Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[muad]

Good lord. Glad you are safe....? If you have a HD truck check out dynatrac. They have HD ball joints that are greaseable and rebuildable. They have other AWSOME stuff too.
ALL AMERICAN MADE

If you have a chevy they dont make stuff for you i think. Only solid axle truck stuff. ....i think.




Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

Is their stuff as good or better than Moog? I always buy moog parts for the 97 F350, if I’m not getting motorcraft.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Switch to the left is on, choke should be on other side. I have a few “2 series” saws, I like them. Have a few three series too, like them too

 

[muad]

Switch to the left is on, choke should be on other side. I have a few “2 series” saws, I like them. Have a few three series too, like them too

OK, I had it right then.

If the choke is just a square piece of plastic, it must be broke on mine. it was in and I could not pull it out.

I think it needs gone through by my local Stihl/Husky guy. I’ll have to drop it off this week.

 

[MechanicMatt]

OK, I had it right then.

If the choke is just a square piece of plastic, it must be broke on mine. it was in and I could not pull it out.

I think it needs gone through by my local Stihl/Husky guy. I’ll have to drop it off this week.

Hope he’s trustworthy, I got a local guy that’s a crook and a guy a hour away that’s a gem. If he tries condemning it, bring it home and we’ll walk you through fixing it.

Does it feel like it has compression?? That’s the MOST Important thing. Then a vacuum test. After that everything else is easy peasy

 

[James Miller]

Make a cut or show some wood grain.

Looks like it COULD be walnut.


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

That trees still under many hundreds of pounds of oak. Going to be awhile before I get to make any cuts on it.

 

[muad]

Hope he’s trustworthy, I got a local guy that’s a crook and a guy a hour away that’s a gem. If he tries condemning it, bring it home and we’ll walk you through fixing it.

Does it feel like it has compression?? That’s the MOST Important thing. Then a vacuum test. After that everything else is easy peasy

Oh yeah, he’s awesome. A honest, knowledgable guy. I have bought two saws from him, and a Toro rider. He could have sold me a 261 on Friday if he’d have pushed it, but he steered me to the 180 for the wife instead. That proved to me again that he’s a good dude.

This dealer is about 35 minutes from me. There’s another Stihl dealer closer, but they don’t work on Huskies. Kuhn’s does.

Compression “feels” good. I pulled the plug and looking down in the cylinder, it also looked good to me.

 

[svk]

Dag nabbit

 

[MechanicMatt]

Great to hear, even better is now that you are seeing the light and converting to the good side you can stop being one of these guy

Poor Stihl owners, y’all like the dark side in Star Wars..... never gonna win

 

[U&A]

That trees still under many hundreds of pounds of oak. Going to be awhile before I get to make any cuts on it.

Chicken [emoji14]

[emoji1787]


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[MechanicMatt]

Hey Steve, just a thought....

when you here some clunky clunk in the front end, jack it up and check it out. Put the jack under the control arm to check the ball joints.

It would royally suck to wreck that thing with the kids in it.

 

[James Miller]

Chicken [emoji14]

[emoji1787]


Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

Come get it lol. It runs right up the middle of the big oak top.

 

[muad]

Dag nabbit
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Oh man!

So sorry to see that. Are you gonna have to tow it?

 

[muad]

Great to hear, even better is now that you are seeing the light and converting to the good side you can stop being one of these guy View attachment 796487

Poor Stihl owners, y’all like the dark side in Star Wars..... never gonna win

Hahahahahahaha!!!

Hey, I can like both, can’t I? Balance in the force and all...

 

[muad]

View attachment 796503 Come get it lol. It runs right up the middle of the big oak top.

That’s a good amount of wood there.

Looks like some fun to me.

 

[muad]

His and hers.

I’m really liking this 461 with the 28”. Rips good, and fuel economy surprised me. I was expecting it to drink a tank every few cuts. LOL!

 

[turnkey4099]

Dang!

That’s nuts.

Somehow I cannot see the problem with living in the house. The battery cases are entirely encased in concrete so here should be no lead contamination. Tearing it down would be hazardous waste if foundation/walls were broken up.

I suspect the owners cancer would have been caused while building the foundation.

Far from being an expert but...

 

[rarefish383]

Back in hte mid 70s some nut built a big expensive house on top of a landfill that had been decomissioned just a few years before. Could not move in due to gases. House was never lived in and stood there for years.

As the old saying goes. Ignorance can be cured, stupidity is forever.

An old friend lived across the street from a sludge dump, they dug big furrows that looked like a giant plow cut them. Then drove big tankers over the furrows with the valve open. Then capped it off with wood chips and saw dust from saw mills, and the dirt from the furrows. When the winter freeze came alon the sludge got too thick to run out of the tankers. My friend thought he would get a month or two reprieve from the smell, nope, they contracted with cement companies that couldn’t pour concrete, to use their mixers. I guess it’s different than a land fill because it was shallow. Only a few years went by before they put in a golf course with giant luvury homes. I always wondered if they had a problem with the smell?

 

[rarefish383]

Great to hear, even better is now that you are seeing the light and converting to the good side you can stop being one of these guy View attachment 796487

Poor Stihl owners, y’all like the dark side in Star Wars..... never gonna win

You know he’s a pro! Got chaps, gloves, probably ears and eyes. Lots of bars and wedges,and a camera. I think he’s one of you guys trying to make us laugh! Can’t be me, I only own one wedge. It’s an old Mac wedge and is on the shelf with all the other yellow stuff. JMO, one rope works better than ten wedges.

 

[MustangMike]

Funny, but when Matt has a tough tree to fell, who does he call???? (The guy with all the Shihls???) (and ropes, and comealongs, and wedges - lot of em).

But no matter what you have, there is no substitute for knowing what you are doing!

 

[svk]

Hey Steve, just a thought....

when you here some clunky clunk in the front end, jack it up and check it out. Put the jack under the control arm to check the ball joints.

It would royally suck to wreck that thing with the kids in it.

I had one with me. Praise the Lord we were in the left lane of a divided highway and nobody was to my right when it let out.

There was no warning to this. And unfortunately that was a new front axle from last summer and the ball joint was new from then too.