New kit! what have you bought?

[Ty Korrigan]

A rake, a lovely wide plastic rake with a varnished wood handle.

I really wanted a 7.5t Isuzu tipper but Mrs Lee vetoed that as she wants a house instead.

[Ty Korrigan]

44 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

A rake, a lovely wide plastic rake with a varnished wood handle.

I really wanted a 7.5t Isuzu tipper but Mrs Lee vetoed that as she wants a house instead.

Oh! You find that funny do you?

 Siding with my wife now?

 Bastards, the lot of you...

Edited Thursday at 19:53 by Ty Korrigan

[kram]

1 hour ago, Dan Maynard said:

as the Oregon chain it comes with has such big safety bumpers you can barely cut with the bar buried so I had to file them off.

 

I havent understood the purpose of saftry bumpers, as they would always be lower than the rakers and not touching wood...?
Powdery chips, as would with high rakers? 
or does it suck power out of the cut?

[flyingjoiner]

@kram They basically stop you from plunge cutting, or they make it very slow and horrible, otherwise you can't tell much of a difference.

 

It's just not that easy getting a chain that small with the safety bumpers. Chainsawbars.com have some, so they have become the best bet

[Dan Maynard]

19 hours ago, kram said:

 

I havent understood the purpose of saftry bumpers, as they would always be lower than the rakers and not touching wood...?
Powdery chips, as would with high rakers? 
or does it suck power out of the cut?

The are below or in line with the raker when the chains travelling straight, but stick out when it's going round the bar nose. Idea is to reduce chance of kickback, problem is you need the bottom half of the nose to cut for cutting with a buried bar. Or any slightly creative cut in between branches etc. If you take a Stihl 1/4 pitch chain it has bumpers but not high, these Oregon ones are just terrible.