Things I’ve done to my saw

Lost bar nut. ✅

Chain on backwards took it off put back on go to cut, still won’t cut, still on backwards, 3rd times the charm✅

Forgot gas last week✅

Forgot tool box with scrench wedges files etc last week ✅

Rarely over fill gas, but over fill oil about 1/2 the time, not sure why✅

Oil/gas caps not tight leaked all over paints.✅

Ran saw for about 5 minutes once with oil cap hanging out of tank all covered in sawdust and crap ✅

Many more I’m sure

 

Had a second loader (does the log bucking) who had just filed up his chain, started up his saw but he did not pick up that his saw was running backwards so he took the chain off and put it on backwards and then started up his saw. This time it turned the right way but only this time the chain would still not cut as the chain was now on backwards!

 

I can add......
Forgetting saw was in loader bucket and scooped up a load of sand.
Backed the truck over one
And......well..I dropped a running saw in a lake.

 

Doggone!

 

This Got it pinched taking a limb off a cottonwood I’d just dropped. Hopped on the skid steer with a grapple to get it loose but didn’t stop when it came out. Went ahead and tried to move the trunk instead of picking up the saw first . Luckily I bought a wrap handle and dog combo when I first bought it so I had the original for a spare. Only down about 30 minutes. Did pretty much the same thing to my 345 earlier this fall, just without the aid of a skid steer. Got the brake lever and handle bar on that one

 

Ouch! How much the new handle cost ya?

 

Tried to tighten my chain last week with the chain break on! What a PIA that was. I figured out eventually!

 

Have done most of the above. Some several times. Never left my dog, thankfully. Lost cinch chain last winter, found it this spring when I went to split and stack a pile of logs that I dumped. Left it in the dump bed and covered it in logs. Ugh.

 

Actually that was the “new” handle. It was a full wrap that I ordered from Baileys, came with a felling dog & roller chain catcher, $34 IIRC. I’d put it on before I ever ran the saw. So put the standard one that came with it back on.

 

Forgot the saw!! yup, short story, was mowing with the brush cutter, had a hired kid working with me. Changed some flails on the mower head. We had to take some stuff out of the pickup to get to the parts. We leave, heading down the road. I stop about 5 miles later, looking for the saw. The kid is on the mower, asked him, he says oh, i ''think''i left it on the shoulder where we changed the flails. I go flying back, no saw, but, remembered seeing a couple walking up the road while we were changing flails. I head toward where i last saw them. Find them getting ready to leave the state, ask about saw. The woman says ''see we should have picked it up''so, i call the boss tell him what happened, he calls the sheriff, he meets us. Tells us, if some one turns it in, or was picked up by some one, and they take it. It is the same as stealing, since they do not own the saw. It was marked with a identifying #. I mentioned to the boss, that every time he goes by the saw shop to stop in and ask about it.

He does, but, 3 months later he stops one more time. tells the guy the # of the saw, he checks the saws, he had, that had been brought in. THERE IT IS!! he had transposed a # wrong on his list and we got it back. It was clearly marked PROPERTY OF such and such county Road dept. Getting a saw back like that is ONE in probably a Thousand, we got lucky!!! But, my question was, WHY didn't the guy who found it bring it directly to the county shop? He lives here, knew all of us guys, has a business????