Fire sale!! Stihl 201TC

[CIAmike11]

Haha, no it’s not really for sale, it burned for about 4/5 minutes so I doubt anything is usable anyway. Just wanted to show the community the daily crew f*** up at work

 

[lone wolf]

Haha, no it’s not really for sale, it burned for about 4/5 minutes so I doubt anything is usable anyway. Just wanted to show the community the daily crew f*** up at work

Well how did it ignite?

 

[CIAmike11]

No clue actually

 

[CIAmike11]

It’s the first time in my career I dropped a saw out of a tree, I was about 40-45 foot up a 120 foot white pine, saw slipped from my hand… as you can see I climb with a shorty lanyard.. a groundie saw me drop it.. ran over, I asked if it was ****ed up and he said it doesn’t look like it, just the air filter cracked… hold on let me try to start it.. well!!! When he pulled the starter cord the saw burst into flames(no not an exaggeration… literally burst into a fireball), around his hands and face. Thank god he wasn’t hurt.. he dropped the saw, as it was fully engulfed… and it laid on the ground burning until two more ground guys helped him put it out… it was damn near full of fuel

 

[lone wolf]

It’s the first time in my career I dropped a saw out of a tree, I was about 40-45 foot up a 120 foot white pine, saw slipped from my hand… as you can see I climb with a shorty lanyard.. a groundie saw me drop it.. ran over, I asked if it was ****ed up and he said it doesn’t look like it, just the air filter cracked… hold on let me try to start it.. well!!! When he pulled the starter cord the saw burst into flames(no not an exaggeration… literally burst into a fireball), around his hands and face. Thank god he wasn’t hurt.. he dropped the saw, as it was fully engulfed… and it laid on the ground burning until two more ground guys helped him put it out… it was damn near full of fuel

Never heard of that one before.

 

[lone wolf]

No clue actually

Gas tank cracked or fuel line came off, leaked gas and came in contact with spark . I surmise.

 

[CIAmike11]

Yea I’m thinking something along thsoe
Lines happened as well. It was kinda crazy to see. I’m just glad my ground guys didn’t get hurt

 

[KarlD]

Yes I’ve seen similar from a distance. I expect the tank fractured and fuel leaked too close to the spark plug. At least it was your fault and not the groundies…and that the saw hit the ground and not someone’s helmet

 

[CIAmike11]

Being a saw guy working on them for so long… I really didn’t want him to even try to start it right away I would of checked it out at the end of the day and grabbed another saw to finish the tree I was in and the day. My gut told me to stop him but it happened very quickly

 

[KarlD]

Cylinder, piston, crank, crankcases, clutch and carb on eBay, the rest is scrap

 

[CIAmike11]

Exactly, and our company’s big so I mean we have a ton of 201’s and like you said all my guys were safe and everyone went home uninjured..

 

[CIAmike11]

We don’t sell our parts saws for the tree service.. all the stuff I’ve listened is from out of my own personal saws, all our 201 carcasses and blown saws get saved

 

[KarlD]

Time to replace with a T540i xp

 

[CIAmike11]

To top it all off… honestly just before topping out said tree I was in when the incident with the 201 happened. I hear a loud bang over the noise of the skid steer and chipper… literally the same groundie that the saw caught in fire with… blew up one of the 262’s flushing a stump haha I was like man… this lot clearing job is going to be in the red for our company by the time we are done

 

[CIAmike11]

I have 2 regular 540s and one electronic 540i

 

[CIAmike11]

I love them… but we have about 10 we’ll now 9. 201s in service at the moment

 

[lone wolf]

To top it all off… honestly just before topping out said tree I was in when the incident with the 201 happened. I hear a loud bang over the noise of the skid steer and chipper… literally the same groundie that the saw caught in fire with… blew up one of the 262’s flushing a stump haha I was like man… this lot clearing job is going to be in the red for our company by the time we are done

Groundies can be annoying!

 

[CIAmike11]

He’s a good guy… just **** happens. The 562 that blew up was one of the older ones in rotation and besides regular basic stuff hasn’t really had any replacement parts or money dumped into it

 

[CIAmike11]

I did feel like a **** when the saw caught on fire I said “hey get my lanyard bro!!”

 

[CIAmike11]

In hindsight probably not the best reaction to a 700 plus $ saw burning on the ground.. grab my $15 dollar lanyard man!!! Bahah