LOL, you ****, my point is I'm not about going out and selling saws as a means for tax write offs for financial gain. I have enough other things to buy and bother with. And I don't work on saws either, whether they are 1 week old or 7 years old, I've had very little ever break on them chain tensioners and some plastic. I started using auto gas this year and for the first time in a decade I'm have some starting problems ....... as in it takes a couple of more pulls to get two of them started. Going back to 100 LL AV gas.
I too question the board footage deal, I know some westies have to cut, limb and top their trees, but what I see on TV its a lot of softer wood and they just have to cut off at a waist high stump and let her fall over, and the wood looks like it cuts like balsa wood, which is fine, cut what you have to cut, but it isn't hardwood and you don't have to cut another 4-10 12" branches off of the stem either. I don't make much money with a chainsaw, I make my money with a skidder. Right now we're cutting trees for another guy at $10 per tree, we had a short day yesterday, I cut, limbed and topped 44 trees, Menno cut 44 trees then we went home to work on an oil leak on the skid steer, while the water goes down up North.
If all I had to do with cut them over, Oh boy, that number would triple easily. I remember in Wisconsin I cut about 10,000 board feet in one day when I was starting out, it was hot and a very steep sidehill, I was somewhat impressed, until later at the bar a guy said he had cut 40,000 board feet in the same day. I spent most of the night bothered that I would never be a good timber cutter and should just quit, because I didn't see any possible way I could have cut my 10,000 in a quarter of the time, and I was literally running from tree to tree, all day. So I tell another good cutter that I want to watch him cut for a day, so I can learn how to cut 40,000 in one day ........................ he said, who can cut that much in one day on a sidehill around here? I said this other guy did. He laughed for about 3 minutes, because he knew it bothered me a bunch, he said that guy just tips trees, there are two others that come behind him and top the trees, OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH, now it made sense, LOL.
Its not really a big deal to me, I just present how I do things and what I do, I make money doing it too or I wouldn't be doing it. How or why the westies always get in a jam that its their way or nothing is beyond me, buts that just how it is, they make no money for me, and I've been doing what I do long enough and for around here, most think I'm doing it correctly. I have zero machine payments and very little pressure. I do take on more work than I should at times, but I do that for the challenge, otherwise I work when I want and for who I want, short of winning the lottery, few can top that, so most everyone here can take their petty chainsaw arguments and shove it, LOL.
Sam
