Top Handles marketed w "Carving Tip Bar"

[Altissimus]

Well I am sure there's advantage in there somewhere. After it wears out I always replace with a standard tip and am much happier. Why the carving tip ? , not into it. The slight extra reach ( a few Centimeters really ) be the sales point ?

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Lighter weight bar, very low kickback.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Uhhhhh....

 

[treebilly]

Doesn't a carving bar have a really pointy tip? Wouldn't that increase kickback? I honestly don't know anything about these so I'm probably wrong.

 

[MasterBlaster]

You must maintain a strong grip!

Like Bear!

 

[Magnus]

Small diameter in bar tip reduce the kickback area (top half of the bar tip).

 

[Altissimus]

Someone decides to sell them this way , prob like the law requires the saw be sold with a junk low kickback chain.

 

[greengreer]

Definitely a low kickback thing. They are fine until you try to bore with it and then it's just painful!

 

[woodslinger]

Could it also be the smaller tip reaches into tight spots easier for prunning and Pollarding?

 

[stig]

That is IMO one of the things that makes the MS150 such an outstanding pruning saw.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Could it also be the smaller tip reaches into tight spots easier for prunning and Pollarding?

I have found then useful for that purpose, generally think that they are handy.

 

[HolmenTree]

Not sure what bar we're talking about. But if its got a sprocket nose then it's not a carver bar.
The industry is going with small radius nosed bars on top handle saws today for safety and liability issues.
Today with alot more workers doing aerial tre work, kickback injuries are becoming alot more frequent. Pretty serious when the worker cuts with the saw alot closer to his upper body and cuts himself high off the ground.

Safety tips bars as I like to call them are alot smoother and safer to cut with. And from my experience they bore cut really nice and smooth with better accuracy.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I've never seen one of those pointed small radius nose bars with a sprocket in it, just hard nosed. Zenoa or Kioritz has them on their small top handles. In bucket work, they seem good for whipping your bar in and out of tight places. It's been awhile, but I think that the lightness of the tip is a nice feature as well.

 

[HolmenTree]

Well I am sure there's advantage in there somewhere. After it wears out I always replace with a standard tip and am much happier. Why the carving tip ? , not into it. The slight extra reach ( a few Centimeters really ) be the sales point ?

I like to see a pic of your saw with that carver bar. Never seen one wear out as mine never have, these stellite armor nosed bars (majority made by Cannon ) are as tough as they come.
Here's the smallest sprocket nosed bar that I know of from a MS150T, holding that cute little 73 PM3 chain.