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Wow... never seen a zero! With other cylinders at 440 psi, you'd think even a blown head gasket would register something, albeit real low. Hopefully that's it, though. Anything else that yields low compression is worse.

Ruining a $7000 sofa to save a $150 delivery fee? :ROFLMAO:

... and even most splash-lube engines I've had are more like 50 hours.

I was Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) a bunch last year, and they're building a new parking garage there. It seems most of their equipment had the new type, but they were operating basically in and under a large hospital, so maybe they were forced to update sooner than others might.

Delaminated zinc? What do you think that does to valves and seats at combustion temperature? Hopefully none of it was fine enough to pass thru the filter.

Whoever hired that model/actress, certainly knew his audience. No way on earth I'd have watched 66 seconds of John Doe showing me how the spout on a gas can works, but I've seen Jill do the same, more than once!

You hope that present/new management is always aware that parts availability is the backbone of their L&G business. I’d go so far as to say it might be as much as 50% of the overall buying decision, when a customer is trying to satisfy themselves on why they’re paying more for Deere, versus a...

Not a great situation, when the advice is to buy in a reputable store, to avoid fakes on Amazon.

They've only been standard in the US for maybe 3-4 years now, so you have to look for newer delivery trucks. Around here, all of the Amazon delivery trucks have them, and some of the UPS trucks. But FedEx and USPS has all older vehicles, with the older beepers.

I have a photo of someone using one of those!

UPS and FedEx both offer rates based on how much business you're doing with them. Large businesses like Amazon negotiate much better rates per package with these carriers, than Messicks ever can, and Messicsks surely pays less than you or I would. I ship products for my business through UPS...

Unless your local shop is part of a chain that has their own aggregator (read: “warehouse”) and trucking, you’re paying the same shipping, it’s just built into the higher price of your local shop. Unless they’re buying multiple pallets worth of material from the same source at regular...

I think that’s it. Or, they tested it only on one specific equipment type, and failed to recognize all the different places and situations in which we need these things to work.

Shame. I had those old Subaru/Robin EX27’s and the like on a few pieces of equipment. Always perfectly reliable and strong little engines. Also, just nicely built and engineered, with features like a drain cock on a cast carb float bowl, and air cleaner cases that don’t break after a few...

Nope. That’s one of two reasons you hear the static hiss versions on newer vehicles. A study was done on this in Europe, I think initiated because they wanted to reduce noise in cities. But they also found that the beeper isn’t that effective in warning a bystander that they were in the path...

I have a love/hate relationship with tire chains. I love that they allow me to run turf tires for 90% of my daily work, but give me the ability to chain up to do deep snow or mud. But I hate how much the HD chains for my rear tires weigh, they must be damn near 100 lb. per wheel, and the time...

Good to know. If I ever get around to re-powering this log splitter (again), maybe they'll have something in the Vanguard line that fits. It's a vertical shaft, and if I recall (5 years ago), none of the Honda or Subaru options were configured quite right for an easy drop-in on the existing...

I'll admit I'm no expert on all things Briggs, although I've owned a few. But are you speaking of their Intek line? Bought one of those for my log splitter, which I've been running the last 4-5 years, and I'm not a fan. It works just fine, but it screams of "just get it done as cheaply as...

Not bad advice, excepting cases where you have to split the tractor to swap the parts. When the job is more labor than parts, my time being valuable, I would be calling my OEM or Messick’s and asking for the best quality option. Price be damned.

I have no experience with the MS362C, but I have its predecessor, and it's a great saw. I predict decades of trouble-free use, if you keep it clean and sharp.

I did the very same thing to myself last weekend, not my tongue in cat food, but my finger in a grease gun tube. They use the same pull tab design on the larger 14 oz. tubes. Full story: I had just gotten the last shot I was gonna get out of my 14 oz. grease gun, greasing spindles on the...

Because if the saw was any good at $500, it was so gone so fast it left a dust cloud. Then the seller was too lazy to go back and take down the listing. I'm sure you can get smaller homeowner saws in good condition for way less than $500, but I'm not even looking at those. When Hay Dude said...

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That definitely was the case, a few years ago, but it seems prices are way up today. Clean and fully-operable MS-362's have been selling at $550 - $850 on ebay. Anything at or below $500 is a parts saw or project. I bought my 036 AV with hard case and bar for $350 about ten years ago. It was...

Our ever-vigilant watch dog. Amazon drivers never sneak up on this house.

If you find any good saw under $500, which doesn’t need work, you stole it. 😛

Oh, I get it. Note, my gripe is about people who live in urban or dense suburban neighborhoods, and keep dogs that are more a danger to their neighbors, than a safety for themselves. These people generally have one dog, not six, so the odds are not in their favor. We had a neighbor who...

Had to go to Google to figure out what the heck a 505 was! :ROFLMAO: I know the Stihl models well, and Husqvarna is easy to figure out. But Poulan is a brand I've never even followed.

Pet Peeve: "Tough dog" syndrome, or put otherwise, people in populated areas who keep unfriendly dogs. One thing that's popular in some of the rougher Philly 'burbs is Rottweilers and Pitbulls, which serve no purpose other than terrifying friendly neighbors and occasionally mauling a woman or...

