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No it doesn’t. Not a huge difference but enough.

I also really like it. Seems to hold an edge good but takes to the file alot nicer than RS. The factory grind also bore cuts extremely smooth in my experience. If I can get it priced similar to RS by the case I’ll pick a couple up

I went back and swapped my still new loop of sp33 for whatever they call full chisel. Looks nice, no safety raker, probably give it a try tomorrow night. Lions fan- the tops I'm working aren’t bad for dirt and crap, all cut with a processor in the winter. I can’t remember the last time I saw...

In .325 23 rs pro is my go to. But my local Stihl shop was on back order. So I bought 2 loops of sp 33 from the husky dealer, I didn’t specify full chisel but I should have. I won’t be buying any more of it, 3 tanks in and I like nothing about it. Slow and rough cutting, exactly the opposite...

I’ve been getting a little bit of firewooding done. Log piles gone now, started another bush, following a processor and picking the tops/ cull logs

Figured id update this. I bought this trailer a couple weeks ago, second hand. It’s a Cerka, all welded steel, mostly full welds on the seams. Tough tough little buggy. The bush I’m working now is rough but it’s been doing a fine job.

I wish. Cheapest I’ve seen here is $17 a gallon

But what would the theory be on why oak takes so long to season if it’s similar hardness to white ash and sugar maple? We don’t have any oak’s here, I have no experience with it, just those that I’ve spoke to that did say it takes 2 years? Or does it actually not take 2 years?

I like the concept and agree with the premise. Not just because it reinforces my thoughts that a similar white ash and sugar maple are very close in btu’s. I like ash, splits nice, stacks nice, burns good and I can leave at 7am come home at 9pm, rake the coals and reload (not relight).

271 doesn’t need it in my opinion. I run an 18” .325 bar and not enough oil wasn’t a problem. Cutting/ noodling dead ash, elm, etc

I have nothing bad to say about 271’s. I bought mine new 13 years ago as my first brand new saw. Probably have in the neighbourhood of 300 cord on it, only had to replace wear parts on it. That being said I always look after my stuff religiously. Being hard on equipment costs too much.

There’s less and less guys around here who want to cut ash with a saw due to them chairing. Most of them are coming down now with a harvester or a big hoe. I have neither so I just gut the hinge and haven’t had an issue since (knock on wood). Talking to my cousin from across the pond he also...

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...