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I need to replace my old IFAK and that looks like a good quality one. Thanks! I don't know if you've ever done an extension cord video or not, and I know there is probably a few thousand you tube vids on it but the only "tip" I can think of right now is this: whatever your preferred coiling method for extension cords, always start in the middle to make half as much work. If the cord is already strung out, I grab both plug ends and coil to the mid point bend. I mark the mid point so if I want to, I can coil from the middle and go to both plug ends. Halve the wraps.
Jeff Johnson look up the over under method for coiling cords or rope. Done properly you can hold one end, throw the coil, and it will not snarl but lay flat no matter the length.
When I was apprenticing, I worked with some old guys who didn't want to teach anything to the new guys because they thought you were there to take their job away. I also worked with some old guys who wanted to teach you everything they knew. Those are the ones you follow around and try to learn from. A lot of young guys start out in an trade or industry with a "know-it-all" attitude and they throw away opportunities to learn from people like you, who try to share your knowledge with others. I am thankful that my granddad passed on his experience to me like yours did to you, and I try to pass on what I know to the guys who work for me and around me. Always great information in your videos. Thanks.
This is so very true. I found that if I showed a young guy how to do something, that I didn’t have to stop what I was doing to go do it for him lol. Sometimes they even improved my methods and I learned something as well.
When painting parts without the aide of primer you can heat the part (torch, oven, bon fire) and use the paint to cool it off. Its better than having it powder-coated.
Short handled sledge hammers were common when I was a commercial carpenter. I mostly used mine for driving steel form stakes. The short handle does a lot of things, it gives your gut clearance, it makes it more usable one handed, and it fits in a tool box (back when tradesmen made tool boxes, instead of 5 gallon buckets). A good place to start is put the head in the palm of your hand, and cut the handle short enough to clear your arm pit. Just my two bits on shortened hammer handles.
I'm going to be honest with you, I'm new to the homesteading life and I am slowly learning. I just bought a wood stove and I am in the process of installing that. I just saw this video and fell in love with the chainsaw tool. I am felling my first tree in my yard tomorrow. I could definitely use a tool like terry's. I watch your videos daily and wish that you didn't have so much so that I could watch them quicker and have a better way to watch your videos in order. I am a huge fan and just recently found your channel. One thing I am interested in is being able to write you directly and if you are writing a book. I would most definitely want to purchase a book you wrote than one that you have recommended.
One other random tip- When replacing an alternator or other engine accessory, instead of letting the belt fall down off all the pulleys use a bungee cord next to the part your replacing to keep the the belt taught and in place until you install your alternator
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Hi Cody, As a bow hunter who won't leave a broadhead arrow lost in the woods, I have found that bright blue is a color that is not common in nature and most easily seen when scanning for a lost item. My arrows all have a bright blue vane.
I use bright blues in this way as well- certainly stands out in a wider range than orange and neon green. And at night looking for blue just use a red light and it'll show up pitch black.
These are seriously some of the best videos. Little things like this are such a benefit for those of us who aren't sawyers or don't do certain tasks often enough to gain these little tricks that make them so much easier/better.
I actually thought of this last time I was cutting fire wood. But my thought is to put it on a key chain retraction cord so as not to have to unhook it as it’s needed. It’ll be one of the first projects I do after I get my new garage /shop finish in a couple months. Love the channel
Us east coast guys might not know how to read but we’d probably hang from a tree THEN paint it. Made me smile then the second drop made me laugh out loud. 😂
Rather useful indeed! If you do want to use paracord... feed through hole in scrench then double or triple knot the leading end and it will become captive inside the scrench.
The best video in a long time. I've been clicking off your videos for a while but this one I watched completely. I think you hooked me with your suttle humor.
I learned from someplace to paint things like that a blue color because it is not often found on the ground in nature! The reds and oranges blend with the fall leaves pretty good! Hope this helps someone!
Great idea actually however the Bluddy Bower Birds over here pick up anything BLUE. They line their bower nest to attract females. At least I would know where to find My scrench! 🦘
Brass vs. stainless clips. As a scuba diver, I'll share this with you. Brass along edges, especially barrel clips, will work to a razors edge and slice your thumb open. Just food for thought.
I got one for ya... It's not much, but very relevant. I've cruised timber professionally for a living now for over 25 years. I carried a loggers tape through the woods and underbrush on my belt longer than any one man should ever have had to endure. Here is an awesome trick!! The standard swivel hook that comes with a spencer loggers tape...which is cast or made of pot metal... they wear out pretty quick (if you carry one around on a daily basis like I do). They wear out either at the rotating joint of the swivel, or completely through where it actually attaches to the tape. Either way, the result is a tape being snatched off of your belt in underbrush, or literally falling off into the woods and lost while you are walking! I got tired of this happening, and losing the occasional tape over the years, and one day while I was complaining about the issue to one of my older retired cruising colleagues, it became apparent that I wasn't the only timber cruiser suffering from this aggravation. He shared some old school common sense with me that I have been forever grateful for ... a large marlin barrel swivel!! Take the crappy swivel that comes with the tape off and throw it away! Put one of the marlin barrel swivels on straight away!! First, they are made of a similar high strength steel as the tape's attachment point... so they will not wear through like the cheap pot metal does. Second... they are a barrel swivel!!! The improved rotation you get is pure satisfaction! A little oil... and the marlin swivel will outlast your tape!! I know this from experience... literally took my marlin swivel off of my wore out tape... to put it on my new tape. It gave me such a smile to do that. Also, the hasp on the swivel is big enough to go all the way around the "whole" belt... if you are in a hurry out of the truck or don't own a specialized belt, you have a bit more flexibility for stably attaching your tape to your person.
And as for the horseshoe nails on the end of your tape.. instead of buying 4 or 5 pre-bent nails from forestry-suppliers… go down to your local tack store, and purchase and entire box of unbent ones for the same price! Toss em in your trucks tool box, and you will never want for another horseshoe nail for your tape... ever again.. for the remainder of your entire life... unless your co-workers find out.. then they are always pestering you for a tape nail.... but after handing out 40 or 50 over the years… there are at least that many left in the box!
