Farmertec 288 kitsaw, is this a tool or a toy??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I had some more cutting to do so I figured it's time to run the farmertec 288 kitsaw and see if it's a worksaw or nothing more then a playsaw.
time will tell if this saw is a useful tool.
take er easy
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I enjoy this channel so much. 2 strokes are so much having your ear in tune to them, really remarkable. Learning a ton and on my 2nd Stihl rebuild (036 Pro).
I agree with you about long bars. I’m 6’4”, have a messed up low back and burn firewood. I can do a lot more cutting with a long bar without my back hurting than i can with a short bar.
100% Long light bars are truly a game changer, for limbing and wood where you don’t have the stump on the ground a 3/4 or full wrap handle is amazing
I just ordered a 372 clone kit. It was $270 shipped to my door.. At the very least, it'll be a chance for me to work on my saw building skills. You have inspired me with your 288 series. Thank you as always for your work and teaching👍👍👍.
Once you can get the crank in, and cases together, I used the heat gun method, and it went together easily, (no special tools other than a plastic tipped hammer for final crank alignment) it goes together pretty easy, just watch some good videos to see the assembly order, and remember the blue blue loctite on all critical bolts.
@@j.chrisbeck7492 Thank you, friend! Good seeing your name .....recognize it from BBR. Hope all is well!
@@thebradleysoncatbirdhill6849 you will see my name from other channels as well. Have fun with your upcoming build, I enjoy mine more and more everytime I run it. I also have a channel, I don't upload as frequently as I'd like, but there's some stuff you might like.
Listening to the Timan, while sharpening my chain. New subscriber here.
Fun video, Your saw, the one you built sounds and act like my "blue" prebuilt version. Your "built by someone else" saw seems either to have a defective carb or intake block "pulse" plugged with gasket material, maybe when the seals were put in were pushed too far, or at an angle. Something like that. How about the case screws? Maybe a "Green Can brake clean test" to do a quick analysis? Cylinder/base gasket? Pinched fuel line? Damage from a "loose" flywheel? Brake clean will find it quick :) My guess is it would make sense to tear it down and see & build it to your level and spec. Think they are worth the time. I've beat the crap out of mine for the last 6 months or so. Think your going to have fun with that saw. Looking forward to a "debug" video, bet when you find it there will be a chuckle or three. :)
Just for chits & grins, did you try swapping the ignition?
Not yet, when tike allows I'll figured out the reason this one runs so all over the place
As an experienced cutter like yourself I so appreciate the PPE you always wear.. Got on a video of a guy who was cutting firewood with shorts and sneakers.. Needless to say I was sharing logging stories of strong men with tons ove experience getting cut with full PPE. Love that you show the young folk how to play safely.. All the best to you Tinman.. Cheers
Although he didn't start the saw on the ground like the safety manual recommends 😂😂
I just ordered a 28" bar for my 562. You talked me into it.
I really like watching you rebuild these sass and everything else you do. I super appreciate it! Thank you for doing what you do!
5hp and a long bar is pretty much all the saw you will need. I have some lightweight limbing saws that help to reduce the fatigue. I own an echo 2511t that I absolutely love. That little saw makes a nice brush cutter to clean up around a job. If I was a chainsaw carver, that is the saw I would use. If you can blow through the wood with a big saw, there is a lot to be said about that cutting down on your time. I pretty much never met a saw I didn’t like except a poulan 5020. It has all that epa crap on it and I can’t get it to run right.
