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We have some crazy weather here. Nearly at freezing point yesterday, 20's overnight. Now the wind has picked up and it's on it's way to -22 overnight. Then looking at a high of 40 next week.
Yeah, this winter has been nuts. Everyone was saying it was gonna be a really bad winter, so I made sure we had more wood than we’ve ever had split, stacked, and ready. Not a bad thing, because I’ve hardly used any of it. Just means less work for next year.

I’m hoping to get a few years of wood stocked up, then sell some to help support this oncoming chainsaw habit.....
 
Fuel and oil changes are the killer for a diesel, I sold my f350 crew cab when diesel was just under $4, for a bit it was at 4.50 a gallon up here. The good thing is I was driving then and the speedway rewards program gave you .10 per dollar spent on fuel not per gallon(they changed it not long after lol), so I was filling the ford up every other week for free, the semi I was driving only got 4.8-5.2 mpg so I was racking up the points pretty quite.
I like the one in the picture, 5 speed with manual windows and steering, it does have A/C though :). My old eg got much better fuel economy, I checked it over 8k and it got 38.56 mpg and I got on that little 1.5 L pretty hard, I liked it better except the red paint. I have a 2000 insight that I hope to get on the rd again some day, the lifetime average on the car is 54mpg, it's nice for chasing down saws and generators.
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I was always into the EF hatch backs and CRXs. There all rot boxes around here now. After the EFs honda followed the make it a round blob with no character theme that seemed to rule the early to mid 90s. Most of my civics were pounded relentlessly so fuel mileage wasn't a top priority. I had a 90 CRX SI that's on my short list of cars I'd like back. Others on that list are the 79 fox with 351W swap, the 2 more doors sleeper civic, and my 93 240sx.
 
Well, good and bad news from my local dealer.

Good news: they replaced the carb on the Wife’s MS180 for free, and I dropped off the 254 to be fixed.

Bad news: While my MS310 has 140psi of compression, the cylinder wall and piston are scored on the exhaust side :( I wanted it checked over before I list it for sale online. I’m glad I did. Looks like a parts saw now...
 
Well, good and bad news from my local dealer.

Good news: they replaced the carb on the Wife’s MS180 for free, and I dropped off the 254 to be fixed.

Bad news: While my MS310 has 140psi of compression, the cylinder wall and piston are scored on the exhaust side :( I wanted it checked over before I list it for sale online. I’m glad I did. Looks like a parts saw now...

Isn't that one of the clamshell saws you can put a 390 top end on??? If so, Huztl sells em cheap, and they work fairly well. Just make sure you check the bevels on the ports.

I built an 029 to 390 for Matt's BIL, and he has been using it for over 2 years and loves it. Did a little muff mod and timing advance.
 
A Ford Excursion is almost as rare as a unicorn around here :(
But , this one has a rebuilt transmission/transfercase , set me back 500$ and I had to put 300$ into it to pass a 2 year road legal I figure why not .
Polly regret that decision later Lol

Well , the buyers remorse sure didn't take long Lol
Drove it home on the maiden voyage to listen to a bad wheelbearing , drove it back to the shop to blow a rear tire , scrounge a free tire , replace the bearing , send it to my alignment shop to have the transmission loose reverse when they backed off the rack ...


Anyone got an Ef2Fiddy for sale ?
And to think , all the local Chevy boys were envious of my score Lol
 
does it run?

Oh year, it runs awesome. In fact I used it today to limb a pine so the cattle can get under the tree foe cover; in anticipation of this snow.

I bought this saw new, and it’s been a great saw for about 14 years. Always ran good fuel (100LL with the occasional 87 mix if I was cutting with someone and ran out of my fuel).

I added a custom muffler to it about 5-6 years ago, but had it installed and tuned by the local stihl only dealer.

Not sure what happened.
 

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Isn't that one of the clamshell saws you can put a 390 top end on??? If so, Huztl sells em cheap, and the work fairly well. Just make sure you check the bevels on the ports.

I built an 029 to 390 for Matt's BIL, and he has been using it for over 2 years and loves it. Did a little muff mod and timing advance.
That’s nota bad idea!
 
Went to start a fire this evening because the wife was cold. Decided a nice piece of cedar on top of the kindling would be nice to start. Unfortunately, the piece I selected was a smidge too long to fit in the stove (it happens). So I fired up the crapsman in the garage and had at er, as well as trimming a branch from a gnarly split. Garage is full of chips as are my Crocs. Clothes smell like two smoke...uh uh uh uh!! (Tim Allen noise)
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