That must be some hard cedar, had to use a tapcon to screw it up
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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Have not purchased any for a while, but they were hit or miss. Almost all of the MS660s worked as well as OEM, could not tell the difference.
Many of the ones for the MS440 were junk, and often the MS460 stuff was really MS440 carbs. You will not get the same performance from them.
I've purchased a few of the "older" OEM MS460 carbs for my next projects (Models with the .070 jets).
When I get to these projects, I will keep you posted.
Also note that (when doing timed cuts in Hickory) I tried a Walbro 460 carb on my 10mm 044, but that saw liked the original ZAMA carb better! (It is a 10 mm 044 and the carb does not have a snorkel).
One of my ported 460s liked the 461 carb (it is a different design) better, the other two did not!
Often, it is just experimentation!
Picked up some more bar oil at Tractor today . They called me saying my rain check was filled. 5 gallons at 6.99
if I'm going after market, I just get whatever is cheapest with the best shipping rate. Most show up as no name carbs anyway, so I'm fairly sure they are all made at the same place anyway. So, I don't get hung up on the "brand" name. Every now and then a lemon comes through, depending on cost, I'll either return it or just get another. Generally I have pretty good luck with them.
Some years back I found a bottle near a pair of ash trees that had uprooted and blown over. It was half buried in the dirt and if I hadn't seen the sunlight reflecting off it I would have just kept walking over it. The bottle said "Pluto Water-America's Physique" and had a logo on the bottom. Did some research and Pluto Water was mineral spring water billed as a "natural laxative" and also had lithium salts as an ingredient. Sales were stopped in 1971 when lithium became a controlled substance. When I told the landowner about it he laughed and said "clean your body, bowels and mind in one fell swoop with it". Cleaned up the bottle and it's up on top of the kitchen cabinets with some other stuff on display.
Today in the freezing cold I wired up my tractor heater and installed a new set of LED spot/ flood lights on the brush guard. My older lights had lost a few segments. These are really bright. I'll take a woods shot the next time that I am out after dark. I have 4 more for extras. If I like these I just might replace my rear work lights.
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Last spring I found a Thomas Edison Battery Oil bottle, do you know what those are.
Here's some of the posts from when I found it and responses.
It's like Forest mama said, "life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.".
Got the seals for the bay door yesterday, the ones that I put on the posts/header are very supple, the one for the bottom of the door looks great, but it's hard as a rock. The good hing is there's a brush seal that will go in front of the hard seal on the ground, but I'll probably end up changing it out this spring/summer.
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Looking good Chipper1!!
I love walking old long forgotten rail beds, ALWAYS find “treasure”
I love walking old long forgotten rail beds, ALWAYS find “treasure”
At my camp property in St. Lawrence County, NY I get quite a bit of timber fall from beaver. The big pond is about 30 acres, and the beaver run riot around it. Several yrs back I built 7 nice wood duck boxes--gave away all but two that I mounted in trees adjacent to the pond. One, I climbed a white pine and wired it into place about 20' up. The other, I went to the opposite side of the pond, got a climbing rope up into a bitternut hickory (no limbs on which to free climb), then ascended on rope and wired the box to the tree about 20-something feet up. (If the box is too close to the ground, snakes or coons will sense the young, and clean out the nest.)
A year or so back on one of my two annual visits to camp, I scanned the far side of the pond with binocs and wondered, Where the f--- is my duck box? Walked around to the hickory tree duck box and found that a beaver had dropped the tree into the pond. Box was pinned beneath it in the mud & crunched badly.
Had a good day on the ice this past weekend. Caught a few Lake Whitefish and a couple Landlocked Salmon.
Pretty mild out, but I decided to put up the fish house mid-day and cut the wind to cook up a lunch for myself and the pal that joined me.
It was quite something to watch a landlock on my fish finder come cruising in 35 feet below the ice and chase my jig up much higher in the water column before taking. It then peeled out a good amount of line before I could wrangle it back to the hole. Usually these fish are cruising 4 to 10 feet below the ice in search of minnows or smelt, that day they were doing things a bit different.
I don't normally keep many fish (nor do I judge those that do), but I kept two whitefish and a salmon because they are too tasty to let go, especially when caught in colder water.
Pretty mild out, but I decided to put up the fish house mid-day and cut the wind to cook up a lunch for myself and the pal that joined me.
It was quite something to watch a landlock on my fish finder come cruising in 35 feet below the ice and chase my jig up much higher in the water column before taking. It then peeled out a good amount of line before I could wrangle it back to the hole. Usually these fish are cruising 4 to 10 feet below the ice in search of minnows or smelt, that day they were doing things a bit different.
I don't normally keep many fish (nor do I judge those that do), but I kept two whitefish and a salmon because they are too tasty to let go, especially when caught in colder water.
Just got back from the town building dept . What a pleasure working with them to pull the permits not being sarcastic ,showed them the plans and where I wanted to put up the building chief inspector said no problem just keep it 50 ft from the property line and you can put it anywhere you want
I had heard about that type of battery but didn't remember exactly how they worked, after reading the responses I remembered.
Glad to hear that went well, mostly similar experience when getting the permit for my shop.
What building did you end up deciding to go with?
The museum I volunteer at is next to railroad tracks and there was a stub track/siding that was removed this past year near the building. This switch stand was in the scrap pile, the museum management asked if we could have it and the RR donated it to us. The kids like to "throw" the switch plus we use a bungee cord to hold the door open with it too. The bench in the left hand corner is made from a part of an old highway bridge in town that was removed a few years ago.
It’s down to two companies Carport central or Boss buildings I had them change a few things and waiting on the quotes . I have all the paperwork for the permits just need to fill them out and give the town the building plans . But I can’t get the signed plans till I make the down payment the plans I showed the town were their generic not stamped plan .
I had two pole barn companies quote the building, way more than I am willing to pay for a shop .
Next I need to get the slab quotes . Slab will be as much if not more than the building .
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