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On the 550 XP Mk II, didn’t Husqy essentially take a step back on the power:weight ratio as compared to the Mk I ? I recall a time when I was younger when Husqvarna couldn’t wait to brag about their newest designs and the power:weight ratio they had just achieved. I don’t pick up their...

I had a several months long bad time with an M-Tronic saw also because of a dealer, which was a farm tractor dealer, not a saw shop. Because of my purchase, they had to acquire the software suite needed to figure out what was happening - a full 5 years after the introduction of M-Tronic - “no...

Bumping this thread to give a small review and pass along one small tip that may help another user. I was finally able to put the lopper head to use this spring, cutting Populus spp. branches on seed collecting work. At 21’ the lopper head was probably still easier to use than my 14’ wooden...

I can also note this, about these: if memory serves, the top cover was re-designed - heightened - to improve internal cooling. The first 550s could have a problem with vapor lock on a hot day. The 562 went through the same thing. So the shorter covers have that residual user complaint. I...

Those are originals? Not Mark IIs ? I own and operate 2 of the Mk I / original; they are perfect for my particular/unusual cutting work. The first one has over 1000 hours on it now. When the Mk II came out I hunted out one of the last originals available new right then. A friend of mine who...

Thanks guys. Makes sense.

It looks like this right now: I did notice today that’s what the picture on the box looks like, so I guess the UV accumulation isn’t there yet. I think the date stamped in the plastic is right close to the 5 year point. Still can’t find anything online that explains what it will look...

How does that sticker actually work, as in when the UV exposure time makes the sticker change - it changes to what color? I can’t find any copy of a user manual explaining this on Husqvarna’s website.

I hope this has been said, didn’t read the whole thread. When the mass starts to lift I quit cutting, pull the saw out of the cut, and proceed along my previously planned/cleared escape route at a 45 degree angle back away from the line of fall. So what I am looking at as the fall proceeds is...

Nowhere does that article actually correctly identify the species that was modified. “Poplar” could be “Yellow” / “Tulip” Poplar = Liriodendron tulipifera in the Latin binomial. In the northern half of the country, “Poplar” can refer to 2 members of the Populus genera, P. tremuloides...

Thanks! It has been a long time since I saw a square one.

Mostly out of morbid curiosity, just to discover likely year range of manufacture. Just spent a long time on the phone explaining the realities to a friend that wants to turn 100 blow-down logs into a cabin. I don’t need any comments on that. Am trying to understand the realities of his...

I can pass along some things I have learned and observed recently. I live in NW lower MI, about 200 miles from where EAB likely first began to spread, 20 years ago. The active “front” reached us quickly and was particularly devastating on the Green & Black Ash in riparian corridors where they...

I am still amazed, a few years down the road now, with an experience I had buying a saw at a hardware store after my usual dealer repeatedly dropped the ball on getting in the model I wanted, while I was on a job, and more long story yaddayaddayadda. The friendly local hardware store had one...

I live where EAB has been around for a long time as the origin point is less than 200 miles away. A couple years ago now I had to work on a long dead Ash that was imminently possibly going to damage a shop building I was renting; my elderly landlord no longer had the initiative to do anything...

I would probably really enjoy this. I work in the Great Lakes states species mix in “young age management,” which a friend of mine calls “the bastard step-child of the Forestry business.” The next rotation is someone else’s problem, so very few care about what is going to be in that rotation.

Hitting something will result in the only time I take a chain to a shop for a sharpening on a grinder. I don’t try to take each tooth ‘all the way back’ to match the damage, but do have the grinder run twice to take off a significant amount to get closer to equal. After two runs the chain will...

The important part is the blade on top - still Silky. Just a lot of confusion on the model names trying to discuss these, including with some local friends who already own one or are also considering this purchase. I will never give up my aluminum Bahco stuff, I know that.

What dulls chains is often what’s on the outside edge of the wood. So dirty bark wet/green wood can sometimes dull a chain more than clean dry wood. Different answers with different species.

The 2 models from Notch really are the only 2 aluminum 20’ range pole saws for sale in the USA right now. The model names used by Silky are now only used for the blades on the poles from Notch. There might be some Hayate poles left in a dealer inventory somewhere, but it doesn’t appear Silky...