Interesting, I sure hope so! All the price gouging and people paying way too much for everything is getting out of control. It has to levelize at some point.
Crazy times for sure.
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1/2 a tank full through the 365 today and blocked up the pile of huge crotches and gnarlies into easily manageable pieces and 7 wheelbarrow loads later most is shifted to the back garden. I've still 2-3 'barrow loads to move but it was late so they can wait. I've left the totally horrid, will just need blocking up with the 'saw stuff in the hope some foolish person knocks again and asks if they can have some wood
tbh I'll be pleased if I can split 1/2 the stuff i've shifted, its horrid, it really is....but its as easy to run the 'saw and block up as it is to run it off to the tip, and I get the heat back at least, so its a PITA but t gets blocked up
knowing I probably don't have much more cutting to do this year and needing mix I mixed just a litre (metric quart) . I feel nervous mixing small amounts as a couple of ml of oil changes the ratio so much, but i err on too much oil for safety. Although I could need to mix at least another litre yet, I'm not good at estimating fuel use when it comes to blocking up other than its lot more than bucking logs to rounds.
I'm glad I've got the wood stacks full, the latest prediction for our gas and electricity prices is 6 times higher than it was last year. I reckoned it took me 4.5+ winters to pay back my investment in 2 stoves, the installs, 2 chainsaws, PPE, multiple axes and mauls, chimney brushes, companion sets and any other bits. if the predictions are right I'd save s much again in just the coming winter.
Quick saw.bar question. I've never bothered before but my husky bar has a lube hole for the nose sprocket. Oil or grease? and easiest way to do? I'm thinking a syringe will probably work as well as a grease gun but...?
Nice, my local rural king has a couple, also have a few 400’s. I want one so bad but I’m wondering if it is enough of a step up from the 261 to justify it. I would hate to spend a 1,000 on a saw that would only make me leave the 261 at home. Don’t get me wrong I do everything I need with the 50cc but it would be nice to have the speed of a bigger saw in 20” wood. You only live once, you can get remarried as many time as you like!
Bless your heart. My wife got hit the last two times mowing while I was weed eating. I saw her running with no shoes on and knew something wasn’t right. Her ankle stayed swelled for a week. Hope you heal up soon.
The 400 is so much different than the 261, in a good way. It's not going to replace a 50cc saw, but makes the 60cc saws almost obsolete IMO. It feels like the same weight as a 362, but runs so much stronger. I ended up doing some machine/port work to my wrap-handle 400, and it's easily my most used saw.Nice, my local rural king has a couple, also have a few 400’s. I want one so bad but I’m wondering if it is enough of a step up from the 261 to justify it. I would hate to spend a 1,000 on a saw that would only make me leave the 261 at home. Don’t get me wrong I do everything I need with the 50cc but it would be nice to have the speed of a bigger saw in 20” wood. You only live once, you can get remarried as many time as you like!
I've done both and I have as you not really ever seen a difference. I have to also include that I don't do production falling and the bar is never buried in the wood for a long time. There's a variety of factors where I think it could make a difference and that is, all day everyday falling where the tip is consistently inside large diameter wood, the chain oil is not going to have the thickness and the ability to lubricate like the grease will. If your doing it at every tank it will force the crud out of the tip. And out west in very pitchy wood that nasty sticky sap will prevent the lubrication from entering bar tip. So I would think it its really situational in whether you see different results or not.
not sure about your Ford, but most smaller tractors use a Cat 1 3-pt lift system. some can use either I or II implements as takes either size. for the Cat I 3-pt:
Our ford 600 series (650) says 1250# for the lift capacity of the 3pt hitch.
Yikes if I got hit like that I might be in the ER
Prices for trucks are insane. I thought when the price of gas went up prices would drop but no luck.Crazy times for sure.
While I think certain things will level out and even drop drastically in price, others unfortunately will only go up more as availability decreases and demand increases. This country has lived too long on products made outside it's boarders and transferred so much of the very infrastructure that made America what it once was to them, that it will take many painful yrs to get things back to where they once were. Oh, I'm definitely not talking about "building back better"
Far as the car market goes, it's obsurd! I just hit Bambi a few Sundays ago with my 98 Honda odyssey, needs a new headlight and turn signal housing, a battery(although it's still working), and the radiator core support pulled out along with the hood straightened a bit. I had been hoping to sell it this late summer/ early fall and replace it with a newer/nicer project(I was hoping for a 07-08 Honda Pilot) that needed some repairs as this one is finally starting to show some rust. But with the current prices I'll probably be driving it at least thru this winter, which isn't a bad thing. It now has 275k on it and I just had it in eastern PA last month, it's actually been one of my favorite vehicles. Yesterday I put 50 miles on it hauling my boys quad to a buddies in a 4x8 trailer, much better than the excursion on fuel
When I told my cousin about the stings he said he went half his life with no reaction to stings. Then one day he got hit several times by Yellow Jackets, and just kept working along. One of his guys who happened to be highly allergic, saw him and said, “Boss, we gotta get you to the hospital, you are having a reaction “ . By the time they got there his throat was tightening up. Now he Carrie’s an EPI pen. But from what I’ve heard, you can go from no reaction with one incident, to dead on the next. I should take them more seriously.
Four generations and fifty years for me, and I’ve never greased a bar. In all of those years I had one nose on my favorite little Echo 305 climbing saw split. When I took it in to get a new bar I threw a tantrum that the saw never oiled right from day one. My dealer showed me where the adjustment screw was and I’ve never had another split. I was doing 40 hours a week, but on the East Coast we have mostly hard wood and the pitch isn’t much of a problem. If I got into a bunch of White Pines I’d wipe the bar down with mix periodically and hit it with spray on oil. Big thing for us was to use a full tank of oil to a full tank of mix. I don’t know about all day felling? We were a residential company and we’re not allowed to bring cranes, knuckle booms, or bucket trucks across yards. So we had to buck everything up in firewood length. I think we made many more cuts per log than guys cutting timber. I’m not saying what we did was harder, just different. We couldn’t drop a tree across a yard. We would clear one spot at the base of the tree and chunk the log down one piece at a time. When we left you couldn’t tell we had been there.
My BIL has an 1850 and that little rascal does a full days work. My loader weighs a little over 3000 pounds and is bigger than his BX. Since I’ve gotten used to mine, when I borrowed his, I decided he needed some weights bad.
