Stihl Hexa chain - who's used it? Feedback?

[Rob D]

Not tried it myself as am such a desk jockey [desk slag you can pick your adjective!] what's the impression?

 

 

[Rob D]

I appreciate Stihl are great at producing innovative chain [not so good at the pics] so let us oblige...

 

Come on don't be shy you lot..

 

 

[Rob D]

Or what do you want to try it?

[Rob D]

First to say it might actually get it!

[Rob1982]

I'd like to try it out on my saws for testing! Cheers Rob

 

[Stubby]

Can you get it in .058 Rob ?

[Pete Mctree]

A few quick thoughts;

 

It’s a halfway house between square ground and round ground. 
Smooth cutting and better on diagonal/cross grain cuts than the round . Bore cutting is fast and controlled.
It does need to be  super sharp to perform (like square) and hates dirty timber. easy enough to sharpen unless you have really damaged it. 

Overall it is a good alternative chain for harvesting timber. I still personally prefer square ground for performance, however it gives some of the performance whilst being easy to sharpen. 
 

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, Pete Mctree said:

A few quick thoughts;

 

It’s a halfway house square ground and round ground. 
Smooth cutting and better on diagonal/cross grain cuts than the round . Bore cutting is fast and controlled.
It does need to be  super sharp to perform (like square) and hates dirty timber. easy enough to sharpen unless you have really damaged it. 

Overall it is a good alternative chain for harvesting timber. I still personally prefer square ground for performance, however it gives some of the performance whilst being easy to sharpen. Like square ground, it and the files are too expensive for day to day arb work in my opinion.

Can you sharpen it with a standard square ground file or do you need some type of Stihl specific file ?  Also do you sharpen it from the outside to  in ( like proper square ground ) or from the inside to out like round ground ?

[Pete Mctree]

It has it’s own file and is sharpened inside to out like round ground chain 

[IronMike]

I got told the file is hideously priced?