Stihl MS460 Test

[windthrown]

OK, this StihlHead bought and tested a Stihl MS460 chainsaw last week (returned saw due to scoring in cylinder and piston, now looking at getting a Stihl MS441)

Here are the photos of the first test on the ranch, on a 28"x37" DBH doug fir. The saw cut like butter. It had my 20 inch bar with a 3/8, 0.050 RM Stihl chain.

The saw:

The notch cut:

The back cut:

Felled:

 

[SWE#Kipp]

Does your Pro saws come with saftey chain !?!?
nice pics

 

[Ekka]

Do you always cut your hingewood off?

 

[belgian]

Do you always cut your hingewood off?

Looks indeed as if you cut through your hingewood The tree appeared to have a lean towards the backcut, so you were lucky if youdid indeed.
Some plastic falling wedges would also be a little more appropriate, if you want to protect your chain.
Nice saw though. Put a RSC chain on it and you will be throwin good...

 

[ericjeeper]

Man. gotta leave that hinge wood.

A tree that size should have had a hinge close to 22 inches long and right at 2 inches thick. The hinge is your friend. Make your notch cut, then make a bore cut working it from the hinge to the back. Put a plastic wedge in on the lean side. drive it in pretty tight. Then go around to the other side and do the same.. Cutting back from the hinge.Leave some "Trigger wood" tighten up your wedges good.Then cut the holding wood.. I assume a wildland fire put the kill on that tree.

 

[Ekka]

I think he's always got the wind on his side so hasn't had to bother.

Hang on, he only does the trees that the wind has felled, that's it. opcorn:

 

[John Ellison]

Is that the top in the upper right hand corner of the last picture?

 

[Ekka]

No, that's the butt of the log, no hinge!

 

[SawTroll]

Does your Pro saws come with saftey chain !?!?
nice pics

My guess is that the bar and chain are "borrowed" from a MS290.....

 

[SawTroll]

Do you always cut your hingewood off?

Looks indeed as if you cut through your hingewood ...

Looks so from the pictures, but it could be just relief cuts at the side of the hinge. He could have tidied up the stump and butt afterwards.......

It is a risky sport to post pictures of ones handiwork here.......

 

[046]

Yikes.... steel wedges :censored:

 

[SWE#Kipp]

My guess is that the bar and chain are "borrowed" from a MS290.....

Your right I suppose ,,, didn't look at his saw list :bang:
thought it looked a little strange

 

[belgian]

It is a risky sport to post pictures of ones handiwork here.......

I fail to see what's risky. Windthrown appears to be a nice guy, and I would like him to stay around, and not get harmed in an accident. All the comments were positively meant....opcorn: opcorn:

 

[SawTroll]

I fail to see what's risky. Windthrown appears to be a nice guy, and I would like him to stay around, and not get harmed in an accident. All the comments were positively meant....opcorn: opcorn:

Sure they were, and sure he appears to be a nice guy....:biggrinbounce2:

 

[Tzed250]

As I remember the last Stump grading thread had many comments about pulled fiber, so maybe he trimmed the butt log to eliminate the issue

 

[DGG]

Good job, nice pictures. Thanks for posting them.

 

[tek9tim]

I read your post before I looked at the pictures, and was going to give you crap for being from the PNW and running a 20" bar on that saw, but then seeing the whole picture (and how much crap everybody else gave you) I don't have the heart. Freaking vultures. I made some ugly (by my standards) stumps yesterday, too. No sawn off holding wood, but I was a little rusty. Good work, get a dedicated bar for that saw, (I highly reccomend the reduced weight oregon. Just treat it nicely, they do bend more easily) some mean chain, and you'll be stoked.

 

[Tree Sling'r]

His method of cutting was just fine - no need for a bore back cut. Hingewood would have been nice, but too much would have had to of been sawed a little more anyway just to get the top to break over- look at the stump and butt - a tree in that shape is gonna have a really light top.
You leave too much hinge wood and your beating more - beating+snag is not a good idea. I have seen many greenhands beat tops out of dead trees.
I agree with the pastic wedges.
My advice is to get or run a bar that is big enough to do the job in one cut. Don't put your self in a situation of sawing from both sides on a half rotton stump because your bar won't reach.
Remember fella's not every tree is a hardwood - conifers are a totally different ball game.
Bottom line is that the tree is down and Wind was able to post pics.
Pretty harsh comments from many of you - wheres your pics?

 

[windthrown]

Busted...

Does your Pro saws come with saftey chain !?!?
nice pics

Good eye. I was lazy. My other 20 inch chains were all dull (just cut a lot of firewood firewood last week). This one was razor sharp (I keep two of them around as backups).

 

[Ekka]

It is a risky sport to post pictures of ones handiwork here.......

Oh he's a big boy with plenty of posts, can take a laugh.

I thought I'd stir him up a bit.

That tree sure looked like our ironbark here.