Its about being able to stand up straight .. ish while bucking logs as my back ain't quite what it used to be. I can work longer with this setup than I can with a shorter bar on a smaller saw. I have them, but don't use them as this is easier on my back.
Also I find it hard to discus the virtues of different bar length with someone who’s tool of choice for pruning trees is a bass boat

It's always interesting to see what scuba1 comes up with.

Ok with that being said, you folks have to realize that this old Kraut is a moron and is learning a bunch of the land lubber things by trial and error. Sometimes I manage to incorporate way more than one error per trial. The things that I come up with in this process are things that WORKS FOR ME ... They may berry well not work for you. So if you wan to copy any of the things that I do, have at it, but you are on your own with that. Most folks know a lot more than I do with almost anything on land. so you'll be better off looking in their direction for advice. Now add water and its a different matter. Just be aware of that.

Joking aside jbyrd63

The stuff I am cutting up for firewood is mostly the tops of the trees I fell. For the bottom bits I have to cut from both sides at times even with that bar.



For the Wright Brothers, here is what I meant with welding a piece of stainless pipe to the exhaust exit to deflect the hot gases from the chain cover plate.


And its definitely turning to fall more by the day. More so with the cool nights now.

I got exactly what you said scoob,
wish you were closer I'd hire you to weld and mill on mine.

I KNOW tools can be improved.
Have three saws here that are trying to melt the brake flag off.
And on sites this big, there's always someone, usually less experienced,
who claims the factory set up is the best.

PS The big bar I mentioned is made for stihl,
but my big saw is husky.
YOU CAN'T DO THAT LOL

Probably back to cutting tomorrow for me.

I can recommend the Tsumura light bar. It took me some time to get ahold of one but the steel of those is head and shoulders above anything else I have tried out. I have probably wore out 5 or 6 chains on this bar now and have not had a file on it yet to dress it. Looks like it did on day one. I'll never buy anything else. I do not do a lot of bore cutting so don't know how the tip will hold up to folks that bore cut every hard wood tree they stumble across. But it looks fine to me and they are exchangeable as well. Time will tell.

That reminds me, I have to give jbyrd63 his saw back