just a tip for when cutting big stumps i do it at work everyday mostly on ash multiple times a day and if you pick up a few little sticks and jam them in the curf of your cut as you go around it helps not pinch the bar as much. especially on really big ones. the most important thing though is having a chain that cuts straight lol which you know im sure
I have a 590 with a 28” and I stand up to cut too but just the weight tears me up so I got a 4910 with a 20” and love it so far. Having a light bar might help. I notice you and buckin run them. On big trees I use the bigger saw tho. It’s weird cutting wears my back out but splitting with axes and throwing it in vehicles doesn’t bother me
Hi Joe. With 28" the 590 ran well? I use it with a 20" and it runs perfect
@@leo-.-258 I have the limiters off and a muffler mod. It absolutely rips with a 28” full house. But as tinman says it doesn’t completely lean out. Still pulls thru hickory ash oak no problem. Dead or green. As always make sure your chain is right. Echo offers a 27” bar so 28 isn’t a far stretch. I’d bet it’d pull a 32. I just don’t have a need for anything bigger
I have a Stihl ms361 with 25" which is what i buck with. Just the right size for short 5'6" 24" works too. No bending over.
Picked up a MS290 and basically rebuilding the whole saw. That is going to be mainly for felling trees, nice light weight and with a 390 piston and jug going to be a good power house. Lighter then my old felling saw which is 028 Super wb.
Got a holtzforma 660 earlier this year and have been super impressed. It's heavy but the power for bucking bigger logs is second to none compared to my normal stihl and efco 60cc class saws. Been running 32" full house square ground on the 660 vs 24" round file skips on the 60cc's. Haven't tried the new full house square files on the smaller saws yet but the torque doesn't seem to be there. Love the content here!
I like how you cut the stumps down at ground level , I always do it . I make them so l can drive the truck over them , especially in the grass . They hide and next time your in that area you find them BANG ! 👍🇨🇦
Thats exactly why I did that. Wanted to get the truck as far in there as possible.
I figured he was making a big ass coaster
Another great video Tin Man. Your right, we’re all different. Run what you like for a bar, as long as it’s in the wood eh! Looks like a beauty day out West.
Yah, it's fun tinkering with a saw build but there comes a time when you want it to perform flawlessly or park it on the shelf and move on. Then you figure it out and the love affair is rekindled. Nice to have multiple saws and options. Building a saw from scraped saws and having it perform is very euphoric. Long bar, short bar, I say use what you like, 18 - 20 inch is my preference, cheaper, less teeth to sharpen. To each their own, it's all good. Lov'en the content, pure clear logic and diagnostic deduction to achieve a solution to a problem, right in my wheel house. I tip my hat to you, sir. TC Mahalo Tinman🤙🤙🤙
Loved flipping the wood chain!
I had 8 huge trailerloads of poplar brought to my splitter in the last couple days. 12 chords, I reckon. 14 hrs of solid splitting and stacking, and still have about 3 chords to split. I had enough firewood already, but this bonus was from a small clearing a pipeline outfit had cleared for a drainage project. So I wanted to utilize the wood. I am so stiff and sore, lol. But wood for 2 years now, haha. Bring on the ice age! I hear why you like your 562….I love my 555 autotune, light, screams, and yes, you can run a long time on a tank. And still enough grunt to pull a 24” full house, no problem. Perfect firewood saw! Cheers!🇨🇦
I'd try a different kit, aparrently some are better than others. My farmertec 660 kit saw (with some OEM parts) has run near flawlessly since I built it... even started milling with it recently and hasn't given me any greif.
standard farmertec carb, pison and cylinder (slightly cleaned up), OEM wrist pin (lighter) needle cage and circlips, also an OEM tensioner slide. but mostly FT throughout, still going strong
I bought a new OEM bar cover/chain brake to go on my build because I didn't like the feel of the one with the kit and to be honest it's about the same when it comes to tripping and resetting it as the Farmertec, the flag itself feel a little bit stouter on the OEM so I would recommend finding an OEM flag and changing that. In my case I believe I'm use to the feel of the 372 flag that has two pivot points rather than the one that the 288 has and that gives the 372 a stronger built feel.
If you change the rear grip panels to the OEM soft/rubber inserts I believe you will like the feel of it better, I didn't care for how slick the rear handle felt on the 288 since there is no texture on the panels.
I have held off on my 288 build while waiting for a Foredom to come in that I ordered two months ago and I'm still at least a month out on that then I can get mine put together.
Seems pretty consistent with what I've seen and heard about them👍🏻 when they're good, they're good!
