What The "Pros" (fallers) Are Wearing To Work and Saw Choice

[ChrisF]

I see. In my little corner of the world, the bars aren't as long as what you guys roll with, so I haven't really seen the phenomena in the same way as in these pictures. Becomes a lot more pronounced with a loose chain on a 32 inch bar than it does on an 18 incher.

 

[Burvol]

Is that how you bent your ES bar?.....

Now we know for sure you are a fag. Thanks for the clarification

 

[dancan]

Nice pics slowp !
Could you get a few close up pics of the gear and stuff hanging from the suspenders ?
I see some west coast ideas that look like they'll work on the right coast !
I looked at those pictures a second time , those trees look a little small (are you sure he's not on the east coast ? ) a 361 with a 16" bar would be plenty of saw to take care of that stuff !

 

[jeepyfz450]

This I do not understand. Back in the caveman days, when I ran a Mac on a thinning crew, the saw would run best with a loose chain. If I threw the chain, no biggie, it went back on and I got back to work. Now, fast forward to the Barbie Saw and Twinkle. If I throw a chain using them, I have to put on a different chain because those shark fin things get messed up and the chain will not go back into the bar groove. Later, I have to find the reading glasses and fire up the dremel or use a regular file, and smooth them up.

I have more videos but I need to go make cookies--the eating kind. :greenchainsaw:

I know what your saying i hate it when you throw a chain and one or 2 links get dingers in them.

 

[Burvol]

This I do not understand. Back in the caveman days, when I ran a Mac on a thinning crew, the saw would run best with a loose chain. If I threw the chain, no biggie, it went back on and I got back to work. Now, fast forward to the Barbie Saw and Twinkle. If I throw a chain using them, I have to put on a different chain because those shark fin things get messed up and the chain will not go back into the bar groove. Later, I have to find the reading glasses and fire up the dremel or use a regular file, and smooth them up.

I have more videos but I need to go make cookies--the eating kind. :greenchainsaw:

Yes, you want to see damage, try an 8 tooth and throw chains! F some stuff up. Sometimes drivers (shark fin LOL) get dinged up, sometimes not, depends on if the chain got tossed away from the sprocket or not.

 

[Zombiechopper]

Now we know for sure you are a fag. Thanks for the clarification

oh yeah baby! new sig line for me

 

[056kid]

laziness.

that, and pro loggers don't get no respect till they get some scars from thrown chains. once they have enough scars to get respect they can run em properly



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Scars from thrown chains??? **** man, im wayyy to quick to be getting hit by thrown chains...

 

[pgg]

Several reasons, new chain stretches, enough kick backs and the chain gets loose, you might not have your wrench.

When the chain is loose like that and you throw it, you can usually fenagle it back on with minimal effort, you might have to do some beating with shorter bars. Its really just somthing that happens as the day goes on. Me myself dosent like to stop to fool with nuts and screwdrivers to tighten it when im groovin either. Let the bastard come off, then Il take 2 to fix it...

Load of bollocks, only lazy greenhorns run over-loose chains and don't have a scrench. The greenhorns run blunt chains and don't carry a file either, they're the ones always annoying the experienced guys, forever clambering around and asking to get cut out, needing all their hangups bowled over, or just generally making a f***g nuisance of themselves

 

[slowp]

I am your typical Whiteman, almost everything in nature attacks me, Yellowjackets will go 500 yards out of their way, just to pester me. So I sallied forth fairly well amoured, long sleeves, tall boots, gloves, sturdy trousers and when cutting brush or slashing I had knee length chaps on. It's not just the bugs, vegetation missed no chances, the bitey/stickery, the mildly poisonous, the trippy/grabbies. Slash from previous victims exacting revenge is right up there, I hate sticks. Standing timber, dead or alive will often thwart your efforts, sometimes by shedding various items, often enough just by how they stand. Before I wander off any farther, I didn't like carrying anything on a belt, left it all in a Korean War relic pack, I just dragged it between trees.

