What's on your bench today?

[Craigb]

Thank you for all the advice and the piston. The 346 ne is running great. I need a new doer uper. Something bigger.

[Craigb]

Gone and done it now. Got a 372. Has anyone swapped the high top for a low top and are flogging the high top bits? Or wanting low top bits and have high top bits?

[pleasant]

Unusual for us to get really big saws in, as we tend to focus on the well heeled weekend warrior.

 

However, we had a very low hours husqvarna 395xp plonked on the counter...domestic user with big logs apparently. Wanted it serviced...on off switch hasnt been working, so has been pulling the choke out to stop it. Has now broken the choke lever so has been trying to stop it with a damp rag over the muffler outlet!

 

We thought, thats a saw we havent seen the size of for sometime....then half an hour later an old boy comes in.....said he used to work for lewisham council in charge of buying maintenance kit and selling it off when council deemed it end of life...which was 3 years. Told me he was 76 and had trouble walking and would i help him out the car with it. Open boot and he's got this huge stihl 076av with a four foot bar on it. I have two of these he said...oh and an 038 and an 020 topper. Got them off the council pre auction.

 

I said i take it you dont use them anymore...what do you want a price or something.

 

Oh no...im halfway through a job and its sprung a fuel leak! Would use my other 076 but couldnt get that one to start.

 

This guy was frail and half my size....and i struggled to lift it out the boot. Side by side made the 395 look minute.

 

Pic is of my 13 year old daughter and she's tall for her age....made her look small!

 

Edited July 19, 2023 by pleasant

[AHPP]

59 minutes ago, pleasant said:

Unusual for us to get really big saws in, as we tend to focus on the well heeled weekend warrior.

 

However, we had a very low hours husqvarna 395xp plonked on the counter...domestic user with big logs apparently. Wanted it serviced...on off switch hasnt been working, so has been pulling the choke out to stop it. Has now broken the choke lever so has been trying to stop it with a damp rag over the muffler outlet!

 

We thought, thats a saw we havent seen the size of for sometime....then half an hour later an old boy comes in.....said he used to work for lewisham council in charge of buying maintenance kit and selling it off when council deemed it end of life...which was 3 years. Told me he was 76 and had trouble walking and would i help him out the car with it. Open boot and he's got this huge stihl 076av with a four foot bar on it. I have two of these he said...oh and an 038 and an 020 topper. Got them off the council pre auction.

 

I said i take it you dont use them anymore...what do you want a price or something.

 

Oh no...im halfway through a job and its sprung a fuel leak! Would use my other 076 but couldnt get that one to start.

 

This guy was frail and half my size....and i struggled to lift it out the boot. Side by side made the 395 look minute.

 

Pic is of my 13 year old daughter and she's tall for her age....made her look small!

 

Strong kid but she's got the bar upside down. Amateur. 

[pleasant]

18 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Strong kid but she's got the bar upside down. Amateur. 

Don't make kids like they used to eh? 😉

[peatff]

20 hours ago, AHPP said:

Strong kid but she's got the bar upside down. Amateur. 

 

Do you not turn your bar to equalise wear ? Everybody else does. Just don't turn the chain backwards as well, all will be good.

[pleasant]

Should be flipped every two or three chains.

 

Never understood why Stihl and such like don't invert their logo on one side of the bar. Can display it with the logo the correct way up in the showroom with the inverted side behind so it doesn't look odd, but once purchased in will invoke a reaction from the customer as to why one side is a different way up...an explanation would then encourage the bar to be flipped to even wear.

Edited July 20, 2023 by pleasant

[Stubby]

6 hours ago, pleasant said:

Should be flipped every two or three chains.

 

Never understood why Stihl and such like don't invert their logo on one side of the bar. Can display it with the logo the correct way up in the showroom with the inverted side behind so it doesn't look odd, but once purchased in will invoke a reaction from the customer as to why one side is a different way up...an explanation would then encourage the bar to be flipped to even wear.

Does that not depend on what side it is vied from When you flip it ? It could always be the " wrong " way up 🙂

[AJStrees]

Nothing too exciting. But I spent the afternnoon sharpening my hedge trimmers. It was good to get an edge back on those teeth, crikey, not sure how they were cutting anything. Disclaimer. These are work hedge trimmers, not personal and thus they get used by a number of people. Therefore I end up maintaining them. 

[AJStrees]

On another note. Back when I was young and silly, I bought a husqvarna 445, I decided it would suit a long panther bar and chain and a new rim sprocket. Rob D got me the bits I needed and it worked out well. So it now has a 20" panther bar on with a 1/4" rim sprocket and panther chain. Cuts great and is a pleasure to use.