Im goin to run a 36" bar on my stumpy built 046. Bar is a 404 .063ga, I am flipping throught my baileys catalog and I see some oregon 27AX ,and 68JX. Both skip chain,does any one have a opinion on what will keep an edge longer and which will cut faster.
Oregon skip chain
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Joe46
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Not sure on the 68? The 27AX(used to be just 27A) is a chipper chain, I always called it round tooth. I used it in dirty wood. Could handle dirt a little better than full chisel. Not as fast in clean wood.
cowroy
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If the wood your gonna be cutting is clean, in other words your gonna cut the tree down and buck it up right there, then the full chisel is what your after, but if your gonna have to drag the logs anywhere to buck them up then the semi is the way to go. I have been experimenting with semi myself here lately and I really like it. Wished I would have gotten some a long time ago.
Nonprophet
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Never met a cottonwood myself that was worth the fuel to buck it up......
cowroy
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Basically, Dirty wood=semi chisel, clean wood=full chisel.
I wont pass a tree of this size up. I've burned plenty of cottonwoods. They burn nice just like anything else just a little faster. Oh well I don't mind, I can burn some myself and sell camp bundles. It will be plenty worth it
