wood land pro bars anyone using them

[redprospector]

I used to get 6 months to one year out of a Oregon bar on my 372 huskys, in soft or hardwood, 2 of us were hand cutting and yarding between 8 to as many as 13 tractor trailers ,70,00-90-000 bd feet per week including pulp. I dont know how some of you can burn thru bars so quick???? I found if you greased the tips they would blow within a month or so ,including boring  frozen hardwood, if we never greased them they would last many times longer, but you have to make sure your oiler was using a tank of bar and chain oil to a tank of saw gas. The other thing was to use good quality bar and chain oil. Don

I've never got a year out of a bar regardless of the brand. But they did used to last a lot longer than they do now.
I had a few guy's working for me on a lop & scatter project. I had them running MS261's and I couldn't believe how quick even the Stihl bars went to crud. I would grind, level, and close the rails a few times before chunking them.
I think like a lot of other things, the quality of material is sacrificed to cut the cost. Not necessarily to save the consumer anything either.

[loggah]

Well, it has been about 6 years since i was logging full time !!! probably quality has gone down since then. Don

[barbender]

I gave up on greasing bar tips too, Don. It seemed to me that every time I remembered to grease a tip it would blow out shortly thereafter. I haven't bought a bar for a while, I have had good luck with Oregon Power Match and Windsor Speed Tip bars but I have never cut full time.

[KyLogger]

We are on a tornado blowdown job (still) And bucking all this windfall can be hard on bars, I don't care how good you are. This is the most abusive type of work you can do with a saw! So I saw the 24" WoodlandPro TimberMax bars on sale at Bailey's and figured it was worth a shot. We have used em for 2 weeks now on several saws and they seem to be holding up fine. No premature rail wear etc... For this kinda work they seem to do well. Will my felling saws get these bars?  Probably not.