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You guys down under find that lost plane yet? Its been on the news here endlessly.

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You guys copping it too? Interesting that early on they said somebody had manually turned the transponder off and now they think it's an accident. Somebody has their wires crossed somewhere in the media.
 
You guys copping it too? Interesting that early on they said somebody had manually turned the transponder off and now they think it's an accident. Somebody has their wires crossed somewhere in the media.

Oh man, we have had every possible scenario with every kind of expert and background story to go with it. They have played the story to death and then some. It gets more air time than The Crimea. Most of the news on it now comes out of Oz. Of course, Oz is the only place there where anyone has a forking clue. The Malaysians and Chinese seem to have completely different stories every hour, and they get lost in translation.
 
You guys copping it too? Interesting that early on they said somebody had manually turned the transponder off and now they think it's an accident. Somebody has their wires crossed somewhere in the media.
Sure, it's a big place and a clued up crim can make it hard for authorities, but you gotta wonder if the Malaysians didn't want the plane/black boxes found for some reason? Things just don't seem to add up. Those poor families. Every day either nothing or 'we may have found something'.
 
Oh man, we have had every possible scenario with every kind of expert and background story to go with it. They have played the story to death and then some. It gets more air time than The Crimea. Most of the news on it now comes out of Oz. Of course, Oz is the only place there where anyone has a forking clue. The Malaysians and Chinese seem to have completely different stories every hour, and they get lost in translation.
We've had a fair bit on that mud slide up your half of the world. Can't say that would be on my list of top ten ways to go.
 
G'Day Scott,

How's things?
The 310 is still earning its keep.

Hey dude... I thought you blew that saw up? I am doing OK. I am finally finishing up remodeling my house here. I am also running out of firewood here this year with all these polar vortices we had this winter. Its been a cold year. All while Oz was in flames. Spring has finally sprung, but it has been wet. Snow this year has been really bad, and I took the year off from the ski patrol.
 
Hey dude... I thought you blew that saw up? I am doing OK. I am finally finishing up remodeling my house here. I am also running out of firewood here this year with all these polar vortices we had this winter. Its been a cold year. All while Oz was in flames. Spring has finally sprung, but it has been wet. Snow this year has been really bad, and I took the year off from the ski patrol.
I prefer lightly sautéed. It's a better class of stupidity. The 310 is a sentimental favourite so will keep being repaired until I can't find parts. The grandkids can laugh at the relic when they are old enough to be cutting trees. That's been quite an epic remodelling job. Three/four years?
Any patterns to the seaons or is it still all over the show? Temps just starting to drop around here. Been a long dry Summer and the farmers are not happy, but I sure am.
 
We've had a fair bit on that mud slide up your half of the world. Can't say that would be on my list of top ten ways to go.

Yah, that story is huge locally and nationally. That is a ways north of me up in Washington north of Seattle. They keep finding bodies, and they will for a while. I think there are at least 90 missing people still buried there. The National Guard is out there digging through the slop, which is a mass of mud, water, trees, debris, cars, and bodies. We had the wettest September on record here, and then we were in a mini-drought through February, and now we are likely going to have the wettest March on record. Its the second wettest March already. In Seattle and north it has been raining a lot more than here.
 
I got my list of Winter jobs in the shed to get onto once the weather turns. Really want to go over a few of these I picked up a while ago and get some running:
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Haven't got a clue what I'm doing but if it's shed-time, I don't really care.
 
I prefer lightly sautéed. It's a better class of stupidity. The 310 is a sentimental favourite so will keep being repaired until I can't find parts. The grandkids can laugh at the relic when they are old enough to be cutting trees. That's been quite an epic remodelling job. Three/four years?
Any patterns to the seaons or is it still all over the show? Temps just starting to drop around here. Been a long dry Summer and the farmers are not happy, but I sure am.

Three years, yes. It got a lot more complicated two years ago with county permits, but I am finishing up the house remodel now. Housing prices are way up here lately so all my work will pay off.

310 parts will be around for a long time. There are still some 290 saws on shelves here, and most of the parts are the same. The 290 was by far the most popular and common saw that Stihl sold. Seasons here are all over the map. In the last 4 years we have had record rainfall several months a year. California is in a huge drought. Washington is flooding out. The summers have been nicer here of late, after 4 really soggy ones, we have had 2 good ones. No record heat, but dry. The Polar Vortex visited several times here this winter, and I was down to 7 degrees F. in December (-22 C.). That is only 3 degrees F. above the lowest recorded low here ever. I got no snow until a few weeks ago, when the whole of Northern Oregon got a big dump. I got about 8 inches of the white stuff.
 
Funky saws kiwibro! They will keep you busy. What are they...stihls and pioneers??? At least you got spare parts to get a few running. l'd love to tidy up an old vintage woodcutter.
 
I got my list of Winter jobs in the shed to get onto once the weather turns. Really want to go over a few of these I picked up a while ago and get some running:
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Haven't got a clue what I'm doing but if it's shed-time, I don't really care.

Looks like quite a project there. Those are some big old monsters. I used to run a pair of big old Macs that size with 36 inch bars, but that was some years ago.
 
Funky saws kiwibro! They will keep you busy. What are they...stihls and pioneers??? At least you got spare parts to get a few running. l'd love to tidy up an old vintage woodcutter.
Pioneers, PM Canadiens, and a Skil (that has winged it's way up to a good bugger in USA). Hopefully parts won't be too hard to come by. The best things about these saws so far was the stories the old-timer had about his days using them. He bought from new and had all the manuals and receipts, etc.
 
Did the cat appreciate that?

Nope. He does not like the snow. He can't hunt voles or mice in the snow. I opened up the underside of the house and he hunted out a family of mice down there though. The snow melted/rained off after only 2 days. This winter has been warm/cold/warm/cold/warm/cold, and sunny/rainy/sunny/rainy/sunny/snowy/sunny...
 
Pioneers, PM Canadiens, and a Skil (that has winged it's way up to a good bugger in USA). Hopefully parts won't be too hard to come by. The best things about these saws so far was the stories the old-timer had about his days using them. He bought from new and had all the manuals and receipts, etc.

Wow, those were one owner saws?
 

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