how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.
65 this morning. Hope it stays that way till the end of September. Then it can get cold.

 

[hoskvarna]

Morning guys

Sent from Hoskey Hills

 

[Hedgerow]

You killed the thread with your "I'll have a GTG when I feel like it, which may be never" attitude.

 

[Hedgerow]

 

[Workshop]

Rough mock up. Discussing engine position. We decided on elevating the engine about 2 1/2 inches and bringing it forward about an inch. Make a U shaped, front to back, cradle for the engine and utilize the cradle as an integral part of the frame.
It's an experiment in progress.
Lots of fun.

 

[sawnami]

@Homelite410 your vise even holds Disston Straddle chain. [emoji846]
Trying to get it pointier so it won't hammer it's way through the wood.[emoji849]
The sequence is: right cutter, left cutter, right raker, center raker, left raker.

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[Hedgerow]

@Homelite410 your vise even holds Disston Straddle chain. [emoji846]
Trying to get it pointier so it won't hammer it's way through the wood.[emoji849]
The sequence is: right cutter, left cutter, right raker, center raker, left raker.

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Give the cutters a little forward lean Steve..
It’ll feed a little better.

 

[sawnami]

Give the cutters a little forward lean Steve..
It’ll feed a little better.

That's what I'm thinking and going to try Matt even though it says -5°. I guess it'll either work or I"ll find out why they want -5°.[emoji848] It may be because the cutters only score the wood and the rakers chisel out the wood.

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[Hedgerow]

That's what I'm thinking and going to try Matt even though it says -5°. I guess it'll either work or I"ll find out why they want -5°.[emoji848] It may be because the cutters only score the wood and the rakers chisel out the wood.

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Either way you go, it was a horrible design..

You can take solace in that..

 

[67L36Driver]

Morning midlanders!

68 in River City. Weather prognosticators posted today’s high to be 90. [emoji90]

Sincerely hope for less.

 

[Cat 525]

Morning all! Looks like everybody is gonna get wet over the next few days.

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.
63 degrees this morning.

 

[sawnami]

Either way you go, it was a horrible design..

You can take solace in that..

The whole saw is. They say this saw killed Disston's future as a chainsaw manufacturer. It's amazingly complex. I've been on a mission to make it cut but it's been close to becoming magnesium powder. The fuel injection setup is extremely finicky. It pumps out and returns most of the fuel that isn't used to run the saw back to the tank at a pretty good pace.

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[Dub11]

Morning all! Looks like everybody is gonna get wet over the next few days.

This raining on the weekends is horse *s-word!

 

[plcnut]

 

[KS Plainsman]

Morning all! Looks like everybody is gonna get wet over the next few days.

We only show 20% chance out here for the next 3 days, but we've had 8 inches in the past month, and it only rained for about 10 hours total. So we're good for a bit. That amount made our humidity go up quite a bit, and this big fella doesn't do well in humidity!

 

[Dub11]

We only show 20% chance out here for the next 3 days, but we've had 8 inches in the past month, and it only rained for about 10 hours total. So we're good for a bit. That amount made our humidity go up quite a bit, and this big fella doesn't do well in humidity!

I feel ya.

My wife talks about wanting to move. I tell here as long as its north!

 

[KS Plainsman]

I feel ya.

My wife talks about wanting to move. I tell here as long as its north!

Exactly! Our humidity never used to be this bad when I was a kid, but it sure has went haywire the past 10-15 years.

I cut up a huge Locust branch a few weeks ago that fell across a friends driveway, and within 2 hours, I looked like I just crawled out of a pool basically. I was drenched from sweat. Alot of folks hibernate in the winter, I hibernate in the summer! Anything over 90, I'm finding an AC. Lol!

 

[Workshop]

Exactly! Our humidity never used to be this bad when I was a kid, but it sure has went haywire the past 10-15 years.

I cut up a huge Locust branch a few weeks ago that fell across a friends driveway, and within 2 hours, I looked like I just crawled out of a pool basically. I was drenched from sweat. Alot of folks hibernate in the winter, I hibernate in the summer! Anything over 90, I'm finding an AC. Lol!

YES!!
I hear you on that. Anymore I hate May thru September. (Well, maybe not September. After all, it is a promise of cooler weather.)
On an interesting note, as part of my job I take daily outdoor temp readings. Twice a day. Been doing it for 15 years. Now, this is just locally, but I've noticed the past 2 years that August (My least favorite month) has been cooler than July. And this August has, pretty much, followed the same pattern. I remember July being the interim month. Starting out halfway decent and building as the month wore on with temps peaking in August. August usually being upper 90's to lowish 100's.
This month I recorded 1 day with a high of 100. It lasted about 30 minutes. About 5 days being in the 90-95 range and the rest being 85-90.
I need to go over my notes and get real numbers and averages to put things in perspective, but so far this is the 3rd August that hasn't measured up.
Interesting stuff.

 

[KS Plainsman]

YES!!
I hear you on that. Anymore I hate May thru September. (Well, maybe not September. After all, it is a promise of cooler weather.)
On an interesting note, as part of my job I take daily outdoor temp readings. Twice a day. Been doing it for 15 years. Now, this is just locally, but I've noticed the past 2 years that August (My least favorite month) has been cooler than July. And this August has, pretty much, followed the same pattern. I remember July being the interim month. Starting out halfway decent and building as the month wore on with temps peaking in August. August usually being upper 90's to lowish 100's.
This month I recorded 1 day with a high of 100. It lasted about 30 minutes. About 5 days being in the 90-95 range and the rest being 85-90.
I need to go over my notes and get real numbers and averages to put things in perspective, but so far this is the 3rd August that hasn't measured up.
Interesting stuff.

That is interesting. It's also interesting you mention the last 2 years, simply because this summer and last summer out here, have been the coolest summers we've had in the 12 years I've been back in Kansas. Coincidentally, we've had more rain and moisture in these past 2 years, than we have in the past 12 as well. I'd be surprised if we've had 10, 100 degree days combined, this summer and last summer. I know we've only had 4 this year and they were all in a row and only hit 103 as the highest. I'm guessing it's the ground moisture level that helps keep the temperature down some maybe (moisture keeping the ground cooler), but our humidity in turn has went bonkers. When I say we have high humidity, it's nothing like what you east Kansas and Missouri and SE US folks deal with, but for out here 50-60 % is pretty brutal.

For about 10 years straight, I bet we had 2 weeks of 100 plus days a year, but the humidity was probably only 20-25% those days because we were in a drought for about a decade. Shoot, a few years ago, a town about 40 miles from me, had the highest temperature in all the US one day, and it hit 114 that day. That was in the middle of about 10 or so straight 100+ days.

But yeah, our weather does what your pattern was before the last couple years. Our hottest days are always middle July to middle August. Our 100 degree days this year were the first week of August.