Silliest saw setup ever?

[CausticUC]

There's a more than a good chance that person has never run big saws like with those length bars in big wood.

What gives it away? The small trees in the distance or that he is wearing slippers?

 

[sawfun]

The nonsense he's mentioned in his EBay add.

 

[catbuster]

16” bar on a 440 would the dumbest I’ve seen.

 

[sawfun]

17" on an 090.

 

[CausticUC]

How about I put my 10" cannon on the 041 FB would that make your day?

Bar would be the same length as the engine.

 

[GeorgiaVol]

I had a 14" on my P41 because it was the only bar I had to try it out with. It was silly strong. Even with the way lopsided sharpened chain it almost got stuck cutting a crescent in the log before I could stop it.
It has a 24" bar now.

 

[Jasonrkba]

It was pretty common in the 60-70's to put a 16 inch on a 60cc plus saw. That seems odd to me but they where slower saws.

 

[Ryan'smilling]

16” bar on a 440 would the dumbest I’ve seen.

I've done that too. Guess I'm silly. It was my only heated handled saw at the time, and I had a bunch of limbing and thinning to do at about zero degrees Fahrenheit.

 

[catbuster]

I've done that too. Guess I'm silly. It was my only heated handled saw at the time, and I had a bunch of limbing and thinning to do at about zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Even just limbing & thinning I’ll run a 28 for reach. I’m not much on bending over or squatting. If I can reach out and do it standing that’s my preference. Just seems like a waste of power to me.

But, your mileage may vary and the like.

 

[AGoodSteward]

Not many things left that require a bar like this

I bid two today. 100ft Cottonwoods. Notch and drop into a field behind an apartment complex. If I get to do it I'll post video. Will know Wednesday. Customer is in a bind cause it's in the way of a building project.
Pics of a willow we chewed out. 25" bar on my 660. 60" on the 880.

 

[Thommo]

I bought an Echo 750 VL with a 16 inch bar on it. There is no way i would use a saw that heavy with such a short bar. It seems happy with a 28 inch bar

 

[CausticUC]

Those are some nice pictures!

There are still some redwoods, cedar, and fir around here that size as well, getting rare though as forestry chews through them and poaching trees is getting common.

 

[NSEric]

It was pretty common in the 60-70's to put a 16 inch on a 60cc plus saw. That seems odd to me but they where slower saws.

That's still really common in nova scotia, our trees aren't that big but its faster to cut them up with a 60+cc saw.
I know a few guys with 365's with 16 inch bars, they cut a lot of fire wood.

 

[Jason280]

Longer bars with some of the smaller CC saws really isn't that much of a stretch, especially if all they're being used for is limbing, etc. I'd much rather limb trees on the ground with a 24" bar on my 372XP, means a lot less bending over than running a 16" with the 242Xp or 14" on the 330-T.