Thread: show us your chainsaws

Originally Posted by XR500

Flapper disc on an angle grinder has those whisker sharp in a giffy!

do tell more ,technique etc sounds interesting

OK, finally mustered the energy to line mine up.

The old Echo is late-80s vintage. Much to my wife's disgust, I bought it at a genuine half price in Richmond when we were on holiday down in Nelson. For some strange reason, she thought a cot/pram/ etc was higher priority with the first baby due. Strange creatures.. Has done a heap of work and eventually got a bit temperamental and lost a bit of power. Given the amount of work it had done, I succumbed to a new Husky and that's been fine. A year or so after I bought the Husky, I was yapping to a guy who knew all about servicing saws. He immediately said "Betcha a carb kit will revive it" and sure enough, she's back to good health and it makes a great backup saw. I don't thrash it too much as parts are now an issue.

The 95cc Jonsered (a secondary Husky brand) I got low mileage second hand and it's been great. Usually lives with a two foot bar and that's a 3 foot one in the background which I use for the big macros on our life sentence block as well as whacking into bigger gums on my mate's place. It's also had a bit of use in a home-made chainsaw mill.

I look with itchy fingers at new/flasher models but in reality, they wouldn't do a single thing more than the current ones.

Originally Posted by 6x47

OK, finally mustered the energy to line mine up.

The old Echo is late-80s vintage. Much to my wife's disgust, I bought it at a genuine half price in Richmond when we were on holiday down in Nelson. For some strange reason, she thought a cot/pram/ etc was higher priority with the first baby due. Strange creatures.. Has done a heap of work and eventually got a bit temperamental and lost a bit of power. Given the amount of work it had done, I succumbed to a new Husky and that's been fine. A year or so after I bought the Husky, I was yapping to a guy who knew all about servicing saws. He immediately said "Betcha a carb kit will revive it" and sure enough, she's back to good health and it makes a great backup saw. I don't thrash it too much as parts are now an issue.

The 95cc Jonsered (a secondary Husky brand) I got low mileage second hand and it's been great. Usually lives with a two foot bar and that's a 3 foot one in the background which I use for the big macros on our life sentence block as well as whacking into bigger gums on my mate's place. It's also had a bit of use in a home-made chainsaw mill.

I look with itchy fingers at new/flasher models but in reality, they wouldn't do a single thing more than the current ones.

That jonsered is really nice, I think they were actually built with milling in mind. The 2094 and 2095 dont have any parts in common with the husky 394 and 395 .

nice I have a little echo like that but doesn't have a chain brake, so it's more of an ornament now. I might line mine up for a photo session shortly

i dont have any pictures handy, but i do have a short video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl66OO2c0wg
i have a pro mac 10-10s, pro mac 700 and a stihl 032av+quickstop that all run fine and dandy. I also own a husky 385xp which is not in that video

It’ll get a full comp chain at some point


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No, not porn. Here's a double ender in action

Originally Posted by XR500

No, not porn. Here's a double ender in action

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used a similar set up with two 066 STIHLS on end of 6 foot bar...Roger Larsen from Ratehi owned it and we used to slab rimu in bush and get flitches at 750kgs then fly out under a jetranger...was fun times...and a good way to take out the old trees without leaving a huge scar on landscape...most of those trees had been left as in too hard basket to get wire rope down to...bluffs no problem to a whirlybird.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

used a similar set up with two 066 STIHLS on end of 6 foot bar...Roger Larsen from Ratehi owned it and we used to slab rimu in bush and get flitches at 750kgs then fly out under a jetranger...was fun times...and a good way to take out the old trees without leaving a huge scar on landscape...most of those trees had been left as in too hard basket to get wire rope down to...bluffs no problem to a whirlybird.

He was a good mate of mine Roger.still miss the bugger.
I'm now living next door to where his family farm was.
I look across the river and see all the country he logged.
He was a go hard sort of a fella!


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and finally
my family

Speaking of files, I succumbed to a pack of 12 .325s off Ali a while ago. Bloody cheap and I wasn't expecting much but they are easily as good as anything else I've ever bought. If anything, they held their edge longer!

-- just had a look, this seems to be them. Bit more expensive though at ~$1.50 each delivered incl GST

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005...70549850%22%7D

I must look into one as a backup mind you my bars a puny 47 inches that must be 56.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

I must look into one as a backup mind you my bars a puny 47 inches that must be 56.

60”, have 72” also


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Clearly this thread needs a little more "sassiness" .........

Enter the Sachs-Dolmar PS-52 and its little helper the 221 TH. I also have an older version of the PS-52 with a different handle and ant-vibration assembly but it is currently awaiting new vibration isolators so the handle is off it.

And another double ender: this time splitting two ways



And 15 minutes later:



With 5 days of sunshine ahead, may get quite a bit of this done