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He has been doing some real nice work ... I'm just not sure what I would do with another ported saw!

Currently have at least a dozen!
I was very impressed with @huskihl Kevin’s professionalism and attention to detail. Text updates and pics all through the build plus the test cuts. There will be more business headed his way for sure once the saw budget refills itself.

I’m very happy that Mark’s saw is better than new. One of the bearings was nearly toast when Kevin pulled it apart so we caught it just in time.
 
I was very impressed with @huskihl Kevin’s professionalism and attention to detail. Text updates and pics all through the build plus the test cuts. There will be more business headed his way for sure once the saw budget refills itself.

I’m very happy that Mark’s saw is better than new. One of the bearings was nearly toast when Kevin pulled it apart so we caught it just in time.

Kevin's a good guy and does great work. My saw he did is mint!
Thanks, fellers. Glad you like them
 
Dude. Why do you keep doing this? Seriously.

She makes $18,000 ($450 a student times 40 students in the class) teaching a 30 hour course and then her and another gal provide 6 hours of behind the wheel training for each kid. All told thats 18k for 270 hours. 66 bucks an hour to teach a webex from her dining room table and ride around town.....Sounds like a pretty good racket to me. Not sure why you seem convinced she’s taking someone’s BS.

Nothing against you personally, you just seem to bring topics up that I respond too.
If it was all about money...
 
Darn near cant touch locust around here with a stack of gold. Loved for burn wood as much ad for posts. Been yelled at more then once for cutting it up for burn wood.
I'll be snagging more gold today. The woodshed is about 80% BL and 20% cherry and oak, the BL is great except the splinters and the thorns :surprised3:.
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It's weird, I've scrounged robina pseudoacacia (black locust) a couple of times. It's been very easy to split but disappointing to burn.
We don't have the euc's and other very dense hardwoods you guys have :(.
Iirc BL is right between red and white oak for BTU(those would disappoint you too), and the green weight is less than both because of the low water content. It's my favorite since it will also season great if cut and split one yr ahead of burning. Another great thing about it is all the dead standing ones, they are great to cut/split and toss right in the stove, I like doing that with smaller pieces in the fall when I'm cutting here and in January with rounds.
 
Nothing against you personally, you just seem to bring topics up that I respond too.
If it was all about money...
But why the need to pull regular life discussions back to covid arguments/government control/politics/conspiracy theories continuously?

Brett, you are a good man and I consider you one of my best “online” friends. But for the life of me I don’t understand what happens to you when someone brings up covid. Can we PLEASE just agree to disagree?
 
New life breathed into the Zogger 371 thanks to @huskihl. Cant wait to get it back!


That's sweet.
If you get a 572 clutch cover you will get the side tensioner and the captive nuts :happy: .
Feels like I just hit the jackpot lol. Called up my local HD and they had a Makita saw for sale! Rushed over there and bought it. Not a great deal though I guess, $290. Also Makita totally changed their saw design because I didn't recognize it lol. They also reduced the cc to 61 vice 64. Anyways, pic of the saw and the woods near my house. Hopefully that will be my new scrounging area
Those are solid saws, the 6100. I just shipped a 6421 out last week, that's the one HD used to carry.
Dolmar builds great stuff.
 

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But why the need to pull regular life discussions back to covid arguments/government/politics/conspiracy theories continuously?

Brett, you are a good man and I consider you one of my best “online” friends. But for the life of me I don’t understand what happens to you when someone brings up covid. Can we PLEASE just agree to disagree?
Then don't post about it, I thought that's what we agreed to?

I feel the same way about you, but if you guys want to talk about c19 then I will too, but from the other side.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_b...-31-2&mktids=e013de54a9e22839e9043802b99c7d10I know I'm a conspiracy theorist, sure they won't include the c19 vacs in the kids required vacs for school.
https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject...0percent-effective-in-kids-ages-12-to-15.html
 
That's sweet.
If you get a 572 clutch cover you will get the side tensioner and the captive nuts :happy: .

Those are solid saws, the 6100. I just shipped a 6421 out last week, that's the one HD used to carry.
Dolmar builds great stuff.

That’s a good idea.

I’m so happy that I decided to send this saw to Kevin otherwise the crank bearing would have grenaded. I had “reserved” a spot with him last fall and had contemplated doing either my 600p (which I decided to sell) or another 350/346 hybrid.

Ironically the saw had been apart before. It had a pop-up piston and the base was cut. Zog never mentioned that so I’m sure it was done prior to his ownership.

Those long term AS members will remember that Zog was the victim of have several saws stolen about 8 years ago. I think this saw was one of the replacement fleet that was rebuilt after the theft.

It was totally loaded with carbon too so somewhere along the line it had used a lot of cheap oil.
 
Yep, people should be able to see/hear both sides. If people are to make a decision on something isn't it fair that they have the ability to give informed consent, no different than saw buyers wanting to at least do some due diligence. As someone offering a product you should understand this, many times I turn people off from buying something I'm selling as there are other options that are better, in this case an experimental vac in my opinion is a bad choice. You're entitled to your opinions, just like with a saw, as am I.
 
Yep, people should be able to see/hear both sides. If people are to make a decision on something isn't it fair that they have the ability to give informed consent, no different than saw buyers wanting to at least do some due diligence. As someone offering a product you should understand this, many times I turn people off from buying something I'm selling as there are other options that are better, in this case an experimental vac in my opinion is a bad choice. You're entitled to your opinions, just like with a saw, as am I.
If you think you are “winning” an argument by posting links (some from questionable sources) ad nauseam, trust me you are not.

This argument rekindled because you twisted my statement about the teacher not taking crap from her students into the fact that she was being manipulated by the government because she converted to online classes.

****ing drop it already.
 
That’s a good idea.

I’m so happy that I decided to send this saw to Kevin otherwise the crank bearing would have grenaded. I had “reserved” a spot with him last fall and had contemplated doing either my 600p (which I decided to sell) or another 350/346 hybrid.

Ironically the saw had been apart before. It had a pop-up piston and the base was cut. Zog never mentioned that so I’m sure it was done prior to his ownership.

Those long term AS members will remember that Zog was the victim of have several saws stolen about 8 years ago. I think this saw was one of the replacement fleet that was rebuilt after the theft.

It was totally loaded with carbon too so somewhere along the line it had used a lot of cheap oil.
I wonder what piston was cut to make the popup. The 268(50mm) popup with a muffler mod and timing advance was the most powerful 372 series saw I've ran without port work done to the cylinder, and it was so easy to start for a 70cc saw it was silly.
 
I wonder what piston was cut to make the popup. The 268(50mm) popup with a muffler mod and timing advance was the most powerful 372 series saw I've ran without port work done to the cylinder, and it was so easy to start for a 70cc saw it was silly.

I don’t know, maybe @huskihl would know what type of piston it was.

What I do know is that as it was built when it came into my possession, it would absolutely run away from either of my ported 346’s in 16-20” softwood. And when you think that ported 346’s should be pushing 4 1/2 to 5 hp...a tired 371 should have an advantage in long bar situations but shouldn’t run away in softwood.

Either way I’m sure it will cut much better now and should provide years of good service.
 
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