I ordered them for both the 036 and 064 yesterday. I'll surely install the one for the 036 immediately, at only 63cc, that saw needs all the help it can get. I may hold off on the 064, until I see how much I like this muffler on the 036, particularly the increased noise. The 064 already...

I guess I don't see the issue. What's the old line? "Government of the people, by the people, for the people...", I think Lincoln had said that. If some leftie state or township collectively decide they want to get rid of gas-powered blowers due to high density living and the noise they...

lol... "for our kids". Right. Sponsored by the makers of aspartame and saccharin? :ROFLMAO: I actually understand the annoyance with the handheld blowers, they are obnoxious. But that's why I choose to live outside of town on enough land that I don't have neighbors running theirs two dozen...

Unfortunately for those of us who have and love them, gas-powered blowers of the handheld and backpack variety, seem to be the nemesis of most having to live and work around them. I've always wondered why this particular device grates on people so much more than a lawnmower, string trimmer, or...

Results might vary by forum, and party affiliation. :p

Yep. I needed to do valves and guides in one of my K301's less than ten years ago, the original 1963 engine out of an IH Cub Cadet 123, and all parts were easily available. Loved that I could press new guides in and hand ream them, by comparison to the Kawasaki V-twin I rebuilt this summer...

I owned two K301's, both older than me. The original IH Cub Cadets were all powered on Kohler K-series, if I recall. Mine was ca.1963, and the spare engine was just a few years newer. I swapped them out at one point to do a rebuild, before then reinstalling the original.

I strongly suspect it's more a matter of having to refund any tax incentive that was provided on the initial purchase. They don't have a mechanism for actually preventing the sale, as far as I know... but it's going to cost you!

I burn a lot of yard waste in my fire pit, which is a 7 foot diameter ring of stones. I've taken to laying an old pallet down first, before piling debris into the pit. It offers airflow sufficient to burn just about any green yard waste, thanks to forge/chimney effect created by allowing air...

Okay, I'm tempted to try a straight shot for my 036, as being more used the the 064, I always feel like the 036 is lacking. That said, the model for the 064 is so cheap that I might just pick up both. The 064 is already a monster saw, massive HP to weight ratio, and it just screams for a...

That's pretty funny, no matter which side of this debate you're on. :D

Nice! Looks like roughly +28% torque and +32% HP at 12k RPM. When you load it up, and RPM's drop (e.g. 8k) the margins get thinner, but still not bad. Also, RPM's are unlikely to drop as much with the higher torque up high. Any word on how it affects operating temperature and reliability...

The opposite advice applies, when shopping sleezy women.

No Spill brand. Oddly, my favorite of all the current options, without modification. But if you're going to modify, they'd be the most difficult.

I'll admit my saws are all bone-stock. Despite having spent most of my younger years building engines and hot rods, I've just never bothered touching my saws... but I've always been "saw mod-curious". The thing I used to see so often with cars, would be guys putting a free flowing exhaust onto...

No... build six! I have four, all 16 x 6 x 8 high, and a fifth up by my barn... but it's not enough.

... and you can save good bit of money by just using it for storage, if you are a frequent user. Even my local saw shop, who make money on selling the stuff, recommend burning regular E10 when cutting, and then dumping that out and refueling with canned gas, running it through before storage...

It may also hurt more, if we assume that Tesla's early adopters and prime customer base had a more liberal leaning, and may not be thrilled that Musk has aligned with Trump. Silly, it has no bearing on the vehicles or their costs, but many make their car-buying decisions based on image.

It's a big computer with 32 physical processors, running heavy simulations all day and night. I think the typical laptop computer with standard Windows power profile settings, probably uses under 50 kWh per month, depending on the size of your attached monitor and hours of usage.

I also heat with wood, roughly 10 full cords per year. My house is stone, 22" - 24" thick walls, which does help reduce the need for summer air conditioning. Our house is just shy of 300 years old, roughly 8000 ft2 built in five separate phases, so heating had to be accomplished with a mixed...

I put more hours on my tractor! :ROFLMAO: I commute to work in my bedroom slippers, the office is only one staircase away from my bedroom.

If I were buying new, and could only own one saw, it would almost definitely be the 500i. I've always thought that ~75cc is the sweet spot for a one-saw plan, at least given the larger oaks that I'm so often cutting. But I really love the 30 + 60 + 90cc plan of three saws that I've migrated...

:oops: Holy crap, CA is nuts! We pay $19.3c/kWh, all-in. Last month's bill was $625.40 for 3242 kWh. Almost makes me wish we had electric heat. :ROFLMAO:

Careful, or I'll go digging out my old post of an embarrassing admission to a head strike with my top-handle saw, while using it as a one-hander. :ROFLMAO: Top handle saws are mighty convenient for one-hand operation, but really *should* never be used that way. If it ever kicks back, you...

Good suggestion. Another option, the one I prefer and use, is a reasonably-priced Bluetooth Inner-Ear Monitor (IEM) set. IEM's are what you see musicians wearing on stage ever since the 1990's, they replaced wedge monitors, so the band can hear themselves over house audio. I have the Shure...

