Here’s a 500i running a 36 full comp square ground chain, then a 395 that’s modified setup for running long bar with a 36 semi skip square ground chain both of these saws are in the same stand of timber.
I can give you a good reason for a longer bar then the job requires ever spent time on boards? How about time on steep ground? Put down a single log that if you mess it up you lose your full weeks wages?
If I’m falling timber all day long especially with the clutch side up with the opened up cover on the 500 with hearing protection in my ears are a ringing. It’s just like running the bigger older 3 series huskies with the triple port mufflers they’d scream too.
It’s not uncommon here for fallers to carry multiple chains with them and swap through out the day and grind in the evening well prepping the saws for morning. If I’m hand cutting all the time I’ll normally 3 to 4 chains in a given length say 114 or 115 driver full comp chain and swap throughout...
Out of the box it cuts like garbage just like round does and slow, once the angles have been setup for what your conditions are then you will see a difference. Where you see a huge difference is in the adjustability of the angles to change how the cutter pulls in the wood without having to give...
There use to be a few guides available but I haven’t seen one in a long time probably 25 years or so, we use to have one but you’re never as consistent as with the grinder doing them.
How many of you guys need a falling chain? I’d take a fair guess most don’t have the experience to honestly handle a true non kickback chain, the little bumpers are there to help with kickback from the saw bar tip more than anything. That said if they’re sharpened correctly there shouldn’t be...
Stock vs ground there’s a huge difference in speed and how much more wood is being removed if the saw can actually pull that chip load out. Yes a stock chain needs the rakers dropped to even be considered decent for falling timber. It’s not super common to see any round ground cutters for...
Depends on what we are cutting at the time but most of the time anymore it’s a Stihl 500i with a 36. That said if the situation requires a longer bar the 395’s and 3120’s do come out normally the longest bar is a 60 but every once in a blue the 72 does come out for a bad spot.
There’s still places that run the long bars on the big cc saws but even then it’s not uncommon to see 3/8 instead of 404, the saws just don’t have the torque that they use to when from the early days they have speed.
How old are the cylinders? You normally put a restrictor in on the lower/close side of a circuit. What I normally do is put a gauge in line to make sure you’re getting full line pressure if so the packings are shot.