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JANUARY 17, 2010
You've got to wonder...

Early Christmas morning while most people were waiting for Santa, I opened my freezer and all I could think was the Clement Moore line "When, what to my wondering eyes should appear"! Take a look at this picture.

Yep, that's my freezer, and by golly what's in it? Believe it or not, at first I thought those coiled black things were snakes. Don't laugh. I did find a dead snake peeking out from under the freezer one day. Then sanity kicked in and I saw them for what they were, not menacing hissing snakes but plain old electrical cords. Ok, you've got to wonder...what were they doing in my freezer. There was really only one way they could have got there so up from the cellar I go to find my husband and hear the story. Seems he was conducting an experiment (he could have told me). He needed to replace the cord on his chain saw and was trying to see which of the three cords in my freezer could best withstand low tempatures, remain pliable and uncoil easily in the cold. Alright...it was 7 degrees outside so why would you use my freezer. I never really got a good answer but decided he must have not wanted to brave the actual cold outside to plant his cords. You gotta love him. Oh, and no, none of the cords passed the test. He ended up buying a new cord for his chain saw.

Hard to bring this one back to books but if you too need to fix your chain saw, save your wife the heart attack and try this

Chain saw service manual Intertec Pub. Corp

Chainsaw Operator's Manual: Part 1: Chainsaw Safety, Maintenance and Cross-Cutting Techniques Forestworkds

 


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Mercedes said, on Jan. 26 at 6:53AM
My husband had to replace a cord on a saw the other day. Thank goodness there weren't any experiments being made in my freezer. There's no room!!!

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