New England B.S. Thread

The shotgun?

She starts first pull, every time

It's the after the 4th pull that you've got to stop and reload it.

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But it's true that they can be unwieldy in close quarters. On the other hand, it's a straight line between my bedroom door and the front door.
But if you'd rather, I can use one of the following instead; the S&W Shield with Crimson Trace lasergrips (My EDC), or the S&W 5906 with tritium night sights (my nightstand gun)
They're both loaded with 147gr +P's; it's just that the Shield only holds 7 rounds and the 5906 holds 15. You can pick which one...

 

My diff eq professor was a quiet person from India who I couldn't understand 95% of the time. I used to work with a classmate and we'd get the same grade on the exams and have wildly different answers.

After the department final, I figured out who had the right answers. I had an A going into the final and felt good. I got a B- in the class. I was SO angry.

 

I also have the MS 251. Great saw. Not as heavy as their Farm Boss model but cuts through wood like buttah.

 

All this talk about saws. I need to take down a medium size tree that I've let get too big right outside my house. My grandmother used to call them 'cemetery trees' because they grow up a lot in cemeteries because people don't pull the little ***ers out.
My heart says Husqvarna, but that might be because I just like saying it. My head says maybe pay someone.

 

Not sure what model my dad's got. It's a mid-sized saw, I know that much. Maybe a 290? 291?

Regardless, the first time he had to take it in was when he'd had it less than three weeks, because it wasn't braking properly (LOTS of drag, even with the chain so loose it was dangerous. Apparently the sprocket on the bar was defective and had toasted its bearings. No biggie, sprockets are cheap and so are bars, so you're bound to have a dud now and then. And it was still under warranty, so who cares? Didn't cost him anything.
The second time was because it was flooding and he couldn't start it, and once it did start it ran balls out all the time. According to the shop a set screw in the carb had worked loose, so they reset it and threadlocked it in place. This time it wasn't under warranty, and labor at the saw shop in town is $80 an hour. Cost him $150 for that fix, on a saw that was only about 2 years old.

He hasn't had any problems since, and it'll probably work great for the rest of the time he has it (he usually trades up every 6 or 7 years to a new model) but the whole thing has kind of soured him on Stihl. Which is too bad, because I think he just got a lemon. Everything I've ever read about Stihl is that they're awesome reliable saws, but he says the next one he buys will be another Husky. He's had Husky's for probably 25 years and never had one in the shop.

 

Stihl 260, smaller saw but its a professional model. That's our ground saw at the company I work for. We run it with a 18" bar and they work great. We have everything from 260's all the way up to a 880. I personally just bought a 460 for 400 on craigslist and it runs great. Stihl all the way, even though I have an top handle echo for my climbing saw at home...

 

That's for the info everyone. I'll keep a eye out for a good deal.

 

Stihl gets my vote. Buy once, cry once. My dad gave me his old and I'll bet it's damn near as old as I am and it still runs perfectly. I would say get something powerful enough to actually run a 16" bar.

 

Ms361. Love that saw, I run a 20" but it can take bigger. Saw rips! Regardless of what you run, use a quality chain. Not some box store crap. I run Stihl non safety chain. Good chains have good steel, stay sharper longer.

I'll be looking for a smaller saw some day, but the 361 does everything I ask, I've buried that saw in big wood, and it just never ever bogs down. I burn 4-5 cords a year right now, so I need a good saw that won't let me down, and works fast.

 

I like axes.

 

That was my plan a year or so ago. 361. Then they changed it to a 362. Got to use one of those and a 4xx magnum. HP/ Weight difference was interesting.

I like to run an 18" and a 20" bar . also use the yellow/ non safety chain. RIPS! but in these, it is not a 3/8"s chain. It is a smaller one on the 251 if I remember correctly. That is the diference between the farm/homeowner/pro's...

 

I have 2 of those but something about power tools
I bought a 2 stroke leaf blower last week . Retired the rake to the shed .

 

I came out of the office last night and found my truck surrounded by box trucks from the warehouse. Apparently they'd moved them all out to employee parking to give them a good power wash. No big deal; they do it about once a month during the summer and every two weeks during the winter.
But I got to my truck and found a ginormous scuff mark on the driver's side door; probably 8 inches high and 3 wide. I thought about where I'd been this week (work, home, Tractor Supply, gas station, hardware store) to try and think of when I could have done it myself. But I always park off on my own, and that scuff was big and obvious, so there's no way I would have missed it all week (this is the newest and nicest vehicle I've ever owned, and I'll admit that I'm kind of obsessive about keeping it that way. I'm constantly looking it over for nicks/scratches/dings). The only way I could have gotten it was from one of those box trucks.
So when I got home I washed the door down and went to work with the Scratch-X to see if I could polish it out. Worked pretty good, actually. I did two applications of Scratch-X and then put on three coats of Turtle Wax Hard Shell and it went from a huge scuff mark with a bunch of small scratches and a few deep ones to just one small line that you can't really see unless you look for it. So no harm no foul, but man...When I saw that last night I was

Later on when I get my break I'll go out and to the warehouse manager about it and have him have a word with his monkeys about how they treat other people's vehicles.

 

That is highly annoying. It's good that you got most of it out. But WTF! Someone defiantly needs to get chewed out for that, especially if it came from work. On a side note does the Scratch-x work well? I got a lot of pin striping from wheeling that I need to get rid of.

 

x2 there, they never run out of gas! I don't mind axes for dropping trees, or even de-limbing them but to cut them up I'll take a chainsaw.

 

yeah, it worked great, really. When I started with the polishing compound I was afraid I wasn't able to do much; some of the scratches were pretty deep. But you can't even see where it happened now, unless you really look hard for that one line that's left.
I've used it before to get a scratch out of the gas tank on the bike from the zipper on my jacket and it worked great for that too. I've even used it to grind out scratches on the clear visor on my motorcycle helmet before and it worked for that too.

Unlike some of the rubbing compounds I've used in the past it doesn't leave that annoying "paint swirl" that you have to wax the crap out of, either.
Good stuff.

$16 Meguiars G10307 7 Oz ScratchX

http://www.amazon.com/Meguiars-G10307-Scratch-X-2-0/dp/B0002UNON8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398340885&sr=8-1&keywords=Scratch-x+2.0

For sure. I do a lot of my limbing with the axe because it's faster. But it's a hell of a lot faster to cut them up with the saw, and it's a LOT more convenient splitting saw-cut logs rather than axe-cut logs. Nice flat surface, haha!

 

Yes, quite defiantly

 

I see that a lot on here.
I've given up on trying to correct it, or else people will think I'm a bigger douche than they already do

 

Lol. I just don't care what other people think of me

 

Well that's good...