If you ever want to get really depressed, start counting your life in the number of "good summers" you have left. Less than 20? Less than 10? I'm 50 and before kids, used to enjoy competitively racing high-performance sailing dinghies. I have maybe another 10 - 15 years where I could even do...

I don't keep up with the latest and greatest, but I suspect Stihl still offers the same three products lines they have for decades now: 1. Homeowner 2. Farm and Ranch 3. Professional There are a hundred small differences between grades, but the big distinguishing factor between Pro and...

The national average is 866 EV registrations per 100k people, but CA has nearly 4x the national average, so no wonder you're seeing a lot of them. Pennsylvania is often referred to as, "Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in-between". I suspect the registrations per capita in my...

Those 04 light bars don't exactly get great reviews. Given the MS261 is a pretty small and light saw to start, I'd probably just stick with a standard bar. I also think the stupid graphic on the 04 light bars looks like something that only belongs on a woman's kitchen apron, not a chainsaw...

Interesting. I've commented before on the way I maintain my tractor(s) way better than any of my on-road vehicles, especially when it comes to changing the less-considered fluids like coolant and trans fluid. You can count on my tractors all being on or ahead of the maintenance schedule...

I feel bad when I leave mine in the un-air conditioned part of my barn. :p

Because our area was nearly clear-cut in the 1700's, and various areas wooded today vary from the rare old-growth up to forests as young as 60 years, we get to see the effects of growing under all sorts of conditions. Trees that grow under a canopy will usually rocket straight up, I've seen...

I had more than one co-worker become a guest of the Federal penitentiary system, due to filing fraudulent paperwork with the various federal agencies that governed our work and intellectual property. Those wheels of justice grind slowly, but awful fine. Don't mess around, when it comes to...

I've seen the cylinder rod end fail, more often than the wedge cheeks. You'll see this most often on splitters that have been "short-stroked" with collars on the rod, if the detent pressure on the auto return isn't backed way off.

From Ford? I can buy aftermarket or used parts for Deere much cheaper than OEM, and I suspect that is to what you're comparing, when talking about any 50 year old Ford. Those 8N's also benefit from ubiquity... they were way more popular and produced in higher numbers with fewer changes, than...

You're paying for availability, and the cost of low-volume fabricating and stocking seldom-used parts, when buying for older machines. I've owned four John Deere tractors built roughly 1978 - 2019, and have kept two of them past 30 years of age, one past 40. What I've found is that their part...

New tariffs on steel and aluminum announced last night. I just got a quote for $50k in aluminum work, and bid a job based upon it. Hopefully the fabricator honors their quote price. Actually, I'm about a week away from submitting a second, albeit smaller. I had that one bid back in November...

Usually seen on skid steers, with hydro motor on SSQA attachment.

That was sort of the point! Only trouble is, bring a girl like that home, and you'll never get to play with your own chainsaws again. :p

Here's one for all the guys. You probably can't have her.

No need. Most women will go through all four phases, if you stay with them long enough, although mine somehow skipped over Martha Stewart. Maybe that's coming after the kids are moved out.

Something I want but can’t afford? It’s been said that the perfect wife is Mary Poppins with the kids, Julia Child in the kitchen, Martha Stewart with the housekeeping, and Raquel Welch in the bedroom. I’ve come to the conclusion those are four separate women, but I can’t afford four wives.

I agree with most of your premise, 5030. But in the case of the Pinto, it’s not so much how you drive, but whether the person behind you is distracted while driving. If you stop for a kid on a bicycle shooting out of a driveway along a country road, or slam on the brakes for a deer, you’d...

Yep, I have the same, except just 3 lines in my title block. Sheet metal gets the x.x thru x.xxx, and precision machined parts get the x.xx thru x.xxxx, with the 4-digit dimensions typically at ±.0002. Same. Oh, I take it a step beyond that! I don't even produce fully-dimensioned drawings...

One other thing most don't consider is how many heavy loads may be held on the trailer by nothing more than the thin plywood and aluminum skin of a trailer wall. Out of sight, out of mind?

Definitely slower than a hydraulic splitter set horizontally, given you then have to set the tool aside and bend over and pick up the pieces. But that hammer drill might actually be a good way to deal with anything too large to move onto a splitter. I used to end up noodling a lot of the 1000+...

I worked at a gas station in high school. I saw a few people drive off with gas handles in their car. We had break-aways on each line, but there was still about 10 feet of hose between the handle and break-away, so you'd see that bouncing along on the pavement behind the car as they'd drive...

Same. But I've also worked with union people who would be jobless, if they ever tried to survive a week outside the union. They aren't all bad, but they do remove much of the incentive to excel at one's job.

Knowing you like the deep dives on history, you could probably find some interesting stuff to watch on YouTube, on this subject. But to boil down a century into two or three sentences, American workers had very few legal protections in the early years of the industrial revolution...

Don't worry about not exactly meeting the targets, you never will, and there's reasonable margin in the "ideal" nutrient levels anyway. You'll find that if you test and tune each year, you'll always be hovering slightly above or slightly below one rate or another. If this is just pasture, I'm...

I usually don't let politics influence my purchasing decisions, but have to admit that hearing Tesla is a non-union shop would be enough to sway my purchasing decision toward them, if other factors were on-par with a union-built vehicle.

