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My dealer spins loops to what ever do count you want. What confuses me is the spare chain I got when I picked up the 355t is non safety Carlton but the chain I got yesterday is Carlton safety chain.
I just grind them off with my 4" grinder. Fold the chain in half(like it goes around the end of the bar but more) and then the safety part of the links will be sticking out, then grind away, it will cut pretty good even with them on though. What makes a big difference is semi chisel or full chisel, but if you want to use it for doing plunge cuts then you want to ditch the safety ramps.
Just posted this in the GMT, but this is one of those "junk" vanguard chains that can't cut wood lol.
 
I was trying to put a mental gameplan together for these monsters. I was thinking put the 20" on, noodle the end in a grid, then put the 32" on and make the bucking cut and all the bits would fall off the end?
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20,24,28,and 42
no creamsicle in the lineup
 
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Is this Swamp Oak? LOL. Just finished up the last of the cottonwood that was in the creek. Got almost a cord out of it. [emoji106]


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You just need a 4 saw planView attachment 638520
20,24,28,and 42
no creamsicle in the lineup
Thinned the Homelite herd a week or so ago. So, yesterday I was looking at what is still running. Super 1050 Automatic with 36" bar, XL925 with 30" bar, XL700 with 16"bar (Steve, that's a blue XL700. It was under my work bench in the basement. I knew I had more.), and a 150 Automatic with a 14" bar. Was playing with the little 150 yesterday and the recoil spring shattered in about 10 places. Ordered a new one for $9.99. I've got an orange 4 saw team also. 660 with 36" and 25" bars, 08S with 21" bar, MS290 with 18" and an MS170 with 16". The 08S isn't running at the time though.
 
Thinned the Homelite herd a week or so ago. So, yesterday I was looking at what is still running. Super 1050 Automatic with 36" bar, XL925 with 30" bar, XL700 with 16"bar (Steve, that's a blue XL700. It was under my work bench in the basement. I knew I had more.), and a 150 Automatic with a 14" bar. Was playing with the little 150 yesterday and the recoil spring shattered in about 10 places. Ordered a new one for $9.99. I've got an orange 4 saw team also. 660 with 36" and 25" bars, 08S with 21" bar, MS290 with 18" and an MS170 with 16". The 08S isn't running at the time though.

16" on a ms170? is that power head stock? or do you enjoy cutting Sllllloooooowwwwwwly?
 
I was hauling logs home from the bush today. We got a dump of snow and the ground isn't frozen underneath so I was hauling small loads because there are some decent hills too. I was heading down a hill in my field and getting speed up to get up the other side, tractor was going good and wasn't even dieing down as I headed up the steep hill in 6th, man I'm gonna make it, it's not even slowing down then I looked back. Damn it, the wagon is half way down the last hill and not attached to my tractor anymore. I guess my "patent pending" draw bolt bounced out as I was hot rodding it down the hill. Oh well go back and try again, ended up spinning out and had to back down and get another un across the slope. I did get the 2 loads hauled home and stacked in the pile. Might head back tomorrow and cut some trees down.
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16" on a ms170? is that power head stock? or do you enjoy cutting Sllllloooooowwwwwwly?
Neil, I'll have to check, it's the bar that came on it. It might be a 14. But, it really doesn't matter, I never cut slow. I just pick up a bigger saw. If I want to goof around, I'll put a 12" bar off an XL12 on the 82CC XL925, that'll cut 10 inch cookies tout suite. The advantage of having more saws than fingers, maybe fingers and toes. I'm still finding more after Steve left.
 
I was hauling logs home from the bush today. We got a dump of snow and the ground isn't frozen underneath so I was hauling small loads because there are some decent hills too. I was heading down a hill in my field and getting speed up to get up the other side, tractor was going good and wasn't even dieing down as I headed up the steep hill in 6th, man I'm gonna make it, it's not even slowing down then I looked back. Damn it, the wagon is half way down the last hill and not attached to my tractor anymore. I guess my "patent pending" draw bolt bounced out as I was hot rodding it down the hill. Oh well go back and try again, ended up spinning out and had to back down and get another un across the slope. I did get the 2 loads hauled home and stacked in the pile. Might head back tomorrow and cut some trees down.
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hair pin cotters will fix that runaway wagon thing.
 

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