Chain stopping on Stihls

[HUSKYMAN]

Gyro digging up Jim L's post on this reminded me of this problem.

My buddy uses an 046 and 260 Pro, along with an 020 in his tree service. The 020 never has the problem but the 026 and 046 do it ALL THE TIME

They will be cutting along just fine, and he will go to make another cut and it is like the chainbrake is on, but it isnt. The chain will not turn. It happens when his dad uses the saws also, so I dont think its him. I have never observed this with any other saws.

Does anyone else have this problem? Maybe it is the clutch cover design?

 

[jokers]

This is an affliction that is mostly limited in my experience to the POS laminated bars. I`ve seen Husky(Oregon) and Stihl bars do it, in fact the bar on my Greffardized MS260 was doing it until I just said screw it and ran it in using brute horsepower, LOL.

Russ