I ran my G288 the other day. I still like it. It runs well. Soon as I get a big log Im going to see what pulls a 3 foot bar better . My 268xp or the G288. Cheers
I have been using a 32 inch bar for years. It is really nice to be able to hold my old 20 pound 056 some what close to my body and cut stuff on the ground and not bend over.
I saw some "rebursbished" Huskies on Evil bay so cheap I couldn't hardly stand it, but I may go back and buy a couple if my ship comes in......LOL. I have cut a lot of firewood in my day wore out a couple of Stihls and a Homelite (rancher size saws) Nowadays I collect chainsaws and buy parts for my collection as a HOBBY. Is something wrong with me???!!!! I am currently 61 years young, with a B-day coming in the first part of January. I still like cutting firewood and burning it too!!!
Love your content, gotta tell ya, I’ve had all the same issues with farmertec, it’s entertaining to fix a problem then another surface’s.
Sounds like a junk carb to me. Built a 372 kit and it would sometimes sing to the moon and sometimes it'd be blowing fuel out of the muffler without changing jet settings. Replaced the carb with oem and zero issues afterwards
very nice .my son not long bought 372 clone seems okay so far .keep up the awesome work tinman .peace an love from scotland stu an family.
I’m from the Northeast, long bars are not something that exist, a 24 is a really long bar around here. I’m young so I can bend over but I got a 28in light bar and it’s a whole new world. My personal 038/044 hybrid saw has gotten many people introduced and interested in long bars for not bending over, it’s a whole different game. It also turned me into the guy the call to cut big trees which is an amazing experience.
I’m from Massachusetts and I run a 372 xpw,, 32” bar 3/8-058 w/square chisel, skip tooth.
I live in the northeast also and I've been using 28 , 32 bars the last couple of years and it makes a big difference on my lower back .
Glad that at least one of the saws is a runner and the other won’t be far behind when you get to it.
And just how did you assemble that? Were you able to use the stock crank?
@@charlesmason1278 yeah, factory, really tight squish but it just barely cleared. Ran well for a year or so before the bearings let loose
My 660 has been a beast milling with a 36” bar. The 440 and 460 kits cut like a banshee, when they cut hahaha
That was me askn about the 288 an 288 lite thank u buddy.
I've got a blue g288 that hasn't had an issue other than the oiler didn't work when I got it. Built a big stainless pipe for it and sprayed about 15 pounds of nitrous at it in one night. Barely a mark on the piston and still running strong.
28 plus is my comfort,I like to stand up and work! Well done Tinman
Yep totally agree friend ! A longer bar saves your back !
I dont understand why people are bothered by what size bar someone is running on their saw. Slap a 6 footer on there and freaking send it tinman. Party on
I would love to wrench on one of those saws. Air leaks are my favorite to track down.... Except when they're not trackable
Would love for you to do a technical overview of this saw and where you see you could make improvements. Possibly base gasket delete for higher comp, etc
Those Chinese saw seem like a gamble but might be a good way to get parts for rebuildable husqvarna Plastic and such !
I started running 24s and when I bought my 462 I got it with a 28 and will never go back. The extra weight is well worth it to me. I can cut faster and longer
Did you put a dab of grease on the chain brake mechanism, makes a hell of a difference?
I have a chianeseam saw. That was running like that. I found the line to the impalse. Was being pinched thru a grommet that was to small. I drilled it out. Got it running good.
Nice vid, tinman! Thanks for sharing!
Hey tinman what's ur thoughts on running a g395 with factory piston or should I swap it out straight away
Boringly reliable , WOW , that’s the first time I’ve ever herd that term … too funny ,love the Chanel
I've said that about my echo 590 for years. I have plenty of project saws tinker on though.
My firewood cutting is all about minimizing production so I run dull chains on under powered saws. Filing is for people with too much time on their hands. I just look for used ones at the local junk yard. Some have a nice rusty patina. Its amazing what people throw away these days.