I've personally never seen any log splitter under 11 gpm, that's pretty much bottom-of-the-barrel 12 seconds on a 4" cylinder level DIY'er stuff. More common around here is 16 - 23 gpm. I can't understand any advantage in running a log splitter off tractor hydraulics. It's a slower and less...

What's the size of this plot? Most of our fertilizers go down at 200 lb./acre. Our seeding rates are usually roughly 200 lb/ac. for overseeding, but more like 300+ lb/ac. for new seeding. Lime rates vary, but given most aren't tuning up for every 0.1 pH change, orders for lime are usually 500...

Even more than that, my tractor is my log lift! I buck the rounds, roll them into the bucket, lift and park it right next to the infeed side of my splitter. This way, I can keep the splitter horizontal and move faster than I ever could with heavy rounds in vertical mode.

Nice! I was just going over saws today, deep cleaning and spark plug swaps. Two Stihl and one Husqvarna, I have no real brand loyalty, they both make some great saws with massive power to weight numbers. I do find Stihl wins on many of the smaller points, like size of filler necks, sturdiness...

I couldn’t find any mention of CyberTrucks in that post. :p

BTW... one of the things that kept me from buying a splitter early on, was storage space. I'd always kept all my equipment indoors, as anything left outside just takes such a beating from the sun and rain. But a few others convinced the splitter would hold up just fine under a cover outdoors...

Exactly. Too many just default to .xxx and ±.005" block tolerances on everything, when ±.01" or even ±.05" might be totally fine. I'm pretty careful with that these days, since every dollar spent on trying to hit a tolerance is either coming out of my own pocket, or going onto the product cost...

Yeah, only about 1 out of 10 of my parts go on the CMM, and given they're all flavors of a particular type, the machinist already knows the reference planes from which the coordinates are being taken. So we get away without resorting to GDT. Many of my other parts have very critical...

I'd buy new, take good care of it, and then resell later if the need for it drops off. Used splitters aren't cheap enough to make it worth adopting someone else's poor maintenance and headaches, and your time is (presumably) somewhat limited.

From the perspective of a new car buyer, I agree with you. But Renze was making a good point with respect to buyers of used vehicles. They may indeed see out-of-pocket costs for a failed or failing battery.

Hey guys, the confusion is all my fault. I'm an EE, who took plenty of drafting classes in high school and college, but my only jobs in drafting were all civil and landscape, so never really got into GDT. Since what I do is very "mechanical", I have to create a lot of drawings, but following...

I did read your notes about service issues, which I don't think are as bad here in the US, although the spacing between Tesla-operated service stations is a bit of an issue here. But a quick Google search on "Tesla sales down in Europe" turned up many articles, the headline of nearly all of...

A couple of well-placed cameras could easily capture the perpetrator, even without violating privacy laws. If I were a manager at that plant, I'd be seeking criminal charges against that employee, in addition to a heap-load of civil claims. Stuff like this needs to be made an example of, lest...

Call me soulless, but I would never let my dislike for the CEO of a public company sway my impression of how good or bad their product is, or its suitability for me. It helps that I've become a big fan of Elon, more so in the last year or two than ever before. But even if I were on the other...

Thanks for de-railing the thread, on the very first reply. :rolleyes:

Here's one for all you draftsmen and pattern makers out there. Yeah, I mean you, @dadohead, @dodge man, @wawajake, and @Grumpycat... among others. I need to indicate the clocking of a circular hole pattern on the end of a cylinder, relative to a radial hole pattern on the cylindrical face. Or...

... or net metering. Has PA abandoned it, yet? I anticipate they will, at some point, but last I heard it was still on the table.

In your sunny state of Florida, generation averages .05 kWh per square foot per day. A quick Google search turns up several claims of miles per kWh, but it seems most Tesla owners are in the neighborhood of 4.5 mi/kWh, so .225 mi/ft2/day. 50 mi/day would require 222 ft2, or roughly 10 x 22...

Maybe easier to collect road tax with vehicle registration, or inspection, or even through insurance carriers.

I think that’s the goal of these PHEVs, finding the best compromise between cost of battery and average trip. Even if most trips cause the onboard charging to kick in, there’s going to be some threshold where TCO is optimized.

Oh, I'm sure many are, and I guess I shouldn't have even bothered posting my own, since the conversation was about "average". You are way off the average in one direction, I'm a bit off it in the other.

Probably varies a lot by what part of the country you live in. The farther from a city or industrial area, the farther you may need to travel for work. Ignoring my student jobs, and only counting real "career jobs", my one-way commute distances have been as follows: 2 mi / 8 min. = 3 years 9...

I’d need a hint, we have too many! I’ve had the bizarre coincidence of having probably a dozen A-list celebs as neighbors, as buying a second home in central Bucks County became some big Hollywood fad in the 1980’s. There’s also some locally-grown talent, but less common.

That’s actually pretty close to round trip for average commuter in US. The census bureau tracks distribution of commute times, but there is not nearly as much data on commute distances. However, average commute times hold pretty consistently near 25 minutes +/-4 minutes, and average trip speed...

