Recent content by CalG

When I'm cutting off the pile, I have made a limit for myself. ONE TANK FULL, then REST!. But in this case "REST" means firing up the splitter, and rolling the rounds up near to hand. ;_) Dang! I'm stupid!

Whenever I feel the need for another piece of equiment, I rationalize (to my wife mostly) "If it saves a trip to the ER, it will be money ahead". She mostly agrees, but then counters with "At your age, you shouldn't be doing that sort of thing". She IS right, but I can't seem to stop...

The "Guilty of Tree Son" You Tube personality has Many videos of animated electric and gas top handle chainsaws. Some what too "youthful and fast paced" for me. But "Dude, that was rad"

One or the shortest connection hoses to the fuel evap system on my "new" Vespa GTS250 was broken (due to age) when I got the bike home. Who knows how long it had been so. It's in such a PIA location, I just pulled another hose off the fuel injection manifold and capped the port. I hope no...

I NEED one of these as a second for the Makita 10 inch ...

So today I was doing a bit of spike climbing and limbing in prep to drop a couple of 100 foot tall hemlock in the front yard. There really is no place to get them down from standing, so I'm planning to chunk them down. (If I can muster the guts and grit to get all that way up. I'm old, and my...

ProMac 10, My first purchased new saw. I've got a 10-10 under the bench, but it has no bar on it, so didn't drag it out for the photo-op. ;-)

OEM muffler. Nothing modded on this little clown..

Well, not so much as your job, but a garden wagon full. All split and stacked now. The little clown did fine, but called out to some bigger brothers from time to time. ;-)

A rather large maple tree got pissed off and kicked out a rather large branch last night about 1 A.M. The branch grazed the nearby power line and popped a link on the transformer that shut down power to the house. Quite a crash BANG and crush, woke us right up! Power company came out and...

Do they have "right of Common: there?

Play toys at play time. A 5 inch rain can do so much more ;-)

My eldest son and his wife recently wint to S. France for a holiday. (we got the kids!) While there, they attended some sort of agricultural fair with lots of farm tractors , old and new. I've looked into the Hurlimann tractor history. Swiss... They go back a long time. Mine is the SL&H...

Black lights in a windowless storeroom....