Ironhorse

[The Shooters Apprentice]

I thought calling everyone "friends" was a Canadian thing. Tinman does it too. I watch him occasionally. Billy Ray is kinda hard to take but I like his enthusiasm for old chainsaws.

He’s the equivalent of someone giving cocaine to a 7 year old with ADHD, but I still find him entertaining, which is why I watch YouTube usually.

 

[Catfish044]

Not much for the YouTube guys with their mouth constantly running spinning circles , I do however like watching this one guys videos he just puts ripping saws in big wood (or small wood) and gives them a hot supper , no talk no bs just guy running great saws he built

 

[Sierra_rider]

He's got a few Donnie walker ported saws and has known him for some time, IH gave BBR a saw, not sure about tinman though.

It's not a knock on Donnie Walker, but I've heard he does pretty mild builds. Minimal machine work, mostly cleans up the ports, etc. Again, it's not a knock...his saws have to be uber-reliable work saws that pull long bars well...and he certainly has a good reputation for reliable work saws. It could just be that even a complete buffon like IH got lucky on a particular saw and ol' BBR thought it was the best thing since sliced bread.

 

[Czed]

If anybody decides to watch a BBR video, about 5 minutes of his 40+ minute videos is all you, I or anybody has to see. Hit the fast forward till something of interest flashes on the screen. The "friends" stuff gets old, but what is really really annoying is him banging away on his drum set. WTF!?!? Who is that for?

Don't forget he also sells 400.00+ axes most of which people gave him the axe head's

 

[user 183019]

billy ray is an island fellow like myself and he appreciates the 7.5 cube mccullochs like myself. ive watched his channel off and on since its beginning. feel i should probably open my mouth at this point. billy gets no pie from that donkey. why would he. hes busy working and i believe he is unaware of whats been going on with this fellow and the slander that has resulted from his associations. donkey lives somewhere in ny? billy from the beginning was obviously not a saw tuner or builder he is not aware enough or naive to realize this donkey was floppy. donkey capitalized on his loose associations with billy. i watched a couple of his videos and the one with his son bird dogging the camera was the last. tinman is a business man. seemingly more straight up. he is building on what billy started. watch his first videos. when he starts using the friends terminology. its painful. all channels will have there sycophants. id like to hear evidence that billy was dishonest in any way. his saws he mostly accumulated before his channel started. he is a silly guy. he is putting on a show to some degree. he is a good faller and arborist. the message of work hard be honest and help out resonates with myself and others im not sure how that is bad. seems maybe people shooting off at the mouth are envious. i dont like talking without the subject present. thats weak. the walkers reputation needs no defense.

 

[user 122190]

billy ray is an island fellow like myself and he appreciates the 7.5 cube mccullochs like myself. ive watched his channel off and on since its beginning. feel i should probably open my mouth at this point. billy gets no pie from that donkey. why would he. hes busy working and i believe he is unaware of whats been going on with this fellow and the slander that has resulted from his associations. donkey lives somewhere in ny? billy from the beginning was obviously not a saw tuner or builder he is not aware enough or naive to realize this donkey was floppy. donkey capitalized on his loose associations with billy. i watched a couple of his videos and the one with his son bird dogging the camera was the last. tinman is a business man. seemingly more straight up. he is building on what billy started. watch his first videos. when he starts using the friends terminology. its painful. all channels will have there sycophants. id like to hear evidence that billy was dishonest in any way. his saws he mostly accumulated before his channel started. he is a silly guy. he is putting on a show to some degree. he is a good faller and arborist. the message of work hard be honest and help out resonates with myself and others im not sure how that is bad. seems maybe people shooting off at the mouth are envious. i dont like talking without the subject present. thats weak. the walkers reputation needs no defense.

If anybody wants to see BBR at his best, he has his character Cleetus. Giant teeth, drools a bit, and explains the difficult to explain. Hilarious stuff.

Here's one.

Cleetus, explains "Get the Gullet"

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

I’m not sure that BBR would intentionally screw people over.

You want to ask the Dentist that sent him a free 288XP for evaluation about who craps on who.

 

[bwalker]

I thought calling everyone "friend" was a Canadian thing. Tinman does it too. I watch him occasionally. Billy Ray is kinda hard to take but I like his enthusiasm for old chainsaws.

