I'm running a 16" Husqvarna bar, .325" Carlton, but I will be getting a few loops of the Stihl RSC soon.
I don't understand putting these short bars on the 371/372. My stock 372 pulls a 28" bar with LGX through red and white oak just fine.
My stock 350 pulls an 18" with LP through hardwood fine as well - is the 346 much different? In fact, I dropped 2 red oaks this weekend (24" and 14" DBH) and got some ooooohs and aaaaahs from the guys watching.
The 350 performed so well (hand filed chain) that they were calling me "american logger wiley" and one of them said to my 13 year old son "Your Dad must do this a lot".
It sounds to me as though a lot of this advice for puny bars is some sort of setup so that folks can point and laugh later
Mine came with 18"/.325 setup. Just cause I'm a nimrod, today I bought a 3/8" sprocket and 20'' bar so I can use the same chains as my 441. We'll find out this weekend if I wasted my money. I've got a pile of logs dragged out so now it's buck em up time. Like someone said, for the bigger stuff I'll grab the bigger saw. Will that bar fit on my 61?
Annother reason and maybe the main is that injuries caused by limbing went down drastically when they went from 15" to 13" And is better to have a little rear heavy saw than cut yourself in the leg.......Those bars will make the saws "rear-heavy", and they will not let the saws do their best effort, unless you put large rims and the very best chain on them. The H30/95VP is pretty useless on the NE346xp, unless you just limb spruce with it.
You don't need a 371xp, if all you need is a 15" bar.
Annother reason and maybe the main is that injuries caused by limbing went down drastically when they went from 15" to 13" And is better to have a little rear heavy saw than cut yourself in the leg.......
I dont feel that the 346 with 13 is rear heavy, but I have never tried 15" either.
13" is also the standard bar at least in this part of Norway
Those bars will make the saws "rear-heavy", and they will not let the saws do their best effort, unless you put large rims and the very best chain on them. The H30/95VP is pretty useless on the NE346xp, unless you just limb spruce with it.
You don't need a 371xp, if all you need is a 15" bar.
I converted mine to 3/8 .050 16" bar with RSC chain.
I have two set-up with 3/8" and two with 325. The two with 325 will be changed over to 3/8 soon, because I don't have all day!
16" .325X.058 RC28 chain.I tried 3/8 and a 16" bar on my 5100 for limbing and it was way too graby on the smaller limbs.I take my branches down to finger size.
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