Sure is quiet in here....do I need to start a fight?

[pioneerguy600]

The big advantage for me of the worm drives is they tilt the opposite way from a regular skillsaw.....I have both a B&D Industrial 8" worm drive and my Porter Cable 528, 8" use them both together with identical blade for cutting sliding dovetails in timberframes...

Ok for you but is Jimmy going to be cutting timber frames?..

 

[Cantdog]

Ok for you but is Jimmy going to be cutting timber frames?..

LOL....I said I was a bad one to ask!!! One of my favorites is my Porter Cable 314 4 1/2" worm drive trim saw......light and super powerful but at the same time accurate enough to cut the blind miters to fit nosing returns to 5/4" oak stair treads!!

 

[Stihl 041S]

LOL....I said I was a bad one to ask!!! One of my favorites is my Porter Cable 314 4 1/2" worm drive trim saw......light and super powerful but at the same time accurate enough to cut the blind miters to fit nosing returns to 5/4" oak stair treads!!

Mmmmm......314......

 

[pioneerguy600]

LOL....I said I was a bad one to ask!!! One of my favorites is my Porter Cable 314 4 1/2" worm drive trim saw......light and super powerful but at the same time accurate enough to cut the blind miters to fit nosing returns to 5/4" oak stair treads!!

You are not thinking like average homeowner Joe, he just needs one saw to do a small scope of cutting chores, likely only cut stuff less than 2" thick most of their lives, odd time a 4 X 4 needs cutting it can be cut one side and rolled to cut from the other. I have my 14" Makita for deck building but even for that its overkill, especially the weight.

 

[Stihl 041S]

You "Steamers" should check this out.......these were brutus....and very scary to run in the woods. As you can see the driver sits in a wooden "outhouse" on the very front.......these had no brakes and pulled enormous loads of logs on sleds. Downhil grades were not yer friend......a number of men perished over the years. There are two of these in the area.....one at the Cole Museum and this one at Leonards Mills Forestry Museum. PB and I visited the restoration just after they had installed the brandy new boiler....can't remember how much they said it cost......I think $150,000.00....you should watch some of the vids.....lot of work...

https://umaine.edu/met/capstone-projects/2014-lombard-steam-log-hauler-restoration/

We got one down here. But not steam.

 

[pioneerguy600]

The thing I remember the most from one of these is the squeal of the steel wheels on a gravel road coming up the hill to the farm to run a thresher.

 

[Stihl 041S]

Traction engines......one guy near me built one the scale of a garden tractor.
Spit nasty stuff just like the full size one. Rode in a small wagon to run it.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Traction engines......one guy near me built one the scale of a garden tractor.
Spit nasty stuff just like the full size one. Rode in a small wagon to run it.

The side flywheel could run a lot of belt run accessories but they belched a lot of smoke and ash + sparks that could and did start plenty of fires especially around dry chaff.

 

[Cantdog]

My landlord, when I lived out in Phoenix had a Steam tractor......I can't remember if it was a Case or International Harvester.....he had the original owners manuals that came with it........he collected old mining equipment.....actually he collected everything.....he had 19 dogs......all neighborhood strays that were headed to the pound..

 

[pioneerguy600]

My landlord, when I lived out in Phoenix had a Steam tractor......I can't remember if it was a Case or International Harvester.....he had the original owners manuals that came with it........he collected old mining equipment.....actually he collected everything.....he had 19 dogs......all neighborhood strays that were headed to the pound..

We even ran a big wood planer off that old Case and another farm ran a rotary sawmill off it, sometime in the late 60`s a fellow came down from Ontario and bought it, had it shipped back up there, bet that cost a few dollars. I remember it caught a pile of planer shavings on fire, luckily the pile was well away from any buildings, took a while to put it out.

 

[Cantdog]

We even ran a big wood planer off that old Case and another farm ran a rotary sawmill off it, sometime in the late 60`s a fellow came down from Ontario and bought it, had it shipped back up there, bet that cost a few dollars. I remember it caught a pile of planer shavings on fire, luckily the pile was well away from any buildings, took a while to put it out.

