There are few things as discouraging as a repair that just will not, or can not work.  Case in point, a chainsaw that I've been trying to fix for a customer.  This is an old, and I mean OLD, McCulloch PowerMac 310 - It was made (so far as I can tell) around 1983.  Fixing the main problem was easy - it needed a new carburetor kit, as all of the ( Read more... )

     Or at least, rearranging it to make it more livable...  :/

One of many long-term projects has been to get the downstairs "guest" bedroom cleaned up, and set up so that we actually could have guests.  We finally got a big push done of that today, clearing all of the clutter out of the room (ie: temporarily moving some most of it into ( Read more... )

     I had meant to post something on the 4th of July, wishing well to my American friends, but the last several days have been so busy I haven't even had time to log on.

Days at the shop have been slow in some ways, too fast in others.  I'm not making a huge amount of progress in the current work-load because just about everything is waiting ( Read more... )

The temperature climbed to +27c today, though a pleasant breeze (as compared to a gale-force wind, which is the norm around here!) helped cool things off a little.  On a bright sunny day though, the UV index was pretty high and thus my arms are pretty badly sunburned.  ( Read more... )

Just one of those days...  Perhaps the full moon has something to do with it...

Had to go down to Mom's place early this morning to get my gas cans.  They're all down there because she's got a car that she's giving away to the Kidney Car Program after breaking down once too often.  Problem is, she had just filled the tank with gas when the ( Read more... )

     I ACHE everywhere.  I'm too young to be aching this much, but it's all good in a way.  After more than a decade of sedentary jobs, I'm finally moving and working and using long-forgotten muscles again.  Come to think of it....  Good Lord...  It's been 20 years since I've done REAL farm-work.  Geeze, how the years fly by!   20 years ago I had a ( Read more... )