I was running this saw for about 2 hours at about a 30-50% duty cycle th-cam.com/users/postUgkxfQm1wmg0ItKDLavxj1nXtQY9HP7EF504 and it did a great job. I used the lever for the built in sharpener to clear chip buildup out more than to actually sharpen the chain. It managed to cut some hardwood stumps much larger than it's size without bothering the neighbors with hours of 2 stroke noise.
Yeah it was painful to watch, they basically threw away a car, a lot of people dont realise how much hardwood like that is worth till they try to buy some. That stump alone would have retailed at over 2000 for each 3 inch slab. If they didnt want to rip cut it some 4 inch cookies off it would have still been worth 1000 a piece. At least where I live.
@@alexflieshigh that is absolutely accurate and simultaneously absolutely not accurate. While it is softer than a lot of hardwoods it is harder than many. It makes absolutely beautiful slabs. They dry relatively quickly. Stay very flat and most of the time develop and stunning amber color with areas of curl. And since they like to shed branches and said branches will rot the lower logs will have different coloration or "rot staining". people make slabs from far weaker woods like cottonwood , red wood.
Wow that saw is crankin'! 661 is my new fav. Mine's stock, pulling full house on 36" and noodles them maples great. It's a workout using, could not imagine a 60" bar on that! Wow!
@@madrx2 it's cause the grain is straight and lacks character.. But I would have taken it lol. I'm about to slab an 140ft pine for a conference table soo i'm not that picky.
When my dad and uncles fell timber on the oregon coast, they had an 088 that packing a 6 foot bar on it at all times. That was the end of the 80's starting 90's and the days of needing a saw that size were quickly vanishing with the onset of the speckled fowl
I have 661 w/ 36 inch, how do you run the oiler? I think I have mine adjusted all the way out. Mine seems ok, but it runs out of oil before fuel so I only fill fuel about 3/4 with a full tank of bar oil.
Great job! Please tell me! MS661 3/8" RS3 if you put a 2 meter bar on it, then you need to change the sprocket, bar, chain to 404 as a set? Or can you cut lengthwise with large bars on stock 3/8" RS3 trunks of large trees into slabs without modernization?
Good job on that under cut, it's difficult to hit the birds mouth on the first try especially on really large trees, and especially with a bar that's to short
There’s a lot of videos out there of people slabbing silver maple. Makes some pretty nice slabs. Thing is having somebody with a big enough mill. Lol! Awesome saw, and awesome tree.
Number one priority is SAFETY us Pros use chaps, faceguard, helmet, gloves, safety lenses, and ear muffs at the least. It don't matter how long you have been taking trees down without error. ANYTHING can happen and shit can go south at any time stay safe!
With that long 60 inch bar do you have trouble keeping the chain tension properly. I have a 36-inch bar and it seems like the chain is always be coming loose on me.
grabbing the chain on a running chainsaw is obviously OSHA approved, and I am sure your insurance company also agree's with these tactics! Stay safe man!
@@Redbull661 I'd like to add,,,, I am whiz bang at sharpening my own chains,, (After 4 or 5 decades of hand sharpening something has to have finally settled in..) And when the video shifted to the 50 inch bar,,,,, ripping,, not crosscutting,, That was some very impressive ripping. Most chains hate to rip,,,,, That one was piling up the long grated carrot chips near as fast as he could kick them aside. That was one extremely well,, flawlessly sharpened chain. I've got 5 decades at this aand I don't think I have every seen a rip that perfect. Well done. A suggestion to improve speed and efficiency. When you rip something that large,, the moment your chain is spitting white sap wood grated carrots. Immediately stop and get the saw out of the cut. The risk of a dirt touch, and a dull chain is either a certainty or at best,, 50/50.. Use a wood wedge to finish breaking the piece. Wood wedges are something of a lost art but once you learn how to make and use a wooden wedge,,,, in its place,, ten times better than a steel or a plastic wedge. On that rip,,, I would have lifted the saw back to the top,, moved over so I was creating a 10 to 12 degree wedge,, 16 inches long and 4 to 8 inches, or more, wide at the top. Big wedge. Twice the angle of a plastic wedge (stack two atop each other,), and twice as wide and twice as long,, or more. It requires ten seconds to manufacture one,,, and a large wooden wedge would split that 90% ripped log with a large hammer,, in seconds,,,,, No risk of dirting your chain. Wooden wedges can be left behind. (Laughing ,, just like my plastic ones.) I can manufacture 100 of them in the time it would take to drive to the store. My chain will never dull if I strike one. If one gets stuck,, I don't care. And mostly wooden wedges have a moisture content,, they WANT to stay in the cut,, they never squirt out like plastic or steel,, and I can make any size or thickness. And I usually rip them right out of another cut or the stump. And a truly large wedge would split that 5' diameter maple in a flash. At one time,,, ALL split rail fences were manufactured, split, with wooden wedges.
