Saw video thread

[RI Chevy]

Nice Mike!

 

[rogue60]

Most of the time people are talking about Sugar Maple (aka Hard Maple), a fairly common hardwood that the farmers always used to plant for the syrup.

Black Maple is aka Rock Maple. Almost don't see it around here, mostly a little to the West. This is what they use for gym floors and bowling alleys.

Can't say that I have ever cut it, although I may have w/o knowing it. It is almost impossible to tell from Sugar Maple if the leaves are not still on the tree.

I don't know anything about the hardwoods there out of interest was looking at some janka rating. far as I can tell Hickory is harder than Hard Maple. Maple being around as hard as our native Cypress pine.
Doug fir must be like cutting big marshmallows lol
I don't know how the chainsaw racing guy's here cut our hardwoods so fast I've never gone down that road they make it look easy.

 

[Bigmac]

I don't know anything about the hardwoods there out of interest was looking at some janka rating. far as I can tell Hickory is harder than Hard Maple. Maple being around as hard as our native Cypress pine.
Doug fir must be like cutting big marshmallows lol
I don't know how the chainsaw racing guy's here cut our hardwoods so fast I've never gone down that road they make it look easy.
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Marshmallow is pretty close, but pine and cedar is even softer, they are like cutting Styrofoam Or packing peanuts

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Fresh off the bench, ported 390xpg. Did a little experimenting today. Nothing real scientific and just seat of the pants
Here it is with a walbro carb

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Same everything as the previous video. Only difference is the this time it has a Tilly carb.

 

[huskyboy]

I was getting about 16-17 seconds for the walbro and about 18-18.5 seconds for the tilly. I believe the walbro has a slightly larger venturi if I’m not mistaken? I know I liked how the tilly seemed to be less sensitive to temperature change despite it not being quite as spunky as the walbro when I ran both in the past.

 

[Canadian farm boy]

I was getting about 16-17 seconds for the walbro and about 18-18.5 seconds for the tilly. I believe the walbro has a slightly larger venturi if I’m not mistaken? I know I liked how the tilly seemed to be less sensitive to temperature change despite it not being quite as spunky as the walbro.

The walbro was easier to tune and felt a well mannered. The tilly was a little sensitive to tuning and had a more high strung feel.
Both carbs gave good throttle response and I was able to lug the saw down quite well either one.

I’d love to have a dyno. Lol

 

[TreeLife]

The walbro was easier to tune and felt a well mannered. The tilly was a little sensitive to tuning and had a more high strung feel.
Both carbs gave good throttle response and I was able to lug the saw down quite well either one.

I’d love to have a dyno. Lol

@Red97 has one dot dot dot

 

[rogue60]

For the guy's interested here's the end grain of some narrow leaf red Ironbark the sapwood even has class 1 durability.
Good luck trying to count the growth rings.

 

[Bigmac]

For the guy's interested here's the end grain of some narrow leaf red Ironbark the sapwood even has class 1 durability.
Good luck trying to count the growth rings.
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That’s beautiful wood! Have been doing som cvg fir trim on the house we are working on, about 70 years per inch. Just fun to see.

 

[rogue60]

That’s beautiful wood! Have been doing som cvg fir trim on the house we are working on, about 70 years per inch. Just fun to see. View attachment 244715View attachment 244716View attachment 244718

Amazing it's so slow growing yet so soft consistent growing years aswell we have a good year a bad year etc.
We call that quarter cut is ok to do with softwoods but a no no with hardwoods quarter cutting hardwood in a sawmill here would get ya the sack lol

 

[Bigmac]

Amazing it's so slow growing yet so soft consistent growing years aswell we have a good year a bad year etc.
We call that quarter cut is ok to do with softwoods but a no no with hardwoods quarter cutting hardwood in a sawmill here would get ya the sack lol

It’s a fairly strong wood for it weight, and that tree was probably 300+ years old and 5’ plus feet in diameter, once they get over 150 years old the rings get tight, of in a shaded area on a mountain slope, they can grow slow and tight too, those younger trees like that near the coast can get a lot tuffer than average. The other crazy thing with fir is when it’s been in a house for a long time(we frame house with it) it gets crazy hard, like if it’s been inside the wall for 70 years it’s a lot harder. The wood is stringy, so even thou it’s soft it has decent strength. I can’t imagine the super hard wood. This soft stuff is fun to cut!

 

[rogue60]

Yeah am envious would be nice working with a softer timber our hardwoods are awful to work with hand tools.
When Australia was settled by Europeans they cut only our softer woods like the
Cedars/Rosewoods/Hoop pine etc they stayed away from the hard stuff..
When that was all used up and cut they stood there looking at the bush thinking chit now we got to try and come up with ways to work and use all this hard crap that's left lol True story..

 

[MustangMike]

Hemlock is not hard to cut, but it is a very slow growing softwood that can live a long time and get very large (5-6 ft in diameter).

It is often used as barn siding, as it will last over 100 years if kept off the ground, with not staining or treatment.

My cousin tells me it absorbs minerals from the rainwater, and it gets very hard over time.

 

[jacob j.]

The walbro was easier to tune and felt a well mannered. The tilly was a little sensitive to tuning and had a more high strung feel.
Both carbs gave good throttle response and I was able to lug the saw down quite well either one.

I’d love to have a dyno. Lol

That's been my experience as well. I tried both a Tillotson and an RWJ-4 carb on my XS385 and the Walbro is easier to work with but I think the Tillotson provides a touch more
peak power when dialed in correctly (but it takes a bit of work to get it dialed in).

 

[jacob j.]

I had a one-man GTG this weekend after meeting up with some forum members didn't work out:

 

[ferris]

I had a one-man GTG this weekend after meeting up with some forum members didn't work out:

Nice saw, I would use a shorter bar.
So u don’t have to worry about the bar tip gets in the mud

 

[jacob j.]

Nice saw, I would use a shorter bar.
So u don’t have to worry about the bar tip gets in the mud

I was getting the longer bar ready for an upcoming GTG where there will be much larger wood.

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice JJ.

 

[Bigmac]

Hemlock is not hard to cut, but it is a very slow growing softwood that can live a long time and get very large (5-6 ft in diameter).

It is often used as barn siding, as it will last over 100 years if kept off the ground, with not staining or treatment.

My cousin tells me it absorbs minerals from the rainwater, and it gets very hard over time.

And they can get larger! There is a small grove nearby, about 7 miles from my house that has one 11’ and about a dozen 9’ hemlock. Douglas fir is more that way here, a lot harder then hemlock, and the hemlock rots fast here, a log on the ground can rot in a couple years were the fir will last a lot longer. We do get a lot of rain thou, 88” average annual