Is there a more pleasurable tool than a chainsaw?
The answer is no
Cuts things gud
Makes loud noises so woken don't bother you
2 stroke smells
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Is there a more pleasurable tool than a chainsaw? The answer is no. Cuts things gud
They hurt the hell out of my forearms and back any time i use them. It's just a hell of a lot of hard, loud, nasty work using them.
Although...at least once whenever I use one, I do get the urge to life it over my head, let out a gutteral yell, and begin running around and swinging it around. I kind of fear, one day, i'm just going to do it.
>Although...at least once whenever I use one, I do get the urge to life it over my head, let out a gutteral yell, and begin running around and swinging it around. I kind of fear, one day, i'm just going to do it.
Kek, don't worry, the urge to do it for shits and giggles it completely normal.
Just make sure you do it in good company that would appreciate such humor.
I wanna get into some backcountry building so I can use more BWAA BWAA BWAAAAAAAA at work
Cutting torches, big ones.
It is a fun tool, how effortlessly it cuts especially after you freshly sharpen the chain, a child could cut down mighty old oak.
This things are no joke, you can dig down to china with it. I did 2 miles of t-posts by pre digging the holes with a spinny noozle instead of whacking at it like a baboon using that pipe hammer thing.
Inevitably I will sink it in the dirt, and it really dulls it up in seconds. I kneel to the ones who can keep it clean and running for a long time.
>Cuts things gud
It doesn't cut things good, it cuts things fast. There's a difference.
Ive done a shitton of logging, I never could master the not get the chain dull part. I sharpen too often
Im a good sawyer but others are better than me at keeping it sharp
Is there anything other to it than just being careful to only saw wood and don't hit dirt/rocks/metal while sawing?
Not running out of bar oil
Sharpening chain gud, too steep cuts real nice but gets dull quick
I'm just about through my SECOND winter chopping wood with my Stihl MS170 and heat only with wood from my 10 acres. I also do forestry management like downed trees. b***h just works. I haven't even cleaned the air filter. I ride her hard and put her away wet. She doesn't mind. I'm literally hard right now typing this out.
I'm a cuck though since I take my chains back to the local dealer to sharpen, they just do such a great job grinding my baby out I can't help it.
Don't hit rocks and dirt moron. Mine last 5 times longer if I do that. I leave a lot of logs 90% cut and just whack them with an axe to break the last 10% or turn the log if you can.
Nice man, i'm buying a house soon and am gonna be picking up a Husky 562xp mkII. I live outside a major city and there is free wood all over the place posted online.
Are you heating in a wood stove or just a fireplace? I was looking at the Kuma wood stoves as they seem rather badass.
Also, sharpening chains are easy. You just need the file really.
guarrenteed to cut ur finger off
Anyone here used this?
How fit is it to be used up on a tree of hanging from a ladder? Pruning branches with regular chainsaw high up is asking for trouble, and gardening handsaw is sometimes awkward to move to and fro.
Ryobi has an Expand-It pole saw attachment that can work with any power head. I already had the brushless 40v string trimmer (not the newer 'Whisper' version, but I think it's not worth it. The 40v brushless motor is already quiet enough!).
It's just like having a 10" chainsaw on the end of a pole. It's at an angle, which helps when cutting limbs.
The only gripe I have is the torque on the extension pole has to be proper, or the whole thing will rotate/loosen. It comes with a shoulder strap to help balance the weight.
Im not interested in sticking it on a pole.
I used a shitty electric pole chainsaw and you cant always get the angle the way you want to.
I understand it depends on the method of attachment, but in the end getting close and personal wins in my book.
And that means being able to cut from a ladder.
Ive cut from a ladder both with standard electric and combustion chainsaw, and its absolute worst thing to do both from comfort and safety perspective.
How viable is using a short, battery powered chainsaw like
to loop off tree limbs the width of an arm with one hand while holding onto a ladder with the other hand? Im asking for personal experience here.
make sure you record it so we can all laugh when you fall off the ladder
Buddy, if you knew the kinds of shit I've done on the job you would become an OSHA inspector just to stop madmen like me and my coworkers from hurting eachother and everyone around them.
