{"id":9801,"date":"2020-07-28T07:46:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=9801"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:44:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:44:49","slug":"yard-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/07\/28\/yard-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard Tools."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week before I was feeling poorly, I went on a shopping expedition. That was the first time I’d been out for anything except food or necessities in 4 months.<\/p>\n

It was strange.<\/p>\n

Everyone running around in masks people trying to be “normal” but they were obviously tense. I picked up a couple of things for the car. Then I stopped by BassPro.<\/p>\n

On the one hand it was nice to be shopping, on the other hand it was weird.<\/p>\n

I bought myself a pretty nice knife. The one I’d been carrying for years has seen better days. I’d decided that I wanted something a bit bigger and settled on a BUCK model that has a good feel.<\/p>\n

I was going to ask some questions about guns and ammunition purchases under the most recent California laws but thought better of it when I saw the line.<\/p>\n

BassPro’s stock of pistols and rifles, was almost completely depleted. The line had a 7 hour wait and they were out of ammo in a wide variety of calibers. I thought to myself, “Even if you were there to pick up a gun you’d purchased, it would just be a hunk of expensive metal because you couldn’t get ammunition.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

Usually, you can walk up and ask questions but now everything is cordoned off with chairs to sit in, and wristbands being issued to “Better serve you”.<\/p>\n

My stop at HomeDepot wasn’t much more productive. They were out of the RYOBI attachment and the Chain saw that I was interested in. <\/p>\n

\"RyobiBy the way, RYOBI makes some nice tools. I got tired of Black & Decker stuff breaking yearly. I started looking for better tools and found that unlike a lot of manufacturers RYOBI still provides parts lists and maintenance manuals. In other words, they’re not building throw away tools.<\/p>\n

After a little more research I found that for the price point their tools seemed to be pretty highly rated.<\/p>\n

With that knowledge, about a month or so ago I purchased one of their 40V weed whackers. It’s from their “ExtendIt” tools line.<\/p>\n

This thing is awesome and unlike the Black & Deckers that I’ve owned, this one runs the entire time I need it to run. <\/p>\n

I was so impressed, I purchased the hedge trimmer attachment and now, with the same power pack and drive unit I can trim the bigger plants. Much to my surprise, I was able to do both and still only depleted the battery by 50%. That’s a big difference from the Black & Deckers where I had to swap between 4 different batteries to get the job done.<\/p>\n

RYOBI makes a pole mounted chainsaw that I can attach to the motor. That should allow me to reach high enough to prune some of the trees and a really tall hedge between my property and the neighbors.<\/p>\n

I also noticed that they make an electric chainsaw that is powered from the same battery and thought that might be useful around here in the winter time so I was interested in the price. <\/p>\n

HomeDepot was completely out of both. I’m guessing that I’m not the only guy to be working on the yard this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week before I was feeling poorly, I went on a shopping expedition. That was the first time I’d been out for anything except food or necessities in 4 months. It was strange. Everyone running around in masks people trying to be “normal” but they were obviously tense. I picked up a couple of things … <\/p>\n

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