The full wrap and dogs are nice for any real felling IMHO. When you get into trees with thick deeply groves bark and root flares, and hilly...
If you're having trouble freehand filing I recommend this file guide. STIHL File Guides They're inexpensive and very effective. The 2 in 1 guide...
I have owned both the ms362 and I still own a 562xp. Both saws have about the same power, with maybe a slight edge going to the 562. When it comes...
The 73 on the drive link means it's .058" gauge chain, which matches that bar. 3/8 is the chain pitch. .058" is the gauge aka the thickness of...
With a properly sharpened chain the saw should self feed through the wood, if you have to lean on the saw the chain is not right. What exactly did...
My friend the issue is with the chain or the bar. Not sure what the dealer will be able to do other than point you in the right direction, maybe...
Make sure the bar us square, it would be odd though being new. I've had some new chain with the depth gauges all over the place, if they were low...
How much does it rev up? Pretty much every saw I've ever owned or used did this to some extent, and having the L set a little rich seems to make...
That's how it normally goes.
Could be a different species, but the pics look exactly like what I have. I get zero lumps when I burn it, just white fluffy ash.[emoji5]
Lol. You must be cutting a different species like white oak, red and black oak smell like, well you get the idea lol.
I agree. It also gets really light and hard. Elm doesn't have the highest BTU output, but it burns nice and clean, with very little ash left over.
Don't mind that smell really, now most oak smells like ads when freshly cut/split.
Having them dry helps, but when you get into 18"+ rounds they become a pita to split.
Stihl's business model has been stable throughout the last 30 years or so. Lately however, in an attempt to keep sales volume up, Stihl is making...
[emoji8] Any saw that is tuned properly, that doesn't have anything mechanically wrong with, will start easily at any temperature. If you don't...
If a saw doesn't start easily, 99% of the time it's because the owner doesn't know how to tune the carb, I don't care what brand it is. Always...
Believe it or not it might not just be the dealer, some of the stuff the regional reps tell dealers to do. Stihl corporate is very dictatorial.
Go to a different dealer, the one you went to is full of it. OEM is the way to go with Stihl fuel lines, the aftermarket lines are garbage and...
You don't want the little SOB's. So many areas just look brown a dead in the summer, and the expense in dealing with the hazard trees is high. And...
