I'm working on this years heat, no wood- no heat and I'm 66. It beats paying for a gym pass...
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It is however work I enjoy.
An outdoor boiler opens up all kinds of possibilities but thats' now for me right now.
Another load of wood. Mostly lodgepole again, with one big fir in the middle.
I definitely need to get a bigger saw, the MS290 is nice but it struggles on some of the bigger trees, I will probably step up to a MS362.
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Nice load of wood. If moving 'up' in a saw you might consider a 391.
Going up the ladder to a 362 is not really that much a gain IMO.
IF your 290 is stock...you could do a muffler 'mod' and then re-tune the carb. Have it so it just 4 strokes out of the wood but cleans up in wood. You'd be very close to a stock 362.
Nice load of wood. If moving 'up' in a saw you might consider a 391.
Going up the ladder to a 362 is not really that much a gain IMO.
IF your 290 is stock...you could do a muffler 'mod' and then re-tune the carb. Have it so it just 4 strokes out of the wood but cleans up in wood. You'd be very close to a stock 362.
My buddy was using a 362 yesterday when we were out cutting, it is by far a better saw than the 290 is. I haven't done the muffler mod on the 290 yet.
I'll look into the 391 prices and specs also.
For what it's worth I'm asking my 290 to do a lot more than it's designed for, it has a 28" bar and 3/8" RS3 chain. That model is reccomend to have like a 16"-20" bar and the smaller .325 chain.
But no one likes bending over all day to buck wood.
but honestly it sounds like moving up to a more powerful saw is the way to go.
According to the specs the 362 is the bigger saw of the two.
Luckily that was my plan anyway!
For what I paid last winter in LP I could get a heck of a saw, so dropping anything under $1800 I would be money ahead. With that being said, getting a 362, or even the 441 or 461, wouldn't be a hard thing to talk the wife into!
Let me start by saying I have issues. After a long winter weekend of cutting wood in the swampy woods half mile from the house I packed er up and headed in. Went to use my 362 about a month later couldn't find it.
Took a ride out to the woods and there it was half submerged in water. Wouldn't run. Cleaned the rust off the magneto made sure the gap to the coil was right and it has run great ever since. Awesome.
Luckily that was my plan anyway!
For what I paid last winter in LP I could get a heck of a saw, so dropping anything under $1800 I would be money ahead. With that being said, getting a 362, or even the 441 or 461, wouldn't be a hard thing to talk the wife into!