Its better to wave around a small 1hand battery chainsaw while holding onto a ladder with the other, than doing the same with a standard gas one and not holding onto a ladder because you need both hands to cut.
I think the favorite thing of idiots using a chainsaw was they're doing a development next door to me in North Vancouver when I lived there 15 years ago.
The whole city has been taken over by Iranians who know frick all about anything and it shows.
They needed to cut down a mature holly tree in the back so they couldn't get very close to all the branches so they got somebody with a backhoe to put them up on his bucket and use the chainsaw there. And then what happened is he dropped the tree onto the power lines going to a neighbor's house and rip the wires out from the roof dropping energized lines onto the ground by their back door so they would come home at night find no power and not realize what was going on.
What's really funny about this is I have fricking photos of them doing this shit so I turn them over to work safe and BC hydro. Last thing I heard about him was that he'd gotten a fine if I think about $8,000 some of it for the violations of safety, the rest of it was for repair costs to BC Hydro for calling out a crew in the middle of the night
Well, we never ripped power lines, and I don't think we ever used a backhoe as a lift, so it seems like we still have places to go.
Super loud
Versatile
2 stroke smell
Can move massive amounts of leaves and other stuff
Doesn't cut off your fingers
>Doesn't cut off your fingers
stick your finger in the impeller, anon. Then we can talk
My neighbor blows off her 10x10 front yard with one of these every day. It takes her 30-40 minutes to do it as she blows the leaves back and forth across the street.
You know you're supposed to hold the chainsaw with two hands right?
Counterpoint
Ehhh, kinda but not really.
Putting on/taking off the suspenders/bracers is annoying.
So is getting grass all over your trousers, but there are also chainsaw woodchips, so moot point.
Then again after you cut the grass you need to rake it.
And you need faceguard for any amount of comfort.
AND you need to be careful around gravel.
So there, using brushcutter IS satisfying, but using chainsaw is too, but with less hassle.
Chainsaw wins for me.
Please note the saw blade on the end instead of the grass whip. That thing is mean for small brush and scrubby trees the size of your arm. Extremely satisfying inspite of the shoulder harness.
imagine buying troy-bilt
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there are many tools more pleasurable and you will never operate them
a challenger appears
b***h please
>Swallows whole branch
>, the climbers rope and half the climber
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*Ending scene of Fargo intensifies*
Perfectly tuned hand plane.
Swoosh , unroll the shaving and see through it on long piece
Chainsaw is a lot of fun when cutting medium sized trees but it's a fricking pain in the ass when you gotta slice up a 24inch eucalyptus trunk that was sitting in the dirt for a decade. Takes about 1L of fuel mixture to cut 2 pieces, lots of sharpening, hammering the wedge, refilling the bar oil tank etc... absolute nightmare of a job
Oh and I forgot another fun part, having to dispose of hundreds of kilos of wood, because I'm not cutting those in small pieces for the bbq frick that
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>having to dispose of hundreds of kilos of wood
I don't know where you live but around me, there are so many people that would buy it when winter rolls around.
I checked already there is plenty of free wood available everywhere and if people buy it they want it cut small ready to burn. In Queensland winters are not harsh most people don't even have a fireplace.
what saw are you using?
Was gonna make my own thread but I guess I'll ask here. I'm a young guy whose father is too old to use his rusty, unmaintained chainsaws anymore. I always hated working with him due to how nonchalant he'd use them though thankfully he had the skill to never injure us.
We had a storm here a few days ago and a few big branches came down in front of our house, and they're too heavy and awkward to haul around so I have to cut them there... but first I have to get a proper new saw to do it.
Any of you guys have any recommendations for specific saws and PPE brands in my situation? As is probably clear, I'm a nerd in his 20s who values his limbs. Thanks.
Stihl MS 170, sunglasses, steel toe boots, ear plugs/muffs. Don't need to splurge on protection if you're just doing this one job. Might want a bigger saw if the diameter of the branches if more than like 900mm.
You sound scared to use the saw. Hopefully your old man taught you how to actually use it... You won't hurt yourself man. They're really easy to use, and as long as you're switched on and watching what you're doing you'll be fine. Don't push the tip of the saw into anything as that's how you get kickback. Don't stand directly behind or above the saw as you cut, stand slightly to the side to remove yourself from the line of fire if it does kickback... Don't stress man you'll be fine.
