Country park arrests mark final stages of tree dwellers' protest (Scot wackos in tree tops)

18" bars are for sissies. This would get MY attention!!!

I GOTTA FIND A WOMAN WITH A CHAINSAW
(Peter Krug)

I woke up this mornin' frozen nearly dead,
Was so damn cold I couldn't get out of bed.
As I lay there shiverin' as cold as can be.
Suddenly this revelation occurred to me.

CHO:
I gotta find a woman with a chainsaw,
To spend the winter with me.
If I could find a woman with a chainsaw,
Than all night long I would stoke her fire, yes indeed.

I put an ad down at the Co-op, a notice on the stump,
I don't care if she's skinny, I don't care if she's plump,
I don't care if she's pretty or ugly as sin,
If she's got a chainsaw she can move right in.

Oh, you big city women in your Calvin Klein clothes,
Ain't much good when the ground gets froze.
I need a tough country mama, to help me chop my wood,
And when I find her, I'm gonna treat her good.

I 'd treat her sweet and gentle and we would never fight,
If she went out with someone else I wouldn't get uptight.
She can just do her thing, and I can do just mine,
And she and me and that machine we'd get along just fine.

I've got a cabin in the mountain, a Chevy pickup truck,
With half a ton of Mendocino thunder f**k,
I've got a bushel of soy beans, a whole barrel of brown rice,
And a couple cords of firewood would make it all so very nice.

Stihl really is tops. I am using an ancient 070 and it still starts on the first pull after I prime it for the first start.

It runs a 56" double end bar through a local species of tropical hardwood tree that is harder than oak. That's a 56" clear cut for a slab.

And the Stihl is almost as old as I am! My little saw is a Homelite 45cc with a 20" bar and it is a piece of junk in comparison.

;-)

Stihl really is tops.

I agree. I cut hundreds of cords of wood for pocket money when I was in high school and college. Hard, dirty, dangerous work. Over that time I used chainsaws by Sears, McCulloch, Echo, and Poulan, but nothing was near as good as the 6hp Stihl I bought when we were really busy. Great power-to-weight ratio, with little vibration, and ripping fast cuts. Expensive but well worth it.

They say Husqvarna and Jonsereds are of comparable quality but I never got a chance to try them.

-ccm

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