Dang, I was mostly thinking of you when posting that. I have a 20" bar, but plenty of chain (not PMX) for it for now, and otherwise 36 and 48" bars. I have a spinner and tie straps, so a 20 and 28 would be perfect to make 48" chains from where I most need the quality and strength of the PMX. Have yet to even make up a chain for that 48" bar since I got it, bit of an experiment in seeing where lo pro begins to fail. Will take a soft touch and some custom skip chain configuration to make it work. Stuck in a giant renovation of a future house and property taking up most of my energy, and finding no trees to mill anywhere for awhile. Certainly not any bigger than 30", which the 36" bar can handle. Need to go north and find some big trees.
I'm running the 36" on the 056 Super. Was initially going to run the 48" bar on the 880 as it comes in an 880 mount, but I fear it's just too much torque and way more power than I need to run it and might snap chains too easily. But I do have to make up my mind because the chain loops have to be made to fit one saw or the other, I think it will likely be different link numbers for the 056 Super and the 880. Then I also have to settle on a lo pro drive rim, as the 10 tooth one I bought from Danzco/6K to speed up and de-torque the 880 was too ambitious in size and will likely cause me to throw chains. Have to decide on whether I want to throw another $50 at an 8 or 9 tooth, or use one of the 7 tooth LP ones I already have. Have been getting the bars from the UK - https://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product-category/gb-lo-pro-milling-bars/
One of the few things I don’t have is any lathing equipment or skills or know anyone that will do it cheaply for me. Otherwise would have done a few from 8 tooth .404 rims already. It’s also not enough of a step up from the 7 tooth for either my low rpm high torque 056 Super or 880 for me to want to bother with. For any modern high revving saw I would. Nearly certain a 9 tooth would work w the 48” GB bar - wider tail than their smaller bars - and can buy a 9 tooth from 6K Products (they sell 7,8,9,10,11, and 12 in 3/8LP). Was considering this all part of an investment in a US-based online sales lo pro milling operation, but have too many other things on my plate right now to pursue it. Also it's proved difficult to sell Americans on trying milling with lo pro with higher cost of bars, chains, and sprockets due to no one mass manufacturing them on the scale they do 3/8 and .404.
That seems like a great process to not need more bar than is efficient to use. Whether for personal use or for selling, I don't think enough people milling - certainly not the newbies - realize dimensional lumber or trimmed fletches are in far greater demand than live edge slabs these days. There will always be a niche market for live edge, but a tiny fraction of the overall lumber market. And you can only do so much with live edge pieces for your own purposes. People routinely get far too much bar and saw to maintain wildly uneven live edge rather than trimming logs. Admittedly, a bandsaw makes a lot more sense to a lot of people for this kind of purpose than a Logosol with 3/8LP, but I still see the attraction of the Logosol's portability and lower cost when you already own all the chainsaw milling gear for it.
