Penetrating oil

[muskrat]

Diverting from noxious brews - imagine if someone invented the chainsaw today  . . . Far the most dangerous thing in my shed I reckon.
Probably have to get a permit to own or use one and go on a  course . . .

Ha, won't be long and motorcycles will be in the same group. Working in a chainsaw shop, there's brand new Chinese copy's of an old Stihl  36" that doesn't have a chain brake!!! You can buy it on the net.
I went to the chemist a while back asking foe borasic acid. He asked what for? I said an eye bath. The look of horror I got. That's what grandma always used.
Cheers

[groily]

That's scary musky - I'm really surprised  it's allowed onto the market even if presumably fitted with a centrifugal clutch.
I hate banster-baiters as a rule - but there are some limits.
Thinking of chemists - wasn't THAT long ago that you could send your manservant out for a draught of laudanum  . . .  Used to be able to get concentrated acids too  . . .  Hate to think what would happen if I nipped out and demanded a half litre of sulphuric these days, probably have a blue light outside the house in short order.

[Rex]

I'm old enough to remember when schools had Bunsen burners and lathes for pupils to injure themselves on (supposedly)
Then again, I recall cadets in the CCF walking around the school with 303's loaded with blanks.

[Greybeard]

It's all about the fear of litigation. I blame the American law companies.

I saw a video last night showing a plane crashing at an airshow in the 1950's. The debris landed on the spectators. 28 died and many were injured. There were no legal cases brought!

[Worty]

Diverting from noxious brews - imagine if someone invented the chainsaw today  . . . Far the most dangerous thing in my shed I reckon.
Probably have to get a permit to own or use one and go on a  course . . .

When I first started using power tools, I was amazed at what one could buy without any 'checks'.  One of the reasons why I do most of my own stuff now.  When I was young, I thought these were specialist pieces of equipment that only 'professionals' were allowed to use.  Reminds me of how the Catholic church kept the plebs in the dark by conducting services in Latin, creating a mystique and unknowability that gave them power.  Once the Bible was tranlated into English by the pre-Reformers, and people could read it for themselves, they realised much of what they'd been told was bull****.

[Worty]

That's scary musky - I'm really surprised  it's allowed onto the market even if presumably fitted with a centrifugal clutch.
I hate banster-baiters as a rule - but there are some limits.
Thinking of chemists - wasn't THAT long ago that you could send your manservant out for a draught of laudanum  . . .  Used to be able to get concentrated acids too  . . .  Hate to think what would happen if I nipped out and demanded a half litre of sulphuric these days, probably have a blue light outside the house in short order.

If you want to look down the barrel of a H&K MP5, try buying Hydrogen Peroxide with a bag load of fertiliser.  Ooooh, there's a knock on the door now ....................  'Yes officer, no officer, please take that barrel out of my nose'.

[Greybeard]

If you want to look down the barrel of a H&K MP5, try buying Hydrogen Peroxide with a bag load of fertiliser.  Ooooh, there's a knock on the door now ....................  'Yes officer, no officer, please take that barrel out of my nose'.

Well that post has got your name put on an MI5 watch list 🤔

[BSA_54A10]

Ha, won't be long and motorcycles will be in the same group. Working in a chainsaw shop, there's brand new Chinese copy's of an old Stihl  36" that doesn't have a chain brake!!! You can buy it on the net.

Cheers

The chainsaw is the copy of the Stihl Lightnings
The 070 , 080 , 090 .
These were Stihl's biggest sellers and many believe the best saw Stihl ever made
I have a couple . Good originals go for over $ 1000
There was one at the Lithgow swap complete with post hole digging & timber boring accessories
S yes you took it out into the bush, cut doen a tree, milled it into post & rails dug the hole planted the post then either bored the holes or the bolts or mortised out a hole for the rail.
Men were men in those days
Stihl made that saw till 1996  despite it being illegal to sell it in the USA from 1969 and in Aust from 1972 .
Australia was the bigest single market after the USA banned them and we  on sold them into Malysia & New Gunea
A no fuss saw, no kick back brake 1/4" full chisel chain ( can run up to 1/2" chain) , hard nose solid bar and came up to a massive 40" 2 man saw 
They are still the back bone of a lot of loggers in 3rd world countries  and because of the massive numbers in use they were one of the first Stihl saws to have complete set  of aftermarket parts made for them once Stihl had abandoned supporting them.
And because the demand for parts was so high and the used prices are so high , several companies buy the parts to make a complete saw & sell them as "rebuild kits " becaue they can not be sold as an assembled saw due to the absence of the chain brake
There is also a conversion pack to make them a concrete / cut off saw
Although being very heavy, they are beautifully balanced and can easily be used one handed.
Bodies are Mg alloy full crank, separate barrel & head can be fitted with reed valves & ported to double the power 

[Black Sheep]

I suppose Stihl and Husquvarna are responsible in their ways for the massive destruction of the world's forests. The same category as arms manufacturers (BSA anyone?) being in their way responsible for rather a lot of population control. The complex world of ethics. No, not the well-known English county.

[groily]

Thorry, took me a thecond to dethifer that Black Theep!

[KiwiGF]

Diverting from noxious brews - imagine if someone invented the chainsaw today  . . . Far the most dangerous thing in my shed I reckon.
Probably have to get a permit to own or use one and go on a  course . . .

They are a crazy device, I have 3, the one handed chinese 12” jobbie is the safest, the gawd knows how old stihl 24” with buggered chainbrake is probably almost as dangerous as riding a motorbike 😆 but it can cut down huge trees in a few seconds. Just dont let them fall on yr house eh.

Log splitters are not exactly safe 😆 , got one of those as well but stilhl have all my fingers (just)

PS just 130 of these pesky pine trees to go, they are a weed in nz, a big one but still a weed