I never had much trouble keeping it straight in the woods, but today I was tooling around in the garage and I made the realization that the Oregon reduced weight bars really do suck ass for what they are & what they are supposed to be. .
Yea, it's light, but all you have to do to #### it up is put one end on the ground, hold the other end, and push with three fingers in the middle. No ****, I can put a significant bow into the bar with just three fingers. I can use my stihl bars as spring boards and they don't assume a radius. The RW bars will take on a radius just from the weight of the powerhead I found out. That means when you try to pop out an undercut with the saw, you will likely end up with a slight deformation in your 130.00$ guide bar. I guess it was a fad, being pretty much the first of it's kind. I should have waited for the stihl RW, but how was I supposed to know.
That is the end of my rant, who else feels cheesed with their RW bars? Cookie cutters, I understand you like them, you could have a saw bar made of lead, cutting 1/64'' slabs of firewood is not too much of a work load on a saw. .
Yea, it's light, but all you have to do to #### it up is put one end on the ground, hold the other end, and push with three fingers in the middle. No ****, I can put a significant bow into the bar with just three fingers. I can use my stihl bars as spring boards and they don't assume a radius. The RW bars will take on a radius just from the weight of the powerhead I found out. That means when you try to pop out an undercut with the saw, you will likely end up with a slight deformation in your 130.00$ guide bar. I guess it was a fad, being pretty much the first of it's kind. I should have waited for the stihl RW, but how was I supposed to know.
That is the end of my rant, who else feels cheesed with their RW bars? Cookie cutters, I understand you like them, you could have a saw bar made of lead, cutting 1/64'' slabs of firewood is not too much of a work load on a saw. .
If your such a girlyman that a extra few ounce weight of bothers then you need to sell the saw and get a misery whip which so nice and light weight:hmm3grin2orange: 
