Excessive bar wear

[the village idiot]

12 minutes ago, Stere said:

Hammered my bars rails like this bloke so am getting some more life from them being a tight ass.. 

 

Surprised how effective it was in tighting up the rails made the old bars useful again.

 

 

Interesting!

 

I've never tried that before, definitely worth a go.

[Ferguson system]

38 minutes ago, the village idiot said:

Happening on all saws, Husky and Stihl, all are oiling OK with oilers turned up to max.

 

We are careful to match the chains with the bars.

 

Would love to get 3 or 4 chains to a bar. Currently get half a chain to a bar!!

 

We have double dawgs on the saws, could this be encouraging us to force the saw through the cut too much?

 

 

Do you flip the bar when you do maintenance on the saw? It helps to even out the wear, but you probably know that already.

One other thing, how is the condition on the sprocket on your saws?

[the village idiot]

12 minutes ago, Ferguson system said:

Do you flip the bar when you do maintenance on the saw? It helps to even out the wear, but you probably know that already.

One other thing, how is the condition on the sprocket on your saws?

Yes, plenty of bar flippage going on. The sprockets look OK but I'm not really an expert. My chainsaw fixer man doesn't think that they are the issue.

 

We have tried to rule out all the usual suspects and are starting to wonder if it is anything to do with the way we hold the saws, exert pressure in the cut etc?

 

The saws do work extremely hard whilst we are ringing up firewood. Maybe there is some sort of heat issue? There is no blueing of the bars though.

Edited April 11, 2021 by the village idiot

[nepia]

Could you lend a saw to someone competent who doesn't work with you to see if they get the same happening?  It could eliminate one more factor.

[the village idiot]

20 minutes ago, nepia said:

Could you lend a saw to someone competent who doesn't work with you to see if they get the same happening?  It could eliminate one more factor.

That's a good idea. They'd have to be using it for the same job and I don't know anyone who does as much 'freehand'  ringing up as we do.

 

[Khriss]

THAT is  a lot of ringing up  😯  K

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, the village idiot said:

That's a good idea. They'd have to be using it for the same job and I don't know anyone who does as much 'freehand'  ringing up as we do.

 

Re the sprockets . I think Rob D says something like change the rim every 3 chains .

[Khriss]

Thats baffling 🤔 yr cutting hugely so you know wot yr doing!  Then the bar is shagged after one chain.... 😤 K

[the village idiot]

2 minutes ago, Khriss said:

THAT is  a lot of ringing up  😯  K

That's only 3 day's worth Khriss. We'll do 10 times that over the course of a season.

[the village idiot]

1 minute ago, Khriss said:

Thats baffling 🤔 yr cutting hugely so you know wot yr doing!  Then the bar is shagged after one chain.... 😤 K

Yes it's quite frustrating. We are doing something wrong I just can't get to the bottom of it.