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Dad ^^^^ wouldn't understand the CAD!!! :-)
The first two days of this week(Monday/Tuesday) I got to take some of my saws up North to my brother-in-law's property outside of Prescott. It was very nice to be in the cooler temperature up at 6500+ feet elevation and away from the Phoenix Valley area!! There is a lot of nice standing Ponderosa Pine on the property that hasn't been afflicted with the bark beetle infestation. This is the view from the cabin patio;
Unfortunately there is also a bunch of dead Ponderosa Pine(from the bark beetle infestation) that have blown down and are returning to Nature by rotting away. Those downed trees are an eye-sore but not near as visually obvious as the still standing dead Ponderosa Pines with the rotten tops have been blown down. In fact one of the still standing dead trees(12-14" on the stump) was sooo rotten in the ground that I was able to get it rocking and able to push it over by hand instead of cutting it off at the base. The property hasn't had any real care/cleanup for decades and has become quite a mess that needed some attention.
This picture is from when I was up there in April to do some cutting;
These pictures are from November of 2010 showing the dead/downed trees;
I ended up taking four saws so I could get a feel for how well they ran and cut. I should have taken some of the other saws but was limited on room.
The small saw I took was the Stihl 011 AVT which is my dad's last chainsaw that I inherited and got back up and running this past year. It's the saw that got me here/AS and spawned my CAD issue(I think I have over 30 saws but the majority of them are projects or parts saws). Here is the thread that started it all!! http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/173405.htm . I took it so my brother-in-law would have something to cut with as he's got a bad back and can't handle a bigger saw without messing his back up. The saw did great for the first tank of gas. I re-fueled it and touched up the chain and then started it up again. It wouldn't idle down and my brother-in-law told me it has started doing that about 3/4's thru the time he'd ran it. I tinkered with it and couldn't get it to idle down so I told him to save his back and not run the saw any more. I'm hoping it's something simple but didn't want to risk it being a crank seal and running lean......any more than it might have already. I'm always a bit leery about having other people, that aren't saw literate, running my saws. At least ones I care about..........this being my dad's last saw I do care about it!!! Oh well, another saw to check out when I've got the time.
I've really enjoyed the Husquvarna 350 since I got it last year from a good friend of mine. The details of that saw and what I've done to it are listed in this thread; http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/174034.htm . For a 'homeowner' vs. 'professional' saw I was pretty impressed with how light and balanced it was to use. It had not ran good in April when I had brought it up to cut. Thanks to some help from AS folks it was figured out that the carb needed a kit and that made the world of difference. It started well this time and ran pretty strong considering that it's still got the dished piston in it. I think un-restricting the muffler helped it breath/run stronger!! The bummer part of it was that with a lot of the wood on the ground the chains I had for it kept getting dulled up to the point where they were needing a decent machine grind vs. the light file touch up. I ended up with three dull chains and didn't have the time to run into town and have the local saw shop sharpen them up. Sooo decided to move on to using the Jonsered.
My Jonsered Super 670 West Coast had never been ran in wood since I got it and took it's "demo saw" status away. It's detailed in this earlier thread; http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/177268.htm. After I kitted the carb, modded the muffler and got it running it's always sounded really strong with great compression. A lot of folks said that I should remove the carbide tipped chain and go with a regular chain. I am really glad that I decided to keep the carbide tipped chain on it as It didn't have near the problem with getting dulled up when cutting the wood on the ground. I know it didn't cut as fast as a sharp regular chain would have but I'd gotten my fill of chain dulling with the Husquvarna 350. The saw always started good and ran really well............it proved out to be the saw I used the most this trip primarily because of the carbide tipped chain.
Unfortunately there is also a bunch of dead Ponderosa Pine(from the bark beetle infestation) that have blown down and are returning to Nature by rotting away. Those downed trees are an eye-sore but not near as visually obvious as the still standing dead Ponderosa Pines with the rotten tops have been blown down. In fact one of the still standing dead trees(12-14" on the stump) was sooo rotten in the ground that I was able to get it rocking and able to push it over by hand instead of cutting it off at the base. The property hasn't had any real care/cleanup for decades and has become quite a mess that needed some attention.
This picture is from when I was up there in April to do some cutting;
These pictures are from November of 2010 showing the dead/downed trees;
I ended up taking four saws so I could get a feel for how well they ran and cut. I should have taken some of the other saws but was limited on room.
The small saw I took was the Stihl 011 AVT which is my dad's last chainsaw that I inherited and got back up and running this past year. It's the saw that got me here/AS and spawned my CAD issue(I think I have over 30 saws but the majority of them are projects or parts saws). Here is the thread that started it all!! http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/173405.htm . I took it so my brother-in-law would have something to cut with as he's got a bad back and can't handle a bigger saw without messing his back up. The saw did great for the first tank of gas. I re-fueled it and touched up the chain and then started it up again. It wouldn't idle down and my brother-in-law told me it has started doing that about 3/4's thru the time he'd ran it. I tinkered with it and couldn't get it to idle down so I told him to save his back and not run the saw any more. I'm hoping it's something simple but didn't want to risk it being a crank seal and running lean......any more than it might have already. I'm always a bit leery about having other people, that aren't saw literate, running my saws. At least ones I care about..........this being my dad's last saw I do care about it!!! Oh well, another saw to check out when I've got the time.
I've really enjoyed the Husquvarna 350 since I got it last year from a good friend of mine. The details of that saw and what I've done to it are listed in this thread; http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/174034.htm . For a 'homeowner' vs. 'professional' saw I was pretty impressed with how light and balanced it was to use. It had not ran good in April when I had brought it up to cut. Thanks to some help from AS folks it was figured out that the carb needed a kit and that made the world of difference. It started well this time and ran pretty strong considering that it's still got the dished piston in it. I think un-restricting the muffler helped it breath/run stronger!! The bummer part of it was that with a lot of the wood on the ground the chains I had for it kept getting dulled up to the point where they were needing a decent machine grind vs. the light file touch up. I ended up with three dull chains and didn't have the time to run into town and have the local saw shop sharpen them up. Sooo decided to move on to using the Jonsered.
My Jonsered Super 670 West Coast had never been ran in wood since I got it and took it's "demo saw" status away. It's detailed in this earlier thread; http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/177268.htm. After I kitted the carb, modded the muffler and got it running it's always sounded really strong with great compression. A lot of folks said that I should remove the carbide tipped chain and go with a regular chain. I am really glad that I decided to keep the carbide tipped chain on it as It didn't have near the problem with getting dulled up when cutting the wood on the ground. I know it didn't cut as fast as a sharp regular chain would have but I'd gotten my fill of chain dulling with the Husquvarna 350. The saw always started good and ran really well............it proved out to be the saw I used the most this trip primarily because of the carbide tipped chain.
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