Recent content by dodgeman

Stefan I wonder if someone you’re working for had that sent to your room? Breakfast for free is pretty common for some hotel chains, usually the cheaper to mid priced places and it’s usually a buffet and isn’t anything fancy.

I have a fireplace that would keep our house fairly warm. It has a blower so to really get the heat out I need electricity. I have a 6000 watt portable generator and an inverter I could pull a battery out of a vehicle to use.

I did 21 miles today, or about that. I keep forgetting to start Strava at the beginning of my ride. A picture of an old windmill which seems to be getting rare to see anymore.

I rode 16 miles today. I had to stop for this big guy to pass. I could hear its whistle coming from a ways off so I rode slow intentionally so I had something to take a picture of. This is 3 or 4 miles from my house. I moved here in 1984 and I’ve lived as close as one block from the tracks...

I saw on the local news Illinois is kicking around an e bike law. It was on the local news and if I heard it correctly anything that is powered beyond 28 mph will need a drivers license and insurance. I’m ok with that. We recently did a trip to the Florida Keys and I saw a lot of e bikes...

I rode 15 miles today, into town to renew a couple of license plate stickers for a couple of our vehicles. A picture of one of the rural roads going into town.

Yes, where you have the yellow line.

Another tip. In PCeBikers post above with the red and blue marks in the picture, if you look at the picture of the tooth(the red mark beside it) there is an etched line of the tooth towards the back. The etched line shows the correct angle to sharpen at plus when you hit the etched line from...

You do file down the rakers on a safety chain, they control how deep the teeth dig in. If the rakers are too tall, a poor cutting chain. If the rakers are tool low the chain can bog down the saw because it’s cutting too deep. A safety chain reduces kickback. That’s where the saw grabs and...

With the Warthog knife sharpener there is a guide and it sharpens both sides at the same time. You have to see it used to understand. It sharpens a knife in just a couple of minutes. The store I bought it at had one setup for you to try and I always did my pocket knife when I was there.

Knife sharpener? I recently bought something called a Warthog. Not cheap, about a $100. Works amazing and I’ve tried everything. Kind of like the twin angled sticks but spring loaded. For sharping a chainsaw chain I will recommend getting a file with a guide and using that. It takes some...

I have a Dremel style sharpener but I hand file mine usually. I burn about 1 to 2 chords per year so I do a fair amount of cutting. The part of the chain that controls the depth of your cut is called a raker and yes you should lower them. They make a depth gauge to check your rakers, you...

I finally got back on the bike and I rode 12 miles today. Almost all the roads in our county are paved but the road in front of my house just got graveled . Bummer. It’s really loose stuff also so I can’t ride on it so I had to walk the bike to the corner, which is only about a quarter of a...

I was riding on very loose gravel and just about wrecked, I threw the bike down and stumbled around like a drunk but never fell down. I’m getting to old to wreck.

I have 6500 watt generator, gas powered, very loud and not very thrifty. I usually have 5 gallons of gas on hand sometimes less. I mainly have just used it for our fridge and freezer and could probably go a couple of days running it just occasionally. I woukd have all sorts of fuel on hand in...