I bought this same saw. Commercial grade stihl saws is what I normally buy. I did a bit of research before I bought it. I've kept the stock bar and chain. I've used it a fairly good bit since July. The one complaint I have is the rpm limiter, keeping the saw from running full tilt. I've had the same issue with the pole lock. it's not that big of an issue right now. I'm keeping it stock for the time being because of the warranty. At some point in the future, I may mod the muffler, but as it is right now, I have no major complaints. Thanks for your review, I haven't seen very many reviews on this saw. It's nice to compare
Yeah, it’s a great tool no doubt; and it’s definitely paid for itself over and over for myself I know that. I’ll probably grab a 14” or 16” bar at some point to switch out in certain jobs if needed. This thing has the power no prob 👍👏🌲🌳
Whatever power tool brand you have (Milwaukee, Ryobi, etc), they have little inverters that work well to charge the battery. Super simple! I have the Milwaukee one and it charges the battery on your trailer. It’s around $90.
What I would do is run a 12 gauge wire from your truck battery, or better yet, from a terminal that is key activated, back to your trailer plug, you can also look into a much bigger amp alternator for your truck and if you do any amount of driving at all that should keep your battery charged, for the most part. Also look into solar battery chargers, I have a cheep one that is 10 amps or watts, I forget, and it works, but not enough for your application, but I am sure they make them bigger. I run everything off of solar generators, personally, and they work great, and then a generator for cloudy days.
All good ideas you got there , there’s lots of alternative charging options for sure. This thing has been running great and a barely ever charge this thing up. I mostly use it to haul trees debris so when I dump it doesn’t use much battery power at all. If you’re hauling heavier loads like sand and gravel consistently it’s gonna draw the battery down a lot faster no doubt. Thanks for your comment and ideas and have yourself a good one 👍🌲🌳
Haven’t used any husqvarna pole saws, I’m sure they’ve got some good models out though. I was actually gonna go with an Echo pole saw originally, but shipping was gonna take a while and I needed the saw that day so went with the Stihl.
I actually ordered mine with a 13 ton champion scissor hoist... no issues dumping anyweight. I've seen lots of issues with telescopic seals leaking over time as there is 3 seals. Also scissor hoists make trailer way more stable
Yep, birch is literally all anyone around here wants to burn; so, like you said, they are pretty much going extinct in this area. I have only a handful of birch trees on my property, and I leave them be. Thanks for posting a comment and all the best to you in the new year 🌲🌲🌲
The lil j by John Seard is pretty much the same saw. I run it on 50:1 which I think is okay , oils have changed a lot in 40 years. You may want to disconnect the auto oiler so it doesn't suck bar oil into the crank case. To start it you need to choke it and hold the throttle halfway, it takes a few pulls . No primer bulb hah. I put a foam air filter on. The carb boot gaskets are paper you are going to want to replace those. I cut some from that foam crap they sell everywhere.
Well, it's over 40 today in Illinois, and my wife says close to 60 on Christmas day. We'll see if it gets that warm, but normally it's in the low 30s, high 20s, or lower here, then Jan and Feb are brutal.
Yeah, you guys get the cold stuff there for sure. Thanks for taking time to post from Illinois, much appreciated! Seasons greetings and best wishes to you folks in the new year
I live in phoenix arizona. I lay concrete and it was by far the hottest year. We lost so many desert plants and trees that are literally drought proof. But they got cooked alive. And now here in December I have yet to put on a sweater. Still in the 70-/80s
Pittsburgh, PA. We're on track to have one of the warmest Christmases ever. Garden still hasn't frozen for plants that are frost resistant (Broccoli still growing). Yes, it is eire.
Dont forget that governments around the world are openly talking about their wether manipulation systems. They cant just manipulate mother nature without a reaction. They play with the weather patterns and then say its the people who are responsible for extreme weather...
Yeah, saw something about that recently, been meaning to look into that! Another comment I got on here was a guy that mention Hung Tonga, a crazy huge volcanic eruption under the ocean that happened and burned an insane amount of water vapour into the atmosphere; that would seem to be a pretty valid reason for the water vapour in the air that I’ve been wondering about all year. I haven’t really had any comments about this water vapour in the air, I was curious if it was in other regions or other parts of the world also. Thanks for taking the time to post! Seasons greetings and best wishes to you in the new year
41 years ago in my home town upper midwest USA the temperature Christmas day 1982 was 60°. No that's normal. However, the averages in history are not measured in the lifetime experiences of any one human. We just reference living memory. Listen to the people squeal when the weather turns cold and the have no fuel to keep warm and cook their food. Growing seasons shortened or ruined altogether by cold and excessively wet weather are a real possible alternative. An overpopulated planet with not enough food will be a bad place to be. Maybe it'll cut down on morbid obesity.
