Haha!!
My wife’s getting excited to start running our small saw more! Bucking and sapling removal/thinning. Woot woot!
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Haha!!
My wife’s getting excited to start running our small saw more! Bucking and sapling removal/thinning. Woot woot!
was reviewing a bid doc and saw reference to use of an underwater chainsaw. i had no idea they existed: https://www.stanleyinfrastructure.co...ter-chain-saws
Not sure where this should go... seems fitting here though
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No I think the Darwin thread
I hung out with the 445 today that my buddy traded me for some wood a few months before he passed. My first time running it as it needed work. Anyhow I ran a couple tanks of gas thru it. I like that light little saw. Workhorse and the price was right. RIP Dale and thanks.
I got a little taste of east coast hardwood logging last week. Two for two getting crowns hung up in the canopy. I wasn’t set up for success in the first place with the density of trees. But it definitely reinforced how good we have it out west cutting dry Lodge Pole.Attachment 281441
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Ugg, looks like beech. Those fucking trees have way to many "hands" trying to grab on for a last gasp.
Yup a real beech! Stubborn strong wood
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our fire crew went to North Carolina for a fire in 2001, it was a total gong show with western dudes creating huge tanglefucks of eastern trees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce Springskiin
Look out for widowmakers.
Boy, is that ugly or what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce Springskiin
So I just got an old, non-running 026 for free.
Just going to replace the carb and fuel lines and hope it rips.
Will be used almost exclusively for thinning and brushing small stuff, and I’m tall....really thinking about getting a 3/8 sprocket and running a 28” bar and full skip so I can run it from my hip like the 372s and 044s I used to run. Kind of unsure how absurd this is, but handling this little thing with its little bar as-is, having to bend over and reach all over the place is not appealing.
My buddy uses his pole saw to cut brush and other small stuff without bending over. Cracked me up at first but apparently it’s a back saver.,
Ya so i started with wanting the tree to go the other direction, away from the Maple it was crowding. Gave it a text book bird’s mouth 1/3 of the way through, about three feet up so it would lay over an adjacent sap line. Cut through from the back and got the fuck out of the way when it stared to move, because there are some dead maple branches above. (At this point there are a couple things I would try different next time. Deeper bird’s mouth to get more momentum, and a little more on the back cut before running.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
It hung up after about 5* of tilt, the hinge ropy green stick shit show. We fought with it; under cutting the hinge with and ramp, and prying off the stump with a sapling. That part made me nervous as I had never tried those techniques before, and involved reefing on a tree in a precarious situation. Finally we got it to drop off the stump. We moved up 4 feet did another hinge cut, to the direction we originally wanted it to go. It shifted sideways and tipped back the other way against the maple. Up another four feet and another hinge cut and it dropped right back on to the stump which by then we had cut down to the height in the picture. Wanting a little more angle for the next hinge cut, we tried prying it off the stump. The beech hopped right of the stump and settled to the position in the picture. That really caught us off guard, I think that is the time I sprained my thumb running. One more hinge cut and we got it low enough to start breaking down the crown. There were some funky forces in play with how it was hung up on the maple, so dissected it slowly. In the end that beech will be keeping us warm two winters from now.Attachment 281488
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Lol...sketchy
Good times
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Sprained thumbs suck.
I was at a friends house and she asks me out of the blue to help her drop this tiny tree and cut it up, and whips out this little electric chain pole saw her mom bought her. So I tried it out for the hell of it and was fairly surprised at the ease on back efficiency to lop up little branches. Not sure I'm going to run out and buy one but just sayin. It's going to be great for her cause I don't see kickback being much of any danger. Didn't put myself in a spot to have any, but just can't see it happening.
Been there done that. What a fucking disaster that was.Quote:
Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy
you don't use any wedges ?
It’s just way different.
Never worked in eastern forests, but felling old maple, aspen, birch, or especially narly old cottonwood, they are a totally different headspace to drop. Without rope, even if they fall on the line, they usually twist funny or somehow jump an extra metre or two. And their branches reach for suspended wire or fencelines, like their roots seek out basements and pipe.
Could’t imagine running saw on a fireline in a heavy decid forest. At least here they are usually the fuel break.
We didn’t have them with us at that time. We did cut one from a sapling to help it off the stump when we had to under cut the hinge with a ramp. But I usually only use them to get the tree past the balance point if the tree is going to fight going the direction I want it to. With the maple to its back it had a little eccentricity towards the direction I wanted it to go. But I am obviously still learning all the tricksQuote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
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Started in on spring cleanup today with the Craftsman corded electric. First impression is meh. I wanted the most powerful motor they had. Unfortunately that has an 18" bar. Nice for reaching down. It makes it way prone to kickback. I doubt the saw will last a lot of years. My guess is a branch will eventually puncture the bar oil reservoir. It was $99 and went on . $200 Sears card we got as a promo when we bought a mattress. I hope to get 2-3 years out of it. And then I want a Stihl electric.
