Light weight bar rant.

[SawTroll]

20 and 28 as far as I know.

I beat you to it!

 

[MacLaren]

I have had a 20" techlite for a while now and I love it.
No complaints at all.

 

[mdavlee]

So far I like the stihl light weight the best. I've not had a 32" or 36". I would like to try a 28" husky tech lite bar for the 372. I'm not sure it likes the stihl bar on it.

 

[MacLaren]

So far I like the stihl light weight the best. I've not had a 32" or 36". I would like to try a 28" husky tech lite bar for the 372. I'm not sure it likes the stihl bar on it.

I think from what I've seen the Stihl Light bar is the best.
Not to say the techlite is bad though.

 

[young]

question stihl light with cannon adapter or techlite?

has anyone tried the 28in techlite yet?

 

[masculator]

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. .

Solid bars for me please! I run a GB42" solid on my 660, Stihl 36" rollomatic ES on the same saw, Would I like a lighter bar? Don't really see the need, when they become too much for me I will go and get a bag of cement and start adding it to my coffee till I am hard enough to swing it!

Does a lightweight bar make you cut faster? maybe if you were racing and a poofteenth of a second was the deciding factor, In real wood probably not. does removing metal from the bar to make it lighter make it weaker you bet your left nut it does! Does it reduce durability well probably not a lot but welding does change the temper of the steel for a certain distance from the point of the weld whether or not this effects the wear of the rails I can't say cause I do not own one to see where the welds are relative to the rails.

I know for sure I would not run a 42 inch lightened bar cause I have seen how my solid one sort of gets a jelly wobble until the saw picks up revs, A lightened one can only be worse. as for the 36 inch bar I do not find the weight enough of an issue to need it lightened, and I would rather a solid bar than a laminate bar anyday!

 

[masculator]

So far I like the stihl light weight the best. I've not had a 32" or 36". I would like to try a 28" husky tech lite bar for the 372. I'm not sure it likes the stihl bar on it.

It would be the start of a conversion to an ms460!

 

[mdavlee]

It would be the start of a conversion to an ms460!

Nope won't own one of them to work with. Don't like them stock or modded. If I want to pack that much weight i'm going to carry a 390.