[TheForge] hydraulic chainsaws

[Charles]

Hydraulic chainsaws are no fun either.  You have to have gear reduction on the motor or risk boiling on the fluid.  The hoses are heavy. 
Regarding twostroke chainsaws, no secrets.  
1) Buy quality professional units.  Stihl, Huasky etc have homeowner lines and a professional lines. There is a big difference.  2) Have them tuned up by someone that knows what they are doing.  Every year.   3) Run them every day. 4) Only use quality fuel and oil additive and mix it per the instructions (no eyeballing)5) End of season run them dry with a preservative/fuel stabilizer added to the fuel.  
My son is a wild land firefighter.  This is what works for them.  Growing up with me, he had a different experience.  I  was too cheap for number 1 and 2 above and my circumstances did not lend themselves to number 3 though the rest I did follow.   So at forty years of age I turned my back on chainsaws and focused on keeping several good quality axes sharp, as well as several two man and one and a half man crosscut saws always sharp.  In my fifties now, I have a pro chainsaw, but still use the axe and saw almost exclusively.  I have an unusually large single bit Kelly that will throw chips the size of my fist when swung with skill and authority.   I teach scouts to fell trees by hand and they have proven many times (profitably for me) that two boys on a crosscut saw can buck a 12- 16 inch log before a forty year old dad can even get a chainsaw started many times now.  
Charles

 
      From: terry l. ridder <terrylr at blauedonau.com>
 To: theforge e-mail list <theforge at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 7:31 AM
 Subject: [TheForge] hydraulic chainsaws
   
hello;;

long time no write.

I am getting too  old to continue to fight with 2-cycle chainsaws.
i did learn my lesson about using gasoline with ethanol in it. the fuel
lines were turned to a glob of rubber. The Stihl chainsaws just do not
want to start for me.

i have seen several hydraulic chains. there are seeral used ones up for
sale and I am considering one of them. Just hook it into the read
hydaulics on the back of the tractor and start cutting.

I have several  dead chainsaws and figure it would worth asking if
anyone had ever used the pieces of a gas chainsaw to build an hydraulic
chainsaw. just a small hydraulic motor and a small trigger operated
spool valve.

I would appreciate any hints or suggestions as to how to get gasoline
chainsaws to start most of the time instead of none of the time.

-- 
terry l. ridder ><>
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