Why the tape on the 051AV??? Not much muffler burn for one "that" old.
Flea bay 066??? Yeah, right.
The 066 is fresh from a dealer from the looks of it.
Why use a saw as big and heavy as the 051AV to cut firewood???
You must be a lot bigger than most of us to use it day in and day out.
I have cut and bucked one hell of a lot of maple and other hardwoods and softwoods with my 038AV magnum. I don't use the bigger saws unless I really have to. Size of trees I cut??? Hint, I feed my sawmill all it can handle.
Have owned a 088 for almost four years now....use it on the bigger stuff.
Just my thoughts.
Yep the new bad boy is from Fleabay (350279503914). $950 And the dude has more of them. He got them at a discount and is selling them off. He put another 660 up after I bought mine and it sold in a day or two. He also has some smaller models he has been selling, but right now he has no new models listed. The saw never had gas in it and the blue sticker is from a rigging company in Longview, WA. I think that is the guy he bought them from. Bar and chain came in original wrapper, and the saw was bubble wrapped in a big box but he also included the Stihl powerhead box in with the packing. I figured I saved about $200 (plus tax) by going the Fleabay route compared to local prices.
I used to drop and top with my 051 and then spend a day skidding all the logs from a ~200' circle to high ground with a Farmi skidding winch on my old Ford 9N. I would criss cross the logs on the pile so I could buck like a madman the next day. I would start and just buck all day long non-stop. I sometimes had a helper that would move blocks and kick the logs onto the cut blocks for better cutting as we proceeded. Then the next day while I was dropping and skidding more he would haul them out using a trailer behind a tractor. Speed getting through the logs was my money maker. The saw was heavy but money was more important to me.
I wanted to get down through the log and be moving to my next cut. I wanted the saw waiting for me, not the other way around.
I am not a big dude (5'9") and back then I weighed all of 135-140 soaking wet. I had no body fat and I was a well tuned machine. I could toss a hunk of split firewood with either hand into a 5-gallon bucket at 25' with no problem. I could "shotput" a 10" round (16") up onto my truck right over the 10' tall sides with no problem. For some odd reason I cannot do that now. Something about 30 years of added age on my body and a few more pounds.
My dad used to chastise me for using such a big saw all the time but when he came to help me and he would use my Homelite 925s and the smaller homelite (3-something???) I had he always quickly saw how much more production I was getting compared to him. Sure he had a few years on me, but I was blowing him away on the number of cuts per hour. With firewood speed = money as long as the cuts can be made safely. A friend had a Homelite 1050 (not sure of the number). It was the biggest saw Homelite made at the time and with that thing I could really chop the wood. I tended to only get that one out when I had 15" and bigger wood and nice straight stuff. That was NOT a limbing saw, not by any stretch of the imagination. It was like lugging around a VW bug. The guy only had that saw to loan to me for about 6 months and then someone stole it out of his truck.