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Hi, just a quick "get well soon" from me too! Bye

Hi, it only takes a fraction of a second to completely dull a chain on a 24" bar if there is gravel in the dirt for example and still less than a few seconds if the log is just dirty. Happens faster than you would believe. A single cut can be enough to completely dull the chain. The time it...

Hi try cutting logs that have been dragged through grit filled dirt or covered on the side of the track in the same stuff by a friendly person widening a track with a grader. You'll be sharpening at least once a log minimum. If you're cutting real dirty wood or just wood that had to be...

Hi, a 16" or 18" bar is plenty big enough to cut 30" logs. If you limb "the european way" and don't want to sharpen lots of teeth a 4.5hp saw with a fairly short bar will do the job only a little bit slower, hardly relevant for a firewood cutter. Most of the time I use a 357xpg with a 15"...

Hi, if the saw runs for longer with lower revs could it be a fuel issue such as a blocked or nearly blocked breather? Just guessing, but it seems a possibility to me as I've known the same thing happen to motorcycles when the breather is blocked - runs for a while until the vacuum builds up...

Hi, the Stihl Ultra is at least partly made of synthetic esters, according to some advertising I seem to remember having read sometime, with the rest probably being PAO synthetic oil. Esters are always fully synthetic as they aren't made from mineral oil if I remember correctly. Motul makes...

Hi, no, German pounds are 0.5kg so they are still off mark. By the way, we didn't invent the Imperial system I seem to recall from history lessons that it was the Italians (it was forced on us during their tour of Europe...). Bye

Hi, here in Germany (!) they usually cost between $1300 and $1500 depending upon how lucky you are and how much you value supporting a local dealer. Bye

Hi, I've had a branch fall and hit from high above. I was in an area that had been worked several weeks beforehand, we were just tidying up and stacking the logs when without any warning a branch fell from high up in the tree I was standing near to. I saw stars for a minute or two but no...

Hi, I use a 13" on my 346XPG limbing saw (it is not used for anything else). I did try a 15" and found it to be too long for cutting up the tops or crowns of beech trees. With a 13" there is little chance of the tip of the saw catching on some other branch and kicking back when limbing...

Hi, how did he do that? Did he get stuck in its throat or something? Bye

Hi, a couple of years ago I had an episode, which was very similar if not identical to Meniers but disappeared after a week of daily infusions and medications to improve the (micro)blood circulation in the ear. Something had thrown a spanner in the works in all things to do with balance. I...

Hi, green persimmons? Does that mean my Suzuki bike engine is made out of fruit? Oh dear... Bye

Alum? Hi, Al stands for the element. However what confused me is that there are a group of sulphate compounds known as Alum which I certainly wouldn't expect to find in an engine (those pencil things that stop shaving nicks from bleeding and deo crystals are types of "alum"). Just plain Alu...

Hi, thanks, now the postings make more sense to me now. Never seen the word aluminium shortened by that many letters before. Bye

Hi, in years gone by I really enjoyed using 2 stroke supercharged diesel engines, these really strange things with 12 pistons in 6 cylinders, fuel injection and a roots compressor. I can't see either turbo or superchargers working well on the type of 2 stroke engine found in chainsaws...

Hi, what is alum? Bye

Hi, if I cut the outer material and the protective layers are ok then I just stick a self-adhesive patch over the cut. Works just fine. As Smokechase II said, never sew through the layers. Bye

Hi, that is some good info but don't forget that not being cut is only part of the story to how chaps work, the rest involves bundles of threads being pulled to block the chain and believe me that just doesn't work properly if the threads are oily regardless of the actual cut resistance of...