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I think your missing something ,I made some chainsaw tikis during Covid ,they look better if you use a skill saw ,
We actually have a chainsaw artist in town who's been creating and selling sculptures for 25 years plus, but he's been through hell over the last decade or so. Apparently, he started dating a divorced mother of three. Once the ex-husband found out, he started giving his kids rat poison to put in this guy's food for like a year. The dude was so sick and had no idea why when he finally went into the doctor. That's when they found the high traces of the rat poison which was causing him internal bleeding. It was like a two or three year recovery process for him to get back on his feet. So his sculpture business has sat rotting away for the last five years. I've only recently seen him back in the shop and noticed any activity happening. He was also a former amateur wrestler and is kind of a dickhead. But I'd love to get some big chainsaw Tiki's done. I just don't know if I wanna pay the price or work with him.
 
We actually have a chainsaw artist in town who's been creating and selling sculptures for 25 years plus, but he's been through hell over the last decade or so. Apparently, he started dating a divorced mother of three. Once the ex-husband found out, he started giving his kids rat poison to put in this guy's food for like a year. The dude was so sick and had no idea why when he finally went into the doctor. That's when they found the high traces of the rat poison which was causing him internal bleeding. It was like a two or three year recovery process for him to get back on his feet. So his sculpture business has sat rotting away for the last five years. I've only recently seen him back in the shop and noticed any activity happening. He was also a former amateur wrestler and is kind of a dickhead. But I'd love to get some big chainsaw Tiki's done. I just don't know if I wanna pay the price or work with him.
Wow ,possibly just buy or borrow all his tools at the next garage or divorce fire sale .someday I'll get the carving chisels and take my time to do it better ,I know you have the skills to diy it with a little practice . You do awesome wood working projects.
 
they look better if you use a skill saw

That looks cool!
But you must have a side winder if you're considering redoing it (or have done in the past) with a skilsaw. :eek2:

I can't imagine carving anything with my heavy ass Model 77! My shoulders hurt just thinking about it.
Although my dad used to cut top plates and notch rafters in the air overhead with one hand all day (up hill both ways?) with this saw.
I've seen him do it! But damn if I know how his skinny ass did...it kind of defied physics! :ROFLMAO:
 
I haven't posted much this summer. We've had a lot of rain and most of our beach has been underwater. In fact, the water was so high it came up to the tiki bar and flooded some of the yard. It's just now receding, and all the grass has turned into mud and black rotting organic material. Just a mess. But another thing I did this summer was buy a new/used/refurbished 1997 Yamaha Wave Runner. I bought two 1996 Polaris SLT 780s back in 2018, and while one of them has worked pretty much flawlessly ever since, the other one seems to always be down for half the summer for the last few years. I decided I needed to get another machine in the rotation so we always have at least two of them working. Anyway, I picked it up about a month ago, and I finally got around to buying and installing the missing foot pad material. I bought a decent sized role of it in yellow from China. The material itself was properly textured the color was great and it felt resilient, but it had a questionable adhesive backing. I had to figure out the basic size and shape of the pads that needed to be cut and then cut them myself. Once I was done, I used 3M Super 90 spray adhesive on both the hull and the backside of the foot well material. After aligning the pre-cut pads, I used a J-roller to get everything properly stuck down. I think it turned out pretty damn nice.

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Man those things just SCREAM 90's. I love it! Wave Runners are so fun. Nice job on sourcing the proper material in the proper color - most wouldn't have taken the time to do that. That 3M 90 adhesive will outlast us all!
 
Here's me and my boys on the good Polaris back in 2019. Seems like just yesterday all three of us could ride on one machine. Not anymore sadly.

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My buddy was PWC mechanic,he also was a service manager at a Yamaha dealer. He used to call those SloLaris. He had my '84 550 stand up going close to 50mph. I did build a newer reed valve engine,to replace the tired piston port engine. That little thing gets squirrely at that speed. The new ones are super fast these days.
 
My buddy was PWC mechanic,he also was a service manager at a Yamaha dealer. He used to call those SloLaris. He had my '84 550 stand up going close to 50mph. I did build a newer reed valve engine,to replace the tired piston port engine. That little thing gets squirrely at that speed. The new ones are super fast these days.
Man I LOVE me some jimkirk material. Guess I haven't seen you around much pal. I hope you are well! (go HEART!)
 
