Sharpened up three chains today before the heat arrived -- nice relaxing morning listening to the local AM call-in show. I haven't hand sharpened in about 20 years because I always used to screw it up...I think these came out OK, not great, but sure a lot better then they were, and at least 2 of the 3 cut straight doing test cookies (see, there's a reason I hadn't cut up that tree that fell in the yard yet!)...the 3rd, not so sure about that one but it was a real mess to begin with.
Went to the Stihl dealer, drooled over the Mahindra 3535 some more, got a jug of bar oil, a replacement O ring for the gas cap on my 024AVS, and exchanged a 20" 3/8" 72 link .058" chain for a 20" 3/8" 72 link .050" they gave me last fall...not my mistake, I brought the saw with me
They grabbed the wrong package leaving me to try and figure out why the chain felt way too snug...
As for the storm, the race is on:
In this corner, clocking in at a Category 3 flirting with going back up to Category 5 we have Earl currently at 25.7N 72.7W, getting ready to make it's northward run -- the usual starting gate being 30N 75W.
Figure it's going to take about 27 hours to reach that point, and once it starts the run it'll be in the New England vicinity in 24 hours.
In the other corner we have a cold front extending from Michigan to Oklahoma.
It's all about timing now. If that front is just six hours slower then expected, we'll take a direct hit in my area.
