Happy Labor Day weekend everyone. I'm a homeowner, not a pro. I'm going to combine a couple of four year old historical threads into this new one. I wussed out and gave my 288 to a local Husqy dealer because it won't run like I want it to. He called and said he wanted to put a new carb and a bunch of gaskets on it for $175. His diagnosis was that the high set was about 10k RPM and it was running too rich, so he bumped the high to 12.5k and adjusted the low set and idle. He said it cut good, but that his adjustments wouldn't hold; like the carb was no good. I'm not sure that's the problem and here are the symptoms:
What I did to the saw in Feb 2020
My big oak I saved for four years
When we cut the 10k pound strap in the big oak, it held up. I cut it down because I didn't want it to uproot and it was heading that way. Another tree in the backyard uprooted and I cut the whole thing in 9-inch rounds because a friend wanted short splits for his offset smoker. The 288 went through all those 24-inch rounds but it bogged down a lot and I had to crank it several times to finish.
- Have to pull hard "1-2-3" about half the rope to get the compression out, let wind back up, then pull to crank. Takes 4-5 of these pulls to start it.
- It wants to bog down in big wood; chain (full comp H47) comes to a complete stop at full throttle sometimes and I have to back it out.
- When it gets hot, it doesn't want to stay running and it won't idle well.
What I did to the saw in Feb 2020
My big oak I saved for four years
When we cut the 10k pound strap in the big oak, it held up. I cut it down because I didn't want it to uproot and it was heading that way. Another tree in the backyard uprooted and I cut the whole thing in 9-inch rounds because a friend wanted short splits for his offset smoker. The 288 went through all those 24-inch rounds but it bogged down a lot and I had to crank it several times to finish.
