On Fathers day...

[Tzed250]

Lets here it folks...Did your dad get you into chainsaws? Mine did not, but he gave me an incredible appreciation for things mechanical. My love of tinkering with machines comes from my dad, and my mom's dad. Happy Fathers day everybody!!!

 

[Lakeside53]

Lets here it folks...Did your dad get you into chainsaws? Mine did not, but he gave me an incredible appreciation for things mechanical. My love of tinkering with machines comes from my dad, and my mom's dad. Happy Fathers day everybody!!!

That's exactly what I would have written... My Dad would buy a "new" car(usually more than 10 years old) every few years. For the first few weeks he'd proclaim it to be the best deal ever, then the grumbling would start, and within another few weeks the engine would be in a 1000 pieces, then.. may as well take out the tranny, and ... and... He fixed those old clunkers up real nice, drove them for a while, then the cycle would repeat... I of course was the monkey with the small hands that could reach those impossible to reach bolts...

Then I'd get my own beater, and he'd tear into that too, then the other kids got cars, and... He never really figured out that when we'd ask his opinion, all we wanted was a rebuild

Now I'm just as bad with saws... What do you mean it's toast? I can fix that!

 

[Trigger-Time]

Well I spent the day at Mom and Dad's (I just live about 1 mile of dirt road away) Dad and I spent a few hours doing PM on 7210 and 4030 JD tractor
and 535 JD round baler......Dad will be 69 in Aug.

On a sadder note, Wife is spending the day in hospital with her
dad.......which she has spent the last 6 weeks with him there,
minus 4 days or so here at home.

 

[stihltech]

dad day

My kids did not need anything fixed today, so I could rest.

 

[Tzed250]

My dad has been gone a few years now, but I will always remember him allowing me to help with the rebuild of the Tecumseh engine on our Toro lawnmower when i was very young. Seeing the inside of that engine opened up a world that I still enjoy today!

Thanks Dad...

 

[Jack_Shaft]

Nice post on a nice occasion.

My Dad was a pulpwood/linerboard logger and he certainly did get me into saws. I still have his old Stihl 08 that he had when he finished logging, no wonder he had arms like culverts! That thing still purrs like a kitten.

He had great cutting/handling technique but wasn't so good with the mechanical side of things. I developed into a bit of a mechanic and when I began to replace top ends at 14-16 years old, I quickly became a good buddy to have around.

Dad is gone from my life now, but every time I fire up one of my saws he's always there egging me on to cut "just one more".

 

[mbopp]

The first engine my dad helped me on was a Briggs lawnmower. The next project was a pony engine on an old D4 Cat. It just snowballed from there.

 

[enjoys cutting]

my dad would let me go with him to cut our fire wood.when i was old enough he would let me cut a little but mostly lug brush.i have lots of fond memories of being in the woods with him.now i take my kids in the woods and hopefully show them the right and safe way to use a saw and enjoy the outdoors.

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

...Did your dad get you into chainsaws? Mine did not, but he gave me an incredible appreciation for things mechanical. My love of tinkering with machines comes from my dad, and my mom's dad. Happy Fathers day everybody!!!

Pretty much the same here. I have been curious about how things worked since I was very young. I started taking stuff apart when I was three or four years old. Both of my grandfathers were machinists so it must be genetic!

I am also very project oriented. I'm not very good at just sitting around and relaxing. I would MUCH rather be doing something productive & interesting. If I can be learning about how to do something that's good too!

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[Stihl4life]

I got into saws thanks to my grandpa. When i was seven, i got my first chainsaw, a Homelite XL2. I was the happiest kid in the world when i got that thing. Since then, i have had Dirtbikes and quite a few chainsaws. My dad isnt into anything mechanical, so i pretty much had to teach my self. I re-built the motor in my old CR80 when i was 12 years old and since then i have always been messing around with my saws and what not, trying to make them better.

 

[IchWarriorMkII]

My dad got me into being an equipment operator... any kind...

farm, construction, outdoor power, you name it...

I guess I fell into chainsaws, mostly because he never really got into it.

 

[andrethegiant70]

My Dad didn't show a particular gift for fixing things but he did try... in fact, I remember an occasion in which he tuned up the car and it wouldn't run afterwards. Had to have have it towed to the shop. What I did take from those occasions was that there was usually a pretty simple reason that it didn't work... he had just overlooked something. To this day, I consider "prep work," the thinking and preparing phase the most important part of fixing something.

I do give him credit for giving me the will to take things apart.. he also taught me ('cuz I watched him make some mistakes) to evaluate whether I had the tools and knowledge (or could obtain them) to fix what was inside.