Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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If it’s a lot larger then yes. The coloration on both of those species can often look very similar so you have to go by size if you have both in your area.I guess this guy is a Purple Finch? When he is sitting with his wings folded, he has a rather bright red stipe down his back. When flying his whole back and breast are red. At first I thought it may have been a Pine Grosbeak, but we are way too far south. The PG is the biggest of the finches and these are about the same size as our House Finches.
The cool thing about that lake is it goes from a large walleye basin in the South side to full of islands and bays in the north and even has lake trout.
MechanicMatt
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It was a FUN ride into work today....
Woke up to no power . House still warm so I just stayed in bed . Power came on around 9 still some freezing rain but the temps are starting to rise should be upper 30’s later today 
panolo
Seldom right...Always opinionated!
so busy yesterday with all of winter's inconveniences, even though i had all i needed for a nice fire by fireplace... never got one lit. finally, we just decided to let it go til morning. was nice not having to go out and get the stuff to fire up in the 14f air... 
burning some of the pecan this morning i have from a pass-it-on-down pecan/oak scrounge. came complete with a metal firewood rack and new treated 2x4 base.
burning some of the pecan this morning i have from a pass-it-on-down pecan/oak scrounge. came complete with a metal firewood rack and new treated 2x4 base.
had 2 extra pcs in wood bag, so no prob adding some fuel...
but alas, now out... and so outside i have to go to keep it rolling on... Texas is in the grips of a severe winter disaster. deaths, ice, snow, millions w/o power or heat... and another winter storm forecast to hit our area around 6 pm...
hope you all are staying warm and safe.... plenty ice and snow down here! morning tv news showed some snowboarding and others on x-c skis yesterday here in the Houston area...
but alas, now out... and so outside i have to go to keep it rolling on... Texas is in the grips of a severe winter disaster. deaths, ice, snow, millions w/o power or heat... and another winter storm forecast to hit our area around 6 pm...
hope you all are staying warm and safe.... plenty ice and snow down here! morning tv news showed some snowboarding and others on x-c skis yesterday here in the Houston area...
awesome snow pix! you can turn up the heat in the house, but nothing tweaks it up like the heat from fireside fire in the fireplace....
other evening, deep in the Heart of Texas....
other evening, deep in the Heart of Texas....
I don't like to judge from pics, but I believe the woodpecker I saw was a good deal larger than that.
Letting the dogs out last night was tough, steps were solid ice!
To put the garbage out, I slid the two cans down the driveway and slid down with them, made it back up by going in the snow!
To put the garbage out, I slid the two cans down the driveway and slid down with them, made it back up by going in the snow!
hi MM - yesterday on tv news, this winter disaster on all day coverage most of the day, they had some snow pix slips! on couple left house. house has big set of wooden steps. they were covered in frozen rains... and had game cam on porch... first the wife hits top step... then 2nd and zoom.... down she falls and slide to bottom... bump, bump.... bump! about as bad, if u ask me, as some of those Wacked Out Sports guys on their 'boards. then, out comes someone else... takes no heed to what just happened to woman... and Bam! down the steps the bump, too! all on camera... omg.
ice n snow, the cars pass my house going to theirs... crunch, crunch... crunch!
stay warm
But you had your chainsaw in the back of the truck didn't you
? Real men don't go anywhere without their chainsaws. Oh wait.... mine are in the garage.Seriously, how did you get by that? Go under on the right and scrape the heck out of your paint?
The beater I drive would have gotten driven through it. Cant scratch it up and worse then what it is lol.But you had your chainsaw in the back of the truck didn't you
Seriously, how did you get by that? Go under on the right and scrape the heck out of your paint?
He's a strange cat for sure. Another one is hotsaws101, there must be something in the water up that way, we'll need @Logger nate to confirm though
. I've spoken with both of them, neither will do anything for you if they get the slightest vibe they don't like. With Rich it seems to be he doesn't want trouble with the epa for building custom saws. He had a problem a bit ago with the guy you talked to from eBay basically stealing his name too, so I think he's lost trust in outsiders, or those he perceives may stick it to him somehow, not that he got that vibe from you per se. With Jack it seems to be he wants to work with guys who know nothing about the internal workings of a saw, I think some of that is he doesn't want others seeing/using the tricks he uses for porting, and he can get top dollar for his work. I have no problem with him charging whatever he wants to do a saw, if he's building a quality product then it will pay for itself if someone is working with it, and that's usually who he builds for is other fallers.
Understand that it's his prerogative to work with guys he wants to when it comes to customization, that has nothing to do with being an echo dealer in my mind. I've refused to sell saws to guys in the past and probably will in the future. I sold a great running ported saw to a guy, he got it and it wasn't running right, he was wanting to adjust the carb and take it to the dealer. I said ship it back and paid for shipping and refunded the full amount he paid for it. When I got it I found it had a small hole/crack in the fuel line, replaced it and sent it back. He still wanted it and paid for the shipping and the repair. The part I haven't told you is how he just keep running it and running it "to see what was wrong with it", even included a 5-6 min video
, see what it does, and how it acts, and..., the whole time I was like , shut it off, and the video just kept going on and on as I could hear the saw was lean . When you sell a specialty item to someone who doesn't understand what they are buying or how to maintain it there can be problems for both parties. The good thing was he is a reasonable guy, or I would not have even sold him a ported saw. Having sold much yourselfI'm sure you've had a doozy of a customer you could tell some stories about, let them come 
.He doesn't have a corner on that market, it's been discussed many times on most all the forums I'm on.
@Ketchup can you give some tips on installing a stihl bar or 1/4 pitch bars on the echo 271/2511.
That's what I would do.
That second video had a bunch of scary stuff in it
, but they got it done, and will get better with time
.I think either saw will do just fine, most likely you will find that the added weight of the 271t will be just fine with the chain supplied as far as the bounce, with the lighter 2511t it's more of an issue. Much of it can also be corrected/lessened with changing the chain profile to be better tuned to the saw. I take the cutters back a little with a slightly larger file(cleaning out the gullet adjusting the side plate angle to have less forward lean) and leaving the rakers where they are.
All the echos are very choked off at the muffler, I think they just detune them so they can pass epa regs. Most of them are very easy to open up many without doing any grinding or welding at all, but just taking the deflector off and removing the restrictor.
Chain tuning, muffler mod and retune the carb, are the quickest and easiest mods. Then a timing advance is the next thing.
Here's a link.
Couple videos, not the best, but @blsnelling has a couple videos showing before and after that show the benefits of the mods.
https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/what-do-i-do-with-my-echo-cs-271t.248757/
Our local Stihl dealers years ago was a Father/Son operation. When the Father pasted away, the Son wouldn't work on anything that they hadn't sold. I don't think he liked working on saws etc. He only lasted a couple of years and then closed.
Could be ,that one is a red bellied woodpecker
yeah, with the idiot from hell in their now,,it is a circus for sure...……...
