The chainsaw thread...

[bodywhomper]

Haha!!

My wife’s getting excited to start running our small saw more! Bucking and sapling removal/thinning. Woot woot!

[bodywhomper]

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

[t-the-east]

Not sure where this should go... seems fitting here though

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw5pXuxA...=12825e2w65wvo

[XXX-er]

No I think the Darwin thread

[Game Over]

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.

[Bruce Springskiin]

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.


- I am here for the stoke

[Vt-Freeheel]

Ugg, looks like beech. Those fucking trees have way to many "hands" trying to grab on for a last gasp.

[Bruce Springskiin]

Yup a real beech! Stubborn strong wood


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[ill-advised strategy]

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.


- I am here for the stoke

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.

[riser4]

Look out for widowmakers.

[Meadow Skipper]

Boy, is that ugly or what?

[ill-advised strategy]

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.

[Game Over]

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.,

[Bruce Springskiin]

Boy, is that ugly or what?

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.)
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.


- I am here for the stoke

[ill-advised strategy]

Lol...sketchy

Good times

[Rideski]

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.

[~mikey b]

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.

Been there done that. What a fucking disaster that was.

[XXX-er]

you don't use any wedges ?

[~mikey b]

It’s just way different.

[BCMtnHound]

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.

[Bruce Springskiin]

you don't use any wedges ?

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 tricks


- I am here for the stoke

[riser4]

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.

[kootenayskier]

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.

[riser4]

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.

[XXX-er]

We didn’t have them with us at that time.

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 vests

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