Don't sharpen your chains

[Darrin Turnbull]

How do you find the small chain for sharpening ? New chain £11 and I find they are harder to file accurate and the Cordless saw a ball ache .

 

 

 

Ste

 

 

 

I usually just put a new chain and it lasts for ages.

I've got four chains that needs to be sharpened sometime.

I find it very difficult to sharpen.

 

 

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Me too.

[IVECOKID]

I usually just put a new chain and it lasts for ages.

I've got four chains that needs to be sharpened

 

 

That makes me feel better ... I have 3 chains awaiting.....

 

Ste

[carlos]

worked for a home owner once who said he didn't realize you could sharpen the chains, he just bought a new one each time whilst thinking " christ this is getting a bit expensive!"

had to laugh

[IRE David H]

just buy a new chain charge to customer

[Little Al]

A used chain, sharpened by someone who knows how to sharpen will be faster than a new chain.

 

Totally agree & the nearer it get to the end of it's usable working life the better/faster it will cut No one that enters race competitions does so with an out of the box chain it is always subject to a large amount of filing ,milling hand fettling

[Little Al]

Am I the only one that sharpens a new chain!! And one stroke off the rakers.

 

 

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No sir I'm with you on this.

[Old WoodChip]

I also know a 70 year old, still goes up a ladder to cut branched and a disaster just waiting to happen. I recently fixed one of his saws that was chucking out oil & petrol, as much as I have tried to educate him that putting straight petrol into the saw then adding oil by guesswork is costing him more in the long run. The plug was so black and choked up it needed a good clean out. Will he change, not as long as I got a hole in my a@@@.

Another farmer is so mean he only buys chains at boot sales, if they fit or not they have to be a bargain....Right!!

And to lubricate these wonderful bargains he uses old black engine oil, the way he looks at it is; it gets thrown off anyway?

Both of these will happily spend all day pulling and swearing at the saw when it either wont start or starts but wont cut. Some people are set in their ways but I gave up trying to explain and not going to offer to fix the saw again, you cant educate those who wont listen.