Who sharpens a saw like this

[Gary Prentice]

You're on. MS 660, 24" full chisel bar...

 

:lol:

 

Why not a MS 880, 36" bar:001_tt2: Ours are called the metal detectors

[treequip]

You're on. MS 660, 24" full chisel bar...

 

:lol:

 

Don't underestimate the chain replacement time, I have had chains last hours in contaminated timber, ahhhh the woes of urban tree surgery.

 

I am with Huck on this one, the only exception was a stint of urban poplar felling where the kids off the estate had gone to town with nails over the years but that had as much to do with getting out of bandit country as anything else.

 

The damage was usually quite severe so it was often quicker to put a new chain on the 880 than sharpen 8 feet of mullered chain on site.

[Taupotreeman]

I do mine in the hopper of the chipper or on the trunk of a felled tree, sharpen one side right handed and the other left handed, I've not used a vice for sharpening a chain for the best part of 20 years, I dread to think how many chains I've filed away, must be 1000's.

 

Same as you Huck or jammed in the corner of the tailgate on the ute but hopper on the chipper is favourite. Perfect height too.

 

 

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[john k]

It done each time a new chain is fitted.

 

Ah, OK.

[john k]

when im working in the woods sharp mine like this . made this one on the end of my shave stand for when im post making but if im cutting a block of wood just leave a stub tall to make one and cut it off when finished

 

Nice! I'll have to give that a try

[Gus McWilliam]

I never remove a chain until its dead, with practice you will soon find you can get a chain razor sharp in less time than it takes to fit a another chain.

 

Ill bet a pint that I can change a chain faster than you can sharpen one

[Bob Rolfe]

Not a problem here

[hedgesparrow]

when im working in the woods sharp mine like this . made this one on the end of my shave stand for when im post making but if im cutting a block of wood just leave a stub tall to make one and cut it off when finished

what a good idear. will get a post out of shed can bang in ground and sharpen chain without bending down. ideal out in the field. as no chipper and only back of pickup

[digga]

it holds the saw well and when you want to sharp the other side just walk round dont need to remove the saw . done it when been hedge laying to when you have something to big or going the wrong way to lay .