Still Learning To Listen To That Voice In My Head!

[la szum]

Fuck that! Bench grinder for me. I'm not cutting a golf course. I can't imagine how long that would take. Chainsaw blades..., throw em away. But I know pros do hand-sharpen, but I don't use a chainsaw often enough for it to matter. $20 every couple years is fine by me.

Haha! Do you toss out your underwear, too, when it gets .... uhmmm.... soiled. ???







I hand-sharpen the chain before every use. If you just touch it up like that they stay pristine,
last longer, and cut better. Takes a couple of minutes. I know of no other way.


Glad to hear you had a great weekend, Tom! You have certainly earned it!!

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

Thanks! And getting out in that SUN!! At least the weather this time of year is PERFECT!! No humidity, and in the 70's.

I don't have a grass catcher on my zero-turn like I do on my push mower. So I have to do the entire yard this way first, b/c I don't want all those clippings left laying. I've done it before when the grass got tall, and they get left in clumps and kill the grass.

If I cut it often enough, that's not a problem (and better for the grass too.)

Fuck that! Bench grinder for me. I'm not cutting a golf course. I can't imagine how long that would take. Chainsaw blades..., throw em away. But I know pros do hand-sharpen, but I don't use a chainsaw often enough for it to matter. $20 every couple years is fine by me.

I know, right?

Dude, I don't take anything like that. In fact, I appreciate the interaction.

I throw nothing away. And I use everything until it breaks ...then I fix it and use it some more. I have saw blades in my barn that go back to the 1800s. No lie.

Kind of a family thing. My dad once raced chainsaws in his youth, when saws were very very real.

Like I said, I have some issues myself mentally.... staying in the maintenance and doing things in a very methodical way ..by hand, helps me to clear my head and think things through. My mind is a warzone.....I need to triage that shit sometimes. It literally only takes a few hours a year if you stay up on it.

I have so many stones, files and strops and....yeah kind of a nerd I guess.

I have a insane level of appreciation for the old ways of repairing and maintaining stuff ...and I like to feel the history and evolution of work tools....kind of strange. One of my favorite shows growing up was the "Wood wright shop" on PBS......so that explains a lot. I have planes in my barn from the earlier 1900s..... Just neat as hell. Simple elegance.

Sorry.....got caught up ..smoked a hash bowl and started rambling.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I often end up with landscaping/maintenance contracts on properties and I am
so stoked that more and more people are getting into wildscaping and ditching
the dumb-ass (and costly and labour intensive) golf course lawns of suburbia.

I left a bunch of them standing along my drainage ditch, along with some of those "reed grasses." Not sure what they're called, but they sprout up anywhere there's a source of water, and they're supposedly great filters for the bay. Chesapeake in our case.

And if I see anymore flowers, of any type, as I finish the yard, I'm gonna leave them as well. I think I have a section of my back yard where wild berries grow too.

 

[TSJMajesty]

I throw nothing away. And I use everything until it breaks ...then I fix it and use it some more. I have saw blades in my barn that go back to the 1800s. No lie.

I do that too. Just not to the same extent as you. Heck, I even schooled some of the guys I work with on getting circular saw blades resharpened. We don't pay for them, so they never give it a second thought. But they cost 1/3 the cost of a new one to get sharpened.

And my table saw and miter saw blades..., I buy top-quality, German-made CMT blades, and get them sharpened until there's not enough carbide remaining. They even replace chipped teeth on them as needed.

I'm often told I'm crazy because I buy parts to fix all sorts of tools.

I even searched C/L for a certain miter saw that's no longer made, (and found one), because I still had 2 blades for that saw, that would've just gone in the trash if I bought the newer version. (Plus I made a stand that fits that saw, and I just happen to love that particular model.)

On a work project, I'm constantly saving the demo'd lumber, and finding places that it can be re-used, in non-structural areas (like furring out a 2x4 wall to make it a 2x6 wall to meet the newer energy codes), until the project is finished. I find so many uses for all that stuff!

I'm not a 'throw-it-away' kind of person, in most respects.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Shit! I even got a little blister on my palm! Now I KNOW I did some work this weekend! Better remember the gloves tomorrow! (Don't mind callouses, but can't deal with blisters.)

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I think tendons are slow recovery, but I could be mistaken.

 

[State of Epicicity]

So glad it's coming along better, Man!

 

[Warmart]

Sounds like you're about done, but don't do anything too crazy just yet!

You'd think, if you angled one of your Majesties just right, it could cut the grass at the same time you were zipping through "The Bearded Ones" riffs!

 

[TSJMajesty]

Well go figure- my rake broke this morning. And I fixed it in just a little more time, that even if I were already out running errands, than it would've taken me to go buy a new one. 20 minutes, including getting out and putting away the tools.

Oh, and I just remembered, as I went out to my shop this morning, that the master lock I have on the door, is the same one I had on my HS locker!


But my foot is hurting today! Dammit.

 

[Warmart]

Rest time!

 

[TSJMajesty]

Rest time!

That's exactly what I'm doing!

 

[Warmart]

If it's any consolation, I weed whacked for 4 hours yesterday. I have a worn out battery operated one that's a struggle on the best of days.

Did the normal stuff around the house and it was overdue, so I did 100 yards up and back the hill, down the road.

Couldn't play last night, can't do much better yet today. It's rough on the wrists! Not hurting, just a bit tight, but enough to fork my playing up.

 

[TSJMajesty]

These damn insurance companies! (@la szum amirite?)

Today is the day the doctor has given me to start full weight bearing, and I have emails from earlier in the week from the ins co asking me what my 'work status' is!

Look at THE NOTES!! You will see I still have substantial PAIN under my heel, and that I've just now been cleared to start walking!! And just started PT this past Tuesday. Chill TF OUT!

