Thread: Schwarz inspired chainsaw box WIP

And job almost done.

Gotta love Bunnies.

Originally Posted by Waldo

And job almost done.

Gotta love Bunnies.

I still have to add the skirts, I am going to dovetail these, and I still have to kit out the inside.

Trouble with ignorant people like the young bloke at Bunnies, is that they speak with such ignorant authority and the rest of the world believe them.

Phil
How are you going now after sometime to settle into your new career of retirement?
Just to deviate a little into young blokes with arrogant authoritativeness...We bought a second hand Commodore from our local Toyota Dealer. After about a week we had trouble with the key not recognising the start up computerised switch. It needed a new battery in the key part.We duly booked it in for the job to be done and came back to pick it up at the appointed time. Young bloke behind counter says Yep new battery fitted in key and oil change and grease (Service to use his terminology) I told him that I had been told that it had been Serviced before it was put on the lot for sale!!!! i also told him I was not going to pay for a service that I hadn't authorised!!
Young bloke immediately jumps to the phone a makes an internal call to whoever.He tells whoever about the situation and comes back with Oh you only have to pay for the key. Nothing more said about the "service" (I suspected "phantom service")
He then waffled on about how the way around the battery in the key problem was to turn the key to "on" position and leave it for 15 minutes and the car would then start. I said "15 minutes with the ignition on? Wouldn't that do damage to system?" he looked out at our 60 Series parked outside and said "Oh, an old vehicle like that would do damage to the ignition system but not modern cars."
I saw red. My 60 Series was probably older than he was!!! But I would not swap it for a "new" one
Young fellas.

Sorry to hijack this thread (btw I love the chest for the chainsaw), but as a soon-to-be 'old fart' in my profession, I find the best way to deal with the youngsters who know it all is to ask "why" and keep on asking until they run out of BS. Then you give them the real answer and hope that in time they might realise that we may have grey hair (if we're lucky), but the grey matter has not gone...entirely

In fairness to the Bunnings youngsters, all they will have seen is the crapiata that Bunnings sell, so their experience would suggest that bad knottiness is a species characteristic of all pines. We know that radiata has more knots than other pine species, but the Bunnings sub-species (crapiata) has many more . And it isn't even cheap. Which is why I go across the road to buy my radiata pine at North Shore Timber and Hardware.

Nice work!

Finally something that I can point to that doesn't make my chainsaw bar box look all that silly after all !

Originally Posted by jmk89

Sorry to hijack this thread (btw I love the chest for the chainsaw), but as a soon-to-be 'old fart' in my profession, I find the best way to deal with the youngsters who know it all is to ask "why" and keep on asking until they run out of BS. Then you give them the real answer and hope that in time they might realise that we may have grey hair (if we're lucky), but the grey matter has not gone...entirely

That's my standard technique with students young guns who think they know it all. I call it "knowledge depth" and tell them that when they can talk/write in detail for a couple of hours on a very specific subject then they can lay some sort of claim to know a small amount about that specific subject.

Ventilation? A work mate made a similar box for his chainsaw. Came a hot day, he opened the box with a fag in his gob and nearly blew his head off. He's given up smoking now.

Young apprentice told me I was loosing it. I told him I might be loosing it but you never had it

Oh Bob
How can you be so hard on the younger generation?
Its a good technique to find out how little they know.
How many times have you heard of an old tradesman who reties from a job after using machinery there for ever, and within weeks the newer guys have to get the machines replaced because the can't keep the operating!
I gave my wife's sister's husband a hand to concrete a floor in a shad that was on the place when they moved in. They have 4 boys, 20,18,15 and 13. The father is an electronics engineer who doesn't like anything physical (well maybe he does like one thing that"s physical, he does have 4 boys and a girl) What a turn out. The 2 older boys and dad were on the barrows and wheeled the concrete on planks sitting on the mesh. OK it was a little hard for the inexperienced but would they listen to advice? Nope. They knew best. Then came time ti screed it off. I was on the screed and showwed them that they needed to scape the concrete away from the screed to make it clear enough to screed. Would they do it could they do it? Nope. It was a-l-o-n-g day. And to top it off the father had worked out and ordered the concrete and could not understand or believe that he ended up One cubic meter short!
Tradesman know nothing

Originally Posted by chambezio

Phil
How are you going now after sometime to settle into your new career of retirement?
Just to deviate a little into young blokes with arrogant authoritativeness...We bought a second hand Commodore from our local Toyota Dealer. After about a week we had trouble with the key not recognising the start up computerised switch. It needed a new battery in the key part.We duly booked it in for the job to be done and came back to pick it up at the appointed time. Young bloke behind counter says Yep new battery fitted in key and oil change and grease (Service to use his terminology) I told him that I had been told that it had been Serviced before it was put on the lot for sale!!!! i also told him I was not going to pay for a service that I hadn't authorised!!
Young bloke immediately jumps to the phone a makes an internal call to whoever.He tells whoever about the situation and comes back with Oh you only have to pay for the key. Nothing more said about the "service" (I suspected "phantom service")
He then waffled on about how the way around the battery in the key problem was to turn the key to "on" position and leave it for 15 minutes and the car would then start. I said "15 minutes with the ignition on? Wouldn't that do damage to system?" he looked out at our 60 Series parked outside and said "Oh, an old vehicle like that would do damage to the ignition system but not modern cars."
I saw red. My 60 Series was probably older than he was!!! But I would not swap it for a "new" one
Young fellas.

Settling into the new career nicely, both me and the dog have lost weight because we are walking every day now.
I think that all these smart As## young fellows have been to the Bull Sh#% Baffles Brains school, being an old fart I have less and less tolerance for them.

Originally Posted by rustynail

Ventilation? A work mate made a similar box for his chainsaw. Came a hot day, he opened the box with a fag in his gob and nearly blew his head off. He's given up smoking now.

Hadn't thought of that

Originally Posted by BobL

Nice work!

Finally something that I can point to that doesn't make my chainsaw bar box look all that silly after all !

Why didn't you dovetail the corners?

Originally Posted by Phil Spencer

Why didn't you dovetail the corners?

Exactly!

Originally Posted by chambezio

Oh Bob
How can you be so hard on the younger generation?

You are right, I don't really need to, as they constantly end up shooting themselves in the foot.

A few year back a student turned up late to one of my classes, purple mohawk haircut, latest mobile, laptop, PDA and wireless headset and MP3 player, and wrap around sunnies that he kept wearing in class. All that was not that that bad but it came with a "yuse are all scum" attitude that got my back. Anyway it took him 5 minutes to organize his personal electronics before he could pay attention. I sent around a piece of paper for all the student to write their name on but he didn't have a pen. I asked him how was he going to do any work in class and he said he would take notes on his mobile phone - Ha! - more like running a constant chat session with his mates. Then he had to leave early for some reason so he missed out on some vital piece of info ETC ETC.

A couple of weeks later it was a very wet stormy day and as usual he arrives late for class. On the way it buckets down and turns his purple mohawk into a bad comb-over plus the purple hair dye runs down his face and stains his white T-shirt. His mobile phone had also died in the downpour and he still didn't bring a pen. I said nothing but the tittering from the other students made it very hard for me not to smile.

I didn't see him in class after that.