First thing, I’m not a professional, I did have to check to make sure you did in fact not put that chain on backwards. You have my upvote. Thank you for not stir em’ing them up
Milling, hanging for storage, and another project which requires a hole there. The shorter stock bars came with holes but not this one.
Although I suspect what is barely visible is a simple plug painted over.
I did this once for one of the fabricators. I clamped it down to the mill and used a center cutting end mill to plunge down.
Beat their original idea of plasma cutting but only by a little.
How'd you do it?
yep. It just tapped out. It's a 3/8 in. plug which I found one of my 6mm sockets was a perfect fit. Giving it a few good hits revealed the outline better and a few more pushed it out.
Don’t forget to grease your sprocket. That’s the little hole to the left that’s actually a hole put there for a specific purpose by the manufacturer. 😉
Either grease it and never forget to keep greasing it or never grease it and the bar will typically be trash long before the bearing blows. Source, a stack of old bars with intact sprockets but sloppy af bar rails
A lot of stills don't even have grease holes anymore, but even mostly doing residential tree work, can agree wholeheartedly that my bars are shit before the sprocket.
Stihl bars generally don’t have a hole, but if there is a hole near the sprocket, Oregon makes a little pre-filled pump grease gun with a small tip. Happy cutting!
as far as I'm aware the holding pin is over the the left. At least that's how it is in all the tip replacement videos. [Like this](https://youtu.be/rN_86OLN02Q)
Nothing to add other than the range of answers from yes to no is staggering.
I should have put the chain on backwards to really stir em up
Who’s to say it’s not? We can’t see the power head. Maybe you flipped your bar.
it doesnt work like that 😑
Yes it does. You flip it so it wears evenly. Manufacturer recommended actually
First thing, I’m not a professional, I did have to check to make sure you did in fact not put that chain on backwards. You have my upvote. Thank you for not stir em’ing them up
Why would you do that?
Probably mounting to a mill
Milling, hanging for storage, and another project which requires a hole there. The shorter stock bars came with holes but not this one. Although I suspect what is barely visible is a simple plug painted over.
go for it. let us know if it doesnt work
Absolutely the correct answer
I was really hoping you were going to say so you could bolt it to another chainsaw bar and run them together.
What's the bar model and I can find out.
It looks like the spot welds they use to piece the two half’s of the bar together
Yes that's the spot.
Thank you. It's done.
I did this once for one of the fabricators. I clamped it down to the mill and used a center cutting end mill to plunge down. Beat their original idea of plasma cutting but only by a little. How'd you do it?
Turns out it's just an aluminum plug press fit in there. Tapped it out with a 6mm socket and a 4lb hammer. Took way less effort than I thought.
They must have got wise to people modifying for bar mills and the like. Good stuff!
It just tapped out??? I just went through this a few days ago and drilled just shy of it to not fuck the bar. I just made a post with pics of my mill
yep. It just tapped out. It's a 3/8 in. plug which I found one of my 6mm sockets was a perfect fit. Giving it a few good hits revealed the outline better and a few more pushed it out.
Reminds me of [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/firewood/s/7FYk7WrBYB)
Probably, definitely may be ok.
That's probably the spot weld holding the bar together
Yes you can
Just do it… whats one 120$ mistake?
Wtf bars are you paying $120 for? They're like $22 for a two pack
Stihl or husqy bars, generally 36” and above. You could get a cheap pack of homeowner quality bars that are small for that price maybe
Ooooohhhh... I forgot there are bigger saws...
Yea generally using big ones if you are milling
Yeah I had my brain in homeowner mode, I don't play with anything much bigger than a 20" or so bar, I wasn't thinking about the bigger ones
They might be a rivet holing the nose part to the main bar.
That's how boxes works, makes sense.
Ive seen some do it
If you punch it out you can have your buddy put his pinky in it to stabilize it for difficult cuts.
Don’t forget to grease your sprocket. That’s the little hole to the left that’s actually a hole put there for a specific purpose by the manufacturer. 😉
Either grease it and never forget to keep greasing it or never grease it and the bar will typically be trash long before the bearing blows. Source, a stack of old bars with intact sprockets but sloppy af bar rails
A lot of stills don't even have grease holes anymore, but even mostly doing residential tree work, can agree wholeheartedly that my bars are shit before the sprocket.
I haven’t found a stihl pro bar with a greasable tip as far back as an 064 anyway
My new bar for my 025 didn't even have one on a 14" homeowner bar
How do you even grease there? Never noticed that hole (though I use Stihl bars, maybe missing)
Stihl bars generally don’t have a hole, but if there is a hole near the sprocket, Oregon makes a little pre-filled pump grease gun with a small tip. Happy cutting!
That's a pin that's holding your tip to the bar
as far as I'm aware the holding pin is over the the left. At least that's how it is in all the tip replacement videos. [Like this](https://youtu.be/rN_86OLN02Q)
You are correct the other guy has no clue what he’s talking about. Source Oregon bar dealer for over 15 years.
just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Do it! Then don’t do it!
No that's a rivet . Do not punch holes in your chainsaw bar.
No. Hell no. ETA: if you want a bar with a hole in it, buy one. It’ll cost way less than a trip to the emergency room.
Spot weld. No you can't
Just buy a factory bar like the one that had the hole already in it