Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

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Did you have to break out the silenced 22mag and with a streamlite mounted on it .
Great job .

My first Mustang, a 1967 289 4 speed fastback, had Goodyear Polyglass belted wide ovals, they were considered Bad A$$ at the time. I did a lot of "drifting" with that car before I ever heard of the term!

Yea, there is an advantage to owning a Husky saw ... there are always plenty of parts saws available to help you out with repairs!!!

Muddstopper, Real nice Buck, but don't drink the water he was drinking!!!

What your saying is you were probably doing it before it was a term.
That sounds like a great time, I can't wait until winter, then I can get sideways without getting in to much trouble .
I've actually sold way more stihl parts saws. I just finally got my hands on a 562 with a scored piston, been waiting a while for one.
One bummer to owning a stihl that gets at me (because I don't shop at the dealers) is the need to order parts through them. Between that and the handling(which I realize is a personal preference) it steers me more towards the huskys, but I like saws and will own and run them all as I'm sure you know by now.
Must have been Flint water , sad situation there .

 

[muddstopper]

Did you have to break out the silenced 22mag and with a streamlite mounted on it .
Great job .

Well the story goes something like this. I was driving home late, around 10pm or so, when I seen this monster buck jump the fence into my pasture. Not having a gun in the car, I hurried to get parked in my driveway and ran into the house as fast as I could. Lucky for me I had my Marlin stainless bolt action with the 6x24x50mm SWFA tactical scope in 22mag already loaded and the safety off setting beside the entry door. My mini mag was setting on the table so I strapped it on to the rifle and headed out the back door. A quick sweep of the field with the lite showed the buck was still there and was trying to mount a doe. So I crept off the porch and sneaked down to the fence and got in position. I had to wait a couple of minutes until the buck did his deed with the doe. Just when he dismounted and was looking quite pleased with himself I turned on the lite and fired, striking him in the right ear. Hit the ground like a ton of rocks. Of course the hunt was the easy part, now I had to get that big animal back to the house. So I headed over to little brothers barn and got his tractor with the fel and lifted the deer into the back of my truck, durn that sucker was heavy. I then backed the truck under my shed and used a come along to raise it for skinning and gutting, letting the guts spill out into the fel bucket. Hauled the guts out back and down in the wood to feed the coyotes, for my next nite time hunt. Nothing goes to waste around here.

 

[chipper1]

Well the story goes something like this. I was driving home late, around 10pm or so, when I seen this monster buck jump the fence into my pasture. Not having a gun in the car, I hurried to get parked in my driveway and ran into the house as fast as I could. Lucky for me I had my Marlin stainless bolt action with the 6x24x50mm SWFA tactical scope in 22mag already loaded and the safety off setting beside the entry door. My mini mag was setting on the table so I strapped it on to the rifle and headed out the back door. A quick sweep of the field with the lite showed the buck was still there and was trying to mount a doe. So I crept off the porch and sneaked down to the fence and got in position. I had to wait a couple of minutes until the buck did his deed with the doe. Just when he dismounted and was looking quite pleased with himself I turned on the lite and fired, striking him in the right ear. Hit the ground like a ton of rocks. Of course the hunt was the easy part, now I had to get that big animal back to the house. So I headed over to little brothers barn and got his tractor with the fel and lifted the deer into the back of my truck, durn that sucker was heavy. I then backed the truck under my shed and used a come along to raise it for skinning and gutting, letting the guts spill out into the fel bucket. Hauled the guts out back and down in the wood to feed the coyotes, for my next nite time hunt. Nothing goes to waste around here.

Seems that story has either been told before, or lived out once or twice .

 

[svk]

So now just to settle everything, the correct answers are Flat Top, Ported, Stihl, Square File and Full Comp! See that, these things are easily solved!

Where is your pal from Connecticut? He is going to disagree with all of those. And Fiskars suck too LMFAO!

 

[svk]

I'll stick to my echo's, round file, fire wood hack status. I agree with ported and full comp. The 590 has .006 off the edge of the piston but its domed from the factory so never was flat top.
I missed the big fights by a month or so when I joined so I don't know anything

According to our YANKee friend, ported and muffler modded saws dont make any more power, just more noise

 

[svk]

Moisture meters.

If we say those words will the spider appear?

He is too busy over in Political these days to visit us. I miss the old days in here. Need some sour owl crap comments!

