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It's gone.
Bummer.
Even me, being more of a husky guy, likes them. With the things mike mentioned above, and the captive nuts, angled top handlebar(like a husky) and fasteners that have a locking feature so they come loose less often than a husky fastener, what's not to like. Well there is the part where you have to order parts from the dealer, I don't like that part.
Just fix that 046 and you'll have a 70cc saw that will last you until you can find another deal on a 462 :).
 
Did the Ash Borer get the tree? We have it over here.....
Ash borer gets all of them. Tell tale sign under the bark. These were dead awhile but alot of good wood left. I'm gona take 4 more and 2 cherries that are dieing later this week. 7910 will get the nod for those as I don't want to spend any more time under dead ash then I have to.
 
Ash is one of my favorites. Easy to split for the most part and dries relatively fast....just wish we had more around in SE PA.

Hope all is well with you James. It seems like this scrounging thread there is a particular group of guys who are here. Seems tight, and I wish everyone well in these crazy times.
 
Ash is one of my favorites. Easy to split for the most part and dries relatively fast....just wish we had more around in SE PA.

Hope all is well with you James. It seems like this scrounging thread there is a particular group of guys who are here. Seems tight, and I wish everyone well in these crazy times.
I turned my TV off in march. Been a pretty normal year for me. I did get quarantined in october. Went in complaining about sinus infection and came out told I most likely had covid. Dry cough, chest pain, and fever for 4 or 5 days started feeling better after that then 4 days without a fever and back to work. They wouldn't test me cause I didn't show severe symptoms so I'll never really know. Other then that my 2020 has been pretty normal.
 
Yeah, just getting rid of slash from last winter.
That's good :blob2: :rock:.
We had a little fire here, actually 4. The kids all were starting their own fires, then I started one to show them how it's done lol. It was much easier getting them to listen to my advice that way :). We had a nice time out, very mild here, even woke to 55 degrees with blue skies :havingarest:.
Gonna split some more wood today for a cord that's going out, I did about a 1/6 of a cord yesterday.
 
Had no power since Monday morning around 6 am . They just got us up and running and left me some nice white oak got 6 or 7 loads just from my dead end street . There's a big hickory down the main part of my road I'll get to tomorrow. Piles getting bigger every day View attachment 865934View attachment 865935
I have never seen wood loaded that way lol.
 
Rex and the Dog Catcher

You were not required to have your dogs leashed back then, but if they strayed, they could get picked up by the Dog Catcher, and you had to pay a fine to get them back.

My Brother and I were both impressed with Rex, but my Brother decided he was going to get an even bigger, stronger dog. The Husky mix he acquired was bigger (65 lbs), and was mostly black, but he was the friendliest, most passive dog you ever saw … not what my Brother was expecting!

One day my Bother's dog was in our back yard with 3 other dogs, and one of the other dogs was picking on him. I called Rex and just let him out the back door. Rex trotted toward the other dogs, the one that was picking on my Brother's dog stopped, and my Brother's dog started biting him, but he did nothing back. I think he must have had an encounter with Rex previously.

Then one day, both dogs disappeared, and the next day we got a call that they had been picked up and were at the pound. Back then, when they caught the dogs, they all went into the same pen, except I think they kept the smaller ones in another pen.

Well, my Mother went to pick them up, and the Dog Catcher told her "I tried to catch that blond one (Rex) first, but had no chance, but once I caught the black one, he just came right along with him. There are over 20 dogs in that pen, and every single one of them tried to pick on that black dog, and that blond one beat the crap out of every one of them, I've never seen anything like it".

Rex was small, but he was a scrapper! I used to play fight with him using a 3' section of garden hose. He would grab it and hold it like a pit bull, and I would yank it back and forth, but he would not let go. I would even swing him in circles (he would be air borne) multiple times and he would not let go!

My Brother's dog would later disappear one day and never came home, and we never found out what happened to him.
 
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