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are you kidding? omg 2 6-pks or more a day?...

No that was pretty normal for me, sometimes 30 or more cans a day at times, sometimes 90 cans in 2 days sometimes more.

I don't mind a drink and can drink hence my decision I had to change and change I did, I don't drink alcohol at all now - I just stopped dead, I don't feel any better for it which is a bit disappointing in some ways but happy for now not to be drinking alcohol.:drinkingcoffee:
 
No that was pretty normal for me, sometimes 30 or more cans a day at times, sometimes 90 cans in 2 days sometimes more.

I don't mind a drink and can drink hence my decision I had to change and change I did, I don't drink alcohol at all now - I just stopped dead, I don't feel any better for it which is a bit disappointing in some ways but happy for now not to be drinking alcohol.:drinkingcoffee:
I walked upstairs last night with a beer in my hand and the wife just looked at me. I used to drink till I blacked out. Once i started i just didn't stop. Nowadays I'm lucky if i have 10 beers in a year. Never felt any physical difference but it maid me feel better about my self when I stopped drinking like I had nothing to live for.
 
I’m running 24”, stock rim on the 79xx’s and 20”, stock rims on the 64xx’s. The 79’s do suck more fuel than the 64’s. Leaving them this way for my use.
I have a 24 on the saw now. I dont use it cause I dont want to deal with the extra bar length when most of what I cut doesn't even need a 20. The 8 pin rim idea is more because I like to tinker, kinda how the 3/8lp conversion happened with the 490.
 
I walked upstairs last night with a beer in my hand and the wife just looked at me. I used to drink till I blacked out. Once i started i just didn't stop. Nowadays I'm lucky if i have 10 beers in a year. Never felt any physical difference but it maid me feel better about my self when I stopped drinking like I had nothing to live for.

Yeah I hear ya mate, I never blacked out, only reason I'd stop was usually cos I'd run out, sometimes I'd only have a few but most of the time it was on for young and old, I just couldn't stop myself from drinking if they were there I was drinking them that simple and it was usually until they were all gone 99% of the time, I never seemed to get effected by hangovers as a rule.

Last time I went camping I drank 1.5 cartons of heavies, a bottle of wild turkey honey and half a bottle of my mates Jim Beam, that was the first night! LOL and I was fine the next day, my mate on the other hand was not good at all, up vomiting and didn't surface until the 4pm that afternoon and wasn't in good shape then either, me I just went on drinking and finished the next 2 ctns over the next day and a bit before heading home.

It's expensive being a drunk, one of the reasons I gave it up but the main reason was to help get myself healthier which has sort of happened but not to the extent I was hoping for at this stage but I guess I have to start somewhere hey.
 
my immediate area continues to provide a steady source of ez scrounge oak. older wood, but just fine for my outdoor fireplace, mr Brutus.

couple limbs picked up. was bigger (4-5) but had burned some by time I took pix.. the burl I keep. View attachment 726777

What's the plans for the Burl? some nice knife handles come out of burls.:D
 
Cutting back or stopping the drinking is long term healthy for ya. Luckily, I realized I had to do it when I first got married and had a daughter. Many of my friends never changed, and we have buried a # of them and others are just disabled, many of them younger than me. It is a shame.

Guys that can't drive their nice cars any more, or don't get to see their Grandkids grow up … what a shame! I don't want that to be me!
 
Any of you scroungers have any thoughts or suggestions about setting up the 7910 with a 20" bar and 8 pin rim. It would get used a lot more with a 20.
I run a 20 on my ms460. It's a very handy bar length for the wood I cut. I find I can cut 24-28" rounds from one side by overbucking from the top first then coming down. Most wood I cut is 18" or less which is perfect for the 20" bar. Longer bar would be justified if I cut more big wood. Mine has the factory 7 pin, I just file the rakers down some and it pulls it fine. Nice big corn chips! I have heard more experienced guys say to choose a bar longer than 90% of your wood. If you can keep the nose out of the cut, the bar will last longer and not wear right at the nose joint. You'd have to cut a lot more than me to worry about wearing out bars.

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I've got a pair of those two tone disco shoes from the 80's. The ones with 3" soles. Just sayin, there yours if you want them?

You WOULD have those..... wouldn’t you.....[emoji849].

I dont want to disrupt you wardrobe so you keep them brother.


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Cutting back or stopping the drinking is long term healthy for ya. Luckily, I realized I had to do it when I first got married and had a daughter. Many of my friends never changed, and we have buried a # of them and others are just disabled, many of them younger than me. It is a shame.

Guys that can't drive their nice cars any more, or don't get to see their Grandkids grow up … what a shame! I don't want that to be me!

I usually have 2 beers a night. One with dinner and one after. The Germans say its ok so its got to be[emoji23]


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Maybe those would stay up a little better at your place.
When you were talking about the snow fencing where you saying wrapping the piles with it or putting it towards the top like was suggested with the longer wood, like stacking two rows 3' then set the fence on top, then add another foot to the top?
I think I hauled my last load in for the 18/19 season yesterday.
I was thinking of using snow fence like a cargo net to hold against the page wire fence. I've been wanting to try building a beehive stack for a while ever since I read this book. Might have to give it a go.
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You WOULD have those..... wouldn’t you.....[emoji849].

I dont want to disrupt you wardrobe so you keep them brother.


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Not really, I was just trying to give James some hope. I was the first one on the MD U campus with a Disco Sucks T-Shirt. Just took a big majik marker and wrote it on a white shirt. Unfortunately, I didn't "trade mark" it and sell them, would have made a fortune.
 
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