Recent content by dbittle

Merry Christmas everybody!

I will say the cutting speed on the duracut didn't blow me away, especially out of the box. I figured the heavy chrome layer put a limit on how sharp it could really get. Cutting stumps off absolutely at ground level kills a semichisel chain in about 10 minutes, so even a little bit of extra...

No. The duracut is chisel chain like LPX. The DPX has a small corner radius. I bought a couple of loops to flush cut stumps and uprooted tree trunks on my farm. I think it hangs on about twice as long as semi-chisel using it for that purpose.

I have used a couple of loops of the duracut chain. It does stay sharp quite a bit better than DPX on stumps and similar where it sees a lot of dirt.

Probably a dumb question, but are you 100% sure it has the closed port 242 cylinder on it?

I have one of these myself, and it does seem to be a finicky little carburetor. Does it respond properly to the mixture screws for the most part?

Happy new year!

Wasn't the OE supposed to be 14,700? The NE had the 14,100 limited coil.

Gotta help rattler keep this on the front page.

God is our ever present help in time of trouble. Good to hear the news on your granddaughter.

It made me curious how it would do square filed. I'm not sure I want to sacrifice a file on that thick chrome layer to find out though.

I have, along with RM, but it's been several years. I used Carlton semi-chisel for a couple of years and have been working through a few loops of Oregon DPX since then.

It's a steel chisel cutter and I think it's LPX profile. I was surprised they didn't use a semichisel chain for the starting point, but the point didn't get pounded to death like I would have thought. Apparently that thick chrome layer worked pretty well.

Yes, according to the advertising. It filed, as far as feel and number of file strokes, the same as any other Oregon chain. I did wonder if the file life might be shorter, but I haven't worked with it enough to see.

I bought a loop of the 3/8 Oregon Multicut that @radio was selling earlier this year and finally had a chance to try it out on some stumps. Out of the box, it needed sharpening and having the depth gages lowered, so the first cherry stump I cut pretty well defeated it. I carefully round filed...