Didn’t look at all of the comments so apologize ahead of time if it was already asked, but how tall was that tree prior to felling and why did the homeowner want it removed?
that's a good question and I don't honestly know. One of the main trunks off was rotten. Usually when silver maples get this big they are rotten inside so they pose a danger to falling on multiple houses power lines etc. The rest of it being as solid as it was is a huge exception to the rule. But it was only a matter of time.
leaning out part of that maybe the heat and hard load , harder the load richer it needs , i got a big maple im working on now it bout 2 feet bigger ,it the biggest i ever saw
Man, I wonder how long that tree has been around....A shame to see it go, I hope it was from some sort of disease or death, not someone trying to build a new mcmansion...
Should have had a milling Machine and milled the whole tree should’ve cut itA foot and a half lower to the ground I would have mailed that whole thing and kept the lumber
my friend had never run the bigger tooth .404 chain before. Which is more self feeding...don't have to work the saw as much. He was trying to pull it down like it was little 3/8ths chain.
Pretty awesome video. Sometimes you find horseshoes in those huge trees. How old do you think it is? I could use a "night chunk" like that. I've been bragging to everyone about my 261, HA!!!
yeah I noticed that too. well sorta. my impression was the new version coil was preventing it from returning to idle to fast maybe? I know the very very first coils on the 661s would allow the saw to lean seize at the end of a cut. I was going to ask scott aka tree monkey what he thought.
If you aren't comfortable running a saw like this man is then you don't need to be running one. That tool is in your hands. You control it. It doesn't control you.
apparently good enough cuz it kept running fine. I would have expected smoking or chain seizure if not. Will say the oil port on the older style cannon is huge.
:I recently bought a Stihl MS 661 CM Magnum by accident (complicated story so I'll spare everyone the details) and I'm pretty pissed off because I wanted the MS 661 R instead! My reasoning is that I don't like the idea of having electronics in a chainsaw. My question is for those that have the CM, What is your experience with your saw and has the electronics caused you any problems. I'm thinking of getting rid of it or possibly giving it a chance. UPDATE 09082023: I have since my original post evolved in my chainsaw experience. I now have the Stihl 500i and the Husqvarna 592 XP both of which have electronic modules. Both are very powerful and start up nicely. I have even used them in single digit temperatures with no issues. So I stand corrected and edified.
I’ve had to of the m-tronic saws for a few years and just added a third. I’ve had zero problems, they have more power and use less fuel. The handle can easily be swapped out for a wrap handle if that’s what you want. I prefer like the wrap handles.
@@jaxxonbalboa3243 our 500 is one of our favorite saws. I looked into the 592 a lot but decided on the 661. The ‘Right to Repair’ is a big deal for us, and the Stihl dealers are about two hours closer. I can also do the port work if we decide to. What really made the decision was Husqvarna only selling their scan tool to dealerships. There’s rumors of that possibility changing in the future, if it does I’ll probably end up with a 592XP. I really like how much cleaner the Husqvarna air filters stay and how the peak HP is at higher rpm’s. In my opinion, in stock condition, the 592XP is hard to beat performance wise.
