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  1. Cold Logging

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    Ya, I agree. I'm running saws every day but the only time I've run one with a full wrap hb and westy dogs on it in the past 3 weeks was this past Saturday. I used my 372 to buck up some poplar cord wood to stove lengths. . Different show needs a different tool. I used the 372 because it...
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    Wow. If it has the right Carb jets on it it can really make some chips.
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    Way yup!!!! And go easy on the depth gauges. . Square up the top angle to 25° or so and let it feed itself.
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    Ya, I know. I may be wrong, but it seems North Americans think European s think we are stupid or at least Unrefined. And Europeans think N.As are, Bully .
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    I just noticed how many cutters were on that chain. I yi yi. Don't hit nothing with that.
  6. Cold Logging

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    Nice looking 2100 by the way. I had and fell timber with 2 ,2100+1,2101 . The 2101 was a dual ported juiced up monster. Just a little less snort than my 3120 .
  7. Cold Logging

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    The fact is the half wrap handle bars leas to back baring back cuts. . On any piece of wood that is greater in diameter than 3/4 the length of the bar the kick back zone of the bar tip will be contacting the wood. Take a 5 HP or larger powerheads with a short bar and that's a recipe for a...
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    :O
  9. Cold Logging

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    I call my wife. Most everyone else just gets a text
  10. Cold Logging

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    Hey, one little piece of electronic gear and I'm reativly ready to go. . I tramp around a fair amount so I've streamlined what I need to pack.
  11. Cold Logging

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    Ya, the Allagash is pretty good country. . Last fall was the first time I was South of Portland Canal in 30 years 4 months. My Mom passed away and I went to her funeral and to spend a week with family. . Wow, talk about some ideal arborist trees to clamber around in. Rock and sugar...
  12. Cold Logging

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    I'm really sorry. I've been trying to teach this fon how to spell for 6 months. Tucker is right. Should read ( grew up in Maine ) . Penobscot county. North of Bangor. . . Gravel roads, dairy and loggin country.
  13. Cold Logging

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    I free up in Maine. Started falling when I was 12 years old with a McCollogh Super 2/10 Automaticwith a 16" bar. Cutting balsam fir pulp wood. I line in Eastern Central Alaska now but lived nearly 30 years on the coast, mostly in Southeast Alaska. . Our ground there was similar to...
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    OK Great with me. Yes being accurate at falling is primarily in the hands of the taller. . But I guess its just I've had too many years of cutting timber and working with too many fallers. Short bars, tiny dogs and half wrap handle bars is a recipe for low production and getting cut...
  15. Cold Logging

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    No one has advanced enough skills to fall timber on steep ground that is stooled up standing on spring boards with a 20" bar. Or even a 24 or 28 . Timber in the 50" on the stump size. They. Won't be consistently hitting their lays. They will be wasting time on the stump. And they will get...
  16. Cold Logging

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    If you suffer from short bar syndrome it may be impossible to learn you. I'm not talking about 1 tree, I'm talking about day in day out falling timber. 20,000 - 100,000 board feet per day 6 days a week 4 weeks a month 6-10 months a year. Year in year out. If your in 24" and larger timber...
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    Ya, when I get up in the morning. Its what Doesn't hurt that helps me to start another day. . Most winters I get to have what I call, Deep Rest. For about a month. . It's cool. By the end of it, nothing hurts. But then I've got to start up again.
  18. Cold Logging

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    I'm new here and don't want to get tramped so I'll do my best to refrain from goin off about short bar ####### .
  19. Cold Logging

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    The extent of my stretching consists bending over to buckle my spurs on and reaching around my back to snap something on or unsnap it when I'm up the tree to use it. :what: . There really isn't much discussion worth having about guys wasting time trying to fall timber with a short bar. Tho...
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    I'm not to keen on short bars. Unless they are warranted, like in a tree. . Longer bars tend toward more accurate, easier falling. But. If I'm cutting in the snow. In the Interior. I will run as short a bar as I can get away with. Keeps more oil on the bar and chain parts. . But...
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