My buddy was PWC mechanic,he also was a service manager at a Yamaha dealer. He used to call those SloLaris. He had my '84 550 stand up going close to 50mph. I did build a newer reed valve engine,to replace the tired piston port engine. That little thing gets squirrely at that speed. The new ones are super fast these days.
I really hate biased mechanics. Everybody grows up and knows what they like and what they don't like. But in my years of driving various makes and models of everything from cars to snowmobiles to jet skis, I find that most people just talk out of their ass. Every now and then there's a known issue with some make or model that can't be denied, but for the most part, it's all preference and bias. Actually, the Polaris is one of the fastest PWC's on our lake. Most of the kids that ride the newer Trixx's are always envious of my oldest boy riding the Sea Lion Turbo. We've had it up to 50 miles an hour, but its average high is about 48. What I like most about it is it's speed and stability. The WaveRunner is very tippy, while this Polaris has a very stable base. Perfect for me.
 
I really hate biased mechanics. Everybody grows up and knows what they like and what they don't like. But in my years of driving various makes and models of everything from cars to snowmobiles to jet skis, I find that most people just talk out of their ass. Every now and then there's a known issue with some make or model that can't be denied, but for the most part, it's all preference and bias. Actually, the Polaris is one of the fastest PWC's on our lake. Most of the kids that ride the newer Trixx's are always envious of my oldest boy riding the Sea Lion Turbo. We've had it up to 50 miles an hour, but its average high is about 48. What I like most about it is it's speed and stability. The WaveRunner is very tippy, while this Polaris has a very stable base. Perfect for me.
You have to remember that this was the early 80's and Polaris was not a good product at the time. We didn't grow up with PWC. He liked the rotory valve engine of the Sea Doo. He wasn't biased at all. He just had worked on all of them and knew the Polaris was the slowest at the time. The watercraft today are all pretty fast and similar. If I were to buy a new PWC it would be the Sea Doo RXP-X 325,the fastest on the market. A lot of factors come into a PWC being fast or not. The age of the engine and aftermarket parts play a big part on the top speed. My '84 550 was pretty fast,after adding just a prop and pipe. I was smoking guys with better setups. The engine had a lot of hours and ran loose and fast. I ended up having to build a new engine,because the crank twisted and was seizing the rear piston.
 
Only sucky part is that Polaris no longer makes PWcs and so the parts are limited and service is hard to come by. And it's gonna get worse as time goes on.
 
Catching up on these posts, Dear Friend. Sorry to hear about the water level. It's been non stop rain for most of the summer here too. Got back from vacation last Sunday and the grass finally died. We've now had 15 straight days without rain!

The new ride looks sweet! Does anyone remember the Sea Doo commercials of the 90's? Talk about a time capsule!
 
Catching up on these posts, Dear Friend. Sorry to hear about the water level. It's been non stop rain for most of the summer here too. Got back from vacation last Sunday and the grass finally died. We've now had 15 straight days without rain!

The new ride looks sweet! Does anyone remember the Sea Doo commercials of the 90's? Talk about a time capsule!
Yeah, we did get 5 inches of rain one day and that was the first time since we've lived here that we actually had a small amount of water come through the floor in the basement. Luckily, it came through behind the theater set up in the open area by the fireplace. And since we have all vinyl planking there, there was no real damage. Just water pooling on the surface of the planking that had to be vacuumed up. We ran the vacuum about three days until all of the pooling water was gone. And then we ran the vacuum on the seams to suck the water from under the planking. We've had a dehumidifier going ever since and it's staying pretty dry down there now. Still emptying at least one tank a day tho. It was just that one freak storm we had that caused an already high water table to hydrostatically push up through the floor. There were threats of flooding this past weekend, but luckily we got through the weekend with only .8 inches of rain. In a few towns just 75-100 miles S/SW of us, they had anywhere from 8 to 10 inches fall over the weekend. So when I say lucky, I mean lucky as fuck. So crazy, 2 years ago there was a freaking drought and you had to walk out 50-60 feet past the tiki bar just to get to the water's edge.
 
Yeah, we did get 5 inches of rain one day and that was the first time since we've lived here that we actually had a small amount of water come through the floor in the basement. Luckily, it came through behind the theater set up in the open area by the fireplace. And since we have all vinyl planking there, there was no real damage. Just water pooling on the surface of the planking that had to be vacuumed up. We ran the vacuum about three days until all of the pooling water was gone. And then we ran the vacuum on the seams to suck the water from under the planking. We've had a dehumidifier going ever since and it's staying pretty dry down there now. Still emptying at least one tank a day tho. It was just that one freak storm we had that caused an already high water table to hydrostatically push up through the floor. There were threats of flooding this past weekend, but luckily we got through the weekend with only .8 inches of rain. In a few towns just 75-100 miles S/SW of us, they had anywhere from 8 to 10 inches fall over the weekend. So when I say lucky, I mean lucky as fuck. So crazy, 2 years ago there was a freaking drought and you had to walk out 50-60 feet past the tiki bar just to get to the water's edge.
Oh shit, yeah. Glad it wasn't any worse than that. Water damage sucks!
 
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