Silver maple I’ve never seen one exceed 100 years without self destructing. I’m guessing 100 at the very most. Wouldn’t surprise me if it were as young as 80 if ground conditions were moist
I was running this saw for about 2 hours at about a 30-50% duty cycle th-cam.com/users/postUgkxfQm1wmg0ItKDLavxj1nXtQY9HP7EF504 and it did a great job. I used the lever for the built in sharpener to clear chip buildup out more than to actually sharpen the chain. It managed to cut some hardwood stumps much larger than it's size without bothering the neighbors with hours of 2 stroke noise.
This video should be titled how to turn $15,000 of live edge slabs into $300 of firewood and saw dust.
Yeah it was painful to watch, they basically threw away a car, a lot of people dont realise how much hardwood like that is worth till they try to buy some. That stump alone would have retailed at over 2000 for each 3 inch slab. If they didnt want to rip cut it some 4 inch cookies off it would have still been worth 1000 a piece. At least where I live.
Look how loose that 60” chain is! Lol he’s lucky to even get his fire wood!
Right lol
Silver maple is fast growing week and soft. Not desirable for slabing
@@alexflieshigh that is absolutely accurate and simultaneously absolutely not accurate. While it is softer than a lot of hardwoods it is harder than many. It makes absolutely beautiful slabs. They dry relatively quickly. Stay very flat and most of the time develop and stunning amber color with areas of curl. And since they like to shed branches and said branches will rot the lower logs will have different coloration or "rot staining". people make slabs from far weaker woods like cottonwood , red wood.
That 661 rips with that 60" bar man!!!
That 661 is a great machine, going to buy one this week...thanks for sharing!
welcome. thank you
Wow that saw is crankin'!
661 is my new fav. Mine's stock, pulling full house on 36" and noodles them maples great. It's a workout using, could not imagine a 60" bar on that! Wow!
First off WOW! What a saw. Second if i ever hit dirt with that thing i'd just go home cuz thats alot of sharpening
Incredible, Thank You for sharing this with us !
That tree would have been a wood workers wet dream!
it's silver maple. they don't like silver maple for some reason.
@@Redbull661 thanks for the info. Keep up the great content and thanks from Melbourne Australia.
@@madrx2 it's cause the grain is straight and lacks character.. But I would have taken it lol. I'm about to slab an 140ft pine for a conference table soo i'm not that picky.
@@AbsolutionArmament that crotch wood was huge inlays the value of slab cutting.
That rev limiter is insane I love it lol 😂
That tree would have made some really nice tables.
Now that was a big frickin tree! Good Lord! THose saws are pretty amazing! Thanks for sharing Sir!
thank you sir.
gimme a 2 and half inch slab of that . awesome round coffee table with a live edge!!
Got your rakers filed too low!
U have 1 hell of a runner their sir!!
Cool what a beast I love it.
That saw is a beast! Very impressive to watch it pull a 5ft bar in hardwood like that
Cut the chainsaw kicks back and cuts the users fingers off
When my dad and uncles fell timber on the oregon coast, they had an 088 that packing a 6 foot bar on it at all times. That was the end of the 80's starting 90's and the days of needing a saw that size were quickly vanishing with the onset of the speckled fowl
@@brianeastman3547 what?
Brian Eastman don’t put your pinky where you won’t put your dinky
It’s not hard wood. It’s silver maple. Non the less, it’s still an impressive piece of cutting equipment.
That's one heckuva saw. My 661 impresses me every time I use it.
I have 661 w/ 36 inch, how do you run the oiler? I think I have mine adjusted all the way out. Mine seems ok, but it runs out of oil before fuel so I only fill fuel about 3/4 with a full tank of bar oil.
Clean work
thank you sir!
I would drive from central tx to that area for a tree like that and i even have a way to load it by myself.
That would make some beautiful tables.
I agree Mike what a waste. Hackers
First thing I thought
That was a huge maple!!!
biggest one any of us has seen
I personally think the 7 pin works much better from my experience. It bogs quite a bit less with a 7 pin.
After that stunt at 12:30 RedBull will now be calld "Lefty".
Scott C crazy dangerous.
@@lowbornfabrication d
How? It burned his hand not cut him. He knew it was going to burn him. I would say yall women need to run a saw more
easy to hear but for viewers who are wondering, the featured saw is the “mtronic” version of the 661..
