Throttle blipping habit

Crofter · Jun 3, 2007

Did you ever work around someone who constantly blipps the throttle on a saw when its not in the cut! Brrmmmmmmmm----- brummm --brrumm--brummm, :chainsaw:

constantly! drives me nuts!

I can see it necessary sometimes on a cold saw for a few seconds.
It is interesting to listen to people in the distance cutting wood. You hear bogging and rocking to make the saw cut and that throttle blipping. Ocassionally you hear someone cutting that you can envision as knowing how to run a saw and sharpen a chain.

belgian · Jun 3, 2007

Dayuuum Frank, I admit it happens to me hitting the throttle also sometimes, just for the fun of it. I looooove the power and acceleration of a well tuned two cycle engine. Silly I know, but that's still the boy in me, I guess :chainsawguy: :chainsawguy:

Fish · Jun 3, 2007

It comes from being used to running saws that do not run right, you have to keep goosing or else they die.

WRW · Jun 3, 2007

Those using smaller powerheads sometimes have to blip the throttle out of the cut to clear chips from the cutting attachment...especially on long horizontal cuts and/or ripping cuts with the grain. Nothing constant, though.

Goosing...is that like CPR? Who dies, the saw or the sawyer?

Log Splitter · Jun 3, 2007

Fish said:
It comes from being used to running saws that do not run right, you have to keep goosing or else they die.

Yep, that's how I developed my bad habit. After I bought the Stihls, and then learned how to tune up my old Poulans (thanks to AS), I've recovered.

JoeCanuck · Jun 3, 2007

They're probably Harley riders. Virtually every Harley rider does this too. It's like some kind of disease. I never rode a Harley but have ridden with many who do.

Guess what? - V twins vibrate at idle. That's normal. It won't stall. As soon as you accelerate it'll smooth out, I promise. So enough with the throttle blipping already.

Joe

RiverRat2 · Jun 3, 2007

Ya know,,,, U R right!!!!

:chainsawguy: :chainsawguy: :chainsawguy:

04ultra · Jun 3, 2007

JoeCanuck said:
They're probably Harley riders. Virtually every Harley rider does this too. It's like some kind of disease. I never rode a Harley but have ridden with many who do.

Guess what? - V twins vibrate at idle. That's normal. It won't stall. As soon as you accelerate it'll smooth out, I promise. So enough with the throttle blipping already.

Joe

Seems to me I see guys on V-Twin bike's from a lot of manufactures do that....

Aint just a Harley thing..

.

clearance · Jun 3, 2007

Fish said:
It comes from being used to running saws that do not run right, you have to keep goosing or else they die.

Yep.

belgian · Jun 3, 2007

Fish said:
It comes from being used to running saws that do not run right, you have to keep goosing or else they die.

LOL, :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: You ain't right...

mountainlake · Jun 3, 2007

I'm guilty, I know I shouldn't. You want hear real throttle blipping just listen to kids on snowmobiles, at least 10 times to get across the street. Steve

rreidnauer · Jun 3, 2007

Hmm, I saw this very activity going on at the Dolmar display, at the show I was at this weekend. They had a woodcarver there, and any time he was sizing up his next move, it was "wing-wing-wing,wing-wing,wing." Jeez! I hope that's not a sign of their performance. (but I did see him having quite some difficulty starting his saws

I thought, "that's not the best advertising")

Crofter · Jun 3, 2007

I think it is a terminal disease. If you put those guys on a hoe or FE loader they will switch to rattling the bucket open four or five times every dump, like they were trying to shake snot off a finger; wear the linkage out and hammer the cylinders in no time at all. A company I worked for had to run off an operator that couldnt stop doing that. Just couldnt help himself.
I think Fish is right about where it started, but it is contagious and impressionable young guys like Belgian get conditioned just by watching! Lol :chainsawguy: :chainsawguy:

geofore · Jun 3, 2007

blipping

Crofter, don't kid yourself, I've caught harry homowners doing the same blipping with their electric chainsaws.

JoeCanuck · Jun 3, 2007

Electr-blipping

geofore said:
Crofter, don't kid yourself, I've caught harry homowners doing the same blipping with their electric chainsaws.

You know you're right. Over the years I've seen a lot of guys blipping the bejeezus out of Sawzalls (the handyman's favourite WMD)

Joe

John Ellison · Jun 3, 2007

Video Game Syndrome

Cut4fun · Jun 3, 2007

Nothing like a good blip to get the blood flowing through the Ole body or is that Viagra. :hmm3grin2orange:

RaisedByWolves · Jun 3, 2007

I do it to make sure theres still bar oil flowing, just like the manual says. :clap:

Pump and blip, pump and blip.......

But then again I prefer saws with manual oilers, why I do this with my pickup is still a mystery, even to me.

belgian · Jun 3, 2007

Cut4fun said:
Nothing like a good blip to get the blood flowing through the Ole body or is that Viagra. :hmm3grin2orange:

Ahhhhhhhh.... a soulmate

ShoerFast · Jun 3, 2007

Old saws, it has been mentioned, you had to, they seldom would idle , seals were not as good and leaked , bearings were not built at tightly, whacking out the timing on the points, oil would drop out of the mix, blipping was just another way to keep it running.

It took me years to learn how to run the bar-oil tank empty at the same time the fuel would run out, just as long it seems to find a place to rest my thumb on an auto-oiler, and showing no sign as of yet on the throttle thing,,,, I will confess,

My name is Kevin, and I to am a throttle blipper, there I said it.

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