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Picking a New Saw Chain

Since saw chains come in numerous mixed bags with various determinations, it is essential to consider each part of the chain when settling on a buying choice. Among the issues to be considered are the measurements of the cutting apparatus itself, the sort of wood to be cut, and the fancied cutting result.

Picking the Right Chain for the Saw

Obviously, when acquiring another chain for any cutting apparatus, the first request of business is to verify that the chain will really fit the saw. A given cutting tool will just work with chains of a particular length, gage, and pitch. In the event that the cutting apparatus as of now has a chain, discovering the right substitution chain is as straightforward as discovering a chain with the same length, gage, and pitch as the first. On the off chance that the first chain is missing, counsel the proprietor’s manual or contact the maker.

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The saw’s measurements additionally assume a part in selecting a tooth game plan. Full skip and semi-skip chains ought to just be utilized if the aide bar is no less than 24 inches in length. These chains are favored for some applications on longer cutting tools in light of the fact that they oblige less energy to work than standard chains. Full supplement chains can be utilized with any cutting tool the length of the force source is sufficiently powerful to keep the chain cutting viably.

Picking a chainsaw

Winter will be here soon and alongside winter comes chilly climate and high warming bills. Clearly there’s nothing but the same old thing new about any of this yet with the current monetary circumstance a many individuals will be cutting their own particular kindling surprisingly and they’ll be acquiring a chainsaw to do it.

The primary chainsaw I ever claimed was an old, extremely utilized Craftsman with a 18-inch bar. It was given to me by my granddad. It had a cast iron engine and weighed no less than 20 pounds. It had no chain brake, no vibration dampeners, no suppressor or sparkle arrestor, and a physically worked pump to oil the chain. It made an awesome showing cutting kindling however it was overwhelming and perilous.

CHAINSAWSBase perspective of a Craftsman cutting tool demonstrating the springs that protect the handles from vibration.

Base perspective of a Craftsman cutting tool demonstrating the springs that protect the handles from vibration.

Chainsaws have make a ton of progress in the most recent 40 years. Cutting edge saws are lighter, more secure, and simpler to use than those before. There are more decisions and choices than any time in recent memory, keeping in mind that is great it can likewise get a bit of befuddling. Anyway, how would you pick the best cutting tool for you? You look over the alternatives then pick the saw that will best serve your needs.

TOP HANDLE CHAINSAWS

CHAINSAWS are intense devices for overwhelming obligation planting. With a fast pivoting chain, CHAINSAWS help easily take care of strenuous errands, for example, expanding, chopping down trees or just cutting up logs for the flame.

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New this year to oleomac is Greenworks Tools’ scope of Lithium Ion fueled apparatus. Intended for local utilize, a decision of 10″ or 12″ bar and chain is accessible with 24v or 40v Lithium Ion batteries. All petrol engined cutting apparatuses supplied by oleomac and your neighborhood oleomac merchant likewise now profit by an industry-driving, 5 year restrictive, shopper guarantee against material, segment, assembling and outline deformity. To figure out additional, call into your nearby oleomac Dealer or why not call us in the UK on 0800 0181 312 or in the Republic of Ireland call 1800 905 036*?

Critical Information: Chainsaws are capable machines. They ought to be utilized with dependably. oleomac firmly suggests that cutting apparatuses ought to just be utilized as a part of understanding with supplied guidelines by experienced faculty acquainted with CHAINSAW operation. Inability to hold fast to these necessities may bring about genuine damage or demise.

Drag saw

A drag saw is an early responding saw utilizing a 1.8 m (6 feet) steel crosscut saw to buck logs to length. Before the advancement of the cutting tool amid the Second World War, the drag saw was a prominent method for taking the diligent work out of cutting wood.

As per one theory, proof for the utilization of drag saws may go back to the fourth line of Egypt, two thousand years prior to its usually acknowledged date of invention.Early drag saws were steam fueled and later gas controlled. A few makers included Multnomah, Vaughn and Wee McGregor.

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Utilizing the Chainsaw

Chainsaw operations are fundamentally isolated into three errands: limbing, kicking, and felling. Limbing is the expulsion of branches from a brought down tree. Kicking is cutting the storage compartment of the brought down tree to length. What’s more, felling is cutting an upright tree in a controlled way with the goal that it falls where expected, and ideally that is in a decent place! Keep in mind the language for discussions around the workplace water cooler, and you’ll awe your associates: Unless you are similar to a youthful George Washington with your trusty hatchet, a tree is never “cleaved down,” however “felled,” pretty much as kindling is not hacked, but rather part. Spare hacking for how to plan onions for your home fries.

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Chainsaws are available at oleomac, find the agent by clicking here.

How to Chop Wood

Do you swing at a piece of wood with an axe and nothing happens, or you’re sick of hurting your back? Well, hurt no more, this guide may just help you learn how to chop wood effectively and correctly without hurting your back with chainsaws.

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Balance the piece of wood that you want to chop (or split) on a chopping block or level ground.