Extraordinaire
Great job! Please tell me! MS661 3/8" RS3 if you put a 2 meter bar on it, then you need to change the sprocket, bar, chain to 404 as a set? Or can you cut lengthwise with large bars on stock 3/8" RS3 trunks of large trees into slabs without modernization?
What bar are you running? I was looking at upgrading to the 881, thinking my 661 will not pull a 60 inch bar. Thks
That saw is cuttin chips
Crazy how solid that size of a maple is
agree!
I love the custom air cleaner. Where can I get one for my 660?
www.equiteemfg.com/maxflow-chainsaw-air-filters/
They should make a baling attachment for the back of that saw with all that straw coming out of there like that :)
Legit was going to make similar comment haha. It's a absolute beast of a saw
Good job on that under cut, it's difficult to hit the birds mouth on the first try especially on really large trees, and especially with a bar that's to short
I can almost taste that ice cold Budweiser when he's done
Nice Job
thank you sir.
That's a massive tree! What do you do with logs that size?
normally you would cut slabs with an alaskan mill and sell that tree for a couple of 1000`s.
but he fucked it totally up!
The slabs coulda been incredible🤕
right? such a waste
no one likes silver maple.
@@Redbull661 really? How come?
@@mhess427 good question. I honestly don't know why they don't. Seems like it would make nice cabinets
There’s a lot of videos out there of people slabbing silver maple. Makes some pretty nice slabs. Thing is having somebody with a big enough mill. Lol! Awesome saw, and awesome tree.
Now this the guy that actually uses a 60 inch bar
What job you guys did, good job man .
Number one priority is SAFETY us Pros use chaps, faceguard, helmet, gloves, safety lenses, and ear muffs at the least. It don't matter how long you have been taking trees down without error. ANYTHING can happen and shit can go south at any time stay safe!
Ya, you "pro's" think youre the only ones.
With that long 60 inch bar do you have trouble keeping the chain tension properly.
I have a 36-inch bar and it seems like the chain is always be coming loose on me.
no sir. maybe there is an issue with your chain tensioner?
Sometimes when you use a saw enough or a newish chain the chain will hear up and expand just keep adjusting it as needed
Grind the paint off up the point where the bar comes out of the saw . That pretty much solved my same problem
A REAL hot saw hack. Shame to cut up a beautiful piece like that into firewood.
yes you should have sold it to those guys, that make nice tables.
awesome
thanks!
Wow
8:18 inserts all 60 inch’s in 😂
wow could of called a real tree cutter ..that tree was perfect & with a 40
MIZER would of Made some Beautifull furniture
grabbing the chain on a running chainsaw is obviously OSHA approved, and I am sure your insurance company also agree's with these tactics! Stay safe man!
I don't think I've ever seen anybody do that before.
Yikes!
As soon as I saw that, I came directly to the comments.
I missed that. Where is it in the video?
And he didn’t even have the brake on
Long Ridge Farm 12:30-12:40 ish
The best part was the felling. That's a big ol' bastard coming down
yes sir. my favorite part for sure.
Why the tall stump? And the wedge cut from above? Just curious.
what the boss wanted I guess.
@@Redbull661 I'd like to add,,,, I am whiz bang at sharpening my own chains,, (After 4 or 5 decades of hand sharpening something has to have finally settled in..)
And when the video shifted to the 50 inch bar,,,,, ripping,, not crosscutting,, That was some very impressive ripping. Most chains hate to rip,,,,, That one was piling up the long grated carrot chips near as fast as he could kick them aside. That was one extremely well,, flawlessly sharpened chain. I've got 5 decades at this aand I don't think I have every seen a rip that perfect. Well done.
A suggestion to improve speed and efficiency. When you rip something that large,, the moment your chain is spitting white sap wood grated carrots. Immediately stop and get the saw out of the cut. The risk of a dirt touch, and a dull chain is either a certainty or at best,, 50/50..
