Recent content by DRH

I do quite well hand filing the saw chain whether it is mounted in the vice, or on a stump in the woods. my question though is , does anybody have a jig made up for holding the loose chain for hand filing the extra spare chains? right now I have only one spare chain to swap in, I may end up...

here are two different ideas I had for making a trailer rake. they sure look like they should work. I find that neither one works just right , even locked up vertically they still shudder just enough to dribble the grass underneath instead of piling it up like I hoped for.

Here are some photos of what I built 10 years ago. I built it primarily for sucking up leaves in the fall. the following summer I found how usefull it is for sucking up grass clippings. my "lawn" is pretty much marsh grass and I can only mow twice and then need to get the clippings off the...

a few years ago I built a baler such as is seen on youtube , a.k.a. "pine straw baler" , the vertical one with manually compressed leverage. It works just fine for baling my grass clippings. I wanted to eliminate the series of manually compressing , so I made up a horizontal baler powered by...