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Over the years I've had homelite, poulon, craftsman, homelite again, and currently have a small echo, small Stihl, and a husky 55cc rancher, also several corded electrics.

Battery technology has finally advanced to the point that I was willing to give a small battery powered saw a try. I was so impressed that I bought a medium battery saw in the same line, and I am...

Hello. I am going to buy a 20’ firewood conveyor, and choosing between a Built Rite conveyor belt model, and a Hud-Son chain drive model. Does anybody have any experience with either one?

I like the chain drive design of the Hud-Son better, it’s so simple and seems bulletproof. But I’m worried it won’t be able to handle the volume of wood that my commercial splitte...

Hi,

have purchased tadpole gasket from Amazon and it's different from the picture,
seems to be the same one in Pellethead's listing (along with the fact that they also show a different picture ).

Upon receiving it looked quite different from the original gasket in weave and size.

White tape is 1 1/2" wide, the tadpole bulb is 12mm at ...

I know how you guys like making recommendations and there’s no better place to get them so here goes.
We’ve been heating with an old VC Resolute for almost 40 years. It is perfect for our house but my wife has gotten fed up with the puffing. For those of you who are not familiar with this phenomenon it occurs when burning in the horizontal mode and unburned gasses suddenly...

I was looking for old pics - to illustrate some writing I may do....

This is our house - we bought in 1978 and owned for 26 years. The DHW Solar panels on the roof were installed (I was selling Solar at the time!) in 1980.
Soon after I built the Passive Solar Sun Room you see on the left.

We even had built-in-wall heat pumps! That is in a...