I have been painting mine for a long time, but I tend to shy away from the reds, greens, yellows, oranges... I usually tend to go for bright blue or purple just to help to contrast against leaves on the ground if dropped.
Being that I’m from Pennsylvania I tried spelling “east coast” a few times with my orange crayon.... is it a coincidence that orange crayons taste like oranges?
Also a PA Native, and I was highly dissatisfied with my yellow crayon, so much so I'm calling Crayola after writing this. I was expecting banana but got this strange waxy flavor. 0/10 would not eat again.
I would, but I keep several packs on my chest rig just in case I get hungry. Worst case.. I could use them to calm down hangry Marines if I meet them :) lol
My dad is an electrician by trade, and one of his Foreman once told him "if you ever ride in a single prop airplane, bring a 10-foot pice of Romex with you. If the plane goes down, throw went into that Romex in the air and it will catch on something."
Hi Cody, You can re-sharpen files, buy placing them battery acid for a while . You have to check them often,. The acid etches the teeth on the files.then wash them in water to neutralise the acid. then spray WD40 or similar to stop rusting. The files come up better than new. So when you files get blunt don't through them away. Chain saw file are a good example. Be careful when using acid and where PPE.
I appreciate that despite your experience and pretty extensive knowledge, your not afraid to admit when you learn something. Too few people accept that they can still learn no matter their skill level.
I've been doing tree work for most of my life. One of the first lessons I learned, as a wee little kid picking up sticks for gameboy games. You can always learn something new. Different experiences from different people with different tools and knowledge. My dad's experience with trees was very different to my current boss's. And it's awesome to learn all the little things.
Your face when you droped the scrench tool 🤣🤣🤣🤣 started laughing then and starting crying laughing at "get your crayon out and practice it a few times" hahahahha
You should try making one that has a pin with a ball bearing detent on the end that goes into the hole on the scrench that way you can pull it off and don’t have to unclip it every time. Keep up the great content!!
It's 4.30.21 This woman enjoyed the info! Stocking stuffers: dental pick (to clean bar) and this tool. I'm going to attempt to make one for hubby. ❤️ Ur videos. 🇨🇱🇺🇸✝️🙏
Hey, Cody. East Coast guy here. I just got screwed over by a contractor and lost a lot of money. It's pouring rain and I got a notification that you had a video up so I came in to watch it. I got a much need laugh when you were painting! Thanks for that!
I've got a few screnches I bought on a clearance for a buck (Not Huskys, but good enough, and fit - I tend to increase the number of tools like vise-grips, utility knives and screnches so I can find one when I need it, with limited effectiveness) and I epoxied block magnets on the side of them (PC7 or JB weld). I now need to paint them as you did yours, and maybe even add the clips, the paint is a easy upgrade though. The magnet works several ways, it will latch onto a tractor, the saw bar, or hood of your truck as required. It also is a keeper of bar nuts or can find them in leaf litter when you DO drop the nut in the woods (lovin my new Echo 2511t with a CAPTIVE nut!!) Good one, thanks to you and the inventor for passing on valuable knowledge!
WOW you rang a lot of bells with this one. I put screw drivers in my back pocket from time to time and have never put a hole in my truck seat. I always drop the screw driver in the mud before I get to my truck, never to be seen again. I have used a short handled 6 pound sledge hammer for a long time. Great for putting in concrete foundation footing forms. Drive the stakes with the sledge and backup the the form with the sledge when you nail it. A lot faster. A real improvement for the chainsaw tool. I keep a spare in my tool box because I have lost more than one. Alot less wheel spin of you know for sure where the chain saw tool is. I'm on the way to the tool shed to make chain saw tool 2.0.
The orange color is a good color to use for most things you want to be able to see. If I might be so bold to say that hot pink might be a little better color for the woods as the fallen leaves tend to be brown and orange. Just a thought. :)
@@KoalityofLife I have the additional consideration that I'm colorblind. When I had my utilities marked I couldn't see the red paint at all. If I I was 6" away I could tell the leaves were shinier. So the red WS used would be a horrible choice for me.
Amazing how the beautiful fall colors on your tree match the high vis red and orange! I use high vis key fobs on my tractor and ATV keys for same reason. Hot pink works best ( if you’re comfortable with your manliness).
I got an aluminum axe scabbard like yours, the size options made it so my ochsenkopf fits loosely. I got some leather and lined the inside. I started with thick leather and skived it thin where the tight spots were until i got a nice fit, just barely snug but still easy to pull it out. No more rattling now.
I carry a small wooden handled paint brush (one that will comfortably fit in a front or side pocket without jabbing you when you sit down!) to clean off the saw, bar and sprockets when sharpening out in the woods. You can give all the mating surfaces a quick brush off before reassembly, and if the bristles are short enough it helps to finish cleaning out the bar channel and oiling holes.The reason mine are cut short was because it was used for a prior job and the tips went hard from varnish or some such, so I trimmed them down by about half! And as a bonus tip, for the ultimate in multi functional tool efficiency, when the brush gets a little grubby and oily, brush it off on your leather chainsaw boots where they usually start to crack - for me around the ball of the foot/toe bending area, the oil helps to keep the leather supple and waterproof! 😄
For those who do electronics: For a new board: measure everything attached to power including the supply itself, then connect power, then slowly turn voltage up with current limit set just above board power estimate level to find if anything gets hot. Reason: I once used the 5v rail of a power supply only to find that it was 20V unregulated, cue loud swearing. All 5V peripherals were dead. 5V fixed rail was labeled with red tape and never used again. Never use fixed rails on new boards. Never trust old/shared electronic equipment given to you, especially at school, especially the oscilloscopes and power supplies, they are probably bad.
