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RandyMac - You were right - when you mentioned playing with saws I should have known. I wonder if there are more Kathryn Davidson Wildfire people here than just you and me? Maybe the BrushSlasher? Bob Frazier

Something tells me that anti-kickback humped-up chain might be sitting backwards on the bar.

The run from logs to woodpile is less than 50 yards. Bug killed timber. Again.

Oddly enough our high temperatures in Cottage Grove Oregon have been 64, with lows in the 40's! Weatherman say's "It's going to be 85, and NOPE. Even a little cooler than that up where I am, with air quality as poor as 800+. I guess this is what a nuclear winter, or a volcano would do. The sky...

Firebreak, Orygun style:

I see you have a handy pattern with which any competent fabricator could easily make you a dog for your second saw.

You can get by with one stock one on the inside, usually, until you need to leverage through a cut at a sharper angel than the inside dog can reach, then you'll wish you had one on the outside - because it still would, and always will. Or do you mean your saw has neither an inside (as shown...

FWIW, I have some Hoffman "Pole Climbers" that are super stiff for exactly that reason. And they have 16" double thick uppers too. Old School. Made in Kellogg Idaho.

I never pictured Palms where you live, Cowboy. What beautiful country! I am just sure I would like it there too. Winter must not be much. (??)

My life's pretty simple on the porch in an easy chair. (Especially this year!) I know... a gas fireplace, lol.

We use to see these after forest fires... Giant Horntails, a type of Wasp. Firefighters were afraid of them. They would hit 'em with their shovels, and it would go "Ping!!!!" just like they had hit a small pebble. They were known as Stump (F)uckers, honestly that's all we knew them as, and...

Corn, beans, and tater's. AND DOUGLAS FIR for dessert!

I too struggle with vibration related injuries in my hands. I could never get use to the big pillow type anti-vibe gloves. If vibration is the issue, some low vibration chain is a good idea, like the Stihl RS (Rapid Super) Series - great for professional use, but lower vibration. And keep those...

Anybody know of an all leather glove made in the US or Canada? I was going to buy some gloves from the American Glove Company, of Dallas, Oregon - but they were made in china, despite the big American flag on the Label!

I must have misinterpreted your original post: "Are you guys able to get any crap from China these days?" along with comments about buying those shameless (and ******) Hutzl rip-off's of German Stihl designs. I'm sure we're all trying to avoid buying anything chinese... right? I went to buy a...

Is this really a thread about accelerating the buying and selling of cheap chinese crap? I'm doing everything I can to never buy such crap again. Am I alone in that endeavor here on Arboristsite?

Vote with your dollars - find another business worthy of your support!

That looks so weird. So patient and sorta all knowing. Odd. Are they friendly? Dangerous? Tame? Honestly, they look so darn foreign to us Yankees! Thank you Cowboy!

Oh yeah? Well, here's my idiot of a neighbor burning a quarter mile below my house on September 1st 2019 in Oregon, no rain for months, dead grass, everything dry, and an uphill run all the way to my house on steep ground and timber. Some people have no god-damned sense at all.

Yep, that's a good wife, and awesome gifts. When I was a kid I got a hold of the book "Trees - 1949 Yearbook of Agriculture" which had a huge effect on me - I think it ate into my brain. My wife gave me a drip torch for my birthday. ( I have a good wife too!)