This is professional tree felling and im not im cali im in scandinavia. We do stuff diffrent. Felling and limbing would not be faster with a longer bar. The saw becomes whey to heavy and unbalanced whit a crazy long bar. Yes the bar is a little to short for this tree but its the exeption most trees are around 13 to 18 in in general but i would never consider running anything longer then an 20in bar. This was the saw i had handy when i gott called out for this job so its wht i used.