A yarn from down under - Doing a simple white spray job I didn't realise how far the overspray would travel until a week later when my good mate called me up saying his sister's black car was looking a bit dusty and when he wiped his finger across it sure enough that was a fine mist of rust-guard paint. Hours of cut and polish to get it all off 🤦♂️
Incidentally I carry a stout standard blade screwdriver either in my pocket or a small side pouch that hangs on my belt. It’s a valuable time saver because it makes a great leverage bar and force multiplier in my trade (residential HVAC service/maintenance/installation/ duct fabrication). Not once in twenty years have I punctured my pants or the seat in my van. Maybe I am just lucky.
I like when you drop stuff, paint fingers and such. Proves you west coast guys do the same goofy crap I do. Love the tipster trickster stuff. I tied my Paracord around the T of the scrench sort of a primative tomahawk style with a carabinier. Doesn't have the breakaway property but I ain't lost it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Have literally a thousand holes in my seat from screws, chain tools and once an assisted knife (mechanical flick knife), become a dab hand at repairing leather on the plus side. Love this idea trying this first light.
I was a mechanic, farm machinery semi trucks etc. I kept a spare set of wrenches in my box just to use when a wrench needed bent or ground off or made longer or shorter. That sure saved the day many times....
Thanks, Wranglerstar. I was raised In Georgia and moved to Wa State when I was a teenager. So- I'm confused, - am I a East or West coaster? Anyway, thanks for the vid. I didn't invent this tool. My Dad taught it to me when I was 10 years old (helping him cut pulpwood). He had me running the measuring stick (don't poke at yellowjacket nests when you're bored), running a cordwood saw (guess he figured he could always make another helper) and skidding and cutting with a Pioneer chain saw (glass bowl fuel filter). I learned early. I put the clip-scrench on my pants loop just above my saw belt. Just handier. I also didn't paint it (I wuz afraid of dropping it and compromising the paint job. Great video and thanks again - Terry.
you are really fabulous : Not only sharing your fantastic knowledge with us - but at the same time being so self-deprecating - just love your channel !!!
😂 i just did that exact thing last week with my grandpas wood chisel. He just passed away and i was reminiscing in his shop and while i was exploring the room the grandkids were never allowed in alone i threw one of his chisels in my back pocket (point down because im not an animal), hopped in my ford and POP there went my leather and my favorite jeans lol
I lost my chainsaw wrench today. I feel demolished. It’s the first time it snowed over here in the last 30 years, also my first ever time seeing snow. Thing is amazing you just drop your stuff into it and it immediatly disappears. I must make something similar to this or atleast paint my equipment some bright colour tonight… I really can’t afford losing more equipment tomorrow, I still have 15 hectares of forest to clear. Thank you for this idea man, I find your videos really helpful.
Thanks for not cutting the painting portion, as somone who never paints anything well, I got a good laugh out of your dropping the scwrench in the gravel. I have kept the end of a rubber tarp strap on my scwrench shank to keep them in my front pocket for years, but they can still get away. After your paracord scwrench video, I made one, but drilled the hole like the one you made today and anchored the cord with a stopper knot inside the tube. If I remember, I'll send pictures on FB.
To add on this great video- dog clips! Both single ended and double. Those spring clips tend to come off. When i worked as a diver my boss called those aluminum spring clips, suicicide clips. He did so because years ago there was a submersible with two men on board. An aluminum spring clip that was on the exterior clipped itself to a wreck and it was so deep they could not rescue them in time. They died of hypothermia. Since then ive never owned one of those clips, even for my keys.
You rarely here someone call their grandfather (granddad) I called my grandfather granddad it brought back fond memories. Love your channel. Glad I found it. 👍carrie
I'm an East Coast fella and I laughed out loud when you said " get your crayon out" hahahaha. The world is a better place when you can laugh at yourself. Love the channel Cody!
I love watching paint dry. 9:23 Long ago, I made a similar setup on my scrench by riveting a little ring on the end of the scrench. Then attached the clip to it using a split ring. If it gets caught on something and you pull hard enough, the split ring will give out and let you loose. And I have used long pieces of solid copper wire (just romex with the outer sheath removed) for painting hangers. Same idea as your brazing rods, but I have A LOT of short pieces of romex lying around, and you use what your have. Put a little 3/8 inch or so bend in the end of it, and your project won’t slide off the end while you’re trying to paint it. Of course, if you had done that, it would have deprived us of your great comedy moments.
I am not a faller, but I cut firewood. I use a 5-gallon bucket to carry my chainsaw essentials. Scrench, 2-stroke oil, bar oil, files, measuring stick, hatchet, etc. It just automatically goes into the truck with the saw, chaps, helmet, etc.
When we first bought our land I spent more time than I liked looking for tools I'd laid down while working on whatever. So I bought a couple of cans of orange spray paint and marked them up well. Haven't lost any since. In my opinion orange works slightly better than anything else except, perhaps, cerise (fluorescent pink). The floor of our woods has many plants that turn red in autumn. Great tip on the chainsaw wrench! Thanks.
Return of the Knipex!!! You know, I looked up how to say that, and you were right Cody. The German reps from the company pronounce the hard "k" sound. Never thought I'd be so fond of a set of snips. But hey, good tools are very valuable.
I found that bright blue was the best color to paint my accessories since I did most of my cutting in the fall when the dropped leaves were red, orange and yellow.
But if you are felling from a height, if you drop it, your man on the ground will just look up and say "what a beautiful blue sky" until he gets the scrench in his eye.
Your cousin is right!! Grab a extension cord and that will just hook up to anything😂😂. I slipped once and grabbed for the cord out of panick, it got hooked on 5 screws.
Here’s a trick my grandpa taught me. When you have many identical boards to cut instead of marking them all and cutting them one at a time stack them up and mark the top one. Set the skilsaw to cut all the way through the first board and halfway through the next. Then kick off the top board and use the cut as a guide and continue till the whole stack is cut. In that way you can quickly cut them all exactly the same while only measuring once
Cody another idea is to zip tie a bar nut to your and/or gas can. I drill the handle of my carb screwdriver and thread a cord through the hole. This hangs on a small novelty carabiner attached to my Dolmar. I also hang a mini ifak to the same carabiner.
