Oy.
Three days into the week and I’m wrecked. I have enough new projects to keep me busy for weeks and more, all stuff that has never existed before and will not exist until i make it. And NOBODY REMEMBERS HOW TO DRIVE. These are the days when you wish for the life of a hermit, I ain’t shitting you.
In other news a couple weeks back I bought a chainsaw at Niemeyers Junk Sale, and figured for $22 I couldn’t go far wrong. I knew it needed a chain and bar, but I got a brand new one on Fleabay for another $20. $4 worth of air and fuel filter and I am in fat city, it runs like a raped ape. it’s a Craftsman arborist’s saw, made by, it turns out, Poulan. Looks like this.. Turns out to be a really nice little saw, a bit heavy, but well balanced internally and starts almost immediately. These were made in the late 80’s early 90’s and it’s made extremely well. For the $46 I have invested in it I think I did OK. It will be a great one-hand saw to do small work and limbing with. Supposedly they came with chain brakes too, so I may try and find one of them. I certainly will not be using it without a pair of good kevlar chainsaw gloves. I’m told the Stihl are the shit, and a Youtube video shows the Stihl gloves stopping the blade of a running saw while a pair of Husky ones just invite the saw in. Anyone have any experience?
“Nobody remembers how to drive” holy crap are you right. On my way to and from that interview on Tuesday I was tailgated all over the place by idiots who couldn’t seem to see farther than my rear end, and apparently didn’t understand that I can’t go any faster when I’m in the middle of about fifty other vehicles.
Can’t remember because they never knew how in the first place. Good job on the saw. Projects like that are very satisfying.
Worked on the poulan version once. Carbs can be a problem if they set or get ethonal in them. If yours runs good you have a decent little saw.
Yeah, i avoid ethanol like the plague.
Goin’ on 35 or so years ago I bought a little Rears and Sawbuck chainsaw made by Poulan. It was in a basket. I fiddled with it for a couple of hours to find that the vinyl tube connecting the fuel tank to the carburetor was broken. Took another thirty minutes to get it back together. It has run fine since. I also run 0-Ethanol fuel in it, my little generator and my outboard and my ’77 Chevy van.
http://www.pure-gas.org/
Gerry N.
There’s a gas station (Pilot?) on the south side of US 30 just east of Merrillville that has racing gas w no ehtanol. Should I buy that for my small engines?
You should indeed.alcohol is hell on fuel lines.
Ethanol also wreaks havoc on gaskets and membranes in older fuel pumps, fuel filters and carburetors. I called the EPA about what to do a few years ago, they suggested I buy a new vehicle. They had no suggestions about where I’d get the money. So I just found a competent mechanic who procured and installed new gaskets and a new fuel pump. Cost me about $50.