This is the MS 261 C? After adding bar, chain, oil and petrol it's somewhere in the ballpark of 6 kg / 13.2 lb? A bit heavy saw to limb with IMHO. I usually bring two saws with me. One ultra light (less than 4.5 kg / 9.9 lb) for limbing, and one for bucking or felling. This is a lot easier on the arms and shoulders. A lot less pain in my elbow joints. EDIT: Bit risky cutting up logs on the ground like that and doing the balancing act with your left foot. A small sawbuck would be better (and safer). 🙂
I am really baffled why you are cutting the small branches in little pieces. You have to pick up every single "twig" from the floor. Why don´t you cut the small branches lets say every 4 feet and transport them home and cut them there next to place where you store them? A Video on how you pick up every piece would be great.
We use the same cutting method/system... tree is dropped, it is cut to size, split as needed, Then at our place > the wood is loaded in a trailer, pulled to our back door. 12 steps from the stove -- most of our firewood is touched twice... its picked up after it's cut, ... then taken from the trailer right into the stove box... nearly 60% of our firewood , is only handled those 2 times, the remaining 40% is handled as needed to split it, or brought in and stacked for overnight or bad weather .
Could watch this all day. Bucking is meditation, splitting is anger management 😆 Great video!
This is the MS 261 C? After adding bar, chain, oil and petrol it's somewhere in the ballpark of 6 kg / 13.2 lb? A bit heavy saw to limb with IMHO. I usually bring two saws with me. One ultra light (less than 4.5 kg / 9.9 lb) for limbing, and one for bucking or felling. This is a lot easier on the arms and shoulders. A lot less pain in my elbow joints.
EDIT: Bit risky cutting up logs on the ground like that and doing the balancing act with your left foot. A small sawbuck would be better (and safer). 🙂
Skipped to the end. Did I miss anything?
I am really baffled why you are cutting the small branches in little pieces. You have to pick up every single "twig" from the floor. Why don´t you cut the small branches lets say every 4 feet and transport them home and cut them there next to place where you store them? A Video on how you pick up every piece would be great.
We use the same cutting method/system... tree is dropped, it is cut to size, split as needed,
Then at our place > the wood is
loaded in a trailer, pulled to our back door. 12 steps from the stove -- most of our firewood is touched twice... its picked up after it's cut, ... then taken from the trailer right into the stove box... nearly 60% of our firewood , is only handled those 2 times, the remaining 40% is handled as needed to split it, or brought in and stacked for overnight or bad weather .
One upside: Less sawdust at home.
Perhaps he doesn't mind the extra exercise.