Oh haha I see
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hey jethro ya gone and jinxed me cuz 
today the 661 off the work shop shelf felt sharp n good to go but once buried in the cut the bar bent & it bogged down.. i pressed on till pointless and then thinking at options took off the bar flipped it gave it and the chain good file and hey presto it transformed its self back to the wood weapon it is..
i still reckon the newer saws are so powerful & chain speed fast they burn out bars faster than 20-30 year ago..
the burl knot on this gum formed around a hollow looked promising for carving grain but in the end was crap
today the 661 off the work shop shelf felt sharp n good to go but once buried in the cut the bar bent & it bogged down.. i pressed on till pointless and then thinking at options took off the bar flipped it gave it and the chain good file and hey presto it transformed its self back to the wood weapon it is..i still reckon the newer saws are so powerful & chain speed fast they burn out bars faster than 20-30 year ago..
the burl knot on this gum formed around a hollow looked promising for carving grain but in the end was crap
hey jethro ya gone and jinxed me cuz
i still reckon the newer saws are so powerful & chain speed fast they burn out bars faster than 20-30 year ago..
the burl knot on this gum formed around a hollow looked promising for carving grain but in the end was crap
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how much use are ya getting from a bar on that monster? Ive only wore out two bars on a crummy wing wong saw. Am only keeping the famly warm in winter tho so not a hell of alot of use. That poor china saw is used mainly for roots n crap and oils like crap but f@$k it wont die. Have leaned the jesus out of for sum grunt and 3 years of hell later it fires up 3rd pull every time and sorta pulls a 18inch 325 ok. Never had a nice new proper non laminated bar just good old stuff.. so when you say bent what are ya meaning? Still fairly green with saws but cad has bittin hard. Im an engineer so get my head round most things but u saw ppl have your own language with some things.
Any of you blokes into victa mowers? Got a dozen or so of them
I rekon I have the model after that one, the plastic only covers the top and dosent go down to the deck like yours.
Rebuild the carb, and its solid and reliable, have a few others too, but nothing worth collecting, both that and another victa I rescued from side of the road collection, saw the owner wheeling them out, got talking, and took them home.
Sadly, have not come across any saws that way yet, about the only thing I miss from the city was the hard rubbish weeks, couldnt believe what people would just throw out.
Oh, and richen up your saws too .....tsk tsk.
T
Rebuild the carb, and its solid and reliable, have a few others too, but nothing worth collecting, both that and another victa I rescued from side of the road collection, saw the owner wheeling them out, got talking, and took them home.
Sadly, have not come across any saws that way yet, about the only thing I miss from the city was the hard rubbish weeks
, couldnt believe what people would just throw out.Oh, and richen up your saws too .....tsk tsk.
T
I rekon I have the model after that one, the plastic only covers the top and dosent go down to the deck like yours.
Rebuild the carb, and its solid and reliable, have a few others too, but nothing worth collecting, both that and another victa I rescued from side of the road collection, saw the owner wheeling them out, got talking, and took them home.
Sadly, have not come across any saws that way yet, about the only thing I miss from the city was the hard rubbish weeks
Oh, and richen up your saws too .....tsk tsk.
T
Nice thats how i find most of those old things my pm700 came from the scrap bin haha. Have you got the 1 from my avatar? They came out the same time 73 that old mustang is a 74 with the plastic carb. im really hanging for a vc160 71 or 72 but sadly they all got wheeled off to the scrap bin years ago all because a wheel fell off or the 25 year old plug needed biffed or stale gas. Yea thanks for the richen up advice its only the china saw getting run like that.
Any of you blokes into victa mowers? Got a dozen or so of them
not really but i do have a fond memory of my 1st mower a Victa 160cc corvette bless that little beast it made 14/15yold me circa 1976 a heap of pocket money as i built a small enterprise in my suburb street mowing lawns.. Its still stored under my shed one day i'll pull it out and give it the rebuild it deserves..
wonder why my sons named Victor... his mothers side grandfather but i happily agreed
hows this smick rebuild,, I still remember grabbing that breather hose to choke it off as the on off starter had stopped working
looks like i may be hankering to get under the shed this weekend 10 years before i retire..
looks like i may be hankering to get under the shed this weekend 10 years before i retire..
Haha thats cool rip into it while the parts are still around those full crank victa's are awsome old beasts. Just like old saws they were built to last a life time. My old mustang was 1500bux in todays money but 45 years on and still cutting grass makes it very cheep but try and sell a mower for that kinda coin now. I guess that gos for any thing ya buy these days. Quality is a hard sell now even a dam washing machine barely makes 5 years now yet there's plenty of old ones from the 80s still tikin along with a new hose or a pump here n there.
Tony ray
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Hi, first post here. I live down on the surf coast in Victoria and I have a couple of questions .
Could someone explain what Bucking a tree , noodling some wood and what a cord of wood means in Austrailing.
Down here we go out and cut a load of wood which usually means a ute or trailer load.
Bucking a tree sounds like what a tree hugger would do.
Noodling wood sounds very wrong to me also.
And a cord of wood ? we have extension cords in all different lengths so im lost with that one as well.
Could someone explain what Bucking a tree , noodling some wood and what a cord of wood means in Austrailing.
Down here we go out and cut a load of wood which usually means a ute or trailer load.
Bucking a tree sounds like what a tree hugger would do.
Noodling wood sounds very wrong to me also.
And a cord of wood ? we have extension cords in all different lengths so im lost with that one as well.
Hi Tony and Welcome.
Good questions, I also wondered what those things meant too.
Bucking up a tree, not to be confused with barking up the wrong tree,
means cutting the felled tree into your required size, or manageable rounds.Noodling wood is when you cut the previously cut round in half, usually when the round is too large to manage with your available equipment, back is stuffed etc.
A Cord of wood is the measured volume of split, cut wood that fits into a 4ftx4ftx8ft space.
Think of 2 pallets laid flat on the ground side by side, and then wood stacked on them to 4ft high, I think of it as 2 cubed pallet loads, if you made up a cube out of pallets and filled it with wood, yeah rough estimate, but you get the idea.
hope that clears some things up.
T
460cixy
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Yanks get all hot and bothered about noodling
Tony ray
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And Bucking a tree as well. Plus ive dropped plenty of cords down the dunny over the years.
Haha funny buggers. Whats a ute they ask
460cixy
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Dumb kunts hey
Well yea a pick up cant pic anything up. What do they call jandels oops i mean thongs lol. And its a torch right?
460cixy
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Where's me kiwi mate kiwi bro must be still playing with his new mill. No need for fancy pickem up trucks around here
Tony ray
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I noodled some wood today. But I feel so dirty afterwards. The missus was happy as it keeps her warm .
The wood I noodled was messmate and yes I did make a mess.
The wood I noodled was messmate and yes I did make a mess.
giday tony welcome to the dribble mob,, I used to fly me hang gliders over Moggs creek long long time ago...I'm fixn to go fly a cessna this weekend its a daddy day gift.. Me mates 1976 TY is all good now with new gaskets seal carby, we just got to copy paste all for this for the other yellow tank one get em Ag reg and we old cotes be off punting about them hills ...
noodle?? i always suspected this cuz when you cut disc cross grain the wood chip comes out in long spaghetti slithers..I dont buck trees i sox' em and a ute loads my US measure for cord,,, silly them septics...
