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Standing dead, dry Doug Fir, really recently fallen over dry Doug Fir, and really old, still standing Doug Fir, just because you asked for three. Bugger all for hardwoods around here worth chasing after for firewood, and WAY too much standing dead bug bit fir around, so it is, and always will...

Dunno how y'all feel about buying direct from China, but Richontools has some pretty good prices on carbide burrs and other abrasive consumables. When given the choice between buying Chinese cheap goods direct, vs. buying them marked up a whole lot from a local (or at least, in Country!) store...

Yeah, a point I pounded (mercilessly!) into the apprentices at work, was that the "Book" speeds and feed rates, are estimated to give a shop owner the best compromise between making money, and wearing out tooling and tools. You can go a LOT slower, and much of the time what it gets you is done...

Cheap Chinese lathes are a lot like crate racing motors. The reason they come assembled, is so you are reasonably sure that all the parts are there. A strip-down and some massaging is going to be required often enough. That is the price we gotta pay, to not have to pay what was the going rate...

I'm sure. Got my 461 that way. Put together a good saw out of the better parts of two, used the rest and put a new tank/handle assy on the one I kept. A bargoon! Still have not got near the 661. Some o y'all seem to think this is my first time to the dance. Not so much. Just wondering if the...

No, my 2012 date is the ANSI sticker on the handle under the trigger. Not likely a useful reference point for age. Easier to see now it's dry and not frozen. Got a compression tester, got no adapter for this size plug, have to make it. Yeah the info I got from him is only barely that, but...

Thanks! Figure they can't be 'too' bad, being as every dude that clones chainsaw parts seems to start there, but I figured I'd see if anyone had any relevant insight.

Faller cousin has been busting his butt, seven day weeks of late. Had said he was going to drop his 661c by for me to have a poke at. Not perfectly clear what the issue is, other than he thought it was starting to seize. So maybe a stuck ring, maybe seals/bearings, maybe...? Grabbed the...

One inch equals 25.4mm exactly. You have a calculator on the phone you posted from. 1.726 x 25.4 = ??? You can do it! :)

Heyzooos! Did he cut that tree down, or did it get sick of listening to him blather, and jump? Gotta admit, based on the title, I only watched to the end to see if he got took out by a widowmaker, or something interesting like that. Pretty disappointed that one is still in the gene pool.

Yeah, we did fit tests and got certified on all the different masks we used, on an annual basis. All through work. No fit check, no work. No work in the booth, at least, which meant the boss found something even less pleasant to be doing in the meantime. Once in a long while, a fella would come...

Wore North, MSA, and 3M half and full face masks for work. Found North the most comfortable, was wearing it 6-7 hours a day sometimes. If you can source the OV cartridges cheap enough, chuck a particulate filter over the end and have at. If you are not made of money, a good particulate filter...

I had a stroke of luck. A friend fired off a box with a complete BR600 motor, less one rocker arm and hardware, that he had been pondering a conversion to a model airplane engine. So I go in to the local Saw shop asking after any used parts they might have. What should they come up with, but a...

Half of that is still 8000 pounds worth of force. Lots. Esp, on a smaller tractor. 16000 pounds is a lot of force! If you don't have some background in cable safety, it'd be a good thing to read up on. A snapped cable can kill ya pretty messy. If you are able, bend up a crank out of 1/4 inch rod...

Lots of different ends available on PTO shafts that will hook direct, all you need to really know is how long you want it and the diameter of the input shaft. Worst case, you buy a standard round hole end PTO shaft and make up a bushing to allow it to bolt up. Common as dirt onna farm. Might...

I think I used to work with a fella that was looking for a girl like that. Skinny little guy. All he wanted was heat in winter, shade in summer! :)

I'll hold those options in reserve. Gonna try and put together (carve out?) an adapter that should attach on to the regular intake horn. Got lots of stub chunks of aluminum round stock that should work well. Or I end up getting tired of waiting for myself, and just buy it anyway! LOL!

That's a pretty elegant repair, not too complicated, good results! Got a whack of timesert and Keensert repair inserts here but pretty much nothing at all in Metric. Gawds only know what they all cost new, I salvaged them outta the scrap metal before anyone got ideas to use them as filler in...

Well, for better or worse, I come outta the local saw shop carrying a couple screws to replace the missing ones on my saw, and an OEM HD filter. Now just gotta work up the enthusiasm to spend a little time carving some aluminum into a Horn adapter. I have one screw hole that is completely...

Yep, seems mixed feelings on the high top, either love or hate. Whatever. Got it, got the small air filter in place, and pondering options is all.