Like the video and I think I have a simple modification that would work well let me know what you think. If you lashed or attached the non opening end to you belt then you could use the hook end to release the tool to work on your saw and then reclip also a carabeaner might work well here. Thanks for the great vid I am going to do this tomorrow
As usual, my comments are not about the main subject, but tangents. I love any reference to you grandfather. More stories are always welcome. Crayons. I use references to "drawing with a crayon" all the time. Saving stuff. I'm still getting rid of junk, but saving some. You should link to the old video(s) of having to take your "treasure pile" to the dump. Painting. That's how I paint, too. I hate painting with a passion. I get as much paint on everything else, as I do on the part.
a tip for ford specifically but can be used for small latch type electrical connectors. with the 6f35 transmission electrical connector in the pan use one of the pan bolts to unlock the latch.
Nice idea - Some of the new chainsaws have a space you can store the tool. I paint any tool i have previously lost in the dirt, especially those drill/driver bits for fastening screws, and nobody steals them when they are bright pink either.
essentials for holidays 1/ black electrical tape (for covering the myriad LEDs in hotel rooms) 2/ Gorilla glue poly foaming in the small tube (for sticking things you break) 3/ cheap multi tool (for helping fix the things you break) ps: the black tape also helps fix things and mask glue foamage mess.
One of the things pounded into my head by Mr Lassley, Battle Ground High School auto shop teacher, was never put tools in your pockets. He had been an auto mechanic for 20 or 30 years before teaching auto mechanics. He was yelling at someone everyday for dumb stuff like that, and told us stories and reasons why we need to develop smart habits. He hated it if somebody was working on the floor with some part. "Put it up on the workbench, that's what it's for." A flawed man, with lots of experience and skill , such a character.
I do something similar with the Chuck keys for my air powered drill motors. A 12 inch length of sash chain , a couple of lock washers and two minutes on the weld table and your key will be with the tool. Even if you loan it to your brother he won’t bring it back without the key. This was something I picked up from an old dude when I was still a little green. Now I’m the old dude but believe me, the learning curve continues till your last breath.
They sell them similar to that at the local small engine shop near us, but i modded it because the tool fell off the cotter pin from ocassional snags over time pulled the cotter pin straight... so i modded the one that came with my saw, but instead of a cotter pin, i ran wire into the hole and pulled para-rope through it and put nots in the rope to prevent the rope from coming out. I ran the rope around a quick connect also, but ran it out the small side with the ends to tie them off.
Thank you Terry, and thank you WS for this hack, I’ve lost tooooo many screwenches or kept them in my front pocket and had them dig into my leg. This is simple and amazing. Terry needs to patent this!!!
I have also poked holes in truck seat with screwdriver in my back pocket, I know not everyone wears bib overalls like me, I normally put my scrench tool in a bib pocket, I think I’ll add a clip to mine as it has fallen out a few times when bending over to move wood, thanks wranglestar!
Ooooo! An East Coast dig. That’s okay, most of us have graduated from pull-ups diapers. Thanks for the tool review. Be safe! Maybe add a small carabiner to the belt to give a bigger target to hit?
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How do you like the after market gas cap on your 461? Where did you purchase it?
husqvarna or stihl for housework, what model?
I need to replace my old IFAK and that looks like a good quality one. Thanks!
I don't know if you've ever done an extension cord video or not, and I know there is probably a few thousand you tube vids on it but the only "tip" I can think of right now is this: whatever your preferred coiling method for extension cords, always start in the middle to make half as much work. If the cord is already strung out, I grab both plug ends and coil to the mid point bend. I mark the mid point so if I want to, I can coil from the middle and go to both plug ends. Halve the wraps.
Jeff Johnson look up the over under method for coiling cords or rope. Done properly you can hold one end, throw the coil, and it will not snarl but lay flat no matter the length.
Wranglerstar i love the east coast and i love all the east coast jokes😂
When I was apprenticing, I worked with some old guys who didn't want to teach anything to the new guys because they thought you were there to take their job away. I also worked with some old guys who wanted to teach you everything they knew. Those are the ones you follow around and try to learn from. A lot of young guys start out in an trade or industry with a "know-it-all" attitude and they throw away opportunities to learn from people like you, who try to share your knowledge with others. I am thankful that my granddad passed on his experience to me like yours did to you, and I try to pass on what I know to the guys who work for me and around me. Always great information in your videos. Thanks.
This is so very true. I found that if I showed a young guy how to do something, that I didn’t have to stop what I was doing to go do it for him lol. Sometimes they even improved my methods and I learned something as well.
@@davidbrotherton1143 sometimes a fresh set of eyes will help you see something in a way you never did. Not a bad thing.
Here on the southern east coast we actually put a bend hook to keep things from slipping things off from painting. Try that next time . It does work.
Red n orange, yep, looks just like the leaves in the fall. Childish east coast jokes, poor guy
Lol.
When painting parts without the aide of primer you can heat the part (torch, oven, bon fire) and use the paint
to cool it off. Its better than having it powder-coated.
Short handled sledge hammers were common when I was a commercial carpenter. I mostly used mine for driving steel form stakes. The short handle does a lot of things, it gives your gut clearance, it makes it more usable one handed, and it fits in a tool box (back when tradesmen made tool boxes, instead of 5 gallon buckets). A good place to start is put the head in the palm of your hand, and cut the handle short enough to clear your arm pit. Just my two bits on shortened hammer handles.
The gravel adds gription
Hahaha yes it does
I like to paint the drop in rubber sand an then paint I again
Dropping it on the ground twice made me laugh out loud. Thank you for the entertainment!
its a west coast thing I think.
@@mikewhite3293 😀
I lost it when he dropped it 😂🤣
He likes to drop things. Check out his Jerry can videos.😂🤣😂
Painting down wind... no wonder you get it all over yourself.
I'm going to be honest with you, I'm new to the homesteading life and I am slowly learning. I just bought a wood stove and I am in the process of installing that. I just saw this video and fell in love with the chainsaw tool. I am felling my first tree in my yard tomorrow. I could definitely use a tool like terry's. I watch your videos daily and wish that you didn't have so much so that I could watch them quicker and have a better way to watch your videos in order. I am a huge fan and just recently found your channel. One thing I am interested in is being able to write you directly and if you are writing a book. I would most definitely want to purchase a book you wrote than one that you have recommended.
