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arborjunky
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After getting a couple new powerheads and swapping-around some bars I'm left uncertain between a 15.25 or an 18" on my biggest saw....also have gone from 12" to 10" on my 'pocket rocket' tiny saw and love it, probably 5 real uses with it at 10" and I never found myself missing the 12", still swapping-up saws around the same time.
If you had all the bars in the world but just 2 powerheads to put them on, which would you choose? Maybe just keep an 'open mind' so far as what job you're doing IE swap them as-needed? TBH it's seeing the two 'extremes' that has me thinking this way (I'm not down to 2 climbsaw powerheads my 14"/32cc still rips I just never use it ), the extremes being:
- Hunicke's 200t with 20" bar, on the big side of things, and
- any tuned 2511t with 1/4", 10-->14" b&c
Haven't found the middle-area - my 14" - desirable (and it's my highest-quality bar, all of mine are interchangeable 5/32's but my 14 is my only 'pro' bar I just never use it as I'm always thinking "small saw, until large is needed" and that's fit every tree I've done since starting to jumble my bars)
What bar-sizes do you guys like/dislike, and why? Swapping up from 15.25" to 18" on my 36cc saw is only worrisome to me because of making it more-likely to snag&bang on stuff when climbing, already bang around the 15" often enough (can't believe I've yet to break plastic in a tree) Had to take the 12" from my lil 25cc saw to put on a polesaw I'd finished[that I'd stolen the 12" from in the 1st place] so reintroduced an old, nearly-new 10" Oregon and am in love with it just put the rakers low on its PX Oregon chain and it rips and by the time I'm needing over 10" I want >25cc (and my 25cc, well all of them, are really strong/efficient powerheads, it's never that I can't power the 10" or 12" I only swap when it's actually >10" wood to be cut), still default to the 25cc whenever possible despite it not being my favorite powerhead it's just the obvious IE convenience/form-factor which is probably why the 10" on it is so appealing!
Thanks for any shared bar preferences, am currently using only interchangeable 5/32 on all my saws so don't see it as worthwhile to swap to 1/4" -- yet, am planning to whenever I get my 1st lithium climbsaw, that'll be a 1/4" -- but despite being 'generic' Oregon stuff I rarely have issues and find them to be high-quality and that's with all of them sporting unusually-low rakers(depth-gauges) especially the 10" in fact I'm less aggressive on them the longer the bar..
[intentionally omitted any companies as I think sizes, displacements etc are best way to discuss this, don't think it's that big a deal whether "small saw" to you is a 150t, a 2511t or a g2500-clone like I've got ;D ]
After getting a couple new powerheads and swapping-around some bars I'm left uncertain between a 15.25 or an 18" on my biggest saw....also have gone from 12" to 10" on my 'pocket rocket' tiny saw and love it, probably 5 real uses with it at 10" and I never found myself missing the 12", still swapping-up saws around the same time.
If you had all the bars in the world but just 2 powerheads to put them on, which would you choose? Maybe just keep an 'open mind' so far as what job you're doing IE swap them as-needed? TBH it's seeing the two 'extremes' that has me thinking this way (I'm not down to 2 climbsaw powerheads my 14"/32cc still rips I just never use it ), the extremes being:
- Hunicke's 200t with 20" bar, on the big side of things, and
- any tuned 2511t with 1/4", 10-->14" b&c
Haven't found the middle-area - my 14" - desirable (and it's my highest-quality bar, all of mine are interchangeable 5/32's but my 14 is my only 'pro' bar I just never use it as I'm always thinking "small saw, until large is needed" and that's fit every tree I've done since starting to jumble my bars)
What bar-sizes do you guys like/dislike, and why? Swapping up from 15.25" to 18" on my 36cc saw is only worrisome to me because of making it more-likely to snag&bang on stuff when climbing, already bang around the 15" often enough (can't believe I've yet to break plastic in a tree) Had to take the 12" from my lil 25cc saw to put on a polesaw I'd finished[that I'd stolen the 12" from in the 1st place] so reintroduced an old, nearly-new 10" Oregon and am in love with it just put the rakers low on its PX Oregon chain and it rips and by the time I'm needing over 10" I want >25cc (and my 25cc, well all of them, are really strong/efficient powerheads, it's never that I can't power the 10" or 12" I only swap when it's actually >10" wood to be cut), still default to the 25cc whenever possible despite it not being my favorite powerhead it's just the obvious IE convenience/form-factor which is probably why the 10" on it is so appealing!
Thanks for any shared bar preferences, am currently using only interchangeable 5/32 on all my saws so don't see it as worthwhile to swap to 1/4" -- yet, am planning to whenever I get my 1st lithium climbsaw, that'll be a 1/4" -- but despite being 'generic' Oregon stuff I rarely have issues and find them to be high-quality and that's with all of them sporting unusually-low rakers(depth-gauges) especially the 10" in fact I'm less aggressive on them the longer the bar..
[intentionally omitted any companies as I think sizes, displacements etc are best way to discuss this, don't think it's that big a deal whether "small saw" to you is a 150t, a 2511t or a g2500-clone like I've got ;D ]