Rotate bar?

[coolbrze]

Do you pros your bar upside down every time you swap chains?

 

[ms310]

not a pro

Do you pros your bar upside down every time you swap chains?

I am not a pro but cut a substancial amount of firewood and i flip not every time but sometimes. I put the chain on and install the bar the way the chain tells me to.

 

[Lakeside53]

yes... when I remember....

 

[Billy_Bob]

I try to use both sides the same amount. I go by weeks. Use one side for a week, then flip it over the next week.

 

[husky362]

if you sharpen your chain on the bar all the wear from cutting and dogging will be on one side flipping the bar helps the bar cutting strait

 

[superfire]

for me i flip the bar every time chain comes off. by fliping you make the bar last a little longer for reallly heavy saw use. if a homeowner asked me about it, i ask how much cutting do they plan on doing. if you just cut a few limbs and the odd tree only flip the bar once a season,if into firewood or major logging then flip daily. it also boils down to if you buy a solid sprocket nose bar or a laminated sprocket nose bar. the laminated bars wear faster then the solid bar also a the other thing to consider is bars over 28" take alot more abuse. another thing too note is if a person runs long bars that run 404 is that heaveir chain can splay the rails opcorn:

 

[JPP]

I flip my bar after every cutting session.

 

[2dogs]

My chain does not come off the bar very often so I flip the bar when it is convenient to do so. Burrs are filed off as needed. Periodically I chuck the bar in a vice and dress the rails with a Pferd tool.

During my annual session cutting small willows the 260 will throw chains constantly, like twice a day, so that hardnose bar will be flipped much more often.

 

[Echo-man]

Every other chain swap I flip the bar.

 

[stihl sawing]

I flip it quite often. Also i check it after each day of cutting.

 

[Kansas]

Do you pros your bar upside down every time you swap chains?

I am no pro by any means but I sure do, makes sence to do so, it keeps the wear even, and you can clean the oiler passages and oil the clutch bearing at the same time I also grease the tip sprocket fwtw.



Kansas

 

[reachtreeservi]

Every Saturday or Sunday I break all my saws down and give them a serious cleaning , sharpen all the chains and flip the bars.

 

[Urbicide]

When I used to have my chains ground it was real easy to flip the bar over. It does not happen as frequently now since I sharpen my chains on the saw. I do use both sides of the bar plus the nose when cutting so the bar does get a good workout.

 

[Philbert]

Every Time

I flip the bar each time I change or remove the chain. Easy habit to get into.

It's one the the chief peeves I have with some of the 'tool-less' chain tensioners (Stihl) - some of them make it harder to flip the bar.

Philbert

 

[SawTroll]

I flip my bar after every cutting session.

+1, but that is probably overdoing it a bit - but it sure don't hurt....

 

[04ultra]

+1, but that is probably overdoing it a bit - but it sure don't hurt....

Troll do you flip your bar for practice just in case????....opcorn: opcorn:

 

[SawTroll]

:biggrinbounce2:

Troll do you flip your bar for practice just in case????....opcorn: opcorn:

 

[pbuehning]

+1, but that is probably overdoing it a bit - but it sure don't hurt....

+2

 

[SteveH]

Mine's flipped at the end of each cutting day.

 

[coolbrze]

I flip mine often, but the reason I ask is b/c in the vast majority of pics I see, the bars are right side up. It even says to do so in the manuals - Stihls at least.