rullywowr
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Still loving my 550xp after a few years. Taken some big trees down with it, still light enough for limbing. Get a 550xp and MM it.
The 357xp I'm using is the one from you!i still don't get it when it comes to a smaller saw being better for limbing? are you guys from back east where the logs are to small to walk on? hell i limb with 70cc minimum and a 33" bar and wouldn't even consider a small saw. my 550 is for yard work or trimming LOL i need to do a week of cutting back east to see what i like better. where you from mountainhigh? your in BC so you should know what a pain it is the limb with a little saw unless your from inland where the tree's are similar to back east.
You don't have big ol' gnarly Oaks out there I guess?i still don't get it when it comes to a smaller saw being better for limbing? are you guys from back east where the logs are to small to walk on? hell i limb with 70cc minimum and a 33" bar and wouldn't even consider a small saw. my 550 is for yard work or trimming LOL i need to do a week of cutting back east to see what i like better. where you from mountainhigh? your in BC so you should know what a pain it is the limb with a little saw unless your from inland where the tree's are similar to back east.
You don't have big ol' gnarly Oaks out there I guess?
20-40, mostly Oaks, but not always big and gnarly. Have never been able to walk down the stem cuttin limbs. The limbs get cut into firewood and it's better to start a at the skinny end and work back to the stem. Different situation all around...how many big ol' gnarly Oaks do you cut a year?
20-40, mostly Oaks, but not always big and gnarly. Have never been able to walk down the stem cuttin limbs. The limbs get cut into firewood and it's better to start a at the skinny end and work back to the stem. Different situation all around...
Heck I can put that down a day if not more. Out here it'd be like cedar you learn how to work from the butt to the top so on the way back down you're bucking and then back to the stump and to the next tree. Another thing to remember Westcoast and I are production cutters a lot of you guys are weekend warriors, so time is money there's lots of setting up multiple stems and lighting them all off at once. Or if you're cutting poles they can be as long 175 long so you're making sure every little cut is perfect with a long bar and bumping and bucking with a 32" bar any shorter and we'd be wasting time bending over chasing our tails.20-40, mostly Oaks, but not always big and gnarly. Have never been able to walk down the stem cuttin limbs. The limbs get cut into firewood and it's better to start a at the skinny end and work back to the stem. Different situation all around...
I'm confused a 550 running a 32in bar? bugger will have to go back and read this over am sure the OP said something about 16in bar 3/8 chain? ...
562 with a 32", never had anything but that on mine, but it handles it just fine. That said I've never liked short bar one for kick back and two it hurts the back to be bent over like that all the time.
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A lot of Doug fir, hemlock, cedar, some spruce, Red alder, and once in a blue pine if I'm down in the valley I'll see Oak and hardwoods. And to be honest I haven't had an issue with it in hardwoods running that length of bar, I'm running a 3/8 .63 semi skip chisel chain. Another thing especially in the northwest you'll see longer bars and bigger timber on a lot of let's be honest not so nice ground.Oh ok I'm with ya now so its a regional timber thing it must be very soft timber your cutting??..Over here one would starve to death running a 32in bar on a 60cc saw not even joking lol...All commercial pine and most hardwood is done with harvesters here. Old school logging as such is all but over a thing of the past tis history!,only a handful of small operators logging old school left that I know of anyway...
Its pretty much unusable this side of the Mississippi too.We're in Oz, 33" on a 60cc would be unusable, even on a saw as awesome as a 362
i still don't get it when it comes to a smaller saw being better for limbing? are you guys from back east where the logs are to small to walk on? hell i limb with 70cc minimum and a 33" bar and wouldn't even consider a small saw. my 550 is for yard work or trimming LOL i need to do a week of cutting back east to see what i like better. where you from mountainhigh? your in BC so you should know what a pain it is the limb with a little saw unless your from inland where the tree's are similar to back east.
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