Y?all were wrong!

[CrappieKeith]

I’m still a one saw man… twenty years using the same little 026…
Felling, limbing, bucking, noodling… one saw, two bars, and a dozen chains of varying configurations…

Ain’t no CAD in this house!

I admire a man that goes into the world taking on all with such a little tool.

 

[psuiewalsh]

I admire a man that goes into the world taking on all with such a little tool.

You could also hunt grizzly bears with a .22 but I would not want to.

 

[lone wolf]

Fifteen months (since I showed up here) and waiting… it ain’t happened yet.
Y’all told me it would… but it ain’t happened yet.

I’m immune to the dreaded disease that runs rabid throughout AS…
My blood should be studied by science… used for developing a vaccine…

Heck, I ain’t even looked at ‘em… ain’t searched Craig’s List or Ebay.
I stop at the dealer for oil, files, sprockets and whatnot… don’t even glance over at ‘em.

I’m still a one saw man… twenty years using the same little 026…
Felling, limbing, bucking, noodling… one saw, two bars, and a dozen chains of varying configurations…

Ain’t no CAD in this house!

Do you have disposable income readily available to you?

 

[Steve NW WI]

A quote from me, in your intro thread: http://www.arboristsite.com/firewood-heating-wood-burning-equipment/154793.htm

Beware of CAD (Chainsaw Acquisition Disorder), which is the strong urge to buy more chainsaws than ya can haul in a fullsize truck bed. It's particularly strong on the chainsaw section, enter at your own risk. Here in Firewood, we've got it FAD (Firewood Acquisition Disorder), the urge to put every tree in the county into the woodpile. Not quite as expensive, but a lot harder on the back

I was only half wrong, as we know FAD has whooped yer butt.

I still predict that one day the saw fairy will leave you a 80+ cc saw with a big bar, and you'll wonder whatever possessed you to gnaw on those big trees with your 026 for hours when you could have been done and enjoying a cold Bud.

 

[JeffHK454]

I take a 260Pro with me on every scrounge job I undertake ..but I also take a 440 and 066 for when I need them, I have a couple hours a week at most to dedicate to firewood and spending 3x's whats necessary in some ladies side yard or some farmers field ain't in the cards!

Ether you're the luckiest man alive and stumble into all those 10"-16" dia. dream logs or you have a hell of a lot of time to kill hacking on big wood with little saws?

AS firewood section seems to have a growing population of people with ample free time and fairly fat wallets .. I'm just pissed I have nether!:msp_w00t:

And CAD is just mythical...right?

 

[Hedgerow]

Spidey ain't been to a GTG yet... I hear there's one in Iowa pretty soon...
Just sayin...
:msp_sneaky:

 

[branchbuzzer]

One saw plan for well over 35 years until the tornadoes hit. Then I realized you can be severely under sawed, both in quantity and in size....

Yet another classic CAD case. Note how the subject tries to deny that the AS Chainsaw forum was the root cause of illness and tries to assign the blame to Acts of God - kinda like an insurance adjuster. 35 years before joining AS is more accurate.

 

[Bushmans]

Maybe it is a case of WSAD (wood stove acquisition disease) the OP is heavy on WS right now. Building a new stove when he could be building a new saw! sooner or later all of the ADs will get him. In the meantime check out his post awhile back where he tackled that massive tree. That poor little 026 deserves a vacation!:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[zogger]

Yet another classic CAD case. Note how the subject tries to deny that the AS Chainsaw forum was the root cause of illness and tries to assign the blame to Acts of God - kinda like an insurance adjuster. 35 years before joining AS is more accurate.

Bwa! Ya ain't believing me but it's the truth! Tornado hit, I have this little running husky and....it just was not gonna cut the mustard. so I borrowed money, bought a bigger saw, toasted it. OK, swell, have to go back to plan B, used saws. So, I need to work on used saws to get them to run. I find I can do this. So I am thinking, self, you are an official geezer, ya'all need to think of something you can do for the next however long ya got kicking around. Need something to supplement meagre salary and upcoming socialist insecurity check, which is beyond meagre in theory. Look around, no dedicated small saw shops in area. some mom and pop mower shops, but no small saw shops

bingo-rama!

