He NEEDS that 3/8 to have a prayer against the legendary 346So when Jon wins, there will be an asterisk
because he runs a real chain?
For all those following this smack talk fest. We WILL be doing our friendly race on this coming Sunday rain or shine, no excuses. Whomever doesn't show loses. A new addition to the race will be our younger brother @skidder with his freshly rebuilt and modded closed port 55. This is going to be very interesting, that 55 runs strong. I'll be getting some logs out tomorrow for the cookie fest. Going to grab stuff from 8 to 18" so we can compare cutting small stuff to bar buried power. The full bar test will be in Sugar Maple, a true test of a saws ability to pull through tough wood. The same bar and chain will be used on my 254 and Joe's 346. Jon's 55 is configured for 3/8 so that will be a discrepancy in the comparison.
@RIDE-RED 350r and @skidder acknowledge this plan for Sunday or consider yourselves the loser. Ba ha ha ha!
No not quite. We will start with a MANDATORY morning coffee BS session at 0800 and first cuts will be NLT 1000.Challenge acknowledged and accepted. However, a time would be helpful so Joe and I don’t show up and we have already been DQ’d due to “not showing up”. Sneaky sneaky sneaky. Lol!! @XP_Slinger is setting us up @RIDE-RED 350r !!!!!!!
Nope no excuses if you win, your saw is strong.There will be some sort of excuse if I do win I can hear it now. Lol!!
Doubtful....[emoji849][emoji848][emoji33][emoji24][emoji22][emoji41]And itching to teach a 346 a lesson in respecting its elders
I’ve got the 346>254>55
I’m seriously considering picking up a .325 bar, chain and sprocket for the 55 but kinda shying away from it. It’ll be fun either way, and I have a 550xp with roughly 3 tanks through it that might come out Sunday too. Lol!!I’d agree, in the smaller side wood I’d put my money on the 346xp: quad port flows better and revs faster, keeping chain speed up and out cutting the others. Then after a small time lapse the 254 will finish, then the 55, with times similar to each other but with the XP edging out the 55 as faster.
As the wood gets bigger I think the displacement advantage will kick in, and the 254 will nudge ahead of the 346, still with the 55 coming in last, but not by much, only because it’s pulling 3/8 chain instead of .325. Then everyone will guess where it WOULD have come in if it had .325.
Then we’ll all wonder how a broken-in 550xp would do. Then a RIChevy will be along to suggest that a Stihl would beat everyone.
Ok, so I know my 550xp has a .325 with an 18” bar, would that swap onto my 55 for the competition purpose?? Does anyone know?? That would even out the field except that I’d be slinging an 18” instead of a 20” so it might be a wash and not worth it.
Sweet, so I’ll just swap the bar, chain and rim from the 550 to the Squatch 55 for the shootout.
I am not sure if the rims are the same or not, I believe the splines are different.
I’d agree, in the smaller side wood I’d put my money on the 346xp: quad port flows better and revs faster, keeping chain speed up and out cutting the others. Then after a small time lapse the 254 will finish, then the 55, with times similar to each other but with the XP edging out the 55 as faster.
As the wood gets bigger I think the displacement advantage will kick in, and the 254 will nudge ahead of the 346, still with the 55 coming in last, but not by much, only because it’s pulling 3/8 chain instead of .325. Then everyone will guess where it WOULD have come in if it had .325.
Then we’ll all wonder how a broken-in 550xp would do. Then a RIChevy will be along to suggest that a Stihl would beat everyone.