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[cat fever]

I started getting some more firewood to restock my supply. Here's a few pics. I'm at about 9500'-10'000' level.

I use a Stihl MS391, great saw.
I can tell you I'll have to get a wood splitter soon, this old body can't chop by hand much longer. :laughing:

 

[John_Mc]

I managed to smash the tips of a couple of fingers on my left hand when the round the above split came out of rolled and caught my hand between it and the cradle. Hurt like $%#@ ... but I think I'll keep the fingernails.

I caught the end of my left index finger between the log and the splitting anvil (glad it wasn't the wedge end of things). Just one of those stupid moves, continued working when I was tired. I had thought it was time to finish up for the day, since I was pretty wiped out. Decided to continue, since I only had a "little bit to go" to finish up filling the trailer. Log started to roll off the rail. I grabbed it to roll it back on. Not sure what happened, since I "never" put my hands near the end of the log when the splitter is operating, but I did this time.

Smushed the end down past the first knuckle before I let up on the control lever. At first I couldn't feel or see much of anything. I thought s%&t I got lucky. then noticed my finger had split open. Had a friend drive me to the ER. After waiting for about 1/2 hour, I started to feel it. Just barely cracked the bones. Doc said if I had crushed about another 1/16" of an inch, I likely would have lost the end of my finger.

It healed up OK. The upside is that it's now good for weather forecasting: I can tell when a good storm is coming from the ache in my finger. (My wife says that's no big deal: in a couple more years, I'll be able to do that with the rest of my body anyway.)

 

[jodebg]

I'm looking for a good reliable saw. A friend has an older MS-192C. Very impressive
what he does with this saw. Budget is not the primary concern.

Not familiar with the new saws and the effects from emissions standard changes.
I see talk of muffler mods, and retunes. Maybe someone can bring me up to speed.

What is your budget?

 

[timster2]

After falling and breaking my shoulder last year I have a hard time pull starting anything. I had three saws that I just couldn't pull start. With the power company logging project I needed a saw that would start easily without the usual quick pull on the starter. I bought a MS 211 CBE it has been a godsend. I bucked lots of logs and the easy start feature works great. I would buy another in a heartbeat if I ever ware this one out.

 

[Citydude]

I started getting some more firewood to restock my supply. Here's a few pics. I'm at about 9500'-10'000' level.
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I use a Stihl MS391, great saw.
I can tell you I'll have to get a wood splitter soon, this old body can't chop by hand much longer. :laughing:

Beautiful pics!

 

[farmer2009]

I started getting some more firewood to restock my supply. Here's a few pics. I'm at about 9500'-10'000' level.
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I use a Stihl MS391, great saw.
I can tell you I'll have to get a wood splitter soon, this old body can't chop by hand much longer. :laughing:

Nice pictures.

What size bar on the MS391? How's it handle it? Been giving one some thought.

 

[motownbrowne]

I'm looking for a good reliable saw. A friend has an older MS-192C. Very impressive
what he does with this saw. Budget is not the primary concern.

Not familiar with the new saws and the effects from emissions standard changes.
I see talk of muffler mods, and retunes. Maybe someone can bring me up to speed.

Just like with many things, there are now stricter standards governing engine emissions from chainsaws. Manufacturers have dealt with this in different ways. Husqvarna bought out Redmax to get their strato-charged technology. Stihl is also using strato-charged engines. These engines push a charge of clean air into the cylinder at the beginning of the intake. The clean air pages the exhaust out. On a traditional two stroke, the gas/air mix does this, but a little always escapes the cylinder before the port closes and contributes to emissions. The strato engines are supposed to be very good, but they are heavier per unit of power than a standard two stroke. Dolmar/Makita is using catalytic converters on some of their saws, though they have a couple of new models that are strato-charged. The catalytic converter is easily removed. Almost all of the saws made in the last 15 years also have a very restrictive muffler. I'm not sure what Echo is doing. Their saws aren't strato saws, I know that much. What I've learned on arboristsite is that their saws come very very very lean from the factory.

This of course reduces emissions, but at the cost of engine longevity. The primary cooling mechanism of a chainsaw is actually the gasoline entering the cylinder. Reduce the amount of gas, and your saw runs faster and hotter. Also, combined with this, many brands of saws have "limiters" that prevent the user from adjusting the carb outside their parameters. In most cases they are easily defeated, but each model is different, and you need to do some research.

There are some saws made by Stihl and Husqvarna that use computers to control the air/fuel ratio. All of the rest require manual tuning. Just about all of them benefit from a larger muffler opening and a retune (adding more fuel to the mix in this case).

Good luck!

 

[ultrarunner]

Saw person told me adding to much oil to the mix makes the saw run lean... never really thought about it.

I have two Stihl MS250 with easy start... really helps with osteoarthritis in my fingers...

My grandfather lost three fingers in his left hand when the log he was splitting shifted... he was 84 at the time and had always split with an ax and a neighbor said he was working too hard... my grandparents heat and sometimes cook with wood...

Grandfather with left with a pinky and thumb...

 

[motownbrowne]

Saw person told me adding to much oil to the mix makes the saw run lean... never really thought about it.

I have two Stihl MS250 with easy start... really helps with osteoarthritis in my fingers...

My grandfather lost three fingers in his left hand when the log he was splitting shifted... he was 84 at the time and had always split with an ax and a neighbor said he was working too hard... my grandparents heat and sometimes cook with wood...

Grandfather with left with a pinky and thumb...

It's dangerous business, that's for sure. Bummer to make it to 84 without losing any digits and then lose three!

Your saw person is correct. More oil in the fuel means less gasoline in the gas/air ratio= leaner saw. There is some confusion on this topic (probably lots actually) because a mix of 32:1 might be called a "richer" mix than 50:1. I can see how it's richer since it's got more oil, but it'll make the saw run leaner. Unfortunately, not even all service techs who work on two strokes understand this concept.

Easy starting saws sure do make it nice for folks not in their prime anymore. My dad wouldn't be able to cut at all without that Dolmar. Heck even i love the darned thing. After it's started for the first time, all ya gotta do is pull the rope halfway and the thing jumps to life. The switch even returns to run when you turn it off, so that's really out; pick it up, pull rope, cut wood. Makes me laugh almost every time. It's pretty handy when limbing and within in small wood, when you're constantly turning your saw on and off.

 

[ultrarunner]

Never had a Dolmar or Jonsered in my hand... hear a lot of good things about them... I have a cousin that supplements his income selling wood from the farm and he only uses Jonsered saws... big ones and skids the timber with has A/C Fendt tractor...

My Grandfather actually took it in stride... he was the type of old farmer that you really couldn't do much for and his top compliment about a person is that they could put in a honest days work...

I sent him some shoes and boots with Velcro instead of laces... my cousins, aunts, uncles etc... told me how much he appreciated it which of itself was saying a lot... the power of the Internet 15 years ago.