After porting I got a 261 to pull a custom 28in light bar with .325 chain really well, and as long as you know what your doing and keep the rpm up and blip the throttle in the cut to keep oil flowing it runs GREAT, and it pulled a 25 3/8 pitch insanely well
After porting my 261 it definitely pulls a 25in bar pretty good. But boy does it love a 20in bar. We generally cut soft wood like aspen, fir, and juniper for firewood so it hasn't been given anything to hard yet. Haven't been cutting any oak lately to test it out.
Run a ported 260 clone with oil mod and a 25” bar regular 3/8 chain a lot as an experimental beater. Love the light weight when processing tops. It pulls it like a 60cc saw. It bucks white oak at 25-26inches just fine. I wouldn’t ask it to do it all day, But anything up to 20” is far game for sure. It shines at 16” rounds I don’t have to bend over when bucking and I don’t get tired with the saw being much above my head if need be. Every tool has its place a powerful small saw with a longer bar is nice. You might laugh but a ported 43-45cc saw with a 24-25” narrow kerf and some picco chain is a hoot if you need to swing a saw around all day and not cut anything bigger than 12” or a touch bigger.
If you are just going to cut small stuff with it, it shouldn’t be any problem. The chain will be slower, be sure to turn up your oiler for the longer bar. Full house chain would be kinder to the saw and your hands.
Honestly, they oil better with a bigger bar. Have you seen the oil hole on the factory 261 bar? It’s a tiny hole. The bigger 3/8 bars have that oilmatic system with a much larger oil hole and a beveled oiler hole. I drilled/enlarged the oiler hole on my 261’s 20” bar, and my oiler is turned all the way down now, and it oils way more than I need on a 20” bar.
@@videocardzrule354interesting comment. I just watched a vid by Ironhorse where he suggests drilling bigger holes in newer bars. Some of em are the size of a pin head. What's these bar makers' thought process on that? Some would say, "get you to buy more bar & chain," but the logic fails on that. Is it an epa restriction? Who knows
@@Justdubbin That's the part that confused me? It may not be the length of the bar that makes the most difference. The larger pitched chain may be more the issue for a 50cc saw. It wasn't clear whether you changed drive sprockets when you change bars either, & that is why I asked my question. If you are running a 3/8 pitch bar & chain on a sprocket made for .325 bar & chain, that is going to create some fit issues. It may work like you showed, but the chain doesn't match well with the drive sprocket. Then again, maybe you changed them? Like I said, I can't tell. A good test of anything is changing one variable. In this case, you changed both the length of the bar & the pitch of the chain. A better test would be a 20" & 28" bar using the same pitched chain (& proper drive sprocket). Otherwise, it's hard to make an accurate conclusion about bar length.
@@driftlesshunter9200yeah... I'd like to see a 261 pushing a 28" 325 skip... sawing thru a good sized log of a doug fir or maybe Elm or some other common wood. (Not 3/8" on BEECH haha)
Of course power head to bar length is a issue it's hard for a little power head to turn also of course how much wood are ya putting to it is also a factor try putting that small bar on a big power head and look out chain speed galore it's all how you use your saw . It's fun to test this stuff out I have myself just be careful chainsaws are very dangerous I'm sure you all no so be safe and keep you chain out of the dirt 😂😂
Your music's too obnoxious just woke my wife up. I'm not much of a DJ just trying to have a beer and watch some chainsaw vids without having to throttle the volume constantly
After porting I got a 261 to pull a custom 28in light bar with .325 chain really well, and as long as you know what your doing and keep the rpm up and blip the throttle in the cut to keep oil flowing it runs GREAT, and it pulled a 25 3/8 pitch insanely well
Good to know! Are you running that 28" with skip chain?
After porting my 261 it definitely pulls a 25in bar pretty good. But boy does it love a 20in bar. We generally cut soft wood like aspen, fir, and juniper for firewood so it hasn't been given anything to hard yet. Haven't been cutting any oak lately to test it out.