Usually, the oil and gas are with the shovel, out of the way. This guy is of a different fashion than most around here, but to each his own. He put down trees, they went where they were supposed to, and he went home OK. He's been cutting since 1982, and said he started in the Mt St Helens salvage fun.

I tripped and almost fell into a healthy devil's club thicket. That is also growing in the lower part of the unit.

 

[Burvol]

Nice pics slowp !
Could you get a few close up pics of the gear and stuff hanging from the suspenders ?
I see some west coast ideas that look like they'll work on the right coast !
I looked at those pictures a second time , those trees look a little small (are you sure he's not on the east coast ? ) a 361 with a 16" bar would be plenty of saw to take care of that stuff !

That's what you think, but when timber has height to it at small diameter it is a different game. You have to be able to keep up with it. But ya, he was long butting a small stick for sure.

 

[056kid]

Is that how you bent your ES bar?.....

No, the united postal service bent my es bar...

 

[Burvol]

oh yeah baby! new sig line for me

Glad you liked it sweets

 

[mdavlee]

Thrown chains suck on longer bars. I had to file twice the other day cutting brush because of dinged up drive links. I had 8 the first time and 5 the second.

 

[slowp]

Nice pics slowp !
Could you get a few close up pics of the gear and stuff hanging from the suspenders ?
I see some west coast ideas that look like they'll work on the right coast !
I looked at those pictures a second time , those trees look a little small (are you sure he's not on the east coast ? ) a 361 with a 16" bar would be plenty of saw to take care of that stuff !

It is a thinning. The big ones were taken out with a clearcut in the 1950s? The stumps with springboard holes in them are all over the unit and will be a pain for the rigging crew when yarding starts.

I didn't have a lot of time, I have work to do and happened to shoot video when he was in smaller stuff. The average diameter is 15 inches, just what the mills around here want.

That long bar allows one to stand a long ways away when one needs to. I like that. You know all the reasons. Now I really have to go bake some cookies.

 

[056kid]

This I do not understand. Back in the caveman days, when I ran a Mac on a thinning crew, the saw would run best with a loose chain. If I threw the chain, no biggie, it went back on and I got back to work. Now, fast forward to the Barbie Saw and Twinkle. If I throw a chain using them, I have to put on a different chain because those shark fin things get messed up and the chain will not go back into the bar groove. Later, I have to find the reading glasses and fire up the dremel or use a regular file, and smooth them up.

I have more videos but I need to go make cookies--the eating kind. :greenchainsaw:

they do get banged up sometimes. then you just gotta do some bending on the chain while its still off the bar. this happens most when you drop a chain in the wood, its happened to me countless times backbaring an undercut in frozen hickory, even non frozen hickory.

Still, do that enough and your gonna trash your rail groove. . .

 

[Zombiechopper]

Glad you liked it sweets

luv it sugar tits!

 

[Burvol]

I think I'm gonna try the 20" bar... walk around the trees four times, climb around like a midget humping a large animal while limbing, and cut my grinding time in half. :greenchainsaw:

 

[mdavlee]

I think I'm gonna try the 20" bar... walk around the trees four times, climb around like a midget humping a large animal while limbing, and cut my grinding time in half. :greenchainsaw:

East coast style. A 20" is for cookie cutting at GTG or racing.

 

[056kid]

Load of bollocks, only lazy greenhorns run over-loose chains and don't have a scrench. The greenhorns run blunt chains and don't carry a file either, they're the ones always annoying the experienced guys, forever clambering around and asking to get cut out, needing all their hangups bowled over, or just generally making a f***g nuisance of themselves

Ive cut timber that would make you beg for mercy bud. I know what ya'll have over there, childs play even compared to east coast timber.

 

[dancan]

That's what you think, but when timber has height to it at small diameter it is a different game. You have to be able to keep up with it. But ya, he was long butting a small stick for sure.

I drag out the 394 or the 066 with the 18" bar if I need a bigger saw to keep up with it !
It sure turns heads ! :biggrinbounce2: