Charlie Coyote
ArboristSite Member
...by experience. Upon assembling my Chinese Granberg style 36" mill I find that my 36" bar is 6" short to utilize the mill's widest cut. With all the videos I've watched and comments I've read over the months preparing to mill, I've not seen nor heard this mentioned. Now I'm in for a 42" bar and chain to go on the Holzfforma G660 PRO that I bought to mill. I'd have bought the 42" first had I known. Point being that if you want to maximize to the size of an Alaskan style mill, then add 6" to the mill's maximum to know what length of bar to buy. Sometimes the simplest things escape us and cost time and money unnecessarily. Just sharing a tidbit to the benefit of those entering the adventure of csm.