newbee chainsaw help (again)

[GASoline71]

Yeah its gonna have to be fixed I do more cuttin than I want to, LOL

Be careful I might take you up on that, I have some maple rounds that have been down at my lot in Tacoma for about 3 months cause I have been scared to mess them up and the are close to 4ft.

I'll throw the 32" on the 044... Let me know.

...or I'll just bring the Buick V-8...:hmm3grin2orange:

Gary

 

[stihl 440]

bent

I agree I will get a new bar, this sucks cause I am never gonna be able to get my new stainless prop for my boat, guess i will be running aluminum at the lake this week. Thanks for the help guys, this site is great. So it being bent that much will account for my "crookedness".

Yup, It's bent. Looks worn out too. It could be a combo of both makig it cut crooked.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[SawTroll]

Yup, It's bent. Looks worn out too. It could be a combo of both makig it cut crooked.:hmm3grin2orange:

It could very well be both, but if it is an Oregon (which I believe), it can't be that worn, with so much gray paint left - I would at least do one attempt to steighten it, before making it part of a "picket fence" of discarded bars.......

 

[joesawer]

That little bend will make cutting very difficult. That kind of bend is usually from picking up on the saw while making a back cut(trying to use the saw for a lever to tip a small tree). Or breaking out a face cut. Don't ask me how I know.
The easiest way I know to straighten it is to saw a bucking kerf in a log and then push the power head to bend it back. It takes a little playing with but you can site down the saw and through the kerf and tweak the bar until it looks right.
If you run the saw in a crooked cutting condition very much it can wear one rail down lower than the other. Usually this happens first directly in front of the dogs. It only takes a few thousandths to make a big difference, especially in big cuts.

 

[FDB]

That little bend will make cutting very difficult. That kind of bend is usually from picking up on the saw while making a back cut(trying to use the saw for a lever to tip a small tree). Or breaking out a face cut. Don't ask me how I know.
The easiest way I know to straighten it is to saw a bucking kerf in a log and then push the power head to bend it back. It takes a little playing with but you can site down the saw and through the kerf and tweak the bar until it looks right.
If you run the saw in a crooked cutting condition very much it can wear one rail down lower than the other. Usually this happens first directly in front of the dogs. It only takes a few thousandths to make a big difference, especially in big cuts.

Is there an easier way like putting it in my vice or something, I am not very good on the saw as it is thats why I just assumed it was me with the crooked cuts. I was thinking more like what gasoline was saying about getting it pinched seeing that i have never done any felling with this saw.

 

[chowdozer]

I'll throw the 32" on the 044... Let me know.

...or I'll just bring the Buick V-8...:hmm3grin2orange:

Gary

Hey, don't leave me out!! My mom lives in Puyallup and that's where I grew up. 4ft rounds, we could have a beer party! I'll buy!

 

[Gologit]

Hey, don't leave me out!! My mom lives in Puyallup and that's where I grew up. 4ft rounds, we could have a beer party! I'll buy!

Hey...when you and Gary get done helping that guy I have about four self-loader loads of oak and madrone I need cut before June 1st. I'll leave a key out by the front gate and if you start real early try to keep the noise down so I can sleep.

 

[chowdozer]

Hey...when you and Gary get done helping that guy I have about four self-loader loads of oak and madrone I need cut before June 1st. I'll leave a key out by the front gate and if you start real early try to keep the noise down so I can sleep.

Not a problem. My avatar chainsaw is stealthy quiet!

 

[BIGBORE577]

Send it here and it will be like new. It cost me $16.00 for a 42" plus 10.00 S&H, it was sure cheaper than buying a new bar. Give them a call first if you wish, nice people to talk/deal with. I had the bar buried in oak on my 088 before the repair. It was cutting big curves through the rounds. It was kind of embarrassing before I figured it out. Looked like we had been drinking way to much while cutting wood! Not to mention it was a real pain on the back trying to wrestle the 088 into cutting straight, to no avail, in those big oak sections. I really thought it was me until my much younger 6'-4" 260lb. buddy couldn't keep it straight either.
I couldn't really tell there was a problem by just looking at the bar and the chain didn't feel exceptionally loose to me. I was told the effect of the rails being opened to wide is magnified by the longer bars. What ever they did certainly worked. When we went back to finish the job, it was laughable how much easier it was. I then saw what the 088 could really do instead of it trying to bend the bar lengthwise through the cut.

http://www.chainbar.com/index.html

 

[clearance]

If it were me... I'd buy a new bar... but that's me.

I don't like messin' around with bent bars. Grinding the rails even I have done before. Remember to flip that bar over every so often to wear the rails even.

Gary

Right answer. When they are bent it is over, chuck it. Never mind the "you can straighten it", never the same again, never.

 

[joesawer]

Clearance I'll agree with you on almost everything but I'll disagree this time. Someone who knows what they are doing can fix a bar to cut better than new, just like a chain.

 

[beelsr]

Someone who knows what they are doing can fix a bar to cut better than new, just like a chain.

Even this one?????

Only had one saw with me that day, bar got pinched. Extrication successful but the patient died (saw was fine though)... :bang: :bang: :bang:

It's a lie that you need two saws in case you get one pinched. You really just need an extra bar and chain. And no, didn't have either of those with me either.

 

[chowdozer]

Boy, you sure fixed that one good! Maybe you can put a handle on it, sharpen it and use it for a machete?

 

[joesawer]

LOL The right person might could fix that bar but it would cost way more than a bunch of new bars.

 

[clearance]

Clearance I'll agree with you on almost everything but I'll disagree this time. Someone who knows what they are doing can fix a bar to cut better than new, just like a chain.

Wow, thats saying a lot, thanks. I admit, I don't know how to fix bars, I can look after them, flip 'em, clean 'em, file 'em, but when they are bent, I'm done.

 

[beelsr]

Boy, you sure fixed that one good! Maybe you can put a handle on it, sharpen it and use it for a machete?

the other side is fine, it's going to become a sharpening jig, when I get around to it... And the sprocket tip is fine so that's getting taken off and saved for whenever I decide to bury another one in the mud... :bang:

Now, off to the beer thread! {imagine a smiley with a beer here}