the all aussie dribble thread!

[MCW]

For $100 you can get a Tsumura unless you simply love orange like a fellow Aussie AS member. He's like a Bowerbird and simply collects orange bars
The GB EVO chain has improved since it hit the market by some accounts but there a lot of reports of it breaking. Sometimes before it's even been sharpened - this is a common occurrence. A number of professionals I know that have tried it won't touch it again.
From my point of view you are simply paying $100 for a bar as the chain has no value at all. Even more so if you knew what a roll of EVO costs...

 

[Stihlman441]

For $100 you can get a Tsumura unless you simply love orange like a fellow Aussie AS member. He's like a Bowerbird and simply collects orange bars
The GB EVO chain has improved since it hit the market by some accounts but there a lot of reports of it breaking. Sometimes before it's even been sharpened - this is a common occurrence. A number of professionals I know that have tried it won't touch it again.
From my point of view you are simply paying $100 for a bar as the chain has no value at all. Even more so if you knew what a roll of EVO costs...

Wht do i get the feeling your talkin about me,anyway they match the Stihl colours.:smile2:

 

[deye223]

Wht do i get the feeling your talkin about me,anyway they match the Stihl colours.:smile2:

yea i want 1 just for photos

 

[Nardoo]

Hey guys, have a beer for me tonight. Took early retirement after 32 of the daily grind. Had the day to myself and it was good!

Put togther a 288XP this morning and cut some wood with it. Made lunch for number 2 son when he got home from Uni and then helped him cut up two haunches of sambar. Played golf this afternoon then put a lamb roast on for my dear wife who will be home shortly. Just opened a nice bottle of McClarenvale red and popped the top on coldie.

Ah, life is good.

Al.

 

[Rudolf73]

Hey guys, have a beer for me tonight. Took early retirement after 32 of the daily grind. Had the day to myself and it was good!

Put togther a 288XP this morning and cut some wood with it. Made lunch for number 2 son when he got home from Uni and then helped him cut up two haunches of sambar. Played golf this afternoon then put a lamb roast on for my dear wife who will be home shortly. Just opened a nice bottle of McClarenvale red and popped the top on coldie.

Ah, life is good.

Al.

I only got your post today, but I will definitely have a beer for you this arvo

 

[deye223]

Hey guys, have a beer for me tonight. Took early retirement after 32 of the daily grind. Had the day to myself and it was good!

Put togther a 288XP this morning and cut some wood with it. Made lunch for number 2 son when he got home from Uni and then helped him cut up two haunches of sambar. Played golf this afternoon then put a lamb roast on for my dear wife who will be home shortly. Just opened a nice bottle of McClarenvale red and popped the top on coldie.

Ah, life is good.

Al.

enjoy it mate we aint for a long time congrats on the mose/samber hope its a young spiker cheers

 

[deye223]

chainsaw forum is popular

it's 14:17 and i checked the Currently Active Users list and there was 27 members and they were all on the chainsaw forum this is ya useless information for the day :msp_biggrin:

 

[Terry Syd]

Congratulations on your retirement Al. I thought I would have time to get caught up on all my different projects when I retired. Maybe its because I have slowed down too much with age, but the unfinished projects seem to have multiplied. I was going to change the timing belt on the truck, but I was too busy and the garage is handling it. Heck, I've even had to hire a bloke to help catch up on the garden.

If all this hiring of help keeps up, I may have to go back to work.

Matt, for some reason I sense EVO chain in my future.

 

[funloven]

After some help with chain sharpening.
I have two saws running Oregan super chisel chain.
1 i wore down to nothing (about 1mm on the small side)
The outher one still has about 5-7mm left on it and i cant get it to cut anymore.
I gave it a real good sharpen then ground down the rakers. Still no good.
I gound down the rackers some more still no good.
It feels like it gets stuck. Just cant push it through.
While im no expert by anymeans i can normally do a pritty good job of sharpening with a hand file.
any help appreciated. Maybe im just being tight and should throw it away.

 

[Stihlman441]

Hey guys, have a beer for me tonight. Took early retirement after 32 of the daily grind. Had the day to myself and it was good!

Put togther a 288XP this morning and cut some wood with it. Made lunch for number 2 son when he got home from Uni and then helped him cut up two haunches of sambar. Played golf this afternoon then put a lamb roast on for my dear wife who will be home shortly. Just opened a nice bottle of McClarenvale red and popped the top on coldie.

Ah, life is good.

Al.

Good stuff Al,i like the sound of that,plenty of saw building time.:smile2:

 

[Terry Syd]

I'm no pro faller, but what I just witnessed across the street in the old church property just stunned me. This 'Rambo' Tree Services company just took down an old dead pine tree. They didn't use any wedges and used an angled back-cut. If the tree had shifted 20 degrees to the left it would have brought down a limb from another tree down on top of their trucks, if it had shifted 40 degrees it would have crushed their ute and the branches of the second tree would have collected the other truck.