Dude... is that sky for real? Not sure I'd have gotten any work done. Mesmerizing. My desk job is warmer, I have a wood stove and couch in my office. But I miss the opportunity to see a lot of beautiful weather and sky, while staring at these screens and keyboard.

If I recall, at least from the Deere brand of each, is that these two greases are actually compatible. Two of the few you can mix with impunity.

Not unique to EV's. I rented an Audi Q5 on vacation last summer, an ICE, and it was a few days before I stopped absolutely hating every feature about the thing. It had the least intuitive controls I've ever seen in any vehicle... for everything. By the end of the week, I could appreciate what...

Beautiful location, BackRoad! Reminds me of my family farms in New Hope PA, prior to the mid-1990's, when all the neighboring farms sold and the townships became covered in mansions on a few acres each. There were a lot of farms around here until the generation operating them, mostly born...

You'd think the drill adapter would be, if it could be sold for $20 - $30/each.

AC start of a 2-stroke could work. But the power limitations of most of these outlets would eliminate the chance of a full electric chainsaw on a truck or tractor 110VAC. Most of those I've seen are limited to just 100 watts, or even a few hundred watts, but even small chainsaws usually...

The one I don't understand is drivers who forget to unlatch the tailgate before raising the bed. I almost had a dump truck full of topsoil overturn at the back of my property, because the idiot driver raised the bed to nearly full height without unlatching the tailgate. I was standing out...

"Normal" grease is generally NLGI-2. But you can pick up something like Lubrimatic wheel bearing grease at most auto parts stores, which definitely doesn't thicken and harden nearly as much in cold weather, as what comes out of most grease gun tubes. "Grease" is really just oil suspended in...

You already named the main problem, the weight of any battery sized sufficiently for years of trouble-free usage. Also, excepting the big boys over 75cc, most are too easy to pull over to make that any primary obstacle for most new saw buyers. A lot of 75+ year old members here may own and use...

I wonder if that has more to do with size of implement, or country of origin? Many of my implements were for smaller tractors, my old Deere 750 and 855.

All the same? Do you only have one brand of equipment? Of those I've owned, I think most have probably been rectangular cross-section, but I've also had round with two rolled splines, triangular, and probably some others I can't remember anymore.

Every pole saw I have ever owned seems to leak bar oil. Oddly, my chainsaws do not, even the very old ones. I've settled for keeping something under the pole saw, to absorb the oil that will inevitably leak. I also only fill it with a little more than needed for a quick job, rather than...

Just disconnect tractor side and drop the implement off the tractor. I never remove my driveshafts from the implements they’re on, unless I’m doing a repair on them.

Same, cut them off! The only good fuel can that I’ve found, out of these newer designs, is No Spill brand. Just ask Jill! The rest of the new style cans have spouts that just don’t work for me. As to speed, they’re almost on par with my late-1990’s old school spout cans having the...

1. Basic idea is to grease the splines and their locks on both ends, the crosses on both ends, and then be sure there's some grease between the shield and the shaft assembly. That makes three grease points on each end of the shaft, plus greasing the (usually square) tube slip joint. So, pull...

lol... yeah, that makes more sense than how I read it! Two features, not one. :ROFLMAO: I was scratching my head when I noticed that phrasing on the tag, trying to figure out exactly what made their fully-mechanical brake system "electronic". In fact the video on this site explaining it, is...

Too warm and muddy to split wood this weekend, but I did take the chance to do some saw maintenance. I knew my beloved 064 wasn’t new, but until today, hadn’t ever thought about just how old it really is! West Germany ceases to exist in 1989, if I recall correctly. The badge, for anyone...

I think there must be some truth to this. It would be nice if the surveys were constructed in such a way as to segregate out "user error" issues due to unfamiliarity. To take it to the opposite extreme, those with an agenda can easily create a survey which highlights and exaggerates such...

"Not getting sued" is a big part of the incentive for keeping employees safe and alive. :p

Yeah, I know you know your stuff, Fuddy! The guy I replaced at my prior job actually started life as a TV repairman in the 1950's, and his trouble-shooting skills as a result of that history were way better than mine. But I just thought of one possible trouble with the lightbulb method, here...

The intensity will vary according to the resistance of the glow plug. So if a glow plug is a typical 2 ohms, no matter what bulb you put in the loop, you'll never have more than 6A flowing off a 12V battery, through the series bulb/plug circuit. But if a glow plug drops to 0.1 ohms due to an...

The 362 is a great saw. I'm still running it's predecessor (036 PRO), no reason to update, and it's a great size saw for all-day firewood cutting. Easy to start, easy to carry, it strikes a real nice balance between "just enough" power for most firewood cutting use, and still not being too...

??? what do you think happened? Factory defect? Counterfeit saw? I've owned a lot of Stihl saws, and they've all been great. I will say 20" is a heck of a lot of bar on a saw as small as a MS291, I wouldn't even run a bar that big on an 036/362, given the amount of oak and hickory we cut...

Seems like an open/shut negligent homicide = manslaughter case. Textbook, almost.

I went out to the fire pit, and found the only-partly charred remains of that 30" slab, and was surprised to see the growth ring spacing near the pith was real fat, like only 3-4 rings per inch. But then at the perimeter it was maybe 8 rings per inch. If we take an average of 6 rings per inch...

