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  1. Remle

    Best saw build under $1000 for firewood cutting saw enthusiast?

    IMO, that 70-85 cc range is perfect for an an all around saw. It’s powerful enough that you can do just about anything but bucking up huge trees or milling, but still light enough that you would choose to use it for a run of the mill job.
  2. Remle

    Safety vs. pro chain compare and questions

    I haven’t used that variety of safety chain before, but in general, I haven’t found safety chain to be as bad as people make it out to be. It’s not something I would opt for, but I don’t think it slows you down as much as people think it does. I think the biggest factor with it is that the...
  3. Remle

    Piltz

    Except he basically comes right out and describes exactly what he is selling. That’s why I think he’s more of a nut than a fraud. You read through the description of the product and it’s plain that he’s selling an otherwise stock MS180, with a new bar, chain, sprocket and dogs. It all adds...
  4. Remle

    Piltz

    With Piltz, I kind of get the vibe that he’s more of an oddball iconoclast than a snake oil salesman. I’ve read some of his posts online and he really seems to believe what he’s peddling. It’s not my cup of tea. Personally, I’d spend way too much to acquire a 10 cube Stihl, not because I have...
  5. Remle

    Piltz

    Here’s the interesting thing about Piltz. He’ll post stuff about the good ol days, cutting down old growth cedar in the same paragraph he’s promoting an MS180 with a 24” bar.
  6. Remle

    Any drawbacks to carbide chain

    Pickup a carbide circular saw blade. They’re cheap and common and will give you a taste of what their performance is like. They’re way tougher than regular steel, but they’re not invincible and they don’t cut as well as sharp steel. You can still break off teeth and ruin carbide blades, but...
  7. Remle

    Piltz

    His whole “hotsaw” schtick and the way he defends and promotes it is just bizarre. Small saws with long bars and big dogs are about as far from being a hotsaw as you can get. That said however, he seems to be an honest seller when it comes to other products. I’ve bought chain from him...
  8. Remle

    Chinese orders delayed

    It’s obviously way worse than they are letting on. You don’t lock down mega-cities and build emergency hospitals with thousands of beds for a disease that has only killed a few hundred people and required the hospitalization of a few thousand. I suspect that if you multiply the reported...
  9. Remle

    Where do yall see vintage saw prices at in 20 years?

    In a way, those urban environments produce even more tree work. There are 10’s of thousands of big trees on urban lots around here and taking them down or thinning them out means there will be a lot of tree work for the foreseeable future. It might not be logging the old growth like it was 50...
  10. Remle

    Lightweight Bar

    Personally I’ve never been bothered by the weight of bars 20” or less. The weight is close enough to the saw that it doesn’t feel unwieldy or awkward. On a 32” bar however the difference is night and day. For anything from 24-36” I definitely want a lightweight bar. Longer than 36” and...
  11. Remle

    Where do yall see vintage saw prices at in 20 years?

    I’m thinking there are certain saws that will continue to appreciate in value, namely the really big Stihls, Macs and Huskies, but with the availability of clone saws I wouldn’t want to bet on it. Still, I don’t see the price of 125’s or 090’s going down in the next 20 years. I love the old...
  12. Remle

    Where do yall see vintage saw prices at in 20 years?

    The real problem for collectors is that these days the decent stuff tends to go straight to eBay and never even ends up on display.
  13. Remle

    Where do yall see vintage saw prices at in 20 years?

    Dude, it’s a real problem. Haven’t you ever heard of a hacksaw?
  14. Remle

    Where do yall see vintage saw prices at in 20 years?

    They’re a bunch of elderly women that run the shop and I’m positive that there’s a ton of stuff going through there that they don’t know the value of or the market for. Then again, the shop has been operating for decades and they seem to be savvy enough to keep it going. That’s what you can...
  15. Remle

    Bringing saws back to life

    Tear apart the carb, clean everything as best you can and then try to tune it. If you can get it running decent, then see if it’s worth it to replace any parts. I’d drain the gas, use some good, non-ethanol gas, change the plug, clean the air filter and then see how it does. If it’s a...
  16. Remle

    Where do yall see vintage saw prices at in 20 years?

    It all depends on how much interest the next couple of generations have in vintage saws. I’m guessing most of us on this forum are 40+. 20 years from now a lot of us will be gone and many will not be cutting a lot of wood. If there are millions of millennials with our same interest in saws...
  17. Remle

    Why Isnt It Sold?

    To me, the bottom line is, if it’s not a pro saw, I’m only interested in it at a bargain basement price. I’m just not going to use it when I’ve got half a dozen better saws ready to go and I don’t want to go to the trouble of driving somewhere, determining that it’s not a worn out POS...
  18. Remle

    Gettin’ greedy - longer bar or larger sprocket?

    Pretty much all of my wood cutting is downed trees on the ground that need to be limbed as well as bucked. There’s hardly any oak, but a fair amount of madrona and some alder and maple. I find a 28” bar means less bending over and otherwise doesn’t slow me down. The 32” forester bar I used...
  19. Remle

    Gettin’ greedy - longer bar or larger sprocket?

    I’ve got both a 72cc saw with a 28” bar and a 76cc saw with a 28” bar, both running .404 chain and they both seem to do alright. No way would I want to run them with 20” bars.
  20. Remle

    What’s your oddball bar size?

    I think a 20” bar is one of those jack of all trades master of none bars. For small work cleaning up downed limbs and the like it’s more than you need. For bigger work you frequently need to cut from both sides. It’s too short to limb things standing up and too long to be handy working up...
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