My new(ish) saw

[Big A]

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=090+saw&category0=

 

[Big A]

This is more affordable: http://cgi.ebay.com/Stihl-090-Chain...ryZ79669QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Al Smith]

This is more affordable: http://cgi.ebay.com/Stihl-090-Chain...ryZ79669QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

That one most likely will go for 3 times that amount. Since the price of 090's has hit the stratosphere most other large saws are following suit .

That one is listed by Rich Dougan[Sawking] I have no idea how he finds so many old large saws but he must have cornered the market in the PNW.

 

[Big A]

090 update

Ok, so finally got the old girl fitted up with a Alaskan mill, made up an auto-oiler mounted on the mill, (as she is manual oiler), and been out milling, checking it out for glitches. Back home, had to fit a shear pin into the oiler hole I drilled on the tip-end, to control direction of flow into the hole. The vibes kept shaking the oil pipe away from the feedhole. Sooooo now she's up, running and pulls like a train!!
And the best bit was when Blue rang me while I was milling, so I just answered the phone, and dropped it by the saw at full revs, gave him a good earfull of Stihl Power

 

[lumberjack]

What kinda feet per minute (or whatever measurements you islanders use) do you get with the log in the first picture?


Lookin good for sure!

 

[Big A]

What kinda feet per minute (or whatever measurements you islanders use) do you get with the log in the first picture?


Lookin good for sure!

I didnt think to time it Carl, but now you've raised it I'm gonna have to see. I know it seemed to cut like a knife thru butter tho, but it is Thuja, I just wanted to see how it all ran.

 

[sotc]

sweet, im gonna pick up my alaska mill today, my dealer said they do oil by themselves, the manual oiler is for extra oil. told me i didnt need the extra oiler so i opted out.

 

[Big A]

Yeah, but mine is an old 090, manual oil button, on the right hand side of the handle, so its a pig to operate when milling, hence the oiler feeding the chain.

 

[sotc]

sounds just like the one i have

 

[rumination]

Awesome, Andy! Alaskan milling is fun.

Willie, if you're going to be using a long bar for milling I strongly recommend rigging up an auxiliary oiler.

 

[sotc]

36 inch, they didnt think id need it but did say to try it out. i sure dont want to be pumping on that lousy thing!

 

[Big A]

I made my aux oiler up out of an old lawn mower fuel tank, a length of pipe and let good old gravity do its work. Simple and efficient. Dunno what they cost in $$$'s there, but £40 over here!!

 

[sotc]

good thinking!

 

[Big A]

the old 090 and 660, sweet!!

 

[sotc]

looks like a tank next to that sleek 660

 

[Big A]

I'm thinking of importing (from the US) a decent length bar for the ol 090. Can anyone comment on the Woodsman Pro bars? Seeing as these are an unknown in the UK. Looking for a 4-5foot bar, anyone got a good secondhand I can make a deal on? Must run .404 chain.