I love the power of the 545 Mark II chainsaw I bought! However, 2 bars and two sprocket seizing episodes later I would love to have an alternative option! Is it just the 20 inch bars? I don't cut that much, and when I am done, I clean and lube my saw and bar! I keep the tension correct as well! I am about to have to go buy my 3rd bar in a little over a year! And the 2nd one in 3 months! I had a husqvarna rancher that I had for almost 40 years. 20 inch bar and cut hundreds of trees! I think I only put three bars on it during its whole life of use!

My 450 Rancher is less than 2 years old and has gone through 2 20” x force bars.due to the so called maintenance free bar with no oil port and sealed which sizes up. I’m very disappointed in Husqvarna who has a good product. The darn sprocket seizes because of lubrication or should I say lack of lubrication. This bar has no oiling port as most bars have and Husqvarna brags about the no maintenance bar. If I had it to over again, I would have replaced my Stihl with a Stihl and not have to be in the woods wondering if the husky is going to fail yet again. Husky needs to send me 2 new X force bar to replace my 2 that have sized up. This is absolutely ridiculous that I pay the high price for the saw and it doesn’t last due to a bad engineering design Husky refuses to acknowledge.

Add me to the list of sprocket failure reviews. How is this a good product if the sprocket keeps seizing up on all of us?

wrong bar was sent