Stihl 038 AVS Farm Boss (late ‘80s) worth saving?

[Just_Alex]

@Wonky the beast lives! Nice. 🤩

[Wonky]

I didn’t bother with a pressure & vac test on this saw. I did as spud said. Set the carb to std settings about 1 1/4 turns out started it up and warmed it up.

then tuned it. I left it a bit rich on the H for a while  (edit it ran and idled fine)
remember I was using the old piston. So I didn’t really need the heat cycle bit for the piston.

btw this saw has a  double port China exhaust on it as a found the uk oem exhausts were a bit restricted.

 

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[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, Wonky said:

The elm tree had to be debarked & burnt, “Council requirements” 😉. so the quickest way was to sort of noodled abit and bias cut as well as a little bit of ripping, and sort of ended up with a very very bad cant and a lot less wood to burn.

So if you remove the bark and slabwood and burn them you can keep the cant for milling off site?

[Wonky]

Yes that is correct, but my very rough cants won’t  be much. And I can’t see me getting the bigger one out of the woods till it’s dried a bit over the summer.

I had 3 or 4hrs  and burning wet wood needs a good fire first then a leaf blower to keep it going, my helper (son) split the edge/bark off of some bits that were not worth doing anything with. edit and that was just to Cut down on the wood we had to burn, and some bits we scorched/steamed &knocked the bark off , those barkless bits bits got chucked in the undergrowth 

Edited April 10, 2022 by Wonky
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