 

[svk]

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That's alright, the 460 will keep up okay, beside the 460 has a better resale value if you need the cash down the rd and they normally sell a little quicker as stihl has done a lot of advertising for us .
I like the 365xtorq a lot though, great saw.
The great thing is if you want another there will be plenty for sale in the near future with everyone getting all pumped about the next greatest saw in the world hitting the market soon, either the orange one or the creamsicle version.
Here's one I scrounged up, I also have one with a standard handle I should list, it has very low hrs on, this one has a good amount of hrs in it.
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Wedge it up with an orange, nice.

 

[svk]

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Oh man that is a beauty. You just got him?

 

[panolo]

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This one came from Pennsylvania. It was in a magazine if I remember correct. Scored like a 198.

 

[chipper1]

Wedge it up with an orange, nice.

Or get the kids to hold them for me, whatever works Steve.

 

[chipper1]

Oh I forgot to share in keeping with the scrounging nature of the thread I was getting off the e-way the other day and something caught my eye, I just couldn't stop thinking about it and turned around as soon as I could.
Score, six small rounds, not sure how to split the exactly, but I'll figure that out later.
I also found this when I brought some wood in.

 

[KiwiBro]

Treat yourself to a new 661 and you'll be up and about, long time.

Stihlagra

I've heard stihls cure all sorts of things .

Poverty aint one of 'em.

 

[James Miller]

My daughter wanted to try her hand at fileing chain last night. Figured what the heck have at it. Maybe she'll get good at it and I can make it one of her chores

 

[rarefish383]

That's awesome, I have safety glasses with readers, really helps when you have to read those lists of dos and don'ts in the mornings by the wood stove .
If you were a little closer I would have thrown another pot on for ya .

If I knew you had a pot on I would have been on the next flight out, can't be more than a couple or three hours, Joe.

 

[James Miller]

So I decided to take a break from the big stuff today and get all the kindling cut up.This is everything a 16 would do in one pass.

 

[KiwiBro]

Or get the kids to hold them for me, whatever works Steve.
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You can blow that photo up and put it on the walls at her 21st. It's a parents right to embarrass one's kids and posing with a husky will do it every time ;-)

 

[turnkey4099]

Don't knock em, been over 150 on them many times , and what a great ride.

Sounds like something/or not something to go see , I'll be sure to take pictures , cause of nothing .

I've heard stihls cure all sorts of things .

Sorry to here that, I been right there with you. It was a bummer because we got the last blast of upper 50-60 degree wether here and I had some things I wanted to get done, ever counter flash a chimney with big gloves on .
I wonder if it has a pinched line right from the factory, one that was a little long and now has a kink. Doesn't seem like it with the symptoms, but it's also odd being that it's a new saw. I've not heard of anyone having these problems with any of the echo products let alone this ones specifically, and I did a lot of reading on them this summer as I bought a bunch of top handles this year and wanted to be up on the issues of all the models(there really isn't to many options out there.

I dropped it off with the dealer this morning. He's talking replacement or refund. I told him to play with it and I'll give it one last try. I suggested the tank vent in case he hadn't considered that. I am sure it will be the same old, same old. It'll fire right up for him cold (does for me) but also warm (won't do it at all for me).

 

[chipper1]

I dropped it off with the dealer this morning. He's talking replacement or refund. I told him to play with it and I'll give it one last try. I suggested the tank vent in case he hadn't considered that. I am sure it will be the same old, same old. It'll fire right up for him cold (does for me) but also warm (won't do it at all for me).

If he gives you a replacement ask him what he will be doing with it/when it will be in the dumpster, I'll give it a try if the price is right, I'm confident it's not something major but it will be a very simple fix when found.

 

[chipper1]

Poverty aint one of 'em.

I disagree on that point, selling stihls keeps me in the black .

 

[turnkey4099]

I dropped it off with the dealer this morning. He's talking replacement or refund. I told him to play with it and I'll give it one last try. I suggested the tank vent in case he hadn't considered that. I am sure it will be the same old, same old. It'll fire right up for him cold (does for me) but also warm (won't do it at all for me).

For top handles the stihl 19xT series are good. 192 was great. I bought 4 of them.
1 - had it one month and ran over it with a load of wood - trash can...actually on the self for maybe parts.
2 - Couldn't find it one morning, figured it grew legs.
3. Bought to replace #2 and then found #2 where I had put it.
3. Back to dealer at half price.
3. Grew legs one night and didn't even wave bye-bye.
4. 193T to replace #3.

192 was a dream to start.
194 is a bear to pull. Pulls hard cold. Dealer said it was because they put a smaller wheel on the starter.

One big drawback to the Echo CS303T is the tank, very small.