Which saw has felled the most timber of all time???

[Tree Sling'r]

044 Mag/ 044 around these parts. Got friends (I was too young) who were cutting 20,000 BF trees in Ti-Bar (off hwy 96 towards Hoopa and Willow Creek, N. CA) with the Mag's when they first came out. Around here they replaced the Pioneer's.

 

[sILlogger]

044 Mag/ 044 around these parts. Got friends (I was too young) who were cutting 20,000 BF trees in Ti-Bar (off hwy 96 towards Hoopa and Willow Creek, N. CA) with the Mag's when they first came out. Around here they replaced the Pioneer's.

i wish we had 20000, bft trees around here, around 2500 bft is some of the biggest ones ive cut

 

[Tree Sling'r]

i wish we had 20000, bft trees around here, around 2500 bft is some of the biggest ones ive cut

There are plenty left around here, but mostly on Forest Service ground - which is pretty much no longer logged. A few on private - we had a couple last year on Sierra Pacific ground.
Many over on the coast - redwoods or course.

 

[GASoline71]

PNW tree murderers... 044, 056, 046, 038 Mag 2, 066

Gary

 

[clearance]

From the PNW also-2100, 2101, 288, 394, 395.

 

[BC_Logger]

My vote would be for the 2100 and the 044

 

[GASoline71]

From the PNW also-2100, 2101, 288, 394, 395.

Oops... guess I'm kinda biased... LOL

Gary

 

[SinglerM]

660 and 440 pair.

No question Stihl has to be the timber cutting champ of all time. They've been around forever and all over the world. In terms of exact model I'd go with the 044. Seems anyone that has a 066/660 has a 044 as well and chances are the 044 gets used more often, guessing here now, not fact..

No doubt there Tom. They seem to match up well as far as for covering most needs.

Mitch

 

[gdn]

what do they cut down the amazon with?

 

[SawTroll]

World wide, my guess is Stihl 070......

 

[smokechase II]

complex

If this is board foot/meter based, this would require a lot or research to answer.

What type of axe? Yes it probably is 10,000 years of axe, either stone or bronze or iron. (If you're a Stihl man - this would be iron/steel, Husky would be bronze - but they love their prices).

What brand of cross cut? Atkins Silver Steel or Simmonds Royal Chinook.
Sure the Chinook was the elite, but the Atkins was more commonly used. The generic "unlabeled Jonsered" saws were even more common.

The 044/440 saws are small potatoes. They have only been around recently, since around 1991. That is not very much volume compared to the old days.

The Stihl 070 vs 090 debate may have some merit. Especially with the rainforest part of the equation on-going and 090's still being made in Brazil.

Locally, the railroad cross-cut loggers cut way more volume than the logging days of the 60's, 70's, 80's and early 90's.
Then you look at the vast forests of the Northern Midwest and East Coast, all those 4 ft+ white pine and 6 ft+ hardwoods that went under to the cross cut. It's not just the big trees of the West Coast.

I have to say cross cut, Silver Steel for the US.
World wide ????

 

[SawTroll]

The Stihl 070 vs 090 debate may have some merit. Especially with the rainforest part of the equation on-going and 090's still being made in Brazil. ....

Those old-timers are made at a special production line in Germany, not in Brazil.

 

[ChuckinOhio]

Yeah, axes and crosscuts have been around longer, but the sheer volume of wood you can go through with a chainsaw puts it right up there neck and neck with the old techniques as far as total timber felled, thats even if you were using a wildthingamabob.


Chuck

 

[tek9tim]

PNW tree murderers... 044, 056, 046, 038 Mag 2, 066

Gary

Yup.

 

[ShoerFast]

The question is about chainsaws, or should say in a chainsaw forum, so my vote wont be cross-cut or ax.

There was a huge population and housing boom, right up till the point that eastern logging went mechanized. Before the feller-bunches and slashers, the Stihl 041 stood alone as an extreme work-horse , in a way, a lot of Stihl's reputation was won from the Mac's and Hommie's at that time.

Hard case to prove, but in the 041's hay-day, a lot of chainsaw manufactures went belly-up, or turned home owner.

My vote, the 041 , if it did not cut more timber, it turned more heads then many saws in there time.

 

[romeo]

McCullogh

It would be big saw. I would say the 4.5 cube saws have bucked more timber but not fell it. 090's fell allot of old growth redwood. 2100's used to be the king of the woods around here. But the 80cc yellow saws held rain for along time (50's, 60's, 70's) and the ones that didn't die were still being used into the late 80's. Not saying they are better than the new stuff but they had allot less tree huggers standing in front of them.
Kind of a pointless argument though.

 

[Buzz 880]

I would have to say 044 stihl lost of guy's i work with in the bush use them we put down 100-120 tree's a day with them i would like to see the man with the cross cut do that.

 

[GASoline71]

The 044/440 saws are small potatoes. They have only been around recently, since around 1991. That is not very much volume compared to the old days.

I have to dissagree with you on that one. The 044/440 has only been around for a short period of time compared to other saws... but almost every loggin' outfit out here was (is) usin' them to fell thousands upon thousands of second and third growth trees. Even before the 046/460 came along, I believe the 044/440 still has outfelled a lot of saws.

Like Tom said earlier... the 044/440 was (and still is) popular with non-pro cutters too.

The big Macs and Homies were popular out here too... during the 70's when the old growth timber was really bein' slaughtered up in to the 80's. Big saws like the 090/076/075 were used on those big trees too. So were the big Husqvarnas. Those big trees took a lot of time to get on the ground... even with the big chainsaws. Back breakin' work with big ass bars took time.

Then the 044 comes along in a lightweight powerful package and the timber harvest took off... Guys could pack it all day long... still cut big wood (maybe not the old growth monsters), and it was quicker too.

The 056 group of saws did take down a lot of big old and second growth trees... But the modern loggin' outfits all had (have) 044/440's in their crummies. Lots and lots of 'em. The 066/660's really didn't get used as much in the timber due to their size. Packin' one of those SOB's around was murder. My vote is still for the 044/440 class saw.

Gary

 

[ciscoguy01]

Yip

Would guess maybe 056 was king around here for quite some time back when they were stihl cutting giant trees:chainsawguy:

+1 here dude. Everyone had a 056 and a 041 for that matter, that was the flagship of Stihl and is still used a bunch today for everything...

 

[Dennis Cahoon]

The big Macs and Homies were popular out here too... during the 70's when the old growth timber was really bein' slaughtered up in to the 80's. Big saws like the 090/076/075 were used on those big trees too. So were the big Husqvarnas. Those big trees took a lot of time to get on the ground... even with the big chainsaws. Back breakin' work with big ass bars took time.

Gary

These were the saws that Greased the timber of the West Coast. The 125 Macs, 2100 Homelites, 090's, 075, 076's, 2100 Huskys....IMO!