Interior Alaska here, where i live, to this date this season we have had three days at twenty below zero and one day at twenty eight below. "Normally", by this date we would have at least seven days at thirty below, and three or four days of forty below. The temperatures have been going up for twenty eight years, here. There is something going on, no doubt, but i no longer believe that burning "fossil" fuels or ambient CO2 levels, has anything to do with it.
While they cannot control the weather, "Cloud seeding" and other forms of weather manipulation have been admitted to. We will always have the four seasons according to the Good Book so the only thing that can happen are some extreme swings and or conditions. That being said, the chemtrails are a real thing and who knows how it will effect the weather outside of normalcy. Been unusually warm here in Minnesota as well but not looking forward to January. I suspect things will be changing for the worse cold-wise. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. -Genesis 8:22 Thanks for the video and good luck with your channel!
Not too far from you Milwaukee Wisconsin. Summer drought no snow yet and really warm for December. It feels like we crossed a tipping point climate wise
Love Wisconsin, got some family in Madison area. Yeah sounds like you guys are similar conditions to us here. Thanks for posting from Wisconsin, much appreciated!
Interesting, thanks for that info I never heard of that (I live off grid & I don’t get much up to date news); that definitely seems to make sense as a plausible cause; I just looked it up and it was a massive underwater volcano boiling a serious amount of moisture into the air. Thanks for taking the time to post a comment, much appreciated. Seasons greetings and best wishes to you in the new year
It's el Nino, meaning storm track is down in socal AZ NM and east coast, but last winter in Flagstaff AZ I lived at 7200 foot about 15 min out of town, 300 inches, most snow since mid 40s, we're about to get about 2 inches of rain in the souther Phoenix area...
Well, the usual probably isn’t such a bad thing these days. How was the wildfire season in Northern California this year? I know western Canada (and all of Canada) was record setting wildfires by 2 times the previous record 😬
This is a beautiful thing to witness. I'm a 65 year old scientist. I've been studying climate change for decades. No matter what your political views are, the thermometer is a difficult thing to argue with. The climate models I study predict that the average temperatures will jump up around 10 degrees F every decade or so. It's not a gradual change, it's a step change. I live to see the day when the temperature hits 140F in the southwest USA. That will happen before I die, and I will jump for joy. We are all waiting to see who wins this existential battle... Mother Earth or Slippery Sam. Mother Earth will take out thousands on that day.
Millions are dying because they "followed the science" as told by a bunch psychopaths over the last few years. Your climate models will never top that! 😂😂😂
Egypt was green once. The earth will get dryer and dryer. But were all paying our carbon tax so it will be fine when wef and un runs every aspect of life.
It is a fact that the magnetic poles are shifting. As a pilot, I have been observing for several years that the magnetic heading numbers on the ends of runways changing gradually. And they have changed a lot over the years. That’s what I think it is. Google it or look it up on RU-vid.
Northern Alberta, it's above zero some nights. Barely any fost. This isn't normal. Everyone is saying it's just one of those years but you can tell, they don't really believe it. I think everyone realizes this is climate change but don't want to say it out loud. ......and that is exactly what it is. You can disregard science all you want. The atmosphere doesn't car what you think....
it's a strong el nino year, normally that means anything but the usual, here in belgium we got a LOT of rain.. + that eruption at hunga tunga put an extreme amount of water in the atmosphere, this should have the opposite effect to dust which cools like the famous year without a summer in the 1800's.. given the name, a year without a summer it's better to have a warm year in my opinion.. :p cheers
Yeah, the extra moisture in the air definitely adds a lot to the temp, that’s been our situation this year where we are at also, I’ve never experienced anything like it, an eye opener to say the least. I’ve experienced the summer that never comes a few years back, it sucked; it was basically winter/mild winter for pretty much 12 months straight. Thanks for taking the time to post from Belgium! Much appreciated
no prob, do you know what year that colder than usual summer was? on the topic of climate, weather patterns/systems and the possible changes i would just like to say that in my, moderate to well studied opinion (depending what field we discuss) the "normal" for planet earth has always been extreme, from droughts to floods to sudden colder periods with varying time spans (decades to centuries) and of course the glacial/interglacial long cycles for about 2.5 million years.. there is a warming trend ever since what's called the little ice age ended and we still haven't reached global average temps of what's called the climatic optimum period in which human civilizations became more established (9500-4000 years ago).. i think it's important not to panic to much (i mean generally, the climate alarmism) as for now there's not even a serious concern or sufficient evidence that weather phenomena are getting more extreme like the fabled claim hurricanes are stronger and more frequent in recent times (no it's not and fun fact it's actually the other way around) anyhow take care, hope you have some snow soon! cheers @@woodsmiller
Same deal here in NWO marathon area. Not quite as warm as tbay but similar patterns. weather has definitely been “off” like you mentioned. I remember green Christmas over the yrs, but this year seems different ..
