Chainsaw Repair
Chain - Grinders - Filing - Wood Milling - Tools - Welding - Machinist - Mowers - Tillers => Chain - Bars - Grinders - Filing => Topic started by: Playinwood on October 15, 2013, 06:59:05 pm
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hey all, I have a logger friend using a 261 on the landing for limbing and sizing. I am supposed to get him some of the best cutting chain at Bailey`s and I need to know what species.
So what say you.
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Best 325 for me has been stihl rs rsc for clean wood.
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Me too. I have a couple saws that use this
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That's what these guys are using I believe, its Stihl something. Im referring them to Baileys to get them a more affordable option. We have an Oregon and a woodsman pro. Anybody have a favorite.
Would it be safe to assume 50 gauge is the more common bar
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I would go with Oregon 21 or 22 lp, that would be close to rsc chain. Not a fan of the woodland pro chain.
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Oregon it is , thank you all
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Here the loggers buy Oregon, homeowners Stihl.
What do you want? May be able to save you a few bucks.
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Art I'm looking for 73LGX but in 325 ;D
in truth Art what did you use, they have a 261 as a landing saw, they bring the tree out whole and limb it and size it. They then bulldoze the branches into piles and burn them. They are making more farmland.
Lots of limbing....they are keeping everything 2inch and up
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Oregon .325 chisel chain has safety bumpers on every other driver that works along side the rakers.
20LPX?? =.050 ?? = drive links
21LPX?? =.058
22LPX?? =.063
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Art I'm looking for 73LGX but in 325 ;D
in truth Art what did you use, they have a 261 as a landing saw, they bring the tree out whole and limb it and size it. They then bulldoze the branches into piles and burn them. They are making more farmland.
Lots of limbing....they are keeping everything 2inch and up
Landing saws got Stihl RM or Oregon BP/DP if any mud was around. Same for winter skidded wood.
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Best .325 chisel I used was the Stihl 23RS .050, but now what I see is only in .063 as 26RSC. I have been running the Oregon 21LP since the 23RS ran out but I don't like the extra baggage of the LP's safety ramped drive link. Oregon needs to make a 21LG .325 or bring back the old 76LG 3/8 chisel.
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I have two Stihl saws with the 26RSC and it does real well.
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I have two Stihl saws with the 26RSC and it does real well.
I'm thinking the same too, would stretch less with the heavier drivers.
I believe the Stihl .325 like their 3/8 is .063 between the cutters on top of the drive link so evening up the drive link is a good thing. I like the Stihl's LG style depth gauge , never linked Oregons clunky LP link
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How does the 33LG compare to the newer oregon offerings?
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Plenty of Stihl 23RS on the east side. Old 34 Oregon was smooth but slower than 21. Selling alot of 25RS62 for the 261 lately.
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I picked up a little under 25' roll of 33LG because I didnt want the extra bumper link like on the 20LPX. Read stock the 20lpx was a faster chain. But figured LG could be made faster in the end.
Never did follow through with the testing as I got out of it and the faster chain stuff.
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I forgot about the 33LG, I probably have a loop or two hanging somewhere in the used stock pile. ;D
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33LG and 34LG are gone. Only the suit and tie pencil pushers in head office who had never picked up a saw liked it because it looked safer.
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"" I would go with Oregon 21 or 22 lp, that would be close to rsc chain. Not a fan of the woodland pro chain.''
Whats wrong with the woodland pro chain that you didn't like?
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Anybody use the k2l or k2c chain by carlton? How is Carlton chain compared to Oregon as far as quality and staying sharp.
http://content.yudu.com/A25sb5/Carlton2013-14Catlog/resources/index.htm
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I cannot tell the difference from a Carlton cutter and a Oregon cutter.
For some reason the 100' rolls of Carlton costs a lot more than Oregon?
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I have gone to the 63PS and 63PS3 on a couple of my .325 saws and so far, I like it real well.
Mike
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I think the woodland pro chain dulls faster and cuts slower then the rest of them. I can file Oregon chain to cut faster then my stihl chain but like the durability better. Hey to each his own on what you like to run. If you like it then run it.
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Was it woodland pro chain that needed to be filed level, rather than with the 10˚ down angle on the file, for best cutting results? I know Oregon chain like the 10˚ down angle, so I used that when I tried another chain (that I think was Woodland Pro - it's been a few years). It did not cut well. I had given up on it, until Al Smith pointed out the different sharpening specs. Went back and tried it without the 10˚ down angle and it did cut better than before.
I still don't buy it anymore since I tend to forget which chain I have on, and want to be able to sharpen everything I put on one saw the same way.
I did have a couple of problems with an occasional tooth or depth gauge so hard on a chain that I could not file it (ruined a couple of files trying). This was either Woodland Pro or Total chain (which may have been the same thing at least at that time?) I think it was this way out of the box, but it's possible I'm remembering incorrectly, and it happened after I took it to someone to regrind on their machine after hitting a rock.
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You can look at the chain head on and see if the top plates are drooped the 10 degrees. Typically chisel type chains are drooped and the round corner chipper chains are not.
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Best 325 for me has been stihl rs rsc for clean wood.
I have found Oregon LP/LPX to be slightly faster and smoother, and I know that many others have as well.
Those two no doubt are the best chisel options. and I am happy with using either.
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Oregon .325 chisel chain has safety bumpers on every other driver that works along side the rakers.
20LPX?? =.050 ?? = drive links
21LPX?? =.058
22LPX?? =.063
Those small ramps are combined with quite small rakers - and the combination seem to be less in the way than the large ramped rakers of other designs like RS/RSC (and LG/LGX in 3/8").
LP/LPX is not compareble to Stihl and Carlton chains with ramps, as those retain the larger ramped rakers, as well as having larger ramps.
The LP design was meant to be a better alternative to the larger ramped rakers of LG and RS (as opposed to a "safer" one), and that is exactly what it is - at least as long as the bar length is within reason.