Modded Saws

chadd

i run tweaked out huskies, i have a 385xp and a 390xpg. they are quite loud in the city but out in the forest it isn't too much of a differance (the ground absorbs it instead of reflecting it). they normally rev out at about 12-13k but now clear 15. i am running 36" bars with 115 link 75 gauge skip tooth and man does it cut. they have been port and polished, readjusted carbs, and a high flow muffler. one of my bull buckers is running a 372xp with a bigger pot and piston, muffler and such. it will keep up with my saws as long as it has fresh air. not good for boring or confined space cutting/ windowing. i am interested in doing up a stihl ms 200. has anyone done it? if so, how did it respond?

newguy18

You need to ask a guy by the name of scott wojo,he mods saw mufflers and sells gb bars and chains.

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chadd

i'm in british columbia, canada. i have a couple shops i go thru that do quite a bit of mods, i just wonder how well the climbing saws do after mods. is scott wojo on this site?

newguy18

Yeah he is,
Chainsaw Muffler Modifications - Internet Sales World Wide

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jokers

Who does your saw mods up there Chad?

I don`t think Scott does saw mods per se, just the mufflers. I know a guy in Canada who has done atleast a few ms200Ts that work real well but I`m not going to drop his name on this forum and risk stepping on someone else`s toes. alberta arborist is a many times over repeat customer of his.

chadd

i originally started buying saws from walkers saw shop (walkerized) but c&l in campbell river does a much cleaner job, and they last longer. it's about $300 canadian for the whole set up on a full size falling saw.

Eric Frei

Oh there's a few rival saw builders. Competative business, I'd say it's Craig Jabs running those hot 200T's.

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newguy18

doesn't kevlar mod saws Ekka?I haven't seen him for awhile.

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chadd

in bc we have close to 10 shops that all mod saws. it's quite competitive, but we have a lot of fallers and we go through alot a few saws

jokers

.......and you, of course, are right.

jokers

I`ve dealt with Walkers and they were great for what they offer. C&L, isn`t that where Simon resides? I`ve seen some real video of his saws being used by PNW fallers on youtube, they look like they`ve got the stuff.

jokers

Isn`t kevlar the guy who recommends .030" of the bottom and the top of the piston and pull the base gasket? A word to the wise, don`t do that.

newguy18

I'm not really into modding saws,pick up truck mods are more my speed,although if it has an engine i can probabley fix it.

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chadd

walkers does a great job, but in comparison they are more like a back yard mechanic. simon worked they when he was younger and learned about saws. then he went thru school and got an engineering ticket. he does all of his saws with proper instruments and computer aided for exact honing and precision. i've ran a few walkers saw and they still scream and have a tone of grunt, but the simonized saws just have that little bit extra and although not proven, voted by all the fallers i've worked with just last longer and are stronger. i've ran a 372 from him that keeps up with a walkerized 390 no problems

Eric Frei

Is that the Simonizer guy from AS who got pounded by sorts ... was a huge thread over there. I dont recall that well as I was never into the racing stuff much however it would be good to have a really hotted ms200T ... there's nothing worse than a slow saw when spear cutting.

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chadd

no simon is in campbell river, british columbia canada on vancouver island. the shop is called c&l

jokers

Simon Wright, he is Simonizer. He got beat up over his smugness and his Doogie Howser personna as I recall, but I`d heard of his reputation for building a good saw well before he showed up on AS.

Don`t get me wrong Chad, I`m not trying to compare a Walker`s saw to one that has been truly modified, I just like the Walker`s(family) and when the Cdn dollar was sixty five cents to the USD their muffler mods and mild porting coupled with good pricing on saws were a bargain. Back then they were quite a bit cheaper than anyone else that I knew of also. They wouldn`t win any production races against other modded saws but they were a nice little extra above stock.

Next time you see Simon tell him that jokers still wants to try out the 385 he promised to send.

chadd

thats pretty funny that he got beat up, i've never met him, just ordered saws thru both shops. all that i know about him is his saws. there are about 3000 fallers in bc and both shops do quite well because of. walkers has pissed off alot of fallers, and for the same price i would choose the simonized. but i have ran my walkerized saws into the ground and they took it well, no questions asked. still a great saw, but from alot of differant opinions, both stihl and husky owners, the simonized is well over voted. but if he's a cocky little shit then he deserves a beating to keep the ego down. walkers is defiantly one of the original hot saw shops around, it's just a dremel vs a computerized system.

r u a climber or a faller? what kind of gear r u running?

jokers

I`m an east coast woodtick, I`m in awe of the guys who work in big timber on a regular basis. I have a bunch of Stihls and Huskies and one remaining Dolmar 7900. Most of the current saws that I have now have been modified by ehp but I`ve had Walkers, Ken Dunn, Dan Henry, several by Dennis Greffard out of Clearwater, some of my own, a couple Hoffmanized, and a few done by local guys. I love my modified saws.

BTW, I don`t think that Simon is necessarily a bad guy, maybe just a little full of himself. He says that his dad was a bigshot with MacMillan Bloedel and has money coming out his ears, Simon acted a little snot nosed at times.

chadd

aw well ????'em. i love my modded saws too. we get some pretty big wood on shit ground all the time here. everything is done heli show. check out Aggressive Timber Falling might entertain u some.

jokers

Chad, your link didn`t work?

Are you one of the guys on Youtube with a Simonized saw?

chadd

oops, my bad i cut tree's my spelling sux
Aggressive Timber Falling it's my companies web site. i don't have any vids on u tube, i just got a camera and have been piecing together some vids. i forgot it at home and am in camp until the first. next shift i can get some more stuff going, plus the net in camp is all done via satellite so it can be very slow when the weather is shite, which it usually is. if the link doesn't work for whatever reason google aggressive timber falling

woodyman

Thought I would post a pic of my muffler modded MS310.Hope tou like it.

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chadd

thats a pretty steller looking muffler, lucky u don't run full wrap bars or you'd burn a finger or two though. where did it come from, and what differences have you noticed

chadd

i quite like the new mufflers for the husky's. they look stock, just a bigger opening in the top. said to get as much flow as the ones from the past. the last ones had the top opening and 2 ports protruding from the sides facing forward. one of my bull buckers has one, he gor either from baileys or the simonizer, not sure which. but its a good way to hide the mods

Eric Frei

Chadd, love to see some vids for sure.

If you need a hand of any type for video just PM me.

Just remember, edit out the BS and kepe it action action mate. Like backcut just finishing and piece going over rather than watch 5 mins of some notch being cut.

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chadd

here is a bit of what we do on the west coast. soemof its me, most of it's other fallers i've gotten to work with. all the saws are moddified, most by walkers saw shop. the man in th eblue shirt is running a simonized 372xp. the stihl is a 660 with a 42" bar and the rest is done with a 390. and i didn't notice but i spelled aggressive wrong at the begining of it, dammit.

Eric Frei

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Some big timber there.

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chadd

the first tree is almost 11 feet across. the stump pull was 5 feet across the hinge and about 4 feet wide