Recent content by Al Smith

If you take the gullet down to the tie strap it will carry a bigger chip .

I fought that"oops " all day .Took me 4 hours to do a 2 hour job of mowing two acres .Dang thing would still oil foul one cylinder .Got out the carb cleaner and sand blasted it twice .After I finally opened up the gap to about 40-50 thou it kept running on two cylinder and never missed a beat 23...

Time for the mowing season to begin and time for an oil change .Kawasaki FR 691v ,2 quarts of synthetic 30 WT .Drained it down,or so I thought and put new oil in only to discover I must have over filled it by a quart .All that excess oil does a number on the engine,fouls the plugs after it...

E-bay can be about the same .They put on for example a chainsaw,brag it up then 10 minutes before it sells stop the sale .A week later the same saw,same picture shows up again from a different seller who is exactly the original using another name .I once followed an SP 1000 Mac ( Partner P-100...

On the above I ran into that on a land auction which I won .The other bidder had no idea how deep my pockets were nor did he know how far I would go .He was looking for the timber rights ,I'd have stuck him if he kept it up much longer .Fact a couple weeks later he tried to buy the timber ,I...

That mention of auctions brings up old memories .The "jockey's " those who buy low and sell high later will bid them up but only until there is no profit left then they drop out .Family members in an estate sale often get into bidding wars .They are buying it with inherited money . You have to...

Is that somebodies idea of a "cut away" ?

What I find amusing are people who discover grand dads old saw buried in the corner of the barn for the last fourty years ,because it's old some think they hold very high value as if it were a pristene model A Ford .I've had a number of people who somehow found my telephone number and attempted...

Those old gear reduction Macs from the mid to late 1950's are more or less restoration projects .They'll cut wood just not too quickly .My uncle had a model 49 which I used just for a few cuts a long time ago .Heavy as lead ,slow as a snail very loud . I suppose back in the day they were better...

I've got cast iron wheel weights plus a barrel of concrete for a counter balance .

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Regarding a sleeved engine I've only done one for a 125 Mac .Bored the block out 70 thou and turned the sleeve from grade 50 cast iron which BTW is the same alloy used by Harley Davidson .Honed the sleeve with a Lisle precision hone to a 4-4.5 thou fit.That BTW was not a few hours job ,it took...

I smoked an 805 engine by using a prime of straight gasoline .My mistake from not paying attention .Replaced it with doner from an early model 850 .The original engine because of the year it was made just so happened at the same time hard Rhodesian chrome was in short supply because of...

Now a story from my past .A flipped over three axle dump truck with 22 tons of stone I ordered being a general foreman on a constuction project .The driver got too far into the soft over barren and over it went .The twenty ton wrecker couldn't get it done by himself .Near by was modern Cat Cat...

Most of what I've ran is Caterpillar with the excepion of one 450 John Deere and one TD 14 IH and one OC6 Oliver I own .They wil all push dirt some just better than others .I love to hear an old D7 Cat under a heavy load .Black smoke just rolls like it was burning soft coal .