Oregon power sharp

[Taupotreeman]

Just saw a TV advert for this thing and wondered if anybody had actually tried it. I don't know much about it myself except that it seems to be a on bar chain sharpening machine. Any thoughts?

[treequip]

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/f-r-jones-son/19576-oregon-power-sharp.html

[atree]

Yes ive seen that advert here too,Think its for amateur chains and users,May be wrong.

[RobRainford]

we bought two for our little electric saws, as they were always cutting in dirty conditions the normal chains would be blunt fairly quick, got two of these, after a month of using them and giving them a lot of abuse, i rate them very well and would recommend them for small saws.

[Taupotreeman]

Cheers for the links and the thoughts guys. The pumice here can be pretty hard on a chain, especially when cutting stuff on the side of a road where the pumice has been thrown up by cars and is embedded in trees. A mate of mine uses an electric type sharpener which hardens the chain but you can't sharpen it with a normal file and the sharpener really isn't portable so wondered how these would go. Sounds like they're not much cop for a bigger saw which is primarily what I'd use it for. It sounds like a lazy way out but believe me, working on the side of some of these unsealed roads here, especially around the central plateau area, you can be touching up a saw every half hour sometimes. Dead Gum is also pretty hard on the chain and there's more than enough of those to go about.