One other random tip- When replacing an alternator or other engine accessory, instead of letting the belt fall down off all the pulleys use a bungee cord next to the part your replacing to keep the the belt taught and in place until you install your alternator
Gosh darn genius
i dont take drive belts off much anymore but i know i will again . ill try that next time.
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Here's one. When hiking in the woods at night wear clear saftey glasses.
good idea ..
🤣 that's about how it goes for me when I'm trying to paint something quick. Thanks for the chuckle!
Hi Cody, As a bow hunter who won't leave a broadhead arrow lost in the woods, I have found that bright blue is a color that is not common in nature and most easily seen when scanning for a lost item. My arrows all have a bright blue vane.
I use bright blues in this way as well- certainly stands out in a wider range than orange and neon green. And at night looking for blue just use a red light and it'll show up pitch black.
Bright blue FTW. I wrap things I need to be able to find with a strip of retroreflective tape - makes finding anything in the dark a cinch.
These are seriously some of the best videos. Little things like this are such a benefit for those of us who aren't sawyers or don't do certain tasks often enough to gain these little tricks that make them so much easier/better.
I actually thought of this last time I was cutting fire wood. But my thought is to put it on a key chain retraction cord so as not to have to unhook it as it’s needed. It’ll be one of the first projects I do after I get my new garage /shop finish in a couple months. Love the channel
Us east coast guys might not know how to read but we’d probably hang from a tree THEN paint it. Made me smile then the second drop made me laugh out loud. 😂
Rather useful indeed! If you do want to use paracord... feed through hole in scrench then double or triple knot the leading end and it will become captive inside the scrench.
The best video in a long time. I've been clicking off your videos for a while but this one I watched completely. I think you hooked me with your suttle humor.
I learned from someplace to paint things like that a blue color because it is not often found on the ground in nature! The reds and oranges blend with the fall leaves pretty good! Hope this helps someone!
Great idea actually however the Bluddy Bower Birds over here pick up anything BLUE. They line their bower nest to attract females. At least I would know where to find My scrench! 🦘
Hot Pink is the best color. I've not seen anything in nature to match it, and no one will ever steal your tools.
Brass vs. stainless clips.
As a scuba diver, I'll share this with you. Brass along edges, especially barrel clips, will work to a razors edge and slice your thumb open. Just food for thought.
I just welded a washer to the top of my saw tool so i can clip it on a carabiner. super handy for attaching the tool to a work harness.
Laughed when you dropped the schrench the first time, laughed uncontrollably on the second! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I got one for ya... It's not much, but very relevant. I've cruised timber professionally for a living now for over 25 years. I carried a loggers tape through the woods and underbrush on my belt longer than any one man should ever have had to endure. Here is an awesome trick!! The standard swivel hook that comes with a spencer loggers tape...which is cast or made of pot metal... they wear out pretty quick (if you carry one around on a daily basis like I do). They wear out either at the rotating joint of the swivel, or completely through where it actually attaches to the tape. Either way, the result is a tape being snatched off of your belt in underbrush, or literally falling off into the woods and lost while you are walking! I got tired of this happening, and losing the occasional tape over the years, and one day while I was complaining about the issue to one of my older retired cruising colleagues, it became apparent that I wasn't the only timber cruiser suffering from this aggravation. He shared some old school common sense with me that I have been forever grateful for ... a large marlin barrel swivel!! Take the crappy swivel that comes with the tape off and throw it away! Put one of the marlin barrel swivels on straight away!! First, they are made of a similar high strength steel as the tape's attachment point... so they will not wear through like the cheap pot metal does. Second... they are a barrel swivel!!! The improved rotation you get is pure satisfaction! A little oil... and the marlin swivel will outlast your tape!! I know this from experience... literally took my marlin swivel off of my wore out tape... to put it on my new tape. It gave me such a smile to do that. Also, the hasp on the swivel is big enough to go all the way around the "whole" belt... if you are in a hurry out of the truck or don't own a specialized belt, you have a bit more flexibility for stably attaching your tape to your person.
And as for the horseshoe nails on the end of your tape.. instead of buying 4 or 5 pre-bent nails from forestry-suppliers… go down to your local tack store, and purchase and entire box of unbent ones for the same price! Toss em in your trucks tool box, and you will never want for another horseshoe nail for your tape... ever again.. for the remainder of your entire life... unless your co-workers find out.. then they are always pestering you for a tape nail.... but after handing out 40 or 50 over the years… there are at least that many left in the box!
+1 for not cutting out mistakes you've made in videos
"If it can hang up it will hang up" - Journeyman Lineman 35 years.
Not so much screwdrivers, but wrecked a lot of seats with pencils in my back pocket.
Yep.....never put any tools in your back pockets. Also that chainsaw wrench will make a nice hole in your body when you slip and fall. 😮
I have been painting mine for a long time, but I tend to shy away from the reds, greens, yellows, oranges... I usually tend to go for bright blue or purple just to help to contrast against leaves on the ground if dropped.
Being that I’m from Pennsylvania I tried spelling “east coast” a few times with my orange crayon.... is it a coincidence that orange crayons taste like oranges?
Also a PA Native, and I was highly dissatisfied with my yellow crayon, so much so I'm calling Crayola after writing this. I was expecting banana but got this strange waxy flavor. 0/10 would not eat again.
Dont throw them away, take them to the local Marine Corps recruiters office. I'm sure they'd love a quick snack.
I would, but I keep several packs on my chest rig just in case I get hungry. Worst case.. I could use them to calm down hangry Marines if I meet them :) lol
My grape colored crayons taste purple. Ive started the habit of calling purple “grape”.
My dad is an electrician by trade, and one of his Foreman once told him "if you ever ride in a single prop airplane, bring a 10-foot pice of Romex with you. If the plane goes down, throw went into that Romex in the air and it will catch on something."
