@@IndianaDougI thought it was for a few months until I figured it out. lol I did it years ago with an029 and a 3/8 20” bar. A friend gave me a good used bar and said it was a 50 but was actually a 63. I had just started to sharpen my chains by hand and couldn’t figure out what the heck I was doing wrong. I thought for sure it was rakers or angles or something. It would cut great then just instantly stop. I finally figured it out when I went back and forth between the two bars a few times. It was definitely my biggest dumbass move with the chainsaws.
I've had a 180 for 8 years now and it has cut well above it's head every time I've challenged it. That log you're cutting is the average size of oaks that I'm dropping and bucking. There's a 22" diameter water oak stump on my property as a monument to the abilities of the 180 if handled by someone that knows it's limits and how to maintain it.
Man that Brisco saw was eating it up!! You gonna saw your chain sharpening? Anything differant or just good old make it sharp, correct the angles, and adjust the rakers? Of course a bad ass saw dont hurt....
It’s an Oregon .325 chain that was pretty crappy out of the box. I adjusted do things out and gave it more aggressive angles. Still not great, but good enough for firewood(durable).
Well what do you know? My 362 started up right this morning. It seems like if it stalls on you, you have to put it in storeage for a couple of days... then it works fine again. It just cures itself somehow it seems.
Never understood all this my saw is better than your saw. And this brand is better than that brand. Pick up a saw, run it and have fun. A bigger saw almost allways cuts faster faster than a smaller one. Does that meen that the small saw is bad ?? Not in my opinion.
I just got a dolmar 6400 and a husqvarna 390xp. Haven’t tried the dolmar out on timber yet. I gave a couple hundred for both of them together and searching the web for how bad I got burnt on the deal.
We’ve been using a HEXA file on non-Stihl HEXA chain for over a year now with great success on 3/8 and 404. The smaller cutters and kerf on Stihl’s HEXA did not hold up well in our cutting conditions(lots of sand and grit) compared to full size cutters. I use a 404 round file with a Granberg file guide then a few swipes with the HEXA file for converting to HEXA. It is some of the smoothest chain I’ve ever used.
@@IndianaDoug We’ve found it to be very durable and easy to touch up. We even use a HEXA file on semi-chisel, mostly so we can carry one file and for accuracy.
yo a ported dolmar in my opinion is one of the best saws out there. dont get me wrong all companys have good saws just something about a ported dolmar❤
