My, my, my, chill out 056 kid and go buy yourself a sense of humour. But snotty-nosed stihlkickin, you can go kiss my ass.
Well this thread has gone a strange direction hasn't it?
LMAO... it sure has...
Gary
I wanna see a video of any 60-75cc saw cutting say, a 16 inch log with an 18" B&C and then a 25" B&C, same type of full comp chain on both. My personal experience is that there is no real difference, and in fact the longer bar chain stays sharper longer. Then add a video of dropping a 24 inch tree with both. The 25 inch bar is faster being able to cut from one side. BTDT.
You guys back east have shrimpy bar disease. And some grand illusion that you have all the hardwood species and all we have is balsa wood.
OK,
Just for the new guys here, and for those still scratching your grapes wondering WTF?
Stihl 009= 24" bar PNW.
4" Bar in hardwoods east of the Missouri river.
Saw will run backwards south of the equator, so reverse chain.
Long bars on 60cc Saws are great for limbing west of the Missouri river.
East of the river, increased gravity doubles thier weight.
See. It's simple once ya look at the details.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
You should be talking about your big 4'+ pnw monsters...
Well, the easterners would not understand a 48+" DBH tree... no point of reference. I have a grove 4+' DBH redwoods here along the driveway.
But that is a good point I guess. Add a video trying to fall a 48" DBH tree with an 18" east coast LONGBAR...
OK,
Just for the new guys here, and for those still scratching your grapes wondering WTF?
Stihl 009= 24" bar PNW.
4" Bar in hardwoods east of the Missouri river.
Saw will run backwards south of the equator, so reverse chain.
Long bars on 60cc Saws are great for limbing west of the Missouri river.
East of the river, increased gravity doubles thier weight.
See. It's simple once ya look at the details.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
i live in oregon. here there is about 3 main types of wood that people use for firewood. you got ur fir, alder and maple, the last two being hardwoods. fir is a well known softwood, and a hopped up saw has no problem boring threw it. but then again, alder is prolly the softest wood ive ever cut, takes me half as long to saw threw a log in alder than fir. but alder is a hardwood. so it really depends on the species of the soft\hardwood.
http://www.sizes.com/units/janka.htm Found this interesting. Looks like our soft Pacific Madrone fits right in with the oaks for hardness,harder than most. The white Oak we where cuttin down in Oregon beats lotta other oaks as well. Sure don't have any "real" hard woods out here.
Well this thread has gone a strange direction hasn't it?
http://www.sizes.com/units/janka.htm Found this interesting. Looks like our soft Pacific Madrone fits right in with the oaks for hardness,harder than most. The white Oak we where cuttin down in Oregon beats lotta other oaks as well. Sure don't have any "real" hard woods out here.
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