Carrying saw on your shoulder?

[John Ellison]

Hahaha yea TarzanT I have done the same thing, but I was lucky and had a creek nearby.

 

[Meadow Beaver]

Its nice when you have a good distance to go, like down a road. but when your trompeling through the hills, carrying the saw by the handle bar is best. You want a low center of gravity when your in the hills. otherwise you can go tumbling like a vat of lard with a sharp ass saw looking you in the face...

i think shouldering a saw came from our fathers & Grand pappys that ran 30 lb powerheads attached to 35 lbs of bar & chain. you cannot carry a homie 990g with a 72'' bar hangin from your hand with out digging a trench. & if I was falling & bucking 120'' dbh reds all day, Ide try & keep my cutting tool as clean & sharp as I could, & that means NO DIRT CONTACT.

Just my take. . .




MM, When you gonna answer my question dude?? ?? ?? ??

Not enough,that's why I'll be either working for a gas company in the spring or I'll be working doing masonry and supervising the work.

 

[M.R.]

Although not on the shoulder for the thick stuff where one is making like a gopher. In the saw box I believe a still have the mule tape/rope & a piece of tubing/5/8" garden hose.
This makes a loop on the handle for the Left forearm to go thru to the elbow to grab the trigger handle when needed, & with large dogs on the saw, it's akin to a mountain climber using a ice axe the climb with.

 

[Curlycherry1]

Probably not the best way but I grab the top bar and swing it up onto my shoulder with powerhead down, blade pointing up and back of my hand resting on my shoulder. Easy to let go if trouble starts, but hard to get under low limbs, but most of all no pointy things by my neck. Add me to the list of folks that have been stuck in the neck by felling dogs.

 

[bitzer]

The bar oil down your back sucks, but it is better than gassing up your saw...forgetting to screw your caps back down...picking up saw with gas tank right at crotch level...feeling like you wet your pants...short while later feeling like you are on fire down there...wanting to go home and scrub in the shower, but not wanting to explain to the bull-buck why you have to go home. Don't ask me how I know.

Ha. ha. The last time I did that it was 90 degrees out and man did it burn! After a while I dropped my drawers to see if I was having some kind of reaction and for a little breeze. I've made sure the caps are on good and tight after that!




For me a zip up hooded sweatshirt keeps the dawgs and chisels from poking. My work clothes are so damn full of oil and grease and what not I'm not too worried about tearing them up.


And like Gologit said, In public looking all oily and ripped up keeps folks at a safe distance! The winter facial growth helps with that too!

 

[oregoncutter]

The bar oil down your back sucks, but it is better than gassing up your saw...forgetting to screw your caps back down...picking up saw with gas tank right at crotch level...feeling like you wet your pants...short while later feeling like you are on fire down there...wanting to go home and scrub in the shower, but not wanting to explain to the bull-buck why you have to go home. Don't ask me how I know.

I've had the worst luck of that happening with the stihl flip type caps! The bar oil don't bug me that bad, But could do without the gas down my pants.

 

[056kid]

The bar oil down your back sucks, but it is better than gassing up your saw...forgetting to screw your caps back down...picking up saw with gas tank right at crotch level...feeling like you wet your pants...short while later feeling like you are on fire down there...wanting to go home and scrub in the shower, but not wanting to explain to the bull-buck why you have to go home. Don't ask me how I know.

been there, its nice & cool then it starts to burn, then it feels like your skin is sluffing off

 

[joesawer]

Say what you will, but Husky has way better gas caps than Stihl.
I haven't had a gas or oil spill since I switched unless I just left the cap off and picked it up.
My old 066 used to loose a gas cap just about every time I didn't crank it down with a bar wrench. If it wasn't the gas it was the oil. Then I had to keep some spares close cause I would poke holes through them.
The dang flippy caps on small saws even after I figured out how to make sure that I worked them right where likely to get flipped open or break.
I don't remember ever replacing a Husky cap.
There aint nothin like sneaking a smoke in a tinder dry forest with knee deep duff and realizing you saw is leaking gas. And that is not just sweat soaked into your shirt and dripped out behind you.
But no more smokes for me.

 

[tramp bushler]

The bar oil down your back sucks, but it is better than gassing up your saw...forgetting to screw your caps back down...picking up saw with gas tank right at crotch level...feeling like you wet your pants...short while later feeling like you are on fire down there...wanting to go home and scrub in the shower, but not wanting to explain to the bull-buck why you have to go home. Don't ask me how I know.

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.I,ve done this , way more than once . the worst is swinging the saw up on the shoulder ,having forgot to put the gas cap back on ,,,, the first cold wet feeling is the last time you will feel good all day !!!!!!!.
. One time I had a hemlock top break out from under me , I had a 2100 Husky w/ 36" bar 404 52AJ hand chisel filed , Real sharp by yours truly ........I,m not exactly sure how it happened , but somehow I ended up upside down , head down feet straight up and the saws pistol grip was the first thing to land . ...2100s had real nice fallin dogs .nice and sharp too .. I can still feel the scar in the middle of my neck . Somehow the point of the dog hit a vertibra and not between them . I can still feel the scars on the side of my neck ...
.Sometimes , some people wonder why I prefer to stay on good terms with God !!!!It bled some , But it didn,t stop me from doing the fallin and notchin and packin haywire , and yes , pullin a thousand feet of haywire or so ... At the time I was pullin riggin in Rowan Bay ...We were makin a new layout at a new setting ... The hook tender had just walked up the same top with a block and a strap .. We knew it looked scary but it looked ok too .....guess it wasn,t .... But we got er anyway !!!!!!!! Gotta be tough to live in Alaska !!

