Held an 880 magnum yesterday

[Stihl 041S]

The only way I'd ever own one is if it were a dedicated milling machine. It's just way too heavy to get any kind of regular use out of. I'd rather invest in a smaller saw that would actually get used more, even if I'd have to cut from both sides in order to get through a bigger tree.
Kinda the equivalent of a guy making one knife a year investing in $30k worth of blacksmithing tools when he coulda got by with a hammer and piece of RR track.

Wide breach between Need-Want.
If you like such a saw......enjoy.

do we really need a AC in a truck.......extra big tires?

Try getting thru one single day with out rationalizing something.

Lol. Enjoy life. No one drinks really good scotch for the effect cheaper would have the same effect.

Or eat lobster just because you need to eat.

 

[Jkstihl]

Wide breach between Need-Want.
If you like such a saw......enjoy.

do we really need a AC in a truck.......extra big tires?

Try getting thru one single day with out rationalizing something.

Lol. Enjoy life. No one drinks really good scotch for the effect cheaper would have the same effect.

Or eat lobster just because you need to eat.

Try some heaven hills..that **** taste like poison.... I get the point just messin w ya

 

[Stihl 041S]

Ive learned to just go ahead and spend the time and take the fence down and if you got to be careful of yard damage then out comes the plywood.. Yeah it sucks when its a 20-30 sheet run but is better than the alternative.

Oh I’m looking at one. LolJust for relief work.

But then we had 20 volunteers to move the wood and 2 cutters.

Saws were at a premium......heavy equipment even more so.

 

[Jkstihl]

Oh I’m looking at one. LolJust for relief work.

But then we had 20 volunteers to move the wood and 2 cutters.

Saws were at a premium......heavy equipment even more so.

You will wonder how you got by without one...and besides none of us are getting any younger.

 

[Jkstihl]

You will wonder how you got by without one...and besides none of us are getting any younger.

T190s are getting pretty cheap and they will do anything you need em to.. Takeuchi are also good but dont have any real experience with them except when i rented em.

 

[Stihl 041S]

Try some heaven hills..that **** taste like poison.... I get the point just messin w ya

A lil boy bourbon history for the snobs.

Back years ago when Wild Turkey was a $12 bourbon........Wild Turkey didn’t even have a distillery.........

They bought $8-9 bourbon and bottle it. We bought the barrels in Lawrenceburg Ky. Actually Tyrone. Just down the hill

Wild Turkey had bought the JTS Brown distillery.....a $5-6 bourbon. But it would be another 8 years in bond after they started distilling their own.

JTS Brown bourbon?.......ever seen the movie The Hustler???
It’s what Newman orders.

So if you are just drinking for effect........lol

 

[Stihl 041S]

You will wonder how you got by without one...and besides none of us are getting any younger.

At 67......yeah. I reach for the smallest saw usually......but it’s still it’s fun to grab a ported 084 or Oh-Nine-Oh and have at it!!!!

I’m at an orchard now with several skidsteers and a number of tractors. 20 something.......drive any of them........modify things for orchard work.

So yeah. Shopping. Even looking at a Bobcat 5610.........

 

[Jkstihl]

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At 67......yeah. I reach for the smallest saw usually......but it’s still it’s fun to grab a ported 084 or Oh-Nine-Oh and have at it!!!!

I’m at an orchard now with several skidsteers and a number of tractors. 20 something.......drive any of them........modify things for orchard work.

So yeah. Shopping. Even looking at a Bobcat 5610.........[/QUO

Those look pretty cool, like a side by side on steroids. I just dont know how she would do for any demanding work..best bang for you buck is when rental units come up for sale. Sure they have been beat and abused but atleast you know they have been maintained. Just be sure to check it over real good and use it for a weekend before you buy. But you can expect things to break thats just the way it is with skids. Id try and get a tracked machine. They are way smoother to operate. Another thing to think about is if you want hand or foot controls for the boom. Me personally i prefer foot controls cause that is what im used to. But its not that big of a headache when i have to run a hand controlled boom. Just feels weird is all.

 

[Stihl 041S]

Id p

As to the controls there is one of each at the orchard.......confusing. Lol

I like the 5610 because of the speed from one place to another.
And Heat&AC!!!!
And passenger

it is not a tracked skid steer.....but it does a lot. And PTO

 

[Stihl 041S]

A lil boy bourbon history for the snobs.

Back years ago when Wild Turkey was a $12 bourbon........Wild Turkey didn’t even have a distillery.........

They bought $8-9 bourbon and bottle it. We bought the barrels in Lawrenceburg Ky. Actually Tyrone. Just down the hill

Wild Turkey had bought the JTS Brown distillery.....a $5-6 bourbon. But it would be another 8 years in bond after they started distilling their own.

JTS Brown bourbon?.......ever seen the movie The Hustler???
It’s what Newman orders.

So if you are just drinking for effect........lol

I. W. Harper!!!! Couldn’t remember the name for a bit. $8 a bottle bourbon in a $11 Wild Turkey bottle. And folks bragged on what they spent. Lol
Wild Turkey had to buy bourbon till they bought their distillery in 1971........they couldn’t distill anything!!!! Wild Turkey didn’t really exist.

Campari owns Wild Turkey now.......

 

[SuperDuty04]

I'm all for people buying what they WANT. Big difference between want and need though .

 

[Stihl 041S]

I'm all for people buying what they WANT. Big difference between want and need though .

Yup.......couldn’t agree more.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Like a 3120, the 880 is a dog out of the box, but stock it talks with 16” 3/8 12T.
Hair straight back!

 

[Stihl 041S]

View attachment 787849 Like a 3120, the 880 is a dog out of the box, but stock it talks with 16” 3/8 12T.
Hair straight back!

I only got a 10 tooth on a 16” on a ported 084........one is safe lowering the rakers a bit........dawgs are handy

 

[president]

View attachment 787849 Like a 3120, the 880 is a dog out of the box, but stock it talks with 16” 3/8 12T.
Hair straight back!

I remember that ad, from the early 70s for warfdale speakers as I recall

 

[Stihl 041S]

I remember that ad, from the early 70s for warfdale speakers as I recall

That’s a JBL L100 I think. ....but I think it was for Maxwell tape.....played Flight of the Valkyrie

 

[BlackCoffin]

Won’t get a sound like that from a smaller saw!

 

[lead farmer]

At 67......yeah. I reach for the smallest saw usually......but it’s still it’s fun to grab a ported 084 or Oh-Nine-Oh and have at it!!!!

I’m at an orchard now with several skidsteers and a number of tractors. 20 something.......drive any of them........modify things for orchard work.

So yeah. Shopping. Even looking at a Bobcat 5610.........

Dang your gittin old [emoji16]

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[Huskybill]

At 69 yo I let the boys run the saws now, I rebuild them. But a decade ago I let them start them, I stood in one spot and cut. Just to excite the blood flow to the muscles.

 

[Stihl 041S]

Dang your gittin old [emoji16]

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Got about 500 working hours left to retirement. And 260+ hours of vacation and such till then.