FarmerTec Huztl MS660 Updated Build Kit - Build Thread

[golddredgergold]

Ordered a 42" bar for my ms660. Be here next week Friday. Will post pics when it arrives.

 

[Marco]

I have often wondered how that works. Let's say someone drives something in a young tree around ground level, 90 years later guy cuts the tree down and is sawing it up and gets a surprise 60 ft up. Is that likely the same item that was in the tree? And I really think a detector would work and save time and money long term. There are huge tree contractors who might know more about what's in use, or saw Mills might have something they run the sticks through before they hit the blades. I will try to ask the guys next time I see those trucks.

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trees grow out and add to the top, fence wire stays the same height

 

[Bedford T]

trees grow out and add to the top, fence wire stays the same height

so how does a piece of metal make it up 60 ft in the air?

this answered my question and gave me a different way to think about it.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/ho...s-when-big-blades-strike-heavy-metal-8732613/

 

[Bedford T]

Ordered a 42" bar for my ms660. Be here next week Friday. Will post pics when it arrives.

i bet that is one heavy bar.

 

[Marco]

so how does a piece of metal make it up 60 ft in the air?

this answered my question and gave me a different way to think about it.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/ho...s-when-big-blades-strike-heavy-metal-8732613/

Autistic tree rats will haul gravel.
Tree huggers at one time showed activists how to spike trees.

 

[Brian Thacker]

I would bet someone hung something up there at some point. Maybe their was a tree house or I have seen people mount dusk to dawn lights in trees. A kid playing, Who knows but what ever it was sent sparks out. Their was a storm coming in and it was getting dark so I could see the sparks well. I was afraid of the trunk because it had a lot of blue in it but would not have suspected anything up this high.

Brian

 

[golddredgergold]

i bet that is one heavy bar.

Yes going to weigh a bit but I cut large redwood and poderosa slabs and logs regularly. So need a large bar.

 

[golddredgergold]

Hey a heads up. Mitty has the wj76 carbs back in stock. Just ordered mine.

 

[Stihl 041S]

Ordered a 42" bar for my ms660. Be here next week Friday. Will post pics when it arrives.

What kind did you get?
Good price?

 

[golddredgergold]

What kind did you get?
Good price?

Forester bar on ebay with chain and one of the super coupon codes was $104 delivered. Could not pass that up. I have a 20" forester on my 041av and its great. No problem s. So I went ahead and got one for my ms660

 

[MG porting]

Forester bar on ebay with chain and one of the super coupon codes was $104 delivered. Could not pass that up. I have a 20" forester on my 041av and its great. No problem s. So I went ahead and got one for my ms660

Yea that's a smoking deal.

 

[Bedford T]

In the interest of WTF, I set off on a hunt on a solution. I found the chains used here on the rescue saws. Rapco, I checked for a 16" chain that might live through surprises is 150$ for that small size and about 47$ to sharpen, it's .60 a link to sharpen. It will last about 25x longer than regular chain between sharpenings. It would be ok to pay 47$ after an encounter.

But reading that article made it clear somebody put it there.

Love to hear how you like the bar. It would be nice to have a longer one, cause you never know. Iif I cut for a living I would buy a long bar and spent a fortune on a carbide chain for it.

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[MG porting]

In the interest of WTF, I set off on a hunt on a solution. I found the chains used here on the rescue saws. Rapco, I checked for a 16" chain that might live through surprises is 150$ for that small size and about 47$ to sharpen, it's .60 a link to sharpen. It will last about 25x longer than regular chain between sharpenings. It would be ok to pay 47$ after an encounter.

But reading that article made it clear somebody put it there.

Love to hear how you like the bar. It would be nice to have a longer one, cause you never know. Iif I cut for a living I would buy a long bar and spent a fortune on a carbide chain for it.

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Yea it's crazy how much they want for chains even Stihl chains aren't cheap there good but not cheap.