1910 was the hottest. We're only on earth for a short while. We can't judge climate from our short existence. Just adapt. Don't worry . Be happy its not earthquake and volcano
Yep, there’s certainly been hotter times on the planet no doubt, and it’s always been ever changing there’s no question. Thanks for taking the time to post! Seasons greetings and best wishes to you in the new year
I live in barrie, im fairly young and i remember when i was in grade 1 or two, snow was a lot higher. Im noticing the same trend. I sometimes snows a few inches but it tends to always melt after a few days. I remember that there used to be feet of snow here too. Im not a climent scientist or anything but, i blame it on global warming. My parents are saying that they have never seen the weather like it is now. 😊
Yeah, there’s definitely been changes going on for many years, but now it seems to be changing a lot more rapid and drastic. Thanks for taking the time to post from Barrie, ON! 😊
Chopping wood chopping wood, dont mind me just chopping wood, oh god dang thats a knot! Its dry dude down here in georgia. Its been great. Not much flooding in the cave
Good stuff, ya a flooded cave probably ain’t no good unless you’re one of those adventure cave divers, those dudes are intense, crazy stuff. Thanks for taking the time to post from Georgia, much appreciated! Seasons greetings & best wishes to you in the new year
As someone who works on climate change, I can only say that things are gonna change even more unfortunately. I grew up in Tasmania, Australia. We used to get snow on the mountains 8 months a year. But it’s becoming less and less, the last 3 years we haven’t even run the lifts. The fish I used to catch have gone and now I’m getting species that normally belong 500km north. The trees are flowering earlier and dropping foliage later. We’ve known about climate change for over 60 years, but the fossil fuel industry has bought our governments and stopped us dealing with it. Such a shame.
What a crock of crap! The climate is constantly changing, and has been warmer than now and colder than now in the past, and it will continue changing no matter what we do. Earth warming is actually a good thing for humans. Just because the weather was a certain way years ago, does not mean it will be that way always - in fact, you can be sure that it won't be the same over time.
In new mexico it's been drought conditions. There were two years where it rained all summer mixed with sun. the gravel hard packed yard grew a thick lawn of fine grass that looked like it had been landscaped. landscaped.
Nice, my cousin just moved to New Mexico from Wisconsin, looks like a beautiful place! Are the drought conditions pretty normal in New Mexico? The lush grass growing out of hard packed gravel definitely sounds like that might be out of the norm if I had to guess 😅. Thanks for taking the time to post from New Mexico, much appreciated!
I live in texas, and I've noticed that every few years, the hot times last longer, and winter comes a lot later. For example, by this time, a few years ago, it would be in the 30s or lower. It's 57 right now. And winter will last until April/May, whice is insane.
Middle of the United States of America here, one dusting so far and we're supposed to get our first real snow on christmas day, not that I'm complaining, but I feel like there is going to be a lot more next year...
Ya I get it, hard to complain about warm weather, pretty easy on the bones and joints. Thanks for taking the time to post from Central USA, much appreciated. Seasons greetings and best wishes to you in the new year
I'm in the UK not had a warm summer but muggy high humidity but as we've come in to winter lots of rain floods but here in the UK it can change fast so not too unusual
Hi from Salt Lake City Utah I have a I am an apartment manager I have a number of apartments in the steam boiler system runs on pressure and heat rather than an electric thermostat I've been having difficulties this year it's very warm like temperature wise my boiler does act weird
Very interesting you mention that, my solar setup at home was acting up numerous times this summer, I was scratching my head over it I kinda came to the conclusion it had something to do with the heat and the excessive moisture content in the air. It’s never glitched out like that before and it hasn’t done it again since summer passed. Thanks for taking the time to post from Utah! Seasons greetings & best wishes to you in the new year
I was 17 at the time in alberta waa just like this called it a indian summer Weather is different every year nothing new under the sun but wait for the Federal government to start all the forest fires next year
