Wife: why dont you take the interstate anymore? Me: there are no Free piles on the instrstate. Wife: sigh.

I kinda feel sorry for modern teens - they will never know the fun of riding around with 8-9 people in a '65 Ford Country Sedan, everyone chipping in a quarter or 50 cents to buy gas and have an older sibling pick up a sixer or two so you could ride out to the old deserted mansion in the middle of a field and hang out. If you were lucky you could get a young lovely to squeeze in beside you for the ride back. Them was the days!

Gotta tell ya, watching your videos has inspired me. We had a council cleanup here in Moss Vale, Australia, which is about the only time you see free piles, and took home a Yard King 138cc mower and a line trimmer. The mower had some handle bolts missing and a small hole in the plastic fuel tank, which I was able to address without any problems. Took down the carb and cleaned it and it runs really well. The line trimmer needed a bit of love with the thing being stored for years with gas in the tank, which had evaporated and the ethanol had turned to tar. So lots of cleaning out the tank, and carb, replaced the fuel lines, filter and gas cap, and it, too, came back to life. Cost me $6 AUD. Couldn't have done it without ya, Thanks.

I just looked up Cross Castle. Apparently it cost $1.5m to build back in 1907, and the family sold it for just $155,000 in 1919. 12 people were employed full time just to cut wood for the fires!

A free pile with an almost full roll of #12/2 NM with ground? Mustie, you are one lucky dude!

The issue with fueling, if you put the fuel screws back the way you wrote down, you actually flipped them so they're in the wrong places. Watch carefully =)

Man I love the stories you tell while filming what you do. They're almost as good as watching you fix up old junk. Always look forward to mustie1 Sunday postings.

Good Morning everyone.

ok....who else jumped when that spray hit the camera? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

How Mustie keeps his shop clean considering the flying dirt, dust, oil, and rodent remains is most impressive.

Your description of growing up burning wood and coal sure brought back memories. We too burned wood/coal. Had heat in two rooms. Kitchen and bathroom. Banking the fire every night. Getting up at 5 am to get the fire back up. Shaking down the shaker grate in the morning. And recharging with wood and coal. Taking out the ashes every morning and spreading on the compost pile. Cutting and chopping lots and LOTS of firewood. Dad would get coal in larger chunks as it was cheaper. My brother and I would use sledge hammers to break it down then shovel down the coal shoot. Always smelled like wood smoke and coal dust. Kids at school would make fun of us for how we smelled and how stained/rough our hands were. How dirty our boots were. When I got to boot camp after high school couldn’t believe I didn’t have to get up and tend the stove. Actually got to sleep in until 530am. Still woke up at 5 and silently got ready for am PT. Always the first one out of the barracks, bunk made, foot locker squared away. About day 4 or 5 of boot camp, DS asked me, “You’re a farm boy right?” “YES SERGEANT!” He winked at me and said, “Me too” Then chewed me out for some perceived infraction. That was a long time ago. Thanks for the videos and the commentary. Hadn’t thought about those things in over 45 years.

Mustie will forever be the best person to hang out with in the garage, knowledge, awesome stories, a great time

This saw is the same as the echo 452vl. It has an auto oiler as well. It also has points ignition. On echos, the VL is vibration dampen, and the EVL is electronic ignition and vibration dampening. Cool saw.

You're a really good story teller, Darren.

I feel like I'm in a small engine repair class, and Mustie is the instructor. I always learn something new when I watch your channel. Very informative. And, well photographed and edited, we appreciate your effort. Thanks

Probably just a normal comment for you, but i watch Alot of youtubers fixing everuthing from chainsaws to 80 tons excavators, but im absolutely looking more forward to your videos. Its just like fixing things with a best friend IRL. Thanks for being you, and showing us a great time bud! Regards from Norway!

Mustie1 - Unlike most chainsaw bars, the one on that wee John Deere has a "right way" and a "wrong way" to mount. Currently it is the right way round at the start of the video! From memory they were a low kickback design from Oregon. The saw is a Kioritz Echo - built and branded for John Deere. There are collectors for the JD and Echo saws.

Hey, Mustie! I was raised in Passaic, NJ and used to go to Greenwood Lake when the drinking age in NY was 18. The cops used to wait for us on Clinton Rd as we came out of NY and try to pick us off for DUI. I never got caught but some of my friends did. That was back in early 70's. To quote an old song: "Those were the days my friend".

On the end of the bar, there is a small hole next to the sprocket. I'll usually put the tip of my grease gun against it and give it a squirt. The bar chain oil doesn't get down to that bearing, so a bit of tacky grease helps.

My favorite part of these videos is the way Mustie just laughs whenever he comes across something that is crusty or busted on whatever he is working on. Great content, love watching!