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What is your favorite saw? 1 Month, 1 Week ago  
I am looking for chainsaw reccomendations. I have a Husky 16" bar and it is a little bulky. Just renewed my ISA cert and have a few jobs lined up. Any suggestions?

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Re:What is your favorite saw for Arborists? 1 Month ago  
There is whole section on Trebuzz about saws, favorites and repairs, collections etc. Must of the Professional Arborists use Stihl Models 190 and up all the way to 200 for tree work . I seen them mention other larger saws for other purposes on the ground.
here is one of those comments
"At the time, I also bought an 009, an 011, and a 012. They were useless except for limbing to feed the chipper anything but oak...but the 020's screamed. No breaks and solid _meta_l cases, T handles. I know it was 1982 because I just moved to San Antonio and bought a tree service that came without saws and had to buy new. If I remember right...the _meta_l 020's cost more than 600 each, way back then. I also bought the hedgetrimmer attachment that bolted right on, replacing the clutch cover.

Were they made in Germany only then?": Posted by oakwilt.
 
 
 
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Re:What is your favorite saw for Arborists? 1 Month ago  
It HAS to be my Silky Zubat.

If I need power I have my Husky 335 sent up.

When the time comes to replace the 335 I'll more than likely get the current itteration of the Stihl 020/200. I know a couple of pro arbos who use the small Stihl but the rest of their fleet is Husky.
 
 
 
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Re:What is your favorite saw? 4 Weeks, 1 Day ago  
thetangler wrote:
I am looking for chainsaw reccomendations. I have a Husky 16" bar and it is a little bulky. Just renewed my ISA cert and have a few jobs lined up. Any suggestions?

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I'm leaning towards the Stihl 192T for in-tree pruning tasks
http://www.stihlusa.com/chainsaws/MS192TCE.html

My shoulders are getting tired of using a Silky hand saw (as good as they are) on non-rotted dead oak limbs and similar dense grained woods larger than 5-6" diameter.
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Re:What is your favorite saw? 4 Weeks, 1 Day ago  
moss wrote:
I'm leaning towards the Stihl 192T for in-tree pruning tasks


I have a 191t but it has never been right from day one. The 200t seems to be the absolute favorite.
 
 
 
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