just love the sky man. looks like painted.
cheers.
Yeah today was sunny and sunburn weather - yesterday was nicer.
Nice trousers! I have to admit I sorta cringed when I saw you use that expensive bar to flip that stump top off. You want I should mail you some wedges then?
Unfortunately this job is all about speed and these Pro Tops like being used as a crowbar
Wedges too time consuming (I had about 20 in the back of the vehicle) in a situation like this and the bar wasn't that expensive
And yeah my legs do look a bit too long for my trousers...
I used a 660 a few weeks back with a 36" ES Bar and I thought it was a tad nose heavy, too. But, I sorta expected it to be. Those 390's balance nicely with a 32, uh?
Yeah the 390's are a FAR better balanced saw. The 660's are tough as nails, no doubt, and this thing has grunt, but I used the 390XP today with a 32" bar and hardly touched the 660. I can tell you now my forearms are thanking me for it. The 390's balance very nicely with a 32" bar.
Hmm, I should do a pH test of the water here sometime, we have a fair bit of dissolved limestone (CaCO3) in the river and we are only 15km from the head of it, so flows can vary from nothing (high calcium levels) to a torrent (somewhat less
)
Calicum is a biggy for stuffing up the efficacy of Glypho Rick, just like pH and the two together means you may only be getting something like 30% of the chemical's efficacy, maybe less. Any positive cations bond with the Glyphosate molecule locking it up meaning it therefore can't do it's job (Calcium, Magnesium, Iron etc). That's why you need to add something like Ammonium Sulphate PRIOR to adding the Glypho to the tank/vat which locks up these cations meaning the Glypho is available to do it's job. Amm Sul at about 0.5-1.0kg/100L is about right for our River Murray water. Even more with a lot of dissolved Calcium like some bore water around our area.
Thanks for sharing Matt good stuff,when brad did the muffler mod i suppose he added and extra port on the left side and opened up the original one and took the baffles out ?.When you say the H screw is moving is there no caps anymore and what do you set the w/o rpm to, a bit of that thread lock loctite will fix that.It doesn't seem to cut very well i think you should get rid of it and go back to ya proven saws ha ha (jokin):msp_biggrin:.Looks like you need an apprentice with you for a week or so giving you a hand,that stuff any good for firewood.I think i like that hour meter tac idear,so how much cut time per tank of fuel ?.
I think you had better fix that fence before one of those endangered skippys herts them self getting through it.
I'm not telling you anything about this saw Andrew apart from the fact that if you email/PM me you're address I'll post it to you in a few weeks and you can have a crack on it yourself
It seems to be happiest at about 13,900rpm which sounds high to me for a saw of this cc but under that it is running obviously rich and slower. I'll be keeping my two 390's as the XPG didn't sell on eBay which in hindsight was a good thing as using the 660 yesterday and the 390 today sealed the Stihl's fate unfortunately
I'm not sure of the cut times per tank mate but I know the modded 390 was probably knocking over maybe 25-30% more stumps per tank today at a guess. With less authority though. Put it his way, the 660 was spinning a 32" bar, buried, with an
8 pin rim easier than the 390 was spinning a 32" bar with a
7 pin rim. However, the 390's will be getting a compression increase courtesy of some machine work and that will bridge the gap significantly. I mean there is only a 5cc difference which isn't much in reality.
Oh yeah and this particular patch of wood is no good for firewood. It's grown too fast and by all accounts burns burns fast and a bit too hot as well. Another older stand of Casuarinas on a different property down the road (same company though) is quite hard seems to be good firewood.
Should of sprayed them when you cut them down,but then you wouldn't be getting paid the second time but.
Thanks
Andrew
Mate as far as I was aware they were MEANT to have all been sprayed. I think what happened was that they took that long to tow the felled trees out that they'd all reshot under the mess as they couldn't get to the trunks to spray them. Doing what I'm doing now is far more taxing than the felling part and may even take as long as the whole felling job!
Nice work Matt. Saw cuts good, too bad it sounds like a sewing machine.
Heh heh. It certainly cuts with authority no doubt about it.
He'll wise up soon and realize the 390 is a superior machine!
Put it this way Al (as you're well aware!) but I did a fair bit of wisening today after using the 390. I love these things
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I know that an even comparison in weight and balance is probably a 660 vs. 395XP comparo but the 390 hands the 660 it's butt in the overall handling and feel stakes.
If you only saw the SMS I received today :msp_thumbup:
