Re: Who makes the best chain saw?

Posted by forestorbill on November 25, 2006 at 23:32:46 from (68.188.153.118):

In Reply to: Re: Who makes the best chain saw? posted by 135 Fan on November 03, 2006 at 18:35:14:

Stihl is the best, in my view.

I've used several homelites alot... junk. Mccoulah junk. Poulan will give you 50 hrs of cheap work if you like pullin' on it. Husky was very good, but just didn't like it. Then I found stihl, and I thought when to heaven. 025 always started first pull and never failed me. Then I went to the ms260 for more power. That's got to be the most bulletproof saw around. And it's light and very powerful. I've got a big ms660 and a 36 bar. It rips lumber like butter (well not really) and a heck of alot cheaper than that woodmizer I had.

I had jonsered iron horse for a couple of years. Used it to get the logs for my sawmill hobby. I did'nt make no money, but I sure had fun, some say that's the main thing. I bought it for 7500 and sold both it and a woodmizer sawmiller lt40 for 10k. I had the pro model 9hp and it could pretty much haul anything, anywhere, if you planned it right. It had trouble with a 12' 36inch log out of the bottom of the lake. I got no traction in the sand. So I cut the log in half and carried it sideways. It was amazing what it could do. Fits in a pickup perfectly. The winch was the best part. No more trees hanging up in the canopy. It sat under a tarp a lot. Works great in snow. Deep snow, it's harder, but possible. It's fun to ride around on it with no load in the snow, (handle flips back and you stand on the log deck and steer it) If I'd do it all over...I'd get a kodaic atv and an arch. when you're done you can go for a ride on it too. Lot of money for the horse and not much return. Time spent skidding, does not equal time saw
milling. It might be better to get a tractor with forks, cause the iron horse won't lift anything for you. A tractor will make you happy too. Put a lewis winch on the hitch and a cone on the log and you can reach a lot of logs. The horse is good for pulp but there's no money in that. YOu'll make money if you got cedar. I think a tractor with forks is the way to go.

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