600p at work
I was reading on this thread this afternoon after I finished some spraying. Then got juiced, I had some free time, so thought I would go down and beaver away some more at a giant twin hickory I have been working on in my spare time. Big fun!
I stopped cutting awhile ago on it because it was too muddy to get down there, but today it was dry enough so I took the sprayer off, stuck the box back on, and called the dogs and went down. I've been walking by periodically and stripping as much of that dinosaur scale bark off as I could with an axe, man, *that* helped with cutting it. Was able to finish up one of the two big logs there easy without dulling the chain like I was before trying to cut through the nasty bark and all that dirt under it. Worth the effort, a little "log prep". Before, cutting through that stuff, the chain would dull within 3-4 cuts.
Anyway, total I got well over thirty more big rounds to tote back up to the house, plus the whole other log left to cut. Lost track how many loads of wood this has been, a lot, more than three cords so far. Finished off the one log, got 18 more big rounds from it from where I stopped before, plus noodled off some knots and branch stubs so I could roll the dang things into the cargo box. There's technically six cuts left on that log, but hit the rot at the base that's fulla ants and stuff so stopped there. I will donate that chunk of log back into the eco-system..
Dang, I can't remember exactly what my carb is set at now, seems to me around an 1/8th to 1/4 richer on both screws from the factory stock setting. I'm leaving it there until I hit ten or twelve tanks now. (half way there today) It ran with the stock setting, just too fast and lean and I almost roached it. Even now I am not running it WOT, only around 3/4 to 7/8ths throttle, still cuts great, although I would have liked to have a larger bar than the 20 I have been using on this real big stuff. Oh, the plug looks fine there as well, not showing too lean/hot or excessive carbon rich.