This kind of content helps me calm down and relax at bedtime. Then I have it in the back of my mind when I have an hour to kill. Thank you.
"Grand dad saved everything!" Just one of the many things that our Grandpas got right.
My dad did too. There are shelves with cans of perfectly organized nuts and bolts in his shop.
My grandpa has enough wood in his shop to build a house!
After 20 years in HVAC I don’t throw anything away either. My dad and grandpa taught me that habit. My coworkers call me Fred Sanford 😆
Only downside to this is when you have to move or you run out of space haha
If he hadn't, you wouldn't have anything to work with.
Hi Cody, You can re-sharpen files, buy placing them battery acid for a while . You have to check them often,. The acid etches the teeth on the files.then wash them in water to neutralise the acid. then spray WD40 or similar to stop rusting. The files come up better than new. So when you files get blunt don't through them away. Chain saw file are a good example. Be careful when using acid and where PPE.
I set up our FD's roof saws by zip-tying a section of rubber hose to the side of the handle, then slipped the scrench into that. Worked like a champ!
I appreciate that despite your experience and pretty extensive knowledge, your not afraid to admit when you learn something. Too few people accept that they can still learn no matter their skill level.
I've been doing tree work for most of my life. One of the first lessons I learned, as a wee little kid picking up sticks for gameboy games. You can always learn something new. Different experiences from different people with different tools and knowledge. My dad's experience with trees was very different to my current boss's. And it's awesome to learn all the little things.
Your face when you droped the scrench tool 🤣🤣🤣🤣 started laughing then and starting crying laughing at "get your crayon out and practice it a few times" hahahahha
And "dropped".
@@Pahrump good catch James. The world almost ended but fortunately you were here to save it.
@James Comer realy man you gota do thet ?
Must be an East coast guy... Correcting others helps mask his imperfections.
7:23 - I just love how Cody is like this. He’s brilliant.
You should try making one that has a pin with a ball bearing detent on the end that goes into the hole on the scrench that way you can pull it off and don’t have to unclip it every time. Keep up the great content!!
wow, that's a great idea ..!
Terry has to be from the East Coast, I didn't see any rocks in his paint job!
That almost sounded like Bob Ross! Haha "Happy paint" or something :P
happy little trees !!
Yes indeed! Just reminded me of Bob Ross xD the chuckles!
It's 4.30.21
This woman enjoyed the info!
Stocking stuffers: dental pick (to clean bar) and this tool. I'm going to attempt to make one for hubby.
❤️ Ur videos. 🇨🇱🇺🇸✝️🙏
Hey, Cody. East Coast guy here. I just got screwed over by a contractor and lost a lot of money. It's pouring rain and I got a notification that you had a video up so I came in to watch it. I got a much need laugh when you were painting! Thanks for that!
Been there, done that. I've damaged many a pant and seat with screw drivers, side cutters, etc in the back pocket. Nice job Cody.
Great tip, now both of my screnches have a nice bright coat of Rust-oleum yellow on them.
I'll put a small carabiner on mine.
Cheers!
I've got a few screnches I bought on a clearance for a buck (Not Huskys, but good enough, and fit - I tend to increase the number of tools like vise-grips, utility knives and screnches so I can find one when I need it, with limited effectiveness) and I epoxied block magnets on the side of them (PC7 or JB weld). I now need to paint them as you did yours, and maybe even add the clips, the paint is a easy upgrade though. The magnet works several ways, it will latch onto a tractor, the saw bar, or hood of your truck as required. It also is a keeper of bar nuts or can find them in leaf litter when you DO drop the nut in the woods (lovin my new Echo 2511t with a CAPTIVE nut!!)
Good one, thanks to you and the inventor for passing on valuable knowledge!
WOW you rang a lot of bells with this one. I put screw drivers in my back pocket from time to time and have never put a hole in my truck seat. I always drop the screw driver in the mud before I get to my truck, never to be seen again. I have used a short handled 6 pound sledge hammer for a long time. Great for putting in concrete foundation footing forms. Drive the stakes with the sledge and backup the the form with the sledge when you nail it. A lot faster.
A real improvement for the chainsaw tool. I keep a spare in my tool box because I have lost more than one. Alot less wheel spin of you know for sure where the chain saw tool is. I'm on the way to the tool shed to make chain saw tool 2.0.
The orange color is a good color to use for most things you want to be able to see. If I might be so bold to say that hot pink might be a little better color for the woods as the fallen leaves tend to be brown and orange. Just a thought. :)
Great idea for a way to keep a chainsaw tool though. Thanks for sharing. :)
The Lime Green is pretty garish too. I'm just going to stand in front of tbe spray paint shelf and buy the one that hurts my eyes the most.
@@hughbrackett343 That works too. The one you have to put sunglasses on to look at. lol :)
@@KoalityofLife I have the additional consideration that I'm colorblind. When I had my utilities marked I couldn't see the red paint at all. If I I was 6" away I could tell the leaves were shinier. So the red WS used would be a horrible choice for me.
“Take a crayon and practice that a few times”😂
I thought crayons were mostly a Marine thing.
@@squid8165 Marines like crayons when they get hungry.
@Jeffery Amherst
They make disgusting candles too.
Many fluorescent orange,green, or yellow paints show much brighter if a person paints a first coat of white(primer?), then put on orange coat.
Amazing how the beautiful fall colors on your tree match the high vis red and orange! I use high vis key fobs on my tractor and ATV keys for same reason. Hot pink works best ( if you’re comfortable with your manliness).
I know a guy who painted his trailer pink. He says he is man enough to not worry about the color and now no one wants to steal his pink trailer.
I got an aluminum axe scabbard like yours, the size options made it so my ochsenkopf fits loosely. I got some leather and lined the inside. I started with thick leather and skived it thin where the tight spots were until i got a nice fit, just barely snug but still easy to pull it out. No more rattling now.
