Wasn't meant to be a personal attack, but I hate BS of any kind. I had an exchange with him once about some big tree logs I cut and was moving around in a mostly dry river bed on a job I contracted. He offered that I go down in there with a lawn tractor like the one he just rebuilt. This is fantasy stuff....only a skidder could have moved those logs with any efficacy. No skidder on that job so I had to winch the logs around by a dead man. I asked around about him after and read some of his other posts.
All good Amigo. And agreed on the smaller lighter saws and scale
im running a 500i and a 390 the most of any anymore. Sorry about your differences Amigos.
Nice cpuntry and steer
Wow I cant even imagine the cleanup
It's all good. There's a certain segment of forum types that live all up their heads and imagination. Generally, I let all that fly and sort itself out. But not about the 2100 and using it professionally for what it was made to do. Probably as close to a perfect felling/bucking saw that was ever made in its time. But its time has passed on to lighter, higher revving saws.All good Amigo. And agreed on the smaller lighter saws and scale
What about "double barring" it, where you cut in from each side? I had to buck up a couple 32 inch digger pine limbs with my 562 after the 2101 tensioner blew up so I just cut in from each side.
I know of a few trees by me that need a 42 if you want to do it in one pass, but most of them are long gone. A buddy who logged back in the 80's said he cut trees "where you'd have a 42 or 48 on the 2100 and your cuts still wouldn't meet in the middle". I've yet to see one that big that I can cut (legally) sadly.Yep, 2 X say 22 inches of viable bar length in the cut with a 24"bar gives 44"and where I live- that sure ain't no monster.
Because we do got em and we can cut em, is exactly why I picked up the 2100 a couple of few weeks back- to run at least a 42"on it to reach what a 36" from both sides cannot.
This is what's considered good sized in my neck of the woods. That guy is the logger I quoted a few posts back.
And this is what some of the timber he was in back in the day looked like: The guy standing on the logs ran a 2100 for awhile, then he joined the army and the saw sat till I got it!
Yeah, AS doesn't like photos stolen from my posts on O P E. I'm testing this Link to the photos.
Saw #1 is a buddy's 2100, it was a backup saw for a Mich-Cal logger and the firewood it cut put presents under the Christmas tree according to him. #'s 2 and 3 are my brudda's 2101, straight from the loggers hands to his. #4 is my beauty, she's not lean but she's a mean wood cuttin machine. On my mill it made my brother's near-new 395 feel like it had the power of a 372.
