It's a month oldHow's the drive sprocket? A badly worn sprocket can cause issues with maintaining proper tension. Also a badly worn bar can cause issues like throwing chains. My guess is it's one or both of these combined with small limbs de-railing the chain.
Thanks and I believe your right. My technic and sprocket causing the damageI throw the chain once in a while. Often times it happens when I'm cutting a branch under tension and using the nose end of the bar. I try and avoid those cuts if possible and use the belly of the bar now. Any more it seems we always have to file or grind the drive links to use the chain again. When I started cutting 15 or 16 years ago, that wasn't the case. You'd throw a chain and simply put it back on and you were good to go. Using different saws back then: MS 290s and later a 346XP. Maybe it's about the type of sprocket. I don't really know enough about all the mechanics to offer a solid explanation.
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