Agreed, but I think this is a "today" problem only, not really a long-term problem. Just as guys watering their horses in town 100 years ago complained there weren't gas stations to justify selling the horse and buying a Ford, I think this problem will be resolved within perhaps 20 years, as...

Also for final stop, even if batteries are empty. As one who's always driven high gear ratio hotrods with big engines, and a lot of manual transmission, I absolutely love the feel of regen braking. I hate driving most regular auto's because, by comparison to manual or even an auto set up for...

Oh... you mean Ego vs. Stihl battery? That's disappointing.

I haven't really been following the brands and models, but I thought most were operating off much higher voltages than the average cordless drill or impact driver. The only name brand I remember seeing that shared batteries between chainsaw and typical power tools was the Milwaukee M18 system...

I'd believe it. Any 2-stroke gasoline engine in an E10 or E15 world is going to be more troublesome in the hands of an occasional user, than an electric saw. I think the battery saws probably are the best option for anyone who's not using their saws at least once every week or two. They don't...

A lot of the smaller saws now have single-nut mounts, even one of my Husqvarna's, albeit it's a top-handle (climber's) saw.

Oh, and I guess I shouldn’t admit this, but I just broke up and tossed a 2” thick slab from a 30”+ red oak in the fire pit last weekend. I‘ll check today to see if any of it survived the fire, since everything was wet at the time. I guess that’d been a good one to count. It was growing on the...

That’s cool. But that tree was only 6 ft. diameter at knee height, where I left the stump. The diameter at breast height (DBH) usually used by harvesters was probably only 60 inches on that tree. I do remember measuring the rounds I brought home from above 20 feet height were all around 49...

That’s why it’s still a debate! So many variables to include, and each has a different impact (air vs. water vs. land quality issues), that there is no one answer. And to muddy the waters even farther, you have to consider not only number of impacted factors, but the severity of each. If you...

They don’t look like finished vehicles. My guess was also factory prototypes or test vehicles, like Ning said. Could also be recalls, but guessing the former.

Not usually. I had tried a few times in the past, but it’s between tedious and impossible on some of that really old stuff. I’m surrounded by old houses (late 1600’s and up), and live in one myself, but somehow find old trees much less interesting… they all burn the same! I do recall that the...

Not so much an issue of brand, but pattern. Is EGo using a mounting pattern common enough to not have you locked into one manufacturer, who could arbitrarily choose to pull the plug on that model? I suspect Oregon, Tsmura, and Carlton are probably making bars for half the other brand stamps...

My wife has a very good friend who bought an i8 back around 2015, or thereabouts. Very cool car. Their "daily beater", for driving in the snow or leaving at airport parking, is a P90D. :rolleyes: This person commutes from Allentown PA to Holmdel NJ and back, every day. Both cars are now...

For many years, I was cutting on the land of an older friend, and he had 30 acres of mature PA hardwoods... mostly oak with ash and poplar. We'd leave the poplars rot in the woods, grab all the oak we could, and take the ash and others (sassafras) as we had time or space for them. Anyway, he...

I’ve pulled single logs into this trailer that exceed the GTWR, so no need for a log arch for any particular log, I don’t leave anything useful behind. What log can you image I’d pick with an arch, that I cannot without? I think I’d be apt to avoid using the arch on the largest and heaviest...

I am not sure any of those facts are entirely honest or accurate. Yes, BEV's do spectacularly go up in flames, but not as often as ICE's. It's more spectacular and difficult to extinguish when they do, but we still see more ICE fires than BEV's. And why couch the impact from making an ICE...

True, but there are shades of a color. A battery charged from a network of mixed fuel sources including nukes and renewables is better than an ICE operating 100% from refined petroleum, before we even start arguing about net efficiencies, which are pretty terrible for the ICE auto...

I'm probably a rare bird, in that regard. I use my tractor for many other things, literally every weekend, since I have it. But if not for my firewood usage, I might still just have my old 1963 Cub Cadet 123 garden tractor. It did literally everything else I ever needed... except moving logs...

I had planned to build a pivoting log arch on mind, essentially a pair of hinge points on top of the railings, with a U-shaped hoop that would pivot fore/aft, and a snatch block in the middle of the hoop to lift logs off the ground and onto the trailer. But I never got around to it, and with a...

I have a trailer with relatively tall sides probably over 24" high, and I have to do the same thing, hoisting with straps. But the trade-off is that I use those side railings to steer logs into the trailer, and avoid having to strap them down for transport home. The heavy front wall of that...

Yes, I have that exact meter, and it works well enough for the home user. The low-end drop out is higher than listed, it won't measure 340 mA Christmas light strings without making a few turns around the clamp, but Michael Faraday figured out the solution to that way back in the 1830's. :D I...

Everyone complains about "made in China", until they need a cheap meter to get the job done: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BRKNZNJF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Unlike the antique Amprobe clamp-on meters, these measure AC and DC currents. But being digital, they may...

I think you're missing the point. A 60A fuse will typically take something like 300A to blow in 1 second, or 1200A to blow in 0.1 second. If you want more accurate numbers, consult the time/temperature curve for your fuse part number. But ignoring the tedium of exact numbers, if you say...

