Husqvarna 359 questions

[domfijac]

Yeah that sounds great. I have no problem bending or drilling a section, I thought my only option was to get some aluminium pipe and bend and drill it to fit. Any idea what the best model might be? I can probably get the 357xp/359 front handle from a husky dealer, but it might be three times the price.

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

I'm not sure about the 365 wrap handle, but many similar saws can have the aluminium handles modified to suit... it just might not be pretty. There can be slight variations in the plastics on some of the equivalent Husky/Jonsered saws that mean other parts like the wrap handles are slightly different too... not sure about the 359, @Bob Hedgecutter will probably have a good idea though

Nope never tried- Husqvarna wrap bars on Jonsered is never pretty, short tails wrong bends, extra holes.......
Can be done but kind of always looks a botch up- have even seen bits of broken wrap bar tails welded to Husqvarna bars to catch the bottom mounting hole.
365 bar on a 359? Never done or tried- but imagine the wrap is physically bigger for the bigger body saw.

Depends on what you want as a final outcome- a nice tidy saw you can be proud off as staying true to an original example- or some kind of piglet that can pull a chain around a bar.

 

[J D]

A handle is one of the things I'd have very little hesitation in buying aftermaket... they're cheap, easy to change, & if it's not a perfect fit they're not hard to tweak a little bit.

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

Yeah that sounds great. I have no problem bending or drilling a section, I thought my only option was to get some aluminium pipe and bend and drill it to fit. Any idea what the best model might be? I can probably get the 357xp/359 front handle from a husky dealer, but it might be three times the price.

Its a wonder Famertec do not do a cheap and nasty copy to get you going until you can find genuine off another wreck or something- but it would appear they do not.
In my experience- aftermarket wrap bars are soft and VERY easily bent or pulled out of shape.

 

[J D]

In my experience- aftermarket wrap bars are soft and VERY easily bent or pulled out of shape.

So you can make them fit

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

So you can make them fit

Yep- but average Joe- gets a bar pinch- what does he do?
Give the Pong handles a decent yank and they are going to give well before the AV's tear out- so guess that is a bonus!