In the garage. Hm. Well, I charged my Greenworks 60V batteries "in the garage", and I took my electric pole saw from the garage, plus the chainsaw and leaf blower. And I pulled out the lawn mower from the garage, and the Echo GT-225 trimmer.
First, the chainsaw. It rocks. You can read about it on my blog. Here are some pictures.
After a hard day and a half of work, good as new.
It ripped through 1/3 of a 20 year old pear tree in nothing flat. Literally cut all of this up in about 10 minutes. I can't even move this cart it's so heavy. Anyone want some firewood?
And speaking of which, I also took out my Echo string trimmer yesterday, in plans to do the lawn. This thing is on probably its third carburetor, and the aftermarket ones don't have the anti-tamper plug on the mixture adjuster. This trimmer had been driving me nuts not running right so I just put a screwdriver in my pocket when I went off to do the edging and trimming, and once it was warmed up I took out 3/4 of a turn on the mixture screw 1/4 at a time and voila, it runs perfectly. Hard to not be able to tune something with only one screw.
Also helped my dad at his place rebuild the carburetors on his old '72 CL350. They don't leak now but he says it still doesn't run perfectly. But it's the same age as me, and I don't run perfectly either. So I say, give it a break.
And I tried to take some fork oil out of my Suzuki forks, couldn't actually manage to make any of my tools do the job. I just need a length of vinyl tubing that will fit down into the spring. So, need to work on that. And I thought some more about how to fix the brake rotor not centering in my caliper on the Triumph, but just rode it instead of working on it.
First, the chainsaw. It rocks. You can read about it on my blog. Here are some pictures.
After a hard day and a half of work, good as new.
It ripped through 1/3 of a 20 year old pear tree in nothing flat. Literally cut all of this up in about 10 minutes. I can't even move this cart it's so heavy. Anyone want some firewood?
And speaking of which, I also took out my Echo string trimmer yesterday, in plans to do the lawn. This thing is on probably its third carburetor, and the aftermarket ones don't have the anti-tamper plug on the mixture adjuster. This trimmer had been driving me nuts not running right so I just put a screwdriver in my pocket when I went off to do the edging and trimming, and once it was warmed up I took out 3/4 of a turn on the mixture screw 1/4 at a time and voila, it runs perfectly. Hard to not be able to tune something with only one screw.
Also helped my dad at his place rebuild the carburetors on his old '72 CL350. They don't leak now but he says it still doesn't run perfectly. But it's the same age as me, and I don't run perfectly either. So I say, give it a break.
And I tried to take some fork oil out of my Suzuki forks, couldn't actually manage to make any of my tools do the job. I just need a length of vinyl tubing that will fit down into the spring. So, need to work on that. And I thought some more about how to fix the brake rotor not centering in my caliper on the Triumph, but just rode it instead of working on it.