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CTYank

CTYank

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Arrived at @spike60's shop in Shokan NY to await my arrival for adoption yesterday. Will nicely complement Dolly 6100 in the big sticks we're cleaning up still from "Sandy", once we can get trail access again into work areas. Can hardly wait to get this beauty spewing chips. Was really hoping for low-snow winter after the last one we had. Hah!

I even offered to use the new snowblower I also got from Spike60, to clear vehicle access on a couple of sites the Land Trust is working. Piece of cake with that blower. I wanna run this saw! Deep snow is good you know, @MechanicMatt, absorbs lots of the noise. Quiet is good, very good. :rolleyes:

Very enjoyable visit to Shokan, but should have packed snowshoes. :D

'Til next time, at Steve's.
 
Waiting on mine to ship from terry... stock except mm from him. How are you liking it.
 
Tjcole50 said:
Waiting on mine to ship from terry... stock except mm from him. How are you liking it.
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I like it a lot. But I've just lightly "kissed" the cutters with a file, and otherwise looked lovingly at it, so to speak. Once we can get vehicle access at one of the sites we've been working, it'll be nice to hear its low tenor voice out there, and see the chips fly. It's pretty, almost too pretty. Gotta get it dirty.

It's kinda like waiting for Christmas, as a kid.
 
Hopefully you can get out soon and use it. If you have near the amount of snow that we have in Ma. I feel your pain, put an abrupt halt to any sort of firewood activities I had planned. Every time I dig out we get buried again. Must be torture to have that saw and not use it, report back to us once it throws chips
 
Chris-PA said:
That's a saw I'd like to have.
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Bob (Spike60) in Shokan can make you a good deal, which took away one of my excuses. Partly as a formality we took a few demo saws to the woods behind his shop, so I could get "first-hand" test of a/v on the 576 and a jonsered sibling of the husqy 372. (Friend is interested in the comparison.) The 576 is, as I've heard it put, Saaaaweeet. Like an electric motor as it blew through some oak and coated me with chips.

The AT and strato-scavenging do wonders for us aerobes in the vicinity of such a powerful engine.
 
I wanted the 572xp as well but I couldn't wait any longer. but I have read a ton of stuff on the 576xp and seems everyone loves them and they are very underrated. Seems they were given a bad rap from some early 575 issues? For me it was between the 576 and the 441. From my limited hands on time in the store I think I am going to be very happy. I just wish shipping would fast forward to right now!
 
John, it was fun to have you come over in the middle of this "ways to go yet" winter. But on the positive side not being that busy right now afforded us some time to hang out, play in the woods and talk saws. And since it snowed again, I trust you got to use your new Ariens. In fact, I sold my last one yesterday, so I'm done for the year. I could get more, but I've had a good year and I'm ready to change the showrom over to the grass stuff. Green grass seems a long way off though, doesn't it?

And thanks for the Captain Lawrence IPA! Excellent stuff.
 
spike60 said:
..... In fact, I sold my last one yesterday, so I'm done for the year. I could get more, but I've had a good year and I'm ready to change the showrom over to the grass stuff. Green grass seems a long way off though, doesn't it?
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Sounds like prematurely to me - but of course you know your market! :)
 
MustangMike said:
Yank, congrats on getting a name brand decent size saw!!! I predict you will love it!
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What do you mean, Mike, "decent size"? :innocent: It's my heaviest-artillery, for the biggest sticks that are waiting for us. Just too bad we'll have to wait for ice-out to get to them. No, I won't be revving it indoors. Ever.
All my little brood are decent-size for their job. :cheers: Won't be using a 576 for limbing. :laughing: That's 30-40 cc territory.
 
I remember how you liked how my 044 went through the knot in the Black Locust at the spring GTG, well, now U got one that will do the same!

The smaller saws are nice, but sometimes torque is nicer!

Another nice saw I can look forward to trying out at GTG!
 
MustangMike said:
I remember how you liked how my 044 went through the knot in the Black Locust at the spring GTG, well, now U got one that will do the same!

The smaller saws are nice, but sometimes torque is nicer!

Another nice saw I can look forward to trying out at GTG!
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I could point out that Miss Dolly blew through some BL knots there also, but that would be picky of me. :innocent: Firewooders, especially, have use for 30-50 cc saws, one of the reasons I appreciate my 3 yo $180 PP5020 with a 16" bar. It's all about usable power.

Yer already penciled in on her "dance card" up by Saratoga at Steve's in April. Should be broken in some by then. I'd like to try a side-by-side with a Dolly 7910, my other leading candidate. Hopefully @Hugenpoet can join us so I can administer a promised touch-up on his 7910's chain. :chainsaw: Should be fun, no matter how it gets arranged.

A couple minutes with @spike60 is like a graduate seminar. What should we call the subject? Chipology? 2-stroke musicology?
 

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