so here is my problem just starting out on my own and all I have for saws is a 192t,230,and 044. You can see the gap I have in saws. I need something bigger then my 230 but smaller then my 044. I was thinking 361. this is for climbing, any advice?
so here is my problem just starting out on my own and all I have for saws is a 192t,230,and 044. You can see the gap I have in saws. I need something bigger then my 230 but smaller then my 044. I was thinking 361. this is for climbing, any advice?
When I first started out on my own I climbed with an 026 with an 18 inch bar and had an 044 with a 25" bar for the big stuff in the tree and on the ground. That's the only 2 saws I had when I first started. I then started buying cheap Husky's to climb with (I think 142). They were throw away saws and after I went through 2 of them I got one of the older, top handled green Poulans (pretty popular climbing saw back in the day). To tell the truth, the Stihl 025's were not a bad saw. I climbed with one of those for awhile too.
Tree, I agree with you on the old Poulans. We used Homelite EZ's till one of our climbers asked for a Poulan XXV. Before too long that's all we were using for a small saw. He was rough on saws and busted up more than a couple of them, but he made us more of the good kind of green stuff than the kind of green stuff he busted, Joe.
Yeah, the little top handle Poulans weren't bad climbing saws for their time. The problem I had with them were they had a tendency to not want to start once they got hot. I remember many a time in a tree pulling the pull cord over and over, cussing ***
That might be how Rufus busted up so many of them. He got PO'ed and threw them across 2 yards, Joe.
The problem with all the little top handled echo's, poulans, huskies, even the stihl 192 is that they just don't have enough ass in the tree. They are fine for small prune jobs but they all bog in a crotch cut. That's why I will never go without a 200T anymore.
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