Chainsaw gift for husband

[Danny Dimm]

Over twenty years logging. About 15 of that falling. All over the province. From Ft Nelson to Boston Bar. Mostly doing the small mill thing now. Tree huggers got to me. Don't cut em down much any more, I cut em up.

[TexasTimbers]

Wel you got plenty of advice deb. All true gents want to help a damsel in distress.

Why not consider the chainsaw alone for the Christmas gift, and he can add the saftey equipment from his next paycheck or towo or three. It is not unusual/wrong/cheap to give the main item as the gift. You shoulkd not feel obligated to get all of the necessary ancillary items immediately. If you go that route (letting him add the other equipment as he can afford it), and can afford the MS361 by itself, that's what I would suggest you do because as you said he is also going to be using the saw to fell trees. Using a 290 to fell is not going to make him happy. He can fell with the MS361 and the saw will make him much happier to use than the 290, especially a big man likes to use all the tool he can get tomake the job easier and quicker.

I don't own the saw but have never heard one solitary bad review on it. In fact, even though I favor Husqvarna's, I want an MS361 also. If you read reviews from owners they don't just like these saws they swear by them.

[Paul_H]

Hey Danny, welcome to the zoo er forum. Pour a coffee and pull up a chair, you sound like you have some experience to share.

I've known Danny and his dog named Diesel for about 7 years now.He lives over the hill from me about an hour and a half away but is well known around here as a good faller and handyman.He dried the boards for the floor in my house here and was a big help when I first got my own kiln.

He sawed some logs up for us with his Lucas too before we bought the MD and some of that wood is in my house here as window casings and mouldings.

Welcome Danny,glad you finally got here 

[Tom]

Hey Danny.  welcome to the forum.

Paul's word is good enough for me.  Hope you enjoy running around with us. 

[Danny Dimm]

Now I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy.

[Paul_H]

I haven't seen you for a couple of years but you were fuzzy then or did you clean up some .

[limbrat]

Ms Debbie  I would do as some have advised and give him your blessings on getting a new saw and show him this thread as research, but i would let him get his own saw.

A long time ago i ran into a friend that needed a little cash so i bought his 9.8 outboard boat motor from him. I had a bass boat and a couple of piroques that i used but nothing that the little outboard would fit. I never ment to keep the motor and sold it back to him when he got caught up, but i made a comment to my wife that i needed to get a small boat for the motor. Monday i went to work Friday when i came home parked in my spot was the small boat that my wife had bought. It was a fine boat in its day but its day was about 30yrs. earlier. It was probably the first fiberglass model that skeeter ever built and had major but not very visiable problems.  So now she dont buy my toys/tools and i dont buy non of her stuff for her.

[sawguy21]

  This time of year I get women wanting to buy toys a saw for their hubby. They are usually drawn to the least expensive model because they have no idea what they are looking for. I often make the sale with the guarantee that if he does not like it, he can bring it back after Christmas to exchange for a more suitable model. Yesterday, I told one that her buying tools for a man is like him buying her shoes. She had a good laugh.

[thecfarm]

At least they try.That means a lot.Good that you help them out.I'm buying my wife a sewing machine.She had to pick it out.I did get her a gift certicate at a sewing store for her birthday.She could get whatever she needed for material and thread or whatever.She had more fun trying to stretch that certicate out with sales and the 40% coupons than anything else I ever gave her.She would come home and show me her great buys.

[Debdowns2]

Hi Gang:

I went with the 029 and he was so surprised!  He understands all the references to the 361 but said our trees are not that big and he does not use it enough to warrant the extra cost.  Perhpas he was being poilte.  I got him the chaps and he laughed at first but is now wearing them!  Of course, he has used it already!

Thanks to you all for the help.  I gave this site to him and you may hear from him soon!

Debbie

[beenthere]

Debbie
Thanks for the update, and glad to hear he likes your choice. 
HNY

[Nate Surveyor]

Yeah, I was wondering what happened.

The 029 looks like it would be a good saw. Probably a good choice.

New saws usually cut faster, just like new shoes make kids run faster!

Now, keep warm!

Nate

[ErikC]

I also have an 029. With my other saws around, it gets ignored sometimes, but every time I use I think "sure cuts nice, and light too!"   Good Choice!!!

Erik

[sawguy21]

I am glad to hear he is pleased. Make sure he wears those chaps, they could save him.

[oldsaw]

I am glad to hear he is pleased. Make sure he wears those chaps, they could save him.

He can laugh now, but sawguy is right.  He won't be laughing if he is hemmoraging everywhere, or comes up one leg short on the way back from the emergency room.

Safety first.

Mark

[SawTroll]

Yeah, I was wondering what happened.

The 029 looks like it would be a good saw. Probably a good choice.

New saws usually cut faster, just like new shoes make kids run faster!

Now, keep warm!

Nate

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       No, they don't - runin saws are better - 10-20 tanks should do......

[Nate Surveyor]

Sorry. I plum fergot to remind you to start it!

N

[sawguy21]

That is funny.

[Nate Surveyor]

Seriously, after thinking about it, I think Saw Troll above may have been trying to remind us that the saw will run better, and have more power AFTER the break in period.

All I was doing was being silly about the fun of a new toy. (faster etc)

I have run all kinds of 2 cycle engines. Model airplanes, 2 stroke motorcycles, and liquid cooled 2 stroke motorcycles.

There is a fascinating pile of info to be learned about tuning 2 strokes, and what happens when you change the gas/oil ratio, and the viscosity index of the propellants used in them.

For now, I think you should run this saw at the factory specs. I suspect it has already been run at the factory, and partially broken in already.
If you run 32:1 mix in it now, it will thicken the mix, and force it too lean. And it is designed for the 50:1 mix (Aren't all newer Stihl saws like this one set up at 50:1?) Anyway, I think it is.

Any good advice you can give them about this, would probably be helpful to them.

Mine advice is to stay away from too rich of mixes, and follow the mfr. advice.

Another thing that may come along is that sometimes the catalytic converters will clog up after a while. They may need advice on cleaning it out. On my 4-wheeler saws (I carry a stihl 018 on all 4-wheelers, just to remove logs across the road, and debris from property corners) both of them needed the exhaust systems cleaned out. But this is a different saw.

I'm trying to repent of my smart alec ways, and get them some practical advice.

Say, did you know that maturity and age are NOT even roughly connected?



Nate