Buying up junkers, working on them, turn them into cheap runners, spare parts for the carcasses, building up stock for an eventual shop. Can't afford to become a dealer in anything but used generic saws, then doing repairs.

Robbing peter to pay off paul because tom, richard and harold won't speak to me anymore, just to get cheap saws and parts and sort of learn as I go. I'm not "collecting" I am accumulating stock, and trying out the saws, running them, might as well get well ahead on my wood, same as my food, we have quite a bit put forward for when it gets harder to purchase food, too expensive.

See, there's a difference. Collectors got plenty of $urplus $pare change to get old saws to restore to pristine shape then make shelf queens, I am just working towards an eventual shop, something I can do as I get older that isn't as physically demanding, and have a little supplement for the wallet hopefully. And my back is working medium OK now so good time to stockpile our needed firewood, because I never know when my back won't be working. comes and goes. I am thankful it works at all, most folks I don't think would ever recover from a dozen violently blown disks.

Ya, it's fun and all, I really like fixing them and working on them and using them (started on the 306A I got from Scott today, this one will be a project I can see it already) but also practical for me.

*Perhaps*. See how the economy goes.

I have less into all my saws then most guys have in one new big "pro" saw. I think..hmm, not counting that new I bought and broke, and still isn't fixed, I am at around a little over 300 bucks into saws, total, since coming to this site.

Anyway, tornado weather alert just went off again, been going all day. Plus flood warnings, like we don't have enough mud as it is...heh

So..having multiple saws and a variety of sizes...I think it is a good idea. Better to own and not need, then need and not own. Having just one saw is asking for it, IMO.

I tell ya, my boss appreciates having at least one guy here on the farm who is into saws, I'm the "dang tree laying across the road over there, go deal with it" guy now. and hopefully sometime this year, be the guy who gets the pine logs for the shavings mill, whenever that gets finished.

Good freeking thing I am learning to be a better feller! We already have all the equipment I would need to do big logs, excavator, trucks, crawlers, etc.

So, CAD or not, that's me story. Proly got a scosh of CAD, I'll admit it, but it's still pretty important and practical for me now. Enjoyment, plus practical, works for me!

 

[branchbuzzer]

Bwa! Ya ain't believing me but it's the truth!

I believed ya, just trying to get another good post out of the ole Zog', akin to your Fiskared matchstick post. Worked didn't it?

 

[Eric Modell]

I do not feel like I have cad either but often cut wood with a 394. I always tell my grand kids if you can only have saw it must be the big one. I had a brand new 026 once and traded it off for a bigger Husky after 5 or 6 tanks of gas through it.

Different stroke for different folks.

I now have stove acquisition disorder so I can quit burning green one and gain some social position on this forum.

 

[Eecho]

I dont see this at all as CAD or FAD

I'm just a doomsday prepper who is waiting for the zombie apocalypse. When it hits im going hands on with some 50:1 , bar oil ,and a carbide chain on each of my now 11 saws. Disorder nah preparation is key here gentlemen.

 

[Hedgerow]

I'm just a doomsday prepper who is waiting for the zombie apocalypse. When it hits im going hands on with some 50:1 , bar oil ,and a carbide chain on each of my now 11 saws. Disorder nah preparation is key here gentlemen.

So yer sayin' my Dolmar 9010 with a 36" bar is good for about 2-3 hundred zombie's before re-fueling???

Did somebody mention CAD???

 

[Whitespider]

Hey guys... sorry it took me so long to get back to this thread...
I've been at the dealer all day fondling an MS 880, 660, 460 and an MS 192

I had to pass though...
He wouldn't take my wife in trade...
Said something about already having one too many of those.

