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You learn real quick how to lift up on the flippy cap levers after rotation after your first pant leg of oil.

They are now safer for me than standard caps that I occasionally finger tighten and forget to snug up with the scrench.
 

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The little top handle with both caps at the front end get me a few times a year. My neighbour pushes & pulls the saw backwards & forwards when cutting with a chainsaw as the saw screams with a rocked chain. He had never tuned his weed-wacker in 10yrs since buying it new, never pulled out the spark plug, nothing. Didn't know what a spark arrestor was, looked at me funny when I bought a blow torch over to fix his trimmer.
I used to be that guy. Then I realized it took 1/8th the time to swap chains than trying to get through the wood with a dull one.

I also used to tune the H by making it scream, and then going back 1/8th turn. I used to think noone but me knew how to get the most out of a motor. Hence why my weedwackers wouldnt last long.
 

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You learn real quick how to lift up on the flippy cap levers after rotation after your first pant leg of oil.

They are now safer for me than standard caps that I occasionally finger tighten and forget to snug up with the scrench.
I learned good after a stihl 600 blower emptied its tank of gas on my backside :oops:
 

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A neighbor of the family asked my dad who asked me to help clean up some storm damage on his property. I brought a saw and go meet him, and he takes out an old Homelite from his garage. The saw looks like it was rode hard and put away wet, at least put away very dirty.
The neighbor says he hasn’t used the saw in years and can’t get it to start. He commenced pulling a few times on the rope, but nothing. I offer to give it a try. Eventually discover the choke lever wasn’t connected and it was flooded. After much effort it goes. I hand it back to him and take my saw to the trees that have fallen.
This gentleman is a little older, and I figure I’m going to do most of the work and he can watch, but he really thought he was going to work, so I tell him to work from the top down and I’ll work from the bottom up.
I start making some cuts to buck up the trunk. I notice he is spending as much time cutting a 8” limb as I am cutting a 18” trunk.
I walk over and he’s pulling the saw in and out of the cut like it’s a hand saw. His saw is throwing up so much dust it must have been trying to sand it’s way through the tree. The chain was so dull it wasn’t even cutting. I told him as much and he just said he thought it seemed slow.
I took a look at it and aside from it missing a couple cutters it was really in poor shape. I asked if he had a spare chain, he went back into the garage, but what he brought out was at the bottom of a bucket that had also collected some water, was rusty and partially stiff and no better, he said they were the old chains and were replaced with the current one. So I told him we could just finish the job with my saw. But he should buy a new chain.

As we walked back to the trees he complimented my saw and my speed cutting up the trunk, and asked if I want to let him do some work for a bit to give me a break. I should have said no it’s fine, but in a moment of pride of showing off my saw and how a saw should cut, and admiration for his effort to do work, I said OK. So I let him use my saw at the bottom of the tree area. I didn’t even think anything could go wrong.
He starts cutting the trunk, and as the saw got closer to the end of the cut I knew he wasn’t aware of where the tip of the bar was, and it dawned on me that he was going to cut into the dirt. Then it dawned on me why his chains were so rocked and poor, since he didn’t seem to know not to cut the dirt. I yelled out to ‘watch the tip’, but he either didn’t hear or know what I meant. As he finished the cut off he fully buried 3 inches of bar tip into the dirt. After watching him make one cut I told him something didn’t sound right, and I took the saw out of his hands, stopped it, looked it over, restarted it pretending to look perplexed, and said I’d finish the tree off. He was very happy to have “helped”.

We all have that first experience loaning out a saw that teaches us NOT to lend out a saw, or only lend out a POS saw. That was mine, watching how other people (mis)use garden tools.




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Worked on an ms290 for a guy in town bar was blue from no oil, he said I think it quit oiling but I only had a little cutting left so I finished. Well those last few trees cost him a lot since his bar was ruined. Fixed the oil pump on that saw and when he picked up asked me if I’d like to look at another one for him he brought an 029 super to me plastic all broke along with the wrap handle. I asked him if a pile rolled on it he said no I always put my saw in the bucket of my tractor when I push the logs in a pile to cut them because I don’t want to run it over. Well the tree span across the bucket and the stump end smashed the saw. He said it was only 2 weeks old when he did that, I said to him well must of built a box or holder for the saw now. His answer was nope still do it the same way works well.
 

