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as many might know, the years previous, California had drought conditions that allowed "bark beetles" to basically kill many evergreen trees. here's an example of what they did: we had a few on our property... no HF tools here, this is Stihl guaranteed: lmk if anyone wants his #, I'm sure he'd trade for body work lol

Nice job! I don't have a a Harbor Freight close by and mostly use Home Depot. Love the topic though and will need to look at Harbor Freight more closely. I will add this though....Since this summer, we've been working on an addition and I've been buying all kinds of stuff I didn't already have. I'm a fan of Milwaukee M12 tools (used to have Dewalt which is good too) because they have so many tools in that series. I've had a drill for a while and an Oscillating Multi-Tool , but in the past 4 months I've bought 2 M12 screw guns on ebay for like $45 each (tool only), M12 impact for $45 (tool only), PEX A expansion tool for my plumbing for $99 (tool only) and a 2 pack battery and changer kit for $59 at True Value Hardware. I also just bought standard and metric wrenches and screw drivers at home depot but the other day I noticed I could get craftsman at lowes. I used to be a mechanic at sears auto years ago and was always a fan of craftsman tools with the occasional snap on or mac tool in the collection.

it's been 50s and 60s here so I can't get on my warm gear.. until we get some lasting systems, here's what's going on in the sierras... ski skate: Fun little snow run.mp4

you got me thinking, frank n mike! (that's a podcast title right there) we are always talking about HF tools.. I started a thread and put my tools post:

To start it off, I'd like to share the bakery display cases I made for my wife. I'm sure ya'll have some impressive stories behind those HF tools, let's see 'em! I built these bakery display cases for wife on almost 100% HF tools a couple years ago. Only thing I bought from Home Depot was the wood/plywood/stains and 3 sawhorses for my workbench. Router, circsaw, blades for both, sander, sandpaper, gloves, the nails for the nailgun (gun borrowed from dad, have a 5# pancake for air) I had almost zero tools to start. Some of their cheap "speed" clamps failed, but first time for me using those types of clamps, was expecting them to hold better: heh my youngest helping my dad glue: and for fun, here was the finished project (1 of 2, built 2 cases, this is the smaller .. the plastic was from Tap Plastics for the "sneeze guards" and the top case): back side showing both cases:

get this guy to help you, he's quick! (watch the video of the tree falling around 1m!)

Did a clutch and idle adjustment today and she's back to normal. Also changed out the air filter and put in an air filter pre screen as well. Tomorrow I will change the oil and filter before heading out ice fishing Saturday. Cheers, Don

not my truck .. this tree guy drove up, jumped out and quoted some low cut per tree. said he was going to stack 'em but he left in a hurry and I'm sure lost money on the deal. he was trying to cut 6 down in like 10 minutes I guess. honestly I was recording in case anything happened to my house - that sugar pine coulda fell my way after that oak! He should have not only moved his truck, but used a line to control the fall angle.

this was 1.5 weeks ago.. all gone now. love what you have there! weather.com be kind this week, snow is preferred, it will melt!

My girls like to lie in the snow on the deck...but unfortunately not enough snow for snow angels...this is earlier today. 😁

Hey pal. Glad to hear your enjoying the weather and the bike. That sucks about the tire but that’s the price we pay for hanging in the woods. The bikes run so nice in the cooler weather. So many people are commenting about how harbor freight is getting better with there stuff. There is a topic floating around about a $50 dollar winch that’s holding up pretty good. The fluid thing however sucks. But it is what it is I guess. Anyway ride safe !