Anyone into chainsaws?

[spdracrm3]

cut about 4-6 cords a year with a Stihl 041 super AV 32" bar (needed to drop 100' firs) just upgraded my one hand 015 limber with a new 017.(cant find parts for the 015 anymore,was a great saw i got for my 15th birthday)

split wood with my Mitsubishi tractor mounted hyd log splitter, grew tired of hand splitting!

[Smelser]

speaking of chain saws, I just got back in the house, took me three hours to fire the JD tractor, treked into the bush and pulled out 3 100' ash trees, cut and split them for burning wood for the rest of feb. in two days, I will pull a bunch more to tide me over till mid march.

[lti_57]

I use them when i have to gain access to my Transmitter site
or when the pines grow so big they block my Microwave site.
i have dropped about an 75-80 ft pine.
it was a RUSH.
This young lady was my next door neighbor here in Spokane.




she represented Stihl in Lumber Jill competition
yeah thats her with the killer abs

[mrsleeve]

Growing up on a small farm in the mid west that heated with wood most of the time I learned how to run a saw early on, and more than likely earlier than I should have in all honesty. The 2 stihl's my dad had were always in the shop and the (IIRC) the rancher he had NEVER ran right. So when I was old enough kinda followed my grandpa and went with the sweeds and bought a nice though older Jonsered 621 form about 1978 (this was 1992) and converted it over to the solid state electronic ignition from a 70. (IIRC) With only a 16" bar and a relatively low RPM smaller displacement saw, it is a cutting little bastard


Edit: went out to the garage and dug it out, its not a 621 its a 49SP

I have not had a whole lot of need for a saw outside of little shit since I left the farm and working on the neighbors farms a few years latter so my knowledge on saws is all but gone. Though I am working on getting to a place here before too long that I will likely need to be in the know again...... Living where I do, this is LOGGER country, and also Sthil country and one of the best custom saw builders anywhere is here in town..

quickervicar: Yes everyone should own a big jonsered

[kickinindian]

I'd love to hear his recipe for a hot saw

I run an 026 Stihl, but have been lusting after something bigger like a Jonsered 630 Super or Stihl for years. Admit it. We all wish we had a big Jonsered.

I'll ask him about it he worked as a Timber stand improvement foreman for like 14yrs so that was chainsaw work 8hrs every day 5 days a week all year, he loves it though, he has got older so now he trains and starts fires, and draws maps. He has a cool collection of saws an old 2 man saw, fucking huge, from the early 1910s and a huge ass McCullough, his hot stihl, a smaller stihl and a cheap ass Woodshark for limbing trees when he climbs for side jobs. Also another word of wisdom always watch your tip so it doesn't Bounce back at you, and never wrap your thumb around the grips, and sharpen your fucking chains!

[jalopi]

My parents bought me some $200ish stihl chainsaw in exchange for cutting one of their trees down a few years ago. First time using a chainsaw or cutting down a tree, kinda surprised I didn't get crushed or maimed.

Regardless, pretending I was in Gears of War was pretty sweet

[quickervicar]

I should really get my dad in here he trains and certifies all the fallers for the USFS in California. His baby is a hybrid stihl he has custom pistons and it's over bored and the intake and exhaust are all posted out. Fastest fucking saw I've ever used I'll try to get some pictures later also tip from him bigger the bar the better for your back

I'd love to hear his recipe for a hot saw

I run an 026 Stihl, but have been lusting after something bigger like a Jonsered 630 Super or Stihl for years. Admit it. We all wish we had a big Jonsered.

[CorvallisBMW]

Dude I love chainsaws

[kickinindian]

I should really get my dad in here he trains and certifies all the fallers for the USFS in California. His baby is a hybrid stihl he has custom pistons and it's over bored and the intake and exhaust are all posted out. Fastest fucking saw I've ever used I'll try to get some pictures later also tip from him bigger the bar the better for your back

[tinkerputzer]

I haven't used a chain saw in years, but growing up (in the midwest) we heated our house with a wood furnace so chainsaw use was frequent. Stihls were alway the go to. Never any problems, just basic maintenance.

I found an old McCulloch in a shed on my grand parents farm that hadn't been used in decades. For fun i took it to shop class and cleaned it up. A basic carb cleaning and a new spark plug and it ran like a champ. It was neat but compared to the stihls it kind of sucked to use.

This is basically the same saw as the one i fixed up.

[Smelser]

we burn over 30 chord of wood a season, at the bare minimum. hand split and cut with my grandfathers old sthil 023

thing just keeps going, had several new chains, new bar. new drive gear (old one wore out so bad it wouldnt move the chain and jumped)
new fuel tank vent, new filters and spark plugs all the time cause I foul them up so bad
had to epoxy the vent nipple on the tank. the brake is broken on the one side but still works, clean out the exhuast screen once or twice a year

love my chain saw

[LuckyHenriksen]

I am a fan of a good chainsaw session. I don't own any but have used quite a few different stihl saws, both chainsaw and chop saw. Definitely the brand I would go with if I ever purchase one

[xxx-Lost-Soul-xxx]

because i needed a saw a couple weeks ago, i went out and purchased a fucking used piece of shit poulan at the local pawn shop. i took the carb apart, cleaned it, adjusted the carb. it ran great for about 10 cuts and then quit. i can't get the damn thing to run for the life of me. it is getting gas and spark. pos!!!!

i put sta-bil in my tools before i store them away. unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be enough.

did you see if the piston is scorn? I get a bunch of saws in that have scorn pistons.

BTW if any of you are looking. We have a 021,024AV,038,044,056 For sale on consignment.

we are no longer a Stihl dealer,but we have pretty much all parts. including chains and bars.

[nando]

I have a POS 18" Homelite. it's got an awful tensioning system that comes loose while you're using it, and the chain falls off all the time. It also has some sort of heat soak issue where it will overheat and stall, or if I shut it off hot I can't start it again for a few hours. Probably just need to rebuild the carb, but it pisses me off either way.

But, I don't really need anything crazy, and I've already cleared most of the big stuff from my property. There's only two small trees left to come down.

[naplesE30]

We use stihl at my work, as do almost all contractors that we have do tree work for us. They have given us good value, and have held up well through several hurricanes. 2005 was a rough year for us as we had 5 hurricanes affect our property. We had some old husquvarna(spelling) that were abused so I cant really vouch for them. A chainsaw is only as good as its operator. We have mostly soft wood down here, slash pine, and banyan for the most part are what we use them on. Only prob we have is the sap, and milk from the soft woods can tend to gum up the bar/chain oiler which the operator needs to be dilligent about keeping clean.
Also the stihls can be a bit underpowered espc when using a more aggresive chain, although that may not be the case when dealing with harder woods, just with the soft woods it cuts so fast its easy to bog them down.


One other thing.....chaps are a must, they have saved my leg from serious damage. Litteraly made my last cut of the day and due to fatigue just never engaged the brake, turned to walk up the river bank I was working on, and brough my thigh right into the free spinning chain. It would have fucked me up had I not had on chaps.