What kind of chainsaw are you using . . Right Now!

[ichi]

I prefer the Stihl MS460, but my crew swears by the Husqvarna.

ichi

ps for those of you who don't get it, don't worry, Beirut will understand

[TosaInu]

German and Swedish, aren't they?

[Sjakihata]

Husqvarna, they make machine pistols and sewing machines as well - a reliable company

[Beirut]

I prefer the Stihl MS460, but my crew swears by the Husqvarna.

ichi

ps for those of you who don't get it, don't worry, Beirut will understand

A 460 is plenty big enough for anything around here. More than enough in 90% of the cases. Only the guys who slab logs or cut buck serious firewood use a saw that big.

I use an 038 as a ground saw. We prefer the older series where the 0 came before the model number, though two of the guys have the newer 250s. I just don't trust that tourist gas cap setup on the new saws. Most of the climbers use 025s and Echo 34cc climber's saws for work in the trees. We have an 038 rigged for climbing as well but that gets mighty heavy after a short time hanging off your belt. One guy has a 95cc Jonsered with a four foot bar for the really big stuff, but it's very rare that's needed.

When we build houses, we use Husky 385s for slabbing and 025s and 038s for finishing and notch work. The bossman is getting a 395 soon. he wants the extra bit o'power for slabbing the pine. The big Huskys kick serious butt with the high RPMs but I still prefer the torky small Stihl saws for tree work.

[Beirut]

A shot of our junk from last winter.

[ichi]

and a fine working truck bed that is.

I'll try to get a pic of our saw truck.

Your right that 460 can get pretty heavy, and the old 046 had some things that were better. Its pretty much the standard for crews around here.

We cut about 30% 10" and under, 50% 10-20", and 20% over 20 inches, mostly ponderosa but also oak, pinyon, and juniper.

I see you don't use full wrap grips. What kind of chain, skip or no?

ichi

[Beirut]

Full wrip grip? That's a new one on me.

Not sure about the skip chain either. We use the plain vanilla chains. We tried rip chains for slabbing but went back to standard. Though we do use thinner bars on the 385 for slabbing logs, 4.5mm instead of the usuall 7/32. Seems to give a nicer cut.

[Beirut]

This is probably 75% of what we do.


As he goes up, the branches come down.


You can just make out an Echo climbing saw on his belt. He can do about the next ten feet with the Echo but would probably switch to the 025. We'd leave as much of the trunk as possible, but not long enough to hit the house, and drop it from the ground with the 038.


Once it hits the ground, I buck it up with the 038, and it's all mine. All the way to the truck. Lucky me.


If it's clear shooting, we split the drops 50/50. If it's a climber, he takes the lead.

[ichi]

Here's a big pile of wood that we made one day to protect a giant telescope site (they like to build telescopes on tops of mountains).

This is the type of saw work we do

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[ichi]

and this is a thinning project that we are burning; we cut all of the small diameter trees, buck and limb, burn.

thats me on the right

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[Roark]

I've got a big Sachs Dolmar which was a gift from my old man. No idea what model it is though...

[edyzmedieval]

Tree killers!!!!!!

(I hope you are replanting the trees back!)

[Moros]

killing innocent trees, why don't you pick some of your own size!?

[Beirut]

Tree killers!!!!!!

(I hope you are replanting the trees back!)

Well, ya! Look above my avatar. It says it right there. Yeesh.

After the Great Ice Storm of '98 that left millions in the dark and cold for weeks, we were in Montreal repairing and taking down damaged trees. I finish a tree in the bucket and come down. This nerdly guy is watching, walks over and asks me in this snivelly whiny voice, "Do you plant a tree every time you cut one down?" I answered "No, but I don't go bang a broad and make a baby every time I kill someone either."

My Lord, the guy went white, spun around 180 degrees and disappeared like a fart in the mist. One of my best moments.

Ichi,

Very nice! I've never done fire work like that but the guy I work with has. You must stink like hell from the smoke after a day of that. Ever burn any saws?

I have cut a few trees on fire though. The tree - not me. We were clearing a lot for a house and dropping trees right onto the fire, which is a riot (target practice), and a 40' spruce that was to close caught fire right up at the top. I had to cut it down while the top ten feet were roaring. That'll get your pulse going. I'm sure you've done that many times.

Oh, and tell me about the wrap around grip on your Stihl. I'm still curious about that.

[Ja'chyra]

Tree killers!!!!!!

(I hope you are replanting the trees back!)

If you replanted the trees wouldn't thay just die as they've got no roots?

[Mongoose]

Tree killers!!!!!!

(I hope you are replanting the trees back!)

Well edyz, unless you live in a stone house, i don't think that you can really complain about it