How many plugs are on this circuit? 0.8 ohms would draw 15 amps at 12 volts, if the resistance doesn't change much with temperature. I'm no glow plug expert, but I suspect they're PTC = positive temperature coefficient. So your 0.8 ohms cold may indeed translate to Fuddy's 1+ ohm values when...

Of course you're right on all points, but I don't agree with the conclusion you're drawing from these facts. Dodge had no trouble selling Chargers and Challengers, in fact the company seemed to be largely surviving on both the image created by, and direct sales of, the more expensive SRT...

I used to do a lot of off-roading, mostly in the Pocono mountains, there were some very active clubs back in the 1990's and early 2000's, mostly sponsored by few local stores (e.g. O.K.4WD). Guys would come out with their "offroad edition" new Cherokee's and Wranglers especially, and get them...

Must be tough, only owning one trailer. :p Mine are all way lighter than yours, but I seem to be backing up to a different trailer with a different hitch, each time. I can just muscle my boat trailers into place, but the tongue weight on my landscape trailer runs maybe 400 - 1000 lb...

Looks fun. But for 6am every morning, I like my remote start, auto-defrost, heated seats, and heated steering wheel. Also, you will need to pry the backup camera out of my cold, dead hands, I will never go back to the days of lining up a ball under a hitch without one.

Agreed. The appearance keeps me from even looking at one, and I'm not particularly opposed to EV's. Heck, I even like the Rivian, but would be hesitant to drop that much money on a brand that could very likely go away during my ownership period. Anyone try to buy parts for a Saturn or an...

I hope not. Over the last 10 years, they've had literally the ONLY decent American-made sports sedans and wagons, and really the ONLY option under $100k for anything with real horsepower. Of course GM has the Corvette, wonderful car, but really only practical for empty-nesters who don't need a...

That's a heck of a lot of power in S-band. Depending on distance and duty cycle, you were likely shooting blanks for awhile, and may have suffered some liver damage. Testes and liver are almost always the first to cook due to HERF exposure.

I still remember the words of my first boss, "the stock market is driven by fear and greed, with little or no relation to reality." Predict company X revenue will go up 6%, but then the earnings report shows it only rose by 5%, and the stock price will drop. :rolleyes:

I have a cousin who presently drives a Model 3 Dual Motor, and has already told me he'll be replacing it with a Cybertruck, when the time comes to replace that car. His heaviest trailer is a small landscape trailer he uses for hauling his lawn tractor or zero turn mower... and it's too small to...

Whoa... talk about "bad data"? I'm all for data, but let's be at least half-honest in presenting it. You're comparing sales of one always-unpopular trim level to the sum total sales of ALL trim levels of ICE's! :ROFLMAO: How many Daytona Scat Pack Challengers have they sold each year...

If only we'd have waited until the Internet reached today's maturity before selling the first computer or inventing the iPhone, or if we'd only waited until Verizon offered 250 channels before selling the first television... :ROFLMAO: Classic cart and horse problem, but the reality is they...

More and more parts are custom, whether for optimized weight/performance, or for lowering initial manufacturing costs. But of course more custom parts to inventory leads to higher parts counter prices.

I know a few people who are planning to buy Cybertrucks this year. Otherwise-intelligent people. I just don't get it. As if the hitch falling off wasn't enough of a deterrent, you get to drive an ugly and downright-offensive looking vehicle! I think Tesla has done some amazing things, but...

For sure. I didn’t mean to sound like I was criticizing the cost, it was more an explanation or justification of why our government spends more on products than some might think justified.

Hopefully she’s at least fun to look at.

If it came from Deere, it will be in the Parts Catalog. No exceptions. https://partscatalog.deere.com/jdrc/

Re-using an old barn foundation? I'd be putting a roof on that! I put up another cord yesterday, back-filling each bay in my row of sheds as I empty it. But as usual, I didn't think to take many pictures, other than this one to show my own embarrassing bone-headedness. I had only carried my...

I have sold a lot to the government over the years, specifically Army and Navy. Their documentation requirements always quadruple the cost associated with producing anything for them. I don't make $2 or $20 lynch pins, but I did work for a company that made $1.5M amplifiers, for which we...

Not in an earthquake zone! In that case, get the hell away from any stone or brick building. I've only ever lived in masonry houses, the oldest being 1690's and the newest being 1870's. They'll hold up to everything, except an earthquake.

There seem to be many factors driving this. 1. Cost of land. Here, just as in Europe, better-quality houses are built on more expensive land. The cost of housing is so high in much of Europe, that it makes little sense to build cheaper housing on it. With that comes the reality that few...

Varies by year. I have three, built 2015, 2016, and 2020. They got better each year.

Out splitting today. Mostly sections of a big red oak, roughly 30-36 inch diameter, but also found one nice straight 14” diameter shag bark hickory log in that pile. Everytime I tell myself red oak is heavy, I come across a SB hickory, and re-learn the meaning of the word… man that stuff is...

Oddly enough, it seems as if my mere mention of it "normalized" the weather! The forecast was reading highs near 60F and rain for next week, when I had checked it four or five days ago. But now it's shifted to +6 to +41F, over the next 7 days. Our normal is roughly 20F - 33F.

