Joe your doing it wrong, we don't ship 245's we recieve them. :msp_rolleyes:
Try to rembember that ok? :hmm3grin2orange:
Nik's Poulan Thread
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Joe your doing it wrong, we don't ship 245's we recieve them. :msp_rolleyes:
Try to rembember that ok? :hmm3grin2orange:
zogger
Tree Freak
Double woot! Dang 0 rama that is a ba-a-aa-dd sounding saw!
You need to make that one rev a ringtone....
I didnt sell this one Mark! I dont sell my Poulans. I passed it along to a member here. :msp_thumbup:
Saw turned out pretty decent, oiler is working good too.
homelitejim
Full of Scrap
These 8500's are good candidates for fresh paint, but man do they run. I think they would oil a 60 inch bar with ease as I have the oilier at about half way and it keeps the 28 inch bar and chain very moist. The clutch cover and starter cover I got off a old 4200 that had been sitting outside awhile but were cheap, when I get some more saw money I will be getting better examples and keeping these as test beds for my learning how to paint.
nick 55
ArboristSite Guru
I guess now that I think about it, Joe, when I got those 5 saws from you, the shipping ended up being pretty high when I looked at the shipping labels. I have noticed that Fedex and UPS have both had large increases in their pricing over the last 3 years. Too bad DHL didn't succeed in their venture into the US market. I have had good results with them when receiving packages from overseas.
Nick
Nick
homelitejim
Full of Scrap
Tell me about it, I am going to see if my phone will record it good enough to use. I can't wait to open it up in a big chunk of wood.
nick 55
ArboristSite Guru
Hopefully this spring I will be having some saws given a proper paint job so I may be able to throw in more saws to be painted if I have to buy a gallon each of paint and clear. I will give you guys plenty of notice and if I can get more done at reasonable prices, maybe you guys could take advantage of the "quantity" discounts. Does that sound cool?
Nick
Nick
Yeah, I took a little hit there:hmm3grin2orange: But it was hard to guess for 5 S25s. What did you end up doing with them?
nick 55
ArboristSite Guru
Two solid runners, two that need solid state coils, and the craftsman clone will probably get an engine from one of the others I have.
Nick
Nick
nick 55
ArboristSite Guru
Big Dan, you suck.....LOL
Nick
Nick
I also just won an S25CVA on ebay that was really clean with no B&C. I got it for $20.50 and shipping was $16.24, I hope there wasn't a screw-up and we both got charged for the same saw. I don't remember seeing 2 clean S25CVA's on ebay recently.:msp_scared:
I never start the bidding that low on a Poulan because I figure that's all they'll bring! I start mine at least at 25.00 and if it doesn't sell, who cares? I'd rather keep the saw than sell it that cheap. With a Stihl, Echo, or Husky you can start the bidding at 50 cents and not worry because the bidding will be up to 100 dollars in no time!
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crowellmachine
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Hi guys,
Been pretty busy lately. My dairy farmer freind just sold the last of his milking cows saturday. really sad. He has never done anything else all of
his life. It's been a very hard time for he and his family. The margin that a dairyman is supposed to work within is extremley narrow. Being a small
operation, in a non-farming community also didn't help. I'm into maple syrup, That will be coming in soon. I'm going to see if I can lift his spirits
with some sweet steam.... I fully realize that this is off topic, but I wanted to check in, to let you know I wasn't a flash in the pan
Karl
Been pretty busy lately. My dairy farmer freind just sold the last of his milking cows saturday. really sad. He has never done anything else all of
his life. It's been a very hard time for he and his family. The margin that a dairyman is supposed to work within is extremley narrow. Being a small
operation, in a non-farming community also didn't help. I'm into maple syrup, That will be coming in soon. I'm going to see if I can lift his spirits
with some sweet steam.... I fully realize that this is off topic, but I wanted to check in, to let you know I wasn't a flash in the pan
Karl
Hi guys,
Been pretty busy lately. My dairy farmer freind just sold the last of his milking cows saturday. really sad. He has never done anything else all of
his life. It's been a very hard time for he and his family. The margin that a dairyman is supposed to work within is extremley narrow. Being a small
operation, in a non-farming community also didn't help. I'm into maple syrup, That will be coming in soon. I'm going to see if I can lift his spirits
with some sweet steam.... I fully realize that this is off topic, but I wanted to check in, to let you know I wasn't a flash in the pan
Karl
This economy is rough on many of us anymore. Lots of people being forced to work long hours for little pay. Thanks for checking in with us, we got quite a bit of info from you last time and although I didn't comment before I was there listening in. I hope your friend comes out of this with as little wear and tear as possible.
nick 55
ArboristSite Guru
Hey Karl, that is a tough place for him to be in. My grandfather was a retired dairy farmer, and even though it was a long time ago, being a little guy in that industry is tough. I hope things look up for him soon.
I need to learn how to tap maples. I have a few nice sugar maples on my property and would like to try making some syrup, but don't want to drain the entire tree because of my lack of knowledge.
Nick
I need to learn how to tap maples. I have a few nice sugar maples on my property and would like to try making some syrup, but don't want to drain the entire tree because of my lack of knowledge.
Nick
zogger
Tree Freak
Tapping is the easy part
It's the keeping up with boiling down the gallons of sap you get that is hard. I used to do just one BIG tree in my front yard every year. Dang, that was a lot of wood to cut for a few gallons of syrup at the end. Did it all on top of my heater in the cabin..no worries about the air being "too dry" in the cabin in the winter! HAHAHAHA
It was the smallest most low tech syruping evah....delicious stuff though.
I imagine there must be some youtuber vids of doing it small scale. I just bought a few taps and went for it, spaced around the tree. Hung buckets from them..when she flows look out! You'll be hopping to keep up! Gallonsandgallonsandgallons... You boil it down and it takes a lot of sap boiled to get one gallon of syrup!
the big operations use tube feeds down to the sugaring house, and the dealie they use looks a lot like a gold sluice thing, a washboard sorta. ripples in it. Mass quantities of wood in short log length to keep it going.
I just used a big pot.
It's the keeping up with boiling down the gallons of sap you get that is hard. I used to do just one BIG tree in my front yard every year. Dang, that was a lot of wood to cut for a few gallons of syrup at the end. Did it all on top of my heater in the cabin..no worries about the air being "too dry" in the cabin in the winter! HAHAHAHA
It was the smallest most low tech syruping evah....delicious stuff though.
I imagine there must be some youtuber vids of doing it small scale. I just bought a few taps and went for it, spaced around the tree. Hung buckets from them..when she flows look out! You'll be hopping to keep up! Gallonsandgallonsandgallons... You boil it down and it takes a lot of sap boiled to get one gallon of syrup!
the big operations use tube feeds down to the sugaring house, and the dealie they use looks a lot like a gold sluice thing, a washboard sorta. ripples in it. Mass quantities of wood in short log length to keep it going.
I just used a big pot.
