Recent content by mainer_in_ak

Congrats! The ochsenkopf splitting Axes of varying weight are what I primarily use up north here. I do have a fiskars "beater" as a loaner or back-up. I have no electricity or heating oil. I split wood by hand and have never used a wood splitter. This is my 10 year anniversary of heating...

OK, getting this "$200 and under logger boot shootout" steered back on path as temps have finally started warming up enough here in interior Alaska where Ill be getting back into loggers boots again. I have hired a giant 6.5 ft tall man from Tennessee to help me with clear cutting, milling, and...

Do the cannon bars still just take yer common 1 rivet oregon nose? If so, there's quite a few new old stock .404 ones in ebay right now. Bout $15-$18 a piece

No judgements here. Im glad yer ok. I understand how shocking it is milling with that much power when something grenades right in close proximity of an area of the body unprotected by chaps. Please make sure that the chain catch is in perfect shape before you go at er again. Welcome to the...

Its perfectly normal. Fitting together 2 stroke crank ends with hydraulic presses, lotsa hammer time and confirming everything is true with dial indicators. The good folks at Northern Crankshaft are putting me together a fresh crank for my woodhauler. Itll have all all new bearings. Kinda...

Getting closer. The narrow kerf bars arrived from Australia. They're essentially the 3/8 lp milling bars with a .325 narrow kerf 10 tooth nose. GB just released .325 narrow kerf 12 tooth noses and will try both noses bore cutting. 12 tooth part # is GB12PTN Its a light bar/chain combo, half lb...

Dang, thats mighty cheap for a full synthetic everything oil. Ill grab a few gallons of it.

Yep if there's a will there's a way. It depends on which model sled. Going from 2.52 pitch drivers to 2.86 drivers, gotta pay a shop to use a hydraulic press and different length pipes to press on new ones. Thats if the track driver shaft isn't some odd ball size. Then the bill turns triple the...

The Amish war horse of worksleds. Its a shame that yammy quit the sled market. Theres a mint rebadged vk-bearcat thats been setting for sale for months. Nobody wants it and I dont get it.

Anyways, back to chainsaws: 32:1 lucas, a smidgen of mmt and a smidgen of stabilizer. Thats been my go-to for 3 years now. I have echo cs 520 50 cc saw that has an airleak and gets extremely hot. The airleak is somewhere near where the carb mounts to the block. I believe 32:1 and a smidgen of...

No idea. Check all the exploded diagrams from the online parts stores like babbits or country cat. I will say this: the oddball 16" x 156" x 1" 2.52 driver track is no longer made. It was used on the bearcat 440 ll, the many later bearcat 570's. So if it's one of those, u gotta snatch up used...

Yep, I do firewood, slabs and logs with ole sht box bearcats. Or really any older 2 stroke utility sleds. So ive used the lucas oil stuff all my chainsaws, yamaha, polaris, ski doo and arctic cat utility sleds, evinrude and yamaha boat motors and solo ice augers. The lucas stuff pours from a...

Still using cheap/plain-jane Lucas 2 cycle in all my 2 strokes. Can find it at any O'Reilleys napa or autozone for $9.99 a quart. Year #3 in the saws using lucas. Funny thing: completely overhauling an 80hp suzuki 550 2 stroke. Oil injection tank full of lucas. Just bout finished out...

Some of the fuel stabilizers supposedly have Polyetheramine. Like marine stabil. I saw two weird changes in my equipment when using marine stabil in all the fuel: 2 stroke: exauhst ports still had carbon build up, but it wasn't hard, it was the consistency of grainy bubble gum. You could...

I asked Chatgpt: Who in the chainsaw world could combine tweaking with twerking? Chatgpt answered: StihlEchoingHusqy.