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After sitting on the fence for a while, milling a rather muddy set of maple logs last month spurred me into getting a log wizard. Spent a good 20 minutes with a hand ax trying to whack a clear mud free path for my csm on several logs and still never got all the mud off down to clear wood. It doesn't take much mud/dirt to dull a chain. When I'm milling, I want to mill wood. I don't like putzing around fixing stuff, cleaning/tweaking equipment that I should have done in the shop the night before, and I want to change out chain on the csm as little as possible. Pull saw from csm and swap out a chain 4-5 times over the coarse of a milling session and you shot the better part of an hour of milling daylight.
Wanted a dedicated saw, but didn't want to "waste" a good pro saw just for that, so bought a Husky 350. $320, 40cc... it's not the low end of the non-pro saws and for the amount of hours I'll run it, I think it will do fine. I didn't have to drop half a grand or more, and I didn't want to go used saw route since I wanted something light (read: plastic) in the 10-11 lb range. A used pro saw like an 036 would be heavier and when using the saw with a log wizard every pound counts.
Simple to setup, took all of 15 minutes start to finish. Hold the Wizard on the saw to mark where to drill holes, drill them, bolt the thing on, tighten the chain and start playing.
WOW... wish I had gotten this thing couple years ago. After a few minutes you get the hang of how to hold it for the desired result. I was hoping it would be easier to handle going down the SIDE or even reaching under a log, but it's not. Works best when you are on top of the log or say third of the way down the side. Any more than that and it gets tiring to hold steady in that position where it's biting into the bark. As others have said, this thing throws out a LOT of bark chips and really makes a mess quickly.
Bottom line, as others on here have said, it works like a charm, and will make short work of cleaning up logs for milling, saving time by saving having to swap out chain as often.
Wanted a dedicated saw, but didn't want to "waste" a good pro saw just for that, so bought a Husky 350. $320, 40cc... it's not the low end of the non-pro saws and for the amount of hours I'll run it, I think it will do fine. I didn't have to drop half a grand or more, and I didn't want to go used saw route since I wanted something light (read: plastic) in the 10-11 lb range. A used pro saw like an 036 would be heavier and when using the saw with a log wizard every pound counts.
Simple to setup, took all of 15 minutes start to finish. Hold the Wizard on the saw to mark where to drill holes, drill them, bolt the thing on, tighten the chain and start playing.
WOW... wish I had gotten this thing couple years ago. After a few minutes you get the hang of how to hold it for the desired result. I was hoping it would be easier to handle going down the SIDE or even reaching under a log, but it's not. Works best when you are on top of the log or say third of the way down the side. Any more than that and it gets tiring to hold steady in that position where it's biting into the bark. As others have said, this thing throws out a LOT of bark chips and really makes a mess quickly.
Bottom line, as others on here have said, it works like a charm, and will make short work of cleaning up logs for milling, saving time by saving having to swap out chain as often.
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