Opihi59
ArboristSite Operative
Fellow Addicts--I apologize first since I have been away for the forum for quite a while. My bid for redemption though is that I recently worked in bringing down a massive Lychee tree in Wahiawa and accumulated quite a pile of split up wood both for smoking dead animals, and for burning in my fire pit outside on those frosty Honolulu nights we have been having. Yes, it is full-on, no-s##t winter in the Sandwich Islands, and I have been wearing socks in my flip-flops. Since I am now a reptile, if it gets into the 60s I have snotsicles hanging off my nose and I need a hoodie.
It's problems that seem to bring us back, so here I am. Of the various multitude of saws I used, I busted the starter cord on my old 015 Stihl Tophandle limbing saw in that last project, and of course will replace that, but it brought up the question of the right size cord. I did my usual broad innerweb search, and read thru a bunch of threads on the forum. I did find a promising thread from back in '13 that appeared to have a promising attachment but it wouldn't open. It did include commentary from 67L36 Driver who generally feeds me tons of good info, and has send me a chunk of rope in the past, etc, and all in all I believe I will need 3.5mm cord which I can get a hank of off of Amazon Prime.
So this raises the question, do we somewhere have on the forum or elsewhere a go-to thread, or a chart that summarizes just about any and all chainsaws from just beyond the stone age to the present, and codifies the starter rope requirements? While over the years my mad ninja internet skills have been honed somewhat, but then again, I am a Neanderthal knuckle-dragger both by background and personal preference and came up empty handed.
So--does anyone have such a chart that is likely here on the forum, only I couldn't find it? I've got a lotta saws, and don't mind buying up a variety of cord sizes to be prepared, but some of mine are worn, all are old, and I've found mic-ing them isn't too helpful since I likely changed them before with stuff like 550 parachute cord in desperation, but I do want to use the right sized cord.
Happy to take your suggestions, I was planning on getting 3.5 for this saw, and a buncha 4.0mm for some of the other saws just to have on hand. My pile is in my sig, but I know there are many others out there who would love to have this information available.
It's problems that seem to bring us back, so here I am. Of the various multitude of saws I used, I busted the starter cord on my old 015 Stihl Tophandle limbing saw in that last project, and of course will replace that, but it brought up the question of the right size cord. I did my usual broad innerweb search, and read thru a bunch of threads on the forum. I did find a promising thread from back in '13 that appeared to have a promising attachment but it wouldn't open. It did include commentary from 67L36 Driver who generally feeds me tons of good info, and has send me a chunk of rope in the past, etc, and all in all I believe I will need 3.5mm cord which I can get a hank of off of Amazon Prime.
So this raises the question, do we somewhere have on the forum or elsewhere a go-to thread, or a chart that summarizes just about any and all chainsaws from just beyond the stone age to the present, and codifies the starter rope requirements? While over the years my mad ninja internet skills have been honed somewhat, but then again, I am a Neanderthal knuckle-dragger both by background and personal preference and came up empty handed.
So--does anyone have such a chart that is likely here on the forum, only I couldn't find it? I've got a lotta saws, and don't mind buying up a variety of cord sizes to be prepared, but some of mine are worn, all are old, and I've found mic-ing them isn't too helpful since I likely changed them before with stuff like 550 parachute cord in desperation, but I do want to use the right sized cord.
Happy to take your suggestions, I was planning on getting 3.5 for this saw, and a buncha 4.0mm for some of the other saws just to have on hand. My pile is in my sig, but I know there are many others out there who would love to have this information available.
