Hi,
I am a new member in need of some information/help
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First of all I wanted to thank everyone here for sharing all of this useful and great information
. I am an amateur chainsaw user, I have a Quadra Fire insert stove that I have been using for the last 8 years. Most of my firewood I used to buy but with the prices of wood going for $250 a cord or more I decided to “fetch” my own firewood.
My fist chainsaw was, and still is the Husqvarna 141 with 16” b/c. I have been using this saw for the last 3 years, it is a great saw that I used it for felling and bucking some black cherries (~20” diameter) and oaks (mostly branches) that I have around my property.
I new I needed a new more powerful saw mostly for bucking 4 to 7 cords of firewood a year. I did a search found this forum and did a lot of reading. I decided to get a new Dolmar PS-5100S and I was just doing a final search to see if there was one on ebay and to my surprise I found a used one for sale by a Pawn shop! I got it for $201 delivered! I thought it was a good deal…
When I got it I fist inspected it and it looked like it had the original DOLMAR bar and had a date code of 0511 (November 2005)! I removed the top cover and the filter looked clean, after further inspection I decided it is time to start it, three pulls with chock and one pull in center position and it started right up! Like I mentioned I am new to chainsaws so I can not really tell if it is tuned correctly but it idled smoothly and responded well to throttle changes.
I ordered a new 18” 3/8 b/c from Amick’s (Tony was very helpful) and also had to get the new boot insert, it did not have one, and a new spark plug gapped to 0.5mm. I checked the compression and had to pull start 7 to 9 times to get the needle gage to stop moving and it stopped at around 175 PSI. I tried a few times and got similar results every time.
Now finally to my question (sorry for the long introduction) with all the readings it sounds to me that this saw is very powerful but when I try to buck large logs 20” to 24” in diameter, with the spikes in and some good pressure the saw bogs down and stops! I have to release the pressure for it to continue cutting. Is this normal or is there something wrong with this saw? If I do not put pressure it seems to cut well but from the readings it sounds to me that it should not stop the chain from moving when I put pressure on it!
I ordered a new larger 3/8 20" b/c from Amick's but I wounder if the saw has enough power to move it after last experience
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rony