Thread: show us your chainsaws

For quartering a crosscut chain is fine, you will be cutting fettuccine not chips and it's easy to clog the outfeed and get the rail clogged with shavings so watch your speed or cut at a 45 degree angle

I’ve got another 084 that didn’t have a lucky escape, if the cylinder is salvageable, I’ll put a new piston in it.


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Was cleaning up the 394 and 395 for a "mission" to drop some monster Fastigata's and saw that time has not been kind on the 394, what with its non isolated carb and lots of internal plastics having gone all brittle.

What are the options for barrel and piston for a 'slightly worse for wear' 395" I have enough spare plastics to rebuild her, but alas the barrel is too far gone...MSL knows what I mean

Are the aftermarket kits worth while spending on, or should I just throw a genuine Husky barrel and piston into her??

Originally Posted by XR500

Was cleaning up the 394 and 395 for a "mission" to drop some monster Fastigata's and saw that time has not been kind on the 394, what with its non isolated carb and lots of internal plastics having gone all brittle.

What are the options for barrel and piston for a 'slightly worse for wear' 395" I have enough spare plastics to rebuild her, but alas the barrel is too far gone...MSL knows what I mean

Are the aftermarket kits worth while spending on, or should I just throw a genuine Husky barrel and piston into her??

Do a littler bit of research on the web, the same names keep coming up as the 'good ones' as some of the others get the parts from a few different casting outfits and just slap a coloured box around them it would seem. Caber rings keep coming up as being good, and the other is using the plain 'c' pin clips rather than the ones with ears as they seem to climb out of their groove more easily???

Originally Posted by XR500

Was cleaning up the 394 and 395 for a "mission" to drop some monster Fastigata's and saw that time has not been kind on the 394, what with its non isolated carb and lots of internal plastics having gone all brittle.

What are the options for barrel and piston for a 'slightly worse for wear' 395" I have enough spare plastics to rebuild her, but alas the barrel is too far gone...MSL knows what I mean

Are the aftermarket kits worth while spending on, or should I just throw a genuine Husky barrel and piston into her??

I like the meteor kits, the pistons have caber rings, defineitly better than the huztl or hiway kts

592xp and a Tuatahi work axe

Originally Posted by Brad S

592xp and a Tuatahi work axe
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Do you use tomato sauce as bar lube? Are you related to Dundee?😁

The aftermarket kits have come a long way, for some saws there is no option, as factory parts are no longer available.
I like to use factory parts, but I’ve also used aftermarket where in the above mentioned situation.
A factory piston/barrel kit for an 084 is close to $1000, aftermarket is more like $300. No harm trying the cheaper one. The factory piston I just installed was $340 I think.


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very saucy looking indeed.

That's for when he quarters the cattlebeasts... (no joke I've seen it done...).

Originally Posted by No.3

That's for when he quarters the cattlebeasts... (no joke I've seen it done...).

you clean saw right down then put cooking oil in as bar lube...takes a LOT of grunt to saw through from chest to head,the neck/brisket is a deep cut with lots of material to say through...

think iVE TOLD THIS BEFORE...but what the hell

after having cut up cattle beast,I decided to see if tiny 12" bar would fit on larger saw..had 2 near new chains for it.. so buggered around taking bar n chain off 3 saws before deciding it wasnt going to work,so put them all back togather again...except couldnt find bar /sprocket cover/side plate anywhere..looked on bench,looked on floor,looked behind freezer I was using as work bench,went inside and got torch to look harder behind freezer..panic was starting to set in..the men in white coats were sure to turn up any second to take me away to padded room..checked bench again,checked behind freezer again.walked out of garage and there on lawn was a spotlessly clean side cover and dog with big grin on her face licking her lips...cleaned it for you dad....BITCH.

Originally Posted by No.3

That's for when he quarters the cattlebeasts... (no joke I've seen it done...).

Not unusual. Mate and I broke down 10 frozen sheep carcases from the Patea works once using MY saw. (He had more saws than me the cunning bastard). What a bloody mess. Sheep provide good bar lube.

Haha that's classic, if only you could do that after wood! Did you get the rest of the bits back a few days later?

What I've seen done quite often is the little electric saws. They develop their grunt really early on compared to petrol engined saws and you can feather the saw in the cut so it doesn't load up so much. Works really well with the thinner chains and if you're good you can cut away and drop each quarter into a barrow for not much lifting!!!

Originally Posted by No.3

Haha that's classic, if only you could do that after wood! Did you get the rest of the bits back a few days later?

What I've seen done quite often is the little electric saws. They develop their grunt really early on compared to petrol engined saws and you can feather the saw in the cut so it doesn't load up so much. Works really well with the thinner chains and if you're good you can cut away and drop each quarter into a barrow for not much lifting!!!

no bits swallowed,all were licked spotlessly clean...unlike my old mans wee saw..that was left with meatn fat under cover..he got me to sharpen it,first off I had to remove all the mechanical rice

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