offgridchris

hi chris, wondered what conclusion you came to re sawing shingles? i'm trying to do essentially the same thing. build a timber frame post and beam house with my own timber. and as much of it in timber as i can/is appropriate. i bought a logosol M5 for that very reason. it has its up sides and downsides too. it needed a bigger saw than the one i started out with aswell. logosol recommend the stihl ms660 as a minimum. i had a husky 575xp, and it was okay on yellow pine, but not powerful enough on large lumps of hardwood, it ended up kerfing the cut too frequently. probably not helped by not having a support on the bar tip, a design flaw they now seem to be addressing. this isn't a problem with the stihl (i ended up buying one off ebay 2nd hand - one of the best things i've ever done, when the husky had 2 piston seizures one after the other) the stihl runs with the same bar as for cross cutting a 3/8ths pitch and the chain is a 75rd rip.