wyk
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Everything posted by wyk
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As a 241 owner, I would personally get a 261 CM instead. It is strong enough to where you don't want for a 362 if you already have a 460, and light enough to do the job a 241 can. If the 066 is in great shape, that's not a bad price.
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Ah. It felt a little loose...
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044 problems. At least it's not the compression:
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I used a 352 not long ago, and was impressed it pulled much better than our MS181 here on the estate. I also felt it handled better, too. Between that and the 135 I recently tried, I sure won't buying an MS181 in the future.
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You had a 435? I would have considered that a rhodie saw.
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I ran a 135 today, and was pleasantly surprised by it's grunt.
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Another thing to consider with that data is that North American logging is much different from the UK. You wear caulk boots and limb a tree usually by walking upon it. I've done my fair share this way when I was in Oregon and Washington state. [ame] [/ame] I would say as many logging injuries from chainsaw occur during bucking and limbing, as felling, if not more. I always rushed on limbing vs felling as it was such monotonous work. It's easy to get some serious kickback during the process in a tangle of firs.
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You can find husqvarna chaps at reasonable prices.
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According to OSHA in the USA, you are far more likely to injure your hand than your foot.
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It looks like 325 in the photo. It will state it on the tail end of the chainsaw bar. I would keep that 181. It will come in handy some day. I use ours often enough for small jobs, or when I want a thin kerf, like when I am making wedges or have to cut a pattern in something like wall board etc.
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I won't touch those. Stihl needs to learn a thing or two from Echo on how to make a proper clamshell. The old McCullochs were good, too.
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The earlier 45cc one was no slouch either. And if it is NIB for 475 is not a bad deal if you are after a 346.
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I was also finishing ash. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADYWLp0kQo[/ame]
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AKA the HellBoy mod.
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In other words, it was standard at one point from the factory. The "mod" to remove it was forced by the EPA later.
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Where's the photos?
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I thought you got a 5121? If so, that's a 50cc saw - a full 70% more displacement than your old 181. The 181 should feel anemic by comparison. Once your rings set in and the bottom end moves more freely, she will come alive even more so.
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Square ground skip chain, 20" bar:
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Skip chain has 2/3 the teeth. It has less drag, weight, and more chip clearance. Skip chain limbs a bit faster, too, since you can get the teeth right into the wood when waving the bar about. But it is also a bit more grabby and more prone to kick back. Having said this, your 390 should pull full comp well enough. It is popular in the states for use on longer bars in softwoods so you could carry one bar and powerhead all day on a mountainside for a variety of tree sizes and not have to swap out. In some areas I have worked in the PNW, square ground skip chain was all that was available from the saw shops. Chainsawbars.co.uk carries skip chain as well as square ground chain.
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Rhody is a bane. It is one of the main reasons I ported my 241. It's hard stuff, and we have mature rhodie all over this estate I work.
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Shoot me any images ya got, too. It needs to be powerhead only, dry. Otherwise there's too many variables added, and it's difficult to compare it to factory PHO specs.
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I compensate by adding 1lb of supercharger.
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No harm done. That's the main reason we started the gallery - because the factories outright lie. Someone on another site once told me the Dolmar 7900 was 13.6 lbs and decided to argue with me coz - well, arguing on the internet is totally cool and stuff. I had just used one a friend of mine had at the time(back in 2009), and I thought to myself there was no way in hell that thing weighed less than my 372. So I weighed it: And that basically started the gallery and ended the argument.