I carry a small wooden handled paint brush (one that will comfortably fit in a front or side pocket without jabbing you when you sit down!) to clean off the saw, bar and sprockets when sharpening out in the woods. You can give all the mating surfaces a quick brush off before reassembly, and if the bristles are short enough it helps to finish cleaning out the bar channel and oiling holes.The reason mine are cut short was because it was used for a prior job and the tips went hard from varnish or some such, so I trimmed them down by about half!
And as a bonus tip, for the ultimate in multi functional tool efficiency, when the brush gets a little grubby and oily, brush it off on your leather chainsaw boots where they usually start to crack - for me around the ball of the foot/toe bending area, the oil helps to keep the leather supple and waterproof! 😄
For those who do electronics: For a new board: measure everything attached to power including the supply itself, then connect power, then slowly turn voltage up with current limit set just above board power estimate level to find if anything gets hot. Reason: I once used the 5v rail of a power supply only to find that it was 20V unregulated, cue loud swearing. All 5V peripherals were dead. 5V fixed rail was labeled with red tape and never used again. Never use fixed rails on new boards. Never trust old/shared electronic equipment given to you, especially at school, especially the oscilloscopes and power supplies, they are probably bad.
A yarn from down under -
Doing a simple white spray job I didn't realise how far the overspray would travel until a week later when my good mate called me up saying his sister's black car was looking a bit dusty and when he wiped his finger across it sure enough that was a fine mist of rust-guard paint.
Hours of cut and polish to get it all off 🤦♂️
Wrapping bare copper wire around the handle of your axe/ maul ,sledge- helps save the handle under the head
Incidentally I carry a stout standard blade screwdriver either in my pocket or a small side pouch that hangs on my belt. It’s a valuable time saver because it makes a great leverage bar and force multiplier in my trade (residential HVAC service/maintenance/installation/ duct fabrication). Not once in twenty years have I punctured my pants or the seat in my van. Maybe I am just lucky.
I like when you drop stuff, paint fingers and such. Proves you west coast guys do the same goofy crap I do. Love the tipster trickster stuff. I tied my Paracord around the T of the scrench sort of a primative tomahawk style with a carabinier. Doesn't have the breakaway property but I ain't lost it. Thanks for the inspiration.
Have literally a thousand holes in my seat from screws, chain tools and once an assisted knife (mechanical flick knife), become a dab hand at repairing leather on the plus side. Love this idea trying this first light.
I was a mechanic, farm machinery semi trucks etc. I kept a spare set of wrenches in my box just to use when a wrench needed bent or ground off or made longer or shorter. That sure saved the day many times....
Thanks, Wranglerstar. I was raised In Georgia and moved to Wa State when I was a teenager. So- I'm confused, - am I a East or West coaster? Anyway, thanks for the vid. I didn't invent this tool. My Dad taught it to me when I was 10 years old (helping him cut pulpwood). He had me running the measuring stick (don't poke at yellowjacket nests when you're bored), running a cordwood saw (guess he figured he could always make another helper) and skidding and cutting with a Pioneer chain saw (glass bowl fuel filter). I learned early. I put the clip-scrench on my pants loop just above my saw belt. Just handier. I also didn't paint it (I wuz afraid of dropping it and compromising the paint job. Great video and thanks again - Terry.
I have found that on some models one end opens the fuel and the other opens the bar oil tank
Great tips
you are really fabulous : Not only sharing your fantastic knowledge with us - but at the same time being so self-deprecating - just love your channel !!!
😂 i just did that exact thing last week with my grandpas wood chisel. He just passed away and i was reminiscing in his shop and while i was exploring the room the grandkids were never allowed in alone i threw one of his chisels in my back pocket (point down because im not an animal), hopped in my ford and POP there went my leather and my favorite jeans lol
“Happy little paint here” is that a Bob Ross reference?
I have said something similar..if I am ever lost in a desert and need water, all I need is a 3iron and a golf ball 😜
I lost my chainsaw wrench today. I feel demolished. It’s the first time it snowed over here in the last 30 years, also my first ever time seeing snow. Thing is amazing you just drop your stuff into it and it immediatly disappears. I must make something similar to this or atleast paint my equipment some bright colour tonight… I really can’t afford losing more equipment tomorrow, I still have 15 hectares of forest to clear. Thank you for this idea man, I find your videos really helpful.
Thanks for not cutting the painting portion, as somone who never paints anything well, I got a good laugh out of your dropping the scwrench in the gravel. I have kept the end of a rubber tarp strap on my scwrench shank to keep them in my front pocket for years, but they can still get away. After your paracord scwrench video, I made one, but drilled the hole like the one you made today and anchored the cord with a stopper knot inside the tube. If I remember, I'll send pictures on FB.
To add on this great video- dog clips! Both single ended and double. Those spring clips tend to come off. When i worked as a diver my boss called those aluminum spring clips, suicicide clips. He did so because years ago there was a submersible with two men on board. An aluminum spring clip that was on the exterior clipped itself to a wreck and it was so deep they could not rescue them in time. They died of hypothermia. Since then ive never owned one of those clips, even for my keys.
I’m an East Coaster and I love the jokes! Keep them up!
Knowledge from old timers. Can't get enough.
You rarely here someone call their grandfather (granddad) I called my grandfather granddad it brought back fond memories. Love your channel. Glad I found it. 👍carrie
My great-grandfather was granddad. :) You're right, sure brings back fond memories.
I'm an East Coast fella and I laughed out loud when you said " get your crayon out" hahahaha. The world is a better place when you can laugh at yourself. Love the channel Cody!
I love watching paint dry. 9:23
Long ago, I made a similar setup on my scrench by riveting a little ring on the end of the scrench. Then attached the clip to it using a split ring. If it gets caught on something and you pull hard enough, the split ring will give out and let you loose.
And I have used long pieces of solid copper wire (just romex with the outer sheath removed) for painting hangers. Same idea as your brazing rods, but I have A LOT of short pieces of romex lying around, and you use what your have. Put a little 3/8 inch or so bend in the end of it, and your project won’t slide off the end while you’re trying to paint it. Of course, if you had done that, it would have deprived us of your great comedy moments.
