Big wood and even bigger saws, 125 vs 090 vs 750 videos!!

[watsonr]

Was asked to do a little hurricane clean-up for a friend, nice big fat oak tree about 32" average and about 60-70' of it. Was across a gully and a little tough but not to bad. The tree was relatively knot free except the one big limb near the top, she's close to 4' at the stump and solid all the way through.

The line up of saws, Homelite 750 w/36" roller, McCulloch 125 w/42" roller, Stihl 090 w/36" roller, Stihl 064 w/28", Stihl 044 w/20, and the Makita 6401 w/20". The two smaller saws were for tops and limbs and my buddy and his boy ran those two.

First up, 125. Something was wrong with the oiler, bar was pretty warm after the cut. I cleaned the groove out, had some burned wood dust in it and seemed like the bar plates were rubbing the sides of the chain. I could see the tie straps were rubbed, she only made this cut, sorry. It did cut well, chain needed a sharpening, I had not touched it before this cut and I should have, I may have discovered the chain was rubbing. Also will need to turn the oiler up to max as I had to manual oil as I went. It was the slowest of the three and she should have been the fastest.
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Next the 090, ran good, was rich at the start of the cut, I re-tuned her and finished the cut. If you can run this monster all day, your more of a man than I am, NOT saying I'm not tough, but this thing is heavy and will flat wear you out!! Made some nice chips and was almost as fast as the 750, I could lean on her pretty heavy and not slow it down. Would smoke the 750 in bigger wood for sure!
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Last, my favorite saw of the bunch!! The 750 was running great and a real pleasure to cut with, not to heavy and was cutting fast, you can see from the pile of chips they were big and fell straight down, had to kick them away in places where the log was close to the ground. I could put both hands on the handle and pull almost as hard as I could and she barely grunted.
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Group shot of me and the boys near the end, notice were all wearing smiles and will be for days. Can't say that for my arms and back, enjoy!

 

[Tzed250]

Cool vids! I think the chain on the 125 needs a touch up. More dust than chips.

 

[jeepyfz450]

great vids..... that tree looked awfully nice to block into firewood. I want one of those 750s so bad that thing is a beast.

 

[blsnelling]

Nice saws, nice wood, and nice vids. Thanks for sharing

 

[zogger]

Beast master

Nice stuff man.

If a beefy guy like you has some issues with like an 090, guess I'll pass on looking for a really big saw, much as I want one...got to be able to run the thing.... I'll be looking for a "large medium"** if that makes any sense.

Ya, that homie looked good!

**ya, I'm lookin'........

 

[mdavlee]

I love the sound of the 750.

 

[rwoods]

Great stuff. BTW on the 125C if you are running a narrow bar, MAC make spacers that space the bar plates out further so the chain won't rub. Ron

 

[Andyshine77]

Thanks for posting the videos. That 750 is a wood eating beast.

 

[dave k]

Thanks for posting those, like the last pic "group shot" !

 

[sawfun9]

Now that's my kind of video since I have one each of those saws. Thanks.

 

[leeha]

Cool video's and some sweet wood.
The 750 did seem to run pretty well.



Lee

 

[Rudedog]

Very inspirational. I need to get a carb kit in my 090 and get it running.

 

[TK]

Very nice!