How The H@ll Did This Happen

I was doing some management cutting taking out some pin oaks that were dominating a bunch of smaller white and red oaks. The trees were just "medium" sized so I was bucking with the 360 and limbing with the 026. I put down the 360 and picked up the 026 which had been used just a few minutes before. To my amazement I saw this!!! How the h@ll did this happen??? That 026 cap was screwed in snug with a tool. You cannot easily unscrew it by hand, it had to be ripped off somehow. It cleaned up fine back in the garage and the threads showed no damage. It snugged back up tight as usual.





I was cutting in some nasty stuff with wicked pin oak branches all over. I do remember tripping once putting my left hand with the idling saw to the ground/branches to steady myself. Maybe hit something just right that the dog-ear on the case didn't protect it???

 

Stihl cap gremlins. They are everywhere. If you look real hard you might see some in that pile of limbs. Sneaky little buggers.

 

That's really odd

 

seams odd that saw chips are inside the cap, unless you kept cutting with it after it came off...............

 

I have forgotten to put a cap back on before. And could have sworn I put it on. But while walking from truck tail gate to trees to cut I realized I had oil, or gas running all over ......

 

That's exactly what I figured, cut some with it off without seeing it, or it was in the "line of fire" of the 360 cutting.

 

didn't find any puddles of oil on the ground anywhere to indicate where/how it may have come off?

 

i did something similar last week,its a pain and a mess

 

Check your leg and boots...

 

It isn't just Stihl gremlins. Dolmar gremlins did the exact same thing to my PS-421 last weekend. My father was cutting with it and he pinched the bar, that's when I noticed that the oil cap was off and the cap was full of chips. No apparent damage, cleaned it out, checked the chain and bar and filled it back up with oil. First time that's ever happened. I have picked a saw up after filling without putting the cap back on and it was an immediate consequence. Gas or oil all over the place. This was after most of a tank of gas.

 

Sure you don't have CRS?

I have been a very vocal advocate against flippy caps, but it seems that even screw in caps can have mishaps too. About a month ago I looked down and the oil cap was out of my 550XPG and oil was all down my leg. I fueled/oiled two saws at the same time and apparently did not replace the oil cap on the 550.

 

Honestly didn't look and we have two days of rain starting here now.

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At your age your bound to be forgetful!!!!

 

I put on a backpack blower once with the gas cap not quite on. Spent the rest of my day reeking of gas mix.

 

I know, it runs in my family too. You know, I mean, um, what were we talking about? Oh yea, beer!

 

Your lucky you didn't turn into a human torch!