 

[Bedford T]

Yea it's crazy how much they want for chains even Stihl chains aren't cheap there good but not cheap.

I am taking trees down, slowly. I want to cut the stumps even with the ground and tails of metal worried me. I am a tight wad or poor, lol which ever works best. So 150$ 16" chain makes me a little crazy

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[MG porting]

I am taking trees down, slowly. I want to cut the stumps even with the ground and tails of metal worried me. I am a tight wad or poor, lol which ever works best. So 150$ 16" chain makes me a little crazy

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Yea unfortunately I feel your pain. Stumping is a tuff one on chains just for the simple fact your close to the ground and rocks never fun when you get half way through and oops dang rock in the middle of the stump.

 

[morbius18]

I am taking trees down, slowly. I want to cut the stumps even with the ground and tails of metal worried me. I am a tight wad or poor, lol which ever works best. So 150$ 16" chain makes me a little crazy

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I've got an ms250 with 18" bar for stump cutting. I cut them flush with the dirt. We're adding 3/4 acre of woods to our horse pasture. I'm having to do the same thing so I can get the bush hog over them.

On a related note: one of my brother's friends bought this 660. It had a 36" in non skip tooth chain and bar. It pulled and didn't bog in this maple:


It had a chain tensioner issue, that I'm switching out for him tomorrow.

 

[MG porting]

I've got an ms250 with 18" bar for stump cutting. I cut them flush with the dirt. We're adding 3/4 acre of woods to our horse pasture. I'm having to do the same thing so I can get the bush hog over them.

On a related note: one of my brother's friends bought this 660. It had a 36" in non skip tooth chain and bar. It pulled and didn't bog in this maple:

View attachment 643933
It had a chain tensioner issue, that I'm switching out for him tomorrow.

That was definitely a old maple.

 

[Bedford T]

I've got an ms250 with 18" bar for stump cutting. I cut them flush with the dirt. We're adding 3/4 acre of woods to our horse pasture. I'm having to do the same thing so I can get the bush hog over them.

On a related note: one of my brother's friends bought this 660. It had a 36" in non skip tooth chain and bar. It pulled and didn't bog in this maple:

View attachment 643933
It had a chain tensioner issue, that I'm switching out for him tomorrow.

That's a good size tree, looks like it handled it. My 025 wound up with a sticky engine and I am replacing the piston, going to order tomorrow. I also think I have that FarmerTec ms250 kit running. There were so many poor parts I set it aside. I have replaced everything significant now. Yesterday, I pinched the coil wire and ran a screw through the wire while tightening it down so I gotta get a wire too. The 250 sounds like it will be my stump saw then. Do you use a carbide chain on it?

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[morbius18]

That's a good size tree, looks like it handled it. My 025 wound up with a sticky engine and I am replacing the piston, going to order tomorrow. I also think I have that FarmerTec ms250 kit running. There were so many poor parts I set it aside. I have replaced everything significant now. Yesterday, I pinched the coil wire and ran a screw through the wire while tightening it down so I gotta get a wire too. The 250 sounds like it will be my stump saw then. Do you use a carbide chain on it?

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Mine is an oem 250 I got for $150 from a pawn shop. I did a muffler mod and carb adjust. I use plain chain, I have 3 that I rotate. I usually have to hand file it 2 or 3 strokes after each dirt expedition though. The biggest that I had to do were 2 empress/princess trees that were about 16 inches though. Most were under 12.

I'm building an 026 pro that might take its place, but I don't know if I can bring myself to use it in the dirt...

 

[Bedford T]

Mine is an oem 250 I got for $150 from a pawn shop. I did a muffler mod and carb adjust. I use plain chain, I have 3 that I rotate. I usually gave to hand file it 2 or 3 strokes after each dirt expedition though. The biggest that I had to do were 2 empress/princess trees that were about 16 inches though. Most were under 12.

My 025 was a pawn find.

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