Tools!

[Anathollo]

Picked up one of the M12 lanterns. It puts out enough lumens to light up a room but it's not crazy bright. Has a pretty sweet 2.1A charging port.
The base seems to be designed more for the 3A square bottom battery than the 2A stick battery. I've been keeping an eye out on a sale for the 3A & 6A batteries.
I got this for hurricane prep and camping. I have an old coleman lantern that takes 4 D batteries but puts out like 50 lumens this M12 lantern is going to replace the coleman (I'll keep it as a backup).
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I got a random bday amazon gift card so I ordered a pair of 3.0 M12 batteries (my bday was months ago ). Figured getting two 3.0A batteries compared to one 6.0A and saving $10 was a better deal.

Got the 3.0A flat base batteries in the other day. The lantern is definitely more stable with the flat base batteries.

 

[Taco Loco]

Nice!

Dragging roads is what did in my Exploders tranny a few times....well that and the fact they sucked all together

Not sure if you have any hard big rocks or stumps, but if you do one of those light weight load springy snatch straps would be great at not killing the tranny should you hit an immovable object. I was running chain and thats no good.

mostly going to be used where the Orange has been used, some of these smaller lots makes it difficult to have a fine tune surface for a home lawns where tractor has been. I have box/blade for gravel roads etc.

 

[Oswego]

Yea, I was dumb and was dragging two 8' long "I" beams with all chains going way too fast. Box blade would of been much better

 

[Oswego]

I was fine with 4-5 months (normal leadtime) and I'm actually fine with September shipping. If it's not shipped by then Ill never have it for winter so Ill get a refund so long as the dollar is not in the tanks (international order).

Imagine all the people who aren't proactive like I am by ordering a stove the winter prior to needing it - they have the cheap stoves or freeze



I'm highly doubtful, but anything is possible. I subscribe to a Japanese welder who makes stoves by hand on youtube and his stuff is shotty at best compared to the Cadalac of stoves I purchased. That said if I got a stove from jim bob down the street I'd be leary to put it in my tent at night as I sleep

This is just the stove I bought (not the custom accessories)

mother *(&%^%^%^%^$$##@#$I*&*&*(&*&*&^%$@!!!!

This company either has no idea how to manage production or are giving me completely false updates. If they had told me 12+ months lead time upfront I would have been cool, but stringing me along is really pissing me off. I was about to blast them online in camping forums to save others from the same issues, but I'm going to stick it out and blast them later.

I checked to see what Norway was doing for Covid and they have their shit together so that these delays seem unwarranted. That said I'm not there but based on my experience here in the US (we got it 10x worse) lead times that are 2-3X longer than originally quoted are due to mismanagement....unless all their staff decided to take the year off on their own.... What's new

 

[Taco Loco]

mother *(&%^%^%^%^$$##@#$I*&*&*(&*&*&^%$@!!!!

This company either has no idea how to manage production or are giving me completely false updates. If they had told me 12+ months lead time upfront I would have been cool, but stringing me along is really pissing me off. I was about to blast them online in camping forums to save others from the same issues, but I'm going to stick it out and blast them later.

I checked to see what Norway was doing for Covid and they have their shit together so that these delays seem unwarranted. That said I'm not there but based on my experience here in the US (we got it 10x worse) lead times that are 2-3X longer than originally quoted are due to mismanagement....unless all their staff decided to take the year off on their own.... What's new


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once or if you ever get that order, 3D scan, mill and start making that shit here to sale.

 

[Oswego]

It is a large market thats only serviced by a few companies (all the others are from Asia) so not a bad idea.

 

[Oswego]

Lowe's wheelbarrow steel is junk. Bought it this spring and already getting flaky rust chips so I gave it a spray of some rusty metal primer to slow it down

 

[CowboyTaco]

got to try my hand at hand sharpening a chainsaw with a field sharpening kit. Much better and faster than paying someone else to do it.

 

[Oswego]

My mother is thinning her tools out so today I was gifted the circular saw I bought with her $$ and used down the marina. She also gave me all her blades some of which are waaaaay older than me.

Couldn't find a date anywhere on either. Back when saws were metal and everything was made in the US

 

[PSU Taco85]

I guess this can be considered a tool. Drank the koolaid in a tardworld group buy. Always wanted to make one of these but was too lazy. And also got a digital gauge. It’s a 4 way setup for airing up/deflating you tires. I like it cuz it came with the flexzilla hose. I priced out the connectors and hoses and I almost get it at cost, the GB had it for 25% off. The company is called MOORFlate

 

[Silverback]

Well I have been pronouncing it incorrectly.

 

[PSU Taco85]

Well I have been pronouncing it incorrectly.

me too. I was saying “nype ex”

 

[Silverback]

I was saying "ni-pex". Shit I'll have to watch the video again because I already forgot how they say it.

 

[Taco Loco]

Ka Nip X

 

[Silverback]

Bingo.. watched it again.

 

[Taco Loco]

I was saying "ni-pex". Shit I'll have to watch the video again because I already forgot how they say it.

Me too, It you start calling it the proper name, no ones gonna know what your talking about,

 

[Silverback]

Ka-Nip-X... is that some China knock-off of Ni-Pex?

 

[balakay]

I was saying "ni-pex". Shit I'll have to watch the video again because I already forgot how they say it.

I watched that video about a year ago and I still call it ni-pex. Less syllables. So its more efficient. Or something like that.

 

[Silverback]

I watched that video about a year ago and I still call it ni-pex. Less syllables. So its more efficient. Or something like that.

I agree.. lets just continue to call it that.

 

[AlienXtx]

Yeah I call it ni-pex too. Ive never heard it called anything else