How'd it go today?

[CurSedVoyce]

Kicked some oak(s) ass today. And will repeat more ass kicking tomorrow and probably the next day. That is all.....

 

[davidwyby]

Snow?! It’s 100 😆

 

[BIGTWIG]

 

[BIGTWIG]

Still running studded tires.

 

[pigwot]

Sent to: @Porkbrick

but other here might have suggestions, too

Our son is in La Honda, CA working maintenance and operations at a Y camp there.
They have older Husky 272XPs and Stihl FarmBoss models.

He was asking where to get parts: I suggested Madsens and Baileys...
Then he asked what saw shops to trust if a repair was beyond their skill level.

Whch is a good saw shop in the San Jose to Santa Cruz area?

 

[flushcut]

Partstree.com

 

[davidwyby]

Sent to: @Porkbrick

but other here might have suggestions, too

Our son is in La Honda, CA working maintenance and operations at a Y camp there.
They have older Husky 272XPs and Stihl FarmBoss models.

He was asking where to get parts: I suggested Madsens and Baileys...
Then he asked what saw shops to trust if a repair was beyond their skill level.

Whch is a good saw shop in the San Jose to Santa Cruz area?

I have a saw knowledgeable buddy in Santa Cruz. Bob95065 online. Will know where to go and may have parts. Opeforum is a good resource for anyone working on saws, parts and knowledge.

Madsen’s is awesome service…by phone. I’ve been to Bailey’s and liked them.

I get a lot of my parts on eBay. Seems like no one has everything I need in one place. Usually free and fast shipping…there are a couple sellers there that sell a lot of used parts for those saws “good tested” - but I can’t remember the names ATM.

 

[Nutball]

Hawaii honey is a lot different than any other I've tried. It tastes tropical. Mainly like guava, with some coconut and pineapple among other flavors.

 

[flushcut]

I haven’t tried it but I might have too!

 

[WoodCutr]

anyone happen to have any good pictures of the routing/install for the last chance cables on a 250? finally ordered a set since mine never had them when I bought it, next up will be safety stickers once it gets painted to please the osha man!


today I bought chipper parts, going to be a mad rush to get it put together before Mondays job, but its going to be worth it, fresh fluids, filters, and new valves for the feed and crush cylinders, here's hoping I ordered the right valves because bandit and landmark both suck at actually saying what valve you need, and I'm pretty sure some of the hydraulics aren't original, knocked out a small job with another company this morning, messed my wrist up while doing some mild sledge hammer induced body work on the chipper this week, and messed my leg up trying to carry the clutch across the shop so I'm working at 50% right now, nothing crazy but I'm not enjoying life at the moment

worst case, the guy with the 12X that went back to the dealer (long story short, it was dull knives just like I told him, learned that the expensive way) bought the chipper, and I get to use it almost any day of the week for half of what a rental chipper would cost at a rental yard (and his actually works correctly) so if I need a spare I can just go get his

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Kicked ass, took names, got paid, booked another tree.
Guess the ol dog still has something even after a broke neck and compression fracture

 

[flushcut]

Mr. Newbooty

 

[CurSedVoyce]

He is referring to his 500 I it seems.

 

[Kaveman]

Yeah, ya fuckin weirdos...

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I can honestly say, it's a nice saw. I would prefer a 24" bar on it aloft though. I need to make some square chisel for it. Quite the ripper. And the new dogs are nice

 

[flushcut]

Ohhhh! I was just about to congratulate you for the new ba-donk-a-donk.
Saw looks nice!

 

[davidwyby]

Send it to @huskihl …

 

[CurSedVoyce]

FYI. That saw rips just fine pulling way more bar than it needs. Best thing you could do with that saw is just a proper exhaust can. Already friggen loud. But a tad more exhale is all it needs.
I would not even consider porting or polishing. No need.
Add a square chisel chain. Not a damn race saw. It's a great felling saw and light enough and aggressive enough to do big wood in a tree.
My .02.

 

[Dave Shepard]

The kids at work would put bark boxes on them, for a while. Then, after some pressure, they'd take them off. We all had comms though. FTN.

 

[pigwot]

I have a saw knowledgeable buddy in Santa Cruz. Bob95065 online. Will know where to go and may have parts. Opeforum is a good resource for anyone working on saws, parts and knowledge.

Madsen’s is awesome service…by phone. I’ve been to Bailey’s and liked them.

I get a lot of my parts on eBay. Seems like no one has everything I need in one place. Usually free and fast shipping…there are a couple sellers there that sell a lot of used parts for those saws “good tested” - but I can’t remember the names ATM.

Thanks for the suggestions - duly passed on to the young’un 🙂

 

[davidwyby]

FYI. That saw rips just fine pulling way more bar than it needs. Best thing you could do with that saw is just a proper exhaust can. Already friggen loud. But a tad more exhale is all it needs.
I would not even consider porting or polishing. No need.
Add a square chisel chain. Not a damn race saw. It's a great felling saw and light enough and aggressive enough to do big wood in a tree.
My .02.

That’s just cuz you haven’t run one of his saws yet. 😁 his saws don’t turn into peaky screaming race saws (unless that’s what you want)…he makes them pull harder, and more bar. Plenty of “forgiveness” if you get too heavy handed on the dogs. I’ll bring some up before long hopefully.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Any more umph in that saw, you'd have to get a tool to pull the dogs from the wood.

 

[flushcut]

Sharp chain can make even a mediocre saw cut well.

 

[Kaveman]

The kids at work would put bark boxes on them, for a while. Then, after some pressure, they'd take them off. We all had comms though. FTN.

My saw is insanely loud through the comms, for reasons I don't understand. Without earpro, the boss's hot rod 590 is aggressive, and it's loud through the comms, but the 500i is awful through the system.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Sometimes the saws weren't too bad, like you could tell the noise cancelation was working. Other times it was terrible.