Here's an option you may want to consider for your tree climbing work. If you got a Husky 555/560 with the small mount, you could run a standard.325 bar for your regular bucking work. When you wanted to go climbing with the saw, you could put on a Husky 20' narrow kerf bar and chain.
The NK bar is much lighter (and cuts faster).The problem with using NK in commercial applications is that the bar tends to wear much faster than standard.325, so you use the standard.325 for most of the work. However, when it comes time to do some tree climbing, you swap out for the lighter bar.I put a 20' Husky NK bar on an old 029 (64cc upgrade). The saw went from being nose heavy with the 3/8' bar to being slightly tail heavy with the NK bar.Go to shop and pick up a standard 20'.325 or 3/8' bar and compare the weight with a 20' NK bar, you'll immediately feel the difference.
Nov 04, 2013 this answer is not as easy as it may seem, most of the stihl bars here in Canada and made by Oregon and painted Stihl on them, the plant that makes bars for Oregon and Stihl is about a hour from me and I have watched both bars being made so they are pretty much the same bar just in a different gauge and as far as which chain is better, the stihl chain stretches less cause its.063 gauge.
The Replaceable Sprocket Tip Light Weight BarThe Sugihara lightweight guide bar fulfills everywood cutters dream of owning a bar that is strongand durable enough to work as hard as they doand as long as they do. Always making every cutsmooth and quick with little maintenance over a long lifeWhy is the Sugihara better than other bars?.
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No rail cracking or chipping. Extreme bar resiliency (read testimonial). No steel blemished for even heat distributionAll Sugihara bars are light weight. When you are flipping a bar,you will feel a difference. The lighter weight longer bars have betternose balance and you will feel the difference at the end of each day. Why does Chris Foltz, the World Class Chainsaw Carving Champion, only use SugiHara Bars?4 time international champion wood sculptor3 time international champion ice sculptorMasters champion 2012 international ice sculptureMasters champion 2013 international wood sculptureCaptaion of Oregon Collegiate Ice Sculpting TeamsIce Sculptor representing the USA at the Gelato World Championships in Italy 2016Profiled on Discover Channel reality series 'Saw Dogs'Board Member and Co-Chair of 'Competition Rules and Regulations' of the National Ice Carving Association (NICA). The Dufour Brothers ofD & D EnterprisesSalem, IN.Chainsaws wear out guide bars.
SugiHara bars wear out chainsaws.As many people around Indiana know, D & D Enterprises was started in 1977 by my dad Victor Dufour. By 1985 we had become one of the largest chainsaw shops in the state. We currently sell five brands of chainsaws, eight brands of guide bars, three brands of saw chain, as well as a huge assortment of parts and supplies.
I took the business over in 2005 when Dad retired. At the time, I myself was logging and had been in that business for about four years. In January of 2003 about three months after it’s debut I bought myself a new Dolmar PS-7900 chainsaw for felling trees.
I had it equipped with a 24” Sugi-Hara bar and an Oregon 72LG chain. It was the first one of Sugi-Hara’s new lightweight bars that I had ever owned. I ran that 7900 three years before doing a top end overhaul, and then another year before giving the power head to an employee. I kept the Sugi-hara bar and put it on the Husqvarna 372XP that I replaced the 7900 with in 2007. This year (January, 2009) I finally retired the bar from felling trees because after hammering the rails on our bar shop machine (for only the third time in six years) it would not hold a true 050 gauge anymore. I still to this day use the bar on my buck-up saw with 0.58 gauge chain. Most loggers wear out guide bars with their chainsaws.
I have worn out chainsaws with my Sugi-Hara guide bar. How to straighten a bent bar for FREE? SugiHara bars survive where all others fail.' When I went to cut one tree to length, I managed to get my saw bar caught under where I couldn’t get it free. Unfortunately, a log shifted other logs in the grapple and put all the more weight on my bar! I figure there must have been 7-8000 lbs of pressure on the sawYou can see from the picture that the bar was a wrinkled mess!! Despite having proven countless times before that Sugi Hara bars withstand almost anything, I had real doubts that it could pull through this!
But, little by little, as I worked my way through the logs relieving pressure with each cut, I watched my Sugi Hara bar magnificently straight out, as straight as if it’d never been bent. I know I’ll never run anything but a Sugi Hara bar, because when you’re working in the woods, life happens!'