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Woos31
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Those are awesome tricks and ideas westboastfaller! One I used about a month back is nothin special and everybody knows or has put into action......guy acting like a bag of dicks and treating you like you don't know which end of a saw to use when cutting, and if I needed white paint so I knew what trees to cut off the edge of the road. Well after a day of his **** he got the hint when the saw went by his head and landed in pickup from about 20 feet away and then painted a husky pole saw white so he could see it and it was capable of cutting the same **** while he stood around and I was down the road working on other trees. Minus a lot of expetives
I did this last weekend. I had about 300 feet to cut up for the burn pile.
This may not be too weird, but it could give you guys some ideas. I found some large green pin oak branches, about 9" dia. on the average and cut one of the firewood rounds into 1" thick cookies as accurately as possible with my Stihl 026 PRO. When I showed a few to an old friend, he said, "I'll buy 25 of them. How about a buck apiece?"
I said, "What on earth are you going to do with them?"
He replied, "I can use them to make candle stick bases for my daughter's wedding reception. It's going to be held inside the church basement."
I cut him 25 oak cookies and threw in a few extra. Pin oak bark is thin and holds on like glue. The center is really dark heartwood, quite a contrast to the sapwood. I attended the reception and these made quite a hit.
I said, "What on earth are you going to do with them?"
He replied, "I can use them to make candle stick bases for my daughter's wedding reception. It's going to be held inside the church basement."
I cut him 25 oak cookies and threw in a few extra. Pin oak bark is thin and holds on like glue. The center is really dark heartwood, quite a contrast to the sapwood. I attended the reception and these made quite a hit.
Dave86
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I cut apart an old lead keel off a sailboat with my Remmy PL55.
Huskybill
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Just got home and cleaned and sharpened my saws, did one test cut. My neighbors vicious dog went after my kid in the street. I went through 6’ of tight hedges, started the saw and chased that dog into his back yard. I turned around to walk home he came at me, repeat started the saw and chased it again. I lost it that day. They think it cool to train there dog that way. The old man was drunk in the house he didn’t dare open the door
I built a set of stairs with an 044, framing hammer and some ten-penny nails before.
I also regularly cut roofs and walls of burning buildings with a chainsaw.
I also regularly cut roofs and walls of burning buildings with a chainsaw.
Check is in the mail, I will pay you Friday and I have not had a chance to get to the bank lol
When I lived in Upstate NY, I used my 028 to cut ice off the overhangs of roofs.Worked like a charm. Yes the saw was kept in a warm environment.
madmarksolomon
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A fella I worked with years back used a chainsaw to get a queen size bed up stairs in a rental. Cut right between the Joyce’s in the ceiling and pushed it up through.
Guess that’s how they do it in Tulelake CA.
Guess that’s how they do it in Tulelake CA.
noodlewalker
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I'm an electrician... Was on a job where the homeowner wanted to add some low voltage lights to a newly built patio and firepit about a hundred feet from the house. They didn't want to tear up the yard, so a trencher was out of the question. Groundskeeper had an old Stihl 025 and said I could give it a try... It worked for a bit, but the clutch got gummed up with dirt. I felt bad, but... He told me to!!!
I've cut water-line pipe with my saw when in a pinch. Also had to cut through some light-gauge electrical wire still encased in plastic. Wasn't worth the time to get a pair of cutters, and there wasn't much wire the had to be cut (it was embedded/run through the wood-framing on a building I was hired to take down).
Have also cut plenty of stumps and roots 1' in the ground or more.
Have also cut plenty of stumps and roots 1' in the ground or more.
Got a debarker and have used that quite a bit. We had major fires come through a number of years ago and still some of the wood is charred so the barking tool has taken care of that. No matter how nice the wood is if the bark is all black and full of soot no body wants it. Thanks
Lately my neighbor tore out the old flooring on his outdoor deck. Most were 18' to 20' length boards. His rented dumpster was only 11' long. So I brought over my top handle Echo chain saw and cut all his long deck boards in half. In a jiffy, it was all done. The saw didn't even breathe hard. I just made sure I missed all the nails.
EJay
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In 2003 I was a cop and we had a bad situation. We found out an armed guy with a murder warrant was holed up in a room in an upper story of a local hotel. We knew he had barricaded the door and there was no other good way in to the room.
There was a 30 hr standoff and negotiations were going nowhere. Negotiating was plan A.
Plan B was to shoot some tear gas through the wall and make entry through the front door of the hotel room.
I was part of Plan C, which was to use ballistic shields on either slide of a thin slot through which we'd use a fire department chain saw to cut through the wall from an adjoining room. It wasn't a fabulous plan but our options were pretty limited.
We didn't have to get to to Plan C, thankfully. Plan B worked, in a sense. But I'll never forget the look on the face of the on-scene media when I was warming up the chain saw with the fire department.
There was a 30 hr standoff and negotiations were going nowhere. Negotiating was plan A.
Plan B was to shoot some tear gas through the wall and make entry through the front door of the hotel room.
I was part of Plan C, which was to use ballistic shields on either slide of a thin slot through which we'd use a fire department chain saw to cut through the wall from an adjoining room. It wasn't a fabulous plan but our options were pretty limited.
We didn't have to get to to Plan C, thankfully. Plan B worked, in a sense. But I'll never forget the look on the face of the on-scene media when I was warming up the chain saw with the fire department.
bowtechmadman
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Cut a raccoon in half...poor guy was in a hollow tree that I took down. Gave three old top handle Poulan's to a friend who juggles. He is pretty happy that they don't run.
Cut plastic culverts into pieces to make planters, web pic
Yer lost again.Cut plastic culverts into pieces to make planters, web pic
Its the like button,,, just sayinYer lost again.
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