Waste of time jobs

[Jack.P]

Been helping a neighbor today trying to help them out .spent most the day rotavating which turns out to be hard work .anyway they had  pulled out a large apple tree root with there car and told me they had jet washed off any remaining crap 

said ok I will saw it up for you as it didnt look too dirty .anyway before cutting switched to max oil flow and a few minutes later this is what is left of a new Stihl chain and bar and completely dull ..I'm not sure what was inside the wood but a lot of sparks flew of the chain .looks like waste of a good chain I guess I will know for next time the answer is no 

[Mick Dempsey]

That was always going to happen, the job was only a waste of time if you make such a schoolboy error a second time.

[Jack.P]

True .probably obvious this would of happened .looked at it though seemed clean enough and thought it would be probably be alright .was it probably a stone in there which caused the sparks ? Never seen a new chain go that dull in a few seconds 

[Mick Dempsey]

For sure there was a stone or something in there.

[Steve Bullman]

i'd say flint for it to have completely stripped the chrome off like it appears it has

[Stere]

Can't it be sharpened?

[Peasgood]

Strange job to give a new bar and chain. That’s the last job they should have, not the first. 

I guess you know that now of course. 

[Jack.P]

True probably  not ideal job for a nice new chain but the trunk was bit big for an old 15'' chain which was the only worn out one I could find .lesson learnt anyway don't cut anything from below the ground 

[peatff]

I was cutting a trunk down at the farm and hit a stone. It took two teeth out of a reasonably new 20" chain.  Still using the chain though and it still cuts.

[Mesterh]

Definitely  hit a bit of stone of some kind, better to hit a bit of steel ime.