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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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A lady on my UPS route gave me a 73 Cutlass Supreme 350 4 barrel. It had sat for 14 years. I pulled the plugs one evening and shot some Marvel Mystery Oil in the plug holes. The next night I put the plugs back in, put a shot of gas in the carb and it fired right up. Had to do that 3-4 times till gas pumped up from the tank then it kept running. If it's locked up put an add on CraigsList for trade for the saw you want. If it starts up a 454 should be worth $400. I sold a Pontiac 455 with high mileage on it for $500. I just checked the Husky web site and a new 562XP lists for $740. If it runs with 4X4 you might get $750 for it. 4X4 parts hold their value pretty good. Good luck.
So sorry al-k.
So how short can you go for cutters before the chain is dead? this isn't the shortest, as despite me making them more regular there is a little variation.
On the plus side th chain was cutting with reasonable chips, perfectly straight and cleanly. it did judder/grab a wee bit, but not badly. this ws in cypress and sycamore, so nothing too hard. I then went at a few bits of dry dry dry ash...a few ugglies of wire ash I still had....so you know what happened...i got sharpening pratice, several times....and lost one cutter completely (well it was getting short)
not very focused but that's the same tooth from the side, hook there it seems. yay
that's out of focus too, but again hope you can see the hook is there. So....my sharpening is improving, it cuts ok, straight and throws fair chips....cuts quite quick, even in the old dry ash until you hit barbed wire...then despite being semi chisel its blunt instantly. it never looks too bad after hitting wire, honestly...but it doesn't cut. So lots of sharpening practice ws had. I think that chain is very nearly dead now, I'm assuming I'll just lose more cutters and once one or two more are gone, it's time to bin it?
On the plus side th chain was cutting with reasonable chips, perfectly straight and cleanly. it did judder/grab a wee bit, but not badly. this ws in cypress and sycamore, so nothing too hard. I then went at a few bits of dry dry dry ash...a few ugglies of wire ash I still had....so you know what happened...i got sharpening pratice, several times....and lost one cutter completely (well it was getting short)
not very focused but that's the same tooth from the side, hook there it seems. yay
that's out of focus too, but again hope you can see the hook is there. So....my sharpening is improving, it cuts ok, straight and throws fair chips....cuts quite quick, even in the old dry ash until you hit barbed wire...then despite being semi chisel its blunt instantly. it never looks too bad after hitting wire, honestly...but it doesn't cut. So lots of sharpening practice ws had. I think that chain is very nearly dead now, I'm assuming I'll just lose more cutters and once one or two more are gone, it's time to bin it?
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When I get short cutters like that I throw them in a zip lock bag labeled “stump chains”, use them when I get a cut where I don’t want to damage a good chain.
When a few more cutters are gone, clip every other one off and you’ll have a skip chain!
Very sorry to hear about the loss of your wife .
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If your not breaking cutters off it's still got plenty of life left. On O P E they would tell you the smaller the cutters the faster they cut.
pic I found on google.
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Those cutters look like they belong in an electric razor.
Loss is a heck of a thing.
So after all this filing talk, it occurred to me that last time I used the 460, it threw a lot of dust despite recently getting a few licks with the file. So I pulled it off the shelf and got the raker gauge out and holy cow! Took about 10 licks with that little Oregon flat file to get em down flush with the gauge. I wanted to try it out but it’s 30 degrees out and much cooler in the garage so another day.
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You have no idea how many people have no idea that rakers are important too.
You can run them until the cutters fly off.
Need to clean out the gullet on the chain in that third photo.
Philbert
No kidding!
James Miller
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Most cants are softer wood and it's only got to make 3 cuts. Down,up,down
Wouldn't run that for firewood work.
Al-k, I’m also very sorry to hear about your loss........ that’s the problem with this life, no one gets out of it alive.
