Actually I do still have the old nib that came with the scythe when I made the purchase. I even still have the old snath though I replaced the nibs and snath with a new one. The snath came with the 2 new nibs. They were dang near impossible to adjust since you couldn't loosen them, but once I took an old strap and kind of used it like oil filter wrench, they came loose. Then I adjusted them to my particular height. I will keep the old snath and nib n one day when I'm not doing anything in particular, I'll give your method a shot.
As for the last half of your note: I spent the better part of an hour looking though hundreds of pictures, some even with me in it, and then it dawned on me. Even if I were able to take a picture of myself holding a chainsaw and maybe an axe, that surely wouldn't be enough. YOu would say that could have been photo-shopped or something. I could post a nude picture of myself (I happen to have several) but again, ypu could say that was some picture I found elsewhere on the internet and am claiming it to be mine. Or let me see, you would want to know when I had my last period or want to see my birth certificate. Or then maybe you would say I had a sexchange and want a dna test snail mailed to you from the laboratory that did the test. I could go on and on and on with this nonsense, but I will refrain. My point is, there would be no satisfying the likes of you since the way I see it is, I have threatened your manhood so in order for you to feel good about yourself, you need to make up rumors that seem feasible.
But, add this to your equation. First, I've just turned 62. Add to it that I have never and will never make myself available to anyone on the internet as in one of those internet romance things. I came here to learn various methods of doing things and have corrected many of my bad habits already. But I also came to share some of my experiences. That's it!
I had been considering making a video of one of my upcoming fells. A black birch "school marm" (about 34 inches across) or maybe a leaning black birch "widow maker" (about 20 inches across) with one drawback. Someone had posted on the Firewood Forum a video of a girl trying to limb or whatever a pine tree. I think the title was "Hot chick felling a tree) or something like that. Then there were the comments which followed including her wanting to show off her cleavage and that she looked like a "Crack Whore!" In my eyes, she wasn't all that unattractive though she was a bit of a ditz. But though I was a bit dissuaded by the comments, I figured since my video wouldn't be one of those instructional type videos, and it would only be viewable here in AS, I've kept that idea in the back of my head. Heck, I even have the video of my splitting a 4 foot in length by about 24 inches across round but I chickened out at the last minute and only posted pictures of the results. Now I'm thinking I'm glad I didn't post the video, and I'll be damned if I post a video of my felling one of the more difficult trees on my property.
So to shatter your minds eye, think of me as being the most butt eff'nist fugly and the fattest slob you can imagine, cuz that is what I appear to be. N yes, the last part of your post was particularly offensive. I'm a 62 year old widow (my husband has been dead for better than 27 years) and I have survived on my own since doing whatever it takes. I own my home (no loans or mortgages) own my Harley (no loans) and own my pickup truck (no loans) as well as have a little nest egg that if I'm careful will take me to my grave and then some. So if I stepped on your manhood in my quest to survive on my own, EXCUSE ME! Such is the price of being an independent woman. So to sum it up, think whatever you want. And kiss my butt, left side, right side, and inside. N don't forget a little tongue action while your in there.
