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I have a 1970 Stihl 070 New Jug, New piston, New carburetor with modified points. (I have the piston & carb that were in it when I bought it on the shelf) It fires on average between the 3rd & 6th pull from a true cold start. Once it hits though you can take your hands off it walk away and it...

Hi, I am looking to buy a professional chainsaw, I do however have some difficulty deciding because this will be my first ever pro saw. I have been looking at a Stihl ms 462c because I don’t like screwing around with carburettors but I do wanna eventually put a barkbox and some other...

I need some help with my jacaranda. Planted this from a seed and planted in the yard in North Central Florida. Thought it died during the winter, but it started growing again and now has these four “trunks”. All are about a thumbs width. Each is pretty strong and has a bunch of bottom off...

Hello everyone. I’m new to tree climbing and am looking for a good pair of boots for climbing spikes. I’ve got wide feet-2E, and I’m a larger guy at about 255lbs. I’m looking for some advice about what brands or styles to check out. I’ve noticed that barely any arborist boots come in any wide...

We really need to figure out a better way to maintain our saws. The biggest issue we run into on the job is, as always, dull saws that cut crooked all the way to hell. I was wondering what your recommendations are concerning the new strategies we are trying, and what strategies you’ve found the...

I set up an estate tree nursery a couple of years ago and now have around 550 trees, 18 species, ranging from 2m London Plane trees, Wild/ Bird Cherry, Wild Pear, Sweet/ Horse Chestnut, to smaller Silver Birch, English/Pin/Holm Oak, Walnut and Copper Beech. These are all pot grown and easy to...

We've noticed that a tree fungus of some sort has been growing around an old Hackberry Tree where an old lightning rod cable had eventually grown into the trunk of the tree. We've since gotten new cabling placed on the tree to avoid strikes. It's been present at the location about 3 months at...

Greetings! I've been a long time lurker, and only just now started posting. I am a hobby woodworker, and as I got more in to it with both flat work and turning on the lathe, the more interested I became in harvesting my own lumber. Fast forward to now, and I have a 56" mill with an MS661c, also...

I’m sure everything I’m going to ask has been hit before but I have searched for quite awhile on here through bad threads that won’t show up and also pictures.. purchased a 440 for $50 I am going to do some mods to it, dp muffler and cover, new piston and jug.. Id like to port out the ridges a...

Hey all, Looking for some help in my thought process with this tree and deciding mitigation. 65ft Bur Oak, codom split at about 7 ft, centralized column of decay 35%, healthy growth on side closest to lane, declining on opposite side. 50% root coverage from when lane was built 20 yrs...

Hello - We are thinking about selling our Japanese maple. It’s 33 years old and we are not sure what type of value it has and who would we sell it too. We don’t know the exact type either so any help or info would be appreciated. Thought I would ask the great folks here before contacting our...

Hello, Stihl MS291 has me baffled. This is the chain: STIHL 3689 005 0081 Oilomatic 26 RM3 81. I have sharpened countless chainsaws in my life using nothing but a file and I have never had a problem until I purchased this saw. I am doing everything right. I am holding a 3/16 file at a 30 degree...

Hello all, I have an Echo CS-306 that i purchased from a Home Depot that closed a few years ago, it was one of their rental saws and was rebuilt before they put it for sale, it came with no bar and chain so the fellow there recommends an Oregon 16in bar so that is what i purchased there at the...

all hello, first of all i am completely green at this so please be patient, back story is that after having worked for corporate America for a decade and been in an almost head on car accident i now have a new outlook in life, i will be starting two new businesses one that hopefully will give...

Hi guys i've just joined this forum and am hoping for some advice from the pros. I started using a chainsaw about 6 years ago, my grandad who is a very experienced but not professional chainsaw user (he used trees from his own land to heat his house for years: felling and bucking them) taught me...

Hey there, The question to the forum is, for someone with limited chainsaw knowledge, is it worth trying to purchase a used saw, or is the likelihood of making a bad purchase high enough that we should just sink the money into a new one? We've just purchased 3 acres of wooded North West...

Here's pics of my situation. It's leaning and limb weighted in the direction it needs to go down. Only concerns are: 1. Too far clockwise (CW) and we might lose gate posts and maybe some wire fence (no big deal). 2. Too far counter CW (CCW) and it gets into the two story garage. (BIG DEAL) 3...

Just picked up a Poulan Pro PP5020AV on Craigslist... first mistake. It was only 55$ and with a retail of around 200$ I thought, SCORE! Well, the saw didn't want to turn on the bar. (I fired it up when I bought it, but didn't want to look like a craigslist killer and start revving it up in the...

I recently came across a decent l65 made in Sweden, and this is my first chainsaw rebuild. Once I started messing with the saw i found it was locked up from corrosion(not from overheating) , and had a gas tank full of water. So I started by draining the tank and taking off all of the plastic...