Brrrrmmmm brrrmmm brrrmmmmmm!!

"MUSASHI66" (musashi66) 08/22/2020 at 21:15 • Filed to: None

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New tool day! It was glorious. 

dumpsterfire! > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 21:21

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Nothing like a brand new chain.  

MUSASHI66 > dumpsterfire! 08/22/2020 at 21:30

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Someone else is cutting down the other 5 large dry trees soon, so I’ll have a lot of work cutting them down to firewood size.  So, yup, new chainsaw is awesome! 

jminer > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 21:42

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Man I love the farm boss! I had one that was 10 years old and still ran like new, started on the 3rd or 4th pull and powered a 20" bar like it wasn’t there. I had done zero maintenance to it other than new chains and feed it bar oil and gas. Cut probably 250  trees down with it too as we used to heat with wood.

MUSASHI66 > jminer 08/22/2020 at 21:48

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Mine was starting well today and all of a sudden it decided to stop - right after I refilled it with gas . Spark plug was dry, it didn’t smell like it flooded , but I guess it did as it started after we came back from the break.

I also need to learn what sort of tension it likes as it dropped the chain 4 times :/

Other than that, 20” bar worked like a charm. 

wafflesnfalafel > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 22:06

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love that Stihls have that distinctive hot growl - pop’s got a 35yo 0.32 with a 20" bar and you can tell it’s a Stihl from a mile away

jminer > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 22:24

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Yeah, that’s definitely an art. Loose enough to not heat up the bar and chain unnecessarily and tight enough to not get tossed off.

If you’re running it for a few hours though it usually heats up and stretches so needs to be tightened again.

Also the best thing I ever bought chain saw related was a Stihl 12v chain saw sharpener. It clipped to the truck battery and I could get a chain sharp again in under 2 minutes, beat the hell out of hand filing or swapping chains.

MUSASHI66 > wafflesnfalafel 08/22/2020 at 22:44

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Are Stihls Subarus of the chainsaw world?

MUSASHI66 > jminer 08/22/2020 at 22:45

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Ooh, didn’t know those were a thing, I might look into one! I’ve been dreading the manual  file on every tooth

jminer > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 23:16

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I bought this one .

It was like $40 from my local dealer (10 years ago) and bits were only like $5 for a bag of them and they lasted me 5 or 6 sharpenings each.

It changed my entire life when sawing, I no longer had to bring multiple saws and when one got dull switch to the other and let #1 cool off then go back to it later and spend 30 minutes with a file.

MUSASHI66 > jminer 08/22/2020 at 23:21

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Man!! How much do you saw if you have to sharpen during sawing and change saws? 

jminer > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 23:42

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I used to both heat with wood and sell it. A typical day cutting wood used to be fell 6 or 8 big trees and spend the rest of the day cutting them into manageable chunks then several more days loading a trailer full of wood.

I would regularly cut like 10  cords of wood a day. It’d be split later with a big gas powered wood hydraulic splitter.

Fo r like 5 or 6 years this was a solid side-gig for me but as I crossed 30 and my desk job paid more I stopped doing it.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 23:47

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That’s only pine...a doddle for a new Farm Boss. Challenge it with some nice Australian hardwoods and then see what it really can do.

Our saws get a new chain each year and a new bar every three years. Sharpening happens after each tank unless it’s i ronbark or old b loodwood and then it’s every four or five cuts!

MUSASHI66 > jminer 08/22/2020 at 23:49

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Damn that’s a lot of wood. I got two blisters cutting one old fallen pine into firewood sized chunks.

Are you the guy with the huge wooded property? I seem to remember someone here having a large chunk of land and woods. 

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 23:52

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This is what you need - Stihl 2 in 1 file and a light touch.

jminer > MUSASHI66 08/22/2020 at 23:53

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Running a saw and cutting wood is definitely hard work. I miss it as it kept me in shape a lot better than I am now. Hell I used to split wood with an axe, that was hard work.

I live on 2 acres of woods, so not very big. I used to know a lot of folks that owned property though so I’d kick them some cash and go fell all the standing dead trees on their land over a couple weekends which would help us both.  I even used to do some residentiall trimming and felling but didn't for long.

MUSASHI66 > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/22/2020 at 23:59

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I’m in Colorado, there really aren’t any hardwoods around here. 

MUSASHI66 > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/23/2020 at 00:00

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How long does it take you to sharpen a chain? My grandpa used to do it with a round file... 

MUSASHI66 > jminer 08/23/2020 at 00:03

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I feel like I earned my calories today. I am tired but I also feel good about working. I’m excited to go again and cut the trees into chunks  when they get cut down. We’ll have to cut and store 2-3 large pines.

jminer > MUSASHI66 08/23/2020 at 00:07

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Definitely! It’s a good kind of sore after working like that.

Be careful burning Pine, it's very sappy and smokey.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > MUSASHI66 08/23/2020 at 03:29

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Couple of minutes... including putting it in the stump vice and pulling it out again!! Trick is to go with a single light pass only...if you press too hard then you really wear down your chain.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > MUSASHI66 08/23/2020 at 03:31

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Then your saw will probably outlive you!

MUSASHI66 > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/23/2020 at 12:36

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Sweet, I guess I’ll leave to spend some time on YouTube and watch videos and buy the tool. Grandpa died too soon to teach me this stuff 

MUSASHI66 > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 08/23/2020 at 12:37

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I’ll be  buried with it