Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[Kodiak Kid]

Bring it !! Lol

Its already been delivered! All 100% of it!
Todays scrounge!

 

[sean donato]

When saws get old sometimes stuff needs to be replaced. My 044 carb started going out of adjustment when it had not done so for decades.

I ended up ordering new springs (2) for under the adjustment screws. I think they were less than $1-, but no one had them, had to order them through the dealer, they don't even come with a carb rebuild kit. Stuff may cost a little more now, I think that was 10 years ago. I bought that saw new in December 1992.

They did not want to sell me the 044 because I was not a professional tree guy. I said: "Why, what is different"?

They said: "It cuts too fast". I replied: "That is exactly what I need"! Luckily, they then sold it to me.

At the time, I was buying a truckload of logs every year (5-7 cord) and turning it into firewood to heat my house.

Before I got my 390xp I called around to a few shops I knew did trades. Got a lot of run around till I called eblings. Guy said nope nothing 90+cc used. Got several fine new models on the shelf. Only dealer that didn't give me any gruff about why I needed a 90cc saw.

Well, I went out after spending a few hours plowing the driveway, put a bar and chain on the 346xp and fired it up. Was doing the same thing, so I popped the top cover off so I could see the adjustment screws.

It's defiantly not running right, but it will run with the top cover off, but as soon as I put it back on, it wants to bog and die. (I had the top cover off earlier when I said I had it running after carb ajustment)

I also tried messing with the high jet, and found that I could back it all the way out and it doesn't run any different, doesnt want to rev and bogs down. The only place that was different was all the way in tight, and it wants to die altogether right there.

Starting to think maybe its time for a carb rebuild, But I may just replace the carb and do away with the primer bulb.

Really starting to sound like a fuel issue. Dive in that carb. Check the fuel line too. They have a bad habit of getting little pin holes in them, and yes the curly pig tail fuel line is the best imop.

 

[sean donato]

@The Shooters Apprentice why the hate for the purge bulb? They get fuel to the carb faster for easier starting. Also you'll have to plug the extra hole in the tank. I think if I recall correctly I have a carb off a 359 or 357xp on my 346. No purge bulb hook up, but I think you just need the cover plate from a non purge carb if your dead set on eliminating it.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

The Kid doesn't even live in real alaska lol

Whats the record cold there, like -16 or something like that?

Please Shooter! Unless you've beat a 6" layer of ice off the deck of a crab boat on the Bering Sea in the middle of January with 30 foot seas while -30°? You simply just don't understand the meaning of the word COLD!

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Scrounge today...a bit less than 1/2 cord of Honey Locust and a litte Maple. I passed a tree srevice jobsite yesterday and asked them about the wood...stopped there today and cut up the 6-12" stuff they said i could have.
The bigger stuff is supposed to go a mill but they may not take it...so...I'll get it all
And, better yet, they can drop it in my driveway for $100 that will cover their fuel and time to my house, 15min away.
A good day
First good snow tonite/tomorrow so we'll see about next week

used the 359 for all cutting. Fired up the 500 to reset the chip after the max flow instal…sounds even more awesome than before

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Found this box of chains on the porch when I got home tonight.....
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Dang, and ya didn’t even have to make them yourself!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

It's like a competition then? Whoever's colder wins?

I don't know? Im good with our temps hear on the Island. IMOP, Kodiak Island is unlike any other place else in AK.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Dang, and ya didn’t even have to make them yourself!

Nope, I found a super good deal on em on black Friday..... I don't even have bars for all of em.....it was just too cheap to pass up.

 

[chipper1]

IMOP, Kodiak Island is unlike any other place else in AK.

The people are too IMHO

 

[chipper1]

That makes you a sorry, pathetic excuse of an Alaskan. Time to toughen up and move north.

He left himself hanging out there with that one .

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It's like a competition then? Whoever's colder wins?

You better head to Northway then, last time I was there it was -62F...

I didn't stay long!! lol

SR

 

[Kodiak Kid]

To be fair I'm not sure Stihl ever built a small saw that could keep up with the 346xp. I believe it has the highest factory RPM of any saw. They are a little screamer.

Ha ha! Well its it good thing I don't shop for small saws! Toys r Us has new 346's in stock if you can't get yours run'n!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

That makes you a sorry, pathetic excuse of an Alaskan. Time to toughen up and move north.

Interesting comment....Well, if you say so!

 

[The Shooters Apprentice]

@The Shooters Apprentice why the hate for the purge bulb? They get fuel to the carb faster for easier starting. Also you'll have to plug the extra hole in the tank. I think if I recall correctly I have a carb off a 359 or 357xp on my 346. No purge bulb hook up, but I think you just need the cover plate from a non purge carb if your dead set on eliminating it.

I find that they crack of you try using them in the cold.

 

[chipper1]

No offense, but Pro's at what? Grinding saw chains?

Cutting, mainly the guys in the PNW and the guys up in BC. I've seen many pictures of them in camps right next to their Simington square grinders all lined up.

Ever get the Death Wobble it’s a right of passage and hang on

Yep, as ByLj, all over 85mph . None on a triumph though lol.

When I was a kid working at a trap/skeet club,

That was my first real job at 14.

Never runs long enough to get warm. If I bring it in the house and bring it up to temp, it will run, as soon as it gets cold again nothing.

I’m actually starting to wonder if I have an air leak that only shows it’s ugly face in the cold.

Could be an air leak.
I'd check the plug also. You could just swap parts between the two saws.

Ok, how long will it run before it dies if you stay on the throttle? Not necessary wide open, but staying on it a bit? I'm trying to go through all the possibilities. If we can eliminate that its not an icing problem? Then we are going in the right direction.

I highly doubt it's icing.

I believe it has the highest factory RPM of any saw. They are a little screamer.

Far from it, look up the specs on the 242xp and the ms200 .

@The Shooters Apprentice why the hate for the purge bulb? They get fuel to the carb faster for easier starting. Also you'll have to plug the extra hole in the tank. I think if I recall correctly I have a carb off a 359 or 357xp on my 346. No purge bulb hook up, but I think you just need the cover plate from a non purge carb if your dead set on eliminating it.

I like the purge bulbs, they are like a fuel system indicator, when they get nasty and aren't clear it's time to freshen the whole fuel system. And who can argue with how well they start.

 

[chipper1]

Interesting comment....Well, if you say so!

Hey, it's his IMOP .

Ha ha! Well its it good thing I don't shop for small saws! Toys r Us has new 346's in stock if you can't get yours run'n!

I'm pretty sure there's no toys r us these days, if there was I'd be heading there to buy a few .

 

[chipper1]

I find that they crack of you try using them in the cold.

That's something I haven't ran into. Here the older ones will crack when you put ethanol fuel in them, I've seen quite a bit of that and them just drying out in general.

 

[chipper1]

I didn't stay long!! lol

Shrinkage is real .

 

[Kodiak Kid]

The people are too IMHO

No argument here! Thanks fir the compliment!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Shrinkage is real .

Braaaafffaahhhaaa haaa ha ha haaaa! ROLMAO!!! That's funny! That was a good one Brett!