Chainsaws....

[Talisman]

I won't saw without cut resistant pants or chaps, steel toes or chainsaw boots, safety glasses and hearing protection. No felling without a suspended hardhat of some kind. Some folks won't do with less than a full chainsaw helmet and integrated mesh face shield, but I prefer without.

+1 The kevlar chaps also help protect green briars and other thorny plants. I'm a fan of the hardhat with integral hearing and mesh face protection versus safety glasses, that's my preference after a few sticks to the face.

 

[tjf67]

Have you ever seen a saw injury in person? I don't ever want that to happen to me. They're never minor.

Anyone I've worked with and operated a saw safely wore their PPE. Anyone I've seen who scared me with a saw or had no clue what they were doing were similarly lax with their PPE. The two always seem to go hand in hand.

Never saw one and worked with them one summer 9 hours a day cutting. Clear cutting to widen a road around Hunta Mountain. Your protection equipment is a good idea but it does not replace common sense. I did get lucky and only cut my jeans across my thigh. Probably the best lesson I could have gotten with out a trip to the hospital.

 

[Marc]

Never saw one and worked with them one summer 9 hours a day cutting. Clear cutting to widen a road around Hunta Mountain. Your protection equipment is a good idea but it does not replace common sense. I did get lucky and only cut my jeans across my thigh. Probably the best lesson I could have gotten with out a trip to the hospital.

Huh. Well, thanks for pointing that out, especially after I quickly followed my inital post with this:

This too. Saw with a sharp chain, a well tuned saw and a clear head. Always best to prevent an accident.

Always know where your bar tip is and don't let it do the cutting, especially the top part of the tip. Always check that your inertia brake works before use. Use the chain brake whenever the bar isn't cutting through wood.

But feel free to continue posting condescending BS like "Engineers crack me up." The dumber you make yourself look, the fewer people like hammer will listen to you and the safer everyone will be.


And FWIW, I've been firewooding since I was old enough to walk, operating saws since I was 11, and spent two summers in highschool learning from a Paul Smith's forestry graduate and free lance professional production faller.

 

[hammer]

As an engineer, I tend to over-think things (OK, I over-think everything), but after seeing the nervous looks on my spouse and son's faces the first time I started the chainsaw, I figured that asking about safety gear isn't over-thinking...

 

[tjf67]

Huh. Well, thanks for pointing that out, especially after I quickly followed my inital post with this:



But feel free to continue posting condescending BS like "Engineers crack me up." The dumber you make yourself look, the fewer people like hammer will listen to you and the safer everyone will br

It was a joke. Yeah engineers lack sense of humors to. Boo-Hoo


And FWIW, I've been firewooding since I was old enough to walk, operating saws since I was 11, and spent two summers in highschool learning from a Paul Smith's forestry graduate and free lance professional production faller.

Yeah I never went to school to learn to chop firewood or cut trees. Kinda seems pretty straight forward to me

 

[Johnskiismore]

PPE isn't cheap (paid $50 for my chaps) but still cheaper than rehabbing a wound or doing permanent damage.

You can say that again. Witnessed one chain saw accident, bad.

 

[Grassi21]

Looking at a used Husqvarna 141 for $90. Not the biggest saw but should do the trick for my property. Anyone have any experience with this model?

 

[Marc]

Looking at a used Husqvarna 141 for $90. Not the biggest saw but should do the trick for my property. Anyone have any experience with this model?

It's one of their big box offerings. $90 isn't a terrible price if it's close to new. If you're planning on using this to cut down log lengths for your stove, I'd consider at least a 455 Rancher/Sthil 290. They're both lower power to weight but very tough and will last a long time and both can be had cheap.

If you're just going to use it once or twice a year, the 141 is probably not a bad option. Always check the compression on a used saw if you don't know the history though. I think you can rent compression kits from Napa or Autozone. Just thread into the spark plug port. After three or four pulls you should be reading upwards of 120-150 psi.

 

[Grassi21]

It's one of their big box offerings. $90 isn't a terrible price if it's close to new. If you're planning on using this to cut down log lengths for your stove, I'd consider at least a 455 Rancher/Sthil 290. They're both lower power to weight but very tough and will last a long time and both can be had cheap.

If you're just going to use it once or twice a year, the 141 is probably not a bad option. Always check the compression on a used saw if you don't know the history though. I think you can rent compression kits from Napa or Autozone. Just thread into the spark plug port. After three or four pulls you should be reading upwards of 120-150 psi.

The local Husqy dealer is selling the used saw for a customer. I'm sure if I ask him about the compressor he will be more than impressed with my knowledge. I want to start thinning some saplings and small pines around the property line so I am not looking to buck a truck load of log lengths or anything. I might stop back in in a week and see if it is still available. If so, might offfer the guy $75.

 

[Marc]

The local Husqy dealer is selling the used saw for a customer. I'm sure if I ask him about the compressor he will be more than impressed with my knowledge. I want to start thinning some saplings and small pines around the property line so I am not looking to buck a truck load of log lengths or anything. I might stop back in in a week and see if it is still available. If so, might offfer the guy $75.

If it's a dealer, he'd probably also be willing to take the muffler off for you while you're there so you can take a peak at the cylinder (bring a little pen light or something). Make sure it's not scored, no huge carbon build ups (a little is ok) and no discoloration. It's not that I think a dealer will sell you a junker but it will give him the idea that you're not a dummy and might make him more willing to go a little lower on the price. Do you know how old it is?

 

[billski]

 

[bvibert]

I'm sure if I ask him about the compressor he will be more than impressed with my knowledge.

If you want to impress him with your knowledge don't ask him about the compressor, ask about the compression....

 

[o3jeff]

Wear your chaps there too to impress him.

 

[Grassi21]

If it's a dealer, he'd probably also be willing to take the muffler off for you while you're there so you can take a peak at the cylinder (bring a little pen light or something). Make sure it's not scored, no huge carbon build ups (a little is ok) and no discoloration. It's not that I think a dealer will sell you a junker but it will give him the idea that you're not a dummy and might make him more willing to go a little lower on the price. Do you know how old it is?

Not sure on the age of the saw. I purchased a used Ariens snow thrower from this dealer a few seasons back that was in great shape.

 

[Grassi21]

If you want to impress him with your knowledge don't ask him about the compressor, ask about the compression....

Will do.

 

[Grassi21]

Wear your chaps there too to impress him.

I wear chaps Monday thru Friday. QAing financial software is a rough gig.

 

[2knees]

Not sure on the age of the saw. I purchased a used Ariens snow thrower from this dealer a few seasons back that was in great shape.

demand a car fax report.

i mean, for $90, i'd make the guy take it apart and check every component.

 

[o3jeff]

demand a car fax report.

i mean, for $90, i'd make the guy take it apart and check every component.

If you are available you should go with him in case they give him any problems.

 

[drjeff]

If you want to impress him with your knowledge don't ask him about the compressor, ask about the compression....

Wear your chaps there too to impress him.

I'd also add in that everything you know about cutting trees you learned from watching Axe Men, Swamp Loggers, and American Loggers :lol:

 

[Marc]

Dealers are most impressed when you wear ONLY the chaps and nothing else. That's what all the professionals do.