[TheForge] hydraulic chainsaws

[terry l. ridder]

Hello Charles

Yes, the MS440 is heavy. With the 24 inch bar it is just that much
heavier. 
The poll saw is just cumbersome. the Chain & bar are 8 ft away even when
at the shortest. Extend it to 11 ft and it becomes a battle of
leverages.

I go through roughly 2 to 4 gallons of two-cycle gasoline mixture every fall.
I have roughly 10 years worth of firewood in large logs at the west end
of the property. My friend, an arborist, who has passed way, and I had a
good arrangement. He cut down trees and brought them here. I make lots
of firewood. he let the local churches know that those people who need
firewood to stay warm during the winter and/or for cooking may come by
and pick up a full cord of firewood. some people had no way to pick it
up so he and i traded off dropping it off with our pickup trucks.

I am late this year getting the wood cut and split. been keeping the
butchers a.k.a. doctors employed.

With the Hanjin bankruptcy throwing the shipping industry into disarray
there is not much going on for me at the moment.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Charles Vincent wrote:

> I have heard pretty good things about the MS440, other than it being
> heavy.    And I use the premix fuel these days for my weed eater and
> the chainsaw the once every other year I use it.    No ethanol, seals
> tight in container, small quantity, no mixing and last me about a month
> in the summer.   I just don't use power tools that much, I moved back
> to muscle and it works fine for me.   The premix solved most of my two
> stroke issues, so for me it's a bargain, all of my stuff starts on a
> couple of pulls after following the instructions, so that is easily
> worth $28 a year for me.   If I was running a saw all day long it
> would be different, but then I wouldn't need it,  I would be going
> through the gas fast enough to ensure it didn't pick up water, or go
> bad.
>
> Charles
>
> Sent from my iPad
>

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terry l. ridder ><>