Stuff does a great job on the mill, very smooth slabs.
I think the chain he is running(5-6') had 26 cutters, he said he usually gets 3 cuts on a wide slab.
skip VS full house
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I think the chain he is running(5-6') had 26 cutters, he said he usually gets 3 cuts on a wide slab.
Harvdog
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hahahaha holy F**K there is some golden answers here. this should get some feathers flustered, i have a 50" cannon with full comps only for it. i sold the skip chains for my 24 sugi and im running fulls with everything. anyway, honestly i would like to thank everyone for the replies! im new here, been cutting most of my life and never knew of the saw community online.
If you run anything less than 32" and you have never used skip then you are just gay.
Harvdog
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haha wtf?! sure, party on wayne. i have the 50" for willow stumping and the 32" for the rare monster but us "noreasters" take down pretty much everything with 18-24" bars. but anyway, this thread was started to talk about chains.... not tummy sticks n sword fights.
Full comp. I don’t run long enough bars to run skip, and it sucks to cut hardwoods anyway. Can’t knock the raker down enough to cut a big chip, and it’s grabby.
How long back have they been making it? I have only seen chain with out space under one year on the internet and we have been calling regular chain either full complimentary or full house since my time from the late 80's?
Under dispute!
I don't have historical documentation to submit as evidence, but I recall seeing it in the Bailey's catalog more than 10 years ago? Mostly sold in 1/4" pitch for carving.
Someone posted some ads in Japanese (!) of 3/8" low profile Oregon chain sold in Asia for cutting bamboo, that does not seem to be offered here.
And I have seen references for it used to cut non-ferrous metal (!?!) a few times - not sure what this is about, but you know that there are non-traditional uses of a lot of stuff!
https://www.oregonproducts.com/en/p...ptor-saw-chain-and-guide-bars/c/sculptor-sc-p
Philbert
It doesn't surprise me that you could cut a non-ferrous metal with it, when I built sign cabinets we used a saw to cut all the aluminum extrusion, many times I wouldn't even need to file it when done it was such a nice finish.
I think the skip chain is for Huskis, Stihl can handle the full cutter chain , folks use the skip on underpowered saws in my opinion
Was gonna move this to Chainsaws, but thought better of it.
Harvdog
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HAHAHAHA holy sh*t. shots fired!
Well you are 2/3 right Darling
I'm thinkin a 24" loop of .404 of the every link stuff... with a 9 pin sprocket on a big block saw... at the very least it would be funny
As I recall, the chain I mentioned cut very smooth, but not very fast.
Philbert
maybe take the takers down... a lot...
fool skip
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Spent a lot of years busheling in S. Or. and Norcal. I preferred full skip if I had slick timber and full comp if I had limby ****. Full comp takes the limbs better and is easier to cut jack seats with. Semi-skip is a really good compromise. It all depends on the wood.
What about redneck skip, or poor mans skip when you go at a full comp chain with a cut off wheel. You end up with a sequence different to the skip/semi skip chains.
