Today....
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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JeffGu
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Osceola, Nebraska
This is the time of year when I always seem to get a little more cranky than my usually cranky self. A long spring and summer of beating the shit out of myself? Way too much time spent dealing with the human race? Mercury in retrograde? Who fucking knows why? Today instead of loosing my shit and doing something that could possibly be construed as illegal I decided to go visit an old friend, sit back, take my boots off, bury my feet in Mother Earth, and get fucking grounded. AH, just what I needed.
This is what 15-16 ft at the stump and around 300 ft looks like.
This is what 15-16 ft at the stump and around 300 ft looks like.
JeffGu
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Osceola, Nebraska
Damn lazy ass serial killers and their shallow graves. Sheesh. No work ethic, no consideration for others, no professionalism. What's the world coming to?
Skirt/dripline and deadwooding job on a wall of Firs along a fence line. The Runner/Vega combo was mind blowingly sweet! 15-16 climbs to about 100 ft is a lot to ask of my old ass so I am officially cripple this morning.
To the youngsters out there please heed my warning. Getting old is no fucking joke, so I implore you to be kind to your bodies, eat your vegetables, and quite chasing pussy till all hours of the night...
To the youngsters out there please heed my warning. Getting old is no fucking joke, so I implore you to be kind to your bodies, eat your vegetables, and quite chasing pussy till all hours of the night...
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On going job on a very steep north facing slope with some extremely tall timber. Did a few top and drops in the 42"-48" DBH range today. Blowing 90 ft-100 ft tops from 100 ft-105 ft, then dumping the spars. Pitching everything side hill as there is a house and wires below. You don't see 42"-48" trees reaching 200 foot very often and I am having some serious fun blowing some good sized tops.
I honestly don't know anything about them other than they are gonna have injector and chips to go wrong, they are gonna be expensive, and they are a Stihl. 80 cc's is kind of in no mans land for me. At that point I will grab one of my trusty 395XP's and know that it will easily pull up to a 42" bar. Is a Stihl with 80 cc's gonna do that. I doubt it. For my work I need a saw that will make a 28"-30" bar sing, one that will pull a 42" like a mofo, and one that will kickass with a 60 incher. For me thats a 562XP, a 395XP, and a 3120. The best quiver of saws I have ever run....
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Hell I'm running saws with fucking computer chips in them for gawd sakes. How open minded do I need to be? I do know that if and when the fuel injection system on the 500i takes a shit I will not have the ability to fix it. I also know that when the chip in my 550 or 562 go south its off the the saw shop for them. This is why aim a big fan of the 300 series Husky saws (372 & 395). World class performers that are ultra simple, making ownership a breeze.
I use what we call a block cut quite a bit, but I'm not sure that is the same thing as a box cut?
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