Dafydd Hewes
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I have a Stihl MS 310 with a 20” bar. Am looking to find out what chain I can buy, what the specs should be? Am looking to buy a couple of skip chains. Can someone point me to the correct chain? tx
Since I grew up in the tree business, and my chains are always sharp, that's the first thing I miss when talking to others. My BIL kept complaining he was getting bad chains. One day he got his saw with a brand new chain on it, cut through the log, and ran it two inches in the dirt. I think he just does not believe me that dirt dulls a saw. So, yes, make sure they are sharp.I have full comp chisel on a 455 Husky with 20 inch bar. Cuts very well. The secret is to keep the chain sharpened and well oiled for long chain life.
My big saws (32, 36 and 42 inch bars) all have skip tooth chisel. Works great.
If your saw is lugging, bogging, or cutting slow the chain is dull.
Call Baileys or Madsens and talk, they will fix you up.
If you do not sharpen your chains, learn how. You will have better luck that sending the chains out to sharpen. I have several loops of chain for each saw and keep a sharp chain on the saw, they are easy to change out when you are sawing.
Wow, In 50 years that's a first for me. I've never heard you could over rev a saw because it's dull. I run full comp out to 45". I don't particularly like filing either. I keep sharp chains hanging on one peg, and dull ones on another. Then wait for a rainy day and set up the filing bench and have a get em sharp day. I hand file with no guides or handles, just the file. My hands have a bit of nerve damage from running saws for 50 years and some arthritis. After a couple chains they start to cramp up, so I'll go tinker with some project saw for a while, then come back to sharpening. I might mill up a couple Red Oaks today, looks like it's going to be overcast and rainy.Ancient a chain saw will actually run much much faster with a dull chain becuase there’s less resistance, you can actually blow it up becuase theres no load and it will rev very high , but cutting slow is very true, sometimes won’t cut at all lol.
20” bar I’d be leaning toward a semi skip chain, anything bigger I like full skip also becuase I don’t like filing that much.
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