Stihl MS460 Test

[windthrown]

SawTroll gets top points

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

Yah, the FarmBoss logo is a dead giveaway. I used the 20 inch off the 290 becasue the 460 came with a new Forester 20 inch bar, but it was so well packaged that I left it in case I returned the saw (which I did).

 

[windthrown]

My hats off to you all here...

Yes, the hinge wood. And metal wedges. And the 290 bar. And the safety RM2 chain. And the 20 inch bar on a doug fir that size. I appreciate your comments and feedback. None of you missed anything! AS Sleuths! Except... you should have put it all together. Something non-conclusive here, that one of you hinted at... I thought that Shirlock SawTroll Holmes would get it.

I did not want to test a saw that I had never used before on a 100+ ft tree! Nor did I want to risk a saw for that kind of money. So I staged the photos posted here in a rather sly way. I got the idea from knowing how my AS Avatar was shot in the film, Sometimes a Great Notion. I left this last photo out, see? I tried to get that spar to fall w/o cutting off the hinge, but she would not budge. Too heavy to heave over, even bumping it with the Polaris ATV. I thought of using the tractor to shove it over and save the hinge (as I am famous for doing on AS). But the Kubota "garden" tractor was way down in the barn and this was about a half mile up in the far corner of the property. If I had done that I could have had a nice hinge to show.

The dang thing refused to tip with any hingewood. Too level a cut? So I had to cut through the entire hinge from both sides and smack the wendges in the full way (with the saw long gone) before it went over. And yes, I see the reason to have a long bar in a doug fir this size. The 20 inch would be better in oaks and madrones and maples that I have to fell here though. We have a lot of stumps and spars like this here that I am flush cutting, as they tend to be fire hazards and props for poison oak and blackberry. I see a long bar in the future for them and some good sized doug and grand firs here that I have to fell too.

I learned a lot from this test about this saw. Doing it this way I could focus on the saw and not have to worry about the physics of the tree falling in the process. I also learned from your feedback from looking at what I did here. I can assure you that I left a good 2-3 inch hinge on the thing before cutting it out. I did use the metal wedges, but it was my bar and RM2 chain... I need to get some more plastic ones. I normally use these for firewood splitting. They are way too heavy to drag around in the woods anyway. But they worked in this case. Next time I will use a 441 and orange wedges, use the tractor to heave the spar over and leave a hinge... I will try to fool the AS panel again. Be warned!

So, here are the final photos. You may toss the cabbages at me now as I run away from the stage...

 

[RiverRat2]

I wondered why there was no photos of the whole tree!!!

:jawdrop: + 5 to windthrown!!!!!!

I thought something was fishy about the whole deal I do a lot of stumps that have been dead for a while and the chips looked similar but I did not put it together,,,,, Tried to rep you but I am out of bullets

LMAO :spam: :spam: :spam:

 

[Tree Sling'r]

And here is was sticking up for a prankster. Damn me!

 

[ericjeeper]

Hey windthrown. I will give you a suggestion

cracked me up.. No wonder a 2-3 inch hinge would not let her fall.. LOL Not a whole lot of leverage on a 2 foot tall tree. I'll give you some rep

 

[Highclimber OR]

With any type of saw background one must assume that this guy probably knows what he is doing. He looks a little seasoned in his pic and I know where abouts he is because it in my own neck of the woods. A lot of guys out this way have this type of background. Besides, I didn't see anything around to hit and if there was it would be a little different story.

 

[Highclimber OR]

It turned into a nice amusing joke though.

 

[SawTroll]

...guess I was the only one not totally fooled - but I was a bit off also..... :rockn: :rockn:

Damned sin that I have no rep for him at the moment.........

 

[windthrown]

cracked me up.. No wonder a 2-3 inch hinge would not let her fall.. LOL Not a whole lot of leverage on a 2 foot tall tree. I'll give you some rep

The photo does not do it justice. That is really about a 5 ft felled block and was a 6 ft spar before I took her down. That stump on that side is over 3 ft in diameter.

 

[Gologit]

The photo does not do it justice. That is really about a 5 ft felled block and was a 6 ft spar before I took her down. That stump on that side is over 3 ft in diameter.

I know I'm always giving you flack about using your garden tractor to push trees over and your riding lawnmower for a skidder...not to mention using your rototiller for a debarker....but this time I'll let you get away with it. This time.

 

[Gologit]

...guess I was the only one not totally fooled - but I was a bit off also..... :rockn: :rockn:

Damned sin that I have no rep for him at the moment.........

:hmm3grin2orange: I've got some I'll give him for you, troll. Any particular color you like?

 

[SawTroll]

:hmm3grin2orange: I've got some I'll give him for you, troll. Any particular color you like?

Green.....

...out of bullets for you too, at the moment......

 

[Gologit]

Green.....

...out of bullets for you too, at the moment......

Done...with a few acerbic comments.

 

[windthrown]

Thanks!

That's a Homer Simpson wiggly finger Stihl orange colored:

Oooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh

Send the green love my way!

Sorry all I have is blank reps for the most common posters here. I dunno when I will be reloaded again. Seems like forever.

 

[windthrown]

Thanks for all the love and rep!

I spread green rep to all the posters here for being good sports... however, I shoot blanks on many of you and I exceeded my 24 hour quota half way through. I'll catch up to the rest of y'all later.

 

[Ekka]

Smart azz!

Now I'm on the look out for PAY BACK!

Then again, I might just have to go over to that moon crater stump thread for a laugh.:greenchainsaw:

 

[SawTroll]

Done...with a few acerbic comments.

Thanks! :rockn:

 

[SawTroll]

.... that moon crater stump thread for a laugh.:greenchainsaw:

That one is just :monkey: :monkey: :help:

 

[belgian]

That one is just :monkey: :monkey: :help:

Hey, I just bought the copyrights on that thread to make a movie. Thall is going to be recruited as main actor :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[MikeInParadise]

I love the picture of the "Big Tree" you get rep for that!!!!!