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While doing leaves I noticed this red maple had failed and was just hung up in neighboring trees. Quick pull from a winch and she was on the ground...but the best part about this tree... Almost no brush! One cut and this mini top was ready to be dragged away by my mighty 1986 Deere 160 lawn...

Very good advice. I've watched jobs cause havoc with people's lives while they were blinded by the money. Save as much as you can, and remember to ask good friends and family whether they think your job is taking too much of a toll on your life and health. The key is keeping things in...

Looks a lot like black maple to me, but it's hard to define the leaf edges from the photo. If the leaves are more 3-lobed, red maple can get very rough bark over time, plenty of large rough reds in the swampy area behind me.

Bit late on this reply, but if anyone is having trouble with the caps being tight, the recoil handle is actually designed to act as a wrench on the caps. I'd prefer smoother caps, but echo loves their flat rubber washers, and it's tough to think of a time when you wouldn't have the starter...

Bump for Mr. 200T – I just bought a 200T from Lone Wolf (actually I believe you can see mine in the background of the first pic), fantastic saw, all the little things that are usually overlooked were taken care of (sprocket has little wear, caps don't leak, doesn't leak oil, has all the plastic...

Looks like I'm wrong, they're not the same system. Never removed any other stihl limiters besides this 201T, I mostly see older or m-tronic. Thanks for the info!

Outwardly it looks like the MS201TC (non m-tronic) I have on my bench, which only had the metal surround over the H screw. It had a metal pin you have to drill out , then the whole internal part (which is attached to the needle) moves freely.

Oh well, but thanks so much for looking that up!

@HarleyT Any info on this one would be nice for a curious fellow... appears to be 515484316 It's a version 2 ms261 a coworker got cheap. Think it came from out west. It definitely wasn't cutting wood...everything's covered in fine dust, fuel tank has lots of grit in it, bearings shot, oil tank...

Don't want to run too far down the political rabbit warren, but don't be afraid of the term "socialism." No major candidate is proposing the elimination of capitalism, and of course we already have many aspects of socialism in America. Social security and medicare are incredibly popular, so much...

The easy answer is just tune it in wood. You won't hit 13k in the wood, so you can easily know it's 4-stroking if it sounds like 4-stroking. Tune the H so it burbles when you lift up on the saw, then cleans up when you reapply light pressure. You'll probably be able to stay within the limits of...

I also tried and liked full and half skip chain on longer bars, but with some quick testing the full comp was always faster on the saws I normally used them on. I still use skip on my 42" bar, just too daunting to sharpen and if I need a bar that long it's 99% a yard tree with the requisite...

It's tough to keep them from cracking, but there's plenty of info available online. The most accepted method is to use pentacryl, but adding end sealer (anchorseal etc.) is also sometimes recommended. Perhaps most important is to dry them SLOWLY, meaning in a cool basement with no sun, no air...

Yeah, the few hackberries I've seen near the Connecticut River in southern NH/VT were pretty easily distinguished by their warty bark. Not sure they even grow in central NH, lots of trees survive near the river that don't a few miles away, cottonwood for instance does great on the islands and...

I think oregon called it guardian? or vanguard? The bent over rakers are pretty awful, I don't bother using it for anything except "...there's metal in there..." situations.

These saws were about as close to "cheapy" as things got back then. Still mostly metal, but things were changing. I have my wife's grandfather's Mighty Mite Deluxe and it was my first 'rebuild' of a saw. I also have a parts saw I picked up for $15 shipped, and they help illustrate the "value...

Haven't had a chance to do much scrounging since December, so when my neighbor asked if I could take down their old blue spruce that sprinkles my car with pitch and needles I was scampering up as fast as my out-of-shape body could manage. Perfect weather, too. Of course now I'm sore, have...

Could always be butternut (or white walnut, and it is a walnut), looks similar to me before cutting into it. Softer wood, slow growing, but slow to rot. Don't think it tends to have multiple stems though.

Same here, it drove better than any other 3-row I've been in, and it does indeed have 5k towing on everything but the most base model. I was going to try to convince the neighbors to replace their old Outback with the Ascent, but the wife wanted a van and they leased a Kia before I even brought...

The gray/white/black on the second shelf from the bottom are the PowerCare straight/40:1/50:1 at my local HD. It showed up last fall I think.