The working man, and chainsaw thread!!!!!!!!!

[Eccentric]

Didn't I just embed your pics in another thread?

Randy they came up now for me. Good stuff my friend, glad you likey! When we bought our porta wrap we never looked back. Makes life 100 percent easier, saves your rope too, as we use to just wrap it around the tree or limb for a brake. Sam great to see you buddy! What the hell comes out of the trees the retarded chicken?? LOL! The working man got some saws today. The 288 is mine finally got one:msp_smile: Needs p&C but super clean. The 2100's I was going to sell, thought at first just parts saws, but the one is strong, clean p&C ridiculous compression, and it fired on the 6th pull. They sat for 10 years indoors I bet. Needs carb kit and fuel line, but now may be hard to part with not pretty but a great saw.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

LOL! I know I know thanks buddy!! Gotta learn someday

 

[NHlocal]

More cool pics, thanks for sharing. Still waiting on a helicopter, ####-heads are over a month late now.....which means if the sun comes out, the Ponderosa will blue and lose it's value by half.....so I'm thinking we're kinda ####-ed.....Not that we weren't anyways. Not much good comes from heli contracts in this economy/timber market. Hopefully it'll all shake out in the overall scheme when tossed in with the yarder/cat wood.

The bird is supposed to show up tomorow and fly sticks Tuesday.....camera's in the crummy...if nothing else, I'll take some pics of my grouse ladder patch! Literally! Knocked two of the poor bastards out of trees I was dumping on Friday......Makes you move around a little when something comes out of a tree you're falling that looks rather big and coming back up the hill at you.

Hope you all are well - Sam

Hey Sam,
Hope that heli works out for ya', ain't no good when plans A and B fall through and you have to go to plan C.....
.....hope to see some pics.....opcorn:
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NORMZILLA44]

I like that plan C! Like plan 9 from outer space

 

[NHlocal]

Randy they came up now for me. Good stuff my friend, glad you likey! When we bought our porta wrap we never looked back. Makes life 100 percent easier, saves your rope too, as we use to just wrap it around the tree or limb for a brake. Sam great to see you buddy! What the hell comes out of the trees the retarded chicken?? LOL! The working man got some saws today. The 288 is mine finally got one:msp_smile: Needs p&C but super clean. The 2100's I was going to sell, thought at first just parts saws, but the one is strong, clean p&C ridiculous compression, and it fired on the 6th pull. They sat for 10 years indoors I bet. Needs carb kit and fuel line, but now may be hard to part with not pretty but a great saw.

Hey Norm,
I bet those saws will make some nice chips when you get them running.:msp_thumbup: You gonna run 'em "stock" or "modified"?:hmm3grin2orange:
Honestly Norm, I am really looking forward to using that porta wrap again, just not sure when that will be?, soon I hope! :biggrinbounce2: Looking forward to seeing pics of those saws when you get 'em up and running.

Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NHlocal]

I like that plan C! Like plan 9 from outer space

Ayuh,
:msp_thumbup:.....

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Thanks Randy. One of the 2100's runs that bastard sat 10-15 years, fired on the fifth pull! Needs carb kit, fuel line, handle clutch cover, bar and chain. Sold it to my good friend one of my best. 100 bucks, and I will do the work to get it going for him. Hes a good friend, and want to help him. He wanted a bigger saw. The 288 is all mine! Needs P&C will leave it stock, and oem parts. Funny stock saws with a sharp chain ain't all that bad:msp_sneaky: Yeah PW is a sweet ass tool!

 

[Alex D]

Thanks Randy. One of the 2100's runs that bastard sat 10-15 years, fired on the fifth pull! Needs carb kit, fuel line, handle clutch cover, bar and chain. Sold it to my good friend one of my best. 100 bucks, and I will do the work to get it going for him. Hes a good friend, and want to help him. He wanted a bigger saw. The 288 is all mine! Needs P&C will leave it stock, and oem parts. Funny stock saws with a sharp chain ain't all that bad:msp_sneaky: Yeah PW is a sweet ass tool!