Use a wood wedge to finish breaking the piece. Wood wedges are something of a lost art but once you learn how to make and use a wooden wedge,,,, in its place,, ten times better than a steel or a plastic wedge. On that rip,,, I would have lifted the saw back to the top,, moved over so I was creating a 10 to 12 degree wedge,, 16 inches long and 4 to 8 inches, or more, wide at the top. Big wedge. Twice the angle of a plastic wedge (stack two atop each other,), and twice as wide and twice as long,, or more. It requires ten seconds to manufacture one,,, and a large wooden wedge would split that 90% ripped log with a large hammer,, in seconds,,,,, No risk of dirting your chain.
Wooden wedges can be left behind. (Laughing ,, just like my plastic ones.) I can manufacture 100 of them in the time it would take to drive to the store. My chain will never dull if I strike one. If one gets stuck,, I don't care. And mostly wooden wedges have a moisture content,, they WANT to stay in the cut,, they never squirt out like plastic or steel,, and I can make any size or thickness. And I usually rip them right out of another cut or the stump. And a truly large wedge would split that 5' diameter maple in a flash.
At one time,,, ALL split rail fences were manufactured, split, with wooden wedges.
@@Sailor376also take to much time. Gotta RUN THROUGH IT LIKE A WHORE AT PROM. trying to make money not be the best at splitting wood
Didn’t look at all of the comments so apologize ahead of time if it was already asked, but how tall was that tree prior to felling and why did the homeowner want it removed?
that's a good question and I don't honestly know. One of the main trunks off was rotten. Usually when silver maples get this big they are rotten inside so they pose a danger to falling on multiple houses power lines etc. The rest of it being as solid as it was is a huge exception to the rule. But it was only a matter of time.
Very Nice.😆
thank you sir
What's your wc lvl?
There went a fuck ton of money. A silver maple slab kiln dried 2 1/2 inches thick 36 inches wide 6 feet long sells for $1000 all day long.
Did that end up as firewood?
Where are u located? Or where was this tree?
I think the chain is hungrier than the clutch can handle
leaning out part of that maybe the heat and hard load , harder the load richer it needs , i got a big maple im working on now it bout 2 feet bigger ,it the biggest i ever saw
ill drive up for the next log like that if you can load it
That's what i need for cutting kindling.lol.
12:28 way to teach safety there
Two words: black powder. Coulda charged admission to see it blown apart too. ☺
yeah don't think local city PD would have liked that. But great idea!!!
Would love to mill that.
Safety is out the door
Man, I wonder how long that tree has been around....A shame to see it go, I hope it was from some sort of disease or death, not someone trying to build a new mcmansion...
Should have had a milling Machine and milled the whole tree should’ve cut itA foot and a half lower to the ground I would have mailed that whole thing and kept the lumber
Porque não cortou mais embaixo para aproveitar o máximo do tronco???
Nice! What kind of air filter is this?
max flow th-cam.com/video/PLS7kePHvgg/w-d-xo.html
@@Redbull661 Thanks. Seems like a good thing. Will it fit my rebuild 1991 066?
I'd love to own that saw
Why, so you be like a hunter what kills animals.....🤔👈
@@swagon4545 dumb fucking snowflake
Donde consiguo esa espada
Why is that saw bogging down so often? It seems it should be able to spin that size (28") completely buried.
my friend had never run the bigger tooth .404 chain before. Which is
more self feeding...don't have to work the saw as much. He was trying to pull it down like it was little
3/8ths chain.
Just referring to the felling cuts - was it getting pinched?
@@Redbull661 ok, I understand.
Dirt in the bar will stop anything
Dang that's a hungry saw 👍👍👍
You really need a bigger bar!😂
Pretty awesome video. Sometimes you find horseshoes in those huge trees. How old do you think it is? I could use a "night chunk" like that. I've been bragging to everyone about my 261, HA!!!
Isn't there an app for this?
They destroyed what would have been a $4,000 piece of maple had it been left whole and cut at the ground!!
silver maple. doesn't stay together. no one makes anything around here from silver maple. Except fire wood.
Nice informative and interesting video of experienced men...
thank you sir.
That would sure make a nice piece of carving wood 👍
but also a couple of nice bags of expensive sawdust
Did you all see how old this was?
That cannon bar cost more than the saw? Holy crap!
they could go up to like 800 dollars the cannon bars
Kontol bawok jembut tempek
I can double that. I have 2 that big in my tiny yard.
