Burnham
Woods walker
Wednesday afternoon my wife and I cut a load of firewood, using my fine old Stihl 064, bucking 40 in. Doug fir. For the first time since I acquired the saw a few years ago I had some trouble from it.
Starting cold first thing, no problem...full choke, 3-4 pulls 'til she popped, go to half choke, one more pull and away we go. The saw ran fine, pulling 32" bar fully buried with no issues. Idled fine, no hesitation anywhere in the power band. Ran it about 30 minutes, I guess.
I then shut it down for about 45 minutes while we split and hauled some wood out to the truck. In my experience, this saw would not need choke to restart at that point...so I gave it a few pulls and got nada. Eventually, lots of pulls later, it finally popped a bit, but it took another 6-8 pulls before it would run long enough to get on the throttle and goose it up to speed.
After that, ran great, idled fine. I cut for another 20 minutes or so, with no issues. That made the load, so I didn't have to start it again...but when I got home a couple of hours later it did the same darn thing.
I haven't had time yet to delve into it, hope to this weekend...but with such a fine gathering of saw gurus here I thought I'd see what y'all might suggest I look at first for possible causes.
Here's a pic from another firewooding day, just 'cause I think this saw looks so good!
Starting cold first thing, no problem...full choke, 3-4 pulls 'til she popped, go to half choke, one more pull and away we go. The saw ran fine, pulling 32" bar fully buried with no issues. Idled fine, no hesitation anywhere in the power band. Ran it about 30 minutes, I guess.
I then shut it down for about 45 minutes while we split and hauled some wood out to the truck. In my experience, this saw would not need choke to restart at that point...so I gave it a few pulls and got nada. Eventually, lots of pulls later, it finally popped a bit, but it took another 6-8 pulls before it would run long enough to get on the throttle and goose it up to speed.
After that, ran great, idled fine. I cut for another 20 minutes or so, with no issues. That made the load, so I didn't have to start it again...but when I got home a couple of hours later it did the same darn thing.
I haven't had time yet to delve into it, hope to this weekend...but with such a fine gathering of saw gurus here I thought I'd see what y'all might suggest I look at first for possible causes.
Here's a pic from another firewooding day, just 'cause I think this saw looks so good!