Bulldozer Versus 446 Husqvarna Chainsaw

A boat builder I worked did the same thing, copying a swim deck, had to change 10% of the design and its yours.

 

Well got a few more cords of wood cut today, pretty near broke my leg and am not sure how I didn't, but that is another story. The saw worked real good, enough for me to pound out a load of wood by noon. So I called my trucker with the good news only to be told the paper mills are going to be shut down for the rest of the month. Their fiscal year ends in October so they stopped buying wood to make things look good on paper (pun intended). So I pounded out a load of wood for nothing. That is okay I guess, pretty much money in the bank just sitting there.

I'll probably cut a load of mat logs next.

 

I am halfway through my load of mat logs and so I have felled some pretty big fellas. I noticed a bit more power, but then again my old saw was 22 years old so it probably lost a wee bit of compression. I don't see much in the way of extra or less fuel consumption and all around it is the same old saw as my 1994 Stihl 046. One thing they did change which I am not a fan of, is the gas and oil caps. I don't know why they made them the way they did, but are a pain. I'd put the caps of my old saw on it, but I don't think its molded just right. With my 046 I cannibalized gas and oil caps off all my other saws, even Husqvarna caps fit it! But if that is all I gripe about, that means its a good saw.

 

A little late to this thread but....

I never put a saw up against a dozer but I did have a Stihl 460 that tried to tangle with my 22,000 GVW Ford F700. Ford came out the winner in that little confrontation. That was about 10 years ago so sorry, no pics.

 

I like the improvements you made to that Husky.

 

Jon, you missed the thread where I dropped a tree on my old 046 Stihl and killed it pretty effectively. A tree leaned back on the back cut and I had pushed it over with the bulldozer and so it was a semi-bulldozer kill. The Husky was my "yard saw", the junk, small saw I left on the landing to knock off missed limbs and to cut logs to length. After dragging them in the dirt they dull a saw quick, so I hate to dull my felling saw. So when that one got the axe by the bulldozer, I had NO saws to cut wood with, so in all honesty, the MS461 really was a replacement for the 046. I might have got by with a size smaller, but I got some big hemlocks about to be rafters so I need a big saw. I have yet to replace my yard saw, but it will be a Stihl. Maybe a smaller one, but a Stihl. I have NEVER had good luck with Husky and have had several of them.