The saw of shame!

[Stubby]

You have to narrow your eyes a bit, just like Clint Eastwood. Then they get the message.

 

and say " Do you feel lucky punk ? ..well do ya ? "

[Ciaran Taylor]

don't spend all day sharpening your most hated saw!!

if he is keen to learn and you want to keep him, why not teach him to sharpen? its not too hard.

good luck!!!

 

Exactly! no point in having someone working inefficiently for you all day, may as well teach them to save you time. Best way to stop someone blunting a saw is for them to have to sharpen it themselves.

[mendiplogs]

I have had this guy working for me for a couple of months.

Very good in many ways, bit of a newbie but wants to learn etc. I've got high hopes for him.

He just keeps blunting saws and denying it!

560/562/372 all get blunted by the saw fairy, he cannot sharpen so I spend a fair proportion of the day with a file.

I've tried fronting him up but to no avail. I've even caught him at it, bucking up a trunk and touching the tip into the ground. He just says it didn't happen!

Tomorrow I will have a little ceremony before work, I'll announce that for this day only he is banned from the good saws and must use the Stihl 271, our most hated saw.

Let's see if that works.

 

Hi mate give him hand saw then if you told him 6)8)10 times what's he doing mate we all have learn but sometimes patients where is then thanks John

[njmusk]

Hi mate give him hand saw then if you told him 6)8)10 times what's he doing mate we all have learn but sometimes patients where is then thanks John

 

Read the whole thread, until I looked at the date, like to think 10 months on he has grasped it:001_smile:

[Starscream]

Where's mountain man gone?

[Haironyourchest]

Im feeling aggro toward this guy just reading these reports. I'll bet good money that even if he was made to buy his own saw he wouldn't keep it sharp, just thrash it around inefficiently with a snarky smirk on his smirky face...grrrr

 

I'd not let him near the saws period. If he's good at other stuff then let him do what he's born to do, save time and money and maybe prevent an injury. If he's sharpening he's not earning. If he's messing with a blunt saw he's not earning. Even if he could be tought to put an edge on a chain, how good is it really gonna be? A sub-optimal chain is as bad as blunt in my book. Over revving your saws, straining...I'd sack the goofball.

 

On another note, I recently bought a stump vice and a couple of Stihl file holders that also do the rakers at the same time. Fantastic gadget! It actually makes it fun to sharpen....

 

P.S - If the muppet really whacks the nose off the ground, he's not gonna be able to shapen the chain with a file is he? If he rocks the chain, then its a grinder job, no? And if he treats a saw that way, how's he gonna respect a file?

Edited October 4, 2015 by Haironyourchest

[Mick Dempsey]

Hi guys 'tis I Mountain Man.

Update on the lad, he doesn't blunt saws as much and is actually turning out to be a real asset. His sharpening is still a no go.

RobD posted a vid about sharpening, anyone know where I can find it? It was very good, I should show it to him.

[njmusk]

If you cant find it here, have a look on his webpage under essential info

[Mick Dempsey]

Thanks will do.

[Mortimer Firewood]

IMO if you can't sharpen a saw to the point where it's sharp you shouldn't be using it.