9.9 pages, until you contributed. 😛 But you really turned it around!

Maserati has suddenly become very popular in my local area. They sure are sexy, but I don't know that they win top marks by any other measure, when compared to various other sporty European imports. Alfa has always had a presence, never huge, but they're always around. I usually see 2-3 at...

Yes, but mostly just the 500. No surprise, it's a niche market vehicle here, most aren't comfortable driving something that small between the Cadillac Escalades and Ford F250's that dominate our highways. I did try to talk my wife into a Fiat 500 Abarth, just as a second (fifth?) vehicle for...

We own a Chrysler SUV: Dodge Durango R/T. It's a nice vehicle. They're pretty popular here, but I'm honestly surprised I don't see even more of them. But I do get what you're saying, they lived on those minivan sales, worldwide. Hard to blame them, any business will follow the money.

Full disclosure, my parents had a Ford Aerostar in the mid-1980's, even worse than the Windstar! As a kid, I loved having the captain's chairs and back-seat radio controls, instead of sharing a bench seat or the "way back" in mom's prior Ford LTD wagon. I think I took my driving test in that...

We've been below 0F each morning this week, going up to +12F to +15F highs in the afternoons. Thankfully that ends today, but now we're swinging to the opposite extreme, a near-record January heat wave. :rolleyes: It would be nice to have a string of "normal" weather again, like 10F nights...

I hope to never reach a point in life where I actually know or care about the price of any minivan. :p

Understood. But that doesn't necessarily change what I'm saying, in that young and fragile Bahia sprouts planted this spring may be equally dead before the conclusion of your mid-summer heat, at much higher cost. Again, I know very little about Bahia and your climate. I'm basing this on...

Take the advice of someone local over me, but up here, any grass put down in spring will germinate but they usually die in our typical hot and dry spell lasting July into early August. Again, seek local knowledge, but I won't be surprised if they tell you it's better to just deal with crappy...

So, here I am Christmas morning ca.1981 in my one-piece "footie pajamas", although we always called them "blanket sleepers". What I remember distinctly about these pajamas, is that they had one long zipper down the front, from the neck all the way past the groin and half way to the knee. The...

I've watched King of Queens...

Okay... show of hands... who else has forgotten that damn jack wheel is down, and gone driving down the road like that? Me: "What's that bang, every time we go over a bump?" Passenger: "I think it's just the hitch jostling in the receiver." Nope! Luckily I only went a short distance before...

lol... your friend and I would probably get along well. I don't drive nearly as fast as I did at 17, but I do still get the same thrill from acceleration and high-horsepower vehicles. I also don't care about the cost of fuel, it is not a cost high enough to even register, driving under 10k...

You say you look at the big picture, but a 35 mpg ICE is a boring underpowered thing, whereas the EV could be a total torque monster with 3 second 0-60 times. Hardly apples to apples. Give me a 500+ hp ICE over an EV any day, but mine get 12 mpg on a good day. If you're going to strap me to...

Fed Ex usually delivers on time around here, we just never know to which house they delivered our packages. I'd not be exaggerating if I claimed their delivery accuracy was as bad as 50% in our neighborhood, which is strange, since there are only a half dozen houses on our road, with every...

Gale Banks is in the business of selling upgrades, some of which may be a solution hunting for a problem, or being sold as potential failures more common than they really are.

True. But it's also true that the inline 6's tend to be built with the longer stroke/bore ratio, and that for the same CID, longer stroke favors higher torque. What you're discussing, keeping the same stroke and increasing bore, is increasing displacement. Seeing as how the convention has...

My reasoning was that I could type faster and with fewer errors on those. When transitioning to a modern low-effort short-stroked keyboard, you need to learn to be careful with accidental keystrokes from merely resting your hands on the thing, it's just a different style of typing. I grew up...

I remember hanging onto the handful of old IBM "clicker" keyboards I had, with obsolete AT interfaces, right thru the PS/2 years and into USB times. I just couldn't get used to the modern soft short-stroke keyboards, when they came out. It really wasn't until I wanted to go wireless, that I...

:rolleyes: Somewhere, earlier in this thread or it's predecessor, I posted a long list of the dozens (hundreds?) of automobile companies that went belly-up, in the early days of the ICE. There's a parallel thread going on this forum today, of all the now-defunct early computer companies. So, why...

There's a funny video floating out there, in fact I think it made it's way into the Beyond the Lighted Stage movie, of Alex and Geddy being spotted by some fans while eating in a diner. The other patrons all recognized Geddy, with his distinctive long hair and big nose, but don't realize the...

So many of those. My personal top three would be: 1. Alex Lifeson - Rush 2. Andrew Latimer - Camel 3. Steve Hackett - Genesis Lifeson is obvious, absolute force of nature virtuoso. Easily as great or better than Steve Howe or Jimmie Page, but overshadowed by the nature of being in a band...

This is the kind of stuff that keeps me awake at night. I routinely ship packages with values over $60k, and try to be as fastidious as I can in the FOB (or DAP for Europe) terms, so that I won't be responsible for the cost if the package is lost. Purchaser chooses shipping options, and...