How much to sharpen££??

[Jonesie]

We charge £7.50 per chain, whatever size but them we have a bench set up just for chains and do about 25-50 a week.

[pleasant]

I charge £10.29 inc vat per chain irrelevant of length and pitch, with a 7 day turnaround. I don' t have any problems with that- get as many chains as I can handle.

[hazzygawa]

It's for quite a good friend who I work with/for sometimes. Il get him to bring a few beers round and teach him how to do it on the smaller chain and watch him on the longer chain. I say watch but I will be drinking mainly. Haha.

 

I think it will be cheaper for me to send my knackered chains to Jonesie than to do it myself !

[Mozza]

Wound it not be better to teach to file by hand??

[hazzygawa]

It is better to sharpen by hand definatly. But i think if the chain is really shagged a machine can set up the chain to some normality.

[spudulike]

£5-£10 depending on pitch and length or do it FOC if it is part of a big service - whenever someone mentions a price on anything, someone always chimes up with a cheaper price.

 

What about quality of service, turn around time, after sales service......!

[GardenKit]

BTW, my £7.50 is only for loose chains. If I have to take it off the saw I charge another £7.50 to cover cleaning out the chain cover/brake, cleaning the bar groove and a quick dressing of the bar where required. Normally have to add fuel or oil in order to start the saw to bed the chain down.

 

Wherever possible I offer weekly turnround as I make Sat morning my sharpening day, most domestic users are happy with this.

 

And, while we are comparing notes I charge £10.00 for shear sharpening.

[spudulike]

I have a novel way of sharpening cylinder mowers if anyone is interested

[GardenKit]

I have a novel way of sharpening cylinder mowers if anyone is interested

please tell............

[spudulike]

please tell............

 

Bit of stout card, staple on some very course emery/garnet paper, raise the cylinder away from the lower bar, stick the abrasive paper between the cylinder and the bar, adjust the cutters/cylinder so they lightly touch the paper on both sides, start the mower up and than move the abrasive paper up and down the cylinder by holding the card,

 

Keep lowering the cutter cylinder and moving the card until the cutters are sharp and really gripping the paper. stop and test the edge with a paper cut once the cutters have been lowered a little more.

 

I have heard of people using a bed of sand and throwing it on the cylinder but the method above has sorted a bent cutter on my Qualcast by leveling it off:thumbup:

 

Just take it easy as it isn't very H&S compliant:lol:

 

On the good side, you don't have to remove the cylinder or buy one of those fancy abrasive bars.