I am not QUITE as old as Paden and HC, but they don't shade me by much. I went through most of what they have described. Both of my parents were born and raised during the Dust Bowl and the depression in NW Oklahoma. My Grandparents farmed there during those years. I still don't want to throw anything away that might be useful later, even if it will be less expensive to replace it than to fix it..
:-O
Holy Cow, post: 376783, member: 50 wrote: Especially since the chain is on backwards.
you sure about that?
Rankin_File, post: 377052, member: 101 wrote: you sure about that?
I wasn't going to say anything...they must not have many trees in Kansas.
Would you like to guess how many decades have passed since the last time a running chainsaw was in my hands? I wised up a loooooooooooong time ago. Those things have other peoples' names on them, not mine. Sort of like hoes. Only purpose is snake killin'. Why else would anyone in their right mind own one?
I really don't like them either, but I own a couple.
In 2007-2008 we had a horrible ice storm down here that dropped the best part of one of my pecan trees right smack in the middle of my driveway. 5 minutes of chainsaw makes 5 hours of loading limbs. Not a good ratio...
Memory is a bit foggy, but I'm thinking it would have been about 1987. I had just bought a place with a swampy pond. We were in the midst of a drought and the water had finally receded to the point that a bunch of 15" diameter willow trees could be cut down. It was a tad over 100 F. That blankety blank piece of youknow required about 20 yanks on the pullcord to get it started. Every time I set it down for any reason it would die. I durned near died myself. Said, "Never again!" So far, that has been a true statement.
Holy Cow, post: 377098, member: 50 wrote: Memory is a bit foggy, but I'm thinking it would have been about 1987. I had just bought a place with a swampy pond. We were in the midst of a drought and the water had finally receded to the point that a bunch of 15" diameter willow trees could be cut down. It was a tad over 100 F. That blankety blank piece of youknow required about 20 yanks on the pullcord to get it started. Every time I set it down for any reason it would die. I durned near died myself. Said, "Never again!" So far, that has been a true statement.
[sarcasm]imagine how easy the job would have been if the chain was on so the rakers were out front[/sarcasm]......:whistle:
Holy Cow, post: 377098, member: 50 wrote: Memory is a bit foggy, but I'm thinking it would have been about 1987. I had just bought a place with a swampy pond. We were in the midst of a drought and the water had finally receded to the point that a bunch of 15" diameter willow trees could be cut down. It was a tad over 100 F. That blankety blank piece of youknow required about 20 yanks on the pullcord to get it started. Every time I set it down for any reason it would die. I durned near died myself. Said, "Never again!" So far, that has been a true statement.
Take a few Benjamins out of your roll and get yourself a Stihl MS 250c with ez-start. Best saw for me ever.
Robert Hill, post: 377201, member: 378 wrote: Take a few Benjamins out of your roll and get yourself a Stihl MS 250c with ez-start. Best saw for me ever.
Or...put a new spark plug in it and fill it up with fresh fuel..:whistle:
Spent far too many hours running one in my teens, twenties and early thirties. No firewood, that's for hobbyists. Clearing what I called weeds cause they sure weren't where anyone wanted them to be. Cut a few thousand fence posts. Everything from locust to willow. Bent over, on tip toe and balancing on whatever was available to get me where the cutting needed done. Even had a set of cutter's chaps for a while. They'll sure save your clothes and what's under them.
If I never hold one in my hands again that will be perfectly fine with me. Perhaps that's one of the luxuries of having a billing rate far higher than that of nearly everyone willing to run one to do what I need done.
Holy Cow, post: 377280, member: 50 wrote: Spent far too many hours running one in my teens, twenties and early thirties. No firewood, that's for hobbyists. Clearing what I called weeds cause they sure weren't where anyone wanted them to be. Cut a few thousand fence posts. Everything from locust to willow. Bent over, on tip toe and balancing on whatever was available to get me where the cutting needed done. Even had a set of cutter's chaps for a while. They'll sure save your clothes and what's under them.
If I never hold one in my hands again that will be perfectly fine with me. Perhaps that's one of the luxuries of having a billing rate far higher than that of nearly everyone willing to run one to do what I need done.
OOOO-- TOUCHY TOUCHY -not coming down with BSE are we? :snarky: 😛 😉
I ain't eatin' none o' my kinfolk! No way, no how! Wouldn't be proodent!
BTW, your link refers to BSE as being an epizootic. Heaven only knows where he learned that word, but Dad would announce when he was feeling poorly that he was "comin' down with the epizootic". Another phrase he would use applied when he was headed to the outhouse past the chicken house to study the latest catalog for a while, "I'm goin' to the office". But, the most irritating phrase he used on my sister and I when we would be asking "Why?" was, "Cat fur to make little kitten britches." This was frequently shortened to two syllables as "katfer".
Holy Cow, post: 377093, member: 50 wrote: Would you like to guess how many decades have passed since the last time a running chainsaw was in my hands? I wised up a loooooooooooong time ago. Those things have other peoples' names on them, not mine. Sort of like hoes. Only purpose is snake killin'. Why else would anyone in their right mind own one?
Maybe it's you that puts the chains on backwards. Try flipping it around and maybe you would like them a little more.
I will admit to twisting off a lug nut once on a Dodge automobile that was on the left side of it. Who was the brilliant designer who thought lug nuts on the left side needed to be lefthanded?
I still say that chain looks backwards. The lugs on big tires (tractor/combine) have always looked backwards to me too.
Holy Cow, post: 377366, member: 50 wrote: I will admit to twisting off a lug nut once on a Dodge automobile that was on the left side of it. Who was the brilliant designer who thought lug nuts on the left side needed to be lefthanded?
I still say that chain looks backwards. The lugs on big tires (tractor/combine) have always looked backwards to me too.
The chain is on right, you just are thinking that it cranks in the other direction.
I used to bust tires at the Sears Auto Center (as I was working my way through college) and I saw more than one person destroy a left-handed thread lug stud with the air ratchet. And they'd ask me "why did that break?" They didn't know that the left side of the truck was left-handed threads. What was even worse was on the trucks that only the left front wheel was left-handed threads...
