I was getting ready to go out cutting today & was going to take my 10-10S,E.B.2.1,& a Remy SL9.I couldn't get the 10-10S to start.I went through to check for spark & tried 2 different plugs,but wouldn't fire.I dumped out the fuel thinking it might've got some water in it from the last bit of fuel that was left outside for a couple days.I finally found the problem,the choke linkage had come unhooked & the choke was stuck in the closed position.I left the 10-10S behind & took the 5-10 in it's place.I didn't have a lot of wood to cut,most of it was small limb wood.I got to my cutting location about 3:15 & fired up the SL9 first.It ran OK,but needed some carb adjustments & I forgot my small screwdriver.So next I fired up the E.B.2.1 & only cut about 8-10 pieces of wood when something caused the chain to start binding.Of course no tools to take it apart to see what was causing the chain to bind,so I refueled the SL9 & made the carb adjustments with my scrench.There was no sense in firing up the 5-10 as there wasn't anything big enough for the 70cc saw to sink it's teeth into.I did manage to get close to a cord of wood cut in the couple hrs.I was out cutting..I know you're all laughing so hard you're probably falling out of your chairs reading this thinking to yourselves "he only cut a cord of wood in 2 hrs.".You'd have to see the conditions I had to cut in to understand.The logs were scattered like pick up sticks in a pile that's overgrown with poison ivy & other such viny plants (thank goodness I'm not allergic to poison ivy),& the bark is now falling off the wood due to it laying there for a few yrs.I'd have to cut,then pull the log out of the pile the best I could,then cut some more.When I first got there I thought I'd never be able to do what I did,but persistence pays off.I hope to go back on Mon.& finish that nightmare cutting.
Tomorrow it's possible that I'll get to use the newly rebuilt SP81 to drop a huge maple trunk about 15-20 ft.tall that we started on (the tree) back in 2013.Back then I only had a Timberbear for my only Mac with a 20 in.bar.