Purchased a bunch of Huskies

[mainer_in_ak]

Geeze, lehman, theres that broken record again.

Yep milling my Alaska Birch saw logs would stop my 660 mag to zero rpms at the slightest feed pressure. They bring my ported 1201 down into the 6000-7000 rpm range. Nice dense wood and love building with Alaska Birch. I build alot with white ash too. On seasoned birch slabs, the white ash doesn't draw down on my Dewalt planer as hard as the the birch does either.

Regarding the other site, There you go speaking on my behalf again. You know what they say about assuming. I never joined the other site, only read posts on the other one. So chose to join this Forum after seeing some of the great work posted up in the echo thread: Dyno joe echo builds, night rogue/pav echo builds, etc.

These outside the box thinkers like rich's idea is just cool sht.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Geeze, lehman, theres that broken record again.

Yep milling my Alaska Birch saw logs would stop my 660 mag to zero rpms at the slightest feed pressure. They bring my ported 1201 down into the 6000-7000 rpm range. Nice dense wood and love building with Alaska Birch. I build alot with white ash too. On seasoned birch slabs, the white ash doesn't draw down on my Dewalt planer as hard as the the birch does either.

Regarding the other site, There you go speaking on my behalf again. You know what they say about assuming. I never joined the other site, only read posts on the other one. So chose to join this Forum after seeing some of the great work posted up in the echo thread: Dyno joe echo builds, night rogue/pav echo builds, etc.

These outside the box thinkers like rich's idea is just cool sht.

I don’t assume anything about you but you have plenty about me. How do you know how long I’ve been repairing and using saws? You don’t just like I have no idea if you ever used a chainsaw before you moved to Alaska. You have made comments over and over acting like I’m some dumb kid that has never touched a saw. I’ve used a 066-660 to mill and it must have been a big *b-word to bring one to its knees or your using a winch to pull as hard as possible to the stall point. In that case I have an idea where some of your bearing issues come from. I’ve been cutting wood and messing with saws since I was 10 still have my 34 year old Stihl 026 that in cut 20 chords a year for our boiler plus 20 chords a piece for 2 uncles along with help my cousin do small cuts logging. So you might still have more experience on saws ect than I but I have far from no knowledge like you suggest time and time again. I’ve slabbed 45-50” soft maple and built plenty of stuff out of the slabs. But im done now on all this have a good time with the birch.

 

[Rich Fife]

I will never say you don’t do some pretty odd stuff and make it work I do respect your abilities. I’d like to try some different things just not the time or money at moment with 3 teens in the house. I hope the saw holds up well and who knows maybe this will fix it.

We have 2 out of the house a 2 in the house still... trust me, I get it! Lol
Same here... I'll probably run closer to 32:1 and see how that goes.

 

[Rich Fife]

Rich,
You might have a good side-gig thing going if this works. It seems some husq shops just simply short block em. I'd imagine there's a ton of discarded, rattle-trap shortblocks that you could provide this modification.

Not a bad idea... I'll have to see where the husky shops are.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Not a bad idea... I'll have to see where the husky shops are.

Lotsa fkn good ideas out there. Like ah crown vic

 

[davidwyby]

Quit clogging up Rich’s thread

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Quit clogging up Rich’s thread

I agree and I’m sorry for my part rich

 

[Rich Fife]

I agree and I’m sorry for my part rich

I'm not worried about it. Though, that Norfolk Va bull in a Ford was interesting.

 

[Mad Professor]

OK, I need to poke the eye, why?

Pro with Mg/Al for scrap free?

 

[bwalker]

We have 2 out of the house a 2 in the house still... trust me, I get it! Lol
Same here... I'll probably run closer to 32:1 and see how that goes.

@huskihl says that he hasn't lost a ported strato saw when ran with adequate oil.
I ran the snot out of a very early 562xp for several years and never had a single issue with it, but I was using good oil at 32:1 or better.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

@ 7 min:53 sec plastic retainers, koyo bearings:

 

[huskihl]

@huskihl says that he hasn't lost a ported strato saw when ran with adequate oil.
I ran the snot out of a very early 562xp for several years and never had a single issue with it, but I was using good oil at 32:1 or better.

True story.

 

[bwalker]

@ 7 min:53 sec plastic retainers, koyo bearings:

The plastic bearing retainers causing failures is a red hearing. Stihl Pro saws have had them for years without issue. They have also been used in much higher stress applications like dirt bikes and snowmobiles.

 

[Rich Fife]

OK, I need to poke the eye, why?

Pro with Mg/Al for scrap free?

?

 

[Hinerman]

True story.

Knock on wood...

 

[Rich Fife]

Spacers are made for the 550xp.
The 61 and 288xp parts arrived.
Might be a busy weekend.

 

[Rich Fife]

Just some measurements before the crank goes into the case

 

[davidwyby]

Stick a 395 cyl on the 288.

 

[whitesnake]

@huskihl says that he hasn't lost a ported strato saw when ran with adequate oil.
I ran the snot out of a very early 562xp for several years and never had a single issue with it, but I was using good oil at 32:1 or better.

You can’t leave us hanging on what oil it was

 

[Duce]

He said it was good oil! Please don't start another oil thread.