Recent content by Whitespider

Ummmm... I need to come clean here. I no longer do it all with just one saw. Last year I bought a cheap pole saw for trimming up the trees in the yard and such. But I quickly learned taking the center section out of the pole made it damn handy to limb and de-brush after the tree is on the...

How do you define "regular basis"?? Once a year?? Once a month?? Once a week?? It's been 4 years since I took out a 30" plus oak... but I did 2 of them that year, and 3 of them two years before that, and none for ten years before that. So, that's 5 in the last fifteen years... an average of one...

My son had a fairly large limb come down in his yard during a storm about a month ago. He borrowed my saw and pickup to cut it up and haul the wood out to me. Afterwards, as he sat the saw on my bench, he said... "I need to get me a chainsaw in case this happens again... what do ya' think about...

Naw... it didn't escape me. My point was when there's a job to be done a guy uses what he's got. If there's a hole to be dug and all ya' got is a shovel, ya' use the shovel. Ya' don't say "no way will a shovel shovel dig that hole." Ya' don't claim the job can't be done because ya' don't have a...

But that ain't what you posted... is it?? I believe your post was this... "No way will a single saw do the whole job." Your posts are 2 different things. One I differed with because the "whole job" can be done with one saw... the second one adds the qualifier word "optimally" (as well as IMO)...

That's right, lead won't really hurt a cutting chain. Lead alloys used for bullet casting are actually softer than many hard woods. I've even used a chainsaw to cut lead bars to size for the melting pot... touching-up the cutters afterwards weren't no different than touching-up after cutting oak. *

Hmmm.... I beg to differ. I get the job done with one 50cc saw. The whole job, even the big stuff... even stuff well over 4 feet in diameter. I have two bars, one 16 inch and one 20 inch; on the (very) rare occasion I do pinch a bar, I just unbolt the power head and bolt on the other bar. It's a...

LOL But it ain't about the firewood... it's about the saw for a lot of guys. I went to one of those GTGs a bit over a year ago and got the bug... thought I "needed" something more. Thankfully(?) I got over it before indoctrinating myself into yet another money-eating hobby (my addiction to...

Hey, whatsup??

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