Did something dumb today.

[firefighter ontheside]

You're supposed to wear pants under the chaps, Tom.

[Old Greenhorn]

Well I assumed you were. :-[ Not everybody does. :D 

[tmarch]

You're supposed to wear pants under the chaps, Tom.

Dang, when I first read that I that it said panties.  Oh well not much of a story I guess.

[Southside]

Not that there is anything wrong with that.   :D

[Iwawoodwork]

When we were in Sturgis ,1997 motorcycle rally, there was a gal wearing a pair of chaps, white leather, with nothing covering the cheeks , does that count.

[firefighter ontheside]

Only if they were white chainsaw chaps.

[doc henderson]

I think if you wear panties, you are not supposed to let them get in a bunch!   What say you @Southside  8)   :D

[Crusarius]

I did end up milling 4 logs after the chainsaw event so thats more than I have milled all year. Now I have enough I should be able to make some doors for my lumber storage leanto.

[doc henderson]

gettin back on that horse.  glad all is well!

[Crusarius]

yea, I keep having to evict a mouse from the engine. Hopefully the trap I set got him. I should go look at that.

Can't get the smell from the nest on the hot engine out of my nose.

[HemlockKing]

Fish cab might help with that mouse lol 

[doc henderson]

I got another one yesterday.  i should have been saving the hides and the meat.   :new_year:

[firefighter ontheside]

Man I love my powerfeed, but it can lead to problems of its own.  I was milling cedar for a friend and a little limb stopped the head, because I hadn't slid the guide out of the way.  I stepped up and stopped the mill.  As soon as I put the slightest bit of backward pull on the head the blade jumped off.  I didn't use the reverse of the power feed, but I just pulled back a little and bam.  My buddy was so impressed until then.

[Old Greenhorn]

I don't know how the PF works on a 15 and of course there is no comparison to the 50 because they are built different but like you I am enjoying that PF a LOT over my manual mill. However, on the 50 even though you have full speed control going forward, there is only STOP, or Full Throttle coming back. When you break a blade in the cut or have some other issue where you need to back up it is problematic to get it to just slowly move back a little. Also, if you run out of the cut at the far end and don't come up quite enough before you hit the reverse, you have no time to correct and the blade generally reminds you what you did wrong. It happens in a millisecond. Machines are not forgiving in any way. No mercy for us that are weak of mind or slow of hand. ;D :D

[KenMac]

I don't know how the PF works on a 15 and of course there is no comparison to the 50 because they are built different but like you I am enjoying that PF a LOT over my manual mill. However, on the 50 even though you have full speed control going forward, there is only STOP, or Full Throttle coming back. When you break a blade in the cut or have some other issue where you need to back up it is problematic to get it to just slowly move back a little. Also, if you run out of the cut at the far end and don't come up quite enough before you hit the reverse, you have no time to correct and the blade generally reminds you what you did wrong. It happens in a millisecond. Machines are not forgiving in any way. No mercy for us that are weak of mind or slow of hand. ;D :D

AMEN to the last sentence! Cook's saws also return at full speed and is good for maximum production, but it does make things difficult at times.

[GAB]

It happens in a millisecond. 

OG:
Are you sure it takes that long?
GAB

[Old Greenhorn]

Actually no I am not, because every time something like that happens I am too busy saying "OH SH....t!!" and I don't look at the stop watch. ;D

[Nebraska]

So I've been out in the bush a few days. I took a trip out to SW Colorado. With my oldest son, we drove my wife's truck. It's a fairly low milage 2018 4wd half ton chevy.   My truck has my work box in it..  I had planned  on replacing the tires, oh about November...They were getting kind of tired, but good enough til snow time right.(yes son of a long line of Swedes "there's still good in that...).. I thought about it a bit  before I left on the trip, but logistically with the call and work schedule (and packing) i didn't squeeze it  in...( My back country stuff hadn't  been out since 2013)   We had six kids going through  high school for a stretch there  and no time for extra trips.
So the point is I managed 3 flat tires in a four day stretch.  Thank you to American auto repair and tire shop in Motrose Colorado.  They fixed two, I had another flat after driving across my father's newly mowed bailed CRP field, to get an idea of how many bales were out there. That was yesterday  on my way back home.  At least I was where I grew up and had a friend close by with all the stuff to get me going again 🙄. Did I drive any roads much worse than the one in front of my house, nope. Have I ever had an issue driving across that field before, again nope.  Should I have taken the time 10 days ago or so to round up new tires and replace the soft (insert favorite  derogatory term here) original equipment highway tires on the truck before I left... Yes ....again I did something  dumb....but I had a good time  minus the tire repairing.

