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Luna_110

@Morpheel
Tuesday at 12 pm ET

I have a chronic lack of time, for everything.

Now playing: Okami HD, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

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HobbitGamer

Been slammed at work today. Seems I missed a bit; Anti has the goods on Pikmin 4, Morph was gifted spicy meatballs, Bimmy and NES are talking yard tools (love it), NbN got eaten by a customer, and Knuckles is waiting for the robot overlords. Whew, I’m caught up.
Sorry about the promo, Knuckles. Though it seems like that’d be a poo supervisor to be under if that’s a reason he hired someone else.

#MudStrongs

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bimmy-lee

@NEStalgia - It was a friend’s DeWalt. I like that brand. Everything I’ve bought from them seems built for the long haul. I’ve heard electric is 1:1 power with gas at this point. It was a string fed head, so maybe I would have better luck with the bladed head. I’ll probably end up getting sales pitched today because I haven’t done much research. I’ll look for the wandering old man who works at my Home Depot who seems to know everything about everything.

@HobbitGamer - You nailed it. The last two summaries of this thread have been hilarious. “Meandering” doesn’t even begin to describe it.

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limby-bee was a jerk.

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Ryu_Niiyama

@NEStalgia I would never put that kind of money in a car brand, Ducati or a Hayabusa sure but a Ferrari...lol no.

I just got unlucky with my little Tacoma.

Also I am ready for Tuesday. I took the day off. (I won't be game shopping that day now but oh well). Gonna put on my zelda pjs and game all day (I usually study/freelance work on my days off but not this time! It's been a stressful month already lol.)

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Taiko is good for the soul, Hoisa!
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NEStalgia

@bimmy-lee What battery did it use? There's two or 3 lines from DeWalt now. They ahve the 18/20v that takes the standard drill battery. That's more average/typical consumer power (but better build and performance.) Then there's the dual-battery 36v, and then the 40v stuff. 40v is a big huge block battery a little smaller than a gas engine. That has the 1:1 power. Now they have 60v stuff (and even some 100v stuff....actual AC voltage from a DC battery....scary powerful stuff, not priced for mere mortals.) And brushless matters.

I have a Makita 36v. Takes 2 18v drill batteries. Great compromise between power, weight, convenience to just pull my drill batteries. But I have a DeWalt 40v pole saw & hedge trimmer. That thing is quite industrial (and obscenely heavy/dangerous.) The trimmer can shred a spruce like it's not there. The saw melts oak.

@Ryu_Niiyama For the price for parts, I'm pretty sure you spelled "Tesla" wrong.

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Ryu_Niiyama

@NEStalgia LOL you are so mean, too soon dude, too soon. LOL

Since yall are talking tools, anybody got a small planer? I'm a hand tool girl myself, but I want to make a few endgrain cutting boards and I aside from the workout, I don't think it is worth it to plane them by hand.

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bimmy-lee

I have a couple old hand planers I bought at auction years ago. Yeah, never used them. I think only pioneers and lumberjacks can use them properly.

@NEStalgia - I don’t remember what the voltage was, I’m not sure I took note. You’ve got me frantically googling now though, doing all the research I didn’t think I would do. I’m becoming paralyzed with choice. I really need a chainsaw too. I’ve been borrowing my dad’s for years now when I lose a tree. I thought this would be easy.

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Ryu_Niiyama

@bimmy-lee what brand and type? Stanley's? I love hand tools and use them exclusively but I'm not feeling it for this cutting board project. I wanted to make them for my dad for Father's Day but that is so not happening now

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HobbitGamer

All this tool talk reminds me I’ve gotta change the oil in my riding mower this weekend. And probably grease the joints. And power wash the deck. Now I can’t stop thinking of all the things!!
I need to scare up my edger attachment for my ol troybilt weeder too. And trim the rose bushes.

Now I don’t wanna do nuthin 🤬

#MudStrongs

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NEStalgia

@bimmy-lee For chainsaws, if you don't want gas, you definitely want 40v (or 60v...heavy though.) My chainsaw is Greenworks (read Chinese imports, but was the first 40v system readily available) and is quite decent (if not physically as rugged as the DeWalt stuff.) The DeWalt stuff would be notably better, now that I've got the 40v pole equipment. There are 18v Chainsaws too, and they're ok as long as you're not bucking a 60 year old red oak...... Ask me how I know.

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bimmy-lee

@Ryu_Niiyama - Well, I think they were made by the carpenter who used them. They’re primitive as can be, super worn, and there’s nothing on them to identify them; and it seems like there never was. One is huge and seems like it could plane a standing oak tree.

The other is small, definitely for finishing. Knowing a little about old stuff, I’d say they’re from the 20s or 30s, but wouldn’t be shocked if they are much older. The blade is worn down, they don’t cut anymore, and I’m not sure there’s a way to change the blade. Whoever used them had Popeye forearms. I’d love to start woodworking. I don’t have the tools, so I just buy old stuff and refurbish or refinish.

