the all aussie dribble thread!

[peter92]

thanks very much for all that info and i think i did minsion the semi chisel to the dealer, but seeing he,s in sydney and im in qld i hope he does what i asked unless he just throws on what ever, i supose if its wrong i can always sell it and get the right one
thanks andrew for all your help as well
would i keep using a semi chisel as a all round chain or go to something else, i dont cut green stuff very often if i can help it
all the advise and help is very app, thanks
regards peter

 

[MCW]

Got the video uploaded. I didn't get a chance to use the same bar and chain on all the saws so the times don't mean much, but it gives a bit of an idea of how they perform. I'll do a better job of it next time :biggrin:

Good to see you picked a nice green piece of Pine for the video Rudy 390XP's...
Gotta love 'em...

thanks very much for all that info and i think i did minsion the semi chisel to the dealer, but seeing he,s in sydney and im in qld i hope he does what i asked unless he just throws on what ever, i supose if its wrong i can always sell it and get the right one
thanks andrew for all your help as well
would i keep using a semi chisel as a all round chain or go to something else, i dont cut green stuff very often if i can help it
all the advise and help is very app, thanks
regards peter

I'd continue with semi chisel for an all round chain mate. It will last a lot longer between sharpenings (unless you hit a rock ) and it isn't that far behind full chisel as far as speed goes. If you are cutting all day you'll generally end up in front using semi chisel as despite being slower (by about 10% give or take a bit) you'll be cutting more and sharpening less. I don't think I've ever cut wood all day and thought I'd have been better off running full chisel at the end of the day.
A well setup and sharp full chisel chain under the right conditions is certainly addictive though

 

[peter92]

thanks, i will keep every thing to mind and hopefully i dont hit a rock, there nothing funny about spending alot of time sharpening a chain, and the other thing is i cant cut wood all day, at least half the day would be beer oclock, alot of our work is done with cable and tractor, 190 acres of selective clearing
regards peter

 

[ausneil 1]

Got the video uploaded. I didn't get a chance to use the same bar and chain on all the saws so the times don't mean much, but it gives a bit of an idea of how they perform. I'll do a better job of it next time :biggrin:

[video=youtube_share;tJ__hGjpM7M]http://youtu.be/tJ__hGjpM7M[/video]

good vid, go the husky.

chains were just a tad hungry, maybe ,,, just playing rudy.

 

[Rudolf73]

good vid, go the husky.

chains were just a tad hungry, maybe ,,, just playing rudy.

Thanks Neil, yeah i think the husky was wearing a chinese carlton chain - it was rather stretchy but it cut good.

 

[peter92]

i love the sound of the husky, job well done, video was great
good on ya
regards peter

 

[deye223]

i would hate to see what this bloke would call a bit rough around the edges this one's so
Immaculate that it comes with crap plastics and a cracked clutch cover :ah:
STIHL 066/MS660 Magnum Immaculate PRICE DROP | eBay

 

[ozflea]

There is no doubt a 7.62mm round will penetrate undergrowth and rainforest better than a 5.56mm round.
The common thought that a modern 5.56mm round (such as the SS109) needs to hit bone to cause tissue damage is crap and is based on original 5.56 x 45mm rounds from the Vietnam era. There was also another 5.56mm round that NATO countries banned in the late 70's as despite being an FMJ it was inflicting too much damage and considered "inhumane". I've heard many stories of VC continuosly copping rounds from M16's yet being dropped with one solitary SLR hit. A Vietnam Vet at the local gun club once said he saw a VC copping rounds in the backpack from M16's as he was running away yet was dropped by one SLR round. He had a simple radio in his pack that was stopping the smaller rounds and the SLR went through everything.
"Dum dum" type projectiles are outlawed by the Geneva Convention but modern armies have designed their high velocity small calibre projectiles to be unstable when hitting anything. A modern high velocity small calibre projectile will inflict considerably more damage than a 7.62mm projectile and they have been designed to do so. There is the odd clanger though as mentioned previously where newly designed rounds have been a dismal failure.
The SLR conversion to fully auto was was outlined in the "SAS - Phantoms Of The Jungle" book which you've probably been reading. It had way too much muzzle lift under full auto but did sound like a .50 cal by most accounts. It wasn't done very often as soldiers quickly realised that it wasted too much ammo too quickly and they were too much of a handful under full auto. Even the SAS hardly used them.
The SLR's are an awesome piece of kit and until the buyback I intended to buy one (just had to come up with $2500 at the time!) but times have changed in modern warfare and apart from GPMG's the 7.62 x 51mm is really only suited to sniping and machine guns with the odd exception.
If the 7.62mm was as good as you think Bob every SAS soldier would be using one as they actually get to choose their weaponry when they go out on patrol. The 7.62mm ticks a lot of boxes but the 5.56mm ticks more.

