Chris-PA
Where the Wild Things Are
The Chinasaw finally got a serious workout today. Friday on a clear day with no real wind a large white oak simply fell over, taking out a tulip tree and the power lines. Yesterday I cut and moved the tulip, mostly with my ported GZ4000 McCulloch clone (which ran great) along with the Earthquake. Here's the mess:
Today I bucked the oak. It was 34-36" at the base, and I started with the 25" Chinese bar and the loop of 75DP I bought for it. The saw ran flawlessly, without one hitch or hiccup. It had decent power for a 62cc saw pulling a buried 25" bar. Hot start was usually one pull.
In this picture if you look across the road you can see one that rolled away - oops!. It is a fairly steep hill. The thing started rolling, hit a stone and turned right for the road.
Eventually I touched the 75DP in the dirt and switched to the Oregon Power Match bar and a loop of full chisel. It cut a little faster for a bit but the bar oil hole clogged up like it usually does and I had to pull the bar and clean it. This is really annoying and I have to figure out if I can modify it to stop it. It's a D176 mount and for some reason it just plugs up very easily. The Chinese bar does not have this problem. Still, the saw was great, and I think maybe I'm past the endless tinkering and fixing and can actually use it as a tool. The light weight was a real help since my back is still recovering from a recent injury
Near as I can tell the roots of the oak were pretty rotten, at least on the up hill side, and it just let go. It appeared to be a big healthy tree otherwise. When I severed it from the root mass it did not settle back like they usually do, rather it moved toward the trunk. Partly because it was down hill, and partly I think because the roots were rotten.
I have a lot of work to do quartering those rounds and moving them out of there. I also had to spend a fair amount of time opening a path to get in there with the loader.
Today I bucked the oak. It was 34-36" at the base, and I started with the 25" Chinese bar and the loop of 75DP I bought for it. The saw ran flawlessly, without one hitch or hiccup. It had decent power for a 62cc saw pulling a buried 25" bar. Hot start was usually one pull.
In this picture if you look across the road you can see one that rolled away - oops!. It is a fairly steep hill. The thing started rolling, hit a stone and turned right for the road.
Eventually I touched the 75DP in the dirt and switched to the Oregon Power Match bar and a loop of full chisel. It cut a little faster for a bit but the bar oil hole clogged up like it usually does and I had to pull the bar and clean it. This is really annoying and I have to figure out if I can modify it to stop it. It's a D176 mount and for some reason it just plugs up very easily. The Chinese bar does not have this problem. Still, the saw was great, and I think maybe I'm past the endless tinkering and fixing and can actually use it as a tool. The light weight was a real help since my back is still recovering from a recent injury
Near as I can tell the roots of the oak were pretty rotten, at least on the up hill side, and it just let go. It appeared to be a big healthy tree otherwise. When I severed it from the root mass it did not settle back like they usually do, rather it moved toward the trunk. Partly because it was down hill, and partly I think because the roots were rotten.
I have a lot of work to do quartering those rounds and moving them out of there. I also had to spend a fair amount of time opening a path to get in there with the loader.
