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If you feel a stock 361 is all you need then the ported 372 will really make you smile. Mine has a homebrew mod on it and it smokes stock 395 and 660 in smaller wood and pulls a 36" bar with square ground skip pretty good (with a stock oiler). Put a 8 tooth sprocket on it and a sharp square chain with tuned depth gauges and see if your face doesn't hurt from grinning.
 
Joe,

I've been contemplating trying an 8 pin sprocket on my 372 (w/ muffler mod). Currently it pulls 24" full comp well and a 32" w/ skip marginally.

In your experience how did the 8 pin effect your ability to sink a bar in tough lumber or big wood?
 
Joe,

I've been contemplating trying an 8 pin sprocket on my 372 (w/ muffler mod). Currently it pulls 24" full comp well and a 32" w/ skip marginally.

In your experience how did the 8 pin effect your ability to sink a bar in tough lumber or big wood?

I run an 8 pin with a 20" bar, anything bigger I go back to the 7.
 
I've got an 8 pin waiting on it. It will be wearing an 18" bar most of the time and I'll be switching back to the stock 7 pin on the rare occasion that I need the 28" bar.

Ian
 
I think I'll leave the 7 pin on, given I normally run the 24" bar. If I ever get a 7900 or larger saw, I may relegate the 372 to a 20" set-up and go to the 7 pin.

I don't suspect I'll be buying anything soon, as what I have already works very well for everything I face.
 
You can never have to much power eh Ian.
All I really need is a good trimmer TH, 50cc and maybe a 59cc saw. But you see what getting hooked on more power gets you. Bigger and faster and its still not enough. Running the modded 084,066,7900,357,5000 was fun at one time and now running a friends alky's whoawhaaa. Just keeps going and going. :clap:
You only live once, have fun while your here. :cheers:
 
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By looking at the IPB, it appears that I am going to be getting the huge west coast dual dogs since it is a full wrap saw. It shows a smaller dual dog/roller chain catcher option in the IPB but no "complete" number for the whole setup. Am I going to have to order all the individual parts to get one?

The one gripe I have about Husky IPBs is that they don't have any nomenclatures by their part numbers.

Ian
 
Big dogs are great. If you haven't tried them before, give 'em a whirl and see if you don't like the way you can roll your cuts.
 
Engineeringnerd, In my experience an 8 pin will work even on a 32" bar with full skip. It makes the saw more sensitive to the power band, until you get used to it it seems like an on/off switch and it is very easy to bog it to the off position. In Alabama on my ported 372 I run an 8 pin a 32" bar with a semi skip with square chain when cutting larger hardwoods. It works fine for every thing except locust and shag bark hickory. The black locust is just to hard for my depth guage hight and the hickory dulls the chain really fast, oh yeah, the same for post oak. Fortunately not many of these are large marketable logs.
The biggest thing on running a bigger drive sprocket is a very efficient chain grind. Just because a chain makes big chips and pulls hard does not necessarily mean that it is cutting efficiently.
If you have a muffler mod you are not to far from a ported saw. These saws are very easy to port and give very big results. I have not had any negative service life from a mild woods port on one yet, in fact I would say that the production goes up so much that the amount of wood cut in its life will go up considerably.
 
Joe,

Do you have some "proven" instructions for porting a 372? I might would tinker with mine if I had good step-by-step, especially if pictures are available.

Know of anything out there?
 
Are they the type with the roller chain catcher? In the IPB, it looks like the outer dog is toothless and just a holder for the roller. Is this how your set is?

Ian

Ian,
I'll take a look tomorrow, and let you know tomorrow evening. I know that I have teeth on the outer dog, and I'm pretty sure it has the roller chain catch. They are just awful small compared to what I use on other saws.

Andy
 

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