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I have something very similar, and that was what did not work. I think it's missing one angle of movement, and that may be the problem. I will do it by hand and go from there

I'm now starting to understand why it took my dad 15 years to build an airplane in the garage. But by the end of it, he knew how to do literally fucking everything.

Yeah, it's fucking annoying how one project leads you into learning 7 new skills and you can never get to what you actually intended to do.

It's been an interesting dive into stuff. I'd just drop it off to be sharpened, but it's a rip chain which is really unusual in the cities, and I don't want them to fuck it up. Because it's a rip chain, it's not available at any retail outlets here, so I have to order it online. I'd normally...

Today I found out I can't sharpen a chainsaw for shit. Tomorrow, I get to start over.

My insurance guy tried to get me to set one up a couple years ago, but I was still recovering from the divorce and didn't have enough liquid to open the account comfortably. I can divert to 40% US stocks today, and cut the bond shit to near nothing, so I'll do that for now, and re-explore the...

No 401k. Defined benefit pension, so that's taken care of. IRA isn't a poor idea anyway though, as that's what I was going to do anyway until this came along and seemed like less work. i'll see what they have if they can turn everything to IVV, because a good chunk of it is already in that.

Eh, puts my money into 30% US stocks, 21% Int'l stocks, 9% bonds, 4% int'l bonds, and then it has some cash buffer (fucking lol at the 1% earnings being a "buffer") As i said, I don't know shit all about investing, and I don't have the time to watch the market like you guys do. If I did, I get...

Alright, so I know fuck goddamned all about investing. Shit reads like greek to me, and I have almost no time to learn it. Too busy during the day, can't be babysitting the stonks, so best course of action seemed to be to divert a little bit of cash into some endeavor. 6-8 months ago, Ally...

Meh, some women are just like that. Pretty sure I'm with one myself too. We don't talk about anything like the ex and I did. The ex and I at least talked about shit, even if we disagreed. We always knew where we stood on shit. This one, not so much. However, since I'm done with the thought...

Don't give that cocksucker money. For the price of that shit, you can buy a 3d printer.

So far so good, just a bit slow going. Gotta let the bar cool off in between cuts, and now it's time to take a crash course in chain sharpening. But, the results have been nothing shy of spectacular. All that stuff standing up is the first cut off the top of the log, or the leftovers of the...

I'm not gonna say amazing, because my domino's always manages to fuck up our order, but I guess for the cost of 2 drives up there, 3 pizzas for the price of 2 ain't terrible.

I was thinking about this today as I was milling logs 3 and 4....underneath where the tree was standing, everything started growing again. Grass, weeds, all that kinda shit. I have a lot of spots in my backyard where plants are undesirable. I wonder if I can use all the sawdust as some kind of...

Also toxic to a lot of crops too, like it was killing my tomatos, which is how we got to this point in the first place!

My only regret is that it creates sawdust instead of chips we can put in the smoker.

Fyi, walnut sawdust smells amazing. There are worse fates in life.

I might sell some of it, but probably gonna keep most. I have a few pretty big pieces that might work as live edge tabletops I could probably finance this whole project with.

I take no credit for the design, Izzy Swan sells the plans at his site, stumbled upon his channel while I was looking for a solution to my problem. The logs I have are EASILY 500lbs. They're fucking huge. I have no way to lift those fuckers up to a comfortable working height with a normal...

First cut on the walnut.

Yeah. Phone compresses quite a bit, maybe I'll throw it up on YouTube. I'm thinking the problem is the size of the piece. That birch is only about a foot long and 14 inches wide, the saw moves it quite a bit. I have some 2-3 foot bigger logs of walnut in the backyard I'm gonna throw on there...

Milling shit is harder than you'd expect. It turns out chainsaws have a lot of springs in the handle. Makes sense, as those would absorb the vibrations of using the thing for it's intended purpose. Unfortunately, this makes it really fucking hard to perfectly position one. More tinkering...

It's a good thing I've got a whole tree to work out the kinks!