So what did you do today?

[jblnut]

Started blocking up this 60 year old Radiata pine for firewood. Have to go from both sides with a 36 inch bar.
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You’re going to have to make 2-3 more trips to get that whole tree home !! That’s a bigg’un !!

 

[damifino]

We need a picture of the your 1993 grocery getter, aye.

 

[rogue60]

We need a picture of the your 1993 grocery getter, aye.

 

[Stihlms]

The start of a much needed firewood rack

 

[jblnut]

Finally got all the tools and junk off the chainsaw workbench and on the wall. Time to stick a new recoil rope in the trusty 066 on a workbench that has literally never been cleaner since the day it moved into the loft.

 

[Nutball]

I got a new hobby. Designing speakers. There's porting and problem solving and strategizing to get the performance you want. It's a lot easier with simulators. If only there were chainsaw porting simulators to adjust port parameters with a few clicks and see the predicted dyno graphs. Don't even have to know much about crossovers, just tinker around until it looks good.

 

[Woodwackr]

Ripper pmed me needing 266 pts...I have a few boxes of se carcasses that I hadn't processed yet. Bucket o parts will soak a couple days...
5 cases split and disassembled.
Most of it seems pretty good but we'll see what is usable

 

[Nutball]

Ripper pmed me needing 266 pts...I have a few boxes of se carcasses that I hadn't processed yet. Bucket o parts will soak a couple days...
5 cases split and disassembled.
Most of it seems pretty good but we'll see what is usable
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How do you clean saw parts? What product?

 

[Woodwackr]

How do you clean saw parts? What product?

I use dollar Store "Totally Awesome " for most parts. Aluminum gets cleaned in water, Dawn and liquid Tide in the big sonic tank. Sm pts in the little HF tank with TA.
For the really nasty saws I pressure wash on the lawn. We are at permafrost stage now so can't do that
Some parts get done with brake clean an some with carb cleaner (not rubber).
I also have 2 5-gal buckets, 1 half full of TA and the other empty. Some parts need days soaking to get pitch and encrusted crap to come off. Pour liquid into the empty bucket and take the cleaned bucket full on the lawn to hose off. Can't do that now so use another bucket to rinse as well as possible. Final rinse in my big utility sink
All this is mainly for full tear-down like yesterday.
For saws not getting disassembled I sometimes use gasoline. Saw in a large plastic bin, gas in a squirt bottle. Filter and reuse...

 

[Mastermind]

How do you clean saw parts? What product?

Mean Green.

 

[Partner]

I made a piece of the electrics and some mounting for this engine

 

[nbbt]

Did some floor cleaning. What might be instore for a clean floor I wonder





At least another project got started.

 

[pbillyi69]

havent done chit for days....i have a migraine day number 6....dumb

 

[Partner]

The $5 Sachs 5 speed Pentasport is missing these two control chains

 

[furb]

I thought today was a good day to clean up this mess. The log that is under the far one was on top of the closest one. Somehow when I cut the piece off laying there the other limb flew up into my you know whats. I don’t know how it had pressure the way it did. I was standing over it dumb if slip on shoes and thin Duluth pants. I almost smacked that echo laying there and probably could have ended up pretty tore up. I was half standing half squatting with the saw in a bad position. Be safe…

 

[damifino]

Glad you are ok!

Reminder to us all how quick good can go bad.

 

[pbillyi69]

glad you're ok as well. stuff can get messy fast.

 

[Woodwackr]

Basically didn't do schitt. Looked for a few parts for Ernie and Brad…otherwise Sat and read, played on the intarweb and vedged. Didn’t even turn on the shop heater, lol. So, sue me.

 

[Woodtroll]

I thought today was a good day to clean up this mess. The log that is under the far one was on top of the closest one. Somehow when I cut the piece off laying there the other limb flew up into my you know whats. I don’t know how it had pressure the way it did. I was standing over it dumb if slip on shoes and thin Duluth pants. I almost smacked that echo laying there and probably could have ended up pretty tore up. I was half standing half squatting with the saw in a bad position. Be safe…
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Tangles like that can be tough to read. I always take a few minutes to look them over and try to figure out all the different forces involved before I make the first cut, but even then I still guess wrong sometimes. Glad you're okay!

 

[old saw fixer]

Sometimes a powered pole saw can be helpful. I work alone frequently and have to watch my azz.