New chainsaw use

[turnkey4099]

This only works if you meet the following conditions:

Have 3 saws
Have just sharped all three
Only one does not have a spar loop

Then that one saw can be used as a barb wire cutter.

I fell a big tree (34" dbh) this morning into some 4' tall grass. Grabbed my Husky 51 (limb/trim saw) and proceeded. Second cut hit a chunk of rusty barb wire sticking up out of the ground. At least now I can cut curves.

Harry K

 

[TwoTurboVolvos]

Ouch! Sorry Bud!
At least it cut the wire and not get caught-up and wound around the sprocket...Just the sound of it makes me cringe.
Ron

 

[retoocs555]

Ouch! Sorry Bud!
At least it cut the wire and not get caught-up and wound around the sprocket...Just the sound of it makes me cringe.
Ron

I've seen one saw that met that fate... It was UGLY. And that was an all metal saw, I can't imagine what it would to to all the plastic in a 51.

 

[turnkey4099]

Ouch! Sorry Bud!
At least it cut the wire and not get caught-up and wound around the sprocket...Just the sound of it makes me cringe.
Ron

Does getting the wire wrapped around your leg count? That is how I found out what happened.

Harry K

 

[SteveH]

About twenty yr. ago I was out in the woods and cut into a tree miles from anywhere, not so big, about 18" diam., and when the bar quit moving thru and the chips quit coming out I eventually found about a 20 p. size nail way down about the center of the trunk. Very old nail. It happens. But, then another time, was clearing some standing dead spruce and it happens again. Only that time it was a rock buried deep in the tree, about an inch diam. stone. The Stihl dealer, who has a pretty good sense of humor, fell off his stool laughing and didn't believe me, so I cut out that chunk of wood and took it by his shop. Got a new chain, two weeks later same dang thing, same stand of spruce, another stone. Oh, well.

But last week was taking down a 29" ash for a friend, dead tree threatening his roof, and split a piece to find a ten–inch eyebolt buried a foot in the thing, completely grown over, my cutting path was about 1/8 inch from it where my brand new [first-use] $60 Stihl bar had gone thru. Guess I figured out how to do things right after all those stones and nails.

 

[turnkey4099]

I have hit my share (maybe more than my share) of stuff in trees. This was the first time I hit metal not associated with a tree. The nice thing about that wire was it was right in the middle of my working area and I had no wire cutters with me. Spent the rest of my time out there being snagged by it. I still have 1/2 the tree to work up and wire cutters will be going with me!

Harry K

 

[clearance]

A few years ago I was on a three man utility removal crew, we cut down an old maple that had an old tree fort in it. For about three hours all I did was sharpen two 372s with 24" bars and a 288 with a 32" bar, they got dulled on nails and sharpened, again and again. The guy would boom down, and we would trade saws. Used up a few files, what a pita.

 

[wmthrower]

I hit a screw on a brand new chain last week. Pain in the butt to get it back right. I told my local dealer and he just smiled. The worst thing he says is to hit a spile left in the maples. They used to be wood and you'd be ok but now they are all metal. Ouch!