 

[tramp bushler]

On the shoulder is the only way I could ever carry a ready to go saw for any distance. You have to be ready to get rid of it at all times without thinking about it. I seen a guy have a rigging fit while packing a saw. He levered it off his shoulder and the dogs caught in his collar, the bar kind of spun around his neck. Nothing serious, but a lot of blood and hollering and floping. We had a good laugh.

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[tramp bushler]

Probably not the best way but I grab the top bar and swing it up onto my shoulder with powerhead down, blade pointing up and back of my hand resting on my shoulder. Easy to let go if trouble starts, but hard to get under low limbs, Add me to the list of folks that have been stuck in the neck by felling dogs.

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. I do this all the time .. Save the bushlin arm as much as I can ....Bar pointing up ...The wrap part of the handle bar sits on the shoulder carring the weight of the saw ..

 

[Burvol]

I drag my saw by the pistol grip a lot when walking back down logs, or away from the stump. I have a big pad on my rigigng sack for the pack in and out, and a small one on my suspenders for the field.

 

[Curlycherry1]

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. I do this all the time .. Save the bushlin arm as much as I can ....Bar pointing up ...The wrap part of the handle bar sits on the shoulder carring the weight of the saw ..

I thought once about having a welder put an extra loop of handle up over the top handle that would rest on my shoulder and give me more protection for the top of my hand when cutting. Just a crazy idea I noodled once or twice.

 

[slowp]

A little day pack will help support the saw head when doing the shoulder carry.

It will also absorb or divert some of the oil.

 

[tramp bushler]

I drag my saw by the pistol grip a lot when walking back down logs, or away from the stump. I have a big pad on my rigigng sack for the pack in and out, and a small one on my suspenders for the field.

. When I get tired I drag mine around . I usually don,t admit that , but since you already did ..
I use it to pull me back up the tree to the butt pretty often ... But only when I have at least a 32" bar on ...

 

[John Ellison]

Do yever (I think that might be a southern word) walk the bar tip up the log ahead of you while you goose the throttle? You can always tell when somebody has by the trail it leaves.

 

[tramp bushler]

I call it pulling me up the log , but I do it on the flat also ......Some guys I,ve heard call it walking the dog .....

 

[Gypo Logger]

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.I,ve done this , way more than once . the worst is swinging the saw up on the shoulder ,having forgot to put the gas cap back on ,,,, the first cold wet feeling is the last time you will feel good all day !!!!!!!.
. One time I had a hemlock top break out from under me , I had a 2100 Husky w/ 36" bar 404 52AJ hand chisel filed , Real sharp by yours truly ........I,m not exactly sure how it happened , but somehow I ended up upside down , head down feet straight up and the saws pistol grip was the first thing to land . ...2100s had real nice fallin dogs .nice and sharp too .. I can still feel the scar in the middle of my neck . Somehow the point of the dog hit a vertibra and not between them . I can still feel the scars on the side of my neck ...
.Sometimes , some people wonder why I prefer to stay on good terms with God !!!!It bled some , But it didn,t stop me from doing the fallin and notchin and packin haywire , and yes , pullin a thousand feet of haywire or so ... At the time I was pullin riggin in Rowan Bay ...We were makin a new layout at a new setting ... The hook tender had just walked up the same top with a block and a strap .. We knew it looked scary but it looked ok too .....guess it wasn,t .... But we got er anyway !!!!!!!! Gotta be tough to live in Alaska !!

Speaking of mishaps, I got a jagger corkscrewed thru my leather glove and into my hand. Ouch. Not that it was the first time, but this time it was a bad one. I was on the landing and the winch was on freespool so I walked with the mainline towards the toolbox on the tailgate, however, the mainline came up five feet short, leaving no other choice but to yank it out. Lol
It swelled up really fast!
Gypo

 

[tramp bushler]

That makes my hand hurt just reading it ..OOOWWWWWW

... Ya . Hands are pretty special things .. one time I drove the tang of a 1/8th " round file from my palm into my wrist bone .. I was cleaning out the oiler screw hex heads on a 394 with the sharp tang of the file . I was in my saw shop and went to set the file up on the bench , I had the power head on the lower bin bench .. I had a 32" bar screwed to the face of the bench for fileo plating my riders ... The end of the file must of hit straight on and my arm stopped moving when the point of the tang hit one of the bones in my wrist .. I looked at it and thot , hhuummmm this ain,t good , weighed my options for a sec , grabbed the entd of the file in my left hand and pulled it out almost 3 " of it was wet from blood and fluid ....... I got mad then and went back to working on the oiler when the saw shop walls started closeing in and my knees got pretty shakey ..... I figured I better go sit down for a bit , so I did ... Worked the next day , Bad idea . Went on some pretty skookum anti biotics that night ......Hand healed up fine , but it was 2 years before I could make myself file without a handle on the tang of a round or 3 corner chisel bit file .............

 

[mile9socounty]

Blah blah blah. Just pack the damn thing. Either way anyone chooses to pack it is the way they will. I pack it over my shoulder. You might pack it by the front handle bar.