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Title: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: davbell22602 on December 06, 2012, 02:54:52 pm
Doesnt anybody besides Stihl sell pre looped chain for a 24in bar anymore?
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: Cut4fun on December 06, 2012, 03:01:09 pm
You didnt say 81dl or 84dl. So here is a few to choose from. Last one was search for 84 only.

http://northwoodsaw.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=45

http://www.baileysonline.com/category.asp?catid=70

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=84+chain+24&_sop=15&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=84+chain+24&_sacat=11700


Just to point you in the right directions.
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: davbell22602 on December 06, 2012, 03:17:27 pm
Oregon doesnt offer 24in chain in .050 gauge pre looped according the Oregon catalog. Stens offers Silver Streak and Carlton in .050 84 drive links for 24in bar.
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: Cut4fun on December 06, 2012, 03:33:14 pm
 ::)

oregon 24" http://www.baileysonline.com/itemdetail.asp?item=ORF+72LGX084G&catID=


carlton 24" http://northwoodsaw.com/store/index.php?pg=2&l=product_list&c=65
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: Cut4fun on December 06, 2012, 03:35:31 pm
Has buying bulk chain in 100' really went up that much? Baileys Our Price: $379.99 they can kiss my ( ! )
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: 660magnum on December 06, 2012, 04:08:11 pm
I've seen 72LGX for $300/roll here and there but the others are more like $380
Bailey's is having a Christmas sale on Woodland Pro 30LP for $300 right now  3/8 X .050 X 100'
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: Al Smith on December 06, 2012, 04:20:34 pm
Since the Chinese bought up all the scrap steel in the world all steel prices are up .

It wasn't that long ago I bought .404 Oregon chisel for 24 cents a driver .It's nearly doubled .

Fact I just got a Baileys flyer and really didn't see many bargains except maybe that Woodland Pro  stuff which I really don't care for myself .72 driver  3/8" for 12.99 and 84 driver for 14.99 .both in 50 thou .

You can get loops any where as many drivers as you want .I think the last I bought was either 123 or128 drivers of .404 Oregon chisel and that dang thing cost me about 50 bucks and that sucks .
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: 660magnum on December 06, 2012, 04:59:19 pm
A local guy bought an old used 042 and it had a brand new 24" 404 Oregon chain loop on it.

I was thinking the B&C was worth a good bit of the $125 the guy paid for the old Stihl?

It ran good and the guy has been happy with it.
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: HolmenTree on December 06, 2012, 07:33:09 pm
I just bought a 100 ft roll of Oregon 72LGX from Bailey's on they're last flyer sale and it was $279.
Now they have the Woodland Pro [Carlton] on sale
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: davbell22602 on December 06, 2012, 07:52:35 pm
I'd buy the chain by the roll if I have chain breaker and chain riviter tools.
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: Al Smith on December 06, 2012, 08:10:11 pm
You can do it with a die grinder and a ball peen hammer if you know how .Unless you use a lot of chain it's not advantagious to buy bulk chain .What little I have is hard to find  stuff like 1/2" chipper and .404 chisel skip in .058 .

It used to be you could find partial rolls of bulk chain off of flea bay fairly reasonabile .Any more though you are just as well to get it from Baileys or some other supplier because the flea bay crowd has it priced higher .
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: HolmenTree on December 10, 2012, 12:28:49 pm
Just a ball peen hammer, punch and an anvil block with the different pitch slots is all you need.
I re use the punched out side straps and hammer them back together. Always lots of rivet material left to make a strong joint, just make sure you center the punch deadon when disassembling so you don't bent the rivet which would then be useless to get the opposite side strap back on.
Title: Re: Buying Pre Looped Chain
Post by: Al Smith on December 11, 2012, 09:48:44 am
Most of the time my chain activies are along the lines of either repairing a damaged cutter or cutting a chain down to a 16" loop for a race chain .

I did however early this fall go through about 20 or so damaged loops and repaired or linked a few together to make longer loops .I have a spinner but no punch and in addition a set of concave punchs that work fairly well for small chain such as .325 or 3/8" low profile as the spinner doesn't have the proper sized anvil for those sizes .Kind of silly because the proper anvil is only about 5 bucks it's just I never seem to find the time or forget to order one .

A good bit of those loops come from a tree service company I'm closely associated with .In that business it's almost unavoidable they will damage chains .The guy who owns the biz just views it as the cost of doing business and 90 percent of them are Stihl branded chains which as we all know are not cheap .