Hand Tools and Machinery for Country Living

[ides1056]

Day-glo paint and duct tape helps me to keep from finding tools later with the mower.

[htwoopup]

Tools and what not migrating away from their appointed storage location leads to male patterned blindness. I've got a internal rule to put my toys away after use. It's a PITA esp. because I know the consequences which are re-purchasing "stuff" that I've put somewhere smart.

True that. Which is why, in Canada I keep all of my hand tools organized in the organizer on one of the buckets. There is nothing worse to me than going to the third floor to fix something and discovering that I have to go down to the basement and outside to the shed where the tools are stored when I realize that I have brought the wrong sized Philips head driver or forgot the needle nose. It sort of keeps them put away and organized yet allows for male pattern blindness and forgetfulness. The smaller place at the ocean, yeah carry what I need because it is handy to go back and exchange the tool for the right one. There you just gotta make sure stuff doesn't fall through the deck cracks to the dark sand down below. I learned that one should never do bike repairs on the deck that way. But that's a different although related thread.

[mnoble485]

I’m thinking about a bucket section in the gallery...

I hate to do this but...
We could call it the “bucket list”.

Sorry.

Mike

[72gmc]

re-purchasing "stuff" that I've put somewhere smart.

That's how you find the original stuff! Works every time.

[rwsaunders]

Mrs. RW rolled out her new wheels this morning, after 30+ years of using my old wheelbarrows.

[Too Tall]

Holy cow do I miss my Garden Way cart. Passed to me from Mom and used to it's death. Incredibly useful.

[Mabouya]

Mrs. RW rolled out her new wheels this morning

Personally, I would have gone for the wheels with double-butted spokes, but that's just me...

[72gmc]

Mrs. RW rolled out her new wheels this morning, after 30+ years of using my old wheelbarrows.

Ride report please ... signed, the guy who wrestles the wheelbarrow

[rwsaunders]

No comparison Dan...extremely stable because of the two wheels and long wheel base and it takes a decent load. Our yards has some hilly spots and I don’t worry about it tipping. The website has other models as well.

https://www.smartcarts.com/

[j44ke]

My wife and I just spent 4 hours assaulting bittersweet vine in a corner of the property. I think I pulled up several miles of roots. Tha basstids.

[9tubes]

Tractors are meant to sit somewhere on your property, run occasionally, and eat up time like tracking down creaks on a CF bike with a space-age BB standard. They will not help you maintain walking paths, unless that path is the one you use to get from the barn/workshop to wherever the tractor has died.

Everyone thinks farming is about botany. It's actually just being a support mechanic for a few million dollars of mechanical stuff. That and commodities trading.

[j44ke]

It takes me a while. Need to get through the hemming and hawing and hand wringing. Our landscapers are going to give me a couple lessons just to make sure I am doing it right. I already don't like the helmet. I have chaps hung up in the garage. I was going to get non-Stihl brand chaps but my wife wouldn't let me out of the store without them. She does what she needs to in order to keep me among the living.

With the battery in, the saw feels nicely balanced but has some heft to it.

I also got a string trimmer that works with the same batteries but uses a remote connector cable for the battery that is out of stock at Stihl. I used the same string trimmer at our Hillsdale landlord's house, and it is a real beast so that will definitely come in handy.

[Todd Amunrud]

https://roguehoe.com/product/60h-2/

Picked up a rogue hoe for yard and garden work. Heavy duty for sure.

[ides1056]

It takes me a while. Need to get through the hemming and hawing and hand wringing. Our landscapers are going to give me a couple lessons just to make sure I am doing it right. I already don't like the helmet. I have chaps hung up in the garage. I was going to get non-Stihl brand chaps but my wife wouldn't let me out of the store without them. She does what she needs to in order to keep me among the living.

With the battery in, the saw feels nicely balanced but has some heft to it.

I also got a string trimmer that works with the same batteries but uses a remote connector cable for the battery that is out of stock at Stihl. I used the same string trimmer at our Hillsdale landlord's house, and it is a real beast so that will definitely come in handy.

You did good. You won't miss the noise and fumes.

Some friends- timber framers- like Petzyl: https://www.petzl.com/US/en/Professional/Helmets

If I get logging pants as opposed to chaps- mine are Stihl and are very cut up at this point- I will buy these.

[Drew]

It takes me a while. Need to get through the hemming and hawing and hand wringing. Our landscapers are going to give me a couple lessons just to make sure I am doing it right. I already don't like the helmet. I have chaps hung up in the garage. I was going to get non-Stihl brand chaps but my wife wouldn't let me out of the store without them. She does what she needs to in order to keep me among the living.

With the battery in, the saw feels nicely balanced but has some heft to it.

I also got a string trimmer that works with the same batteries but uses a remote connector cable for the battery that is out of stock at Stihl. I used the same string trimmer at our Hillsdale landlord's house, and it is a real beast so that will definitely come in handy.

Have them teach you how to sharpen it also... if you aren’t already hip to that.

[ides1056]

If I get logging pants as opposed to chaps- mine are Stihl and are very cut up at this point- I will buy these.[/QUOTE]

https://goclogger.com/

forgot to paste the link

[Too Tall]

No comparison Dan...extremely stable because of the two wheels and long wheel base and it takes a decent load. Our yards has some hilly spots and I don’t worry about it tipping. The website has other models as well.

https://www.smartcarts.com/

AND! the front of the cart is a removable board making into a quasi dump cart. I'm scouring Craigslist now.

[Tom]

Look at "Carts Vermont" because they do two supports on either side instead of one across. I have one with one across, in the old days I used one with them on either side where you don't bang your ankles on them if you're not careful.

Lots of "ow, dammit" with the one I have.

[ides1056]

Jorn- I'd be interested to know why you chose the model you did and what your initial impressions are. The more thought I give it, the more sense an electric saw makes to me: I can take it when I walk with the dogs to do maintain trails. I went on the Stihl site not expecting to find an abundance of choices, which there are.

[nahtnoj]

I've had one of the studs on my 044 replaced, and it's starting to give again.

https://www.diyspareparts.com/parts/...3df-4e13-970f/

When it goes I will replace the part.

I fixed my 028 rather than shell out $600 for a comparable new saw. They aren't that difficult to work on, really.

Repairing small engines has become somewhat of a hobby for me.

I bought a 362 with a scored piston this winter and rebuilt. Took a couple hours to go over everything really carefully. Easy.

Also have had an FS280 brush cutter for a couple years that lost spark. New ignition coil and it runs like a champ.

It feels good to take care of this stuff.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to snag a Stihl KM131R that supposedly only needs a new pull starter. Then its a whole bevy of Kombi attachments to do tree pruning, hedge trimming, etc.