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Moose McAlpine

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  1. Moose McAlpine
    As i read that i could hear Smooth Operator playing in the background. 😂
  2. Moose McAlpine
    That really does look brand new! My mate's ones all look like the before picture.
  3. Moose McAlpine
    I'll have a look, i would hazard a guess at a couple years old as our guys kill equipment quite quickly. Ours often die in the cut too. Honestly, i think they're crap saws. The 200T has a cult following as a powerful, reliable saw. Pretty much unmatched all-round. My mate has 3 of them, the one he uses the most is 20 years old and all beaten up but gets run hard on cheap Stihl HP oil, with minimal maintenance and it just keeps on truckin'. I let one of our guys use my 540, he made one cut, then stopped and was just grinning. Said it was much more powerful and much smoother than his 201. It's a little beast of a saw.
  4. Moose McAlpine
    Ours do that all the time.
  5. Moose McAlpine
    We have a few MSA161s at work. They're a nice saw but underwhelming and not very powerful. We do a lot of council contract pollarding they bog down and stall cutting 2" growth quite frequently. They can cut more but quite slowly, you have to real easy on them. Husky T540i gets good reviews, apparently quite powerful, near on the T540XP. Nice an quiet, don't have to pull start etc.. i'd like to try one. I have a new T540XP MKII, love it. Very smooth and powerful, lovely smooth easy starter "feel". Balance, comfort and build quality is great. Much prefer it over the MS201Ts at work which i can't say i like much, although not used them much. Also have T525, little 27cc top handle. So small and light, lovely to use. Not as powerful as the 540, but it pulls a 10" bar and it's just really nice to use.
  6. Moose McAlpine
    What a strange coincidence! 😂
  7. Moose McAlpine
    I can just see you half inching one, followed by some poor bloke falling down a bloody great hole in the pavement. 😂
  8. Moose McAlpine
    Love that forwarder, beautiful machine.
  9. Moose McAlpine
    Looks like a 28" on it? I run a 28" on my 572 and it pulls it just fine. I really rate the saw, love it. My only complaint is that i don't get to use it enough, but it's lovely to use. If you want something in similar displacement you're now only really looking at a Stihl 500i or 661.
  10. Moose McAlpine
    They do crop up from time to time, you just need to keep looking, and have a fair idea of what you're after. There are some nice Husky 372s and a nice 576 on eBay at the moment, and a nice Stihl 460 and a 461. I was very lucky when i bought my 572 used. I think i paid 670 and it was practically new.
  11. Moose McAlpine
    Looks like a splitter, not a feller. 🧐
  12. Moose McAlpine
    Just get a used 372/441/similar if it's for occasional use. I think it'll be a while before we see something electric that can pull a 24" bar. We have a few of the little electric Stihl tophandles at work and they stall out just pollarding. That looks absolutely lethal.
  13. Moose McAlpine
    Like this nutter?
  14. Moose McAlpine
    Nope, nothing even close. Stihl used to make a 3-phase saw, apparently an unreal amount of torque with a low chain speed. I'd love to have one. Maybe have a look for a hydraulic saw and powerpack, but they're likely very expensive.
  15. Moose McAlpine
    @Rough Hewn maybe?
  16. Moose McAlpine
    Started off the day doing boring council pollarding, then got sent on a call out job; windblown tree had come down and blocked a footpath. Made for an interesting job, got absolutely soaked though. (We only had to clear the pathway, not remove the whole tree, minimal clear up.)
  17. Moose McAlpine
    Yeah i bet you can plow that into anything and it wouldn't even notice. Did MMWS do the carb conversion to adjust the H side? Love the full wrap on it. Like rocking horse shit to get hold of.
  18. Moose McAlpine
    Oh so it's not that much of a difference then. And i would imagine with the larger teeth you get more life out of a .404 chain too. I ran that 3120 with a ⅜ 28" bar on it. When back barring i had the back handle against my thigh because the saw pushed back so hard. It wouldn't even bog down pushing it hard. Was watching some Aussies the other day, up a tree with an 880 running a 25" bar. What in the hell happened to that saw? Literally patched up. ?
  19. Moose McAlpine
    Remember, to be a professional you don't have to be good at it, you just have to be paid for it. ? You're right though, and it's the same for many trades. I dealt with it a lot as a mechanic.
  20. Moose McAlpine
    Did you think the chain would run backwards too? ?
  21. Moose McAlpine
    I'm wondering what the difference in pull/load is between running a 36" in ⅜ or .404. Since .404 is bigger teeth, but less of them. Maybe it works out the same. ? I put this together but never tried it like this. Did run it with a 28" and it was bloody fierce though! ?
  22. Moose McAlpine
    Well my beloved 395 ain't gonna port itself! ? (Or my 525, 540, 550, 572, 3120...) I still need to bring you my T525 to look at/retune.
  23. Moose McAlpine
    Maybe something to do with kickback or plunge cutting? Remember reading a post from a guy who did a lot of plunge cutting and only used hard-nosed bars because it kills roller noses or something along those lines.
  24. Moose McAlpine
    There's a guy on Youtube (Treeson) who runs a 42" on his 395. Not sure if it's ported. Husky rate them for 36" standard so ported should pull a 42" fine. Might even get round to using mine one day. Has a .404 36" on it. Might bring it to you first, while it's still clean. ?
  25. Moose McAlpine
    The image is mirrored. Look at the writing on the starter cover - it's backwards.

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