What's with Stihl's recommended guide bar lengths?

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To clear it up it is the recommended minimum without having such a chain spinning screamer that'll send those cutters up into your face faster than your corpsified body can twitch. I run an 18" on my 460 and a 28", the 28" gets used more often. I feel more safe with the way the saw handles plus its really comfortable limbing downed trees without a lot of bending over on the old back!. I use a 30" and a 48" on my 088 and I have a 455 rancher with a 20" bar for limbing the bigger stuff my 192t cannot handle when I am climbing. I was glad that when I bought the 460 the salesman talked me out of my original short bar consideration, 16". He said that could put me in the hospital real quick.
 
nope, sure doesn't but have any of you ever seen a 20" bar on a big saw like a 660 or 880 or Husky 395 or 3120, they look very small.

My 660 runs a 20" quite often. My 084 has a 25" bar on it most of the time. can never have to much power.
 
Here's a good example of what your getting at.

Back a few years I bought the 026 because I knew it could accept a 24" bar.
I have some large pines in back that I expect to succumb to the wind eventually.
Of course I run it with a 16" bar and it does fine.
What I find interesting is that this link is one that shows 16"-24";
and yet links in the <i>earlier </i>stihl sites do not.
HTML:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001202133000/www.stihlusa.com/chainsaws/026.html
I agree that it may be a liability thing.
<i>I wonder who here has put the longest bar on the smallest saw?</i>
:greenchainsaw:

-br
 

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