Termites

[Goonie Goat]

I have another question about this situation your in with the fences? is that even legal fence back to back? I've never ever seen this before! what are the rules with your local council, it will screw with block sizes, normally both parties have to agree before hand don't they? That is what I've been told, I could be wrong!

Yeah it's pretty stupid. That whole side I chopped down and pulled the posts, so fuck them idiots. I'll just deal with it for now but you're right.

If I go asking them to extend to the boundary they'll expect me to fork out cash for what they paid. Plus all the colourbond posts are cemented in, so that's gonna cost a bit to fix i would imagine

So I'll just leave it be for now

 

[MM2K6]

Yeah it's pretty stupid. That whole side I chopped down and pulled the posts, so fuck them idiots. I'll just deal with it for now but you're right.

If I go asking them to extend to the boundary they'll expect me to fork out cash for what they paid. Plus all the colourbond posts are cemented in, so that's gonna cost a bit to fix i would imagine

So I'll just leave it be for now

No fuck'em, they need to pay for that shit! you've been screwed dude.

 

[Goonie Goat]

Got the fence all chopped down and the posts pulled in a day, managed to dig out a few bits of concrete from the old posts and got a colourbond fence at about $140/meter.

I've been chopping the wood fence up into smaller sections with a ms170 which was doing fine for a while, was biting into the hardwood well enough, then all of a sudden it just bogged down and shat itself..
Is it possible I overheated the saw? Soon as I got it going again it would just die on me.

Apart from the spark arrestor being clogged, what else could it be? Blocked carby? Power pack or just the air filter?
Another thing is I'm using a carlton 0.50 3/8 44dl chain on it? they normally have the Stihl picco 0.43 chains but had this carlton chain sitting about so thought I'd just destroy it first

Spent about $100 on a service kit with a new bar and clutch etc. Last time I looked through the muffler the piston looked pretty good and no scoring at all.

 

[med180]

Got the fence all chopped down and the posts pulled in a day, managed to dig out a few bits of concrete from the old posts and got a colourbond fence at about $140/meter.

I've been chopping the wood fence up into smaller sections with a ms170 which was doing fine for a while, was biting into the hardwood well enough, then all of a sudden it just bogged down and shat itself..
Is it possible I overheated the saw? Soon as I got it going again it would just die on me.

Apart from the spark arrestor being clogged, what else could it be? Blocked carby? Power pack or just the air filter?

Airflow or carby. If not cleaned after every use they quickly get gunked up

 

[Goonie Goat]

Airflow or carby. If not cleaned after every use they quickly get gunked up

Okay will take it apart and clean it up.
Heard the stock carbs (zama's?) are shit house and they should be replaced with a Walbro instead that can be tuned up.
The Zama's only have an idle screw on them. Ahh well looks like I'm taking it apart then

 

[SAW]

I forgot to mention electric chainsaws in the other thread, ahhhh

 

[Goonie Goat]

Stripped the little saw down entirely. cleaned all the gunk out of the crevices.
Chucked new fuel/oil lines and filters on,
New oil pump, clutch, carby, intake boot seal, air filter, muffler, switched out Bosch plug for NGK and cleaned the spark arrestor over the cooktop.

New Bar and some Chinese Picco chains.. also converted it to a side tensioner for ease of use. Chucked some dogs on it to make it look intimidating.

Filled it up and started it up and it bogged down again when revved. I was pretty fucking disappointed to say the least..

Then I got my neighbour to check it out and he said I must have fucked the timing or something and to basically just give up..

I was just about to pull it apart and just thought fuck it, might aswell just give it another go.

Got it started and the thing screamed and went like a bat out of hell..
It's me old man's saw, stubborn old prick had not an ounce of faith id be able to put it back together, didn't even care about needing to use multigrips to tighten the fuel and oil tanks, fucking thing just constantly leaked fuel and bar oil all over the place and tried telling me that there was nothing wrong with it ..

 

[benn0]

So do ya know what was wrong with it in the end? or it just magically fixed itself after all the parts lol

 

[Goonie Goat]

So do ya know what was wrong with it in the end? or it just magically fixed itself after all the parts lol

Honestly wouldn't have a clue. But glad whatever it was ended up vanishing.

Would have been down at Stihl getting a new saw out of shame anyway, my dad would never shut the fuck up if I gave it back broken "Told you not to take the fucking thing apart!" And shit along those lines.. I know it runs way better now than before but he never admitted it. Like I said he's stubborn as fuck.

I did notice one wire from the ignition coil was a little stripped in one place, like at one point it's rubbed up against the flywheel, maybe that caused the loss of power

 

[med180]

Honestly wouldn't have a clue. But glad whatever it was ended up vanishing.

Would have been down at Stihl getting a new saw out of shame anyway, my dad would never shut the fuck up if I gave it back broken "Told you not to take the fucking thing apart!" And shit along those lines.. I know it runs way better now than before but he never admitted it. Like I said he's stubborn as fuck.

I did notice one wire from the ignition coil was a little stripped in one place, like at one point it's rubbed up against the flywheel, maybe that caused the loss of power

Thats pretty much what I do, and half the time i have no idea what fixed it...
Brush the thing clean with petrol on a brush each time you pack in away, prevention is better that cure

 

[Mellow oldfark]

An old neighbour of mine owns" bigger boys toys"
Had two of his chain saws and they are Chinese copies.
Used them for serious fire wood collection for approx 7 years in the cold and wet Southern Highlands of NSW.
My wife burnt firewood like it was going out of fashion!
Approx 4 + ton a year.
For the money they were very good.
Although longevity not like a Stihl or husky and there probably gone up in price.
Could still be a good option .

 

[benn0]

An old neighbour of mine owns" bigger boys toys"
Had two of his chain saws and they are Chinese copies.
Used them for serious fire wood collection for approx 7 years in the cold and wet Southern Highlands of NSW.
My wife burnt firewood like it was going out of fashion!
Approx 4 + ton a year.
For the money they were very good.
Although longevity not like a Stihl or husky and there probably gone up in price.
Could still be a good option .

yeah the old man had one or two when they first came to australia and used it to collect firewood from out bush/national park when it was legal/un-policed (before everyone started doing it and raped the place by cutting down trees) and they were goers, handled most of what he threw at it for like a few hours, well impressed but your right the longetivity didnt last, eventually rattled to death i think