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Yes, a great loss to the trade and to all of us here.

Me too. I don't get nerdy about tools. Files,chains,bars,wedges and saws, run them hard, buy new when they are worn out.

Several saws works fine for a firewood cutter. Try dragging them out in the woods. Learn to hand file or have a bunch of sharp chains with you.

Right on the dot, Burnham. I go hard after the apprentices about that. I will not tolerate them running a chain that cuts less than 90%. I tell them, we are loggers god damn it, that means we are in the small select group of people on this green earth, who can file a chain. I really try to...

I used it when we felled x-mas trees ( Before that got taken over by Romanians, willing to work for two grains of rice and a cup of water a day). You can't avoid hitting mole hills under the trees, since you are mostly cutting blind. For such small cuts there is not much difference between semi...

Most likely. Yes it is more durable. I use it when cutting blowdown loose from rootballs, if i do it for a long time. It isn't worth the hassle of changing chains if it is just for a couple of days. But last spring when we free-cut 1200 cubic meters, it was.

Actually IMO you guys have gone waaaay overboard on this. Sure a sharp saw is essential, but you are not talking working sharp, here. You are talking cookie cutter/ saw nerd sharp. Totally unnecessary. In my work, economy of movement, an eye for lean, fiber run and what you can fit into a tight...

Yup! I'm not the least bit nostalgic about pulp cutting or clearcutting 40 year old norway spruce all summer. Pay was lousy and saws were expensive. I bitch and moan about the frigging harvesters stealing my job, but the fact is that around here those few of us who are still left in logging (...

Most things have gotten too complicated to home repair. Do you fix your smart phone yorself? The new generation of saws are the same.

The Iggesund bars I've tried are about the shittiest I've ever run. Definitely use and toss. We bought about 50 of them on sale once. Never again. The bar that I use the most, an 18" cost about 55$. I usually make about 100$/hr when I log. So if I have to futz around with something worth 55...

An overlooked advantage of short bars is that they are cheap. Instead of going to all that trouble, I toss the bar out and mount another one.

He did a 3½ year apprenticeship with us, and filed pretty good after those years. We have a rule about running dull saws, I really enforce that with apprentices. Martin has turned into a timber falling beast, he is really good. In a couple of seasons he'll be faster than me and I'll never hear...

Yup. It is a balance. Same goes for when to sharpen a badly rocked chain and when to simply toss it and put on a new one. I thought of this thread today at work. I picked up my former apprentice, now employee's saw and that thing went through the wood like a hot knife through butter. Made me...

You write some awesome prose too, buddy. Most always a pleasure to read.