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Mine always ran great. I had it for 14 years but moved up to an 841 recently.

Yes sir. 1952 8N

I bought it used a farm auction. It’s one of my useful implements.

We have several acres of woods that are so thick with oak and hickory trees, saplings, and yaupon that the closet I could get a tractor is the perimeter easement. I never cut a healthy tree but dead, lightning struck, and wind fall are fair game and the proceeds feed our Vigilant II stove to...

I had the same problem recently. Cleaned the spark arrestor though it wasn’t bad. Air filter was like new. Pulled the spark plug and spotted a tiny bit of debris in the gap. Gave it a good brushing and it fired right up. Starts easily now.

We’ve had a VC Vigilant in this house since 1985. 4000 square feet and we rarely have to turn the Central heat on. It’ll take a 22 inch split but I cut about 19 inches to make loading a little easier. Love that stove.

My 170 died a couple weeks ago and wouldn’t restart. Period. I found the spark arrestor pretty clogged. I just removed it. Still no start. The air filter was clean. I pulled the plug, it was dry and looked clean. Then I noticed a tiny bit of debris in the plug gap. I gave the plug a good...

Well.... those caps don't get clogged by themselves. If it was clogged after only two months of use... I would Look at your wood!! But, you may be able to get through this winter okay with wet wood. Wet wood needs lots of air. You know now to check your cap often. I'd look it at it least...

Scrounge up some pallets. Use them to get a good hot fire roaring then start adding your green wood. Keep lots of air flowing into the fire and it should burn okay once started. Not ideal but it should work. You might consider buying a pallet of bio bricks to burn and mix with the green...

Mysteryman, check your PM. I'll send you a copy of the 35T splitter manual. Ken

I reckon a pallet of bio bricks will be cheaper, in the long run, than a bundle of sticks at HD for $7 or so. Try to scrounge for anything you can find but be careful. Blow downs, even standing deads can be almost as green as living trees. The tops of standing dead can be pretty burnable...

In my early days of burning about five years ago, I got the stove hot enough a couple of times to get that acrid smoke smell in the house. Griddle temp on our VC Vigilant was over 800. I had gone to bed with the stove still in vertical burn mode. When starting a fire I usually keep the...

It should, since rootbeer is made from sassafras root or bark. :msp_thumbup: I started burning some pine this year after removing a dead and down pine from a neighbors front yard. It's super dry and gives a real kick start to a new fire before I add my oak. Not noticing much aroma from it...

I'm pretty much with you on that, 'Loop. Though, if it's under four inches or so I don't bother splitting it, even with bark on it. The bark on a limb that size will be thin and it will dry just fine in a year or so. Bigger limbs, for the most part, always get split. Sometimes there will...

I don't do retail...yet. For personal use I like to split a variety of sizes. I may split a large log in half, then one of the halves into quarters (or smaller.) Depends on the size of the round. I like a good mix for the above reasons. Smaller for easy starts or relights. Large for...

No sir. The face cut did not go beyond the angle of the notch. The hinge was a little more toward the front. I would say the hinge was about 1/3 the way back from the front face. Basically, if the diagram showed the hinge right at the point where the two face cuts meet, you'd be right on.

Sixteen inch bar on an MS390 with muffler mod.

I think we got that idea because it sure sounded that way in your first post: Going by that, I personally interpreted it mean that you clean out the stove every day. Perhaps you can see where the confusion came from. You did say, however, that you only leave 1/2 inch of ash in the bottom...

CWME, I'm thinking the thickness of the hinge was the main culprit. After looking at the remnants of the hinge, one end of it was quite a bit thicker than the other end. I'm pretty sure that's why it was such a battle to wedge it on over. I erred too much on the side of caution in trying to...

I don't take that as being rude at all. I admit to inexperience. I've been cutting and burning going on five years now. I've dropped maybe a dozen. Everything else was already downed by storm/wind or whatever. I posted this for advise and critique. I have no illusions of expertise, just...