Chainsaws $$$

[Paul Roberts]

MS170 -At 8lbs my Goto for limbing. Keep chain sharp and it'll do amazing things. Still a good folding handsaw (also Stihl) is safer and faster in many instances.

MS251 'Wood boss' 11lbs. 3hp -Keep sharp and it'll cut firewood. Alternate saw on big jobs.

MS261 11lbs 4hp -Goto firewood saw.

I cut -3 cords/year. And have maintenance work on 33acres of maturing hardwood forest.

Weight matters to spare my back. Posture helps too. Darn careful out there. Had a neighbor lose his son on adjacent property during felling. You never get over that. Dangerous work.

[Gfish]

Great video. That magneto-points lookin electrical unit was the only thing that looked salvageable at first. What was that high pressure cleaning tool? Not just an air compressor, right? Was waiting to see how he'd clean the chain groove on the bar, but it didn't show it.

[Midway Tommy]

Interesting restore, that thing looked like burnt toast. Greg, the pressure cleaning thing was a sand blaster with silica sand. It looked like he used the silica with the water, too, when he cleaned the crud off.

That old rotten log was so punky and dodey a hand saw could zip right through it. 

[Paul Roberts]

The telling thing on his restore was the idle. But pinning that little log with his leg wasn't too smart.