I don't know why people have a problem with people using long bars. I am only 5' 9". And I really enjoy using long bars. There has been several occasions where a long bar has saved me from bad kick back. Also, they are very handy when you have a lot of wood to cut. You can reach farther keeping yourself away from trouble. You can cut from one side of the log without having to go around to the other side to finish your cut. Etc. Etc. If you like short bars that is fine. There is nothing wrong with someone's personal preference. I am only talking about my preference and it happens to be a longer bar.
I like to run longish bars lol. I like a 24" bar and i have almost all hardwood. Gonna try and get me a new saw this year and a lightweight 28" bar so I can save the weight and have the reach.
I feel ya I broke my back when I was in my teens from a atv accident bending over running a saw for a few hours and my back is done I have to run a longer then needed bar
I know the only issue Walt had with his Blue G288 was the oiler. Other than that he said it vibrates a bit, but the more he ran it it smooths out. He has used it a bit and is going to do some milling with it.
Have a good week sir!!
You to buddy
Nice looking chainsaw, for sure!!!
There's only 1 thing i dont like on the 562's. It's too much saw for the smaller-type clutch setup. It does fine until you put the clutch through heavy abuse (eat a pair of chaps, etc). Smoke it one or two times and the clutch is fried lol. One of our 562's at work had the chain keep spinning at idle and it turned out to be the clutch bearing. Awesome saw, but needs the big saw clutch setup like the 572 has.
Hi 👋...unfortunately your going to have to go into that 288 ... pressure &vac test... check cylinder studs/ base gasket.👍
That saw will be a beast once it breaks in
Nice Chainsaw...
Greetings from Germany Peter
I like the long bars too, We just make fun because you have all these big bad ass saws and small trees. It’s mostly jealousy 😂
I built one and put oem seals ,oem crank and a hyway piston and cylinder.
Love mine. Also had oil pump issues.
Hey my 288 did the same thing it needed a new ignition sounded the same and would shut off frequently. That and my carb was plugged with sawdust.
Awesome weapons. Love it
Tinman do a vac pressure test ,those carbs on those aftermarket saws are junk most of the time
Long bars for this westy
Perfect weather for cutting and something you enjoy. Approximately how much wood do you burn through in a winter heating your home?
Stooping...hmmm that's an interesting term, I swear I heard someone talk about it recently. Cant remember who.
Im only 5'10. I like my 24". Little to no stooping and I can keep the saw right at my hips.
I have a 28" on my G288 also for the same reasons.
Just to keep my hand in im currently fooling with small two small husqvarna 137.. most finkey yoke on earth...😄😄
I knew you were gonna grab the 562 🤣
I like this guy..
I never heard of removing the base gasket.
It sounds like maybe the impulse line is kinked or blocked somehow. I've had similar issues on saws that sounded like this in my shop.
Will a 395 cylinder and piston work on a 288? Bolt on with no machining?
Just a thought… maybe you should’ve let it idle for about a minute bc it was so hot
Yup! Stand up and buck!
I bought a "660" Stihl clone on Ebay. It was good except the handle. I bought another Stihl 660 Magnum that had been "monkied" I had to buy a new carb, new rubber manifold and various other parts, quite a bit of work and parts to make it run right.😆😆😆
You have any experience with the 1100 or 2100 husqvarnas? I'm kind of wanting to get one, but I almost entirely work on Stihl saws.
@Tinmanssaws How is the quuality of the engine cases? I have a 288 300th aniversary edition with a broken engine case right above the rear handle. Trying to figure out if this kit is worth it or if i should source some used oem cases off ebay. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The cases seem to be quality on these. A good way to fox a saw with broken cases like you have for sure.
I have an old 133 husky
It runs good but when I shut it off it will not start again until it cools down.
Do you have any idea what would cause this.
Thanks.
No sir I a lot better with a long bar also. I'm older than Buckin. People give me crap. But it's easier.
Try different carb my 395xp done that mess it was the china carb.
I have a 1989 xp288 I guarantee you can't start it like that ... I finally had to put a snowmobile handle on it
I bet it's the carb buddy!
