newbury
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- Jan 8, 2009
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- From Vt, in Va, retiring to MS
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- Kubota's - B7610, M4700
Portability can be important.
My Thor was 300 bucks and the IR was 400 delivered btw. Of course both require serious CFM air delivery bit I have that in spades at 35 cfm at i40 psi and high delivery air lines and fittings as well. No breaker bar required and no torque multiplier needed either. I do use a 3/4" drive clicker torque wrench for tightening the nuts, especially on 10 hole Bud style wheels, especially the aluminum Buds and you will never break the nuts on a shredder without an ultra torque wrench, don't even try. Takes some impact sockets with meat too. I use the good old HF black oxide impact sockets that HF sells cheap and never split one yet. I've split Snap-On, SK Wayne, MAC and Proto before. Busted a few extensions as well and I only use pinned universals, not splined, I twist the spined ones immediately. HF to the rescue again (ICON).
I am always happy, I don't live to be crabby at all.I’m glad you’re happy with the solution but a $1000 Milwaukee is wildly more practical for most people.
Try using canned gas instead. All I run is Echo Red Armor 50-1 and premium bar oil and I will say (tongue in cheek) that a stock 590 needs breathed on a bit to run well and it also takes about 3 full tanks of fuel before it develops good power. First thing I did (before I even started it) was, I pulled the muffler and removed the top baffle (under the deflector plate) which is kind of a PITA because it's spot welded on so you need to use a die grinder to remove the welds and I drilled (with my Dremel) 3 rectangular holes in the lower inside baffle, then I added 2 tight fitting rubber O rings to the carb inlet stub, one on the stub and one on the inside of the stock flooked air cleaner where the fixing stud goes through as the stock air cleaner has a bad habit of passing fines. I set the high speed mixture screw (after removing the limiter caps) to where it just 4 strokes free revving and it starts second pull and runs like a raped ape. I can actually do a full 20" bar rip cut in seasoned oak and it never bogs down at all, just keeps right on trucking. I did buy the oiled foam (Nick Stokel Stack) velocity stack air cleaner but have not installed it yet as the saw is running just fine now. I may at some point install the 5 degree offset flywheel key and a 620 ignition set as the 620 set allows a higher rpm but so far, it's fine as it is.If echo makes a saw that will cut as good as my 500i and runs as clean I’ll go buy one right now. You’re probably laughing about chainsaw emissions but the clean burn of the 500 is actually nice. I don’t stink nearly as bad after sawing with it vs other saws. I bought a 590 largely because of the huge number of raving reviews it gets and I quickly sold it. My Makita 6100 that’s another value saw cuts circles around the 590.