Without a doubt Norm a properly sharpened chain is the first, best and most important mod that can be done to a saw. Without one a saw becomes a misery whip

 

[NHlocal]

.....sharp chain.....

I'm in 100% agreement with both of ya', a sharp chain(properly sharpened)will give the biggest performance gains for sure. And it doesn't cost any extra. :msp_w00t:
OEM parts, niiiiiccce!!! Pics please? opcorn: Ayuh, for sure Norm, not that I'm trying to give a sales pitch for it but I can't say enough about that porta wrap!!! Just the little bit that I used it, it's awesome!!! Time to go brew up some fresh coffee and head to work,
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[NHlocal]

Thanks Randy. One of the 2100's runs that bastard sat 10-15 years, fired on the fifth pull! Needs carb kit, fuel line, handle clutch cover, bar and chain. Sold it to my good friend one of my best. 100 bucks, and I will do the work to get it going for him. Hes a good friend, and want to help him. He wanted a bigger saw. The 288 is all mine! Needs P&C will leave it stock, and oem parts. Funny stock saws with a sharp chain ain't all that bad:msp_sneaky: Yeah PW is a sweet ass tool!

Norm I keep forgetting to ask, what are some of the symptoms when a saw needs a carb kit? I'm thinking my ms260pro might need one. I thought I had it fixed when I replaced the fly wheel side crank seal, but it's acting up again. :bang:
Oh yeah, I loaded those pics from the coast, here's a couple.....it was a good day for our 25th anniversary.

 

[carym2a]

Thanks Randy. One of the 2100's runs that bastard sat 10-15 years, fired on the fifth pull! Needs carb kit, fuel line, handle clutch cover, bar and chain. Sold it to my good friend one of my best. 100 bucks, and I will do the work to get it going for him. Hes a good friend, and want to help him. He wanted a bigger saw. The 288 is all mine! Needs P&C will leave it stock, and oem parts. Funny stock saws with a sharp chain ain't all that bad:msp_sneaky: Yeah PW is a sweet ass tool!

I'v been told by cutters back in the day of the Kart 101 sp125 pro days that you could out cut them in footage at the end of the day with a stock SP125 , cuz a stock one run all day and a hot rod kart needed to much fiddilin to keep going.

 

[Alex D]

I'v been told by cutters back in the day of the Kart 101 sp125 pro days that you could out cut them in footage at the end of the day with a stock SP125 , cuz a stock one run all day and a hot rod kart needed to much fiddilin to keep going.

I think another issue was they had a tendency to start having serious problems after only a couple of weeks. It seems these saws are to hot for work stock but full blown modded race saws with the 101B engines were hard to beat.

Probably McCullochs best non gear drive would be the 797 as it had more power than the 125s but it also still retained reliablility something the kart saws didn't.

 

[komatsuvarna]

Here's my skidder . From the looks of the saw dust and cookies, I was enjoying running the 2100 too much .

 

[Somesawguy]

Norm I keep forgetting to ask, what are some of the symptoms when a saw needs a carb kit? I'm thinking my ms260pro might need one. I thought I had it fixed when I replaced the fly wheel side crank seal, but it's acting up again. :bang:
Oh yeah, I loaded those pics from the coast, here's a couple.....it was a good day for our 25th anniversary.

Looks like Kennebunk. Am I close? I haven't been down there for awhile. Wells is closer, but parking is a PITA.

 

[Denis Gionet]

I loaded those pics from the coast, here's a couple.....it was a good day for our 25th anniversary.

Looks like the storm drains were having issues .... lol !

 

[NHlocal]

Looks like Kennebunk. Am I close? I haven't been down there for awhile. Wells is closer, but parking is a PITA.

