Recent content by StihlMagnum440

I am sure it has lost some power over the years, just like me, but it definitely gets the job done. Ran the Stihl 440 full blast on tree length firewood making them into 3" thick cookies because we had snow coming. Got it all cut up just as the snow started falling (one of many times the...

I bought my Stihl 440 in 2007. I brought it home from the Stihl dealer and started cutting firewood on a pile I had been cutting up. I still remember the wood chips blasting on my leg and buzzing through that wood. Wow! I still get that feeling 16 years later! You have great taste in...

Yup! Years ago, I had an all wheel drive forwarder type rig that had a small log loader on the back with a nice rotating grapple that made work a breeze. I used it for CTL logging and everything else you can think of...plowing snow, loading scrap steel, moving brush..anything. I miss that...

Normzilla, I hope the best for your wife with her breast cancer situation. I have dealt multiple times with different cancers in my family including breast cancer. Just saying.

Glad I went back out and cut up all the logs I had...we are getting slammed with snow. We have about 8" wet snow right now. Snow is hard to predict but I pushed just in case. Glad I did! It is still snowing.

Now you just have to be careful not to be overloaded...easy to do as you well know. I just came in from cutting up firewood with the 440. My truck is overloaded but it is just being moved in the yard. Under pressure...they say we have plowable snow coming. Now my rigor mortis is kicking in now...

Years ago, I had my off road 1992 F150 with modified suspension and 36"Super Swampers with chains all around out on a woodlot I used to own. It had a big old Warn 8000lb winch on the front. Really great for getting firewood. What have you done on that F350 (suspension beefed up?) and what...

How did it go?

That is a lot bigger than I would like to cut. The mill I used to drop logs off only took up to 30". They must have a system to transport and mill those big ones you deal with. Here comes a quick New England change of weather with high winds (45 mph they say). I am so glad that last year I...

I am always learning on here. I looked up sugar pine and says they can have upwards of a 10' trunk! Wow. What is the biggest one you have dealt with? Right now we are just getting the beginning snows that melt off and make the ground wet and muddy when the temps cycle up...another mess to...

I live in the Pine Tree State. Eastern White Pine. I like the nice views in the hills. If you live on a hill...own the top of the hill. I had a woodlot with waterfront but it was on down hill ground and I did not like that and cut trees and sold it. The deer hunters like my chainsawing...

. It must be nice to not be on a hill and deal with snow! You have nice trees.

Geeeez carrying that little screwdriver all those years bothered you that much! It has been awhile since I have been on here but you gave me help on fixing my Stihl 440 with some Farmertec kit parts last year. I am glad I got a quality gas vent separately from the kit because it was probably...

The darn little screwdriver I carry for my good old Stihl 440 weighs a ton. I have to be careful not to hurt myself adjusting those screws. Haha. I said I would get a 462 when the 440 gives out. No sign of the 440 giving out. Just bought 10 loops of 20" full chisel chain for it and cutting...

I used a woodboiler for heater coil, baseboard and hot water in a rental house for college students I resided at and a woodboiler is a lot more convenient and comfortable to run and kept the firewood mess outside so I may be switching to that type system or similar variant. Woodstoves have a...