I have a strange issue which I cannot verify nor fix at the moment.
I have a:
- 345 with a 18" .325 X-cut chain
- 262XP with a 20" 3/8 X-cut chain
- 272XP with a 24" 3/8 SARP chain (don't know that brand)
I was cutting dry (dead) oak (22") and the 272 went pretty fine some first cuts (acutally taking down the tree) but after this it was having a hard job, also after shapening the chain in the right angle the same went for the 262 with the x-cut chain. The first cuts with the 272 made some nice longer chips as I like them,the 262 didn't do that much longer chips. Cuts were making black burning marks, it went too hot all the time, chain was sharp.
Today, as I left a part of the tree and was making birdhoused and used some slices for roofs and floors I used the 345 to make them from the pieces I cut with the 262 and 272 it was like; wow this goes easy and like a hot knife through butter. After 2 slices I thought; I want to see if it cut the rest of the tree and indeed; in notime I was through it and made some nice 22" pieces there without any dark burning marks. After this the chain seems to be less sharp indeed, empty fuel, no filing to see what happened after that and slight dark burningmarks started to exist when I sometimes didn't move the saw that fast enough on the dog (which I new and wasn't the biggest problem but I wanted to see the result). The 345 was cutting nice "blocked" solid chips.
So, at the end, I thought that my 272 an 262 are moving too fast. Even lowering the depth gauges on the 272 didn't change the saw behavior and you see you don't get a straigh cut as well, all rackers are the same size tho.
My 345 is the best saw I ever had, never gives up, is super strong and pulling all the time, 4-strokes nicely where my 2-series do too but there is a real difference. I don't know it's the 3/8 chain which behave much different but I'm wondering what goes wrong here. I even changed the racker angle from 30 degrees to 35 degrees to see if it was more agressive but it did't do much as well.
It seems that the 345 doesn't make my chains less sharp that fast where the other powersaw do with less production, it doesn't even go faster as well.
Any ideas as I'm running out and trust me, I'm pretty good on my chains as my 345 never has issues when I file it.
I have a:
- 345 with a 18" .325 X-cut chain
- 262XP with a 20" 3/8 X-cut chain
- 272XP with a 24" 3/8 SARP chain (don't know that brand)
I was cutting dry (dead) oak (22") and the 272 went pretty fine some first cuts (acutally taking down the tree) but after this it was having a hard job, also after shapening the chain in the right angle the same went for the 262 with the x-cut chain. The first cuts with the 272 made some nice longer chips as I like them,the 262 didn't do that much longer chips. Cuts were making black burning marks, it went too hot all the time, chain was sharp.
Today, as I left a part of the tree and was making birdhoused and used some slices for roofs and floors I used the 345 to make them from the pieces I cut with the 262 and 272 it was like; wow this goes easy and like a hot knife through butter. After 2 slices I thought; I want to see if it cut the rest of the tree and indeed; in notime I was through it and made some nice 22" pieces there without any dark burning marks. After this the chain seems to be less sharp indeed, empty fuel, no filing to see what happened after that and slight dark burningmarks started to exist when I sometimes didn't move the saw that fast enough on the dog (which I new and wasn't the biggest problem but I wanted to see the result). The 345 was cutting nice "blocked" solid chips.
So, at the end, I thought that my 272 an 262 are moving too fast. Even lowering the depth gauges on the 272 didn't change the saw behavior and you see you don't get a straigh cut as well, all rackers are the same size tho.
My 345 is the best saw I ever had, never gives up, is super strong and pulling all the time, 4-strokes nicely where my 2-series do too but there is a real difference. I don't know it's the 3/8 chain which behave much different but I'm wondering what goes wrong here. I even changed the racker angle from 30 degrees to 35 degrees to see if it was more agressive but it did't do much as well.
It seems that the 345 doesn't make my chains less sharp that fast where the other powersaw do with less production, it doesn't even go faster as well.
Any ideas as I'm running out and trust me, I'm pretty good on my chains as my 345 never has issues when I file it.