Tuesday
I hauled some of the branches from next to the road, back to the wood yard area above the septic field. Using the chainsaw, I proceeded to cut them into 4″ to 6″ pieces. One of the larger logs was a root that had some rocks imbedded inside the root. Now I need a new chain for the saw! 😦
After destroying the chainsaw chain, I tried to start the chipper. There was gas pouring out the throat of the carburetor, so I took it apart. The float bowl had a layer of brown gunk that looked like rust. I don’t see any evidence of any rust in the rest of the carburetor, but I sprayed it all with carbutetor cleaner and wiped it with a cloth. Then I adjusted the needle valve and put the carburetor back together and reinstalled it on the chipper. It started right up!
There was a pile of branches next to the chipper. The pile is about the size of a Volkswagen bug (a small car) The pile was almost all gone – it had been chipped up into a smaller pile that would fill 3 or 4 five gallon buckets – when it started to rain. Within a minute, I was soaked to the skin!
The solar system is struggling because it has been overcast all day. It never got above 11.8 volts!
Later in the afternon, my order of block and lumber and corrugated roofing came. Now I need to remember what I was going to do with this! Oh yeah, I am going to build an outhouse. Need to decide where! The block is for the columns on the gazebo at the Ahi lot.
I got an old rusty table saw from my neighbor Scott. I have seen it sitting out in his yard the past two times I have been in Hawaii and I have been covetous! I asked him about it. He said that his brother had gotten it at a yard sale. He had never used it, didn’t know if it worked, and I could have it! I gave him twenty bucks for it and a 55 gallon plastic barrel. I can use the barrel to catch rainwater off the shed roof (need to put up some gutters) but the table saw will need a lot of work.
TTFN
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