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Stand with your feet shoulder width apart.

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Hold the axe with both hands. Slide one hand up near the head of the axe, and practice letting it slide down the axe handle toward the other hand as the swing is executed. This maintains control and delivers a more powerful blow.

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Put the axe in the spot you want to hit. Study the piece, and note any knots or limbs. You will want to hit a spot between these, as it is much harder to split across these, since they hold the wood together like nails or pins.

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Pull the axe carefully over your head, allowing the upper hand to slide up near the ax head. Hold it with the head back over your shoulder with a firm grip.

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Bring the axe quickly and firmly down, allowing your hand to slide down the axe handle to the other hand, aiming to hit the exact spot you selected.

How to Use a Chainsaw Safely?

So you had a tree administration turned out to the house and issue you an assessment to bring down that pine tree that is shading your wife’s petunias, and the assume that they cited made you stun. “Hell,” you thought, “for that much cash I can purchase a cutting tool and chop that pine down myself. What’s more, cut up the wood and offer it to Joe down the road to smolder in his wood stove, and really profit. How hard would it be able to be?”

Hold tight there, Paul Bunyan. There’s a decent arrangement about cutting apparatuses you ought to know before devastating to the lawn woods.

All devices can possibly perpetrate hurt. Sledges can pound thumbs and slipped wrenches can cause cleaned knuckles, however chainsaws convey the potential for damage to an entire new level. We are discussing extremely sharp (all the more on that later) metal teeth moving at blinding pace, frequently only creeps from the saw administrator’s decent delicate tissue. Saws release little bits of wood at high speed. Branches can be under colossal strain, and may spring when curtailed like a rifle shot. A disgracefully felled tree can, best case scenario, straighten that bed of petunias; at the very least, level you.

ChainsawsThere is expertise included in deftly and securely working a cutting apparatus, and an expectation to absorb information to wind up capable. Actually, I don’t think any accomplished saw administrators would say that the expectation to absorb information ever levels. At the point when utilizing a cutting tool, each circumstance is distinctive, and getting a handle on each of these one of a kind circumstances fabricates onto your expertise level, as would taking a viable cutting apparatus administrator’s course.

FTMTA Farm Machinery Show on this week!

One of Ireland’s biggest farm machinery events, the FTMTA Farm Machinery Show will be happening in Punchestown, Naas over the next three days – February 5th, 6th and 7th, 2015. Unfortunately,  Camsaw lawnmowers and chainsaws won’t be at the show but we watch with interest to perhaps take part next year (not enough days in the week!) Read below to find out more about this years show!

 

FTMTA Farm machinery show, punchestown, exhibition hall, chainsaws, lawnmowers

The show attracted 18,000 visitors in 2013. Organised by the Farm Tractor & Machinery Trade Association (FTMTA) it has the guiding principle that it is “organised by the trade for the farmer and contractor”. This year the exhibition space has been increased by an additional 800 square metres making this the biggest such event ever held. The Show will comprise three exhibition pavilions totaling 11,500 square metres of indoor, heated, exhibition space as well as the largest ever area of outdoor displays. Over 130 exhibitors will exhibit across nearly 160 indoor stands and over 30 outdoor display areas. 

Enjoy if you go along! Here is a link to their EXHIBITION PLAN and layout plus a EXHIBITOR LIST, which might be useful!

Check out their facebook page for regular updates and to enter a competition to win some show merchandise.

 

FTMTA Farm Machinery Show, Punchestown, facebook competition

The Camsaw Team 

Tribal Wisdom

We read this and thought it was brilliant so said we would share!

Dakota Indians

Tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians (so legend has it), passed on from generation to generation, says that, “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.” However, in government, education and the corporate world, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:

1. Buying a stronger whip.

2. Changing riders.

3. Giving horse and rider a good bollocking.

4. Re-structuring the dead horse’s reward scale to contain a performance related element.

5. Suspending the horse’s access to the executive grassy meadow until performance targets are met.

6. Making the horse work late shifts and weekends.

7. Scrutinising and clawing back a percentage of the horse’s past 12 months expenses payments.

8. Appointing a committee to study the horse.

9. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride horses.

10. Convening a dead horse productivity improvement workshop.

11. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.

12. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.

13. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.

14. Outsourcing the management of the dead horse.

15. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.

16. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse’s performance.

17. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance.

18. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.

19. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. And the highly effective…

20. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.

Brilliant!
The Camsaw Team 

All our Ploughing pictures!

We want to say a massive THANK YOU to all the people who dropped by to say hi at this years ploughing! And drop by you did! In your thousands! It was such a great few days and proves time and time again how important it is to get out there and meet people and your customers! People buy from people, not companies and that is one thing Camsaw believes in spades so thanks all for making this years ploughing a super few days for us. We featured many of our most popular products including our extensive range of chainsaws, tractor lawnmowers, brush cutters and lots more. We were also delighted to have John Hayes, an amazingly talented chainsaw wood carver wowing people with his work live over the 3 days!

Here are some of our favourite shots!

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