Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire All chainsaw information appreciated here

I made my living with a chainsaw and I will say,the best saw for a casual user is a Stihl.I used a Husky for cutting logs but every logging crew I was on used a Stihl for the landing..Why-because there almost indestructible.The landing is where all the grrenhorns go that possibly have never owned a saw in there life and certainly have never filed one..On the landing you have mud/snow/dirt/rocks and chokers to deal with and the saw dulls very quickly..No time for the file guides or changing chains..You have to learn to file properly or the saw is no better than an axe..I have actually set the saw down and used an axe instead of the saw because it was so dull and know time to sharpen in inbetween drags,The Cat's and skidders get mud and dirt embedded into the limbs dragging them to the landing...Tough place to be sometimes.

The chain grinder is the best to sharpen a chain,like slicing butter with a knife.They have there downsides though.Someone who is good with a round or flat file can come close with a new file..I have 3 Stihls now and 0 Huskies..I just cut firewood anymore and the Stihls do a fine job..There cheaper in these parts and parts and good used saws are easy to come by.I recommend a newbie to use all the guides available to learn the angles before going freehand and the raker depth guide to learn the height needed for proper grab.

For those old enough to remember the old Stihl commercial of the jeep pulling the Stihl down the road with a chain then starting right up..Funny but pretty true atleast for the older saws!

It's all over the place here. Gas stations sell it for equipment and atv/boat/classic car type usage.

You can also get a pint of of premixed non-ethanol gas in a hardware store. That's actually what I get for my saw if I'm not going to use it much.

Milwaukee, North Korea?





Clark

Does anyone here have the saw chain sharpener that Harbor Freight carries?
Chicago brand

If so, are they worth the $30?

You can still get leaded gas in the US, just not at the corner gas station

http://www.waldooil.com/vp-race-fuels/

https://www.sunocoracefuels.com/

http://torcoracefuel.net/pro-fuels.html

https://www.renegaderacefuel.com/fuels-2/leaded-race-fuels/

Have one? No
Are they worth it?
No........a lot of work for poor results.
Get the $89-119 one. From northern hydraulics and go to Arboristsite and search for how to threads.

Thanks, I'll look in NT next time I'm near one.

They have a sale on them pretty often.
PM me when you get one.

For my 2 stroke engines, I get AV100 gas at one of the small air fields locally. AV100 gas is 100 octane aviation gas and it is leaded and has no EtOH.

I would call the small air fields in your area if looking for non EtOH gas

Might be a good idea to change out the CS muffler if it is one that has a catalytic converter if burning leaded fuel.

To me, mine was well worth the thirty-thirtyfive bucks.

With a file, I can get a chain to about 30% of new condition. It will cut, but it throws sawdust instead of chips.

The saw shop can make a chain cut like new, but they charge half the price of a new chain to sharpen one, and it is half worn out at that time. No economy there.

The Chicago Electric grinder is a little sloppy. It does not grind a like new chain. But it will come within 90%.

For occasional use, like mine, 2 to 4 sharpenings per year, it is fine.

If a guy is sharpening a dozen chains every week, a $150 to $300 grinder would be good economics as it would greatly extend the life of the saw chain vs the cheap plastic imitation.

My main saws are Stihl 036, 361 and an old reliable 32AV (I swear an AV carb could run on goat pi$$)..

Chains are under $13 each... in volume.

http://www.shopcomstocklogging.com/...OLUME-DISCOUNTS-AS-LOW-AS-1250_p_60.html

Comstock is a good company.

Husky 51 and 55 for light work

Around the same price for those chains...

http://www.shopcomstocklogging.com/...UME-DISCOUNTS-AS-LOW-AS-1275-_p_554.html

Widespread means at the corner store. Windfall claims "most of the premium in these parts is leaded". Av gas for piston airplane use and specialized racing fuels are hardly widespread. Heck, NASCAR doesn't even use lead anymore.

Algeria, Yemen, Iraq, small parts of N. Korea, Wisconsin....

what town, i'll look it up see what's in the area

It's 8.5lbs. of smiles.

The new 201's are supposed to be better than the first ones.

You can hot rod them too if you like.

Trimming your toenails?







:-D

My favorite video about the 201.....

I use the Pferd Chain Sharp. Mine are all several iterations old. They've steadily been refining the design. Generally, I touch up the chain with every tank of fuel.

That's freaking hysterical.