Loggers Rough on Bars?

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Rough? Sometimes I think that's an understatement. Take a look at this one:
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It was a 36" bar. The logger was half way through bucking a 22" log with his MS661 when he ran out of fuel. He went to his truck to get the fuel can and left the saw in the log temporarily. When he turned around, the skid loader operator was backing up right next to the log and failed to see the bar sticking out and caught the nose of the bar with the wheel. Wham!

The chain was wrecked also. I really see no way of saving any of this. The bar was in rather god shape, so that's about $150 down the drain. I've seen some bent bars and mangled tips, but they don't get much worse than this.:(
 
Rough? Sometimes I think that's an understatement. Take a look at this one:
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It was a 36" bar. The logger was half way through bucking a 22" log with his MS661 when he ran out of fuel. He went to his truck to get the fuel can and left the saw in the log temporarily. When he turned around, the skid loader operator was backing up right next to the log and failed to see the bar sticking out and caught the nose of the bar with the wheel. Wham!

The chain was wrecked also. I really see no way of saving any of this. The bar was in rather god shape, so that's about $150 down the drain. I've seen some bent bars ad mangled tips, but they don't get much worse than this.:(

I would fix it.
 
I would fix it.
Are you kidding me? How? Even if the rivets could be drilled out and removed, the bar then has to be straightened and untwisted. The sprocket tip has to be replaced. The end of the bar that mates with the sprocket tip is deformed. The chain is toast and has to be replaced.

I'm all ears.:rolleyes:
 
Anything can be fixed/repaired if one is capable, has the equipment and the experience to pull it off, one gets experience by doing, not reading.
I do not think Stihl wants me to replace that bar, the tip, and the chain by working for several hours in my shop. Stihl wants me to buy a new bar and chain. That's what the Stihl dealer said. It's as simple a that.

I might even tear up $150 in tools trying to rebuild it.
 
I do not think Stihl wants me to replace that bar, the tip, and the chain by working for several hours in my shop. Stihl wants me to buy a new bar and chain. That's what the Stihl dealer said. It's as simple a that.

I might even tear up $150 in tools trying to rebuild it.
Of course Stihl /husky /Blount want you to by a new bar chain & bits that's how they stay in business If you were to spend $150 on repair tools they would be there for the next bar repair job because if you employ the same fallers it will be a repeat performance if it's a case of down right "couldn't give & toss next replace ment present the culprit with the bill
 
bar, chain is consumables to a logger.
so are saws - tools - they get broke sometimes.
skidder op not likely to see bar tip in tree.
Most likely true, but a good number of us are weekend warriors who spend most of Monday critiquing what everyone else did over the last week. That, and the weather is teh suck, so our judgemental dickness carries over into Tuesday.
 
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