the 'todays job' thread

[AHPP]

This week’s job has been trying to diligently tie off all the little fiddle-fuxk decisions on the winch that I’ve been putting off for months. Got some final answers from my machinist on how much clearance he wants designed in for certain ops etc (I know - dream client!) so no excuses to not get the bits my end done. A few more (tens of) hours of CAD and then buy a piece of aluminum the size of a phone book and commit.  
 

 

 

[kram]

I dont have a before pic, but a reasonable spreading conifer with thick ivy up the main and dead right stem. Interesting as it had a big hazard beam crack on the furthest spreading left stem, I wanted to get a decent amount of weight off that before I tied in.

Mostly an easy drop zone, spear cut all the rear brush as nothing important behind. 

 

The new Meteor cyl kit is working well! I had some issue with it bogging but each time the air filter was clogged and had to bang it clean. There was a very dusty dead stem but seemed to clog excessively fast.

 

 

Long steep garden on this and I wouldnt have wanted to be a groundie, perhaps should have cut them smaller!

Cutting the low stump was exhausting at the end.

 

Jobs like this I would like a 3120XP as it should be 50% quicker cutting the big bits. 

Edited yesterday at 11:41 by kram

[Mick Dempsey]

2 hours ago, kram said:

I dont have a before pic, but a reasonable spreading conifer with thick ivy up the main and dead right stem. Interesting as it had a big hazard beam crack on the furthest spreading left stem, I wanted to get a decent amount of weight off that before I tied in.

Mostly an easy drop zone, spear cut all the rear brush as nothing important behind. 

 

The new Meteor cyl kit is working well! I had some issue with it bogging but each time the air filter was clogged and had to bang it clean. There was a very dusty dead stem but seemed to clog excessively fast.

 

 

Long steep garden on this and I wouldnt have wanted to be a groundie, perhaps should have cut them smaller!

Cutting the low stump was exhausting at the end.

 

Jobs like this I would like a 3120XP as it should be 50% quicker cutting the big bits. 

The really big saws aren’t necessarily quicker through that size wood, a razor sharp 572 or similar will be more use. 

[AHPP]

Like Mick says. 500i is the answer to a lot of arb questions. Even a 661 on the same bar and chain is (or at least feels) slower on smaller wood. I’m aware that might sound like bollocks because displacement is displacement but I’ve just cut about 150 tonnes of 4-40” firewood with a 500i and a 661 on the same bars so feel fairly qualified to comment.

881/3120. Forget it. No point until you’re regularly doing six foot cuts. Too much misery for not enough reward. 

[bigtreedon]

Bit of beech fun

[bigtreedon]

[dan blocker]

9 hours ago, AHPP said:

This week’s job has been trying to diligently tie off all the little fiddle-fuxk decisions on the winch that I’ve been putting off for months. Got some final answers from my machinist on how much clearance he wants designed in for certain ops etc (I know - dream client!) so no excuses to not get the bits my end done. A few more (tens of) hours of CAD and then buy a piece of aluminum the size of a phone book and commit.  
 

 

Where on the ironing board have you fitted the winch🤔
 

 

[kram]

On 09/08/2025 at 14:46, Mick Dempsey said:

The really big saws aren’t necessarily quicker through that size wood, a razor sharp 572 or similar will be more use. 

 

21 hours ago, AHPP said:

Like Mick says. 500i is the answer to a lot of arb questions. Even a 661 on the same bar and chain is (or at least feels) slower on smaller wood. I’m aware that might sound like bollocks because displacement is displacement but I’ve just cut about 150 tonnes of 4-40” firewood with a 500i and a 661 on the same bars so feel fairly qualified to comment.

881/3120. Forget it. No point until you’re regularly doing six foot cuts. Too much misery for not enough reward. 

 

50% more power,  but out of the box it will be set up for longer bars with more cutters in the wood, where more torque is needed.

I imagine a larger sprocket, one or two teeth up, would be required to get the chain speed where you'd see the power for smaller stuff.

[Peter 1955]

22 hours ago, AHPP said:

Like Mick says. 500i is the answer to a lot of arb questions.

Every chainsaw mistake I have made has been the same one. Not upgrading far enough. 

When my beloved, and well used 023 needed replacing, I went for a 251. A more horrible, gutless machine I have never picked up. After many years of use, either it's bedded in, or I've got used to it, but the upgrade from that one, my 261 is a delight. And a cause of sorrow.

Sorrow? Upgrade from an 038, also beloved. I was rapidly steered away from the like-for-like 391, thank you all. That left 400 ( old model ) 462, and 500i. The 500i was immediately discounted, because it's far more saw than I could ever justify, isn't it? The 400 was a 20% power increase, and far lighter, no brainer, eh? 

I should have got either of the big ones, no question at all. 

Man who never made a mistake, never made anything.  

[Mick Dempsey]

25 minutes ago, Peter 1955 said:

Every chainsaw mistake I have made has been the same one. Not upgrading far enough. 

When my beloved, and well used 023 needed replacing, I went for a 251. A more horrible, gutless machine I have never picked up. After many years of use, either it's bedded in, or I've got used to it, but the upgrade from that one, my 261 is a delight. And a cause of sorrow.

Sorrow? Upgrade from an 038, also beloved. I was rapidly steered away from the like-for-like 391, thank you all. That left 400 ( old model ) 462, and 500i. The 500i was immediately discounted, because it's far more saw than I could ever justify, isn't it? The 400 was a 20% power increase, and far lighter, no brainer, eh? 

I should have got either of the big ones, no question at all. 

Man who never made a mistake, never made anything.  

The 251 and 391 aren’t professional grade saws, which explains your disappointment in them.