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Looking off "Her" front porch.

My daughter looking out off here front porch at lunch. The deer having lunch in her neighbors yard. Mt Airy, Maryland, USA

I think I got it. Eastern North American Wild Turkey! I have 30 acres in Wes Virginia. We have lots of Deer and Turkey. This past year my friend saw a Fisher, or Fisher Cat. It's in the Weasel family, but bigger. Kind of like a Weasel with an attitude. They are known to decimate Turkey flocks. I'm assuming though we have only seen one, there is at least a pair. I hope they don't wipe out our Turkey's.

Sorry, I got a new computer and lost almost all of my files. So, I can't drag and drop. Most of my pics got saved on my Imgur account. I'm trying to see if I can copy and paste them, Joe. <a href="https://imgur.com/8qPLWpk"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/8qPLWpk.jpg" title="source: imgur.com" /></a>

Not a very good picture. They took me off guard. We were running loud tools and my friend said, "look over your shoulder!" This is the Eastern subspecies of the American Wild Turkey. [img]https://i.imgur.com/8qPLWpk.jpg[/img]

Thanks for the old memories. When I was 16 I started driving my Dad's brand new Chevy C30, 12' stake body, no tipper either. When we stacked brush we would put 2 long poles down the middle, with just enough room for one guy to stand between them, and did not fill that hole in. Toward the end of the job we would stack a lot of weight toward the back of the pile, then strap it down good. When I got home I could back up to our burn pit, stand between the poles and lift and the whole load would slide off into the pit. About once a month Dad would call the fire Dept and tell them we were starting a brush fire. No problem. In 74-75 he bought an Asplundh 16" chipper, big for back then, but still no tipper. So, I had to pitch fork the chips off. Finally in 1978 he bought a Ford F600 with a 12' chipper box and TIPPER. Don't tell anyone I was driving the commercial trucks under 21 years old, I didn't know I wasn't supossed to.

I was fourth generation in the family. When I was a kid my Dad, his Ex FIL,1 BIL, my Uncle and his SIL were all Licensed Arborists that owned their own business. I never knew anything else. When Dad retired in 1986 I gave up the family business. I was almost 30 years old and had worked 3 years without taking 1 day off. Even weekends were spent giving estimates. I went to work for UPS where I eventually got 8 weeks a year off. But, I still loved climbing and continued to climb as a "Contract Climber" for other companies. Finally gave up climbing at age 60 when I had both knees replaced. My wife says I can't be lived with if I don't run a saw for an hour aday. I have about 70 chainsaws, most over 70CC's, a dozen over 100CC's, couple years ago I bought a Brush Bandit 65 chipper to keep the invasive species under control on my 30 acres. My wife is correct, I'm happiest if I can step out the front door and smell fresh split Oak firewood, milled Poplar, or chipped Pine. At 66 I can't think of what I'll do if I cant use a chainsaw, even if it's an ikle MS170.

Thanks, they are pretty mythical over her too. I went over my friends house to take down a couple dead Ash trees. I showed his land lord pics of my collection. Frank is turning 91 this year. He said he had a saw in his shop with no piston. My first thought was he blew up a cheap Wild Thing and needed a piston. Then he asked if I ever heard of a Sachs Dolmar, I instantly wet my pants. That was two years ago. I had lunch with my friend last week and Frank was sitting on the porch reading. I asked what he wanted for the Sachs and he said take, it was too heavy to use. So, I gave him $100. He’s an eccentric old guy. He has all kinds of cool stuff laying around his property. My friend asked if I saw the old car in the woods? No, so I went and looked. Frank bought the car new in the 60’s, drove it for years, put about 300,000 miles on it. One day he parked it and never drove it again. Turned out it was an ISO Revolta with a 427 Chevy engine in it. He has stuff like that all over his property.

I saw these right after I bought my 2018 F150, 2.7 twin turbo. I put a deposit down the last day of 2019, and signed the papers on the first day of 2020. Essentially it was two model years old. The window sticker was $51,000+, and it was on clearance for $35,000 so I grabbed it. Had 6 miles on it. The power port charges batteries well, and fast. I plugged my small air compressor in and as soon as I hit the on button it tripped the breaker. It shows the “lightning” running a whole house during a power outage. The add says starting at $39,000, but casually looking, I didn’t see any under $50,000.

Might be apples to oranges, but my Ford F150 has a standard house plug in the dash. I often have a half hour drive between lawns and plug my DeWalt 20V charger in the dash and it does a good job keeping the batteries up to snuff. I think that plug is rated at 6 amps. Don't know how it would do with the saw batteries?

I do have the air box cover. It's missing the hand guard, but a guy over here has one.

I just picked up a nice running KMS-4. I've only seen 4-5 of these state side. How often do you see them over there? I'm going to try and post a pic and youtube video. I think I tried to do a video before and it didn't work?

Best answer I've got so far is, "You left it on the grill to long!"

Hope you don't mind, I borrowed the pic and posted it on "Arboristsite" in the US, see if any of our guys have an idea?

Looking at the first picture again I think I might be wrong? At the bottom of the cut you can see 3-4 strokes that are more in line of what I was thinking? Again, very interesting.