I recommend what
said but add a pair of chaps.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087JTXTH8/
Holzforma G660. + Good bar, chain.
>2 stroke smells
Agree, you should try a snowmobile in a cold morning. It smells like victory.
For me it's old diesels
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Stihl saws are an abomination. Husqvarna makes ones that will start relatively easily comparably
stihl v husky arguing is like ford v gm shitflinging. everyone looks moronic.
Hi everyone both of those and each of them have their weaknesses. Ford starters seem to be semi-disposable. GM have self-destructing paint jobs and a myriad of small obnoxious engine defects
Another thing Canadian professionals prefer Husqvarna is over the other brands that should say something
I'm using Stihl in job, it works.
Used a rental Husq a little ago, it worked.
Both were chainsaws that done chainsaw things as they were expected to.
I had zero problems with either of them.
I think most complaints about chainsaws stem from the same place as complaints about snowblowers or other seasonal use gear, they tend to be hard to start if you let them sit for six months and expect them to run out of the gate.
Anyone using them in a (semi)-professional fashion will be happy with easier brand.
*either
We had one as a kid, fully admit it was our fault on the neglect.
We neglected the chain never replaced it, neglected the chain oiler, it leaked all up in the blow molded case between the layers
and neglected the little fuel plunger and fuel tank the the point where the plastic dry rotted and we just threw it away since the repairs cost more than a new one
Other than that it lasted 5-15 years of hard use , I think the average person would benefit from one of those new electric ones
I’ve only cut down like maybe 30 trees with our old one … rest of the uses were for trimming trees and yard work which an electric one would excel at
And rent when I need to down a tree
>We neglected the chain never replaced it
how did you manage that? Do you mean you never sharpened it or just never took it off?
Can't see how it would last years of use without sharpening, or replacement.
The electric ones are great if you want to work a lot when you really need to get something done.
But for the average person, who might only trim some branches every once in a while, they are much more abuse tolerant. A better option still would be a manual pruning saw.
We saw it was dull and mostly burning wood rather than cleanly taking chips out,
Didn’t care cranked the rpm
We just needed to cut a few branches not spend a Saturday afternoon working on a chain saw
You should know how to a sharpen a chain properly so it doesn't give you a banana cut, you also need to file down the rakers every third or fourth sharpening so you're taking a proper depth of cut otherwise you'll end up just taking dust out
Have a video link showing how?
Also I didn’t throw away a Stihl or anything it was a “homelite”
It just takes practice. There's a couple of ways to do it but always use one of those plastic handles that have a little angle guide at the base of where the file fits in to guide you to being at the correct angle. But you don't have to have the absolutely correct angle just be consistent from one side to the other. The other thing that helps is to pull back on the tooth slightly angles up a bit as you're filing it to get a nice proper cut all the way around. You also have to clean your file off once in awhile does the shavings pack in and prevented good clean cut by the file as you file through the teeth on the chain.
Having could position that's comfortable while you're filing is important too. Nothing sucks more than trying to file a chain when you're cold and you're in an uncomfortable position usually I do it kneeling over the handle and part of the body of the saw to stabilize it.
'ell yeah bruther!!!
I'm boycotting big lumber and taking control of the means of production myself
Im interested.
How well does that work?
Im using a regular chain, it makes a pretty rough plank but after a bit of sanding it'll probably look fine.
Its my first try so Im not expecting much but Im satisfied with the results.
In the picture only 1 side was cut using the milling jigg, the other was manually cut.
How do I prevent the chain from getting dislodged on these frickers?
Every
Single
Time
What kind of work are you doing to cause such a thing?
cutting tree branches
Only way I see such a thing happening is if you let the bar get pinched inbetween branches and then brutishly pull it loose, that shit will bend the entire chain.
yes, that has happened on more than one occasion
are you telling me that I need a lesson on how to cut a tree branch?
>are you telling me that I need a lesson on how to cut a tree branch?
No you need a lesson on how gravity works
wasn't trying to be cheeky, I am not a rural type, you know
I see its cool, Id be lying if I said I havent done it myself.
gas nail gun
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