Trees you've cut

[singinwoodwackr]

I like this echo but its really not suited to timber this size.


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However, its running very rich. I dont have a tuning tool for it. It didn't come with one, which is frustrating. It came with a chainsaw wrench and an Allen key tool but not a carb tool. Annoying.

Id love to see how it cuts after being leaned out a bit.

Muffler mod and a slight timing advance help quite a bit.

 

[EFSM]

I like this echo but its really not suited to timber this size.


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However, its running very rich. I dont have a tuning tool for it. It didn't come with one, which is frustrating. It came with a chainsaw wrench and an Allen key tool but not a carb tool. Annoying.

Id love to see how it cuts after being leaned out a bit.

The red needle limiters have a slot in for a flat screwdriver, but that will give you only 1/4 turn of adjustment. Use a thin drywall screw or similar, thread it into the cap and pull it out. The limiter must be turned CCW the whole way before being pulled out.

 

[EFSM]

I like this echo but its really not suited to timber this size.


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However, its running very rich. I dont have a tuning tool for it. It didn't come with one, which is frustrating. It came with a chainsaw wrench and an Allen key tool but not a carb tool. Annoying.

Id love to see how it cuts after being leaned out a bit.

Also, what chain are you running?

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

The red needle limiters have a slot in for a flat screwdriver, but that will give you only 1/4 turn of adjustment. Use a thin drywall screw or similar, thread it into the cap and pull it out. The limiter must be turned CCW the whole way before being pulled out.

There is no limiter caps on this.
I need some round splined tool to tune.

Also, what chain are you running?

Idk. Whatever chain it came with. Echos own chain? Or oregon?
It was horrid aggressive out of the box. Ive sharpened it twice without touching the rakers and it still feels jumpy.

 

[EFSM]

There is no limiter caps on this.
I need some round splined tool to tune.

Idk. Whatever chain it came with. Echos own chain? Or oregon?
It was horrid aggressive out of the box. Ive sharpened it twice without touching the rakers and it still feels jumpy.

Then this carb is different than US models. As far as the chain goes, they sell the saw with .325 nano or 3/8 LP.

 

[davidwyby]

@Crocky28 ?

 

[davidwyby]

Lp is jumpy

 

[Crocky28]

Then this carb is different than US models. As far as the chain goes, they sell the saw with .325 nano or 3/8 LP.

Muffler mod will wake it right up. The difference is amazing. I wouldn’t advance the timing they don’t need it.

The 3/8 is horrible on them. It just jumps about. You want to convert it to 1/4. It’s much smoother. If you don’t want 1/4 then the .325 nano is good. Both much better than the 3/8.

I have 1/4 conversion kits in my website along with modded mufflers. if you’re interested.

 

[Crocky28]

It’s a Single D screwdriver you need for the carb.

 

[EFSM]

It’s a Single D screwdriver you need for the carb.

Echo uses that only on trimmers, other shafted tools, and blowers in the US.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Muffler mod will wake it right up. The difference is amazing. I wouldn’t advance the timing they don’t need it.

The 3/8 is horrible on them. It just jumps about. You want to convert it to 1/4. It’s much smoother. If you don’t want 1/4 then the .325 nano is good. Both much better than the 3/8.

I have 1/4 conversion kits in my website along with modded mufflers. if you’re interested.

Yeah i ordered the 1/4 version of the saw but they sent the 3/8 version.
What's your web address?

It’s a Single D screwdriver you need for the carb.

Indeed it is but I dont have one.
Friend has one, I used it to tube the saw the other day. Much better now.

 

[Crocky28]

Yeah i ordered the 1/4 version of the saw but they sent the 3/8 version.
What's your web address?

Indeed it is but I dont have one.
Friend has one, I used it to tube the saw the other day. Much better now.

It’s customsaws.com

You can get the single D screwdriver from aliexpress cheap. Without having to buy a set of them.

 

[Hoser]

Fence row elms, this one really wanted to go towards the neighbors field/fence.
too soft for a tractor to push so banged away, should have gutted it
20” bar ms400

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Been doing a lot of line clearance lately so no fun trees to post.

Reduced this hornbeam last weekend.
It was growing at 90°.
The customer didn't want to cut it at all but it was red rotten at the butt and the very end branches were practically up against the house.







Apparently people used to take all wedding photographs and such in front of this tree.

I reduced it back to the point that it won't reach the house if it fails.





Back to the line clearance.
We had a very close call involving bare low voltage lines, a polesaw and an idiot.
I posted about this particular man in one of the off topic threads.
He's got some mental condition, not sure which one.
He's an okay sort of lad but he's red raw useless, and a major liability.
Its not really fair on us having him around because of how much he fcuks things up.
Its also not fair on him being around us with how often he gets a shouting at.
Obviously its not really right to be roaring and cursing at someone who's obviously away with the fairies but he does genuinely reduce our life expectancy even more than its already been reduced by doing this kind of work to begin with.

This particular incident was the perfect example.
We were cutting under and around bare LV lines as already stated.
2 meters is the required clearance.
There was an ash tree that I pole sawed off the lower regrowth limbs and left the higher regrowth for the fibreglass rods.
The tree was well within striking distance of the lines so I didn't chance taking off big bits.
Bare in mind I dont shy away from doing questionable things around power lines.
However, this tree was obviously NOT for felling.
Anyways, I continued cutting away at the next tree along from it expecting sine of the lads would rod the higher branches that id left.
A mi use later I heard sawing coming from right behind me.
I turned around and lo and behold there was the clown himself using the polesaw at head height to fell the entire tree I was after walking away from.
I roared and ran like fcuk.
He was already nearly done his back cut by the time id noticed what was at.
The tree barely moved 2 feet before it collided with the lines.
It pushed against one line and miraculously slid off it just before it clashed with the second line.
Both lines started jumping around like mad.
The poles at either end of the span were moving violently as well.
The lines in the next few spans were moving too.
He hadn't even moved away from the tree as it fell.
In fact, he was trapped by a lower branch that had fallen against him, pinning him in place.
He didn't even seem to care when the three of us started roaring at him.
He nearly got us killed, knocked a housing estate out of power and if anyone seen it he could have gotten the whole company stood down.
Idk how he's still employed. And this us not his first or most severe fcuk up. I think the company are getting some grant to employ him.
Heres the tree, look how far the tops protruding beyond the lines.

 

[davidwyby]

Might not want to past that publicly

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Big western red cedar beside a house.
There was also an old shed right below the far side of the tree that you can't see in this pic.





3 stems.
1 of them very big and co dominant with another two big leaders growing out of it lower down.

I climbed one stem nearest the house, de limbed it, topped it and chunked down the timber.





Another stem could then be felled out into the field.
One of the lower leaders on the main codominant stem had to be delimbed and topped.
I also removed a lot of the back weighted limbs off the tree. I was able to cut the big heavy limbs from the middle section of the tree and let them roll onto and off the lowest limbs. That way they cleared the old shed directly below the tree.

This is what was left when I had enough back weight out of the tree and felt confident enough to fell it.





We pulled it with the 3 ton digger.

I cut a high stump because I didn't trust the timber where those two stems were growing out of the stump. The grain could be going any which way which would effect how the hinge works.






All finished.
These customers won't be cold next winter.
They said they might get me to cut a chair into the stump at a later date.

 

[ZERO]

Left USA EPA ported by Kevin @huskihl
Right UK non EPA ported by Mark @Crocky28

D style is needed, Mark was nice enough to include one.