My uncle recently bought 200 acres in northern PA. He's a college professor that knows nothing about working with his hands. I mean ZERO.
I went out there for whitetail this past season and cut up some standing-deads for next year's burn in the wood stove with my 064 and 026. So my uncle decides to come with me to help out and says he wants to bring his saw along too. I didn't even think he knew what a saw WAS, so I was quite surprised to hear this.
Without asking me (or anyone else with a brain), he had gone down to the local shop to buy a saw some time ago. They sold him an MS211. Wow, OK......"ya done good with that buy", I told him. Nice job. At least he didn't show up with a pink plastic saw from Toys-R-Us.
We get the truck out to the tree line and I ask him if he's all filled up and good to go. He assures me he just topped off. So we spend all of the next 10 minutes or so bucking and chucking till we get the bed full of rounds. Then we go back to the barn to dump the load.
At that point, I was filling up my two saws to get ready for round 2 and I figured let me check the little 211 to see if she's empty. Open the oil plug and it's bone dry.
Actually, if I remember correctly, I think a small puff of white smoke deployed itself upon my removal of said cap. Jesus Christ........."Uncle Andy where's your bar oil? You're bone dry and it looks like you might have been dry for the last few cuts too."
Ready for this one boys?
His response: "No, I mixed the oil in the gas and look, the gas tank is still pretty full."
I said "No, not the 2-stroke mix, the bar lube."
He says "Well here's all the stuff he gave me at the shop" and shows me a milk crate with 2 spare chains, a bar wrench, 2-stroke oil, and a big ole jug of bar lube.
"Uncle Andy, this is your bar lube that you need to fill that front tank with so your chain is lubed."
"Oh, I didn't know what that bottle was for. I just thought the oil in the gas was all I needed."
Jesus Christ.
"Uncle Andy, how long have you been running this thing bone dry?"
"Ahhh about a tank or two."
OK so I didn't have to replace the bar. Luckily it wasn't showing any signs of scorched paint on the bar or nuthin and everything looked OK on inspection.
I then sat him down for a half hour and taught him everything he needs to know about safety and maintenance, for which he thanked me genuinely and I made him do some test cuts in front of me to test his new found knowledge. Would have been nice if the dealer taught him all this so he wouldn't hurt himself.
Oh well. Hope all of you's enjoyed the reading.
I went out there for whitetail this past season and cut up some standing-deads for next year's burn in the wood stove with my 064 and 026. So my uncle decides to come with me to help out and says he wants to bring his saw along too. I didn't even think he knew what a saw WAS, so I was quite surprised to hear this.
Without asking me (or anyone else with a brain), he had gone down to the local shop to buy a saw some time ago. They sold him an MS211. Wow, OK......"ya done good with that buy", I told him. Nice job. At least he didn't show up with a pink plastic saw from Toys-R-Us.
We get the truck out to the tree line and I ask him if he's all filled up and good to go. He assures me he just topped off. So we spend all of the next 10 minutes or so bucking and chucking till we get the bed full of rounds. Then we go back to the barn to dump the load.
At that point, I was filling up my two saws to get ready for round 2 and I figured let me check the little 211 to see if she's empty. Open the oil plug and it's bone dry.
Actually, if I remember correctly, I think a small puff of white smoke deployed itself upon my removal of said cap. Jesus Christ........."Uncle Andy where's your bar oil? You're bone dry and it looks like you might have been dry for the last few cuts too."
Ready for this one boys?
His response: "No, I mixed the oil in the gas and look, the gas tank is still pretty full."
I said "No, not the 2-stroke mix, the bar lube."
He says "Well here's all the stuff he gave me at the shop" and shows me a milk crate with 2 spare chains, a bar wrench, 2-stroke oil, and a big ole jug of bar lube.
"Uncle Andy, this is your bar lube that you need to fill that front tank with so your chain is lubed."
"Oh, I didn't know what that bottle was for. I just thought the oil in the gas was all I needed."
Jesus Christ.
"Uncle Andy, how long have you been running this thing bone dry?"
"Ahhh about a tank or two."
OK so I didn't have to replace the bar. Luckily it wasn't showing any signs of scorched paint on the bar or nuthin and everything looked OK on inspection.
I then sat him down for a half hour and taught him everything he needs to know about safety and maintenance, for which he thanked me genuinely and I made him do some test cuts in front of me to test his new found knowledge. Would have been nice if the dealer taught him all this so he wouldn't hurt himself.
Oh well. Hope all of you's enjoyed the reading.
