Nice jig, you make yourself?
Nah cheap china shit. Actually works really well though. I think I'll upgrade to something higher end, in the future, once I work out all the bugs of this whole chainsaw milling.
I like shit like that.
I’m a machinist, coming up with fixtures and jigs is half the game lol
@ShatsBassoon do you have to make pass from each side due to the bar length of saw
You're essentially limited by length of the bar and attachment. I'm maxed out at 970mm. That's a lot of chain to pull through dense would. I could get more hp out of the saw by removing the baffle off the muffler, but I'm not quite there yet.
Oh shit, thats badass!!!
I bought my first chainsaw in the fall
Is that the 170? Good personal use saw. Doesn't have the power for ripping but good for light bucking, trimming and pruning.
I have the 661, it's a beast of a saw! Have the husqavarna 435 for light duty cutting.
1. Is it universal or brand specific?
2. Cost range?
Nice work.
For the life of me I can't pin the tree type.
Alder?
Apple?
...
It's designed to attach to the bar, not the saw. I can't think of one chainsaw it wouldn't work on. Most bars are standard sizes.
$100-$120 CDN can't remember. Probably on the lower end. Mass produced chinese goods. Probably buy the same thing in 30 different countries under 30 different names.
Silver birch
Shit that's a bit bigger than I thought. I had a 271 for building, back in canada. Great saw, good power. I think the 251 would be 1 class lower, but probably hovering around that 50cc range. More than enough power for personal use.
I'd roll with a longer chain though.
it's always a tough call, especially if it's the kind of tool that can take a limb when it fails.
But if it's a small or divisible job, figuring out what matters and what doesn't on a cheap rig is the way to go.
i did the same thing when i bought an RV - bought a cheap one, fixed it up a little, and then drove the wheels off it figuring out what was important.
Pay a kid $20 brah lol
Have you met todays kids? The ones I know ain’t doing shit for $20 ??
You’re probably right ?
Woke up, took my dog out, made coffee and then pooped. I’m thriving with T right now boys.
when I was 14, our riding mower broke down and Mom (recently divorced) didn't have the money to replace or fix it.
so I mowed our 3 acre yard that summer with the 14" manual push mower. It wasn't a bagger, so I had to rake the clippings up from the yard, too. I'd put in 3 hours after school on Friday, a solid 6 hrs on Saturday, and then another couple hours after church on Sunday.
Cleaned and stacked the slabs. Looking at a couple different outfits to kiln dry the wood. Based on everything I've read, drying it naturally would take 3+ years. I year per inch of thickness ?
