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Good saw, good seller. She's a filthy, faded screamer with gobs of compression. Seller even threw some fresh fuel lines + fuel filter in the box. I set er up with better felling dogs, a rusty loop of exl, versacut 24" bar using the red beard adapter.

Back in the thorogoods today scouting for birch saw logs. Almost took em off 2 hrs in and just walked back in socks. Miserable PAIN! Finally at the 4 hrs mark, the heel counter is starting to soften on the back of my heels. Applied the danner boot grease to the heel counter couple days ago...

Redwings: Factory did sht job tapering down/flushing up the heel. They overheated the rubber and didn't clear out all the melted rubbed slag. Tallest boot so far. Lumps n bumps under the foot bed. They jam into the outsides my foot. Tallest heel I've ever seen on a logger boot. Foot bed is...

Update on the boots: Ended up doing a supplies run and a visit with the forester on my timber sale. So I've done 2 full days in the georgia low heel loggers. Could run a dmn marathon in these georgia boots. I dont want to take them off! But reluctantly, time to switch to the raw dog redwings...

Raw-dog Redwings showed up. Ewwŵw: Theyre kinda red-colored 😄. Right off the bat: Vibram fire and ice sole(white diamond). Rubber compound much more forgiving on cold slick surfaces. Redwings are Heavy fkers: 3lb 1 oz per boot. Thorogood: 2lb 11 oz Georgia: 2lb 4 oz redwings gotta Leather welt.

Don't like anything that soften leather, ruins ankle support. I run nickwax on dah boots. Doesn't grease in. Sidelined the thorogoods for a day. I will use the greasy sht sparingly on areas of a boot that could blister yer foot. Back of the thorogood heel dressed with the danner grease. Will...

An actual pair of danner logger made the shootout. Finally got into a new-old-stock pair of overseas Danner loggers for a tin penny under $200 shipped. The current Danner logger boots are pretty much the same. I can tell right off the bat, that rounded heel counter will be much more forgiving...

Heel counter on the thorogood aren't round enough back of the heel. Lasted 5 hrs in the thorogoods and had to take em off before back of my heel blistered. Most of these factory boots have a piece of thermo plastic sheet in the heel counter, to stiffen things up. On this thorogood boot, feels...

330,000 miles sienna . Misfire on cylinder number 1. Compression good. Since tranverse and against the firewall, will run 3 new coils on the firewall bank, new plugs whole way round, and replace cylinder 1 injector. Always weird going from working truck diesels to carby mercan iron to...

Tom Lowe of 12 bolt, gawwwwwwd dayum?! Tom L. is my 292 chevy build guru Nothing like flywheels n harmonic balancers machined and balanced by a precision dude. Maybe next, time rock bottom auto. Hahahahaha. 😄

I'll never forget my first diesel injector job on a 6bt. Was $375 for new bosch 6 injectors. All accessible from the side of block. Fresh injectors she hit 22 mpgs at 60, still grinning. Can't even get a fkn 4 barrel carb for that price. On the 7.3 powerstroke, rosewood wants $600-$700 to...

2 of the 7 pair of loggers arrived: georgia and thorogood. Both pairs true to size For the price, very impressed with the georgia boots. Out of the box, comfortable, everywhere. A more affordable alternative to the danner quarry. Thorogoods will need break-in. Multiple points of discomfort.

Frost went deep this year. Low snow. Ground still frozen with 16-24 inches of soups on top of the frost. Might have a call a plumber. My '"toilet" backed up. 😄

Headed out 4 miles to flag my timber sale and get gps coordinates for the forester. Change of plans: Gold miner from town was stranded. Big car-truck blocking the trail. Open differentials and ifs are my biggest gripe. Went back and got a real fkn truck. Got a job offer to run excavator at the...

One thoughtful thing from thorogood, is they give the MOST generous discounts to disabled veterans. Danner doesn't even come close.