Today....

[Shadowscape]

Love those Petzl Eashooks.
I'm out with a bad elbow at the moment.
Let us know how you like that dog on that saw. Almost ordered one last month but changed my mind. Still up in the air about it. Would like some input.
@27RMT0N

 

[27RMT0N]

Let us know how you like that dog on that saw. Almost ordered one last month but changed my mind. Still up in the air about it. Would like some input.
@27RMT0N

I just put it on the 2511 yesterday and it will be a while before I use it, but I've got WCS dogs on every single saw I keep in my truck that they make them for except one (my 180, lol). I'll admit to being hesitant at first because I was worried they were just Instagram/influencer trash, but then I got my first set on a 661 I run a 36" on and loved it. In my experience, stock dogs just kinda keep the muffler off the bark, ebay dogs are usually just big with stupid geometry that doesn't work, but WCS dogs bite in, pivot like butter and make cutting smoother and easier. A lot of work went into the shape; it shows and it works. Especially for us westcoasters with thick-bark firs.

The only downsides are on the bigger saws where the bottom point is lower than the body of the saw, it can damage what it is sitting on, and I've stabbed myself in the calf once or twice when hanging a bigger saw on my saddle. They are sorta dangerous, but still WELL worth it.

Edit: I forget who at this point, but it was someone on the forum here convinced me to try out the dogs, glad I did.

 

[Shadowscape]

I just put it on the 2511 yesterday and it will be a while before I use it, but I've got WCS dogs on every single saw I keep in my truck that they make them for except one (my 180, lol). I'll admit to being hesitant at first because I was worried they were just Instagram/influencer trash, but then I got my first set on a 661 I run a 36" on and loved it. In my experience, stock dogs just kinda keep the muffler off the bark, ebay dogs are usually just big with stupid geometry that doesn't work, but WCS dogs bite in, pivot like butter and make cutting smoother and easier. A lot of work went into the shape; it shows and it works. Especially for us westcoasters with thick-bark firs.

The only downsides are on the bigger saws where the bottom point is lower than the body of the saw, it can damage what it is sitting on, and I've stabbed myself in the calf once or twice when hanging a bigger saw on my saddle. They are sorta dangerous, but still WELL worth it.

Edit: I forget who at this point, but it was someone on the forum here convinced me to try out the dogs, glad I did.

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I have them on all my saws except the top handles. I was hesitant on putting it on my 2511 because it seemed a bit overkill. Anxious to see how it goes for you. Standing by...
ps: Have stabbed my thigh a few times as well, but would never go back. Plus, you look cool sliding your saw into the log after you stop.

 

[27RMT0N]

Got it. Well I have them on my 200T and T540i and think they are great on those saws, so I see no reason why it wouldn't be a nice upgrade to the 2511T as well.

I don't use the saw often, but I did the other week and realized how much the stock metal dog (which I had to buy separately on ebay) did absolutely nothing, so ordered the WCS one shortly after since I realized they had one that fit.

 

[Shadowscape]

Got it. Well I have them on my 200T and T540i and think they are great on those saws, so I see no reason why it wouldn't be a nice upgrade to the 2511T as well.

I don't use the saw often, but I did the other week and realized how much the stock metal dog (which I had to buy separately on ebay) did absolutely nothing, so ordered the WCS one shortly after since I realized they had one that fit.

Yeah, the stock ones are worthless. Don't know you even have them on there really. You are revving me up to order one now.

 

[27RMT0N]

T540i difference, aka, they actually work:

 

[Shadowscape]

They are also nice indicators where your bar is at when buried.

 

[oceans]

Out with an injury again, this time my left shoulder instead of my back. Undoubtably from holding and swinging big limbs on that side for.... 13 years. I'm sure it was triggered by the 3-day long emergency job where I worked really hard recently, then after a pretty normal job a few days later it started really hurting and I've been off for about a week since then. Taking a short vacation at this point that will be a second week of rest, hopefully that is enough.

The other day it was feeling better, so I went to fell a big dead grand fir by a cabin. Set a pull-line, chained to a nearby tree since it was a tight drop and the butt was close to the cabin. It went perfectly, but turns out even that 90 minutes of work was too-much, too-soon, and it set me back in my recovery... So I'm at home doing random projects like making a new 15' pruning flip-line and putting some Westcoast Saw dogs on my 2511T...

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Without our health, we could have nothing at all. Full and speedy recovery, tree brother!

 

[Neill]

Some tulip tree clean up

 

[Bendroctanus]

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I’ve got big balls, you’ve got big balls, but @Neill got the biggest root ball of dem all!

 

[Treetopflyer]

Without our health, we could have nothing at all. Full and speedy recovery, tree brother!

A healthy man wants a lot of things a hurt or sick man only wants 1

 

[rico]

got into some nice OG’s today-

 

[Bendroctanus]

got into some nice OG’s today-

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Just doin’ a bit ‘o’ prunin’?

 

[Shadowscape]

I want one of those helmets that looks like a baseball cap!

 

[rico]

I don’t do helmets or much else in the way of PPE. My 45 year voyage of working in the woods has sent me down a different path when it comes to staying safe.

 

[southsoundtree]

Ferry Ride, Monorail ride, Space Needle and Seattle Glass Museum.

 

[Shadowscape]

I don’t do helmets or much else in the way of PPE. My 45 year voyage of working in the woods has sent me down a different path when it comes to staying safe.

I have never owned a pair of chainsaw pants, but I am willing to wear a helmet because I seem to bump my head a lot.

 

[Friedrich]

but don‘t you mostly operate in temperatures where youre legs are so frozen that no chainsaw-pants could harm them?

 

[Friedrich]

i meant chainsaw not chainsaw-pants

 

[Shadowscape]

but don‘t you mostly operate in temperatures where youre legs are so frozen that no chainsaw-pants could harm them?

43 degrees (6C) in my house this morning. Shouldn't have cracked the window so much last night. But it is going to get up to 66 degrees (18C) today! We're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave. The temperatures rising, it isn't surprising, she certainly can can-can.