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Back when I worked in a factory building wood stoves (almost 20 years ago now that I think about it…) we’d use a pneumatic version I think it was made by souix tools. Those worked really well.

I have the “Smitty” brand one off Amazon. It works pretty well.

I love stihl, it’s what I grew up around and have saws pushing 25-30 years old that are still ticking along cutting firewood. (Cut a lot less now, but I used to cut 10+ cord per year. Sometimes a lot more, sometimes a bit less). Bought my first husky (a 572) and am surprised how much I like it...

Well, if a person makes their own “homebrewed” version of Seafoam you usually use diesel as a base. It’s a pretty decent cleaner, a cautionary tale though according to my studies on FAA materials (for aviation -an expensive hobby) diesel in plane gas engines can cause piston...

It would be interesting to see the compression numbers then….

Along similar lines, I had a snowmobile I was working on that had sat for 10 years or more. It would barely pull over. I pulled the head to see if it was a bad bore. It was fogging oil, someone had pickled it for storage and the oil basically dried out and gummed up the bore/piston interface. It...

Maybe I should just start buying saws for her…at a tiny little lady of 5’6” that 084 might be just her size…

Wish I had trees big enough to even consider trying to explain my need for this saw to the wife…maybe someday.

Lots of good info and techniques for accomplishing a hone/deglazing on a cylinder. I love having more tricks in the back pocket for a pinch. When I was a kid my best friends dad showed me a trick he learned from an old Mennonite gentleman back when he was a kid. 40-50 years before. Take a...

Yeah, so he used a head temp guage. Which is a reflection of overall heat accrual. An important measurement as well, I think the value in the EGT would be you’re basically measuring the carburetor adjustment with greater precision. In real time. Planes usually utilize cylinder head temperature...

True, it wouldn’t be “needed” for any application except those seeking peak power for say competitive cutting-zero real world woodcutter/work saw application. But like with the thing installed on my snowmobile it lets ya know to take it easy before burning the thing down-which is pretty common...

Has anyone tried installing an EGT guage on their modded saws? It’d be pretty simple with a weld in bung. I know it’s common to do on snowmobiles and airplanes etc. but I was thinking there might be some value in having a “tuning muffler” set up with a probe to just see where the saw is happy...

A “Genuine Norlund” I just got around to putting on a handle. Unfortunately the only handle I had on hand had a couple weird kinks in it that prevent it from being aligned perfectly, but it’s pretty lol. I may try and steam the handle and clamp the bent portion later, til then I can just enjoy...

I will try and keep up on the photos. Dad gave the saw to me a decade ago, when I first got married and I tore into it thinking it’d be a quick fix. I found what I detailed above and boxed it up carefully for storage, not knowing when time/funds would allow for its resurrection, young and newly...

Awesome, I will be looking that over closely. Thanks! I wasn’t set on an aftermarket top end, but I had heard they were alright on the smaller saws, but lacking on the 064-066 sized saws.

Hey folks, Financially this probably doesn’t make sense- I get that. My dad gave me his old logging saw a decade ago, an old stihl 064 full wrap. It kept food on the table when I was a kid while he was a logger, and after that served firewood duty for nearly 20 years until ethanol did its...

There’s no cure, one just learns to live with it….