chainsaw sharpening

[OUCH! That's hot!]

Yes, a great way to make a living, for a young fit person.
Me sectional felling a horse chestnut in a back garden, height: about 50 feet.

 

[syborg]

hope u kept it for firewood,lol

 

[brightspark]

Yes, a great way to make a living, for a young fit person.
Me sectional felling a horse chestnut in a back garden, height: about 50 feet.

one way of blocking the signal to sumones tv

 

[Grobes]

Edit: The only issue you might come up against is with big saws with long bars, if you sharpen by hand you might find the long saws making a curving cut and jamming, this is caused by one side of the chain being sharper than the other as is easy to do with hand sharpening, due to left hand versus right hand differential. A machine eliminates this problem which is most noticeable on the big saws.

lol yes, had that with my small saw even (my 'trial and error' reference). Couldnt understand why my saw blistered through the first few inches and virtually stopped dead after that..... This was before i bought the bar vice and counted the amount of strokes with the file.

All sorted now.

I agree about certain other chains being excellent quality, though my stihl dealer (have five stihl units from them) is only a couple of miles away. I was referring to not buying the cheapest chains from ebay really, as its quite an important bit of the machine.

 

[aametalmaster]

I have a couple of sharpeners, some better than others. I just bought an antique one like my dad used 30 years ago...Bob

 

[Uniqueusername]

Sod filing in the woods, I take half a dozen chains and a spare bar and I'll spend the spare 3 minutes waiting for "you" taking a proper break.
I grew up filing and setting during tea breaks, back when sharpeners were expensive........

A file can give you a keener edge, but nothing can match the sharpener for consistent angles and even cutting.
Stihl or Oregon chain, good chain oil and frequent bar dressing, don't "grind" the chain using the sharpener, use little sharp jabs at it and you'll get a sharp, hard as hell edge that lasts.

 

[scotclayshooter]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UTDBQ-N82o

Usinga a flat file with special ends can make em cut like this....
Not as easy as a round file but well worthwhile.

 

[awemawson]

I store up my blunt chains then every now ang again set up the sharpener and go to it. I feel that the sharpener tends to take more off the chain than you would by hand, but gives a more consistant result. I try only to buy genuine Stihl chains are there is a lot of rubbish out there that doesn't last.

AWEM

 

[OUCH! That's hot!]

I have a couple of sharpeners, some better than others. I just bought an antique one like my dad used 30 years ago...Bob

That's a 48" bar isn't it Bob? What a beast! We used to have a 48"er when I worked for UK Treework, never used it though, always wondered what it would be like though. the boss said it was uncomfortable, I can well imagine it to be so. I did use a Stihl 084 with a 36" bar up in a tree on a few occasions, that was fun!

 

[slimjim]

I use a machine, have used files in the past, but the machine is quicker, and makes them sharper, I can do half a dozen chains in under 10 mins, with no arm ache afterwards

 

[tj1110]

if you sharping a chain once with a machine you will never sharping it again with a file.should get a better cutting chain when done with file.we do all our chains with a file including the harversters that cut 50000tons a year