Recent content by Hoser

My 88 year old grandfather still runs a pair of 170’s felling trees, cutting firewood and milling logs into posts and beams for the barn. So I have no doubt a 250 would hold up to cutting firewood for the home, hell my 271 was my only saw when I started doing wood on a big(ish) scale for 2...

Got 3 loads out of the bush this morning, in a bit of a race to get as much out as I can before the beans start to sprout. Lots of beech, hard maple and white ash.

I got loaned a 592 for a week with a 32” bar because a fella was curious of my opinion on it. I am impressed, cutting big twisted up sugar maple into firewood then noodling it down. 4 tanks in so far and really digging it. Kinda wishing I went with one of these instead of my 661. Way firmer...

Boring out the centre of your hingewood, So your hinge is now 2 posts and not the full diameter of the tree. I use it on trees I think are going to barberchair to reduce any risks. Actual loggers use it to eliminate any fibre pull out of the butt log (and I imagine safety as well).

I’ve been very fortunate this year. This is my 3rd bush lot this year, logged last summer lots of ash, sugar maple and beech. Lots of dead/ diseased tree’s still standing but I just want to get things cleaned up first One part I’ll have to come back to as the turkeys have eggs laying in the...

10-4. Thanks

How’d you run o/d and lockup on switches? I want to do the same thing to my 95 when I get it back from getting the bed welded up. 5 years of running with no o/d is getting old

Juice brakes on them David? 330 FT’s?

300-6 if low on cash or working it. FE stroker if he’s flush. I’ve owned a few 73-79 fords, loved them all but would really like a beat up but solid 4x4. 300 with a 4 gear don’t care which. T-18’s, np-435 both have been good to me.

It’s hard to price I find because every house is a different situation. Could charge hourly but more people have a gripe about that than if it’s a flat fee. I usually only stack for a couple older folks I’ve known all my life who have a hard time with it, usually an even trade for baked goods.

My grandfather used to strain used oil through a cheese cloth “to catch any sh*t” and that’s all we used for bar oil. I don’t remember any adverse effects or oiler problems. We also ran 2 stroke oil of any flavour. outboard, snowmobile, whatever was on sale, again no issues that I remember...

Your work good or bad is your resume to the rest of the world, competitors and customers alike. I don’t care if you’re porting saws, plumbing houses, whatever. Do it right or not at all.

Picked up this round top 066 last night, mag rot in the case, seized up. Everything else looks in good shape and oem and is all there. Piston/ cylinder is soaking in penetrating oil to try and free it up. Might this be worth trying to get back into shape for a work saw? Likely depends on if the...

Mikes ported 3 saws for me, absolutely solid dude and I don’t have to learn/ deal with shipping, which is a plus for a simpleton like me. Not against doing buissness with folks south of the border just shipping cost/ conversion rates makes it prohibitive in my case sadly.

That is bad ass man. Stock 661 is what 7 and change hp? Be a great saw for those big twisted up sugar maples, I want one.