Close,:msp_thumbup: a little further south, it's Long Sands in York. The lighthouse in the last pic is Nubble Point Lighthouse. We visit at least once every year.
My wife is a "Maine-iac" :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Brian13]

Been a lot going on in here, had to catch up. Randy, looks like that Oak went pretty smooth. The port-a-wrap is a great tool, makes life a whole lot easier. Nice pics from the coast, looks real nice up there!! Got to try something new today. Had a small Oak, probably 12" dia. that was leaning hard. Probably would have came down fine, but for the hellofit I tried the coose bay cut. Came down with out a problem, no barber chair. Hope all is well for everybody, I have been swamped. Its been 90* outside and not sign of relief. Nice saws Norm, its no comparison but I just picked up an 024 for 25$. A new fuel line and it should be running. Still not sure if I am going to keep it, would really like an 026. Guess I will see when its up and running.

 

[NHlocal]

Been a lot going on in here, had to catch up. Randy, looks like that Oak went pretty smooth. The port-a-wrap is a great tool, makes life a whole lot easier. Nice pics from the coast, looks real nice up there!! Got to try something new today. Had a small Oak, probably 12" dia. that was leaning hard. Probably would have came down fine, but for the hellofit I tried the coose bay cut. Came down with out a problem, no barber chair. Hope all is well for everybody, I have been swamped. Its been 90* outside and not sign of relief. Nice saws Norm, its no comparison but I just picked up an 024 for 25$. A new fuel line and it should be running. Still not sure if I am going to keep it, would really like an 026. Guess I will see when its up and running.

Ayuh, that Oak did come down nice, real nice.:msp_thumbup: The trunk turned out to be real solid. I'll keep saying it, the porta wrap is AWESOME!!! For the increase in safety alone it's worth using, then there's the whole saving wear and tear on ropes and equipment. I recommend it for everyone!
The coast is great for sure, get's crowded during the summer but we still like to go.
Sounds like you're still on that steep learning curve, I know I am. Learning something new pretty much every time out cutting. Good deal on the 024 if it's a good runner.
I'm still editing the video on that Oak take down, it'll be done soon. I'm lovin' that new climbing saddle more every time I use it, makes working in the tree a lot easier.
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[Brian13]

Looking forward to the video! I am going to get the treemotion as soon as the boss orders it for me. Sold a gun to him, so I figured I would get the best harness I could get. Who knows when I will have the money for something like that again LOL. 0400 is way to early to get up, and I just really want to go back to bed. But have a busy day yet to go, have to finish cleaning the mess up from that Oak yesterday and start cleaning some dead wood out of another.

 

[NHlocal]

.....editing.....

Looking forward to the video! I am going to get the treemotion as soon as the boss orders it for me. Sold a gun to him, so I figured I would get the best harness I could get. Who knows when I will have the money for something like that again LOL. 0400 is way to early to get up, and I just really want to go back to bed. But have a busy day yet to go, have to finish cleaning the mess up from that Oak yesterday and start cleaning some dead wood out of another.

Brian,
.....just have a "bit" more editing to do on that video, should come out pretty good. I can be very critical of a lot of things I do and I'm not 100% satisfied with it yet, soon. Ayuh, I here ya' on the new harness, I really stretched to get mine. I was very fortunate to finish a job and catch the sale Sherrill Tree had on their Edge harness($357.25 and free shipping), I had to do something, the more climbing I did the more I found the harness I had was holding me back and making me work harder. This new saddle is worth every penny! I'm sure you'll love that Treemotion harness. You should find very quickly it will allow you to do more work without getting as worn out. Please post a first climb review, I'd be interested to hear how it works for you. Don't know if this is any encouragement for you or not but, I'm up at 4:00AM every morning(usually not on Sunday but lately that day too) so I can sympathize with you completely. Oh yeah, except for the two week vacation I just finished. :hmm3grin2orange: "Hang in there".....
I don't remember if I posted these pics yet or not, it's in the Oak I just cut and I'm about 50ft up where the trunk forks and my left foot is in the old lightning strike split.....
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup: