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Rob D

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  1. This is not a new site but haven't really got round to promoting it much Still unfinished but now starting to take shape. All bars listed here are the actual physical pictures of every single bar. Few people have asked - why have a new site? why not just add the bars to chainsawbars.co.uk and have done with it? Main reason is chainsawbars.co.uk was designed to work with standard set ups ie. if your MS261 comes with a .325 .063 drive sprocket that's what the bar and chain selectors throw up. Sugihara has all bar options - and now chains to match. Soon we are hoping to add the drive sprockets which will be tailored to match the saw and bar combo ie. you want to try a 3/8 lo pro set up on your MS261 - when we add sprockets you should be able to do this from one page and it should be easy and straightforward. Anyways - free shipping on the www.sugiharabarsuk.co.uk website for a while to get people trying it! And any comments or feedback welcomed
  2. These are new bars from Sugihara. Multi mount fitting so will fit pretty much any small saw. They are lighter than the standard 3/8 lp .050 bars by 100 grams and are thinner. You can get a bar and x2 chains here - but this offer ends midnight tonight so don't hang about! OFFERS | Product Categories | Sugihara Guide Bars The reason for fitting is the 3/8 .043 chains take a thinner kerf - this means faster cutting and also seems to give a cleaner cut. Will be interested to see how people find them - I have done a fair bit of cutting with the Echo 390ESX and the combination works well. Drawbacks are you do loose some stiffness and I expect some durability as well. But cuts beautifully Quick vid here as well [ame] [/ame] All bars and chains are free delivery to Mainland UK at the moment.
  3. Rob D

    Sugihara bars

    Sorry late reply Hi - yes we have a few options there have a look on this page: GROUP 4 Husqvarna chainsaws | Product Categories | Sugihara Guide Bars
  4. Ha ha not even worn em in yet!
  5. I think that with these chains it may be down to the chains themselves being inconsistent. I'm thinking of doing a chains style test soon so could include a couple of these Piranha chains in that!
  6. Yep chainsaw mills are always going to be slow - but they can do the wide stuff and are fully portable. Also not everyone can afford a Peterson... A chainsaw mill and a swing mill can't really be compared as the costs are not in the same ball park.
  7. Yes but I think it is .080 gauge rather than .063 (or some of them seem to run .404 .063).
  8. Have a look at this vid! Tidy set up and certainly takes some of the strain out of milling! This is at test stage really but he has a very large beech to do soon.... [ame] [/ame]
  9. I have some maple with similar figuring - not quite burr but something going on! Very attractive - no pics yet as not dry!
  10. That is a great looking bookmatch - almost totally symmetrical!
  11. Nice work James - very much my sort of table!
  12. As far as I can make out Royston just buy their ramps and mills from this factory - they imply on their website that this is their own facility - but as far as I can make out - it isn't! It is just the factory they buy their stuff from!
  13. Many thanks for the support but in the end I'll have to do something as you can't really expect someone to pay so much more for what is effectively more or less the same product. They make little to no money on this mill. They offer no technical support (apart from 'look on youtube'). They have little shipping costs as the mills will be in with their ramps. They have no marketing costs as the product is already well known.
  14. Is there any surplus oil around the bar mount when you take the side cover off? Could be a slight blockage although unlikely on a new bar. I have found on bars it sometimes just takes a few mins for the bar to get lubricated and to start to give that 'spitting effect' off the nose. But on shorter bars this will happen faster and more easily.
  15. Thanks for the pics - I need to have a look at where I clamp my mill to the bar. It may be perhaps down to the powerhead being too far from where the mill clamps to the bar but am assuming like most of us you clamp the mill as close to the saw dogs as possible to get max milling width?
  16. Yep that pretty much sums it up what the cause is!
  17. It would be great for more vids on what you make out of the planks..... and also stacking the wood and how you dry etc etc.
  18. No prob Si - they are a fiddle to set up I'd say as well and almost if you run a double ended set up you'd want to keep the saws on the mill most of the time (apart from maintenace).
  19. Yes get some pics up and also some more info for instance: When did you buy the bar? How long have you used it for and is it mainly milling? What chain type? What woods? And also it would be handy to see how you had it clamped to the Alaskan.
  20. No hard feelings - and as said these are so much cheaper it is a bit of a no brainer. The cost of the original I expect does put many people off. Part of me thinks - ah well there will be more wood being milled out there and that is no bad thing... These Chinese copies do seem pretty well made. I'm hoping it will stir things up a little for the development of a newer mill that ok costs the same as the current genuine Alaskan - but that performs better enough to entice people to buy it over this cheaper version.
  21. Haha! Made me chuckle
  22. Cheers Blaise - I appreciate the support and who knows some good may come of this in the end.
  23. Nice work Alec
  24. I've had a go at sharpening square ground - and it is almost impossible free hand! Plus the files cost a small fortune compared to a round file. ATOP - are now looking at developing a chain that comes between round ground chain and square ground. You still sharpen with a different file but it is around 100% easier than conventional sqaure ground chain.
  25. It may come to that! But I have been dealing with Granberg for 10 years and they are a great small company to work with. There is trust and loyalty on both sides. Erik Granbergs dad built and sold the very first chainsaw mill. But this mill has killed me on ebay. Fortunetly they are selling so cheaply they have no margin to market outside of ebay. It does annoy they have called it an 'Alaskan mill'. What happens when people google 'Alaskan mill' in a year when they need a spare or need advice - who will they end up calling? They could have called it another name - but I suppose far easier to leech off the back of the name of the genuine product.... I'm not that fussed they have taken the product and had a blatant copy made. But to call it the same name and continue to do so after being politely asked to not so so tells you something about the firm importing them.

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