There are a lot of people addicted to prescription painkillers too and the powers that be don’t seem to want to tackle that.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Um 50 pills at 10 bucks a pop times 40 or 50 "patients" a week . Do the numbers. One "dr" was charged with writing 4 to 5 hundred fictitious patients per month . Most were medicare and or workers comp
'Green' is reduced kickback chain. 'Yellow' is not. The color codes are independent of whether the cutters are semi-chisel or full-chisel, although most low kickback chains are made up with semi-chisel cutters.
Full-chisel cutters will generally cut more aggressively when sharp. Skip tooth chains may also feel more aggressive in some wood.
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I usually run full comp, full chisel on my saws, except the little ones. I get them off the ground and seldom rock one. I still enjoy sharpening my 404 chains because I can see them. 3/8 I have to squint more, and wind up with a headache. The reduced kickback, with the link between cutters just turn into a blur. Never tried skip. I always figured if the saw wouldn’t pull full comp, I needed more saw, not less cutters.
I know it’s an oversimplification to say green= home owner and yellow =pro. But it works for my BIL.
I know it’s an oversimplification to say green= home owner and yellow =pro. But it works for my BIL.
I know what you mean. I can’t believe how much I use my MS170. Now I have the little 29CC Echo 280E, I want to do some limbing with it. If you told me when I was 40, I’d be usin a top handle before I turned 65, I would have broke a rib laughing.
Has anyone tuned a Stihl 034 carb before? It has 2 low screws, one high, and an idle screw. I bought an aftermarket on off of E-bay and having a hell of a time adjusting it. Saw will start and idle but idle is like full throttle. I keep making counter clockwise adjustments to the idle screw with now luck. Does this sound like a metering level problem?
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Asked my daughter what she wanted to do for her birthday today, can anybody guess her reply. 15 years old..... Dang time flies!!
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James Miller
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I under stand how it works. More then I'm willing to talk about. Theres alot of money in it. But it's simple supply and demand in the big cities where most of the pill mill doctors are prices stay low so 10 to 15 bucks is probably normal. Till what's left gets to the small towns that turns into 60 to 160 per pill. I'm not proud of it but I have some first hand experience with this. Wish they would spend as much money on the heroin problem as they did shutting down the pill mills. I'm sure theres a few doctors out there writing unnecessary scripts but nothing near what it used to be.
muad
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Never met you, and I swear I’ll get to one of the PA GTG’s one year. You’ve alluded to things of the matter in the past and I get it. Lost a sister @ 27 to herion, younger sister is not far behind. Addiction shows no mercy, socialeconomic status be damned. Country, rural, suburban, urban, it’s everywhere.
Never met you, and I swear I’ll get to one of the PA GTG’s one year. You’ve alluded to things of the matter in the past and I get it. Lost a sister @ 27 to herion, younger sister is not far behind. Addiction shows no mercy, socialeconomic status be damned. Country, rural, suburban, urban, it’s everywhere.
Dang, I just broke two ribs last week and the doctor wouldn't give me anything. My wife says it's because I look sketchy! haha
Cut, spilt, delivered and stacked just under a half cord of oak. I’ve heard here not much in firewood. Thank goodness I enjoy doing it for supplemental income...
That’s the other side of it. Now a lot of the docs will barely subscribe out of fear. Or they prescribe a weaker med than needed.
Is your 310 running right now? You can probably get more than 100 for it on the open market.
Here in Aus the echo 361p never made it. I see the 362p and shindaiwa equivalent has now made it here.
It's too simplistic to say "PT didn't work", the reason being that there is a significant difference between what one PT will do for a given problem and the next. Same with chiros and osteopaths for that matter. There are a few reasons for this. A better way to put it would be to say "The PT I saw wasn't any good and the chiro did more to help in my case".
Medical doctors are generally more consistent in their approach to problems than physios, chiros and osteopaths as a rule - happy to explain why if anyone's interested. The greater variability in approaches among practitioners in the various physical therapies helps to explain why one patient's experience with one profession will be more or less satisfactory than the next.
James Miller
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I don't know that theres many people who haven't dealt with some form of addiction. Whether it be there own or family and friends. My BIL best friend died of a drug overdose not long befor that I kicked in his bedroom door to find him passed out with a needle on the floor at his feet. Having been an enabler a user and now clean for near 8 years this still isn't a topic I like talking about. Theres always someone that will look at my past and blame me for there present.
James Miller
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Started splitting at the big oak today.
doesn't look like much but those big rounds can make a pile of splits quick.
I sold mine for $575 IIRC. Oz dollars which ain't what they used to be. About $400US at the time. It had 4 years scrounging use at that point and 7 years of collecting dust then was serviced and tuned prior to sale. The chick that bought it was happy, as was I. Don't really miss it other than the fact it was my first saw etc. No doubt though, the 460 was not much heavier and it kicked the 310s butt so that was it. I'm often into the kids about keeping things that no longer have a purpose, getting rid of stuff that you don't actually need is a liberating experience!
