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Chipper, the 266 looks like it is in as great a shape as I last seen it. Has a new OEM piston and cylinder on it with less than a tank run through it. Starts and idles fine. Gonna put the file to the chain and hopefully (weather permitting) throw some chips this weekend.
 

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Forgive me for this but...
Any of you lot using bio 2T oil in your saws?

There's a business about an hour away from me that specialises in bio oils for many different applications. They have three different bar oils and, what was a surprise to learn, a bio 2T oil that meets the ISO/JASO FD standard and gets mixed up to 50:1.

Keen to learn if I should try it when next run out of 2t oil.

Their bar oils have been proven in recent studies to result in statistically significant bar temp reductions compared to synthetic/mineral bar oil (I don't know what type). Temps are one thing, and it's nothing those of us that use canola don't already know, especially given the better specific heat qualities of canola/rapeseed oils, but the study showed a temp reduction even at half the flow rate of the synthetic oil. Friction is one thing, but chain slap and bar wear is a different animal and there's no way I run my oilers at half rate. Lower temps are great but the bar wear would be massive. As usual with many such studies - they leave more questions than answers. The trial was done with 10 foresters over a month so they could have easily measured bar wear in addition to temps. That they didn't or those results were not readily available makes me go hmmmmm.

After some digging it appears to be made by a Czechen business that does all sorts of bio oils and plastics. In Europe, branded as Biona or Bipol, and outside Europe as Lubeco.
 
Snow started a couple of hours ago and is supposed to go until sometime tomorrow. Not much of a weekend for scrounging but I will feed the stove a bunch of end cuts and blocks since I will be around all day. May even have a beverage or many....

:cheers:

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@SS396driver I'll be re-coating the table. It's OK as is but i want it better than OK. But I can't lift it vertical to get the waterfall end horizontal to flood coat it. Do you think I can apply multiple coats by brush, only waiting for each coat to gel and get tacky? What I'm hoping for is that the multiple thin coats will cure as one homogeneous thick coat so that when I sand it I won't be sanding through lots of thin coats that shows up when it gets glossy?
 
@SS396driver I'll be re-coating the table. It's OK as is but i want it better than OK. But I can't lift it vertical to get the waterfall end horizontal to flood coat it. Do you think I can apply multiple coats by brush, only waiting for each coat to gel and get tacky? What I'm hoping for is that the multiple thin coats will cure as one homogeneous thick coat so that when I sand it I won't be sanding through lots of thin coats that shows up when it gets glossy?
Your using epoxy correct? If its tacky then you can apply more
 
Got all of the eucalyptus brought home finally going to start cutting it up today. View attachment 789255


Ya sure green grass and leaves on the trees . :laugh: it was 10 ° when I left this morning20200117_110914.jpg 20200117_161102.jpg I just got done with a load of maple about 1/4 of the upper part. Blow down about two years ago. Not used to old school splitting by hand. Tomorrow I use the trailer and winch
 
For all the fellas recommending me to get a bigger truck, just remember the old blue war wagon.

when loading the truck tonight I kept looking down at the hitch to see if it was touching yet. Until it touches I’ll never have reached Dancan level of scrounging proficiency. That guy and that legendary van have helped mold me into the scrounger I am today. View attachment 789179

As I've told you guys before , if Clint hadn't started this thread I wouldn't have had a place to divert my mind from my long road to recovery .
I was in a bad spot , a friend gave me a deal on that van , I struggled to get the first row in that van the first weekend all restrictions were lifted .
I used that van to set a lot of personal goals , there were a few times that I sat on a stump and thot for a micro second about just quitting because the struggle would get to me ... But then I remembered that I had to post a better pic than the one before so off I went .
My physio people would shake their head lol
It was a great van ! A difficult and great challenge for me at the time , I tore the front bumper off twice lol and I hope I didn't bore anyone with all my posting .
I've paid attention to all you posters and watched for the tips and knowledge you've all shared . I've read every post , just remember , I have the greatest tides , the best lobster and had a minivan with structural glass for back windows :numberone:
 
Dancan, I remember ALL those old posts. Remember making the skiding cone outta a plastic 55gallon drum? Loved following along for the ride. You and Clint taught Me that my family is normal. I always thought we were weirdos.... My dad and uncle would turn station wagons into pickup trucks, cause that’s what they had. When I was a little boy my dad would leave his desk job, get changed fire up the old xl12 and load his truck with wood. He’d get home exhausted and it’d be my job to unload it. Can NOT tell you how many times I hit the arch of my back on his damn cap door. You fellas taught me, I wasn’t alone or the only one.
 
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