That explains a lot!
My dad drank Old Milwaukee warm. Kept a six pack or two on the back step. Sometime followed it with a shot of whiskey on the weekend.
He was almost 51 years older than me. Mum was younger.
I'm sure I was a bit of a surprise. A delightful one, of course.
I started hand filing without a guide this past fall.
Always used a guide prior. Most recently the Stihl 2-1.
The guide is very good, and much, much quicker. Especially in dirty wood, resharpening often, like every twenty minutes. I do enjoy hand sharpening and trying to learn the technique. YouTube is great, but you have to look at several to compare.
When you hand sharpen, and get it right, there is a certain joy, or satisfaction in the feel of bar easing through the cut.
And I'm pretty sure the chip is different when the lower side of the tooth is also cutting (where the guide does not reach). The gullet. Although to me the gullet is the negative space, the open space.
I used to walk back to the garage to sharpen in the bench vise, which proved to be a twenty or thirty minute break, if not further distracted. I bought a second bench vice and mounted it on the rear rack of the quad. The quad pulls my nursery wagon/work table and supplies for cutting. Sharpening with the jig takes five minutes from cutting/back to cutting or twice that if refueling. Huge improvement in production over a four hour session and multiple sharpening. Quick. Sharpen sooner then before. Cuts better. Fewer distractions. And all I did was move the sharpening station 300'. I'm getting a little better and quicker at hand sharpening. Important is to use sharp files as well.
Just used YouTube to change belts on the 10 hp Ariens snow blower. It requires splitting the machines front half from the rear, and removing a plate to side shift a drive pulley mechanism to allow drive belt replacement. It also explained excessive belt wear which is 'normal' due to design, and drive pulley tilting out of alignment in neutral. Also used YouTube years ago to remove a Buick Park Avenue back seat to access rear strut bolts. And of course lots of other stuff. The quad front cvc boot replacement... The front axle is like a socket and ratchet attachment. Give it a tug.
SuperSplit is next.
Or maybe the quad. Picked up two Polaris drive belts yesterday. One to hang up for 'on hand'.
The quad is a 2005, and has been the heart of moving wood with the arch, and trailers for years. Now it moves wood to the shed, chips when cutting, the wood splitter, the conveyor, work trailer. Haven't put the plow on it in two years. Sometimes Grandma and I jump on together and ride over to the neighbors and say Hi from a distance.
Guess I'll do the quad maintenance first.
It's the bigger project, and the one I least want to do, so do it first, and off the list.
My dad drank Old Milwaukee warm. Kept a six pack or two on the back step. Sometime followed it with a shot of whiskey on the weekend.
He was almost 51 years older than me. Mum was younger.
I'm sure I was a bit of a surprise. A delightful one, of course.
I started hand filing without a guide this past fall.
Always used a guide prior. Most recently the Stihl 2-1.
The guide is very good, and much, much quicker. Especially in dirty wood, resharpening often, like every twenty minutes. I do enjoy hand sharpening and trying to learn the technique. YouTube is great, but you have to look at several to compare.
When you hand sharpen, and get it right, there is a certain joy, or satisfaction in the feel of bar easing through the cut.
And I'm pretty sure the chip is different when the lower side of the tooth is also cutting (where the guide does not reach). The gullet. Although to me the gullet is the negative space, the open space.
I used to walk back to the garage to sharpen in the bench vise, which proved to be a twenty or thirty minute break, if not further distracted. I bought a second bench vice and mounted it on the rear rack of the quad. The quad pulls my nursery wagon/work table and supplies for cutting. Sharpening with the jig takes five minutes from cutting/back to cutting or twice that if refueling. Huge improvement in production over a four hour session and multiple sharpening. Quick. Sharpen sooner then before. Cuts better. Fewer distractions. And all I did was move the sharpening station 300'. I'm getting a little better and quicker at hand sharpening. Important is to use sharp files as well.
Just used YouTube to change belts on the 10 hp Ariens snow blower. It requires splitting the machines front half from the rear, and removing a plate to side shift a drive pulley mechanism to allow drive belt replacement. It also explained excessive belt wear which is 'normal' due to design, and drive pulley tilting out of alignment in neutral. Also used YouTube years ago to remove a Buick Park Avenue back seat to access rear strut bolts. And of course lots of other stuff. The quad front cvc boot replacement... The front axle is like a socket and ratchet attachment. Give it a tug.
SuperSplit is next.
Or maybe the quad. Picked up two Polaris drive belts yesterday. One to hang up for 'on hand'.
The quad is a 2005, and has been the heart of moving wood with the arch, and trailers for years. Now it moves wood to the shed, chips when cutting, the wood splitter, the conveyor, work trailer. Haven't put the plow on it in two years. Sometimes Grandma and I jump on together and ride over to the neighbors and say Hi from a distance.
Guess I'll do the quad maintenance first.
It's the bigger project, and the one I least want to do, so do it first, and off the list.
