gouges in my alaskan upright

[Daniël Bos]

That's the reverse side, rather than the cutting side. Suggests a combination of slackness and pinching - what are you using in the way of wedges, particularly at the end of the cut?

 

Alec

 

Unless I have my mill setup wrong surely that is the cutting side, not the return?

Which would make it even more of a mystery. Did the saw get used with the chain wedged just beside the sprocket perhaps (on a saw with an outboard clutch)? That could cause it to run out of the bar groove, but would have to go in combination with a slack chain I reckon?

 

Had the saw been on the mill for a while previously or was the damage done the day you found it (looks a little aged to me?) if so can you recall a log that seemed to take much too long to cut even though there were no nails in it...?

[gobbypunk]

Hi not sure when dammage happend I dismantled the mill to use the big saw for a bit of felling then at a show re assembled mill but when I fired it up to start with as I bliped the throttle the chai went very slack so i tightend it up but the chain did not seem blunt but I have had the chain bind a few times when exiting a cut maybee that caused it I spose I will have to do some milling and see what happens ,any excuse to get the mill out I have a nice big stick of ceder of leb waiting in the yard ,and no I cant remember a log taking a long time to mill

Cheers Mark