Chainsaw Holder/Carrier--Show me yours

[beenthere]

Can't find the thread, but one TBN'r built a wood tray above the hood (I believe between the uprights and the brush guard). Placed saw, chains, gas, oil, etc. in that tray. It looked handy, out of the way, and I thought was a good idea. But like the looks without it.

I mainly carry just the saw (full of gas and oil) along for collecting a few trees at a time. When a tank of fuel is gone or about gone, I stop at the shop at the end of a turn with the last tree and sharpen, then refill and go again. Wedges are in my pocket or the tool box, scrench in my chaps, and logging chains are hanging on the iMatch. All I usually need in the woods, and I have the forks on, not the bucket.

 

[gauthier]

Ain't got a picture,but its the back of a mule,no not hee haa mule,

 

[CharlieS]

Food for thought, but storing/transporting a saw in a scabbord puts all the weight of the saw motor and bounce momentium on the bar mounting bolts. flex the saw sideways enough you have a bent bar, and the weight on the mounting bolts can get the saw chain tightness out of adjustment. If someone doubts that, properly tension the chain with the nose of the bar down, then lift the bar nose, as is supposed to be done when tensioning a chain and see how loose the chain is, requiring tensioning again. Conversly, if you have the chain properly tensioned holding the bar nose up, and the bar nose gets forced into the lower bar nose position, the chain will be too tight.
The reason the chain is tensioned with the bar nose up, is because cutting pressure can make the bar creep to that nose up position in use causing a loose chain.

 

[beenthere]

Charlie
I know what you are talking about, but have carried my Stihl MS 361 with bar in the scabbard, and have never had a problem with the saw chain becomming loose. Just has not happened, and the saw rides that way a lot during spring firewood cutting.
For other saws, that may be a problem.

 

[CharlieS]

Charlie
I know what you are talking about, but have carried my Stihl MS 361 with bar in the scabbard, and have never had a problem with the saw chain becomming loose. Just has not happened, and the saw rides that way a lot during spring firewood cutting.
For other saws, that may be a problem.

to each his own, though how does one be assured it wont happen with any saw? If you've ever seen a saw chain come off the bar, it does make a believer out of you.

 

[beenthere]

I fear leaving the saw on the ground and driving over it more than a chain that comes off the bar.
Or carrying the saw in the bucket and forgetting it is there.

I'll enjoy and appreciate the scabbard on the tractor.

..and as said, to each their own. All the readers can make up their minds what they like best.

 

[jimmyj]

These are great ideas guys, thanks for them. Now I have another thing on the to do list!!!!

I was thinking about a vertical one on the ROPS at the back now that I've seen these pics.

We take the saw all over on the ATV and I've never had the chain loosen from travelling. Those are really good tips though that I had not realized could happen.

 

[studor]

Even the commercial ATV chainsaw carriers are a scabbard like device. The theory of the chain loosening sounds ok untill you think about the stresses put on the bar and chain by cutting and pinching forces etc. -- not saying you could not end up with a loose chain or bent bar but it would be from some other force than the saw bouncing around in a scabbard. Most saws I see damaged are from crushing not bouncing
Besides -- I check the chain tension before starting the saw anyway:thumbsup:
I don't actually have my scabbbard mounted on the tractor -- it is in a carryall with the log lifter, peavey, extra gas and oil, chains, tongs, axes, machete, propane torch (to burn brush) and other "stuff"

 

[Baby Grand]

to each his own, though how does one be assured it wont happen with any saw? If you've ever seen a saw chain come off the bar, it does make a believer out of you.

CharlieS,
I don't think supporting the saw by the bar creates a risk that the bar will move unless the bar nuts aren't torqued down enough. I have had a chain jump the sprocket and it's not something I want to repeat, so I pull the chain to check tension whenever the motor's off and always check the nut torque before I fire it up when it's cold. When you think about all the forces acting on the bar when you're using the saw to cut, throwing in the dynamic loosening effect of all that vibration, a little static load from riding in a scabbard shouldn't loosen a properly torqued bar.
-Jim

 

[beppington]

Here's mine, not painted yet: