HOLY SHNIKEYS!! You could fell a tree from a safe distance away with that thing!!
Safe distance? Heck you cut cut trees while sitting on the couch in your living room with that thing.
nice. the 88 is fun to run, but we never use ours for firewood duty. the logs are just too big to process without killing yourself. they go to anyone we can pawn them off on or to the dump. my buddy got his with a 59" bar on it and I call it the clown saw because its just rediculous looking. i think he went down to a 41 or 46" bar on it now too. the 59" is just too long, the chain will fall off before you can start your back cut running the saw horizontally. you have to start the cut with another saw then finish with the 59".
here is the saw in the back of my 8' pickup when he picked it up. and then cutting a big willow, this was tree #2 of that size from one property.
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How much actual cutting length do you have?
Why do you think the chain falls off? It just warms up and stretches too much, or what?
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I ordered Stihl RMF chain, which is Rapid Micro full-skip. Good for dirty wood which is what I want as I'm cutting only firewood. .404, .063" I wanted 3/8" but can't find full skip round ground. Maybe it's just me?
The problem is man handling rounds that size to the splitter
Stick with the .404. Those big powerheads tear up the 3/8" chain. Broken links, they can easily hammer the drag links, and the chains stretch too much on the long bars.
Some folks think "faster cutting" is the most important thing about a saw, but I think it is a giant pain in the buttocks to change out the chain on a big bar, particularly when you are paying an entire crew to sit around and watch.
My 3120 has a 50" bar and a 36" bar, one with .404 and the other with .375. I was out on a very special job on a Sunday morning some years back, blocking traffic on a 4 lane street with a legal street closure. It was a big elm tree, towering over the public street. There was no possible way to do that tree without closing the street. We were all set up, everything ready to go, and then my 3120 broke the brand new 36" chain. DAMN!
After that little scene, I converted everything on that saw to .404, and I don't think it has broken a chain since then.
Stick with the .404. Those big powerheads tear up the 3/8" chain. Broken links, they can easily hammer the drag links, and the chains stretch too much on the long bars.
Some folks think "faster cutting" is the most important thing about a saw, but I think it is a giant pain in the buttocks to change out the chain on a big bar, particularly when you are paying an entire crew to sit around and watch.
My 3120 has a 50" bar and a 36" bar, one with .404 and the other with .375. I was out on a very special job on a Sunday morning some years back, blocking traffic on a 4 lane street with a legal street closure. It was a big elm tree, towering over the public street. There was no possible way to do that tree without closing the street. We were all set up, everything ready to go, and then my 3120 broke the brand new 36" chain. DAMN!
After that little scene, I converted everything on that saw to .404, and I don't think it has broken a chain since then.
What's the pitch of the chain got to do with its strength? He's running .063 gauge chain in either case.
What's the pitch of the chain got to do with its strength? He's running .063 gauge chain in either case.
Here we go.
Why do you think the chain falls off? It just warms up and stretches too much, or what?
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