You might be surprised. Most of what I do goes out for $10. We used to do flooded and stopped up muffler screens for nothing. But, decided we needed to charge something.
My logging buddy has a whole shed full of worn out saws. Some were from accidents, but most are low on compression. He gets about 2 years out of one, provided it doesn't fall off the skidder or something else doesn't get it. One year he had 3 stolen between 2 different jobs. They live a hard life.
Guys running a saw daily also are not paying a dealer to fix their stuff.
Most loggers are like that and tend to stick to one saw model as long it's available so they can cannibalize the worn out ones.
As it pertains to four cycle oils this is nondoubt true. If only because oils are so highly refined now. This assumes a quality engine like Toyota or Honda.
Thank you for these tidbits. In the 80s we got oil and antifreeze from warren oil on the Iowa side of the river from Omaha (Bellvue) Lou Isenstat was the middle man for us. Warren oil was a busy place then and I bet even busier now. I assume they are ome and the same company.
I use the Black max 40:1 oil from walmart under the MSDS it is blended by Phillips 66
I try to buy good oil for everything.
Any feller buncher engine would out last a saw doing the same work 20-30x over.
It's like a time capsul looking around in his shed. Went ftom old stihl 070, few 056's in there then he switched to husqy at some point. 272, then 372's, there one 576xp and a few years ago he switched to 572xp and I think that's what he settled on for now. He's just as much a collector of saws as the next guy, so there's a bunch of other makes and models, but but by long and far he has more 372's then I've ever seen in one place, all picked over to some degree.
I had an MS440C that was running OK until I changed the spark plug and got a bit of sawdust in it. It scored the cylinder walls and lost compression. I got an estimate of over $1000 to fix it. So I bought a new MS500i for $1180. No telling how long the 440 would have run if I hadn't screwed it up. Everything is repairable if you throw money at it, but sometimes it does not make sense to do so.
A ported 372 was my saw of choice when logging. Tried others, but never found anything better for my use.
When it is partially burned, it can get pretty hard.Sawdust scores cylinder walls? That's some hard wood.
Well then would a saw with a leaking air filter cause more wear, I think so.Sawdust scores cylinder walls? That's some hard wood.
Maybe. But it is also possible that even a leaking air filter keeps the particle size really small, so maybe there is less damage. Removing a spark plug can let big particles get in. You can be sure I won't make that mistake again, and I will be looking carefully at the filter area of my MS500i, though I heard they fixed that problem. In any case, my 440 ran very badly and the cylinder wall scoring was quite visible.
No. It’s the same as the first one ever made. The filter fills up relatively quickly and the cover gets a bit sloppy and lets fines in by the knob. Just keep it clean
