sharpening the chain

[CT_Tree_Guy]

Ken, start working up a nice EBay description for that thing - wait until you see how incredibly easy it is to sharpen a chain with the two little jiggy things I use. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Half-joking of course - if it works for you, that's just fine by me - and work they do! Maybe my method will give you a good alternative, for those times that you might not feel like taking a chain off to sharpen it. Options are always a good thing - except when there are too many. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

And one very, very good thing about grinders is that they can bring back chains that have taken a serious "hit", and end up in a certain tree-guy's junk drawer, waiting for some sort of divine intervention to bring them back to life! (I think I just talked myself into getting an Oregon 511 grinder again - the more tools the merrier, am I right?) /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

John

 

[Shimon]

Looking forward to your web site, John. Those videos should be a big help.

I learn to do a lot of things through reading books but there is no substitute for watching someone else demonstrate a techniques. I got a book from the library on doing trim and moulding for my home but I learned a lot more from watching our woodworker at work going through simple tasks.

 

[3RRL]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Looking forward to your web site, John. Those videos should be a big help.)</font>

Yeah, me too...
Do you think you can Mike Rowe from "Dirty Jobs" to help you? I'm sick of all those home improvement shows about how to build shelves. A new program on Chainsaws starring the CT Treeguy would be a big winner, I think? At least more interesting for sure. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
BTW, if you're gonna get that grinder, you could get yourself a nice TIG heli-arc and weld the edges back on your chains. Use the grinder to re-shape.
(I can run a bead on pin head with mine. HA! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

 

[Deerlope]

I learned how to file one day many years ago. I always carried 2 chains and 3 files. Within an hour I had both chains dull. I figured if I totalled ruined one chain learning how to sharpen it it would be worth the effort. I learn a lot that day. Now I take 1 saw and 2 files. After 3 or 4 had sharpenings I take it to the shop and clamp it in the vise. I have a clamp on the bar hand filer. It will do each cutter exactly the same angle & depth and also the do the raker. BTW no one makes a clamp-on-the bar filer like the one I have anymore.