Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Lee192233]

That's something I've never done, but the rest of the family has. We have a friend who normally does thousands a yr at his place. Unfortunately he has been waiting on hip surgery for like 7 months because it was infected, and to ad insult to injury(literally), their home just caught fire. I guess they were in the barn butcher a small batch of chickens, the power went out, he walked out to see what the problem was and saw the fire trucks they had heard were in their driveway . Quite a ways out before it's finished, and he's scheduled for his surgery early this month. Oh yeah, he just retired last fall.

Man, that's a rough year. I hope things turn around for him and his retirement gets more enjoyable.

My mother in law had a tough time with her hip replacement and had to have one redone. She was just about done with rehab and an infection settled into it so they replaced it again.

 

[MustangMike]

Anatomy of a failure: My first hung ring!

This saw started out as an OEM 066 round top that I brought back from the dead. It ran good, but the OEM P&C were slightly scored, even though the rings were free.

So, when the Cross Cylinders with Randy's influence came out, I got one and installed it. The saw ran very well and is the one on the HL Supply website video promoting the Cross P&C. It ran well for several years and was one of two 066/660s I used as a "tag team" for milling (both set up with 36" light bars with full comp square file). (The other saw is the Asian 660 Doc Al built for the competition).

Last fall, in the middle of milling a White Oak board, it abruptly stopped. I tried to re-start it, but it obviously did not have much compression, so I just replaced it with another 660.

Well, today I decided to rip it down to see what happened. I'm always VERY careful to make sure exhaust ports are properly beveled, even if I did not touch them, but I guess I did not pay enough attention to the upper transfers.

I have spare Meteor pistons in my inventory, and an OEM 066 and an OEM 660 cylinder too. But I may just clean this one up and re-use it. I know the squish is .020 w/o a base gasket, it ran strong, and the transfer ports look great! (I don't have an angle grinder). The minor damage to the squish band would be easy to repair, and if I play with the exhaust and intake ports a bit if should run very strong!

I'm going to pull out the other two cylinders and decide if I want to make it OEM again! Enjoy the pics of my FIRST hung ring failure!

 

[mountainguyed67]

Great saw.
Yes, made by makita, well sort of; like huskys are made by Electrolux.
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I want to see this chainsaw with a blade on it. I keep hearing about them, but haven’t seen one.