Piranha Chainsaw Chain - Press Release

[dan494]

I think we all need to see a pic of your now legendary sharpening to the last millimetre skills!

[SteveA]

I think we all need to see a pic of your now legendary sharpening to the last millimetre skills!

 

oh god, what have I said now?!

Would you like to see a photo of our black iron frying pans instead?.... much better than that Teflon non-stick nonsense.... the one in the foreground has just had a wash up and I left a bit of water in it to show off the non-stickiness.... and to keep it Arb related we do use these on camp fires.

 

um, and I suppose I should say "sorry" for derailing the thread!

cheers, steve

 

[Mesterh]

Nine pages of feedback and you STILL haven't decided whether to spend 6 quid or not

 

Your decision section of your brain must be well backed up:001_tt2:

 

 

I was thinking that.

 

Good to see youve decided to splash out and buy some.

[SteveA]

Supertato is impressed with the speed of delivery!....

[sandy2210]

going to be trying a couple soon was cutting a fallen birch on sunday afternoon and thought i hit the ground or stone .rather than sharpen the chain put on a brand new one rolled the log over and went in with the saw, dont know whats in there but it broke 2 teeth off and broke the chain -is this a record for ruining a chain dont think it even touched timber . anyway orderd 2 of these late sunday night and were deliverd to north scotland today will see if the chains are as good as their service at the weekend

will have to split the log to see whats in there

[SteveA]

Plonked my first Piranha chain onto my Husky 550xpg a few days ago (15" bar).

 

From new I wouldn't say it was cutting as aggressively as others have mentioned, certainly not much difference to the Oregon chain I had on previously.

 

The chain does stretch a fair bit and initially needs regular tightening.... but the Oregon chain I had on previously also stretched a fair amount from new.

 

It was cutting quite well up until the point where I buried the bar into a stone.... fortunately it was a grey shale type stone so no teeth were snapped/ but this obviously dulled the chain sharpness and I had to resort to giving it a jolly good file (about 18 strokes per tooth in this case).

 

Then it was cutting okay....

Next day I took the depth gauges down a bit further and it was cutting a bit better.

 

Something I did notice was that 3 of the teeth & depth gauges seemed much harder to file.... felt as if the metal was much harder. Maybe this is because I buried it into a stone???

 

My initial thoughts are that they are okay for the money....

However, proof of the pudding will be in the long term test and the jury is still out on that one.

 

cheers, steve

[dan494]

 

Something I did notice was that 3 of the teeth & depth gauges seemed much harder to file.... felt as if the metal was much harder. Maybe this is because I buried it into a stone???

 

Noticed the same thing on my 550 felt like the file was blunt.

Tried one on my 365 as well but didn't get on with it, cut pretty slowly, but then the saw is a bit tired so eBayed it and bought a ms461 instead 👍🏻, that saw will be staying on stihl chains only!

[R Haigh]

I first bought them for the top handle saw and thought they were brilliant, real hard wearing just a bit grabby at first so I purchased a few for the bigger saws but they didn't feel good at all, I noticed the finish on the chains was quite poor compared to the stihl and oregon chains I normally use and I think this was causing a lot of vibration on the bar as I was cutting, from now on I'll just use them for the top handle.

[IanW]

I've used 2 chains for the past few weeks, I won't be buying any more!

 

The metal is soft and it's so easy to take edge off and the chrome too, then you don't get the edge back!

 

just general forestry work, I've lost 5 cutters and bent 1....

 

put a Oregon chain on and the difference is night and day.

[Steve Bullman]

I first bought them for the top handle saw and thought they were brilliant, real hard wearing just a bit grabby at first so I purchased a few for the bigger saws but they didn't feel good at all, I noticed the finish on the chains was quite poor compared to the stihl and oregon chains I normally use and I think this was causing a lot of vibration on the bar as I was cutting, from now on I'll just use them for the top handle.

 

Its odd how different people have different experiences. I find that larger saw chains vibrate less than the top handle chains.