Couple of wedges could have been a one cut
Doesn't want to idle when out of a big cut.?
yeah I noticed that too. well sorta. my impression was the new version coil was preventing it from returning to idle to fast maybe? I know the very very first coils on the 661s would allow the saw to lean seize at the end of a cut. I was going to ask scott aka tree monkey what he thought.
Guess real men don't wear chaps, or a helmet / face shield, or muffs, or gloves.
12:28 or use the chain brake
Huh lol
If you aren't comfortable running a saw like this man is then you don't need to be running one. That tool is in your hands. You control it. It doesn't control you.
Chaps are for pussy wannabes
Lol okay look theres a difference btwn being not safe, and being just plain stupid. Smh, operate responsibly guys use your common sense.
How does it oil the 60 inch bar?
apparently good enough cuz it kept running fine. I would have expected smoking or chain seizure if not. Will say the oil port on the older style cannon is huge.
Some Chainsaw Art person could have made their Lifetime sculpture. Social media failed us this time
Social media spose to save us?
Well over $10,000 worth of wood went to fire wood.
:I recently bought a Stihl MS 661 CM Magnum by accident (complicated story so I'll spare everyone the details) and I'm pretty pissed off because I wanted the MS 661 R instead! My reasoning is that I don't like the idea of having electronics in a chainsaw. My question is for those that have the CM, What is your experience with your saw and has the electronics caused you any problems. I'm thinking of getting rid of it or possibly giving it a chance.
UPDATE 09082023: I have since my original post evolved in my chainsaw experience. I now have the Stihl 500i and the Husqvarna 592 XP both of which have electronic modules. Both are very powerful and start up nicely. I have even used them in single digit temperatures with no issues. So I stand corrected and edified.
I’ve had to of the m-tronic saws for a few years and just added a third. I’ve had zero problems, they have more power and use less fuel.
The handle can easily be swapped out for a wrap handle if that’s what you want. I prefer like the wrap handles.
@@PurpleNovember Thanks for responding. I did just update my original post FYI.
@@jaxxonbalboa3243 our 500 is one of our favorite saws. I looked into the 592 a lot but decided on the 661. The ‘Right to Repair’ is a big deal for us, and the Stihl dealers are about two hours closer. I can also do the port work if we decide to. What really made the decision was Husqvarna only selling their scan tool to dealerships. There’s rumors of that possibility changing in the future, if it does I’ll probably end up with a 592XP. I really like how much cleaner the Husqvarna air filters stay and how the peak HP is at higher rpm’s. In my opinion, in stock condition, the 592XP is hard to beat performance wise.
What was that other saw,a husky 395XP beast or what
yes sir. 36" bar
When did he use another saw??
@@treeman765 @7m 40s
No wonder I missed it that other saw was in the shot for 5 seconds lol good 👁
12:28 oh ffs dont grab the dam bar
yeah it was hot. :(
Let's leave the stump really high..
nice noodles
Why no cover for ur air filter. Is it something about more air flow or to keep it cool?
little bit more air and performance. Also air filter actually stays cleaner.
Did anyone count the rings to see how old it was?
Nope, let us know in the comments though!
How old was this tree?
Silver maple
I’ve never seen one exceed 100 years without self destructing. I’m guessing 100 at the very most. Wouldn’t surprise me if it were as young as 80 if ground conditions were moist
Unbelievable waste! Incredible….
I’ll make a video of my 660 making beautiful slabs. That’s worth watching.
Hope that paid by the hour. Lol.
Good work men. I don't care what ya did with the wood. Hehe.
@12:40 did you seriously just grab onto the bar of a running chain saw without engaging the chain break? That's the most unsafe thing I've ever seen.
dcoleman71 12:35
I seen that also not the best thing to do 🤦♀️
I saw that. Not a great idea.
Nice lumber ya could get outta that
No PPE? are you a commercial company.
Mind ya biz all you prim and proper snowflakes
That is a lot of chain to sharpen.
yeah im not looking forward to it. lol
12:30 that's kinda like sticking your hand in front of the barrel of a loaded gun