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Ah!!............Gypo, again your verbage is spot on....well said!!

Okay John that explains everything........Its good you brought this out in the open so we can all rest easy now...........I have a buddy that likes to leave posts all around the tree so it wont settle.........when it leaves the stump there are usually still three posts holding and its strings...

Every once in a while a wedgie will get you out of an undercut but not very often......................If Gypo would have just tied that bar off to his back belt loop he could have easily removed it from that tree as he was running after that blond...............Wade

Crofter, I dont know what the mechanical pros/cons would be? It sure is nice to have when you do things like Hypo I mean Gypo does.............When my dad taught me how to cut he taught me how to stump jump and other variations...........I used to get stuck like that 2-3 times a week for the...

Oh I see, the wind and a hollow tree caused you to get pinched........hmmmmm! very suspcious I have heard these excuses before........... mostly from myself as I cuss and slip and slide my way back across the bank to get my axe and wedges.......if I am so lucky to be able to get unstuck that...

John, Oh man been there done that!! Maybe if you would have had that old KD88 attached to the other end of that bar you could have kept that tree from settiling down like that.............you've been running too many saws........... losing familiarity with each individual saws ability to...

Yeah I am done with it too...............thank goodness!!! That's the first time I have ever lashed out at somebody on this site that way..................I hope its the last..........Good weekend to all, Wade

440s were great when they came out but that's been a long time ago..........I have had some hair raising experiences on those 440s always concerning the brakes......... my dad had one and it was handy, but after you have ran other newer bigger skidders you'll want nothing to do with...

The ear candles work I have used them for years......... If it were me though I would waterpik my ears first then use the candles every three or four months to keep them clean. I cut alot of timber and my ears get really dirty I bought a waterpik to keep my ears clean. But I still use the...

The 540s I have been around have always been depenable machines.........moving 12-1500 bft a skid and make quick time doing it..........and for the most part pretty easy on fuel............not the most stable machine in the woods though when you get off the beaten path......winches are the only...

Hey Ryan I run a 508 Cat..........nice skidder automatic 3 speed on the column......has great brakes and is dependable. The winch is an in house winch made by cat and in my opion is junk.........I would like very much to find a good used allied winch for it somewhere in the near...

How about a 508 Cat?........... They get around pretty good in the woods.....Wade

There really isn't much left.......... most of whats left is state or nationally owned and protected from the likes of us. You always stumble on to something anywhere you go but pickings are getting slim around here unless you like cutting low grade..............happy sawing, Wade

Ryan, My father owns some hunting ground down in Lewis County. He is in pretty tight with the surrounding land owners. He stumbled on to a big piece of timber and was able to come up with enough financial backing to buy it ground and all. Its roughly 500 acres......probably 350 of it will...

Who really knows???? Everybody seems to have there own opion I guess if your like me you just find your nitch and go with it. I have been around this business all my life and I didn't learn how to sharpen because I was smart........ I learned from the standpoint that if your saw aint sharp it...

You know I have went through half dozen of the 046s and had the same problem with a couple of them...........but it was always the fuel tank vent........... saw dust would build up.......I use to run those maxflow filters and the tank vent cover would always get knocked off because the case...

Ryan I live along the Ohio River North of Parkersburg about twenty miles in a little town called St Marys. My wife and I are getting ready to head down to KY next week to look for a place to live in the Flemingsburg area. At this point it looks like when I get down their I may never come...

Ever scince I joined this site last year I have found myself every evening spending more and more time getting my chain ready for the next days cutting. I spend 2-3 minutes a tooth just making it so-so making sure everything looks just right. I have also found myself raking up the shavings from...

I like to use two different types of wedges, I use a hard head which is a plastic wedge with a steel shank, I also use K&H all plastic, very durable wedge. When felling I set the leaning side with the K&H and drive'er over with the Hardhead. When I am bucking up in the landing I use the K&H(all...

I had one..... ran it for years it was a good saw.......Wade