Chainsaw Repair

Well hobby sawyer,
When you cut a number of cookies fast enough by the stop watch you can win yourself a brand new chainsaw or a handful of cash .

When you can't split a big ole knarly piece of oak round with your wood splitter, then you take your saw and noodle that puppy up into quarters.
 

Well said Neil
I will add that chainsaw competitions bring the community together where everyone can celebrate and good fun for the whole family. I had 18 year old girls who never ran a chainsaw before who took 1st place in the womens speed event and took home a new Husqvarna chainsaw, now if that doesn't draw a strong attraction to this sport I don't know what can.
Speaking of wood cookies, those things make darn good firewood. They can dry from green in just a few weeks and when stacked upon each other in the wood stove they will produce heat much longer then split round stuff.

Willard.

Just goofing off and practicing change overs with stock 3120 9T back in the day. Boy they make a nice bonfire when all loaded up in the 10 foot pit. 

http://youtu.be/26MwquYFUS8

I wasn't referencing competitions. I completely understand the need to conserve the amount of timber during that type of event. You could easily find 5,000 videos on YouTube of fellas cutting 1" cookies-I serious doubt more then 1% have even been in competition....

So just to understand....banging bar/chain is good for the bar. It will cause no damage whatsoever....awesome.



I can see how 'defending' a subject that you need to dissect a subject and only use the bits and pieces of a question to do it, but the subject matter of competitions was never mentioned in the questions.


Scott (make slabs, not noodles) B

These cookie cutting videos relate to a trend today called a GTG [get together] where people interested in chainsaws do meet and have actual competitions. Your 1% estimate is a little off.
A lot of these videos also compare the difference in chainsaw modifications from factory stock form as a lot of the posters are in the business offering chainsaw mods to the public. Just like the auto industry research and development can't be fully attained without racing and high performance modifications. Stihl and Husqvarna fully support timber sports.

No the b/c is not "banged" into the wood, at WOT [wide open throttle] the chain is already cutting a kerf before the down pressure is even fully applied. Now I can see "banging " would happen if the operator has a rocked out dull chain, then there would be a negative effect on the b/c.

I suppose you could cut into firewood lengths rather than cookies. Cookies aren't a waste, they burn great .My use for this type stuff is to tune a saw .

Tuning by ear gets them close but to super tune one it has to be in some wood .