billpierce
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bet you had to sharpen the chain a few times! nice project
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Convert a MS181 vs a MSA 200. What do you think?
billpierce replied to rachelroots's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
also worth noting that while the MSA200 looks like it has a carving bar on it its infact a sprocket nose bar running 1/4 which (through experience) will not tolerate being carved with. personally i would get a carving bar, sprocket etc for your 180 and get 50-60cc saw (i made do with a 357xp 18''/15'' bar and an ms170 14'' carving bar for years). if your determined to buy second hand saw give me a pm as i'm in northumberland and should probably downsize saw collection. have fun! -
try to find out what the factory settings are for the saw? usually 1 turn out on L and H and the idle you should be able to tell what a decent tick over speed is without chain creep. my dcs 4301 has a spark arrestor also which glows red. i think this is normal and probably intentional as some sort of emission reduction (might be wrong? but mine has always done this and runs fine and has done for hours of work.) check you plug colour after a bit. good luck
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my husky dealer (david dixon) told me it as a load of scaremongering and sold me some cheaper oregon oil! he said oregon kicked up a fuss at stihl and husky blaming them for siezures and there is no evidence!
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spot on!
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thanks to everybody who offered their advice! got a new coil through from germany today (handwerkermarkt24 on ebay.de) for 75euro in delivery instead of £115 plus vat and delivery (makita uk). fitted and away we go. saw seem fine and has cut logs for 1/2 an hour. will give it a run tomorrow. so looks like the limiter on both the coils i had were dodgey thus an intermitent but mostly no spark on the old coil and new spares repair one i bought. thanks again for all the help!
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have done the same with a makita 230t and stihl 1.1 1/4 12'' stihl mini E bar. excellent and worth doing, and same bar mod, though i think with 2 extra drive links it wouldn;t have needed extra tensioner holes, but would still need the a hole cutting through from the centre of the rails to the tensioner hole for oil. there was a thread about doing this with ms200's a while ago also.
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nice one!
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yes! spot on
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dribble
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do you always have to return the saw to the place of purchase or will some dealers honour a warrenty anyway as presumably the costs are passed on to the manufacturer?
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i'm a coming to dorchester,hopefully i'll have a chance to come and see what your up to. thanks
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anyone used the 280 wes much? looks a good carving saw but bit worried its actually a home user plastic joke.
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where you at? i'm coming to dorset for chrimbo and maybe could swing by see what your up to? feel free to decline!
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A few of my recent carvings
billpierce replied to chriswilliams1989's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
chainsaw carving i reckon is dead safe i reckon compared to climbing/dismantling or felling. what dervish said about the tip of the bar is right. i find there is virtually no kickback on carving bars. your on even ground and and long as you don't get too relaxed about you'll be fine. the closest shaves i have had are ususally just moving reet big lumps of oak with telehandlers etc. -
yeah nice. also like the marks on the chair!
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can you get 1/4 sprocket nose dolmar bars that run the 1.1mm chain?
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probably will but slowly and painfully and i def wouldn't bother. and they are hard to get for 660 i think? milling oak etc with a 30'' on a 660 is plenty work for the saw i would say.
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yep agree
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also is there seems to be some home user models and pro ones of the 3500 series on the makita range?
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used an ea3501/3500 F tother day for carving. dead pokey for cc's. can you get the dolmar versions whatever the model is? how much? and are dolmar making their own carving bars or are they oregon ones? and can you get 1/4 sprocket nose dolmar bars that run the 1.1mm chain? thanks
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what design faults you found? the worst i found with mine (back handle) is that i filled the fuel with oil and vice versa a few times. got a 200t and 020t for climbing and on a 12'' bar i didn't notice a huge difference but haven't used them next to each other. i was gob smacked at the front air filter, but its been absolutely fine for maybe 60 hrs carving which is pretty dusty. and oil's well... interested to hear what they like up a tree
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meybs didn't explain that well. look at this the stove is top fed with the firebox in the water.direct heat. 1 wheel barrow of wood for one 7 person hot tub last time i did it. also have used an inflatable birth pool with hot water from our wood fired rayburn which is good but takes 3/4 hours to fill with hot water.
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dolmar 3410/ makita dcs3410 also worth a look. i have the back handle version. light with enough grunt
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i grew up in devon til i was sixteen then moved to northumberland! you shoud check the night skies out up here, the sky is twice as big!
