Recent content by fearofpavement

I'd tell the seller you'll pay $600 as is or you'll pay $1000 if he gets it in operating condition. That will make it clear to him how big of a difference there is between an operating unit and a project/parts unit.

Today I was welding and grinding steel making trusses for a Christian camp project in Africa. Here in Bamako, Mali it gets about 100 in the daytime and usually around 90 or so inside. We've been here a little over a week and will be here until the 7th of February. It's dirty, grimy work and the...

I'm still using my "special blend" mix oil with good results. Oil brand and mix ratio will NEVER have a consensus. Oh, by the way, I drive a GMC.

Burned brush today. LOTS of brush. We've been waiting for rain as it was too dry to make fire previously. This is tree tops and brush from hurricane Helene damage here in Georgia. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to cut the stem of this blow down oak as it's nearly 5' in diameter. Guess I...

I have pulled out the few remaining hairs I had trying to figure out why my $500 Milwaukee M18 chainsaw keeps throwing the chain? It's not a lack of knowledge as I've been using chainsaws for 49 years and have run most brands and sizes of saws. I have never experienced a saw that insists on...

Today I blew pine straw (long leaf pine needles) off the roof of a rental house and loaded it into a trailer. Also cut down a very overgrown crepe myrtle that was too close to the house and 30+ feet tall. Loaded that up too. I've been cutting some trees down right behind my house that have...

Split more wood today. Also did some trim work in a bathroom, drilled and hung an interior door, repaired holes in a fiberglass bathtub and picked up some items at the grocery store. (Got Groundie a couple donuts for her birthday, we're really doing it up big this year.)

I don't use any kind of lift for logs. I noodle them onsite to a size I can load in a truck or trailer and spit them down from there. Just today I was splitting up some noodled sections from a big oak I've been nibbling up. I used to split most of my wood by hand but now the majority of it is...

Fired up the wood splitter today and split about half a cord of wood. Trying to clean my woodyard up a bit. Also mowed some grass and sorted though a bunch of tools and equipment before loading it back into a vehicle.

Silver maples can be very troublesome with surface roots. I recently purchased a walk behind stump grinder specifically to deal with those roots. I had a front yard full of them and took out probably 100' of them. Some by cutting them on both ends with the grinder I was able to pull out. Others...

I don't ride bikes anymore but I did kill a deer with one back in the 1980's. Wrecked the bike pretty bad but I fixed it. I came out without much harm (full leathers) but my passenger still has road rash scars to this day.

A guy brought me 2 MS460's that had been run over by a skidsteer. Both low hour saws and run over at different times but had almost identical significant damage. Eventually fixed both of them with mostly Asian plastics.

Are you still looking for 1130 series saws? If so, I have a pile of them I may part with. Been thinning down my inventory. Much of these are disassembled and cleaned components ready to build into runners but I don't have the time or energy to work on saws these days. I also have a bunch of 1123...

While it may vary with some of the nuts in this group, the average person that owns a chainsaw will never wear out the bar. So I'm not sure there would be a viable market for a titanium bar.

Tomorrow I will be doing some tornado damage cleanup with Samaritan's Purse and will likely only use an MS460 and MS660 as they've already cut up the smaller stuff on the site I'm heading to.