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     Etennuly |
Have ya ever done one of those things that starts a process you can't stop that just makes you cuss? I was cutting up a large tree for firewood that had fallen on my fence line. It is a metal mesh type farm fence. The tree was parallel and partially on top of the fence to where cutting it put the chain saw at risk of ruining the chain. So I attempted to move it with my tractor's loader but it was too heavy for the 1200 lb capacity loader. I fired up the saw and cut a few large arm limbs and shortened it up as much as could be done as it was laying. I literally picked up the main trunk moving it off the fence with the loader, it was at it's capacity limit for sure. All was going to plan until it laid it down ever so carefully out in the open. The main trunk went up about eight feet to a big limb that went about another eight feet to the side and the part I had to cut away from the fence went eight feet the other way, not unlike a giant cactus you'd see out West. When I laid it down the one arm made it flip away from the tractor which I planned. What I did not plan was for the one limb, that was about a foot across where the end cut was, landed directly on top of my Husquvarna chain saw. Sombich crushed the top cover and drove the aircleaner down into the carburetor and broke off the spark plug. I had been explaining on another thread, the costs of obtaining firewood by cutting, splitting, hauling, stacking etc., verses just buying it from a firewood sales guy. This should not cost more that a hundred bucks or so to fix the saw, but I still don't have cut up burnable wood unless I buy some while I wait for parts.  | ||
| Reepicheep |
I think break more things in efforts to avoid breaking things than I would break if I just charged oblivious through life depending on dumb luck... | ||
| Rick_a |
It could always be worse... | ||
| 86129squids |
   I love you, man. Wish I coulda been there to "assist".  | ||
| Hughlysses |
I think break more things in efforts to avoid breaking things than I would break if I just charged oblivious through life depending on dumb luck... +1 to that. It always amazes me how you can look at something you're about to do, and think "whatever I do, I don't want (this thing) to happen", take steps to avoid that thing happening, and EXACTLY what you don't want to happen, happens! | ||
| 1313 |
It always amazes me how you can look at something you're about to do, and think "whatever I do, I don't want (this thing) to happen", take steps to avoid that thing happening, and EXACTLY what you don't want to happen, happens! Or to turn that around slightly, I think I have a slight 'gift' of premonitions. For instance, testing the blue header of the X1W. We rode 2 black X1's with blue headers down to Deal's Gap. Made it to the T-shirt shop, had lunch, etc. Start the bike up and get to the edge of the parking lot, stop before getting on 129 heading South and think to myself - "getting on 129 would be the perfect time for the 'Keihin cough' that the early X1's seemed to have programmed into them to rear it's ugly head..." Pull out on 129, and sure enough, the X1 I was riding dies. Step aside and let the bike fall, taking out shifter toepeg. Rode it that way all the way to Asheville (got a cramp in my leg from having to use the actual lever to shift) and bought a pair of small vice grips (that I own to this day) to serve as an interim toepeg. At least it cemented me riding the X1 with domestic gearing the rest of the trip... 1313 | ||
| Etennuly |
When I did this thing to my chain saw I set it down about twenty feet from where I was working. Then I had that "feeling" that it was not far enough out, so the next time I got off from the tractor I moved it another five feet or so. So how is that for placing it for a perfect center punch? It would have missed completely where I put it originally. | ||
| Teeps |
There! I fixed it! | ||
| Mnscrounger |
dumb luck is under rated | ||
| Etennuly |
dumb luck is under rated Maybe that is the case. All I needed to fix the saw was a spark plug. The top plastic carb/air cleaner cover got crushed, but it runs better without it. Now that the saw is back to functional it is running better than ever. I did not know it could turn this kind of RPMs. It ran good before.....but now it screams and has more torque! It is taking the carb adjustments better than it ever has, I believe that is due to not having the top cover on. Who knew? It had a breathing restriction. Since it worked on the saw, I wonder how it might work to drop a tree on one truck that I have? | ||
| 86129squids |
Vern, I see a new Bravo TeeVee miniseries based on your life!! Vernie Boo Boo!!! |
