Thread: Best chainsaw.

@big_foot is making profiles to vote sthil

Originally Posted by Toby

@big_foot is making profiles to vote sthil

Or Im just a good campaigner

Job for a husky

Originally Posted by Dundee

Job for a husky
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Cut one of them in half the rest will run. Then chop the tree down. Nothing for a Husky.

Boring with the tip is a good cutting style if you do it right, ebf

Cut the scarf on the downhill side then slice each side of the uphill cut, cut across from the back then bore in through the keyhole and "sweep" it so that it falls

When you see a tree that has been felled this way the whiskers have a stop in the middle

A good technique to use if you are caught with a saw that is shorter than you need

Originally Posted by 308

Boring with the tip is a good cutting style if you do it right, ebf

Cut the scarf on the downhill side then slice each side of the uphill cut, cut across from the back then bore in through the keyhole and "sweep" it so that it falls

When you see a tree that has been felled this way the whiskers have a stop in the middle

A good technique to use if you are caught with a saw that is shorter than you need

Boring with no/overly low depth gauges isnt doing it right unless your doing suicide, on 3/8 pitch chain I definitely wouldnt go lower than 1mm from the tip of the tooth, any further and its not only un safe but a barstard to hang on to and judders and stalls out.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Job for a husky
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Your dead right Dundee, the kids can play with it while a real man deals to the tree with a Stihl

This video is a bit of a classic now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-SwpDKkHko
a lot of techniques I don't see used here

Follow that link from 308 to Redwood felling in the 1940's, they probably argued what was the best brand of Axe. Impressive stuff. same method used on Kauri I guess

Oh well Stihl it is

Yeah 308, I've seen bore cutting on a big tree - too scary for my liking thanks

I only fall trees for firewood, turning blanks or to help out mates - dont do it often enough to get into advanced stuff like bore cuts.

Geeze Dundee - that thing is a beast

I'd only feel happy cutting something that big down knowing that it was all gonna end up as quality furniture or something equally appreciated and enduring

Haven't seen hydraulic jacks here before but I do love my Tirfor

Had an 026 and a wee 017 back in the day, both quite venerable when I acquired them, neither one ever missed a beat. Managed to lose both as part of a package including a wife, house, and wedding ring.

New Lady bought me a brand spanking MS390 for birthday before last, she's a top sort

Inherited the Old Man's 025, rest his soul. Hadn't been used for most of a decade. Gave it a carbie kit and a new fuel line to replace the perished one, fired up first pull.

There is another brand of orange chainsaw, but for the life of me I can't think why anyone would bother to remember the name of it

I have a stihl saw and weed eater, both brilliant machines and I wouldn't buy any thing else personally. Have mates with husqvarna saws and they like them to so I'd say either will see you right

Sent from my work bench

My first saw was an old pioneer 11-30 it was a nice old saw to use, when that shit itself I had a brand new 30cc dolmar to keep me going I sold that even though it was a bloody good saw and got a stihl 034 (my first stihl) off trademe for $200 bore was buggered, did some research and bought an after market 036 piston and cylinder (034 and 036 share same crankcase, piston stroke etc) polished all the casting marks off the ports, got a brand new muffler in from the states that was dual ported for it and it used to win bets when people reckoned it could not handle a 24 inch bar so the 18 used to come off and the 24 went on wished I never got rid of that saw it was a beast for a small saw, only husky I owned was a brand new 375Xp and my hands used to be numb after using it everytime it used to leak bar oil all over the place so assholed it then went to a stihl 460. My vote will always go to Stihl