Chainsaw sharpener
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They will work once you get the hang of them.
Your best bet is the Oregon or STIHL sharpening kit. It looks like a flat plate about 1 1/4" inches wide and about 7" long. The file fits in a groove in the plate so it hold the right size file with 1/5 of it sticking above the cutter tooth.
It is the one seen in this video.
STIHL Incorporated USA -- Information -- Manufacturing the World's Number One Selling Brand of Chain Saws
Your best bet is the Oregon or STIHL sharpening kit. It looks like a flat plate about 1 1/4" inches wide and about 7" long. The file fits in a groove in the plate so it hold the right size file with 1/5 of it sticking above the cutter tooth.
It is the one seen in this video.
STIHL Incorporated USA -- Information -- Manufacturing the World's Number One Selling Brand of Chain Saws
Buy a bunch of blades and when one gets dull then replace it. I take about 5 at a time to get sharpened, at $5 a piece it is a bargain not to have to screw with sharpening them.
That price depends on the length of guide bar you are running on your saw.
20" bar is $5
14" bar is $4
14" bar is $4
depends on how badly you're abusing them. I was cutting out a stump and resharpening about every five minutes. You get good at it when you do it that many times in a day.
OTOH, the chain was done before the stump was gone. There wasn't enough left to sharpen.
depends on how badly you're abusing them. I was cutting out a stump and resharpening about every five minutes. You get good at it when you do it that many times in a day.
OTOH, the chain was done before the stump was gone. There wasn't enough left to sharpen.
Yeah, i go through quite a few when i start cutting stumps as well, but it just bought the trump card A backhoe! Think i can make my money back by the blades i wont have to sharpen!!
Yeah, i go through quite a few when i start cutting stumps as well, but it just bought the trump card A backhoe! Think i can make my money back by the blades i wont have to sharpen!!
Until you bust a few hydraulic hoses. I thought Land Cruiser parts were expensive, looked into a new seat for a Ford 555c...$2000. No thanks.
Depending on how heavy a user you may be, I got one of the cheap kits for my dremelk and it works wonders for heavy household use. I think it was $9 for the kit and stones are just a few buck.
Does this mean that you're making your own chains? If not, let me know where you get a 20" chain for $5, I need to stock up on them.
I use the dremel kit. I have a cordless dremel and take it out to the farm with me. It works good....
Not really sure how I mis-read the post, because it was plain as day when I went back and re-read it. Thanks for the clarification. I got all excited for nothing. Chain sharpening, like most everything else, takes a little practice to perfect. Even the Tecomec chain grinder I have, took several sharpenings before I got the hang of using it.
I hand file most all of my chains.
It is like take a good knife to a bench grinder and comparing one that has been sharpened with a proper hone.
If you are grubbing stumps with your chains saw, it really does not matter how you removed the pealed chrome.
It is like take a good knife to a bench grinder and comparing one that has been sharpened with a proper hone.
If you are grubbing stumps with your chains saw, it really does not matter how you removed the pealed chrome.
Yup same here. Cutters and rakers all free hand. THIS is the best file I've used.
Every now and then I'll throw them on my wheel grinder (a nicer one) to redo the angles precisely or for just a quick edge in the middle of a job.