On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:16:23 -0800 (PST), RonB
wrote:

On Dec 18, 10:49*pm, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:
Well - not her complete list, but one item on it - a girly chainsaw. *Girly
around here is going to translate to a Stih; MS170. *I'm sorry, but I can't
get over thinking it's cool to have my wife ask for a chainsaw. *You have to
understand - she's not a manly sorta girl.


My wife didn't ask of a chainsaw, but her recent "demand" might beas
good.

As I posted here a while back, we are in late stages of finishing our
own house. She watched me struggle with keeping an old Ryobi surface
planer going during the process. The Ryobi is a good machine but it
was worn from 12-14 years of use, and wasn't up to some of the big
pieces of 8/4 stock. Busted the gearbox, glued it back with JB, then
had more problems.

It sounds like you were either trying to take too much off in one cut
or you weren't supporting it from the ends when it was being fed
through. Shameful! (Learned your lesson yet?)

Or was it the power feed you had trouble with? I've always gently
helped feed my little Griz 13" planer, especially on the 16' long teak
decking I was cleaning up. About a pound of push is all it took to
bring it up to normal short-stock feed rates.


Anyway, she "insisted" I upgrade to a 15" machine and get a dust
collector to control some of the garage/shop mess. I resisted for
several months because of money going into the house. But about 6
weeks ago she just said we were going to Grizzly-Springfield with the
trailer and get them. So we did!

Cool! One Atta Girl heading your wifey's way.


My girl has also stood in the middle of a brush pile digging out
firewood chunks too, but she is uncomfortable with running the saw.
And that is fine because many women wouldn't think of it. She has her
own set of leather gloves and has stained and finished nearly every
piece of wood in our house. It horrifies some of her old school
friends that she would get that dirty.

Aren't people funny that way?


Bottom line is she grew up on the farm and knows it takes tools and
work to get stuff done.

Bueno, bwana.

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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country
against his government." --Edward Abbey