How long to you go before you turn a bar over?

I was just wondering how long most people go, before then turn their bar over on the saw. I know some people never do, but it makes sense to me to do that before the bar get's badly worn. Do you just look for wear, or rotate over when you have worn out a chain? After so many sharpening's? After a season's cutting or a certain amount of wood cut?

Also, how often do you remove bar and chain and just clean everything up. Do you ever have problems with the oil delivery to the blade stopping up and needing to be cleaned?

 

I flip it every time I sharpen the chain.

 

I flip it every 2 sharpenings.

 

I flip every time the chain is off. Saw gets completely blown out and serviced after a hard day of cutting. I do my rakers every 3 sharpenings

 

Didn’t read it all. The bar groove and oil cut out will get caked up and should be cleaned. There is a specialty groove cleaner tool but any hard plastic or metal piece that can fit the groove will work, but something needs to be poked into oil hole to make sure it clean. Compressed air is good for blasting the oil hole, but doesn’t always get everything out of the bar groove.

 

I flip it when I clean the bar after cutting for a certain amount of time. If I don't think the chain is getting the oil it should, I clean the saw and the bar and flip it. I've been cutting a bunch of dead pine so it can get flipped three or four times a day.

 

Thank everyone.

It sounds like I need to do a little more saw maintenance, then I have been doing.

 

I flip it when I clean the saw after cutting for the day.

 

Wow, you guys flip alot.

 

I flip my bar every time I change the chain, sometimes once a day, sometimes several times. It just depends on how long I cut & how much debris I hit. I don’t sharpen in the field, I take several chains, there are always rainy or snowy days to sharpen in the shop.

I carry a putty knife to scrape the bar down & clean the bar groove out. Honey Locust thorns work great for this also as well cleaning out the oiler hole. They make nice tooth picks as well.

 

I feel for a burr on the rail occasionally . When there is one I’ll flip it and file the burr off.

 

I get dentist "picks" used for cleaning and probing teeth for the bar and saw cleaning.
The picks are ideal for those tiny oil holes, the bar groove, and those dirt clogs inside.
Dentists throw them out when they're used a few times, even sometimes new in a sterile package.
I give extras to my pros.
Don't do your teeth with them.
Of course do as Msr. Dennis recommends, file bar burrs sides and top with each sharpening.

 

Anytime the chain is off but then I forget which way I had it after cleaning out the bar groove and so on, so it’s pretty random which way it goes back on.


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"Hey, your blade is upside down"

 

When I put on a new chain .

 

When the rails need filed (by feel), I remove, file and flip.

 

I don’t sharpen on the saw so each time I take a chain off and put a new one on, I flip.

 

Even if ya keep flipping they’re still going to wear out

 

Pretty much the same as many have said. If chain comes off, the bar usually gets flipped. And after a cutting session of any length saws get blown out with compressed air, including bar groove and oil holes, and the little grease hole for nose sprocket. I don’t sharpen in the field, instead I carry several extra chains for each bar length. Air filters get blown out pretty regular too