Felling saw suggestions

[Skeans1]

What a great saw.  Excellent choice.

For anyone else in the future struggling with the same decision:  consider what size, species and grade of logs one is cutting and how in terms of felling style.  


If you are cutting firewood with wedges a small slow saw is acceptable.  If you are cutting chair happy large sawlogs and chasing them off the stump you had better have some spare horsetorques between the handles. 372 minimum.

Dolmar 7900 is a great saw that gets forgotten imo.

The Dolmar isn't forgotten it's just non existent in some places, I've ran them in the past they're ok once some kinks are worked out. For falling they really need better dawgs before you can even start cutting, depending on which filter system is on them they may need swapped out as well.

[mike_belben]

i bought one brand new for my best friend maybe 2009 or so and it has never skipped a beat on him.  neither of us do what you do out there but i know it would probably outwork my 372.  i dont like german engineering at all but the times i have done maintenance on it i cursed not. has impressed me ever since. 

[stumpjumper83]

Well op, I don't know where your from,  if your close to pa, I might sell you a saw m

Arborists go thru saws.   We demand 100% reliability from our gear, 90% of the time our customer is watching.  And we are well compensated.

Alot of us buy a new saw,  run it a couple years and sell.  They tend to be well cared for,  low hour pro grade saws. 

This year I'll be getting rid of a jonsred 2166 aka the 365 husky.   Been a good saw,  just will be 2 this coming October.  Has a 24" lightweight on it.  Would sell saw for $650, bar included.

 

 

[AndyVT]

My 2255 and 2171 Jonsy's are getting long in the tooth and I am getting old in the arms so went looking for a new saw that would fill the slot between them and be useful for felling and limbing. 
I wanted to be able to share bar and chain so I ended up with a 562 XP.
A fast, powerful and relatively light saw it checks all the boxes for me.