Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX GTG (Next GTG 08/27/2016 ) Fort Scott, KS

[Mo. Jim]

Hope he is OK. THose winds can be tricky. My bike does ok in the wind, but it weighs over 800 lbs., which helps a lot.

Drinking coffee, tellin mama to get my stepdaughter up off the couch. Dang lazy grown kids drive me nuts.

He was taken to the hospital with life threating injuries is all I heard on the radio. John were talking 60 and 70 mph winds on a rain slick highway. This kind of weather can put eighteen wheelers in the ditch.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

John had a lot of fun at your wedding reception. If you would have used a husky you could have cut with on a 1\16" of the table.opcorn:opcorn:

 

[teacherman]

He was taken to the hospital with life threating injuries is all I heard on the radio. John were talking 60 and 70 mph winds on a rain slick highway. This kind of weather can put eighteen wheelers in the ditch.

Ouch.

I hope he recovers.

 

[Homelite410]

Reminds me of this. An 18-wheeler nearly flipped over in 50-mile-per-…:

 

[Mo. Jim]

Carl stopped by looking for some parts and while he was here he took some pictures. He took pics of the Titan that I bought Saterday and a Homelite brush cutter that I picked up last year. The brush cutter runs, but I need a double strap shoulder harness to use it.

 

[Oliver1655]

Wind can be very dangerous!

I used to have a Honda 750K with full dress. While stationed up in Washington, I was driving through a mountain pass & hit by a wind tunnel. I was driving on the right hand side of the right hand lane. The wind picked up me, my passenger & the bike and moved us over 3 lanes to the left to where I was inches from the guard rail look down a steep 50ft drop off. Needless to say I came to a stop & took a 10 minute break. At that point I decided I would be getting rid of the bike as soon I was married & had a child on the way. The bike was exchanged for the doctor's services. Bikes are fun but too much of a risk when there were going to be young'uns depending on me. Now the kids are out of college & I wouldn't have a problem with getting another bike, but I find I prefer air conditioning.

 

[cobey]

Fellas, here are a couple of pics from the best day of my life. Kenneth was there, as was bcorradi, who never posts anymore. Note the white letters on the top cover. THey are from the first gtg for which this thread was started. Limestone, Arkansas, hosted by Jason, can't recall his AS handle though. R-Value was there, and Stephen, and a bunch of other folks. Some of the nicest, most honest and straightforward people you'd ever want to meet.
So, this is a very fine use for a big creamsicle saw. Drop started on the second pull in front of 100 or so people, as Kenneth the Stihl lover can verify. I made all the cuts with Nancy's hand on the top handle, and came within an inch of the bottom of the cake on the front side that I could see, and within 1/2" on the back side. 30" bar, and I did not damage the table! Canola oil and all that, it was awesome. I'll bring the was to the next gtg, and if you guys want, I'll flush the oil again and we can use it to cut up a hog for a pig roast if we want to do that. yee haw
Have a great day, everybody!

Hope you guys get to meet Nancy and Emerson someday soon. She works every weekend, so it may take a bit of finagling.View attachment 358439View attachment 358440

my buddys getting hitched in october... i think we are gonna do a chainsawed and WEEDEATER cut cake (just for the mess)

 

[workshop]

Wind can be very dangerous!

I used to have a Honda 750K with full dress. While stationed up in Washington, I was driving through a mountain pass & hit by a wind tunnel. I was driving on the right hand side of the right hand lane. The wind picked up me, my passenger & the bike and moved us over 3 lanes to the left to where I was inches from the guard rail look down a steep 50ft drop off. Needless to say I came to a stop & took a 10 minute break. At that point I decided I would be getting rid of the bike as soon I was married & had a child on the way. The bike was exchanged for the doctor's services. Bikes are fun but too much of a risk when there were going to be young'uns depending on me. Now the kids are out of college & I wouldn't have a problem with getting another bike, but I find I prefer air conditioning.

Traded my bike off about a month ago for another pickup truck. Starting to have trouble with my legs balancing a bike into and out of the shed and parking lots. Low speed maneuvering was a huge problem and seems like somebody is getting killed every week down here on one. I had my fair share of cars not paying attention and cutting me off so I decided to let her go. It was a tough decision, I've had a motorcycle since I was 16. I had this one for 20 years. But, if the right one came along (Moto Guzzi) I'd consider another one.

 

[spacemule]

Well, sort of. Rob and I grew up together, he's a cousin somewhere down the line. His house is within .308 range of my house. He's the one who took my boy deer hunting last fall and set him up on the two deer he killed. We stay pretty close. He was at my house a couple of weeks ago shooting skeet and eating burgers at a cookout. He even keeps an eye out for the occasional saw I might want. Rob is about as good as they come, IMHO.

They're good people. I was next property neighbors with his folks for the first 18 years of my life. His mom taught me in the 4th grade.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Everyone have a good day?

 

[Hedgerow]

Everyone have a good day?

Still going on Kenneth...
Jury's out...

 

[teacherman]

Everyone have a good day?

Yup. Worked like heck all day, digging and chopping, and I feel good. Nancy is taking her best friend out to dinner for her birthday, so Emerson and I will be hanging out this evening. Little fang growing monster boy keeps us hopping.

I want Nancy to have girls' nights out and go have fun. I support her completely in that.

 

[teacherman]

John had a lot of fun at your wedding reception. If you would have used a husky you could have cut with on a 1\16" of the table.opcorn:opcorn:

Heck, I'd stihl be trying to get it started if I were using a husqy!

 

[workshop]

Fang Dynasty!!! I like that. I've got three children, all adults now. But they all teethed on the same thing, a wooden cooking spoon. My wife still cooks with that d@&m thing, and it still has teeth marks on it.
Too bad I wasn't into saws back then, they could've teethed on an old chain.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Heck, I'd stihl be trying to get it started if I were using a husqy!

Oh now you know it would have started on the first pull.

 

[67L36Driver]

Carl stopped by looking for some parts and while he was here he took some pictures. He took pics of the Titan that I bought Saterday and a Homelite brush cutter that I picked up last year. The brush cutter runs, but I need a double strap shoulder harness to use it.

I'm runnin' late but I got the little Echo runnin' and cuttin'.

A couple teaser pictures 'till Jim tells me were to put them all up.

 

[67L36Driver]

There was a new chain under all the goo.


The clutch needs sorted out still and a couple bits for the chain brake.

 

[workshop]

I'm runnin' late but I got the little Echo runnin' and cuttin'.

A couple teaser pictures 'till Jim tells me were to put them all up.

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OK everybody, I've seen it all now. An XL12 powered weed eater. Now, I would like THAT kind of weed whacker.
How many, and what kind of applications, did Homelite use the XL12 power head for?

 

[workshop]

There was a new chain under all the goo.
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The clutch needs sorted out still and a couple bits for the chain brake.

Nice little Echo, Carl.

 

[67L36Driver]

Nice little Echo, Carl.

Evilbay carcass. The bar was held on with a stack of 1/4" flat washers as it was sans clutch cover/chainbrake. Jim donated a 'do fer' cover and a clutch from his Echo bin.