FINALY cut some wood............. "LIKE BUTTAH" !

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Big Donnie Brasco

Feeling the Heat
May 29, 2012
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East Central Kansas
Gotta keep it short, she's beckoning me back outside to make some more chips!

This thing just SLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDES on through the logs, and I just let the weight of the saw and the pulling action do all the work!

Considering I NEVER started or ran a saw before I am pretty proud!

This sweet machine started after only a few pulls after being shipped DRY, then every warm start was one pull, and that is using 40:1 with the crap 91 octain stuff.



 
Congrats! A good pro saw is extra dangerous because it's soooo easy to become addicted. We'll notify the neighbors that no tree is safe within a 500 yard radius. :)

FYI, rou can run 50:1 with good 2-cycle oil. If you ran it "out of the box," I'd consider taking it to a good Stihl shop to get it tuned properly or tune it yourself.

And if you haven't seen them yet, watch the Stihl chainsaw videos. Great for n00bs:
http://www.stihlusa.com/information/videos/#chain-saw-safety-ope
 
With apologies to Ray Charles.

Oh, it's filing time again, you need to sharpen
I can see that far away look in your eyes
I can tell by the way it's making sawdust
That it won't be long before it's filing time.

Nice work ya done there. Keep enjoying that bad boy.
 
Now bring them rakers down just a tick 35 degree on the angle! ;)
 
Now your addicted.
You had your chance, but now you made chips fly & experienced the thrill.
We tried to tell you.

Look out hedge, Donnie has you in his sights ;)
 
Looks good Don and nice saw that can handle most anything! Nothing wrong with 91 octane fuel in a chainsaw BTW it is what Stihl recommends using..

Ray
 
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Guys...just because Donnie bought an 036 doesn't mean he's addicted.

oh wait...he named it "Dexter..." nevermind. ;)
Enjoy that bad boy, Brasco!
 
Great job on getting the right saw and cutting the wood, I'd hate to be your neighbors being that close..... Ha just kidding, enjoy, do you have a fire pit near by? If not, you better work on one, you need to burn any scrap, dust, uglies, ect, get going and be safe...
 
Ps. Do you know what you are cutting there?
 
Now your rockin, let the chips fly :cool:
 
good equipment will all ways help to make a job much easier . just remember wear the safety gear and take plenty of breaks and if filling drowsy -tired or any thing stop completly ... your time is your own and you will all ways find more of it ... cheers have fun .
 
Ps. Do you know what you are cutting there?



I didn't have my glasses on but it LOOKED like logs! ;)


I know I had a lot of hackberry, but other that that I think maybe some maple, and something that smelled like a Pig farm on the inside!! :eek:

I am just a little sore today!
 
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I know I had a lot of hackberry, but other that that I think maybe some maple, and something that smelled like a Pig farm on the inside!! :eek:


Most around here mis-identify hackberry as elm. Even had one arborist tell me my big hackberry is an elm. :rolleyes:

Dunno what could smell like a pig farm, but some swamp oaks smell like piss. ;sick
 
Glad it's running good for you... (Knew it would ;))

After your 40:1 is gone, just run 50:1 (I told him to run 40:1 for the break in)

Keep it maintained, and chain sharp, and it will last long time.
 
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I've run into a few that made me think that I was in a cow pasture, and they were all pin oak. My understanding is that a fungus causes this.

Most oak smells wonderful to me! Like oak boards at the lumber yard.

You are right.....around here, we do not differentiate much between a pin and a northern red, but what I have been cutting is pin and it smells like poo.
 
Told ya you were gonna like that saw.;)

Now that you have it in your hands with a little run time - do you still think you need a little saw??
 
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