I lived in NW Ontario for six years and delt with people from all over the country. While Canadians are very nice people in general I never heard a single one refer to someone as "friend" repeatedly.
I think BBR got into to much acid at some point in time.

 

[user 183019]

You want to ask the Dentist that sent him a free 288XP for evaluation about who craps on who.

link to evidence? if you sent me a free saw i would be crapping on you?

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

link to evidence? if you sent me a free saw i would be crapping on you?

Its Christmas Eve here- I have better things to do, but I'm sure if you search through youtube you will find videos pertaining to unboxing a 288 that had claims made about it that the receiver may not have wanted to admit, the saw builder might have said something about someone on another forum that got someone elses goat up and the saw might have been passed forward to a son or some such state of affairs.

 

[user 183019]

Its Christmas Eve here- I have better things to do, but I'm sure if you search through youtube you will find videos pertaining to unboxing a 288 that had claims made about it that the receiver may not have wanted to admit, the saw builder might have said something about someone on another forum that got someone elses goat up and the saw might have been passed forward to a son or some such state of affairs.

what claims? genuinely curious. sent a free saw for "evaluation"..i dont get yours or the senders reasoning.

 

[user 183019]

better things? like talk smack about someone across an ocean from you? if i made claims like you have id stick around and back them up.

 

[toppers]

Having watched all these characters on Youtube I'll say that BBR actually comes across as a genuinely good person, but does mention he has a history of drug use and mixing with that crowd. Yeah, the friends and peace / love messages are overbearing. And his videos are all 35+ minutes, that's just too long. Show me how to do something in 5 minutes, I don't want to hear 30 minutes of FRIENDS. Tinman is beating up the "friends" thing too but he seems a bit more knowledgeable than the others about saw tuning.

I get the not-so-great vibes from Ironhorse. It's all about him and talking up a big game about being some legendary logger with his son creeping in the background and lapping it up, very weird. The son gives me worse vibes to be honest.

But like has been said 100x in this thread, never send a saw to a Youtuber personality.

Can anyone link a good chainsaw youtuber that isn't a part of this circle? It's a pretty small circle and I don't want to really follow any of them for above mentioned reasons.

 

[huskihl]

better things? like talk smack about someone across an ocean from you? if i made claims like you have id stick around and back them up.

I don’t care to dig for the buried thread either but it happened like he said

 

[user 183019]

I don’t care to dig for the buried thread either but it happened like he said

as in someone donated a saw and felt they were ripped off? again i dont understand this persons reasoning. is the thread on this site? thanks sir.

 

[davidwyby]

I don't watch a lot of YT, but BBR's old stuff is good. He got caught up like they all do. Wranglerstar was the first that went that way real big that I recall.
Bjarne is the real deal. Guilty of Treeson is cool and humble, still learning. I'd like to get him down here to whack some big eucalyptus with me some day.

afleetcommand (@weimedog) is fun to hang out with on YT.

I think the 288 was a lot of misunderstanding/miscommunication.

It would be interesting for BBR to get his hands on on good eastern porter's torquey saw and feel it pull.

*cough* @huskihl *cough* haha

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

better things? like talk smack about someone across an ocean from you? if i made claims like you have id stick around and back them up.

The whole shooting match is out there in public domains- you can type things here, so I am sure you can use Google as well.
Im not smack talking anybody- but not everyone is gold gilded.
You could always ask over the Island Christmas dinner table? You have a good one now.

 

[davidwyby]

I think the dentist issued a bit of a challenge that the saw didn't quite live up to and BBR ain't into 288s. Me, I luvs 'em. BBR didn't really slam it as I recall, but would have been nice if he was nicer to it. The dentist is also reproducing cool NLA parts for 288s like Eliminator tops and I think he was hoping for some publicity on that he didn't get.

https://mattschainsawparts.com/prod...288xp-181-281-high-top-cover-new-sample-blue/

 

[user 183019]

link to evidence? if you sent me a free saw i would be crapping on you?

feel free to elaborate. i dont think its funny. something was said by the builder of a saw that ended up with billy and so billy is crapping on the sender?

 

[huskihl]

The fella that sent it kinda asked for some publicity to help the sale of his re-pop 288 lids but he didn’t get any.