Thread: your thoughts please

Ray,

When i got my new saw, the bloke told me to cut light stuff up to about 8" and keep off of the box and heavy tough wood like that for the first 4 to 6 hours. He said too much tough stuff to soon does a new saw no good.
Now weather this is 110% correct or not I do not know. There are many other people on here better qualified than me to tell you but it seemed to make sense to me. Bit like running in a new car.

Cheers

Originally Posted by disco2hse

So you mean chaps like these, or the ones on the left

LOL

Well I dunno, is this close?



That's me on the left, Fireline tree felling at Gilgandra Jan07

Originally Posted by gruntfuttock

Ray,

When i got my new saw, the bloke told me to cut light stuff up to about 8" and keep off of the box and heavy tough wood like that for the first 4 to 6 hours. He said too much tough stuff to soon does a new saw no good.
Now weather this is 110% correct or not I do not know. There are many other people on here better qualified than me to tell you but it seemed to make sense to me. Bit like running in a new car.

Cheers

Well I was a McCulloch Rep for 2.5 years 18 years ago, and it sounds like he is saying something for the sake of saying something to impress you !!
If he were selling a car , using the same logic, he would say keep away from hills for the first 1500klm (maybe he still talks in Miles? )
I would say he is referring to the bar/chain/sprockets bedding in and all that needs is extra oil at first.
Cheers, David.
.PS Ray, What did you buy in the end??

Deejay i bought at the mower shop across the raod from Mountain Gate shops.....


as for a report on its first use ..............


its a bloody rip snorter

An old farmer gets talked into buying his first chainsaw by the hotshot salesman.

"I guarantee it will cut down 30 trees a day" the salesman said.

Old farmer is pretty impressed by that, so he takes it home.

A week or so later the farmer is back at the shop, complaining to the salesman "You told me this saw would cut down 30 trees a day! I am lucky to cut down 3."

The salesman takes the saw, puts it on the ground and starts it up "Vroom vroom".

The farmer jumps back and yells "What's that noise??"


heh heh heh

DeeJay,

Like I said I am no expert on these things, and do not claim to be. Just seemed logical to me. Basically he said "Don't go out and bury the length of the bar into a big old grey box till it runs in a bit"

He is a nice bloke and not the sort of bloke who just says something just to move the air around.

I do know that he complained to the manafactuer several times and they sent out two of their engineers to see about his complaints.

It freaked those blokes right out when they saw the bloke who was complaining.

His working gear was shorts, singlet and thongs. BTW he collects and sells wood as a profession and wears this summer, winter whatever.

mate give it some light work for the first tank of fuel then rip in to full noise.