The chain is also quite heavy - much heavier that 3/8 and 0.404 - which
sort of gives it a bit of moving inertia (is that what it is called
) - so that
you possible have a little more time to "lighten your touch" when starting
to loose revs ... . Just some afterwards speculations ... .
Still 1/2 inch chain (to the left below) is (almost) nothing compared with
e.g., 3/4 inch chain (to the right below) -
.
As for trees in (south) Sweden a forest owner neighbour and pall of mine has
a couple of 2 or so meter high oak stumps that were left over when he had pe-
ople with him taking down some of his big oakes - they couldn't deal with the-
se trees at ground level because lacking big enough saws - we have planned
that I shall cut the stumps with my 42" blade Hva 3120 - as the stumps are I
suppose 1.7 or so meters diameter at ground level (just an estimate from mem-
ory) it will take a careful "saw around" with wedges to fix it (not wanting to saw
a backhand with a 3120 I suppose ...). And will reward handsomly in firewood
.
Haven't done anything this big before, though ... .
Although such trees are unusually big you see like 1.2-1.3 meter bottom diameter
trees here and there - in fact perhaps every 50 yards at some places - my forest
owner pall has a so called "natural forest" - everything just growes as it decides to
by itself - that's why he has such big trees - regular "commerical forests" are instead
planted with care and calculation and trees are harvested at an economical size and
age long before they get nearly that big ... . (As that takes hundreds of years
.)