I am not a faller, but I cut firewood. I use a 5-gallon bucket to carry my chainsaw essentials. Scrench, 2-stroke oil, bar oil, files, measuring stick, hatchet, etc. It just automatically goes into the truck with the saw, chaps, helmet, etc.
"Then we will drop it in the gravel" hahaha I don't think he knows how funny he is without trying!
When we first bought our land I spent more time than I liked looking for tools I'd laid down while working on whatever. So I bought a couple of cans of orange spray paint and marked them up well. Haven't lost any since.
In my opinion orange works slightly better than anything else except, perhaps, cerise (fluorescent pink). The floor of our woods has many plants that turn red in autumn.
Great tip on the chainsaw wrench! Thanks.
East Coast Guys would stand up wind when painting
Return of the Knipex!!! You know, I looked up how to say that, and you were right Cody. The German reps from the company pronounce the hard "k" sound. Never thought I'd be so fond of a set of snips. But hey, good tools are very valuable.
Painting is like peeing: Don't do it against the wind.
I found that bright blue was the best color to paint my accessories since I did most of my cutting in the fall when the dropped leaves were red, orange and yellow.
But if you are felling from a height, if you drop it, your man on the ground will just look up and say "what a beautiful blue sky" until he gets the scrench in his eye.
These east coast jokes make me lol
Max Warner me too! That’s why I sent the hat!
He is not funny at all.
Karen Shroyer thankfully you have choices to watch or not.
You installed gravel in the paint as abrasion protection like what's used on garage floors. Also works for butter fingers as an anti slip grip.
Your cousin is right!! Grab a extension cord and that will just hook up to anything😂😂. I slipped once and grabbed for the cord out of panick, it got hooked on 5 screws.
Garden hoses and welding leads will work in a pinch, also.
Here’s a trick my grandpa taught me. When you have many identical boards to cut instead of marking them all and cutting them one at a time stack them up and mark the top one. Set the skilsaw to cut all the way through the first board and halfway through the next. Then kick off the top board and use the cut as a guide and continue till the whole stack is cut. In that way you can quickly cut them all exactly the same while only measuring once
Cody another idea is to zip tie a bar nut to your and/or gas can. I drill the handle of my carb screwdriver and thread a cord through the hole. This hangs on a small novelty carabiner attached to my Dolmar. I also hang a mini ifak to the same carabiner.
Like the video and I think I have a simple modification that would work well let me know what you think. If you lashed or attached the non opening end to you belt then you could use the hook end to release the tool to work on your saw and then reclip also a carabeaner might work well here. Thanks for the great vid I am going to do this tomorrow
As usual, my comments are not about the main subject, but tangents.
I love any reference to you grandfather. More stories are always welcome.
Crayons. I use references to "drawing with a crayon" all the time.
Saving stuff. I'm still getting rid of junk, but saving some. You should link to the old video(s) of having to take your "treasure pile" to the dump.
Painting. That's how I paint, too. I hate painting with a passion. I get as much paint on everything else, as I do on the part.
Hi, Greetings from England. Brilliant ! I'm going to make myself one of those in the morning . 👍
a tip for ford specifically but can be used for small latch type electrical connectors. with the 6f35 transmission electrical connector in the pan use one of the pan bolts to unlock the latch.
Nice idea - Some of the new chainsaws have a space you can store the tool. I paint any tool i have previously lost in the dirt, especially those drill/driver bits for fastening screws, and nobody steals them when they are bright pink either.
Does the tree life alert say "Help, I've been felled and I can't get up!" ?
I am East Coast and I love the joke. Keep them coming.
essentials for holidays 1/ black electrical tape (for covering the myriad LEDs in hotel rooms) 2/ Gorilla glue poly foaming in the small tube (for sticking things you break) 3/ cheap multi tool (for helping fix the things you break) ps: the black tape also helps fix things and mask glue foamage mess.
One of the things pounded into my head by Mr Lassley, Battle Ground High School auto shop teacher, was never put tools in your pockets. He had been an auto mechanic for 20 or 30 years before teaching auto mechanics. He was yelling at someone everyday for dumb stuff like that, and told us stories and reasons why we need to develop smart habits. He hated it if somebody was working on the floor with some part. "Put it up on the workbench, that's what it's for." A flawed man, with lots of experience and skill , such a character.
GearheadTed yeah but he was right though. Took me 40 years to learn to wear cargo pants when I’m working and only use the front pockets.
I do something similar with the Chuck keys for my air powered drill motors. A 12 inch length of sash chain , a couple of lock washers and two minutes on the weld table and your key will be with the tool. Even if you loan it to your brother he won’t bring it back without the key. This was something I picked up from an old dude when I was still a little green. Now I’m the old dude but believe me, the learning curve continues till your last breath.
They sell them similar to that at the local small engine shop near us, but i modded it because the tool fell off the cotter pin from ocassional snags over time pulled the cotter pin straight... so i modded the one that came with my saw, but instead of a cotter pin, i ran wire into the hole and pulled para-rope through it and put nots in the rope to prevent the rope from coming out. I ran the rope around a quick connect also, but ran it out the small side with the ends to tie them off.
Yes Sir I've poked a big hole in the leather driver's seat in my brand new pickup, DOH. May God bless you and your family
Thank you Terry, and thank you WS for this hack, I’ve lost tooooo many screwenches or kept them in my front pocket and had them dig into my leg. This is simple and amazing. Terry needs to patent this!!!
If you have ever tried to patent a product you would know how ridiculous that sounds. Patent chasing will make you broke AF.
Work great with whipper snipper tools too! Going to make one shortly!! Thanks!
I have also poked holes in truck seat with screwdriver in my back pocket, I know not everyone wears bib overalls like me, I normally put my scrench tool in a bib pocket, I think I’ll add a clip to mine as it has fallen out a few times when bending over to move wood, thanks wranglestar!
Ooooo! An East Coast dig. That’s okay, most of us have graduated from pull-ups diapers. Thanks for the tool review. Be safe!
Maybe add a small carabiner to the belt to give a bigger target to hit?