that up and dint look back.so this gets tossed out to curb last week. just one man's junk. I had passed by it couple of days. then went to investigate. hmm, kinda liked it. [true scrounger's creed! lol] and imo not in too bad of condition all things considered. so decided it needed a new home and the trash pacter at the city dump was not its ideal! box, matching lid, dirty but intact. minor break in lid, but nbd. just junk!
so cleaned it all up... u know the usual, then q-tips and compressed air. and all the while thot... my! that would be a really good cedar kindling tender... and so that is what it became. I like it...
seems to be well suited for its new role in life...
hour over! great thread!! good reads... went international, traveled the high roads and the low roads... backwoods and closewoods... reworked couple old saws, cut and split more farwood than any one man has a right to... enjoyed a lot of fine scenery... and heard some good gossip, as well as, some swell pix of the g/ks out on fishing outing... all the while never having to leave my front row seat! lol as Arnie said, "I'll be back!..."
What a beast it is lol.Here's the forerunner to that saw Brett. Customer dropped it off for me to go over and get running. His dad bought it new back in the 70's. Ugliest saw Stihl ever made.
I do however like the orange on it
.Did you get it running.
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