Square ground chain

[Moley]

Obviously I take all marketing "facts" with a pinch of salt, thats why I wondered if any of you had experience with this method of sharpening. Personally I'm not sure if its worth it, like you say Andy the minimal gains you could make are probably outweighed by the increased time and frequency of sharpening.

[18 stoner]

As it says in Petes link square filing will give a marginal difference, but will not last as long, and is mainly aimed at softwood cutting.

 

As a result of that, i would say it would only have limited uses. I dont believe it would keep its edge well in general arb work and even most forestry, but could have a use in perhaps softwood thinnings where there is little chance of "dirty" timber

[tommer9]

Well, you learn something new every day here!!

[Andy Collins]

Some of the dirtiest timber Ive worked on has to be softwood thinning. The land used is very sandy with a flint grit, which gets blown up into the bark, and knocks the edge off quick-time!

[swe#kipp]

I noticed that Charlieh, and i also noticed how long it was taking to put the saw into work on the round filed cuts:sneaky2:

 

Not a big fan of these types of comparison:thumbdown:

 

 

The clock stops and starts beteween every cut so look at the cookie number and you will see that it cut a fair bit faster with square filed.

[Mozza]

Well, you learn something new every day here!!

 

Dont we just, Been an inetersting read this

[Lee Winger]

 

It amazes me how little people know on the subject of chains in general:thumbdown:

 

I agree

[Charlieh]

i had a skip chain on my 084 and i have to admit i prefered it on a 36" bar, especially with the bar burried in timber it gave a lot better chip clearance,

[testcricket01]

so does that mean you can buy a chain new with it already square sharpened. cause i wouldnt want to buy a chain then have to sharpen it for ages to get it square whats the point

[Charlieh]

its a different type of chain, like chisel and semi chisel are different to each other