Bendroctanus
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Boy!! That Lucas mill looks like the way to go!
Today....
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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- Home of the New Jersey Devils
Did some faller training with Matt and Kaitlyn this week in Oregon and California. Was a lot of fun and got to see some beautiful sights.
The fire damaged though....devastating. Ureal.
The fire damaged though....devastating. Ureal.
Sadly its looking like rural life in much of California may no longer be sustainable...One of the most beautiful places on Mother Earth is burning to the ground..
Put a few more hours on the new 500i the other day and am quite happy with it. Felling and limbing some 80-90' dead firs, squeezing them through a tight canopy and limbing. It is certainly lighter, snappier on the throttle and feels more maneuverable than the dinosaur 046 it is replacing (though that has been a great saw for me in the decade I've owned it). That third stump had bark up to 6" thick on some sides, kinda like an old growth though it wasn't one.
Those bigger Stihl saws are hard to kill, I never got 10 yrs out of one but I’ve had a few that I worked like rented mules for 6 or 7 yrs
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
Pretty sure a mini is the only sane way to do that. Nice!
Those things were heeeaveyyyy, three of us had to hang off the back to move some of them
A quick google tells me the 046 originally came out in 1995. So while I don't know exactly when mine was built, it was an 'old' saw already when I bought it. Picked it up for $375 off craigslist, from a guy in a parking lot along the freeway. He said "lets make a bunch of hippies nervous!" and revved the saw a bunch of times. I was young and ignorant at the time, but turned out the saw was pretty hammered, requiring a few hundred in a rebuild after a year of ownership. That said, it's needed almost nothing but basic maintenance since then and I'm not getting rid of it anytime soon.
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
Mmm, tree planting that makes the bunghole pucker. Perfect.
- Location
- Home of the New Jersey Devils
I was told that the fire was so hot that it would take over 1000 years for nature to get back to the state it was in.
Serf Life
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Maine Island
Sixteen months without drinking.
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
Congrats
Bendroctanus
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- Location
- Springfield
Good goin’, man. One day at a time.
Reach
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Atglen, PA
Congratulations, that’s great! The hard part is behind you now, for sure!
Serf Life
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- Location
- Maine Island
Thanks y’all. I’ve beat the family record by 11 or 12 months ha, take that gramps.
Pretty cool!
Something the power company uses along the transmission lines?
Kinda neat seeing the big tracked bucket trucks driving around some of the atv trails here. Haven’t seen them chip shit, but they’re nice enough to toss the brush off the trails.
Something the power company uses along the transmission lines?
Kinda neat seeing the big tracked bucket trucks driving around some of the atv trails here. Haven’t seen them chip shit, but they’re nice enough to toss the brush off the trails.
VenasNursery
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Michigan
I would hope they are machine feeding that bad boy
If not foook that thing lol
Bendroctanus
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- Springfield
I want one. Have no practical use for it but I want one. That’s rad. Almost looks like new Arbor War machines. Chips could be deadly.
