Recent content by Wood Duck

Yes, that's the one! They grow wild here, and they're a lot like persimmons when it comes to eating them, they need to be dead ripe or they're not fit to eat! Lol!

I've never seen a rented pig that could be trusted yet! Best to avoid them altogether in my experience.

Randy built me a 562XP for my 80+ year old father for a Christmas present last year. Today was the first chance I'd had to run it personally. He's running a 24" bar on it, and had been bragging about his "Paw-Paw saw" this summer. (Paw-Paws are a fruit-bearing tree native to the river bottoms...

I'm a weekend hack. Been running Maxima K2 at 40:1 for a few years in my stock and MMWS saws both without issue. Everything I've peeked at looks clean enough to me, but I'm no saw builder either. I can get Amsoil Dominator for about half of what Maxima costs me looks like, so I'm going that...

Sound advice. I agree 100%! I'm now on the list for a ported 562!

If I was to ask him, I wouldn't be able to post his reply here without being banned! Butts would be hurt, tears would be shed, and then he'd just go to bed at sundown, still smiling about it................

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Yeah, I spect' he's got a spot cleared out for it already! I already know it's the only 'big" saw he'll want to use from now on. He normally prefers a 60-70cc saw for his everyday saw. I should get him a ported saw around that size I guess; but I don't know what to get him. He likes a lot of...

He's sawed all that you can see in the pic, and a lot more that you can't see, in the last couple weeks. He's been dropping standing dead oaks and hickory's in the woods behind his house for firewood. Cuts the tops up where they fall, loads the wood into the bucket, and then skids the main log...

Here's MY nut buster, sitting behind my saw!

I have a Fiskars, and a Logrite. I much prefer the Logrite. The Fiskars is lighter and requires you to swing it with some force to get it to bite into the wood if you're wanting to pick it up off the ground. Then it can be a little reluctant to let go of it, and you'll have to wiggle it back and...

Wooooohooooo! Dats purdy!

I also use my USC for cleaning chains before taking them to my Oregon 520 to sharpen. I use old "2-stroke solvent" that's been in the can too long to risk putting in the saws. Put the chains in a mason jar with the "solvent" and drop it in whatever regular cleaning solution happens to be in the...

Well, my personal worst experience was with a Stihl MS250. Bought it new, always started fine cold, but refused to restart hot at all from day one. Idle was erratic at best, no matter how it was tuned. Took it back to the store I bought it from. The kid with 10 thumbs in the back tinkered with...

You gotta take the bitter with the sweet, and today was SWEET! He was in such a good move afterwards, he even let me run my Kioti NX5510 and EA grapple in the woodlot for a while! I bought it brand new a few years ago, and he started building a shed to house it the next week. 72" tooth bucket...