anymanusa
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I haven't used it in a good while and I had a really big tree (40" x 28" diameter or close to that). I was doing some limbing with my shorter 18" bar and it was cutting like butter. When I got to the trunk I put my 24" bar on and was having a really hard time, or slow time with it. It just wasn't cutting as well and I kept pulling it out to hear the gurgle sound and make sure it would 4 stroke so as to make sure it wasn't running lean and getting hot, but the bar was getting hot, the saw was working hard.
Then all of the sudden it dawned on me that I hadn't turned the oiler up for the big bar. Doh.
Cutting was alot easier after that. Still slow though, that chain probably wasn't as sharp as it could have been.
I'm really worried that I scored up the piston. I use the stihl synthetic oil in excess of the recommended 50:1 and the saw ran strong the next day when I used it...I just feel dumb and like I did some damage to it.
Here is the best pic I could get on short notice. This is looking in through the exhaust port with the muffler removed.
Then all of the sudden it dawned on me that I hadn't turned the oiler up for the big bar. Doh.
Cutting was alot easier after that. Still slow though, that chain probably wasn't as sharp as it could have been.
I'm really worried that I scored up the piston. I use the stihl synthetic oil in excess of the recommended 50:1 and the saw ran strong the next day when I used it...I just feel dumb and like I did some damage to it.
Here is the best pic I could get on short notice. This is looking in through the exhaust port with the muffler removed.