Saturday, December 06, 2008

Vacation


A general tidy up day with a friend today. He had a workshop nearby, but has had to vacate it. The owners are in no rush to use the building, but they are apparently keen to get it properly emptied out. Sammy came along in the late morning. We came home for lunch with one truck load of firewood and then again at about quarter to five with another. We stopped for a minute or two on the way home to soak up some of the view. A wonderfully well lit sky soaring above the autumn mountain colors.
I gave the big chainsaw a little run at a big log to cut it into chinks to be chopped. It is working a lot better after a little maintenance on the clutch plates on various evenings during the week. The device had become rather clogged with gunk and was not disengaging properly to allow a good go at starting the engine without the whole chain wanting to rotate. Better than the alternative of not engaging properly, which would make the thing an item of slippery uselessness.