372xp 5.5hp 32 in bar max. This thing is beast.


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Nice! What size bar is on it currently?

Fair enough, the newer saw I still have is a stihl & it was purchased because the dealer took care of me on all of my other equipment from mowers up to my tractor.

With all of that said & it getting colder here I told the wife tonight after looking at chainsaw porn for this thread that there were several things I missed from our farm. Her response was "your wood stove" & I stated yes but farm stuff was my truck, dump trailer, skid loader & husky saws..... ;D

If I had to buy a new (all around) saw I would probably go with this one & slap an 18" bar on it. Plenty of power & with an 18" bar should be around 12#'s


http://sleequipment.com/husqvarna-562-xp-20-inch-chainsaw.html?gclid=CIeIj7XJwtACFQIDaQodh2YAeQ

But that's just me & I've had great luck with huskies.....

Update, I failed to eat any of the Pecan pie. I just decided that I will make myself wait until this weekend to eat it. I discovered this morning that I've lost a few pounds and don't want to reverse said discovery.

Well, I discovered I can't eat very much carb laden foods any longer. So I had a little bit of everything (deep fried turkey was a hit btw) & I saved a little room for a small piece of that pecan pie. It was very good Bobby!

Now that sounds like a reasonable plan, my FIL in TN filled their block with Crete & rebar. It's pretty good that way Don.

Buy the professional unit

I only kept my smallest saw which was a newer stihl when we moved after selling the farm. Back in the day when huskies were a very good option I bought professional grade only for my big saws. I ran them hard for over 10 years with regular maintenance & they would out cut most. When I sold they brought better than 50% of new cost. What's a $150 to a guy who just writes the check?

Also a good plastic case is worth it imo, my saws were always well cared for & cleaned and kept in those cases.

There are also good forums out there that cover the latest & greatest. Good friend of mine who also hears with wood purchased a modded new makita several years ago & has been very happy. He's quite a bit more frugal than me so take it for what it's worth. The stihls after break in need to be returned to the dealer to be re tuned if you go that route.

Very nice progress

I wouldn't be mixing my own wall Crete but that's just me, flat work I would w/o hesitation. I've poured too many walls. A lot of variables in strength to consider.

Don, I was under the impression that a serial numbered action that starts life registered  as a rifle can not be legally converted to a pistol. This was way back in time when I first started playing with the T/C Contender.

The way I bought my ar receivers they could legally be made into rifles or pistols. It's been awhile & I can't recall how they did it but there was a specific box they checked I believe when I picked them up & did the paperwork.

Easy, recall he injured his foot a while back.... ;D

Turkeys are pretty smart & roost in trees, they may have run them off but I doubt they were decimated by coyotes.

A lot of what will be to come depends on our younger generation & job availability. That whole teach a man to fish line, we've neglected to teach them how to fish the last few generations. What we told them was everyone should go to college & be indoctrinated by a bunch of commies which is the worst thing we could have done for many of them

I'll take welding for instance because I'm familiar with it. There is a huge shortage of skilled welders for the foreseeable future. I haven't met a knucklehead I couldn't teach to weld. I might add that quite a few of them I had to teach how to read a tape first and these for the most part were high school grads. Once they mastered the skill their whole outlook changed as a door was opened up for them. That door is what us older generations need to be helping to open. Now granted after opening the door it was hard to keep them from becoming premadonnas but that may be a welder thing.....

Truth is, ya see, there was fifteen of em' comin' at me from all directions. I took out the first seven right away, but tripped over the eighth guy and messed up my foot, just as the others ran for their lives

Now that's what really happened!!!!!!! ;)

I didn't realize we had that many witnesses to the wheelie incident or were you guys talking about a different foot accident? ???  ;D

"Reinventing the wheel" phrase comes to mind......

But by all means it's Kentucky so the very least it should fit in well! ;D

More female logic today........

Nothing wrong with flaming tables!