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Well if you seen some of the gear private contractors tote you'd be amazed my accounts are from actual experiance not reading books and what the SAS used was their business not ours we had a lot of options with weapons via the yanks my favourite was the quad 50 cal on the back of a M-35 truck or secondly a 7.62mm mini-gun on a jeep ,,,, where it came to support we have the whole arsenal from the base never needed to call a gunship they bloody awsome.

Since when has warfare been humane get over it its them or us 5.56mm does a lot of damage but as i read a few paras back was good for drawing in help to the injured making lovely fresh targets to knock chunks out of and get medics busy think right we were there to take out as many as possible as fast as possible not play Mr Nice Guy the best enemy is a dead one.
Ever seen what a mini gun of 7.62mm does to the human body at 4000 rounds per minute or for that matter a quad 50 cal at 2000 rounds per minute and thats being friendly to em.

Bob

 

[ozflea]

This is what i call back-up Fly United was one of 4 gunships at Phan-Rang Airbase Sth Vietnam and 2 Squadron was a Canberra bomber Squadron operated by the RAAF of which i was posted to for 12 months my job perimeter defence the C-119 Flying Boxcar proved very handy at times

Bob.

 

[ausneil 1]

I was the radio operator or to the Army fellas the Signaller this was the section returning from night ambush duty

Yep thats the bobster all right. good photo bob.

I hate war it sucks, i know a lot of vietnam vets also, i respect them all but maybe not the reason they were there.

Lucky for me my father came home from WW2 (New Guiney and borneo) and i have not been in any military forces.

tried to rep you but they said stuff him he can't have it. next time.

 

[ozflea]

Thanks Neil like you i hate what wars do to people, stuffs up great blokes but some-one has to do the job better me than you hey

Bob.

 

[peter92]

some people should change the job

hi guys, after talking to you about getting the RMC semi chisel chain, i ring the dealer up here and he said the saw will come with the RSC 3/8 chain. when i asked about the RMC semi chisel chain he says, OH THATS HARD CORE WE DONT GET THEM
so he said i can get a SUPER CHISEL 3/8
question is, what do you recomend i do now
regards peter

 

[Rudolf73]

hi guys, after talking to you about getting the RMC semi chisel chain, i ring the dealer up here and he said the saw will come with the RSC 3/8 chain. when i asked about the RMC semi chisel chain he says, OH THATS HARD CORE WE DONT GET THEM
so he said i can get a SUPER CHISEL 3/8
question is, what do you recomend i do now
regards peter

If it was me I would just get the saw with whatever chain it comes with - that dealer doesn't seem very helpful anyways. Then get the right chains (RMC in your case) from some members on this site for around $22 a chain (20"). Your stihl dealer will ask up to $40 per chain.

Just get the dealer to send the saw ASAP, he has wasted enough of your time already.

 

[peter92]

hi rudy ,i rang stihl about the RMC semi chisel chain and they came back with 3652 000 0072 is micro chain
is that the one i should be buying for my 362
regards peter

 

[ozflea]

If it was me I would just get the saw with whatever chain it comes with - that dealer doesn't seem very helpful anyways. Then get the right chains (RMC in your case) from some members on this site for around $22 a chain (20"). Your stihl dealer will ask up to $40 per chain.

Just get the dealer to send the saw ASAP, he has wasted enough of your time already.

At $22-00 it sounds like chinese chain too me ................ oops

 

[Rudolf73]

hi rudy ,i rang stihl about the RMC semi chisel chain and they came back with 3652 000 0072 is micro chain
is that the one i should be buying for my 362
regards peter

Sending you a PM

At $22-00 it sounds like chinese chain too me ................ oops

Sorry I rechecked the price - $25 for genuine stihl

 

[peter92]

yeah, the dealer up here wants $56.10 RSC 20'' chain
regards peter

 

[Rudolf73]

yeah, the dealer up here wants $56.10 RSC 20'' chain
regards peter

Thats 78c a drive link, tell him he's dreaming.

You should be paying around 30-40c at most.

 

[peter92]

thanks for the reply, they only sell them in a box up here not on a roll. so genuine stihl product
regards peter

 

[deye223]

yeah, the dealer up here wants $56.10 RSC 20'' chain
regards peter

what a stinking thief