LOL....I could see that happening!!!!

 

[jimdad07]

Got some more barn up. Channel is starting to take off a little. AS has prepared me for trolls, I don't lose sleep weeping anymore.



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[tbone75]

Looking good Jim !!!

 

[pioneerguy600]

Got some more barn up. Channel is starting to take off a little. AS has prepared me for trolls, I don't lose sleep weeping anymore.



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Not much I can say to help any, looking good and these type jobs take a lot of time when only spare time and one man doing all the work, big project but very worthwhile in the end.

 

[cheeves]

My landlord, when I lived out in Phoenix had a Steam tractor......I can't remember if it was a Case or International Harvester.....he had the original owners manuals that came with it........he collected old mining equipment.....actually he collected everything.....he had 19 dogs......all neighborhood strays that were headed to the pound..

Went to Judson School for awhile East base of Camel back Mtn. Crazy school!!! Was Nationaly Ranked in tennis with a kid from Scottsdale in '67 and lived in Tempe winter of '77! Small world! Phoenix now polluted from the McDowell Mtns holding in the smog! What a shame! 60's was beautiful...back in '73 coming back from Mexico could start to see the pollution.

 

[cheeves]

Looking good Jim !!!

Good Morning T old Buddy!!! Take care!!!
Keep playing the Lottery T!!! We'll get to Germany yet Brother!!!!

 

[Cantdog]

Went to Judson School for awhile East base of Camel back Mtn. Crazy school!!! Was Nationaly Ranked in tennis with a kid from Scottsdale in '67 and lived in Tempe winter of '77! Small world! Phoenix now polluted from the McDowell Mtns holding in the smog! What a shame! 60's was beautiful...back in '73 coming back from Mexico could start to see the pollution.

I lived on Camelback West just about where Grand Ave intersects Camelback RD. Back in the late 70's.....78-79.... we built a house up at Pinnacle Peak.....we would start at 5:00 AM.....from up there you could look down into Sun Valley and from 7-9 in the morning a green haze would nearly obscure the view......then it would clear up some but reappear around 12-1...then clear up again and then reappear again 4-6 in the afternoon.....everyday. A lot of cars on the move at those times of day!!! I remember riding my Panhead nearly every day....get home after a 100 mile ride and your cheeks just below where your sunglasses stopped would be black.....looked almost like a football player!!!

 

[pioneerguy600]

The rain is letting up some, still might make a run for it to the camp, rain will come back fairly steady overnight but clear up tomorrow.

 

[Cantdog]

The rain is letting up some, still might make a run for it to the camp, rain will come back fairly steady overnight but clear up tomorrow.

Good luck Jerry......I canned my trip to the island this weekend....was planning on returning late Mon or early Tues morning......they are calling for rain those days. I also have things to attend to not the least of which is doing some glass work on the skiff.....was leaking a little last fall..gotta fix that...planning on heading out next Thurs and spend the weekend.

 

[Cantdog]

My cheepy meter came in yesterday....worked good...got the miserable device timed correctly...starts/runs excellent!!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/151694551486?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Quite a lot of Chineeze function for short dallahz. The owners manual will give you a headache trying to read it.....short on info and long on bad translation!! But it worked fine.....pretty nice leads with separate tips that snap on to the probes to give you alligator clip ends.....and they will fit on my other meters too. It also came with a separate braided SS probe to take temps from -40C to 1000C......not sure what I'll do with that??? Probably just get lost... The tach and dwell works on 1, 3, 4. 5, 6 and 8 cyl engines.....quick sampling.....the only function that I'm not enthused with, is the tach reads X 10s....so 1600 rpm reads 160....guess that's because it will read up to 19,999 rpm on a 4 digit screen......but like I said I'm happy with it for $24.65 delivered...good one to leave out at camp on the island.