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[biggun]

Large Spruce removal for a carport and garage.

Lovely day for it and winds were forecast but managed to get the top off before the gusts arrived.

 

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[Mick!]

What do you use as a climbing saw these days Rich?

 

[biggun]

What do you use as a climbing saw these days Rich?

That top was a ms400 with an 18” bar.

Takedowns I use a 194t which has had the exhaust opened up and retune. Runs links a scalded greyhound. Very strong saw and much better than any of 201t saws I have used.

I also have a MS 200t which has been fully ported with timing advance. I use that occasionally just to give it a bit of exercise but mostly the 194t.

Pruning I use a 150t that has had the exhaust opened, timing advance and retune.

If it warrants it I will get the 441 or 660 out of the truck but if I am contract climbing for a mate. I use what ever big saws they have. Usually a 500i or a 661.

 

[biggun]

The Spruce job today was at a property that burnt to the ground last summer.

A protected oak had been so badly burnt that it had been felled and rolled to the side so this afternoon we planked that up.

Not the widest but some half decent boards for the homeowner to make a table out of once they stabilise.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nice one Rich. Good picks of the spruce job. 👍

 

[Mick!]

That top was a ms400 with an 18” bar.

Takedowns I use a 194t which has had the exhaust opened up and retune. Runs links a scalded greyhound. Very strong saw and much better than any of 201t saws I have used.

I also have a MS 200t which has been fully ported with timing advance. I use that occasionally just to give it a bit of exercise but mostly the 194t.

Pruning I use a 150t that has had the exhaust opened, timing advance and retune.

If it warrants it I will get the 441 or 660 out of the truck but if I am contract climbing for a mate. I use what ever big saws they have. Usually a 500i or a 661.

S’funny, because i notice a lot of peeps run 2 climbing saws these days.
A smaller echo 2511 or a Stihl 150 like you for the smaller jobs and a 201/540 35cc (or in your case a ported 194) for the takedowns.

Go back a few years you ran a 200t or the like for everything.

For me it’s a 2511 and a 542i battery saw.
This oak was brushed out with the 542i, never felt I needed more power at any point.

 

[biggun]

My wrists and elbows remember the 200t for everything days.

I got one of the first 150t’s early on. Ported it straight off and my elbows and wrist felt so much better for it.

I am not really into battery saws. I have used a few but they just seem like a step back to me. Ie the comment above.

Too heavy and unbalanced. I prefer the lightest power head and port it for the most power.

And no I don’t run a 16” bar on my 200t.

I am not American.

 

[Mick!]

Battery saw is heavy, I know what you mean.

 

[BIGTWIG]

My wrists and elbows remember the 200t for everything days.

I got one of the first 150t’s early on. Ported it straight off and my elbows and wrist felt so much better for it.

I am not really into battery saws. I have used a few but they just seem like a step back to me. Ie the comment above.

Too heavy and unbalanced. I prefer the lightest power head and post it for the most power.

And no I don’t run a 16” bar on my 200t.

I am not American.

Measuring your chainsaw bars in freedom units is good enough for me.

 

[biggun]

Haha, I still use freedom units as that’s what we grew up with in the UK.

Now I live in Norway, I get confused when they say the bar sizes in cm’s.

I just ask “in Inches please” and they haven’t a clue.

 

[Mick!]

Bizarrely here in France guide bars are measured in ‘pouces’ (inches)

 

[SeanKroll]

Is that little orange light inside the cavity daylight shining in?

Yes.

 

[Maximalist]

I was working alone today. I cut down a pretty thick pine tree. I found another nail( As usual, it was a new chain!)

 

[flushcut]

Always a new chain.

 

[Maximalist]

We call it the "law of meanness"!)

 

[flushcut]

I am going to use that, law of meanness.

 

[Maximalist]

I don't mind. You can use it even without buying a license!)

 

[Mick!]

@Maximalist have you ever used a woodchipper? What sort do they have in Russia?