What saw would YOU buy for stumping with a 36" bar?

[NORMZILLA44]

Looking good Brad, love the saw:cool2:

 

[blsnelling]

Anyone messed with the ignition timing on these?

 

[Trx250r180]

whats the porpose of a 8 pin sprocket ? i get the chain speed ,but wouldnt that hurt the tourque in 3 foot wood ?

 

[parrisw]

whats the porpose of a 8 pin sprocket ? i get the chain speed ,but wouldnt that hurt the tourque in 3 foot wood ?

If the saw has the balls to do so, why not?

 

[wyk]

whats the porpose of a 8 pin sprocket ? i get the chain speed ,but wouldnt that hurt the tourque in 3 foot wood ?

I have a video somewhere of my stock but MM'd 385XP slicing through 36" Douglas Fir with square ground chain and an 8 pin with a 32" bar on it.

 

[Logger4Life]

Brad nice saw I love it good work also and it is nice to finally see a True Stihl guy that gives credit where its due I like the fact that you are being open minded to all the pro-saws and as a Husky guy it's sure nice to hear the truth for once and the the question not danced around I would like to see a 660 with that little of work done to it keep up and also stay together as long. Now don't get me wrong I also think that Stihl makes a great saw it is just that Husky makes saws with that cuts faster for less money and the are much easier to mod. Nice build I am impressed.

Oh buy the way I Know for a fact that the Tilly HS298A is the carb to run on these saws . The Tilly has a much bigger venturi I am pretty sure it is like 21.5mm or maybe 20.5mm I just went trough this with my 390xp build But I know that the Tilly is the bigger because I bought the Walbro first and realized that the venturi was the same size as the 390xp's walbro carb's venturi was so I found out that the pre-epa 395xp has a Tilly HS298A Carb so I bought one much larger venturi and it works great. Anyway NICE SAW!!

 

[parrisw]

Brad nice saw I love it good work also and it is nice to finally see a True Stihl guy that gives credit where its due I like the fact that you are being open minded to all the pro-saws and as a Husky guy it's sure nice to hear the truth for once and the the question not danced around I would like to see a 660 with that little of work done to it keep up and also stay together as long. Now don't get me wrong I also think that Stihl makes a great saw it is just that Husky makes saws with that cuts faster for less money and the are much easier to mod. Nice build I am impressed.

Oh buy the way I Know for a fact that the Tilly HS298A is the carb to run on these saws . The Tilly has a much bigger venturi I am pretty sure it is like 21.5mm or maybe 20.5mm I just went trough this with my 390xp build But I know that the Tilly is the bigger because I bought the Walbro first and realized that the venturi was the same size as the 390xp's walbro carb's venturi was so I found out that the pre-epa 395xp has a Tilly HS298A Carb so I bought one much larger venturi and it works great. Anyway NICE SAW!!

My 390 has A tilly HS296A, same with the 385 I'm working on too. Wonder what the diff is.

 

[Eccentric]

What an informative thread. Somebody should make it a stickie.

 

[blsnelling]

Oh buy the way I Know for a fact that the Tilly HS298A is the carb to run on these saws . The Tilly has a much bigger venturi I am pretty sure it is like 21.5mm or maybe 20.5mm I just went trough this with my 390xp build But I know that the Tilly is the bigger because I bought the Walbro first and realized that the venturi was the same size as the 390xp's walbro carb's venturi was so I found out that the pre-epa 395xp has a Tilly HS298A Carb so I bought one much larger venturi and it works great. Anyway NICE SAW!!

I will definately be checking into that. Thanks for the tip!

 

[AUSSIE1]

They like a little more blowdown over stock.

Edit: usually around 16-17. 19 is in the ballpark. Bringing up the blowdown from that 16-17 made a big difference with these saws.

 

[komatsuvarna]

Mine has the HS298, but I've never checked the venturi in it, probably do that in a few days.

It doesn't take wild numbers to make a 395 a good runner IMO. Here's mine I just finished up.

 

[deye223]

opcorn:

 

[blsnelling]

Mine has the HS298, but I've never checked the venturi in it, probably do that in a few days.

It doesn't take wild numbers to make a 395 a good runner IMO. Here's mine I just finished up.

Looks good mang. I just bought a Tillotson HS-298A for mine. I hope it makes it by Friday, in time for the GTG Saturday.

 

[blsnelling]

The new Tilly HS298A came Friday. Mine had the same 17.5mm venturi as the Walbro that was on it. I opened it up 1mm and put it on. I could have done that with the Walbro. Bummer.

 

[ptjeep]

When are you gonna take that beast over to that property with the huge pin oaks and show us what it will really do?:biggrinbounce2:

 

[blsnelling]

When are you gonna take that beast over to that property with the huge pin oaks and show us what it will really do?:biggrinbounce2:

That big wood is all gone

 

[mdavlee]

I've got a few logs that the 36" bar probably won't reach through if you need something to really break it in onotstir:

 

[tlandrum]

That big wood is all gone

probably best for your safety anyway:help:

 

[blsnelling]

probably best for your safety anyway:help:

Oh, there's a few smaller twenty some inchers to fall

 

[tlandrum]

the limb that hit you wasnt but a few inches. theres men that have been killed by 2'' limbs. my uncle being one of them.