I like to take pictures, at least as much as I like to split wood. Last year alone I snapped over 10,000 pictures with my Canon SX100 IS.
I must admit, as long as I can get one saw to run long enough to cut some wood for splitting, I'm happy! In between milking the cows and everything else, and as little as I actually like running a saw, I don't spend any time working on them unless absolutely necessary to get one running again.
The saw in the video above always runs too rich. The one that now runs too lean was my favorite saw because it ran so much better, until it developed the problem. Then I started using the rich one. When I first bought it from the neighbor, it didn't even have power enough to pull the chain through the wood.
I ripped the screen out of the muffler:
Then I put my worst worn out air filter on it, because it still ran too rich with a filter that had all the "fuzz" yet:
Now it runs at least as good as you see in the video above. Before that it would kill all the mosquitoes in the woods and cut nothing.
Like I mentioned before, I am no good at sharpening chain. Never could do it with a file. Sometimes I would screw it up so bad that the chain would cut so crooked it would wedge itself in a log! Imagine that! Ha ha! No kidding. I'm so bad that I never even carry a file in the woods with me. When the chain gets dull, I go home. Here's the tools that I use now for sharpening my chain, and I can do a better job with them, at least good enough to make firewood from trees:
And here's a picture of my current chain:
I have thought about buying a new saw, but money is always a big issue. The one I had my eye on was a Stihl 250 because it's small and light like my 026 saws. That's important to me, since my main woods vehicle is my ATV. The smaller and lighter the better. But, when I was looking at the 250 I noticed the 290 is only $20 more. So, even though the 290 is bigger and heavier, for only 20 bucks more it's a lot more saw. Not that it matters because I won't be able to buy a new one anyway unless it's an emergency, like when the old "rich runner" conks out!