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  1. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    Thank you so much Husky. You can have absolutely no idea how much that means to me since, as a West Coast American... I am likely to actually have the saw in my hands around the time that you folks are on the 2nd upgrade! :lol: God Bless America... Land of the German and Swedish dependent!:|:
  2. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    Kevin: Thank you so much for the info regarding the sawbuilder guy. I'm looking to get a 572 built, and I'll definitely bear him in mind. West Coast Saw builds ridiculous monsters, but he wants an arm and a leg like Jack (hotsaws101). Mick: The first Husq. 540t auto-tunes were some of the...
  3. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    Yeah, I never understood the "intellectual property," thing that Jack is so insistent upon. I think the most of the guys who redily display all of their methods over the internet. Scott R. Koontz comes to mind. Coo guy.
  4. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    Well, that's impressive Frankie. Yeah.... he wants about $600.00 per build. West Coast Saw will do it for $400.00. I absolutely suck at porting, but I also HATE, HATE, HATE running stock saws anymore. Madsen's in Centralia/Chehalis is the best bang for the buck, and the company I work for pays...
  5. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    Oh my goodness that was so stinkin Rad. Man, Jack can build a saw like nobody's business. His saws all have (for me) a super familiar "tiney," (tin-like) sound. That man is the standard by which all other saw builders are measured. Dude, that saw just screamed. Yer a good man for buying...
  6. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    Agreed... the fresh air engines mostly suck. I hate my 372 (x-torx). Cannot WAIT to run an injection saw. Franke: Yeah... yer a wizard. Quit playin dumb, it doesn't become you. Just saw yer vid, man, that was rad. If you ported that saw, then my hat's off to ya, and I'm not worthy...
  7. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    O.k... Yeah... If a guy's diligent enough to keep that entire chain ceterus parabus, then you're the man, and you can definitely roll that way. It's just that most of us tree-service guys are never, ever, ever gonna do the work to file all of the longest teeth down to the shortest, and it...
  8. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    A really terrible idea in my almost worthless opinion when compared to your own, and for what it's worth. I (not that anyone's even remotely interested--why WOULD they be?) have found that INDIVIDUAL RAKER DEPTH PER TOOTH, is THE most important factor in all of treework times 1000. Not...
  9. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    That's pretty stinkin humble coming from you Randy. I still remember when you walked me through (over the phone!) the ignition timing advance, muff mod, and carb-limiter removal, probably six years ago on that absolute turd of a 201t (before the "upgrade kit" lol). I know what you'll say: "But...
  10. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    Wow, Frankie... as your avatar suggests, you must be some kink of saw wizard or something. You said, "in the work that I do,"... what work is that? Tree service? Logger? Firewood bucker? Corey: Like Butch said... in general, yeah, but not necessarily. For instance, the Madsen's...
  11. Jed

    Stihl 500i

    Makes sense Frankie. And Kevin... thanks for the vid. I watched a coupla German faller vids on the 500i a coupla months ago, and I definitely couldn't discern any "game-changer," properties just from watching the vids. I think that what we are all so excited about is just the fact that the...
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