Just started using (trail building and maintenance) my new battery powered Stihl MSA 200 C-BQ saw. With or without the hip mounted external battery pack the thing is crazy light, quiet, and surprisingly capable (powers through 12" logs) given the short (14") and thin bar/teeth. I bought two high capacity batteries, but expect I'll rarely need them. I expect I'll only be using my MS261 for the heaviest of work.
They market it in a tactical model as the CQB.Quote:
Originally Posted by kootenayskier
yeah it sucks if you don't have it when you need it especially if its cuz you lost it, I would put something down and forget it where I had been cutting so I bought one of them hi vis yellow cruising vestsQuote:
Originally Posted by Bruce Springskiin
it has a bunch of velcro'd pockets so I can carry 2 wedges, compression bandage, phone,radio, plug wrench file & guide, oil, food n water and with a belt loop on my chap belt for a small axe ... I always got what i need
there are lotsa good you tube vids to watch about how to fall trees eh
I'm looking at the same for trail maintenance. What did it all end up costing? Looked at Husky but reviews make it seem that battery issue isn't being addressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by kootenayskier
I paid just over a $1100 (Canadian) taxes in, for the saw with the 14” bar, two high capacity batteries, the belt pack and adapter, and and the rapid charger.Quote:
Originally Posted by simple
Sadly I started in on trimming down my English walnut tree today. He has been a long friend but it's his last year.
Not sure if English is asnice but black walnut makes beautiful boards if you know anyone who can mill it for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by SB
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Got a sweet hinge break on an awkward AF cut, dropped it 3 feet from the deck.
Probably not worth the trouble to mill it. Lot of core rotted out of the butt end. Been worried with it every wind storm we get here and living near a river gap we get lots of wind. One more big section to go, gonna have to wait until I have time to mess with it. At least now I know its not gonna hit the house/deck.
Stump Shot—Two inches or more difference in the height of the horizontal cut of the undercut (face) and the back cut. The difference in height establishes a step that will prevent a tree from jumping back over the stump toward the faller.
I’d consider milling it if you have a source. Could be some nice crotch figure in that wood.Quote:
Originally Posted by SB
Could be worth 100x plus vs. firewood.
That is a serious but good kit you are carrying around with you. I have most of that stuff on hand when I am cutting fire wood alone, but rarely on me. I will often wear a Spot device too. But I’ll think to carry the compression bandage in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
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When you next renew your compression bandage, try out an israeli bandage. Better site compression, easier to add more pads under the wrap as they soak, can be applied with one hand, and its packaging is more durable. Chainsaw bites are the worst.
we gota walk up or down a ski run to where we cut so if you didn't bring it you don't have it, all that gear will be heavy to wear ^^ during a day of cutting so I usually off load fuel & water at my fuel cache when I get to where we are cuttingQuote:
Originally Posted by Bruce Springskiin
You don't want to need a bandage but its a is a really good idea to carry in a pocket, the saw instructor told us not to put it in the top of your helmet just in case you get stuck and your helmet comes off ... you can't reach it
Oh yeah very important carry some poo paper
don't cut alone, I always wear my chaps but i will take them off for the hike in/out cuz its easier to hike
After emptying those little stihl pre-mix bottles I refill them with chain oil ( rip off the label & mark the bottle as chain oil ) they are easy to carry/ spill proof/slightly more capacity than needed to fill the chain oiler so I just take as many bottles as I will burn tanks of fuel, I pretty much got it down as to how much fuel/oil I need but if i run out, its usually time to shut the saw off chug a water & pop a robaxecet any how
drugs have kicked in by the time i get back to the truck
When (if?!) I retire, I want that ^^^ to be part of my life. Hell, I’d like to do that now.
I drove through paradise, CA yesterday. It looks like (and I’ve been told) that it’s a bit of a free for all related to timber work in the previously built-out areas.
Right, but remember, this dude pretty much won the lottery when it comes to his situation. We should all be so lucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
My up to this point reliable old Dolmar 113 just wouldn’t start yesterday after I shut it off. Cold, it fired right up. Shut it off and it was just dead. No spark what so ever, not even faint. Getting a couple new spark plugs (stupidly I didn’t have a spare) but I have the feeling it’s something else like maybe the on off switch? It’s an old saw... If a new plug won’t spark, what to try next and do I just cut my loses and go buy a new saw? I almost went and bought one yesterday but the Stihl dealer was closed.
Maybe I should get the rancher then put a little 14” bar on the Dolmar once fixed...
Maybe the switch, but in this order, check the: spark plug, plug wire, switch, and ignition coil.
did you goggle "Dolmar 113 no spark" ?