Loose oil cap.

[MasterBlaster]

it sucks when the problem is with the operator.

Yo, when doesn't it!

 

[Bermy]

Yippeee, a flippy cap thread!!!

I've had one cap come apart, and a couple that are just troublesome. I have to clean the troublesome ones in gas from time to time to get them to behave.
I think if someone says they've never had oil down their legs, or put oil in the gas tank, they have never been out cuttin'!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hahahahahaaa...

Damn straight.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

So far there has only been one time I have worn oil while up a tree. Funny, it never happened again

On the ground, my 066 is notorious for it. Sometimes I just don't torque it quite as tight as I like and the vibration just does the rest.

 

[Al Smith]

I think if someone says they've never had oil down their legs, or put oil in the gas tank, they have never been out cuttin'!

---or put a chain on backwards

 

[Page]

---or put a chain on backwards

Ha, I've done that...so stupid...although I've never gotten as far as to try to cut with it!

 

[stig]

how do you know when you're going to drink gas?

Not drink it, Gerry, just fill your mouth with it.

I used to do this when I was younger.

 

[treesmith]

---or put a chain on backwards

That's something most irritating. I was cutting underbrush way ahead of the crew back when I worked with Asplundh. The foreman had me going ahead of the others with a Poulan 25 (one of our climbing saws), cutting down hedges and such, while the others followed with the bigger saws, cutting the trees bordering the ROW. The chain broke on the saw I was using, so I walked back to the truck, over 1/4 mile away. While I took a break and got a drink, one of the other guys put a new chain on for me. I hadn't been out there long, and was low man on the totem pole. I walked all the way back to where I was cutting, cranked the saw, and found he had put the chain on backward. I tromped all the way back to the truck, handed it to him and told him once he got it right, HE could go cut hedges a while.

 

[SoonerFan]

Sounds like an initiation ceremony to me.

Welcome to the crew kind of thing.

 

[Page]

Ha! next they'll send you for the log stretcher

 

[Al Smith]

The old S-25's were'nt bad saws considering .Oh yeah I've hit the wood with a chain on back assward ,more than once .

Several more things you will do is kiss the dirt and hang a saw in the cut .About everyone has or will or they handle the truth rather carelessly .

 

[MasterBlaster]

Ha! next they'll send you for the log stretcher

Those are getting harder to find, every day!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

HA! It was always the left handed bar rail adjuster that eluded me.

 

[treesmith]

Nah, it was no initiation. The guy was just absent minded. It did learn me to either do it myself from then on, or at least check to see that it's on right. I'm proud to say I've never put one on backward. I spotted a 200T on eBay a few weeks ago that was wearing a chain in reverse. Talk about quality advertising!

 

[Al Smith]

I'm proud to say I've never put one on backward.

--and I was proud to say I never cooked a saw . Until that fatefull day I straight gassed a Mac 805 with a straight gas prime .Chit does happened when you least expect it .

 

[woodworkingboy]

Scott, along with the chain, if you haven't put the oil in the gas tanks or vice versa, you are one heck of a perfect individual. I think I put the chain on backwards about once, but noticed it quick, probably when I went to sharpen.

 

[Al Smith]

Well I actually tried to cut with a back assward chain .Bounce ,bounce ,bounce .

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I watched a couple guys do it once that were working with me. Funny as shat! That perplexed look followed by DOH!

 

[woodworkingboy]

If chains could talk, wonder what they would say when you put them on backwards? Hey dufuss!

 

[squisher]

I've put a few chains on backwards, intentionally. Just to mess with guys.

 

[SkwerI]

Skwishey, have you ever spun up a loop of chain with a twist in it? When I was working at the city, the foreman did that to me once. I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get that chain on the saw.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Intentional? Must have been a very long chain to get it to sit on the spinner without noticing.

 

[Al Smith]

Actually the damned thing did gnaw into the wood a tad .I wondered what in the world is wrong with this chain .I'm better with file than that .Nobody saw it but me .Still feel dumb about it .

 

[forestryworks]

The flippy caps only close one way and open only one way. If you break it, you did it wrong. Sure, you can get it twisted out of it's two-part seat, but you gotta twist more than is necessary to do so.

The screw on caps, hand tight should do it. If not, you got a bad seal on the O-ring. Some guys will use a scrench to tighten the Stihl screw on caps. Bad idea and unnecessary. You'll loosen the center of that cap and it will leak over time. Hand tight gets them seated tight for me.

I did get oil dumped once. I just set the flippy cap in it's seat and closed the lid without turning it (what I get for being in a hurry). Pick up the saw to cut at shoulder height and got a tankful from the shirt down. Instead of driving the mile to the house, I walked and changed clothes.

 

[stig]

I had a Ho we did a takedown for ask me if I would file his electric chainsaw for him.
He simply couldn't get that thing to cut.

Kinda hard finding a diplomatic way of telling the guy that he had the chain on backwards.