Always fun opening up the old logging trails on the steep hills on my land in southern Ohio.
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Pole-saws are your freind. I think I have three now.
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Old loggin roads on steep hills are often a problem on my property. The roads often sit in the bottom of a bit of a depression (leftover from previous erosion). The gully-washing storms we've been getting just run right down the road and tear things up. Most of the time I end up having to reroute the ones on steep hills
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Never ending battle in the hills, anything that makes driving easier becomes the easiest way for water to move.
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Any new trails I'm building I try to route so there is less than a 10% grade - less than 7% if I can get away with it. When under 10%, I can usually make a broad-based dip work for erosion control. (I can drive right through a broad-based dip, unlike a good waterbar, which often is more than some of my vehicles can handle.) It makes for longer trails, but done right they take MUCH less maintenance to keep up.
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True but even those trails need to kept free any obstruction that cause water to flow down or across during a 10" rainfall will do lots of damage. I'm good at restoring and grading trails...... 20 years of practice..
Dad has a tractor he usually can take care of them grading and doing the wash outs etc. But one year called in a friend with his bulldozer to straighten things out up there. Plus a creek on the flat too.
Top looking out. That valley has a live spring that runs out at bottom too.
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Pretty county. A lot like here....
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Put a tracker on it at CamelCamelCamel.com to get an email when price drops to something interesting.
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How we cut firewood over the weekend.
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Arly, how often do you replace batteries - not recharge, but have to buy a new one?
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None so far and I might have 5 to 7 of them. Some are makita brand. I use them daily so they really are worked. The aftermarket ones are not 6 amphour as claimed!
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Lithium ion batteries should be good for at least 1000 charge cycles. If you have a business and charge the battery daily, you should be good for at least 4 years. If you are a homeowner and charge less frequently, they may be time limited but should be good for at least 10 years.
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That entirely depends on the build quality of the cells themselves. Cheap cells won't last nearly as long as quality built cells and the quality of the internal circuitry that controls the charge and discharge rate as well.
Additionally, Li-Ion cells are adversely impacted by ambient temperature which is what happened last winter with EV users not being able to charge their toasters. The charge stations monitor a lot of variables, the really important one is ambient temperature. Now, I keep my cordless tools and batteries in my heated and air conditioned shop. Not that my prime concern is them but my machine tools require a stable and low humidity atmosphere to maintain their accuracy. When dealing with tolerances in the millionths of an inch, repeatable accuracy is vitally important as well as stable humidity. Humidity causes corrosion and not just on visible surfaces either.
Additionally, Li-Ion cells are adversely impacted by ambient temperature which is what happened last winter with EV users not being able to charge their toasters. The charge stations monitor a lot of variables, the really important one is ambient temperature. Now, I keep my cordless tools and batteries in my heated and air conditioned shop. Not that my prime concern is them but my machine tools require a stable and low humidity atmosphere to maintain their accuracy. When dealing with tolerances in the millionths of an inch, repeatable accuracy is vitally important as well as stable humidity. Humidity causes corrosion and not just on visible surfaces either.
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I will say that Harbor Freight sells only rechargeable battery packs that are produced with quality cells and I know because I look. They use Toshiba cells by the way and their physical linking is also top quality. Not crimped on but soldered on. Been inside others, mainly DeWalt and they use generic cells with crimped on links.
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I'd be really surprised if Harbor Freight has any standardization on whose cells they're using, in building their battery packs. The ones you opened happened to be Toshiba, likely because Toshiba was the company with an overrun that month. I'd expect it's probably a different manufacturer with each purchasing cycle, driven by pricing, when it comes to any bargain-basement supplier like Harbor Freight.
Spend your money, roll the dice...
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All the packs that I have looked in (and I tend to look in them all) have been Toshiba cells. so I don't find your comment viable. besides, none of the Li-Ion cell makers ever have over runs. They produce what the market demands. Li-Ion cells are always in great demand as the materials used to produce them are not in over abundance anyway.
Even their Braun line of LED lights (I have 2 of them) use Toshiba cells for power and I purchased them far apart too. I actually depleted the original light to the point where the cell would not accept a full charge and I went looking for a Toshiba replacement with no luck so I bought a generic one. Hopefully it lasts long enough (discharge-recharge) cycles to defray the cost. Fingers crossed on that.
Even their Braun line of LED lights (I have 2 of them) use Toshiba cells for power and I purchased them far apart too. I actually depleted the original light to the point where the cell would not accept a full charge and I went looking for a Toshiba replacement with no luck so I bought a generic one. Hopefully it lasts long enough (discharge-recharge) cycles to defray the cost. Fingers crossed on that.
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I might get some LabTEC Lithium Batteies who Farm Project guy tested and found to the best of aftermarket batteries..
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From personal experience I find that some of his reviews lack merit and like I said I base that on personal experience.
His last review of MIG welders and multi process welders, I don't agree with and I've been semi production welding for decades in my owned shop using a variety of equipment in every welding aspect including SMAW (stick metal arc welding) using both an engine drive (Lincoln) as well as a plug in SMAW multi process (TIG, SMAW with low hydrogen electrodes), TIG welding aluminum and stainless as well as cast iron and other exotic metals, MIG, both solid wire and flux cored with short circuit arc welding and spray arc globular transfer, and because I had the best teacher and his mentoring was free for me it was well worth it.
The only process I'm certified in (AWS) certification is TIG welding exotic metals in process piping, the rest I'm not and really don't need to be and he certified me in TIG as he can do that as he is the person who certifies welders working on Nuclear refits all over the country and a good friend too.
His last review where he had someone else experienced in MIG welding tells me he's not trained or has the expertise to review any welders and surely not to recommend a cheap Chinese made machine as better than the domestic offering like Miller or Lincoln any others. You buy cheap, you get cheap, no exception but unlike the home shop welder, I depend on my machines performing every day with only my lack of experience holding them back. Believe me, no low buck welder can perform or have the duty cycle like a well built and engineered machine will have.
His last review of MIG welders and multi process welders, I don't agree with and I've been semi production welding for decades in my owned shop using a variety of equipment in every welding aspect including SMAW (stick metal arc welding) using both an engine drive (Lincoln) as well as a plug in SMAW multi process (TIG, SMAW with low hydrogen electrodes), TIG welding aluminum and stainless as well as cast iron and other exotic metals, MIG, both solid wire and flux cored with short circuit arc welding and spray arc globular transfer, and because I had the best teacher and his mentoring was free for me it was well worth it.
The only process I'm certified in (AWS) certification is TIG welding exotic metals in process piping, the rest I'm not and really don't need to be and he certified me in TIG as he can do that as he is the person who certifies welders working on Nuclear refits all over the country and a good friend too.
His last review where he had someone else experienced in MIG welding tells me he's not trained or has the expertise to review any welders and surely not to recommend a cheap Chinese made machine as better than the domestic offering like Miller or Lincoln any others. You buy cheap, you get cheap, no exception but unlike the home shop welder, I depend on my machines performing every day with only my lack of experience holding them back. Believe me, no low buck welder can perform or have the duty cycle like a well built and engineered machine will have.
Remember, that is his PERSONAL experience and may not reflect the actual end use longevity which is entirely dependent on how you use them and what they are used in.
