Too bad the bar mounts don't match up or you could use the 084 on your lo-pro setup. Really though, why even use the 066 for a milling application when you have the 084 now?
Heheheh...I
DO happen to have a 25" .050ga ROLLER NOSE bar downstairs that is in large Stihl mount. My old friend originally gave it to me for the 090 but I've never gotten around to mounting it up with a chain. DON'T TEMPT ME!!!! LOL. I'm pretty sure it would be a different DL count than the 25" sprocket-nose bars I have, but I do plan on checking it out. I do have a few spare inches of brand-new LP chain that I could add to one of the old LP milling chains if I needed to, and new tie straps should the reverse be necessary. It WILL be tried eventually, but I'd really like to get a 3/8" 33-36" bar going for it. I have two spare 33" bars for the big Huskies - I'm considering giving one to my machinist neighbor to see if he could mill the mount groove out to 14mm for me. I could probably do it with a carbide burr on the die grinder but it would take a long time and not look as good. If my neighbor can do it, I'm going to see if he can machine me an adapter so I can still use it with the Huskies. I have a 12mm Stihl bar adapter that works pretty well, but I've never seen a 14mm one.
As for not using the 066 anymore, it'll still see just as much use for slabbing boards from cants. There's no way I could justify a saw this big for a 6-8-10" etc. cut and I doubt it would really be that much faster in small, soft wood like that. The saw that is apt to sit idle a fair bit now is the Husky 395XP, though more likely it will find a semi-permanent home on the vertical mill jig.
If that's the case, my ideal loadout for a day's milling would be:
Ported 371XP for falling, bucking, and limbing most trees, clearing trails, etc.
Rebuilt Meteor 066 for slabbing etc. under 20"
Muffler modded 395XP for the vertical mill and/or falling and bucking large trees
084AV on the 36" Alaskan for bigger cuts
And of course, if there's room, the 090
just in case.
Not sure I could really improve on that very much at this point, which is why I said I "rounded out" my saws.:greenchainsaw: I've gotten to love the 371 so much I really don't have much use for anything smaller anymore.
Hey doesn't aggiewood use that setup, 084 and lopro????
I know Aggie was quite a proponent of .325 chain at one time, but he hasn't been around here much lately so I'm not sure.
I really don't see why? So long as you don't suddenly hit anything in the wood that overstresses the chain, it would take a lot of force to just rip the chain links apart. You could run a 9-pin sprocket would also reduce the amount of availible torque if breakage becomes a problem.
Especially if you using it in <30" diameter softwoods, I don't get why it'd be much different than that power on 3/8" chain.
That's how I feel - as long as I don't hit anything and keep it well maintained, I don't see it being a big problem. Heck, I hit a couple 1/8" dia. nails with the lo-pro on my 066 at WOT, and it survived just fine (after a fair bit of filing anyway). Not sure if I'd go out to a 30" cut with it or not, but 20" works really well. The problem I worry about more is stretching, especially with 33% more saw pulling it. I do want a 9-pin 3/8 sprocket quite badly; originally for the 090 to get its chain speed up a bit, but it would be interesting to play with on this 084 as well.
The saw has potential to make money to pay for itself, can't make money without it! Or at least that's how I'm rationalizing it to myself.:monkey: Anyway I'm going to take it for a test drive this afternoon (maybe a video if it works out) and then give it a good basic cleaning later on today. It's in amazing condition but hasn't been really well cleaned in a while.