You wanna worry about something? How bout dealing with the unpaid bills from my ER visit, that I already told the previous adjuster about!! (yeah, I've been shifted to a different adjuster twice so far.) Do your fucking job, and don't worry about how much longer it will be, at least until my physical therapist has a few visits with me!!

FFS

You want a note? I'll be sure to get you your damn note at my next doc app!

 

[la szum]

Wow, Tom. That sucks. Your health is far more serious than my bike was.

I hope you get taken care of properly. Sucks that while you are recovering
they demand your time and attention to sort out their own shit.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Wow, Tom. That sucks. Your health is far more serious than my bike was.

I hope you get taken care of properly. Sucks that while you are recovering
they demand your time and attention to sort out their own shit.

The one silver lining, or one of, about this whole ordeal is that if I don't feel like doing anything on a particular day, I don't have to. I still have some lengthy form I have to fill out for the state. Idk what that's all about cuz I haven't even opened it yet!

 

[TSJMajesty]

You'd think, if you angled one of your Majesties just right, it could cut the grass at the same time you were zipping through "The Bearded Ones" riffs!

Or digging holes.

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

Man do I hate not getting notifications for threads I am subscribed to! Grrrrrrr!! Just caught up on all this ;~)) Sounds like things are coming along nicely TSJMajesty!!! Good to hear! And so glad you found that running toilet, way easier fix than the pump bladder and other fixes ;~)) As for the insurance companies, let's keep it civil and just say that they deserved to get a full cavity search with spiked gloves!

As for fixing stuff or throwing stuff away, I am 100% in the fix it group ;~)) When my girlfriend wants to just throw something THAT WORKS in the trash, I usually come back with "How American of you"! Hell, I save the soles off of old shoes cuz I know I will be able to put that rubber pad to use somewhere at some point. I save chopsticks when I eat at restaurants that use them (and all chopsticks at the table, not just mine). I use them for a variety of things including but not limited to, filling in holes in walls or wood, holding down tarps or cardboard on ground surfaces, a tool to reach into tight spaces when something needs a poke (I know, TWSS). I just used some old chopsticks 30 minutes ago to clean stuff that had become stuck between the boards of the porch deck! They are handy items. As for my chainsaw, I have a Dremel tool attachment to sharpen them and I always buy the chains that have the longer tooth and no safety bits. I can usually sharpen them 3 times before I need to chuck them. But boy, when I have a downed ironwood, a blade only lasts me 45 minutes of cutting before I need to put a sharp one on the saw.

Anwyay, cheers to your health and the foot recovery (and yes, as mentioned, tendons can take a LONG time to heal)!!!

EDIT: Reduce, re-use, recycle, in that order ;~))

 

[TSJMajesty]

Man do I hate not getting notifications for threads I am subscribed to! Grrrrrrr!! Just caught up on all this ;~)) Sounds like things are coming along nicely TSJMajesty!!! Good to hear! And so glad you found that running toilet, way easier fix than the pump bladder and other fixes ;~)) As for the insurance companies, let's keep it civil and just say that they deserved to get a full cavity search with spiked gloves!

As for fixing stuff or throwing stuff away, I am 100% in the fix it group ;~)) When my girlfriend wants to just throw something THAT WORKS in the trash, I usually come back with "How American of you"! Hell, I save the soles off of old shoes cuz I know I will be able to put that rubber pad to use somewhere at some point. I save chopsticks when I eat at restaurants that use them (and all chopsticks at the table, not just mine). I use them for a variety of things including but not limited to, filling in holes in walls or wood, holding down tarps or cardboard on ground surfaces, a tool to reach into tight spaces when something needs a poke (I know, TWSS). I just used some old chopsticks 30 minutes ago to clean stuff that had become stuck between the boards of the porch deck! They are handy items. As for my chainsaw, I have a Dremel tool attachment to sharpen them and I always buy the chains that have the longer tooth and no safety bits. I can usually sharpen them 3 times before I need to chuck them. But boy, when I have a downed ironwood, a blade only lasts me 45 minutes of cutting before I need to put a sharp one on the saw.

Anwyay, cheers to your health and the foot recovery (and yes, as mentioned, tendons can take a LONG time to heal)!!!

EDIT: Reduce, re-use, recycle, in that order ;~))

Yeah, I noticed you reading through them!

I'll have to look into that Dremel attachment for chainsaw blades (yes, I can change my opinion on things, lol.) In general, I try to strike a good balance btw saving stuff, and hoarding.

When we were cleaning out my mother's garage, I found a Folger's coffee container full of old twist ties!! And then in the junk drawer, 3 full rolls of brand new ones. So..., yeah. Sometimes it's just not worth it. 3 years later, I still have 2 of those rolls in my junk drawer!
But they get used once and thrown away. I mean what am I gonna do? Make a Christmas tree ornament out of them? Maybe if I had young kids and no money at all.

That's the first time I've ever heard of saving the soles off shoes though. Wow!

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

Make a Christmas tree ornament out of them?

 

[la szum]

Yeah, I noticed you reading through them!

I'll have to look into that Dremel attachment for chainsaw blades (yes, I can change my opinion on things, lol.) In general, I try to strike a good balance btw saving stuff, and hoarding.

When we were cleaning out my mother's garage, I found a Folger's coffee container full of old twist ties!! And then in the junk drawer, 3 full rolls of brand new ones. So..., yeah. Sometimes it's just not worth it. 3 years later, I still have 2 of those rolls in my junk drawer!
But they get used once and thrown away. I mean what am I gonna do? Make a Christmas tree ornament out of them? Maybe if I had young kids and no money at all.

That's the first time I've ever heard of saving the soles off shoes though. Wow!

I have 3 Ziploc bags fill of various twist ties.