Don't sharpen your chains

[Woodworks]

Sharpen a Chainsaw - World's best method

 

 

What a faff

[Pinkfoot]

Sharpen a Chainsaw - World's best method

 

 

Simple and effective

[bumble B]

I use a toothbrush dipped in oil/water to cool damaged cutters when sharpening with a grinding disc. Stops the heat case hardening them so they can still be sharpened conventionally with a hand file on site.

 

That is a good idea sir. To field sharpen a chain that has gone blue from grinding is a massive pain.

[treequip]

Simple and effective

 

It's not simple, you need a power tool or it won't work, it's also not how the file is supposed to work a file is a linear rather than rotary tool, there are however plenty of cheap battery grinders on the market that work just fine

 

He claims it saves money and assuming you can still find the broken off bit, if you are lucky, the method may just save a percentage point on a quids worth of file. You might get your investment returned in a decade or so

[peatff]

Sharpen a Chainsaw - World's best method

 

 

How did he drag that out for over 9 minutes ? All that will achieve is wearing your file out quicker

[Jonny69]

I get the feeling from the replies that you all think I said sharpening a chain back to as sharp as a new chain wasn't possible? For the record I didn't say or even imply that it wasn't possible.

 

I personally wouldn't claim to be able to do it, not that I've actually tried any back to back tests, and as I said I suspect there are plenty of people who would make it worse.

 

Having said that I wouldn't disagree that a person who is good at sharpening can get a chain as sharp or sharper than a new one but I suspect there may be a few tweaks involved that people have learned from experience, tweaks that are outside of the basic procedure.

 

There are some "tricks" though they are not exactly rocket science. Having the right bit at the right angle (not right from new imo) makes quite a bit of difference.

 

Saying that I don't worry much about anything under 18inch, they get sharpened roughly and quickly to get going again. Bigger than that wants to be spot on though, nothing worse than a big blunt saw that is cutting round corners.

[MattyF]

I thought guys in there 70's where experts at filling off the rakers and widening the gullet and it was just the yoof of today who thought it was ok to wonder around with blunt saws cutting badly.

[Mark Bolam]

I thought guys in there 70's where experts at filling off the rakers and widening the gullet and it was just the yoof of today who thought it was ok to wonder around with blunt saws cutting badly.

 

 

This.

 

I'm afraid your uncle is talking shite Porangi.

Fancy being wrong for decades!

 

 

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[Stephen Blair]

I worked with a guy that sharpened a brand new chain!

I've ever come close to an edge he could get.

[Stubby]

I worked with a guy that sharpened a brand new chain!

I've ever come close to an edge he could get.

 

I give new chains 2 strokes some times .