@NEStalgia - I want a pole cutter too! There’s a hickory branch touching my house and roof. I’m way too scared to take down standing trees. I’ve had to pay to have that done. But I kind of like cutting them up after they fall. I only cut down small trees with loppers. I try to clear out all volunteer ash a couple times a summer so that I don’t have to eventually pay for them to be cut down when the inevitable ash bore infestation occurs.

Please, please do elaborate on your red oak experience. The terror of getting a saw stuck midway through, or getting a felled tree hung up in other trees is precisely why I’m too afraid to take them down myself.

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NEStalgia

@bimmy-lee Yeah it depends on the size of the tree. I love trees so I prefer not taking them down. But you call in a company and they want to bring a crane in the yard for like $3,000 and I'm thinking A) that can't be good for utilities, B) It won't fit! C) How did you people do this same job 50 years ago? This thing was a monster tree though....we have real trees here. Good old 80ft 3-4ft wide trunks.....monsters. Cutting that one up reduced the chain to a polish. You could lick the chain safely it was so smooth and worn. Granted by the end I was hitting dirt much too often, which is really what dulled it, but still. It fell on its own....no way I'd have felled something of that size myself on purpose. You need to REALLY know what you're doing before touching that - we're talking logging industry sized stuff. . Even the pros won't touch that without cranes. One pro I had evaluate it after I refuted the crane and pointed out there's no way to even get it in the yard without cutting other trees down finally looked and said "well, it'll probably fall in the clearing anyway on its own"....so I went with that. And it did. A decade later. It did get hung up on another tree on the way down, and took a few sizable limbs off it, as well, but didn't get totally hung up on it. I still worry about potential to have diseased other trees. There's another red oak that sometimes seems iffy that was near it....every spring I squint to make sure it's budding......

I had to do half-cuts with the chainsaw - it had gas equivalent power, but only as an 18" bar and the trunk was about 4ft at it's thickest. Anything beyond that you're into pricing for pro shops using them all day every day.

I forgot to mention that the batteries did deplete VERY fast for that job....I bought 3 or them or so and I'd cycle through them all in about 30-40 minutes, try to fast charge them all, then continue another round. There was waiting involved for them to cool. I'm pretty sure the tool wasn't really meant for doing an entire logging job, and I didn't have the extended batteries In that sense gas would be more practical, though you'd be refilling a lot there, too. And the exhaustion and rage could lead to......incidents.....

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ThanosReXXX

@1UP_MARIO The only word I edited out of that picture was "hand", so it's still relatively easy to find, if you save my picture, and then drag and drop it into Google's image search.

Here, I've saved you the trouble:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intensive-Crack-Hand-Cream-Treatment...
I'd go for this one, though. I know some people with tasking jobs that swear by it:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/OKeeffes%C2%AE-Working-Hands-Value-S...
And besides, the choice is simple, seeing as the first option is currently unavailable...
But if you'd still prefer the other one, you could simply try to find it elsewhere. I can't imagine it only being sold on Amazon, so some drug store, apothecary or specialty store might also have it.

@bimmy-lee Commodore C64? Surely you meant Commodore Amiga...

On a side note: Day-umm... I stay away for a day and I've seemed to miss an entire internet storm concerning my favorite weird-but-okay person...

Guess I now know what @Tyranexx feels like, on a regular basis...

@Matthew010

Matthew010 wrote:

(Edit: That photo's a lot smaller and blurrier than I hoped it would be. I'm sorry.)

Here, let me fix that for you...
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@NEStalgia @HobbitGamer Considering E3 is about to take off, you'd expect people to go wild with the latest rumors, but instead, there's a hell of a lot of talk about weed whackers and such in here, or are those metaphors for something else?

I don't really want to bring up the topic of trains again, but I do feel like the hype train is gaining traction, and that we're going to have a really nice E3. Especially if you're not a Nintendo-only gamer...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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HobbitGamer

@bimmy-lee I had a 16” gas chainsaw that threw a chain halfway threw the trunk. Had to get the axe for the rest

#MudStrongs

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX We're talking chainsaws. Think of it as a prelude to #BethesdaE3.

Pre-E3 rumors in non-hardware years aren't fun, it's mostly leaks that spoil the surprise. Better to talk about rotary hammerdrills and tune out the internet until Sunday

Hardware years are fun for pre-hype because we can argue specs, features, history, and trends. Software years you either get spoilers that kill the buzz, or wait to be surprised in real-time I'm half-avoiding the main page until Tuesday afternoon.

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NEStalgia

@HobbitGamer That's no joking matter! I got an email a year AFTER my oak fun that my saw had a recall that it could throw chains. I'm like...wait, a year AFTER I wear down a chain with like 30 hours of cutting you tell me the thing could have accidentally limbed me without even erring?

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