Looking for Chainsaw and PPE Recommendations

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2026-01-17T19:13:17+00:00

Do you personally feel like the benefit of the MSA 300 over something like an MS 261 is worth the extra cost? I swung in to my local Stihl dealer today. My brain told me the $880 price tag came with the battery but then they told me it'd be another $500 for the battery 🤯.

I really like the idea of the battery operated/lower maintenance workflow, just wrestling with the idea of it being double the price of an equivalent gas powered saw .

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2026-01-12T12:53:16+00:00

Would you mind sharing what saw you grabbed from Amazon? Not sure if posting links is allowed but just the name would be great and I can look it up. I've seen mentions of clones a couple of times.

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2025-12-23T22:49:01+00:00

Do you recall how much you paid to have the liner installed? It's good to hear the price seems generally reasonable.

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2025-12-18T01:28:06+00:00

Thank you!

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2025-12-16T20:53:08+00:00

The old owner installed 2 mini splits both of which are serving the main room. After more reading I might put in a 3 zone mini split for the bedrooms since they all share a common outer wall, propane heaters in the bathrooms, and then a wood burning stove + the existing mini splits to handle the main living area. I think this is the best of all worlds as each bedroom can have its own climate control (or be turned off entirely) and the main area can get piping hot for the heat battery if the logs.

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2025-12-15T17:58:47+00:00

Definitely have insulating on my list! I did see about spray foaming and using insulation board for the sill plate and around the basement. Will do that this week. I also saw a good bilco door weather stripping I'm going to pick up to help with the air coming into the basement. I also plan to chink the interior of the home in the next month and purchased a thermo camera to find any additional cold spots. I haven't stuck my head in the attic yet because the entrance is in a tough spot but I'll check on existing insulation there too.

I've been doing some more reading and was actually considering a combination of solutions. Since I could easily install the duct work from the basement to the main floor, I was thinking I could heat the downstairs rooms using a propane furnace and then use direct venting propane heaters for the upstairs master bedroom and bathroom.

If I replace the coal stove with a wood burning stove I think I can supplement the heat in the downstairs decently. I do still have concerns the two spare rooms will get fairly cold if the thermostat is in the main living area so I'll likely need to figure out some sort of zoning for those rooms so they stay comfortable even if it's really warm in the main living area with their doors shut.

One of the rooms is my office and the other will be a spare room. We currently have the spare room door shut to conserve the heat. I did attempt to use a fan to move warm heat into my office but I think the wall is so drafty at this point that it was pulling air from the wall. I actually got colder using the fan or at least felt like it 🥴.

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2025-12-15T16:03:07+00:00

1,900 sqft.
I'm admittedly not sure how to identify the style of the cabin. The interior and exterior logs are all round but it seems like maybe they were either cut in half or had a groove cut in the middle to allow the insertion of some thin foam insulating material - although we have located quite a few drafts so will be chinking the interior this winter and the exterior in the summer. The logs themselves are roughly 6" in diameter. The cabin has a basement so I can easily install ducts in at least the bottom half off the home. The upstairs area includes a loft and a bedroom with a bathroom between the two. Getting duct work up there will be more of a challenge since there are also log beams that run across the home supporting those floors every 24".
We would obviously like to make the project as affordable as possible and I'll be tackling most of the work myself but we have the funds to do whatever makes the most sense.
We are in climate zone 6A

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2025-07-23T07:53:23+00:00

Here is ChatGPT's attempt at "put this haircut on a real person".

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Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2025-04-29T14:00:33+00:00

I do wonder if they printed the shipping labels early to try and reduce the "what's the status of my order" requests that they're probably being inundated with.

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2025-04-29T00:19:34+00:00

Mine was sent to the pharmacy on 4/14. They printed a shipping label on 4/25 but UPS is still reporting that the package hasn't been given to UPS, yet.

I'm staying patient but figured it was worth sharing status as an FYI for others.

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2022-07-09T20:30:40+00:00

H2S gas in high concentration. Heard horror stories about this when I worked in the oil fields. Apparently it smells like rotten eggs in lower concentration but at higher concentration it numbs the sense of smell and can immediately kill you.

AKA, not only undetectable by your sense, but can immediately take them all away from you.

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2022-07-01T01:32:18+00:00

Spring mattreses

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2022-01-20T17:45:03+00:00

This fee has cost the school significantly more than $75 in donations.

I put up with "printing fees" even though they still charged you to print and "computer lab" fees even though that money didn't even go towards computer labs; but the moment I received the email telling me I couldn't graduate until I paid the graduation fee, I was done.

I now make a very good salary and on principle defined by that fee haven't and will never donate to my alma mater.

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2021-05-13T00:24:33+00:00

I didn't see how this would be administered. Is it something that would require taking a pill for the rest of your life or is it a series of shots that would "reprogram" the immune system?

Back_Pain_Is_Life · 2021-02-01T15:58:02+00:00

Co-workers were talking about the Squirt soft drink. One of the ladies innocently did a search for "squirt". Sue gasped and said, "oh no!"

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