[doc henderson]

Well part of the bonus for going off grid/in the bush is learning (re-learning) how to overcome and trouble shoot.  sounds like you did well.  On a trip back from summer camp a few years back, we had a blow out on I70 still in Co.  On the right, so the boys got to change the tire and put on the spare.  the second failure was near Ellsworth, Ks, almost to Salina highway 81, but only lost the tread.  first stop was an old station that is not more of a quick shop.  the older owner prob. in his 70s, took me out to a container with piles of tires.  he quoted me 100 bucks for an odd sized bias tire prob. at least half his age.  no thanks.  we drove into town (on steel belting) and left the trailer at a friends house,  went back with another spare.  found redneck trailer had tires on clearance mounted to a wheel already.  four new tires and wheel.  It was hot, but not loaded that heavy.  so tires were old and weak.  ready to roll.

[Ljohnsaw]

Reminds me of when I picked up my new-to-me boat - 1961 18' StarCraft.  The owner was an auto shop teacher the he had the kids make a custom trailer.  Tandem axle with two extra tires up front for beach/surf launching.  Made from Corvair hubs and tires.  So these tires were probably 15 years old.  Took all surface streets home (20 miles) and kept it below 30 or so.  Then the last hill about 2 miles from my place I got going too fast.  Peeled two of the tires and made it home on bias ply cord!

[sawguy21]

Yeah, I have been guilty of running tires past their best before date and paid for it :

[firefighter ontheside]

Sounds like you were having bad luck with nails or other tire puncturing metal.  Maybe if you had put new tires on, you would have been having new tires patched.  I just told my wife yesterday that I was going to put new tires on my truck before the snow flies.  I'm quite sure I will be OK since the tires are only about 2 years old.

[aigheadish]

Not really dumb, other than poor luck... My wife (at the time) and kids and I went to Hilton Head, South Carolina for a big, extended family vacation. Our cars weren't up to it so we rented a car. The kids were little, probably 1 and 3, or so, so we had all the stuff that that entails, a little fold-up play yard, diaper bags, all our luggage, etc. 

On the way down, out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night (so I could drive while the kids slept) I feel my back driver's side tire go down. I pull off to the side of the highway, unload the entire trunk to get to the spare, change the tire (next to 70mph traffic whizzing right past my butt), and go to replace the flat in the trunk, to find it doesn't fit. Welp, into the passenger seat it goes, with my wife. We get to our destination I scrape enough money together to buy a new tire and all is good... Until... 

On the way home, out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night (so I could drive while the kids slept) I feel my back driver's side tire go down. I pull off to the side of the highway, unload the entire trunk to get to the spare, change the tire (next to 70mph traffic whizzing right past my butt), and go to replace the flat in the trunk, to find it doesn't fit. Welp, into the passenger seat it goes, with my wife. There was probably about 8 hours of the drive left. I don't think I paid for another tire that time, just took it back to the rental place. 

Oh! I guess I did do something dumb related to tires recently! My wife came home a couple days ago and said she's got a screw sticking in her tire. We look and sure enough there it is but it can be plugged, and I just happen to have a plug kit available. She's got an suv that is too tall for my nicer jack, so I use the miserable one that came with the car. Everything goes fine as I pull the tire off and roll it into the garage to plug it when, upon pulling the screw out, I find that it's only in the thick part of the tread about an eighth of an inch and isn't really creating a hole that leaks. Whoops. Next time I think I'll remember to try pulling the stuck item first, dummy.

[sawguy21]

I'm feeling a little foolish. I have been cussing my desk top for about a week, I would get a drop down every time I clicked which wouldn't allow me to go further. If I clicked to close it the page would disappear, GRRRR! Today I noticed the mouse was looking a little grungy, the gap between the paddles was full of dust and probably toast crumbs among other things so I plugged in a spare I found in the  drawer. VOILA!!! I'll be DanGed :

[Nebraska]

Ordered the tires this am. No ten plies tires  to be had.  The new  tires will be  on tomorrow. Dropped the truck off in town and then watched the second half of a JV football game.   I hate it when a mouse gets into my toast. ;)