Finally!

[creosote]

Never even seen the stump vise.
Nice when your cutting, and the bar is to hot to touch.
I glued a flat magnet onto this old angle finder. I need all the Help I can get to keep the file going same direction.



My casting bench is 40" tall & stand, while loading I sit at a already made 31" bench.
Some day there will be at least a turret press, only dream about a progressive.

 

[Rally]

Bret,
30 chain saws!!!!! If they are Poulans I could understand needing 30, just to have one working!! You must own 300 chains then too.

 

[Bret4207]

I only own 3 or 4 Poulans, one is a re-baged Craftsman "FREE!" on the roadside pickup. The rest are from back when Poulan was still making a solid pro grade saw. I have a 4200 that will give you a completely new view on what you thought a Poulan is!

Creosote, if the bar is getting that hot there's a problem. Either the oiler isn't working right/adjusted right or the oil hole in the bar is too small or plugged or the bar groove is full of dust. The bar being warm, yes. Too hot to touch, maybe with the paint burning off? Problems!

Try this little file jig. Might have to open the slots just a little with a flat file for Stihl chain, but they work really nicely. Should be available at any TSC, Husky dealer, Ebay, Amazon, etc. They come sized tot he type chain you are using, eg- 1/4", 3/8" Low Profile(.375LP), .325, 3/8", .404.

Amazon.com: Husqvarna Combination Swedish Roller Guide for 3/8" Pitch Chainsaw Chain: Garden & Outdoor

Amazon.com: Husqvarna Combination Swedish Roller Guide for 3/8" Pitch Chainsaw Chain: Garden & Outdoor

www.amazon.com

 

[Rick]

Creosote, if the bar is getting that hot there's a problem.

Congratulations Bret . . . You are the winner of the understatement of the week award.

 

[Bret4207]

Har! I suppose it would hit someone who's worked with saws a lot as kind of an understatement, but some folks just never knew the difference to start with. I recall a friend asking me why there were sparks coming off the roller nose on his bar. I asked how long it had been doing that? "Couple weeks, why?"

 

[creosote]

It looks like the paint is cooked, but its just oil.

I do have a little home gamer husky that gives me fits trying to keep the bar oiled enough.
It gets used on very seasoned Juniper when the thermometer gets close to triple digits. It gets hot.

 

[Bret4207]

Triple digits? That's haying wearther, not wood cutting weather. Wood cutting weather is when it's so freakin' cold and the snow is so deep you come home looking like Old Hatchet Jack in "Jerimiah Johnson"- Red nose, blue lips, lotsa ice in yer moose-tasch, eyebrows and ear hair, wool pants frozen stiffer than a sewer pipe and steam coming off yer head if you take off yer hat!

 

[Walks]

Spent time at Great Lakes N.S. one winter. Don't think I ever saw STEAM coming off ANYBODIES head from that frozen nightmare.

 

[Rick]

Spent time at Great Lakes N.S. one winter. Don't think I ever saw STEAM coming off ANYBODIES head from that frozen nightmare.

The mess hall there is where I learned how much better the Navy eats than the Corps.

 

[Walks]

Well what do you expect ?

The NAVY cooks the food before they eat it !

 

[fiver]

I remember one particularly fat kid walking around with sweatcicles hanging off the side of his head.
the best was when we stopped work and he couldn't get his hard hat off because it was froze in place.
it was maybe 30-35 below that day, and many of us were sweating pretty good.

 

[Bret4207]

If you aren't sweating, you aren't working hard enough. All the experts tell you, "In cold weather you don't want to sweat because it will freeze up when you stop moving." They need to fine tune that some. You need to be moving around in order to stay warm in the first place and you will sweat doing that. You just don't want to soak your clothing, which should be wool over something like poly, and then stop moving altogether. I don't care what you're wearing, no one stands or sits dead still for long in real cold weather.

 

[Bisley]

Har! I suppose it would hit someone who's worked with saws a lot as kind of an understatement, but some folks just never knew the difference to start with. I recall a friend asking me why there were sparks coming off the roller nose on his bar. I asked how long it had been doing that? "Couple weeks, why?"

When I had my chainsaw repaired, the small engine place told me to replace the bar. The old one had split, which is why the chain bound. I bought a new bar/chain package at Depot and it's been running fine. No smoke and it keeps running. I have about 2 cords of pine and one cord of hickory to trim to length for my stove (16" pieces), and half a cord of maple that the tree service gave me when they cut some wood across the street. In consideration of $20 and several bottles of water last summer, they cut the stuff into 4' length and hauled in onto my front lawn. I got all my wood that way. The woodstove has cut the utility bills in half.