Going to buy some new chains and bars stay with 3/8 .050 or

[bigric954rr]

Should I stay with the 3/8 .050 chain is there a reason to go with a bigger size will be cutting a bunch of downed trees dift logs covered in sand and dirt in the bark. Also was looking at maybe buying a carbide chainsaw chain.

I got a ms461 lightly moded and a rancher 455 highly moded

Looking at buy a few bars and chains before I saw cutting all the pile up logs

 

[full chizel]

.050 will be fine. Hard nose bars and lots of semi chisel chain

 

[unclemoustache]

.050 will be fine. Hard nose bars and lots of semi chisel chain

Yup. That’s what I do.
All my saws are the same except for the little ones which have the 3/8 picco.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

.050 will be fine. Hard nose bars and lots of semi chisel chain

What he said. Last week I cut up a big oak that we drug out of the woods, very dirty. Didn’t cut very long with full chisel, switched to semi chisel and like the Energizer bunny just kept going and going....

 

[Ted Jenkins]

O have about 200' of 3/8 050 a few feet of 058 and 100' 063. and a bunch of 404. For almost every thing the 3/8 works just fine. I also use the same files on everything. Thanks

 

[bigric954rr]

Thank you guys I have a plan now

 

[spike60]

.050 will be fine. Hard nose bars and lots of semi chisel chain

Cool to have @full chizel be the first to recommend semi chisel chain. A good option for dirty wood that usually gets left out of the conversation. We all get a little to into the speed and power thing. But semi often keeps going well after full chisel needs to be filed.

 

[bigric954rr]

Yea just picked up a ms661cm 3/4 wrap handle and some more semi chain chains going to place a order at Bailey to get some more bars and chains to fit my 3 saws