Chainsaw stuff...

[Egon]

when im within a little more than 1/16 from it I turf the chain.

You might have to watch for filling down too close to the pins to.

 

[BigE_]

I usually buy bar oil but wonder if discarded motoroil would work as well.

Going over to the arborist and logging sites and reading them, those guys run just about any kind of oil in their saws. However, they generally tend to stay away from used motor oil. (Some of them probably do use it, but they are a minority).

I have a $600 saw, and I really don't want to take a chance on dirty motor oil. I buy my oil from BiMart (like Walmart, but better quality and service) when it goes on sale for $6 per gallon. This is the red sticky stuff...

I use maybe 2 gallons per year, so its not worth my time to try out the used motor oil stuff.

I did try some regular motor oil once and got yelled at by the local Stihl repair shop.

 

[deereman64]

In the cold weather should one warm bar oil prior to adding to the saw?

 

[Egon]

It does come in summer and winter versions.

 

[theboman]

Okay, keep on buying bar oil. When I got the new Poulan saw in June, long story, my wife thought I should have got a Husky or Stihl (here daddy taught her well). For a tree here and there and maybe once a year the $140 Poulan FS3516 was in my cash price range.
Fast foward to present day, had I'd know we'd been buying the 5 acres of Carter County hilltop and hillside I'd got a Stihl or Husky at that time, BUT for the record the mightly Poulan has cut everything I've asked, started everytime in a 3-4 pulls and has piles of logs, firewood and brush to show for it's trustworthy and hard work...hmm, with that said, an occasional $12 chain and keeping on with the "official' bar oil only seems fitting.

The old chains.. I think I have a place just for them as fill material in upcoming adverntures in concrete.

 

[gemini5362]

Okay, keep on buying bar oil. When I got the new Poulan saw in June, long story, my wife thought I should have got a Husky or Stihl (here daddy taught her well). For a tree here and there and maybe once a year the $140 Poulan FS3516 was in my cash price range.
Fast foward to present day, had I'd know we'd been buying the 5 acres of Carter County hilltop and hillside I'd got a Stihl or Husky at that time, BUT for the record the mightly Poulan has cut everything I've asked, started everytime in a 3-4 pulls and has piles of logs, firewood and brush to show for it's trustworthy and hard work...hmm, with that said, an occasional $12 chain and keeping on with the "official' bar oil only seems fitting.

The old chains.. I think I have a place just for them as fill material in upcoming adverntures in concrete.

I decided that even though I dont cut a lot of wood I would buy a good chain saw and keep it around for a while. I bought a Husqavarna 359. Was a really big waste of money. I have never been happy with the starting. I would have to pull it ten to twenty times and sometimes I would set it down for a while and then try it again later. A year after I bought it I could not get it started and I put a carb rebuild kit in it. It started after I did that but was still hard starting. I have used it for a couple of years since I put the new kit in it. I would estimate that I have cut between ten and twenty ricks of wood since I had it. I was cutting some slab wood. (pretty much the only thing I have cut with it.) It got caught in a piece of wood and died. It has not run since. I took it to a local small engine repair guy. He put a new carb kit in it. Checked to make sure the key in the fly wheel had not sheared. It is getting good fire and the compression seems to be ok. When he took the muffler off he saw some scoring on the piston. He checked with someone that had a lot of experience with husquavarnas and they told him if the piston has any scoring it wont run. My problem is that this saw has not had a lot of use and has been pretty well babied. I bought a cheap poulan tonight just to cut up some firewood. I pulled it twice with the choke on and it fired. I pushed the choke off and it ran great. I bought it at a box store and for 20.00 I got the warranty extended for three years. Already it is a better saw than the husquavarna. The Husky never started this easy.

 

[peterc38]

I decided that even though I dont cut a lot of wood I would buy a good chain saw and keep it around for a while. I bought a Husqavarna 359. Was a really big waste of money. I have never been happy with the starting. I would have to pull it ten to twenty times and sometimes I would set it down for a while and then try it again later. A year after I bought it I could not get it started and I put a carb rebuild kit in it. It started after I did that but was still hard starting. I have used it for a couple of years since I put the new kit in it. I would estimate that I have cut between ten and twenty ricks of wood since I had it. I was cutting some slab wood. (pretty much the only thing I have cut with it.) It got caught in a piece of wood and died. It has not run since. I took it to a local small engine repair guy. He put a new carb kit in it. Checked to make sure the key in the fly wheel had not sheared. It is getting good fire and the compression seems to be ok. When he took the muffler off he saw some scoring on the piston. He checked with someone that had a lot of experience with husquavarnas and they told him if the piston has any scoring it wont run. My problem is that this saw has not had a lot of use and has been pretty well babied. I bought a cheap poulan tonight just to cut up some firewood. I pulled it twice with the choke on and it fired. I pushed the choke off and it ran great. I bought it at a box store and for 20.00 I got the warranty extended for three years. Already it is a better saw than the husquavarna. The Husky never started this easy.

The 359 is an excellent saw. However, they had known issues with some of the Walbro carbs. The kit won't help.

Put a Zama C3-EL42 carb in it and enjoy! :thumbsup:


http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=102497

Your welcome

 

[kyspartan]

you do realize poulan is the same company as husky right. do as peterc38 said and you will fall in love with that husky,
then again i have a 8 year old poulan wildthing and a new husky 455 rancher. guess which saw i prefer when cutting up wood i'll grab the wildthing,it's half the weight, quieter, and i love that it does not have any suspension, it runs smoother than the rancher and no springs to break. and to me i feel more connected to the saw
YMMV

 

[arrow]

I decided that even though I dont cut a lot of wood I would buy a good chain saw and keep it around for a while. I bought a Husqavarna 359. Was a really big waste of money. I have never been happy with the starting. I would have to pull it ten to twenty times and sometimes I would set it down for a while and then try it again later. The Husky never started this easy.

This sounds like a flooding problem. You might try this with the Husky. Engage the choke. At the first sign of sputtering, knock off the choke and then pull the cord until it starts w/o the choke on. If that fails, engage the choke. Pull the cord no more than 3 times and then knock off the choke. Huskys are sometimes peculiar. I once had a a Husky that if you pulled the cord more than once with the choke engaged, it wouldn't start. On this saw I pulled the cord once, disengaged the choke, then it would start on the 2nd or 3rd pull. You can imagine my frustration at trying to find the correct starting sequence for this saw. I think once you find it on ths Husky, you'll like the saw better.

 

[Licklog]

This sounds like a flooding problem. You might try this with the Husky. Engage the choke. At the first sign of sputtering, knock off the choke and then pull the cord until it starts w/o the choke on. If that fails, engage the choke. Pull the cord no more than 3 times and then knock off the choke. Huskys are sometimes peculiar. I once had a a Husky that if you pulled the cord more than once with the choke engaged, it wouldn't start. On this saw I pulled the cord once, disengaged the choke, then it would start on the 2nd or 3rd pull. You can imagine my frustration at trying to find the correct starting sequence for this saw. I think once you find it on ths Husky, you'll like the saw better.

x2

If my Husky has sat awhile I pull the choke and crank until it sputters, then push the choke it and crank until it starts. The whole process is about 5-6 pulls. Once the saw has run it only takes one maybe two pulls to restart.

Licklog