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windthrown · 22nd February 2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbicide

I'm not sure if that is a 3/4 wrap or a full wrap. Full wrap handles are rare in my parts anyway. 3/4 wraps would be even rarer. I did buy a 372XPW from Bailey's. That one is sitting in the unopened box waiting for a special day.

Its a 3/4 wrap (no handle running along the bottom of the saw), but Stihl calls it a full wrap for some reason. For logging they are great, along with the big dogs, for felling and bucking on the ground. For tree work they are just added weight. But that is one of the last 440 saws sold in Oregon (and the US for that matter), and the R model is all they had. Lots of interest stateside in the 3/4 wrap and big dawg kits. Some Stihl shops here ONLY have 3/4 wraps (aka: full wraps) and big dawgs on all their 361 size and up saws. Not many people here (if any) climb with a saw the size of a 440. Not much climbing done in logging, except to cut spar tree tops for cable yarding by high climbers, which is not done that much any more. Most of the pro tree butchers I know use small 30-40cc TH saws when climbing.