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skip chain, pro's and cons


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From personal experience, it does allow you to run a longer bar as there is less 'bite' from having fewer teeth in contact at any one time. A longer bar has more friction anyway, so the increase isn't huge, and if it exceeds design length you can run out of oiling capacity, but it allows you to step up a bit without bogging down.

 

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Less teeth to sharpen and cuts as fast or faster on 25" and up bars.

Cuts hardwood just as good as it performs in softwood.

 

Full skip chatters more bore cutting. Grabs more while limbing.

 

Square ground cuts faster but is slower to sharpen. Also takes a special style grinder that no one makes anymore. Silvey and Simington were both closed last I knew.

 

I have been running semi skip square on a 390xp 25" bar cutting some Red oak, worked well around the same number of teeth to file as full comp 20". First time you rock it a little switch it to round file.

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