That actually sounds pretty reasonable, IIRC about a year or two ago, I paid $495 for my bar, no helper handle, and I bought a 100’ roll of chain, and had my local shop spin a bunch of loops of various lengths out of it, figured out the lengths to where I only ended up with 8 unused links
, so I don’t know what the price for those loops were.
For a Bar, helper handle and one loop of chain, that should be a very fair price for someone that needs a 72” bar.
I don’t know what the availability is for the 72” bars, but I WISH that I had ordered a 50” bar a couple years ago. I had been watching several sources that had them, then about 3 weeks later, none were available, when I went to order one, and they haven’t been available since
Who’da thunk that several 50” bars would sell in such a short time??
Oh, is that.404 or 3/8 pitch? Probably.063 gauge?
Doug