Life Changes

[Jolly]

Y'all may not watch her, but she's one of the best small engine repair channels on YT. But when your husband needs a hip replacement...

Link to video

[Jolly]

Something that came up in the video...As they cleaned out their shop, they had a lot of old parts for obsolete machines. A few years ago, people would put a lot of that stuff on eBay, but with current shipping and fee structures, I don't know that it's worth her while to do that.

[George K]

@Jolly said in Life Changes:

with current shipping and fee structures

It's ridiculous - as I commented in a recent thread I started.

If I have to pay 13.25% on shipping, everything I ship is now the cheapest way possible. They don't call it FeeBay for no reason.

[89th]

Seems like a good channel and good woman. Small engine repairs it seems also has, at least in this area, surges of work... Spring for lawnmowers and Fall for snowblowers. I wonder how she'll fare as the industry slowly moves to battery powered engines? No gas, no oil, no spark plugs, no carbs... I like my gas powered mower and blower now, but I bet in 10 years I'll have the Ego line or something similar. My buddy is a mechanical engineer and helped fix many small engines in our neighborhood but even he bought and advocates for the Evo snowblower.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Life Changes:

@Jolly said in Life Changes:

with current shipping and fee structures

It's ridiculous - as I commented in a recent thread I started.

If I have to pay 13.25% on shipping, everything I ship is now the cheapest way possible. They don't call it FeeBay for no reason.

Don't know if we talked about it here, but somewhat similar, Amazon is being sued for the practices they do, including forced fees on vendors, etc.

[Jolly]

@89th said in Life Changes:

Seems like a good channel and good woman. Small engine repairs it seems also has, at least in this area, surges of work... Spring for lawnmowers and Fall for snowblowers. I wonder how she'll fare as the industry slowly moves to battery powered engines? No gas, no oil, no spark plugs, no carbs... I like my gas powered mower and blower now, but I bet in 10 years I'll have the Ego line or something similar. My buddy is a mechanical engineer and helped fix many small engines in our neighborhood but even he bought and advocates for the Evo snowblower.

For y'all with postage stamp yards, battery makes sense. Biggest drawbacks are run time and the cost of replacement batteries. For folks mowing an acre or so, and for the commercial guys, it's gonna be hard to get away from gas it up and go convenience.

[Jolly]

And another thing...Chainsaws. I don't see how you can replace those with battery powered equipment.

[89th]

Yeah very good points. For chainsaws, very long extension cords

[Jolly]

I can tell you've never cut anything bigger than a limb.

[89th]

I'll have you know I've cut down a 40 foot pine in my backyard once. I'll also have you know that's the extent of my chainsaw experience.

[Jolly]

I've got a couple...

My old man saw, a 170:

And my working saw, a 270 w/ 20" bar:

I run a set of double dogs on the big saw, which limits my log size to 38" or a little less (not that I can cut anything that big anymore). I used to run full-chisel on it, but I'm too old and too slow to handle that saw with an aggressive chain. And that's not even that powerful a saw for its size.

Gettin' old ain't no fun...