Worth sharpening chipper blades 'as a job'?

[Sandworks]

Worst I have had was 2mm off! was a big job on limestone ,destroyed the blades,took them to a friend for Surface grinding,he set them up together and left them on until they came bak to a good edge, took quite a while……had an engineering company do them a few times but they would wait to do them until i would enquire if they were ready and only put a mild edge on them€ 70 a set!,my friend rebuilds engines, he just does it on the spot and gets them scalpel sharp and will square up the anvils well! mates rates….. A good square anvil is just as important…...

[martwizz]

Its a bit more niche, but you could investigate sharpening stump grinder teeth. Information on sharpening greenteeth is quite hard to come by, and nobody is exactly shouting about offering it as a service on google!

[Merle Nelson]

Morbark chipper website has a tool listed called Bevel Buddy that allows you to sharpen 2-3 times on the machine before you have to pull the blades and do a proper sharpen. Looks promising for minor touch ups.

[Arbtech Tree Services]

Worth sharpening chipper blades 'as a job'?

 

Probably not.

Mate of mine has an engineering firm and does mine, i think two thou at a time and the boys do a really good job. I know what his hourly rate is and what he charges me and i can't see how companies such as a certain Machine Knife company (that i will never use again) can do them for £6 each?

 

Regards,

 

Steve.

[Robert McTurk]

the company that does ours charges £1 per inch on the width of the blades which are 4 inches wide and they lift them and return them the next week