Saw video thread

[MustangMike]

I'm not sure if I'm more impressed with JJ or the saw!!!

He sure man handled that large bar awfully well!

I've run some of Lee's big saws at GTGs, Macs, Dolmars, an imported Echo, and a MMWS ported 088, and they are not easy to horse around like that!

 

[MustangMike]

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

I did not say they would not rot fast on the ground, but when used for barn siding they seem to last near forever! They also grow very slowly, so the only place in the State that we have any large ones are in the Adirondacks on State land. It is very rare to see one over 2' any place else.

My Aunt + Uncle's barn was well over 100 years old. They both passed and my cousin did not maintain the roof, so it eventually came down.

My cousin took some of the siding and started making antique picture frames for people, said the stuff was hard as a rock!

 

[jacob j.]

I did not say they would not rot fast on the ground, but when used for barn siding they seem to last near forever!

I think what Nathan is referring to is that Hemlock here on the coast usually grows with a lot of heart rot, so once they fall, they go to mush pretty fast.

We have mainly Western Hemlock here on the coast which gets real big and then Mountain Hemlock at the higher elevations, which doesn't get quite
as big and is more slow-growing like the trees you have there. Here you'll see Mountain Hemlock and Shasta fir growing together in the Cascades and they
get up to around 6-7' in diameter and stay pretty sound. I fell some Mountain Hemlock on a hazard tree job in the south Cascades in 2014 that was 50-60"
through on the stump and still quite sound after standing dead for 15-20 years. Here's one of my guys cutting into a Mountain Hemlock snag that was
about 22 years standing dead and 55" on the stump:

 

[TreeLife]

I'm not sure if I'm more impressed with JJ or the saw!!!

He sure man handled that large bar awfully well!

I've run some of Lee's big saws at GTGs, Macs, Dolmars, an imported Echo, and a MMWS ported 088, and they are not easy to horse around like that!

I'll be honest, I'm not even remotely interested in anything heavier/larger than a 660 or 395.

 

[TreeLife]

@jacob j. You're an impressive man to man handle such a machine, my hat is off to you sir.

 

[MustangMike]

I think the only trees that we have around here that would not be fully rotten after that amount of time are White Oak, Chestnut Oak and Black Locust.

 

[Brewz]

I cut this old ironbark up on Saturday
Had to rip it along each side and break in half to get the old termite pipe dirt out of it.
I recon it’s been on the ground longer than I’ve been alive.
Fresh razor sharp chain just spun on it and had to be forced down to actually cut.
Too hard for termites to eat
Too dense to rot.
Almost too hard to cut.
Made the 40t hydraulic splitter moan

 

[Brewz]

Here it is getting ripped in half
One side and she was blunt
Stihl 064 running stihl micro chisel chain

 

[Brewz]

Here is a friend of mine using his 395 I built to block up dry ironbark

 

[mdavlee]

I'll be honest, I'm not even remotely interested in anything heavier/larger than a 660 or 395.

You should have seen me and Dave cant racing with 36” bars at Lee’s place[emoji23]

 

[RI Chevy]

That was a good time Mike. Lots of laughs. [emoji1787][emoji106]

 

[MustangMike]

Yea, very entertaining … hopefully we will do it all again sometime!

 

[Bigmac]

I did not say they would not rot fast on the ground, but when used for barn siding they seem to last near forever! They also grow very slowly, so the only place in the State that we have any large ones are in the Adirondacks on State land. It is very rare to see one over 2' any place else.

My Aunt + Uncle's barn was well over 100 years old. They both passed and my cousin did not maintain the roof, so it eventually came down.

My cousin took some of the siding and started making antique picture frames for people, said the stuff was hard as a rock!

I wasn’t trying to sound like a jack wagon, I know every region is different, and the wood grows differently everywhere, even the same species. The coastal hemlock grow pretty fast here, in the mountains not so much like JJ said. Fir here can last year on the ground and not rot, when I was a kid my dad would cut old growth tops the had been on the grown for a decade plus, and would have a little rot but be super solid! Even some 4’ plus tops that were buried in the banks form the previous cutting were solid, its odd. The old grow tops were all over, there used to be a lot of big timber here, now there is still a lot of big spruce. That’s about the only chance to uses long bars now! Spruce can grow fast, but can also grow slow depending where it is, yet only be a few miles apart, have cut some they was 4’ and 150 years old and less than 5 miles away, another spruce 4’ was 75 years old, crazy wood!

 

[Brewz]

Years ago we had a bit of a race with stock saws under 40cc at a gtg
It was slightly painful haha
My Stihl 021 won easily and is now knows as the 021 Super Magnum.

 

[Deets066]

Years ago we had a bit of a race with stock saws under 40cc at a gtg
It was slightly painful haha
My Stihl 021 won easily and is now knows as the 021 Super Magnum.

We sometimes race a baby saw class, 45cc and under. Not usually many saws to run against, but still fun.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Here it is getting ripped in half
One side and she was blunt
Stihl 064 running stihl micro chisel chain

How long will a typical chain last in your hard wood?

Is that 63ps chain?

 

[Brewz]

How long will a typical chain last in your hard wood?

Is that 63ps chain?

longer than that but that timber was unusually hard and the tip likely touching into a dirt core in the log.
Was hard work to get the timber but worth it.
It burns soooo hot and a couple chunks will heat my 2 story house for hours.
But in good clean dry hardwood like that, a tank of fuel will have the chain going off the cut and needing to be filed

 

[RI Chevy]

Very nice Tony.
I really like those log racks. Really cool.

 

[Deets066]

We sometimes race a baby saw class, 45cc and under. Not usually many saws to run against, but still fun.

 

[Deets066]

This was a big part of it