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.

[Stere]

 

 

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Tempted to stick either .325 or 1/4 on it, rather than 3/8lp

 

So what are the carving bars and chains like on the toppers not for carving but just  regular use use

 

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Im thinking would be smoother for prunning over 3/8lp?

[kram]

I use 3/8LP full chisel with a carving bar on the 2511, carving bar more because its smaller, lighter and can get into tighter spaces. I prefer it for pruning work and a normal bar for removals.

 

3/8lp full chisel is the smoothest cutting I have found for a top handle. Smoothest I mean the nicest cut quality and best for nibbling away at the ends of long skinny branches. 

With semi chisel on 1/4" I found it can bounce and rip these more than it cuts, the shredded tips look is not good.

 

 

With a newish chain, long length cutters, it doesnt like plunge cutting - the cutters going to rub with the small nose radius, slow to do anything with the nose, but it does cut. The top and bottom of bar cut beautifully.

 

Once the chain is half worn with a few sharpens it should have no problem with plunge cuts.

 

I was going to try the 2511 bars as I have a spare, on the uc002 but the mounting is too narrow - chain would rub the casing.

 

 

 

[Donnie]

Got a few 30mm exits for my 462. 
I can’t tig weld anymore so I got my pal who’s starting up himself to do it and he’s made a grand job of it.