i cant even pretend if i dont like someone...
 

yesterday, i had to do some work at my archery club.

this one guy was running around like he was CEO, barking out orders..he had a bad-arse stihl pole saw i was dying to try, he saw me and said, "dont touch my saw, it needs SPECIAL fuel".

wtf?, i replied, more special than premix? you run AvGas or what? he looked at me, and i turned and walked away before he could reply.

he spent the day yelling at everyone, he cut down a huge tree we didnt need to cut down...just a douchebag. after everyone got tired of his crap, he changed tactics and tried to get a "following"..he tried to befriend me.

i couldnt even keep a straight face..damn, i cant pretend.

btw, my ECHO chainsaw out cut every Stihl out there. i bet my chain was fresher than anyone else's..but my small 16" bar, was the MVP. until the range president grabbed my saw and threw the chain being retarted.

Wow cool story bro'

Do not mock him, there is such a thing!

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Special is fine, but my chainsaw takes...

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This has HOSPITAL written all over it doesn't it?

anger,
weaponry,
power tools.

I'd be in custody from around 10 AM

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say,
and you think you know a guy, I felt I'd become an angry person this last decade



but I set the bar a little low

what about us cliff?

That's my wife. If she doesn't like someone, it's written all over her face and in her voice. If I say something about it later, she invariably thinks that she was trying to hide it.

Hey, not necessarily anything wrong with that, it's honest, right?

I can go either way. If I don't like someone, but I need to work with them, I can be decent. Maybe not great, but decent enough. But, if I don't like someone, and they feel attached to me for some reason, and I don't feel like I need to be nice. Yeah, I can be a major bastard. Weirdly enough, sometimes that seems to endear me to them even more.

I only bother being awkward and stroppy on work time



life's too short

Often, it's not about the saw, it's about the chain on the saw.

Absolutely.
Power is power, but cutting a chain is art. If you want fast, grind the drags down to take a .10 cut. There are guys who will take the drags clear out, but one snag and you'll kill the engine. Always use a .325 chain, put about a 20 degree angle on the undercut of the tooth. The rest is pretty much up to the operator. You have to anticipate the load on the engine before it happens and keep the RPM in the expansion chamber's sweet spot.

If you're just cutting and not competing, keep the cutters even on both sides, keep the drags at about .035, and make sure the rails on the bar are at the same height. Do this and you'll be fine.

You know that noise the adults always made in the Charlie Brown cartoons? That's what I heard when I read the post about the chain sharpening. I must assume that sharpening a chainsaw chain must be terribly tedious.

Yep. When mine gets dull I just throw it away and put on a new one.

Wohnt wont wohhn won wohhn.

Back in the olden days, I'd have to sharpen the chain 3 times a day with a little rat tail file. Good to go.

Rofl. I was still trying to figure out why Cliff was playing with chainsaws at the archery club.

Same for me steve... If I flat out don't like someone, and know I don't HAVE to play nice with them, I am a total prick.....

It's an ART I tell ya'! :)

Yes, and tedious.

In my advancing years, I have become far less tolerant of the blow-hards, ego cases, power trippers or those that use bravado in place of expertise.

The other day, I was helping a friend do some recording in his studio. "Rock-Star Guy" (not my friend) was the one with the agenda and the plan. I get all the mics setup, the computer up and running and am waiting for him to make some noise to check levels and get things going. Well, the Rock-Star had issues with this and issues with that and basically did not want to use our built in computer and DAC, he wanted to use his own, not as good, hardware. But it took him 30+ minutes to get around to saying that. He would not come out and say "I want to do this.". He talked around the bush in "I am not sure about this" and "I am not sure about that" all while being passive-aggressive in trying to get things done the way he wanted. I've got no tolerance for that so I hooked things up as he wished, made sure it worked and left.

As a good friend (who also cannot stand the "Rock-Star") says "I do not need to be part of your bad trip."

It's not that hard to be nice and polite to people even if you don't like them or agree with them.

I pretend all the time on this Board, to hide how I really feel about the sagacity level of the folks who correspond here...

OK so I'm not the only one...

Do they also do jousting at the archery club?

Trouble is, with such a heady mix of vexation, archery,
& group chain saw husbandry :eek:

all I can think about is that banjo scene


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This is why I don't do clubs. They attract characters like that. You almost need them to run a club. Someone reasonable doesn't want to spend the weekend cutting trees at the club ...

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Seems like the proverbial "bringing a chainsaw to an arrow fight" situation.

If I don't like someone, they definitely know it as I am not nice to them. My mom just got out of the hospital today and at my parents house, my sister shows up with her new boyfriend. My mom already told me about him and that she and my dad don't care for him. Poor guy didn't stand a chance. He was nervous when he walked in. My sister must have warned him about me. It only took 5 minutes to decide I didn't like him. At 6 minutes, I had him pissed at me and he and my sister left. Her ex husband got in my face once during thanksgiving dinner and I knocked him out cold without getting up from the chair. This new boyfriend of hers is well on his way to spitting chiclets but I doubt I will ever see him again.

So now you've got me curious. What was it about the new BF that inspired instant and overwhelming hatred?

Here's my stepdad w/ his beloved chainsaw:
 

This guy grew up on a tree farm and was cutting wood before chainsaws were around. Still going strong @ 80 y.o. :cool:http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1298227904.jpg
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I'm missing something here
How does archery relate to chainsaws?

You're not the only one.

My sister has a sad history of finding losers. Her 1st. husband, the one I knocked out, was a pot head that couldn't keep a job. He hit my sister on occasion and when I talked to her about it, she told me it was none of by business. It became my business on thanksgiving when he and my sister started arguing and I told them to shut up. This was a typical little guy with a big mouth who considered himself a badass. He comes over and gets in my face and asks what I'm going to do about it. I punched him in the throat and swept his feet from under him. My sister's 2nd husband was an alchoholic who used to push her around. Again it's none of my business. He got out clean. This new boyfriend comes into the house like he owns the place. My mom had just come home from the hospital and I helped her up so she could go to the bathroom. My sister's boyfriend sits in the chair my mom was sitting in when my mom comes back to the chair, he lets out a big sigh before he gets up. Like he doesn't want to give the chair up. I asked him if he could just get out of the chair without being a drama queen. I guess my sister read the look on my face because she spoke up and said they better be going. This guy talked my sister into buying him a new chevy tahoe because he can't get one on his own. The kicker is the truck he had before got repo'd because he wasn't making the payments to his ex-girlfriend who had the truck in her name. My sister has only known this guy for 1 month. He moved into her house and made her get rid of her dog because his dog didn't get along with it. I am an easygoing, quiet person who is nice to people but I do not let people take advantage of me. It's always the little loud mouth guys that cause me trouble because they want to prove they are tough. I don't consider myself tough. I have been in 2 fights in my life but at 6'5" and 220# intimidation works in my favor of avoiding confrontation. If I don't like somebody, it's hard for me to pretend that I do. I don't suffer fools easily.

Well, that's a perfectly reasonable explanation. I'd have done the same. Hard to believe that anyone could be that badly behaved, I know ex-cons who would be more presentable to the parents, etc...

Maybe when his sisters new boyfriend becomes an Ex con he will grow up.