What size birch?
Are you denying the fact that tress in the northern US have a much shorter growing season, and the resulting tighter annual growth rings which makes the trees more dense?
Your newbie stupidity don't even deserve a answer young man. :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:
Gary, mine had 5 holes in the front with the 2 EPA caps pulled , boy she was sure free flowing.
What size birch?
Pulling the EPA cap's is good for 100% better access to the exhaust flow screws for better exhaust flow adjustment...
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Your newbie stupidity don't even deserve a answer young man. :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:
Tom, I am in agreement with what your saying. The problem as I see it with 60cc saws is that while they can do it all, they dont really excell at much. For cutting softwood trees up to 20" a 50cc saw will get it done with ease. Ditto with hard woods 16" or so. Maybe even bigger for southern hardwoods as they are softer. Bigger than that and the 70cc saw comes out. A 70cc saw will soundly trounce a 60cc saw in anything 20" and above.
Of course maybe my oppinion only applies to local conditions of the area I live in. I honestly dont know. I do know after owning several that I will not be playing with a 60cc again.
I have cut Birch in northern Canada and a 346 destroys them. Given your a bit farther north.Mostly slow grown (dense) ones, 12-20 inchs.
.......but I had saved a 28 x 24 one for my 372, just for fun - mostly bought that one for ripping twited evils, that is impossible to split with an axe-----
Tom, I am in agreement with what your saying. The problem as I see it with 60cc saws is that while they can do it all, they dont really excell at much. For cutting softwood trees up to 20" a 50cc saw will get it done with ease. Ditto with hard woods 16" or so. Maybe even bigger for southern hardwoods as they are softer. Bigger than that and the 70cc saw comes out. A 70cc saw will soundly trounce a 60cc saw in anything 20" and above.
Of course maybe my oppinion only applies to local conditions of the area I live in. I honestly dont know. I do know after owning several that I will not be playing with a 60cc again.
I have cut Birch in northern Canada and a 346 destroys them. Given your a bit farther north.
If birch is the nastiest stuff you got then maybe a 361 for a big saw is a fine choice. If your running into Maple, Oak and the like I think a 70cc saw is much better for stuff around 20".
....all what you said, but no oak here, but a few really hefty mountain ash here and there
The way I see it...........50cc............60cc............70cc............buy what makes your pekker hard!!!
Or have all 3.............. :jawdrop:
I see you're from Texas, so I will guess you're drinking Shiner HefeWeizen.:love1:
Yup running the ports out the front is not the optimal setup, however running big dogs and synthetic oil helps quite a bit.
I've learned even cold hard facts cannot rival opinion in your mind, so I won't even point out that the statment was the 8th most ignorant thing I have heard you say.
Fred
Are you denying the fact that tress in the northern US have a much shorter growing season, and the resulting tighter annual growth rings which makes the trees more dense?
Michigan is full of Red and White Oaks that where called by the Gypsy moth in the early ninties so I might know a thing or two about cutting dead oaks...but you take a downed Oak especially one of those Live oaks or Heritage oaks that stay green year round thats been knocked down for a while,,,, Ill show ya hard,,,, your chain better be sharp,,,,and the oiler turned all the way up even moreso if ya get up about the lakes area wher the soil is red clay and lime stone or out west with the scrub or Black Jack oaks and Mesquite and heavy lime stone soils,,, The sparks will be flying
I wish everyone would want a 3 saw set up like I perfer, a 50cc or smaller just for trimming, a 70cc for felling and blocking most any tree and a 90cc for the once in while big tree.
*Now you're talking, Tom. That's some good advice. I'm thinking a 35cc top handle, climbing saw these days.
I've been eyeballing a 60cc saw for the heck of it. but I can't bring myself (just yet) to get one. I can't think of a real practical reason.
a big 90cc saw is out of the question.
*Never....say it isn't so. :chainsawguy: :biggrinbounce2:
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