I vote toy! :p love you Tinman!
will a 395 piston and cylinder fit a husqvarna copy farmrec 288xp saw
I don’t think so, otherwise you would see a number of guys doing it on TH-cam.
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Got a stihl ms362 Stock. How Long a bar would you put on it
We run 28" bars on ours with full skip chain, excellent for brushing and managing small fuels and bucking up to 24" soft wood.
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I tried dropping a tree the other day. Had to go back to my 350
I think I would spend my time on a 153
Lol too funny
My 257 does that
Port it tinman . You know you wanna lol .
Nice review. It's nice you do these reviews of different saws...Yepper, very cool.
I actually bought one of these just to cut a ton of firewood and can't find anything wrong with it so far. It's been strong since it started 6th pull out of the box, 2 to 3 pulls after that and is so dependable...just like my stolen original 288. Yep, had 3 saws just disappear one night out of the LOCKED cab of my pickup. (((Slim-Jimmied their way into the Pickup and took them while in my driveway....BUT, NOW!!! I have Camera's covering the entire property...)))
About the SAW. BRAND NEW I only paid $284 + TAX on Amazon for Power head only. Slapped a 30" Bar 3/8 .50 Full Chisel, Skip Tooth Chain on and it's been flawless. Just like my stolen original 288, 372 and an OLD XL 500 Homelite ALL were.
I did MY NORMAL 2 full tanks of Ethanol Free 92 0octane at 32:1, HUSKY 2 cycle Saw Oil, BREAK IN on a stump...drive the bar in and let idle & blipping the throttle now and then for about a half tank. Pull it and cut a few 18" Blocks of around 12" Diameter with the other half tank and then let cool over night. Then let it idle & blipping the throttle now and then in that stump for another 3/4 tank and then put it into full time work ((( fuel ratio of 40:1, I like it rich to help keep it run slightly cooler and it doesn't smoke either ))) cutting Lodge Pole, Tamarack, Red-Fir snags and just all-around "HARD" dead wood for the 7 chords I burn in my garage every year. This thing never even hick upped on me and kept tune all day long at around 7,000 feet elevation. Starts EVERY TIME and just wants to work.
It has become my GO-TO now because it just feels good while cutting and how it starts every time without any fuss.
I also JUST bought their G395XP that is just gong thru my break-in procedures and so far seems just as nice so I totally expect this new one to run like the 288. The test of time has yet to bare but SO-FAR......All Good, All Happy.
HECK, at little less than half price I can't go wrong.....RIGHT-ON?
Why do you pull the pull cord when shutting the saw off?
Cool is cracked
Coil is cracked
Bad carb it sounds like
1. Like, then watch!
Either way, I’ll give you my address. Lol
But if it is a toy can you make it a tool
o machado e a motosserra (the axe and the chainsaw)
eli silva & zé goiano
composição: moacir dos santos / zé goiano
o machado e a motosserra tiveram uma discussão
motosserra diz que é orgulho da evolução
machado pra mim já era pois vem do tempo de adão
você agora só serve pra fazer calo na mão motosserra dá um ronco relou o dente no tronco já se vê o pau no chão
a serra chamou o machado pra fazer uma porfia
machado aceitou na hora e quando chegou o dia
entraram junto no mato pra mostrar a serventia
a motosserra roncava machado velho tinia
e naquele matagal foi só cavaco de pau pó de serra que subia
e esse grande duelo deste jeito é que termina
na briga das ferramentas o machado é que domina
motosserra parou cedo ali no tronco da quina
machado seguiu cortando mata grossa e mata fina
motosserra impotente rebentou sua corrente acabou a gasolina
que isto sirva de exemplo para toda humanidade
e você que é tão jovem tem que saber a verdade
respeite bem os mais velhos não brinque com sua idade
uma pessoa idosa também tem utilidade
é um diamante valioso se não tivesse o idoso não teria mocidade
maybe some real carbs..
Stand up to buck. Do not get to the point, where your back goes out more than you do 🙄