Chainsaw Repair

No clue never bought a loop.  I havent bought any PS either. Just price checking for when I run out of PS3

 I think Al bought a loop of PS3 from a dealer before.

It was last summer sometime I bought both a loop of semi and a loop of Stihl chisel 52 drivers .It seems to me the chisel was about a dollar more  a loop .Around 18-19 bucks I think .

A little pricey but Stihl branded chain will last longer simpley because it's harder steel .I priced it in Oregon or at least the semi style and it was only a few dollars more than Baileys . Really 3/8" LP lasts me a long time .

Now I did in fact take the loop I got from Kevin and refiled it square ,full race chain .Dovetailed cutters ,dog boned chain ,polished rivets .Sure it cut faster but if not for the fact of playing saw racer with a mini saw it would be a terrible waste of time for a work chain .Now let me tell you square filing a chain that small is a beech .

Something like a  trim saw you are not normally in the dirt with so sharp filed round chisel would hold the edge probabley as well as semi .

Got my loops of the stihl PS  63PS in yesterday.  Dont see how it can cut any better then the PS3 in the bucking cuts, maybe better in the bore cuts.

Jack says the weight from the small ramps on the PS3 dont even add that much weight. Unlike some other makers chains out there.

The weight of the bumperless Stihl 3/8' lp chain is one tenth of a gram less than the bumper edition, in a 52 dl chain.
 

I tested the 63PS on a 200 the other day.
Just for the hell of it I got out a 91VXL and ran that too.
Same saw, bar and log. Both chains brand spanking new!
I can't say there was much difference at all in speed, perhaps if you look at 100's of seconds, but to me that is not important.
The PS Vibrated more, that is about all difference I could find.

I ran it in half dry spruce with 260mm diameter.
A buddy of mine ran both too and times of the 6 cuts each we made are super close.

There was no big difference in our times. At the most 0.5se either way.
You had more than 2,7 sek difference. That is a substantial difference...