Good thing everything went well, otherwise it would have made a good Youtube video.

 

[ausneil 1]

I'm no pro faller, but what I just witnessed across the street in the old church property just stunned me. This 'Rambo' Tree Services company just took down an old dead pine tree. They didn't use any wedges and used an angled back-cut. If the tree had shifted 20 degrees to the left it would have brought down a limb from another tree down on top of their trucks, if it had shifted 40 degrees it would have crushed their ute and the branches of the second tree would have collected the other truck.

Good thing everything went well, otherwise it would have made a good Youtube video.

Hense their company name terry,,, RAMBO,,, the boys are proberbly on a tight budget and can't waste valuble time by doing unnessesecary things like '' THE JOB PROPERLY''. besides if the branches miss anything by 1 inch its as good as 10 feet, the result is the same,,, haha

You getting any of this foggy drizzle p#ss i'm getting up here at your place.

 

[ausneil 1]

After some help with chain sharpening.
I have two saws running Oregan super chisel chain.
1 i wore down to nothing (about 1mm on the small side)
The outher one still has about 5-7mm left on it and i cant get it to cut anymore.
I gave it a real good sharpen then ground down the rakers. Still no good.
I gound down the rackers some more still no good.
It feels like it gets stuck. Just cant push it through.
While im no expert by anymeans i can normally do a pritty good job of sharpening with a hand file.
any help appreciated. Maybe im just being tight and should throw it away.

Funloven......
put your saw in a stump vice or bench vice and give your rakers 1 steady rub straight down the side of your bar, ( without cutting yourself is the idea) with a raker file.
This is needed because, as the tooth wears down and looses kerf the raker actualy becomes level with the side of the tooth. (3/8 super chisel its a must for good cutting)
My guess is if you have played with raker height too much, soon as you take the side off it will grab to much for crosscutting.
A point on this,,, one side is easy to remove but when filing the off side you need the saw low so your standing over the top if it.
Hope this helps.

 

[Nardoo]

Thanks for the kind sentiments gents. I think I have so many saw projects out in the shed that it will take me another 32 years to finish them!

Give me more time to visit here too (if the blasted site will work for me).

Al.

 

[Terry Syd]

Yep, plenty of that foggy drizzle pizz here. No sun, just constant drizzle for the last couple of days, I've had a gut full of it. Some of the guys from the PNW would feel right at home.

 

[RandyMac]

I spent a couple days up in Washington, crappy cold drizzle there. If you want real rain, you need to be in Northern California.
We put 1281 miles of road under the old Ute's tires, a bit over half of that was in one day. I got tired of sitting in the old thing, did the last 344 miles in six hours, the 90 miles before home is some twisted stuff squeezed between trees and rock walls.

 

[AUSSIE1]

Hey guys, have a beer for me tonight. Took early retirement after 32 of the daily grind. Had the day to myself and it was good!

Put togther a 288XP this morning and cut some wood with it. Made lunch for number 2 son when he got home from Uni and then helped him cut up two haunches of sambar. Played golf this afternoon then put a lamb roast on for my dear wife who will be home shortly. Just opened a nice bottle of McClarenvale red and popped the top on coldie.

Ah, life is good.

Al.

What???? Cut that out Al....your only a pup!

But really Al, if someone can retire in their youth as you have, they have earned it.

 

[AUSSIE1]

I spent a couple days up in Washington, crappy cold drizzle there. If you want real rain, you need to be in Northern California.
We put 1281 miles of road under the old Ute's tires, a bit over half of that was in one day. I got tired of sitting in the old thing, did the last 344 miles in six hours, the 90 miles before home is some twisted stuff squeezed between trees and rock walls.

The "old ute" Randy? Good stuff.

Is that the ole' Ford? That's some good mileage in one day. Bench seat?

 

[RandyMac]

The "old ute" Randy? Good stuff.

Is that the ole' Ford? That's some good mileage in one day. Bench seat?

Yes a farkin' bench seat, near crippled me. LOL!

Waitin' on payday for new clips for the trim, can't have it peeling off at those nearly Mach speeds.

The fake wire wheels added about 150bhp and tire blistering top speeds.

 

[ausneil 1]

Yes a farkin' bench seat, near crippled me. LOL!

Waitin' on payday for new clips for the trim, can't have it peeling off at those nearly Mach speeds.

The fake wire wheels added about 150bhp and tire blistering top speeds.

WOW, what year is she.


edit..... has she still got the original six in her