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  1. Marc-Antoine

    What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?

    Since a few days, it's sunny, hot, cold, windy, cloudy, rainy, hard rainy, quiet... The weather keeps changing, even the full spectrum several times each day. In the 2 hours road trip to come back at home today, I went through 4 different rains.
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    Stripped Oiler Gear - Cause?

    The flat spot acts as a rotating valve to close/open the intake and outpout holes of the pump's cylinder. Somewhere on the small shaft a ramp/came makes the shaft moves axially while it's rotating. The both combined give the pumping motion. No check valve, very simple system. It looks like the...
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    How'd it go today?

    The japanese maple will have no chance in the fight.
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    Drying eucalyptus

    and take a really nice warped shape. I'm very surprised by the amount of move by this wood dry for so long. The warping can be severe in other species too, but usually, it's when the drying occurs.
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    The Official Work Pictures Thread

    Blocks and pulleys for arborist work are very often way undersized, bend radius wise. Say, if the rope needs five time its diameter as a bend radius, all you can find is likely a three time. If one wants to do it right, he has to look on the logging blocks or the industrial rigging. But it's...
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    What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?

    Heavy rain and strong wind this morning. What a good day to cut a bunch of dead maples in the forest. Luckily that didn't last long and I lost only one hour, staying quiet in my van (actually, I completed my night!). The water had still the time to pool around my van, turning the little dirt...
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    How'd it go today?

    How well it's sharp, not how well it cuts. The finger's skin tells you that there's an edge around here, but not where the edge is precisely located. What I mean is if you don't file enough the cutter for exemple, you can have still a small rounded area between the top surface and the actual...
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    Official Random Fact/Random Thought Thread!

    80V doesn't look like a phantom voltage, but what's going through an appliance on an other outlet for example. Maybe you have two outlets liked together in an Y mode which you aren't aware off, like an addition during a remodeling on the house/ room. In my house I found that they modified the...
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    knives

    and it's quite the tool, not the tiny knife for the sausage at the camp fire.
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    I (Think/Hope) I Developed A New Hitch Design

    The disgusting part is we start with a "no knot" and a well folded line and in a split second the rat's nest appears and ruins the morning. Awful with the bigshot.
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    I (Think/Hope) I Developed A New Hitch Design

    When I find this style of intro, i just shut down the vid. It's unwatchable, especially if that's a bunch of very short clips glued together. Big no-no for me, no matter how interesting the content could be (for me).
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    Stripped Oiler Gear - Cause?

    If you want a shitty looking saw with a hack paint job, do it on the stihl. It will look like shit but at least it's still a stihl. ;)
  13. Marc-Antoine

    What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?

    Tuesday, a tempest in the west gave us some serious winds. I was shacked hard while deadwooding a big oak, left and right, back and forth, up and down, with all the time the feeling that one of my tying points was giving up. The chainsaw on its lanyard was swinging around like crazy. I was span...
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    Bar oil 4.95 a gallon

    i don't like when there's a red note "Always shake well before using". That means that the final product is unstable and can't sit for some times. Do we have to shake the 3120xp to remix the chain lube left in the oil tank from the previous use? this will be fun !
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    Whats blooming?

    Same. And then, there was yesterday morning freeze....
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    “Free” firewood

    It's the successives steps for an area to go from the bare ground to the "stable" ecosystem, a beech and maple forest in this exemple. Each ecosystem has its own sequence of species, depending on all the factors involved (ground, climate, light, water supply ...) The first ones are pioneer and...
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    The Official Random Video Thread!

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    What's the weather like in your neck of the woods?

    So nice week for a change; full sun and ended in T-shirt day and even that was too hot. Today, the rain is back and temp is dropping. Plenty of tiny leaves are poking out everywhere. It's always pleasant to see the nature's awakening. Though, the different species take their turn to flower, but...
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    Archeology

    :barf: I've always heard that our digestive system isn't strong enough to handle rotten meat. Why play with this, given the fact of the deadly outcome with some common microorganismes?
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    How'd it go today?

    My wife is desperate to find out that too for my projects.
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