It’s Stihl own perprietary grind , but you could square grind it if chosen, its very fast and it’s NK , there’s no gullet , and the raker is totally different than others,
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Hiked all over the mountain, saw tons of sign. Sadly very few new tracks
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My poor dog, I get home he runs right to the bed of my truck. Puts his front paws on my bumper and starts sniffing above the tailgate. Turned to me and had a disgusted look on his face.
He was expecting a deer….
This dog is another level of smart. See’s me bring gun cases in the house and expects venison scraps.
He was expecting a deer….
This dog is another level of smart. See’s me bring gun cases in the house and expects venison scraps.
Only advice I can give is skip the cheap entry level printers and jump into a bambu labs printer. Any of them really. My first printer was a higher spec ender Ender. Which did fine, but you're constantly tweaking, fixing, and di**ing with it. Plus not being enclosed means you can't really print most engineering grade filament. Don't get me wrong, I learned a ton with the ender but with the bambu, I send it through the software and it prints. Very rare I have an issue or failures with it. It just works.That's awesome dude.
I'll be needing a lot of tools organizing stuff not too far down the road, maybe I better get one, I could set it up in the shop. My son is really into.all that, he has a Lazer engraver that he's done some neat stuff with and he's wanted a printer. He's been getting into sub and repairing amps lately, also got his ham radio ops license( not sure if he got the upgraded one yet, may have). He's a sharp kid and surpassed my knowledge of electricity, not that it took much.
Look forward to seeing the tactical crocks!
Only thing I really suffer with is designing my own stuff. Cad programs have changed so much since I was in school. Really thinking about taking some classes, just don't have the time right now.
Thanks.
Kinda like most things, buy something quality if you can afford it. Probably be the boy buying it, but who knows. Tonight he bought new transmission housings for his electric rc car, it's his money, so he can spend it how he wants within reason.
I'd like to take a welding class.
Looks good from here, I can't see the red chalk. Red is more permanent from what I recall.
Instead of snapping lines on the boards for my ceiling, I made a jig to show where to put the screws. It went above the osb and up against the truss, then had a spacer made of osb, then a board that was 36" long and had 2 marks on it for the screw layout. It worked quite well for something I've never seen done before.
I also made a few different pieces to help hold the osb before it was screwed, those helped a ton. I can't imagine trying to hold them in place to get a couple screws in them, even with two people, walls are much easier!
I was glad when our place was cleaned up for sure, now I need to finish the stuff in the back yard
. I basically got everything that was in the front and in the way. I would have probably finished the back, but I got to use that lift, so I burned a couple weeks of "spare" time utilizing that. That saved me a lot of time and money 
.When doing storm cleanup, stuff with vines, smaller trees/limbing, I'm pretty aggressive about how tight I run my chains. The other thing is to watch your tip, I see many guys using the very tip of the bar in those situations, a small branch can get right under the chain and pop it pretty easily. I crank my chains till they sing on the bar slightly, then back them off, unless it a new chain, then I leave it like that.
Not saying you need this, but maybe it will help someone.
My two cents:
Chain pitch:
Generally, the smaller the tooth the faster it cuts, but the easier it will pinch. I did use narrow kerf chain a lot when milling the post and beam for the cabin, as cut speed increased and pinching could easily be prevented with a wedge. Stihl used to produce narrow kerf rip chain for Logisol, and you could only buy it through Logisol (Stihl dealers could not get it), but it is NLA.
Tension Cuts:
As I have previously mentioned, about 40% of the trees on my 50 acres upstate were destroyed by a Tornado in 1998. After that, the remaining trees no longer had a "wind block" and numerous trees were blown down. I used the blown down Ash trees to make the post and beam to build my cabin. Many of them had tension, you had to assess and be careful, but you still had problems. Wedges were your friend, and it was always good to have at least 2 saws.
Even after we turned it into logs there were problems. When I milled one log, we heard cracking, and we got the heck away from it. That log imploded like it had an explosive charge inside of it! Just thinking about it really kept you on your toes during the rest of the milling. I was also glad we produced "extra" pieces, as not all of it remained useable after it seasoned even though it was stickered and strapped.
All of my posts and beams were 6.5" X 6.5" square. We needed 8 - 12' posts, 2 - 17' posts (center front and back), 4 - 20' beams (at floor level, 8' high), 2 - 27' beams (on top of the 12' posts, overhang was 1.5' on each end) and one 27' ridge beam. The ridge beam was 9.25" X 2.25", the side pieces cut off were used for stair rails. The scrap from making the posts and beams were used for the diagonal bracing and collar ties.
Chain pitch:
Generally, the smaller the tooth the faster it cuts, but the easier it will pinch. I did use narrow kerf chain a lot when milling the post and beam for the cabin, as cut speed increased and pinching could easily be prevented with a wedge. Stihl used to produce narrow kerf rip chain for Logisol, and you could only buy it through Logisol (Stihl dealers could not get it), but it is NLA.
Tension Cuts:
As I have previously mentioned, about 40% of the trees on my 50 acres upstate were destroyed by a Tornado in 1998. After that, the remaining trees no longer had a "wind block" and numerous trees were blown down. I used the blown down Ash trees to make the post and beam to build my cabin. Many of them had tension, you had to assess and be careful, but you still had problems. Wedges were your friend, and it was always good to have at least 2 saws.