Motivates one to get the job done quicker!

Nothing wrong if they're in Japanese restaurants & it includes cooking food...... ::)

Note: real fabricators have caught themselves on fire more than once, as such we're not fond of fire.....

You could get a red and a blue and a yellow...all the trendy alt/left battery choices=)

Or ya could just buy a Deka of suitable size and use the saved cash to bolster your winter crocks collection.

Glad to read you have it running again man...winter is here. Took the drag radials off of patch last night..back to 4x4 rubber.

Have over 1K on the new motor now, it appears I have all of the issues fixed. Or at least the ones I am going to worry about. The valve train still has a slight noise to it. It has gotten quieter so I think that some of the initial noise was air in the lifters which has been bleeding out over the last few hundred miles. I also do not know what is acceptable noise for this motor, the builder and I aren't really on speaking terms at this point. They are not really a quiet motor from the factory so I am going to say some slight noise is to be expected. It does have considerable more power and if it stays reliable then I will be satisfied.

On to more pressing things, after slicing a side wall in the local mulch bed I decided the rear tire mount needed finished. Don, pay attention here as I am going to build an old man unit. Meaning one that a larger tire can be mounted without killing yourself. Probably wouldn't work on a full size truck bed that well but with my short cargo area should be just fine and no worries of this falling off going down the highway and killing small school children waiting at the bus stop.

Worth noting, I use the Jeep as a truck more often than not since I no longer own a truck. So the rear tire carrier is going to have to serve various tasks. One of which is to have an attachment point for a ladder rack type upper rear mount. I need to haul long lengths of steel angle and tube etc. I would do a roof rack except the ones on the market are pretty high above the roof of the vehicle. A permanent mount is a no go since I have a short garage door height being limited. So the rear tire mount needs to be strong to hold addition weight.

I am trying to keep the weight of these add ons to a minimum as I still want to off road it occasionally, weight is always an issue. This rear upper attachment point will also be used for an upper rack (yet to be built) for storing extra camping gear or a yeti on summer excursions. Weight being kept in check I will use those rear mounts for shackles I never use as the attachment point versus adding additional weight with other mounts or a stub shaft and bearing.

Last the tube bender has been torn down and being refurbished with new paint and casters. The plan is to finish the upgrade to a hydraulic unit when I reassemble it.  Making it more versatile and easy to store in my small workshop. So for the time being I am unable to bend tube which is ok for this current project, but no tube or angle bending capability currently.

Some pics of the base mount as I'm mocking it up. If you plan on doing precision fabricating these bessey clamps are the bomb. I invested in them years ago and they have made there money back many times over since.









 

Shawn, I am also a white redneck that grew up out in the country on a lake with lots of hunting and shooting. Heck, I took a .22 to school for show and tell.

Funny you say that, my high school had the largest school farm in the state. We often used weapons (guns & compound bows) for presentations on reports. It was not uncommon to find shotguns and the occasional sks hanging in the back window of our pickups in the student parking lot. My senior year I had a colt .38 revolver in my Monte Carlo every day just because I could legally. With all that stated no one would think twice of shooting anyone back then. We had a public access to Appleman Lake couple miles from school, differences were settled many times in that gravel lot after school. I was more of an impatient type though that dealt with issues immediately, some things never change I guess. :D

Thanks Shawn, the Gangsta style is good right?

Wouldn't know, I'm a white redneck farm boy from Indiana.  ;)

.308 if you got the coin & can feed it, I really like my ruger......

Norm, it's funny how accidents can happen to these high end beauties in storage. I once was witness to an occurrence with a collection of 50 corvettes, but that's another story.......

It's a Dana 70...you should be worried LoL

No truer words have ever been spoken..... ::)

Interstate, sold at Costco if you are a member. Napa batteries are also made by interstate, I just bought two from Costco for the JK (800 cc & around $90 with 42 month warranty I believe)

http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/11/10/three-gun-laws-reform-president-trump/