I just wanted to give a shout out to this eBay seller. Used 36" Stihl Chainsaw chains- Bulk quantity available | eBay Normally I run Oregon because I'm somewhat of a tightwad, but I saw this deal on used Stihl chains and decided to give it a try. I purchased (2) 36" Stihl chains from him for about $40 shipped. They arrived yesterday. Dirty as expected, but no rust/binding or any complaints at this price point. It turns out that the seller actually sent me THREE chains: 2 with bare minimal use, needing a light touch up, and one that looked like it had been rocked but will still have 50% of the life left by the time I get the teeth cleaned up. If you like Stihl chain but have a hard time coughing up the coin (especially for a 36" loop) I highly recommend this seller. He's got various length loops for sale (pictures are all generic, but I got what was advertised) Edit: The chains I got have a green (not yellow) master link, so from what I can see they're a variety of safety/low kickback chain. It's got a double raker... thing going on. Still, for how often I'm going to need to use my 36" bar setup, this was a good deal.
I’d like to get the story behind them. I’ve gotten saws with safety chain and swapped out for yellow once the green is dull. I’m wondering if it’s Asplundh, Davey, Bartlett, Dot, USFS, municipal saws purchased with green chain and ran until dull.
Only da gub (or some large corporation) would run a chain until it’s dull and then throw it away without considering sharpening it. I almost don’t want to know where these came from, other than the state of Louisiana
My cousin is a supervisor for Davey. The fiber side. They throw away chains after they get dull. Stihl .325 chains they run on ms250s. They buy them in bulk, cheaper as a large business, than the cost of either paying an employee to sharpen them or the fuel / time / cost to pay a shop to do it. He gave me 8 or 10. Some were green tag, some yellow. 68 dl.
