Longer bar for Stihl M261 - relative novice.

[WinterDeere]

I used to run 16-20 on 084's.

lol... "the wood just fell in half when it seen the saw!"

I actually owned an 084 very briefly, before picking up the 064, and the thing was a beast. I'm pretty sure you could put that bar into concrete, and it would just keep churning away, nothing would stop it.

But mine had been set up with a .404 chain on what I remember being a 40"+ bar. The chain speed was a lot lower than the 036 and 064, and I'd have probably swapped it up to a larger sprocket to run a 28" or 32" bar (still small for that saw), but then I found myself always gravitating toward the 064 which was already set up for high chain speed and just felt a lot nicer for most of my cutting tasks.

I can't remember, but I think the 084's were something like 125cc and the identical 088's were stroked for 135cc? Big heavy beasts, which the portable sawmill guys must love. Awful heavy for lugging around the woods, though.

 

[Hay Dude]

I might make a call on this. Is this near you WinterDeere?

 

[WinterDeere]

That's about an hour southeast of me. I'm up in central Mont.Co.

There are a handful of members from the eastern Bucks area, who are probably within 20 minutes of that.

 

[xyz123]

@WinterDeere 84 121.6cc or just say 122cc rounded up.

Owned alot of those 6 total I think. stock, woods ported x2 and race ported.

64 all day IMHO. Great saw and weight for use.

Only 4 in this pic.

 

[xyz123]

One of my woods ported 84 in a up cut with 404.

 

[WinterDeere]

Wow... amazingly clean saws, for that age! Mine is pretty well-maintained mechanically, but looks like it's been through a war.

Just hunting thru photos, I found this old pic of what I carry when going out cutting. The chains I use now are diffferent (two 10 footers with choker hook on one end and grab hook on other), and now I usually carry two 1-gal gas cans, but otherwise much the same as back then.



The left tool box is full of spare chain loops, scrench, carburetor screwdriver, sun screen, granola bar, etc. The right toolbox is full of snatch blocks, remote for my trailer winch, hooks, eyes, and other stuff I use for winching logs onto my trailer.

This stuff travels in the truck, so the trailer can be kept empty for wood:

 

[Hay Dude]

Wow... amazingly clean saws, for that age! Mine is pretty well-maintained mechanically, but looks like it's been through a war.

Just hunting thru photos, I found this old pic of what I carry when going out cutting. The chains I use now are diffferent (two 10 footers with choker hook on one end and grab hook on other), and now I usually carry two 1-gal gas cans, but otherwise much the same as back then.

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The left tool box is full of spare chain loops, scrench, carburetor screwdriver, sun screen, granola bar, etc. The right toolbox is full of snatch blocks, remote for my trailer winch, hooks, eyes, and other stuff I use for winching logs onto my trailer.

This stuff travels in the truck, so the trailer can be kept empty for wood:

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Dang that’s clean.
LOL My stuff looks like it’s been through a war.

 

[xyz123]

Wow... amazingly clean saws, for that age! Mine is pretty well-maintained mechanically, but looks like it's been through a war.

Just hunting thru photos, I found this old pic of what I carry when going out cutting. The chains I use now are diffferent (two 10 footers with choker hook on one end and grab hook on other), and now I usually carry two 1-gal gas cans, but otherwise much the same as back then.

View attachment 3559619

The left tool box is full of spare chain loops, scrench, carburetor screwdriver, sun screen, granola bar, etc. The right toolbox is full of snatch blocks, remote for my trailer winch, hooks, eyes, and other stuff I use for winching logs onto my trailer.

This stuff travels in the truck, so the trailer can be kept empty for wood:

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Most times mine do too. Till I go through and brush them off and use air too.

Under covers big time to keep them cool too. Unbelievable how folks let them get around coil and flywheels.

Then they wonder why they have issues.

This is after digging crap off to see what coil was on it. How folks let them get this way. Just wow.

 

[WinterDeere]

Dang that’s clean.
LOL My stuff looks like it’s been through a war.

Zoom in on the 064! Yeah, the other two were almost brand-new in that photo, and I try to keep them relatively clean. But I've put a lot of miles on the 064, probably more than any other saw I've ever owned.

Most times mine do too. Till I go through and brush them off and use air too.

No matter how the outside of the saw looks, I try to blow them out with compressed air after each day of cutting. At least around the piston and up thru the chain cover. I'll also usually pop the air cleaner cover and blow off the carb linkage, since I hate when a saw won't idle down due to sticky linkage.

Most of my chain swaps happen outdoors away from compressed air, so I settle for scraping all of the oil sawdust gunk from under the chain cover and bar grooves with one of the sheetmetal bar groove cleaner tools. The side or back end of those works pretty well as a squeeegie for plowing away oily sawdust.

 

[xyz123]

Most of it dug out here.