I worked at a house today and the guy next door had his saw (husky) sitting on the ground idleing for a good 7-8 minutes. I don't know what he was doing, maybe inside eating lunch. I've seen him do it before. Today it was around 80 out. I can't believe this is a good practice. What are the possible sideeffects? Although I have to say it did idle good.
long chainsaw idle bad?
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Safety - never leave the saw running unattended. And possibly premature clutch bearing failure. The tree service guys around here don't let the saws idle even between cuts while in a tree.
ropensaddle
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That is easy he saw some jealous stihl owners giving
his saw the evil eye and was baiting them ! :hmm3grin2orange:
sperho
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Then when they stole it, as he was thinking and hoping that they would, he could claim the "loss" of that POS and go out and buy himself a real s(tihl)aw.
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ropensaddle
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No then when they stole it he had a fix
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STLfirewood
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I leave a saw running for a lot longer then that. I had a couple little top handle echo saws. I leave one by the chipper ideling the whole time the chipper is running. I leave the brake on. It's a lot easier when you have a limb that needs to be cut to go through the chipper to have the saw running. It really speeds things up. The saw is 5-years old and still runs fine. I paid $140 for the saw new in the box on e-bay. It's a throw away like most chainsaws so I wouldn't worry about ideling it to much. If it needs a repair again it going to ebay as a saw that needs work and I'll buy another. It's paid for it's self many times
Scott
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