Even after we turned it into logs there were problems. When I milled one log, we heard cracking, and we got the heck away from it. That log imploded like it had an explosive charge inside of it! Just thinking about it really kept you on your toes during the rest of the milling. I was also glad we produced "extra" pieces, as not all of it remained useable after it seasoned even though it was stickered and strapped.
All of my posts and beams were 6.5" X 6.5" square. We needed 8 - 12' posts, 2 - 17' posts (center front and back), 4 - 20' beams (at floor level, 8' high), 2 - 27' beams (on top of the 12' posts, overhang was 1.5' on each end) and one 27' ridge beam. The ridge beam was 9.25" X 2.25", the side pieces cut off were used for stair rails. The scrap from making the posts and beams were used for the diagonal bracing and collar ties.
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My wife raised 3 kids by herself as a welder. Good money in it and congratulations to your girl choosing a field where she will never be out of work if she doesn't want to be.
that first printer was a gift from my wife. I don't regret her buying it, as I was just tossing around the idea of getting one, and not really serious about it. Then bam she bought one for me for Christmas a few years ago. Was a lot of fun upgrading it, and making it work. I learned a lot about programming (I still suck at programming.) Raspberry pi boards, and it works 20x better then it did stock. But just in the few years I had it, desktop hobby printers got a lot better and much more capable. I do really appreciate the click and print of the bambu printer. It's just so easy.
Rc, yeah that was another money pit hobby of mine for a lot of years. Still have a few laying around.
The red chalk. Well that's a short kinda funny story. I was given an old chalk box many years ago. Had blue chalk. When we were doing the roof on the house, it kept breaking and jamming up, so it got tossed off the roof. (Still have no idea where it landed. Never found it.) Any way. One of my friends grabbed me a new chalk box, which happened to have red chalk in it. I've been using that every since. For whatever reason it wipes right off tin, and I didn't give it a thought using it on wood. Which it does not wipe off of, and neither does neon green. (The green came off better.)
So yesterday I realized my error, and went and bought a light purple chalk box/ chalk. That stuff blows/wipes right off.
Here you can see one of the marks. Thats after a magic eraser, and brake clean.... think the sander is going to have to come out.
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P.S. The back story and details of the car in the attached article are very interesting. An impressive effort!
Very rare, but not the direction I would have gone. I don't like convertibles, I prefer fastback mustangs, and back when autos were 3 speed and the stick was 4, I always preferred the stick!
That said my brother's 69 Talladega had a Type III auto (a wide ratio C-6). It came with a 428 SCJ and .325 rear gears and the shotgun dual exhaust. With a few engine mods including an 800 double pumper Holley carb and the Mallory electronic photocell ignition, that car launched and ran very strong.
Ironically, all of the Talladega's came with bench front seats and auto transmission (with shift on the column). Only just over 500 were produced, but collector value never reached the expected levels (the opposite of the Mustangs).
We had seen this car for sale in a used car lot before the owner previous to my brother purchased it. It was white with a black hood and had Ts on the doors, no other identification. We did not know what it was, but the "knowledgeable" car salesman explained it to us ... he told us it was a Canadian Torino!
It was not till after my brother purchased it and did some research that we realized what it was.
The car was in a local garage and had a serious engine knock. The mechanic said it was a rod bearing. My brother told him it did not sound like a rod bearing to him. The mechanic insisted it was a rod bearing and said they were going to replace the engine with another one. My brother offered, and they accepted buying the engine for $100. When my brother pulled the heads, he found a nut had been dropped down the carburetor and welded to the top of the piston. He simply chiseled the nut off and put the engine back together and was "good to go".
The idiots at the garage did not understand the different Ford engine families, so they purchased a 429 engine to replace the 428. They had difficulty fitting it in the engine bay, the exhaust was not compatible, and the transmission was not compatible.
So, they called my brother and asked if he would sell the 428 back to them. My brother said he was not selling the engine but asked if they wanted to sell the car. He got it for an additional $500. That is how my brother ended up with a 69 Talladega for $600!
I hope you all had a great Christmas! I got back from South Dakota yesterday. I took my Dad and older boys out for a guys trip fishing for perch and walleye. Here's a couple pics.
The first days haul...
A nice pike caught while jigging...
Total for the trip was 21 walleyes, 16 perch and 2 pike. Not too shabby considering I was helping my boys unhook and rebait while the bite was hot. The main thing was we had a great time with Grandpa.
The first days haul...
A nice pike caught while jigging...
Total for the trip was 21 walleyes, 16 perch and 2 pike. Not too shabby considering I was helping my boys unhook and rebait while the bite was hot. The main thing was we had a great time with Grandpa.
That's a nice haul!!!! I see some specks off to the side too. Was that on Winnebago??
Finally got tired of getting a wet ass . Picked up a seat for the kubota a tractor supply. Had to drill two holes in the factory seat track frame to get it to work . At 1/4 of the price of a new Kubota seat I’ll live with it 
Question to anyone who has put up a steel building recently. What company did you buy from and how was the transaction. My buddy has two Carolina steel buildings and loves them unfortunately they stopped dealing in NY . Looking to get a 30x50 with radiant floor heating I’ll be doing the pour and heat install
Thanks! Yeah, a different group was fishing a different lake. They had about 20 10-12" crappie in addition to some nice perch.
No, we were fishing in South Dakota in the Webster area.
Ours did, until the switch was flipped. Then no pain at all.
This will fix that!
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