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Well I find 3 Big Oak 46" already down, limbed, topped in three somewhat decent piles. Owner says "Get them out of here!" FREE!! OK!!
I cut firewood, what small amounts we use in Savannah, for myself and two neighbors that mostly use outside in firepits to sit around and drink beer at night.
Neighbor is a great guy, says I'll help! Free labor, who would turn that down?
I grabbed the 066 Mag and decided on the 028 for him not knowing his proficiency level of slinging a saw. After the intial "this is what and how and why" you do introduction I turn him loose. The guy is over 50 years old! It wasn't 15 minutes into our work that I don't hear the saw anymore. It had been running like a top with my back to him about 80 yards away. Went over and he was already loading the truck. I asked him how he was liking the saw and he said that it bogged down on him and quit. My heart dropped!
Looking at the Woodsman the chain would not budge. Chainbreak off, and the bar/chain are pretty hot. Grab my scrench, undress her so the heat don't discolor the clutch housing, picky about my saws ya know, and the bar sproket won't turn. Looking closer it looks like he was making sawdust with the thing! But the chains I hand sharpen like razors, that can't be. Guess what? We live on an Island here and everything is sand. He ran the bar into the sand, sucked it up around the bar track and sproket and coated the entire inside behind the bar cover with grit and oil and sawdust!! What a mess!! I looked and him and the bar oil that was flying with the sand covered his pants and looked like he was playing in a sandbox! Took me 1/2 an hour to break things free and clean the bar and start over! I even went over how important it was to keep the bar out of the sand/dirt.
Never again!! Going to buy one of those Wild Things or just loan out the Echo 330T, something inexpensive but still sharp and well tuned. And to think that I almost brought out the new MS361 for him to break in for me. I would have been sick, or he would have met an early death!
Never loan out a saw that is close to your heart!!!
I cut firewood, what small amounts we use in Savannah, for myself and two neighbors that mostly use outside in firepits to sit around and drink beer at night.
Neighbor is a great guy, says I'll help! Free labor, who would turn that down?
I grabbed the 066 Mag and decided on the 028 for him not knowing his proficiency level of slinging a saw. After the intial "this is what and how and why" you do introduction I turn him loose. The guy is over 50 years old! It wasn't 15 minutes into our work that I don't hear the saw anymore. It had been running like a top with my back to him about 80 yards away. Went over and he was already loading the truck. I asked him how he was liking the saw and he said that it bogged down on him and quit. My heart dropped!
Looking at the Woodsman the chain would not budge. Chainbreak off, and the bar/chain are pretty hot. Grab my scrench, undress her so the heat don't discolor the clutch housing, picky about my saws ya know, and the bar sproket won't turn. Looking closer it looks like he was making sawdust with the thing! But the chains I hand sharpen like razors, that can't be. Guess what? We live on an Island here and everything is sand. He ran the bar into the sand, sucked it up around the bar track and sproket and coated the entire inside behind the bar cover with grit and oil and sawdust!! What a mess!! I looked and him and the bar oil that was flying with the sand covered his pants and looked like he was playing in a sandbox! Took me 1/2 an hour to break things free and clean the bar and start over! I even went over how important it was to keep the bar out of the sand/dirt.
Never again!! Going to buy one of those Wild Things or just loan out the Echo 330T, something inexpensive but still sharp and well tuned. And to think that I almost brought out the new MS361 for him to break in for me. I would have been sick, or he would have met an early death!
Never loan out a saw that is close to your heart!!!