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I wont lend a saw to my brother at all.
He thinks you just need to push on them when they're dull and sharpen it after the works all done. He also never cleans a saw or air filter.
He has burnt up a few good huskys and didn't cut much at all with em.
 

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What’s a good husky? Do they exist or is it a myth?

Older 51 and 61's, not crazy fast saws but normally hard to kill.
The good thing is relative, I run Chinese saws.

Based on your profile pic im guessing your a stihl guy and teasing me, they're good saws too but there's 10 times more huskys around here, there was way more Husqvarna dealers years ago so there's way more huskys around.
 

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Pics of purfict Wadney!
Well here hew go then....
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My father is real hard on saws. Couple years ago he got his 029 stuck in a tree so he his used his poulan pro to cut it out. Some how managed to smash both saws when I dropped the tree. Broke the handle bar on the poulan and broke the cylinder and the muffler on the 029. He was going to throw the 028 in the trash so I took it and rebuilt it and gave it back to him for his birthday. (so he wouldn't borrow my saws.) A couple months ago he asked if he could borrow my HT131 pole saw and I reluctantly said yes but said what ever you do do not bend the shaft, they are expensive. I go to his place a couple weeks later and I asked if he was done with the pole saw he said yes BUT he may have bent the shaft. I was pissed (but mainly at myself for lending it out in the first place) But he reassured me it still works so "it's ok". Lesson learned
 

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Older 51 and 61's, not crazy fast saws but normally hard to kill.
The good thing is relative, I run Chinese saws.

Based on your profile pic im guessing your a stihl guy and teasing me, they're good saws too but there's 10 times more huskys around here, there was way more Husqvarna dealers years ago so there's way more huskys around.
Yes I’m just giving you a hard time, I have a few of second place too. All them make good and bad models over the years stihls have just treated me well and are used by most trees services around here.
 

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Oh well. Figured I’d start this thread.

What are some choice things your buddies have done with chainsaws?

Of course, there are injuries, but I recently had 2 good friends do some ridiculous things and nearly or totally ruin their saws.

First was my buddies MS250 which he rarely runs and only for small stuff. He brings it over because it gets hot and runs odd. I ask him what kinda bar oil he uses and he says “I mix the oil with the gas, my saw doesn’t need bar oil”. I say, “there is an oil tank there Stevie”. Arguing ensues until he shows up with the saw and a 12 pack. I ask him what he thinks “the front” fuel tank is for, he thinks it’s got two tanks for fuel like some pickup trucks do and that filling it was optional. I made him put reading glasses on and read “OIL sign” on the side.

Yesterday, my buddy asks the dreaded question “can I borrow a saw, mine was running fine and now it won’t start”. One of my best friends actually bought the house across the street from me.

He tells me it cut great, now he’s been pulling and pulling and it won’t start. I ask him “Johnny, what mix ratio of oil to gas have you been using?” He starts to blink. I say “you didn’t put straight gas in the fuel tank, did you?”. More blinking. “My saw has a separate oil and fuel tank” he says. I pull the rope, near zero compression. He thought the saw was oil injected. I asked him if he has ever seen an oil injected saw.

Then it sets in and I ask him to pull the muffler and we get to look at a roached piston. I lend him a saw tuned really fat and tell him he’s not allowed to refuel it, walk up to me for fuel when u need it. I made him buy a gallon of Truefuel E-free 40:1 mix at Home Depot. I figured even at $20 a gallon, it would keep him out of trouble.

Two recent stories. I’ll be rebuilding the straight gassed one this winter.
Man this is going to be a good thread! I think the worst for me was one of my friends brought me a Mac and said he tried to start it but no spark and said that he and his other friend thought it needed a new clutch so after they left I started to look it over and it had no fuel so after that I check for spark and it had spark hummm lol put fuel in and it ran great did a little tuning on it and stuffed it in some wood cut fine so the next day took it up to his place he had a tree down so him and his other buddy and I went to the tree with the saw and of course they didn't believe me when I I told them it's a bad ass saw so I fired up the saw and made five cuts with it and I looked right at both of them and said the only thing that was wrong with the saw was you guy's not putting gas in it and turning the kill switch on. And as for the clutch as you can tell nothing wrong with it it's a older saw they don't scream like a newer one but what they did notice was it didn't even think of slowing down lol yeah you got to love the torque of a Mac.lol. And FYI I could go on but this one to me was the funniest.:risas3:
 
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