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  1. VikingDrive

    Chain sharpening

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjbg_Rfka58
  2. VikingDrive

    Big dawgs for my MS211

    They are good. I like your new spikes, Bud. Never stop dreaming and doing. "Why a V8 chainsaw," or "Why a Nuclear-Powered submarine?" many will ask. Because this is the United States of America, that's why. There has never been a place like her before. There is no other place like her...
  3. VikingDrive

    Does anyone like the 2012/2013 winter forcast?

    Somebody send a couple hundred centimeters of that over here. We'll send you twenty Celsiuses.
  4. VikingDrive

    Let's Hear it for the MS044/440!

    Yes and good marketing strategy on the part of those wily Germans. Was a couple of them standing around in their lab coats going, "Yeah, let's name this badass saw after Dirty Harry's gun. Call it a 44 Magnum. The Americans will buy it." Then years later... "That went well, now let's call it a...
  5. VikingDrive

    Modding The MS200T

    There is something to be said for a saw that will run every time you pull the starter and one with the power and cutting speed to fly through the cut in certain situations. At times in a tree the cut has to be made without hinging the limb over. I don't think they would be still developing more...
  6. VikingDrive

    Bought New Saw Today MS660 Magnum

    I showed my wife, and she goes, "Wow that saw is big." And I was thinking, "Well it's a 660 with a 36" ES. WV BartMan's wife is about 5'1" or 2". Hey you are 5'2" and we have one of those saws....."
  7. VikingDrive

    stihl 440 or 441?

    John Riggins vs. Marshall Faulk
  8. VikingDrive

    stihl 440 or 441?

    I got it both- 044 and 441. They're like an old Power Wagon and a new Ram. The heft is there, but not the density. You can pass up a gas station, but not always. It has that old customary Dodgey feel to it though more brittle and smooth without the square log wagon bullet-proofey hardness of...
  9. VikingDrive

    Bought New Saw Today MS660 Magnum

    It's like they had a new baby. Will somebody get me a cigar? It's a Stihl!
  10. VikingDrive

    stihl 440 or 441?

    Do you want an F250 or a Hemi Durango?
  11. VikingDrive

    Woodland pro pistons

    Yeah and how about USA mufflers that already line up with the gaskets and flow instead of gag. All this backpressure is making me squint.
  12. VikingDrive

    Stihl 026, bars, sprockets, and getting it right...

    Yep. and with RSC chain and rakers about .028. It will flip chip. 026 is a sweet saw.
  13. VikingDrive

    Woodland pro pistons

    I'm using Meteor sets in my saws when we employ aftermarket parts. The Italians are good machinists. And the women....
  14. VikingDrive

    Woodland pro pistons

    Taiwan quality level is higher than China in many respects where machining is concerned. I'm from generations of hardcore American workers. Still, I won't deny the level of quality in manufacturing in both mainline China and Taiwan has vastly improved in just the last few years.
  15. VikingDrive

    Chainsaw NDE's

    What gets me is that split second you get before and after a catastrophe when you know for sure you can't do this-then you do it-then think, " wish I wouldn't have one that" . How come we are never as highly cognizant of any other split second in life?
  16. VikingDrive

    Terms and phrases that only tree workers use

    Tie one on and knock off a piece.
  17. VikingDrive

    Terms and phrases that only tree workers use

    Corona? No that is also Cerveza. Terminal Bud? No. = (Last beer in the fridge; Cerveza again.) Prune--no you do that once now then some more when you are old. I bet you can't find something in tree care that isn't in some other walk of life. Without trees there wouldn't be life.
  18. VikingDrive

    026???

    The 026 was 48.7 cc displacement. The MS260 is 50.2 cc like its newer cousin.
  19. VikingDrive

    back cut

    They wasn't concerned with selling that log. Look whether the top or bottom of a face cut is parallel to the ground and you can tell if the faller was trying to maximize the log or make his work easier at the stump. Keeping the butt square wastes less of the main log. I like a round butt, though...
  20. VikingDrive

    Dead Oak

    Dried moss, spores or a related mold. Wood also turns gray--esp. oak. Get ready to have the runs for a couple of days if that's not your usual bit.
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