Looked like it did a nice job, I was wondering if it would pass that "y", nope.
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Awesome mooseActually my boss does provide chain, gas, and oil for me. He wouldn’t care if I used it for personal use but I try not too, I know you were mostly joking.
I lived in Seward for 11 years. Great place but glad I live in Idaho now. Saw most of interior and south east Alaska but never made it to Kodiak. Worked for Afognak logging (they were out of logging at that time) and Shoreside Petroleum and did tree removal on the sideView attachment 993604My brother lives in Eagle River View attachment 993605Personally I think 50:1 is fine also, this is piston picture of a ported 064 I bought new in the mid 90’s after 20 years of use (1 year full time, rest part time) ran on mostly non synthetic oil at 50:1.View attachment 993603 I do think 40:1 can extend saw life, especially the newer strato saws though.
I had missed that piece of info, fun to have family so close by. And a good reason to run your toys too.I may have mentioned it once or twelve times, my daughter bought the house two doors down from us. Two acres that had been let go fallow for about 20 years. 60-70 foot tall Blue Spruce on 3 sides, that were planted close and never thinned. I think I counted almost 100 Maple, Cherry, and Mulberry saplings, 10 inch by 30-35' tall. The kids want to remove every other Spruce and all of the saplings. We started playing yesterday. I had a production line set up. We elevated all the dead on the Spruce so we could get to the fence, cut a hole through the fence so we could drop all of the Mulberry leaning over the neighbors yard. I cut up all the stuff in 20' or longer pieces. Gave my wife and daughter 3 chokers. They would stack big piles of smaller brush on the long choker and one or two long pieces, small trees on the short ones. My SIL would swing by on the JD X500, one of the girls would clip the choker on the tractor, and he would pull it to me at my Brush Bandit model 65. I used a 17,000 pound test bull line to put some tension on two of the Spruce and threw them across the yard. I'd already cleaned out all of the saplings along that part of the fence. I put all new valves and knives in the old model 65. I'm really happy with the way it chips. I can see spend a day or two a week on this project for a year or more, probably more. You have to look close at the X500 to see the tag line going to the Spruce. When we put the big one on the ground, it was just my wife and I, we limbed it up, stacked all the brush on one choke and pulled it down to the chipper, and it took just about one hour from the face cut, to turning the chipper off.
And tractor hydraulic pumps just don't pump enough GPM to have great cycle times for 3pt splitters. Yes, they'll work, but I believe that a stand alone splitter is almost always faster. I'm in the market for a larger tractor as well though. I think I'm going to go 74HP, so that I can have as much HP as possible without being into the DEF requirement category. That will probably have to wait until next year though, still doing research, and pricing is still insane (if you can even get exactly what you want at the moment). Maybe the market will correct itself to some degree by next year? We'll see.
More like sometime in 2024/25….if it can be salvaged at all….
I was thinking along the lines of a bigger commercial type splitter that can split big rounds into several pieces in one cycle, but that would probably require high volume hydraulics.
Man! That thing is All Time Boone and Crocket for sure!
Please forgive the quality. They are pictures of pictures! 
Two very good cutters I worked under while breaking in! 
Yes! I've never known anyone to get pincered but they are supposed to have a fair 'bite'. Think they use the antlers to fight other adult males, just like the deer.
I was pretty pumped at the time I believe it was 4' 11" at the widest stump diameter. I'm running a 066 with a 32" crome Sandvik bar 
Notice the thick blanket moss on the limbs. Typical of old growth.
Hope you enjoyed! Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!Combiners used to do that in wet years around here.
The “Y” had no chance, that’s when it ran out of gas on me.Looked like it did a nice job, I was wondering if it would pass that "y", nope.
I'd like to find one like that. Saw one like it in a yard when we were running around the other day scrounging deals, it looked pretty rough though. Maybe one day.
I don't remember reading your daughter bought that house. Awesome she'll be right there now
I was in my Stihl dealers the other day and he called me back in the shop. He showed me the same view as your saw in the last picture. The clutch bell was purple, the plastic around it melted., guide plates discolored. He asked what I thought happened. I said he either tried to run it with the brake on and just laid on it till he burnt the brake up, or, he cranked the chain down so tight it couldn’t turn and laid into it till he burned it up. He said the brake pad was gone down to just the band, and the bar was purple too. He had to take a screw driver and pry the chain out of the bar. Sounds like he had the brake on and the chain tight. He told the guy no way would Stihl cover it. It was a fairly big saw too, like a 441. I should have taken a pic. If I get a chance I’ll run by today and see if he still has it?
I remember them giving away the stuffed tiger tails. People would hang them off mirrors and door handles. I think they were too heavy for antenas. Then all the young guys put them in their trunk, and changed the slogan to, I’ve got a tiger in my trunk, instead of tank.
Ya, it would be real easy for me to talk smack about the guy that did that, but I've been oblivious, and clueless at points in my life as well. Done a lot of dumb stuff. Who knows, I may even do something dumb today
, so I won't talk too badly about the guy!
