Cutting dead wood - Chain

[AHPP]

Would like to improve cutting efficiency on dead wood. Can anyone recommend a good chain and setup please?

 

Current setup is 15" ish bar, quite a round profile chain with low rakers. Cuts green wood well but quite gritty on dead wood.

 

Saw is MS230 so not a massive amount of power. Smaller bar maybe?

Edited March 13, 2011 by AHPP

[RobRainford]

try a full chisel chain, i assume your running .325 chain?, low rakers will try to grip too much in the wood, keep them as you would with normal sharpening, i find mine cut just as well if not slightly better in dead wood, depending on its condition. Low rakers will kill the power of your saw, especially when its a small one like a 230.

[AHPP]

3/8" chain. Whatever I go for I'll be leaving the rakers higher.

Edited March 13, 2011 by AHPP

[ecolojim]

Id stick with semi-chisel on deadwood. will hold an edge longer, and deadwood tends to be harder on chains (hardwoods anyway)

[skyhuck]

Dead wood tends to be harder than green wood, so you need to keep the chain sharp, the other real disadvantage to dead wood is lack of lubrication, so its worth making sure your chain oil screw is tuned up full.