 

[zogger]

I believed ya, just trying to get another good post out of the ole Zog', akin to your Fiskared matchstick post. Worked didn't it?

Yep! Worked jiss fine! And still waiting for the resident red neckersons to even *try* the match trick!

I'm just typing now, got twisters all around us. I ain't sleeping much tonight. I'm twitchy. twitch...twitch

Another one just reported. I've lost track, six maybe?

 

[ancy]

Yep been there! I will keep mine till she pops though.

 

[Hedgerow]

Yep! Worked jiss fine! And still waiting for the resident red neckersons to even *try* the match trick!

I'm just typing now, got twisters all around us. I ain't sleeping much tonight. I'm twitchy. twitch...twitch

Another one just reported. I've lost track, six maybe?

Welcome to the Ozarks... Oh, that's right, you're in GA!!!

 

[unclemoustache]

Hey guys... sorry it took me so long to get back to this thread...
I've been at the dealer all day fondling an MS 880, 660, 460 and an MS 192

Glad to hear it. We've been getting worried. As you may already know, chainsaws are like kittens (or dogs if you're a dog person) - they behave better when there are more of them around. Your chainsaw obviously doesn't get enough companionship to feel properly loved, and not enough use if you don't see the need for additional saws.

The poor thing - just sits there out in your shop, all alone, among all the screwdrivers (many), utility knives (many), drills (many), and other tools of which you have many - and yet the poor chainsaw is alone in the shop - wondering if there are other chainsaws out there to meet.

That kind of thing wears off on a guy, and one of the unfortunate side effects of owning only one saw is a tendency to become effeminate. We don't want to see that happen to you, so please, for all of us, go buy another saw. You owe it to yourself and your country.

 

[Whitespider]

To tell y’all the truth, I have been thinking about a second saw for backup (it ain’t CAD, really… it ain’t). As unclemoustache pointed out, I have “screwdrivers (many), utility knives (many), drills (many), and other tools of which (I) have many”… but no back-up if the saw breaks. It’s not super critical because I do all my cutting right here on the farmstead… it’s not like I drive 30 miles to cut wood. Still, it would be irritating to have the thing go down without anything to fall back on. And because I do cut a lot of 25+ inch wood, a tad bigger than what I have would be handy.

I’d like to find a nice, older, pre-EPA 036 sitting at a yard sale (yeah, I know, good luck with that) and have two bars for it, 20 and 25 inch. I figure between the 026 and a 036 (25-inch) I’d have 95+% of my cutting needs covered… and the 036 would make falling those bigger trees somewhat easier. I suppose I could go bigger, like maybe an 046, but that would sort of defeat the “back-up” purpose… just a bit on the heavy side as a firewood saw. Some years ago I owned a “yellow” saw in the 60-65cc range, probably should have kept it as back-up. Oh well, I figure something will come along… something always does.

And there’s one more… I don’t know why I ever sold it… it was the handiest darn thing. I had a little, light-weight (no chain brake), “green” top-handled saw several years ago… bought it back in the 80’s at some hardware store for like $79.oo or some such. It came out of the box wearing a 16-inch bar which was way, way too much for it. I stuck a 10-inch bar on it, which made one super handy little trimming and clean-up saw. Somebody offered me 50 bucks for that little “green” thing one day, and I had three other saws at the time (including a sweet 024 Super), so in a moment of weakness I handed it over… and then probably spent the money on beer or some other foolishness. Of all the saws I’ve sold or traded away over the years, that’s the one I regret. I’d sure like to replace it, but I can’t find anything as small and light-weight now-a-days.

But it ain’t CAD, really… it ain’t!

 

[RandyMac]

Back when I killed for fun and profit, I usually had six chainsaws, no more than eight. That would be three heavy saws, at least one of those was a gear-drive, a couple medium and a small saw. Keep in mind that I consider an 80cc class saw as medium.
I have about two dozen saws now, in about the same ratios.