Run a ported 260 clone with oil mod and a 25” bar regular 3/8 chain a lot as an experimental beater. Love the light weight when processing tops. It pulls it like a 60cc saw. It bucks white oak at 25-26inches just fine. I wouldn’t ask it to do it all day, But anything up to 20” is far game for sure. It shines at 16” rounds I don’t have to bend over when bucking and I don’t get tired with the saw being much above my head if need be. Every tool has its place a powerful small saw with a longer bar is nice. You might laugh but a ported 43-45cc saw with a 24-25” narrow kerf and some picco chain is a hoot if you need to swing a saw around all day and not cut anything bigger than 12” or a touch bigger.
I was thinking about trying a 32" bar on my 362. Just to keep me from bending so much when bucking firewood.
If you put that bar on let me now how it works. Be interesting to hear about it !
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If you are just going to cut small stuff with it, it shouldn’t be any problem. The chain will be slower, be sure to turn up your oiler for the longer bar. Full house chain would be kinder to the saw and your hands.
It may work on the small stuff but it would eventually ruin the bar and chain. The ms261's oiler will not provide enough oil for that size bar.
Honestly, they oil better with a bigger bar. Have you seen the oil hole on the factory 261 bar? It’s a tiny hole. The bigger 3/8 bars have that oilmatic system with a much larger oil hole and a beveled oiler hole. I drilled/enlarged the oiler hole on my 261’s 20” bar, and my oiler is turned all the way down now, and it oils way more than I need on a 20” bar.
@@videocardzrule354interesting comment. I just watched a vid by Ironhorse where he suggests drilling bigger holes in newer bars. Some of em are the size of a pin head.
What's these bar makers' thought process on that? Some would say, "get you to buy more bar & chain," but the logic fails on that.
Is it an epa restriction? Who knows
I agree it won’t work well. BUT, I have a Ripsaw 261 with a performance saws header and run a 25” 3/8 chain. Fantastic combo!
I want to get my 261 ported or get a new one already ported. The 261 is a nice saw, ported would be great.
Once those rings set and I put that header on it she came alive! If you’re close I’d let you try it out.
Might work.. but has a small engine and a big bar
Most run 16-20" bars with a .325" pitch chain on a 50cc saw. Were you running a 3/8" pitch chain on both your 20" & 28" bars?
The 20in was .325 and the 28in was a 3/8.
@@Justdubbin That's the part that confused me? It may not be the length of the bar that makes the most difference. The larger pitched chain may be more the issue for a 50cc saw. It wasn't clear whether you changed drive sprockets when you change bars either, & that is why I asked my question. If you are running a 3/8 pitch bar & chain on a sprocket made for .325 bar & chain, that is going to create some fit issues. It may work like you showed, but the chain doesn't match well with the drive sprocket. Then again, maybe you changed them? Like I said, I can't tell. A good test of anything is changing one variable. In this case, you changed both the length of the bar & the pitch of the chain. A better test would be a 20" & 28" bar using the same pitched chain (& proper drive sprocket). Otherwise, it's hard to make an accurate conclusion about bar length.
@@driftlesshunter9200yeah... I'd like to see a 261 pushing a 28" 325 skip... sawing thru a good sized log of a doug fir or maybe Elm or some other common wood.
(Not 3/8" on BEECH haha)
always wondered what a 28 " bar would do on a 261. Unless ported, i think 20" is max.....thumbs up
I definitely also think 20 is max .
Run a 20 inch on the 261, a 25 inch on the 362 and a 28 on the 462. They all rip!111
Good video sir. What's the largest bar you would be comfortable running regularly on the MS261?
20 inch is what I run on it all the time. 18 inch is a little faster but I like the extra 2 inches of the 20. I wouldn’t run more then a 20 inch bar
7:52 interesting
There's nothing wrong with running a bigger bar, just don't expect it to do bigger saw stuff.
Of course power head to bar length is a issue it's hard for a little power head to turn also of course how much wood are ya putting to it is also a factor try putting that small bar on a big power head and look out chain speed galore it's all how you use your saw . It's fun to test this stuff out I have myself just be careful chainsaws are very dangerous I'm sure you all no so be safe and keep you chain out of the dirt 😂😂
Your music's too obnoxious just woke my wife up. I'm not much of a DJ just trying to have a beer and watch some chainsaw vids without having to throttle the volume constantly
Still liked your video
With a full house yellow chain!
I want that bar for my 462!