Lets have another chainsaw thread

[LandyAndy]

Having a rest from steering my grader whilst we do tree clearing on our new job.2km and 200 trees to go.Im steering chainsaws for a change.LOVE PLAYING WITH CHAINSAWS
They bowl them over with our excavator then we trim them up to remove with the front end loader.We are saving any millable wood and firewood.
STIHL CHAINSAWS SUCK!!!!
Boss bought me a brand new Stihl MS660 Magnum with a 36" bar for the job,plus we have a smaller MS380 which is only a few months old and done very little work.I cut logs today over 6 feet in diameter
The vibration these saws put thru the handles is wrong,dont get it with my Dolmar or Husky.Every time I use Stihl saws I get sore wrists and forearm muscles,never get it with my saws.
The 660 is around 90cc,I kid you not it seems to be 100cc short of my Husky 120cc.I have only been running the Sthil at 3/4 throttle to run it in,just lacks the sting of a Husky.Hopefully it improves in performance once its run in.
Andrew

[loanrangie]

Bugger, i just read this without wearing chaps, steel caps,kevlar jeans,lexan gloves, ballistic vest - i am doomed .

[LandyAndy]

Well your eyes and ears are Loanrangie
You got the rest of the PPE covered.
Andrew

[B92 8NW]

Agreed on the Husqvarna point. Beautifully manufactured engines.

[rangieman]

Bugger, i just read this without wearing chaps, steel caps,kevlar jeans,lexan gloves, ballistic vest - i am doomed .

Your a game man

[rick130]

Need to push em to get a Dolmar/Makita PS7900 Andy, a 79cc saw that'd damn near take it to a 660 at the weight of 70CC saw

A Solo 681 has a stack of grunt for an 80cc saw too.
Not surprisingly Dolmar had a fair bit of input into it's basic design

[rick130]

BTW, how many tanks through the Stihl, Andy ?

All of them usually take a good five tanks or so to start to loosen up, so I've been told.
Give it a bit of a tune up too once it's loosened up, it can make the world of difference.

<edit> Another local ended up in hospital last week thanks to no PPE.
He dropped a tree and a branch broke off, bounced and sconned him, knocking him out. Luckily he ended up with severe concussion and not dead, but he still spent a week in hospital.
I know too many blokes around here that have scars and dings in the head from chainsaws, branches and trees, and yet hardly anyone wears PPE....

[jonesy61]

Crikey......I expected a thread about bullriding

[LandyAndy]

There are 2 of us at work that do any serious sawing to be done.
We both have Huskies.I also have a Dolmar 660.
Spot,the other bloke with a Husky made the coment today.A 80cc Husky has more go than a 100cc Stihl.
GOT TO AGREE.
Andrew

[mcrover]

Hey Andy, Im starting to agree with you on the new Stihls.

Since they went to the MS series saws the power and reliability has started to drop off.

Ive recently had massive dramas with our 2 yo MS250 (little baby 18" saw).

It would run for a while and then start playing up, went through all the normal stuff and then to the less than normal stuff all the way to the plain rediculas e.g. replace rings and piston, case seals, all hoses etc.

Sent it to stihl and they pulled it appart and they recon the pulse tube was not connected and there was a gasket around the wrong way....

If the pulse tube was not connected it would not run..... at all

If the gasket was around the wrong way then their tech did it as he rebuilt the carbi last as I had put it in properly and it had been back to them in the mean time....

The other 3 saws are behaving and I've never found them to vibrate badly but the largest we have is 24".

I prefer the Shindiawa over all of them, they have a very similar suspention system as the Husky and thats what reduces vibration, not the engine design as such but the Huskys are a great saw to use, just horrible to service.

I would also run it flat out, dont worry about bedding in etc, they are governed to run flat out and will work much better at full throttle than they will on 3/4 as well as they really smoothe out in the higher rev range.