Which tree did you shoot down?
Common man looking for a chainsaw on a budget
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zogger
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LittleLebowski
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Nope, it's on my hip when working outside. IWB, strong side when around the house, AIWB usually when out in town.
I am indeed notching the trees before I fell them and do use a plastic felling wedge. A friend strongly recommend some videos on using a chainsaw properly that were put out by the Canadian Forestry service and I also read this forum quite a bit as so to learn from the pros.
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jr27236
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I don't see any notches in any of those, cutting on an angle is not the proper way to fell a tree. Plenty of videos on YouTube on that also.
Never ever saw a logger or recreational cutter carry a sidearm in the woods, and I've been around lots. But hey, to each his own, maybe you're in a dangerous section of The woods.
Chris-PA
Where the Wild Things Are
LittleLebowski
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Last time I checked, the 2nd Amendment said nothing about "need." I understand that your rights are curtailed in California (I used to live there) and I wish that they were not. That being said, I do not appreciate snide remarks implying that I'm a fearful person because I carry a gun. If you don't mind, I would appreciate getting back on topic. If you'd like to debate me carrying a weapon, I or you can start a thread in the off topic forum. Just let me know.
Lol, sorry dude, didn't mean to insult your manhood, by the way, you chain is a little lose.
LittleLebowski
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I cut small notches on the smaller trees and a good sized notch (link to the wedge I cut out that my daughter confiscated) on the bigger one as of course, I wanted to control the direction of where it fell. I paced it out at right at 70 yards.
My manhood is fine, got a beautiful wife, great house, and wonderful kids plus I survived 8 years as a grunt
Agreed on the chain, going to take it down and clean out the bar before retensioning.
Glock 22? I've a 17
LittleLebowski
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17, Gen4.
Gen 4 ??? What makes it diffrent I like the 17
LittleLebowski
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Hey, I'll start a new thread in the Guns section or PM ya so we can keep my big learning experience thread sorta on track
jr27236
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Hey you never know when a tree is going to fight back lol
If a tree fights back, that hog leg is the last thing you need to defend yourself, just sayin. I don't take a chainsaw to a gun fight. I went out yesterday and cut some very nice madrone that were to close to a friends house for his comfort, he doesnt like the mess they make cause the fire danger this year is going to be very bad. Making a defendable space around the house is going to be key and this is an answer to this problem, my payment was keeping the firewood for next year as these were green trees. Two nice truckloads to my house, one to his neighbor for his help in cleaning up the slash, everybody's happy.
LittleLebowski
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Anyway, figured out this saw and what I was doing wrong. When it's warm, skip to half choke to start or sometimes no choke, depends on how warm it is. The new Husqvarna chain is amazing! Way better than the old Oregon one, staying sharper longer. Is it normal to have to re-tension the chain after each session?
Some work with the maul and my team of helpers showed up...
And just to annoy griz55chev
Some work with the maul and my team of helpers showed up...
And just to annoy griz55chev
Now why would that annoy me, and more importantly why would you be trying, did I annoy you?
LittleLebowski
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I figured since you went out of your way to question me carrying, that you wouldn't dig a suppressed AR with a standard capacity magazine. If it doesn't offend you, then you're less antigun than I thought
zogger
Tree Freak
Anyway, figured out this saw and what I was doing wrong. When it's warm, skip to half choke to start or sometimes no choke, depends on how warm it is. The new Husqvarna chain is amazing! Way better than the old Oregon one, staying sharper longer. Is it normal to have to re-tension the chain after each session?
Some work with the maul and my team of helpers showed up...
And just to annoy griz55chev
That's it, work them wood slaves! hahaha!
Chain tension, make sure you relieve tension if it has been adjusted tighter when the chain is hot, otherwise when it cools down it will put stress on the nose sprocket and drive sprocket.
Warm restarts on most saws I have, I just set the high idle, which is pull choke out and push back in without touching the throttle trigger. I also pull choke to shutoff, can't even remember the last time I used the kill switch.
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