A Better Way To Sharpen A Chainsaw

I don't know what type of wood you guys have or what you cut but what we have here the fur is a softwood and it's got a lot of SAP in it and it really gums up chains and such you can see there's a chain I just used and it's all covered with SAP and goo all types of stuff in it chain doesn't operate very well that's hard to get off but what I do is just using that same gas I'll just pour a little in here put a little lid on it and then pull it out let it sit all night and and that cleans it up really really good that gets all that SAP broken off and pretty much just is an easy solution to keep those chains clean blow that bar off and take that gas rag what's left on it and just knock that down there and that SAP will collect on the bottom of that bar up here I can't stress the importance of keeping this stuff clean keeping an eye on it and especially these ports here seems to me for the common man sharpening a chainsaw it's it's tough and the best system that I found to use as far as pound-for-pound that just hits all the good spots is the little 12-volt Granberg sharpener you get precision you get the ability to you can use it in the field because it's 12 volt you can click it onto your batteries it's a wonderful project whatever I feature this in a video there's always people that come in to say all that I can sharpen hand chain I can hand better than that that's nonsense that's absolute nonsense I don't use this because I can't hand sharpen a chain I use it because I get a better more precise grind with this then you can by hand there may be one in 10,000 that could come close to the precision of a jig sharpener but most people are one thing that I find is guys that think they can sharpen really good I get their chains and I'll put this on there and I'll see just how far they're off and they had no idea it happened to me too I thought I was pretty good at it until I started using this and it just a case just can't compare the nice thing about this is it's not expensive you can get into one for around $100 which is a lot of money but if you cut firewood if you cut 810 cords of firewood a year that's a pretty small investment because to send your chain out to get it sharpened its it going to be you know over 20 dollars probably somewhere between fifteen and twenty-five dollars depending on the bar lengths this isn't can't be compared with the big professional grinders but you know those are it's not hard to get a thousand dollars into one of those and you're not certainly not taking it out in the field and and this doesn't take any skill to use it's really simple any of us can do it or the other ones are that's not the case so I love the little Granberg sharpeners so filing your teeth doesn't mean you're done with sharpening your chainsaw just as important it you don't have to do this every time though is to set the depth of your new depth gauges some people call these rakers that's actually a misnomer it's not they're not rakers in the traditional sense like a crosscut saw their depth gauges that saw has enough power where it doesn't need anything to clean it out kind of cleans itself but these keep the teeth from going too deep installing the saw so this is a raker gauge right here and you'll get it you know there's different sizes for different size chains but what it does is it bridges the gap between the two teeth sits on the high points here and here and this is a filing plate a hard filing plate and you run a file across there and it's a no-brainer way to set your depth so you just set that on there or file across there a couple times you can see we knock the top of that depth gauge off there we have to hit every one of these reason being is look at that tooth see that tooth is on an angle down like like this hard to tell but as you file it it gets shorter and shorter and shorter in relationship with the bar and those rakers will you know they just get higher and higher and higher so you'll find that you're pressing on your saw and it just won't cut you're just killing yourself on it so the depth gauge is critical now I don't file these every time but probably every third filing or so I'll take and knock these depth gauges now you can do this also with the grand birds but I just want to show you the way that I can't like to do it manually this takes it just takes a couple minutes so that's about it ready to go there we've got a wicked sharp chain I can put our side plate back on tension everything up fresh gas and oil and then I'll show you real quick essential equipment for a faller haulers kit things you should have before you go out and tackle one of these big furs or any tree the little ones will kill you so will the big ones sometimes the little ones are more dangerous because you get you start thinking oh I'm big-time big-time logger big-time faller I don't need to I don't need to follow the basics and the safety rules for this little tree I'll just knock this thing down and it will come around and get you many a logger around here has been killed and severely injured by a vine maple something as small as that the equipment you're going to want to have on your person when you're following these big trees well this is my kit anyway it's not comprehensive guys with more experience may have different things but I've used it for a long time and I've not found it wanting in any way chainsaw chaps I always use the steel Pro mark their top-of-the-line their commercial professional ones fantastic that's what most guys in the wild land service use they are good other other good ones out there I'm sure there are but I I like these because they have a pocket and they're just heavy-duty last forever wire goggles so they won't fog safety goggles okay wire goggles much better my favorite is the traditional foresters aluminum hardhat these went out of these are traditional I have a real attachment to these because you know going up the Pacific Northwest and forestry and then the forest is that's just that's in our blood that's who we are who we came from and this is so classic traditional forestry forest ranger is an aluminum hat and fortunately they're making them certified again so I'm never go to a plastic when I have to use a plastic one on wildland fires much to my chagrin I would much prefer this because of some silly nonsense about electrocution I've seen a lot of high voltage wires in the middle of the forest but well yeah ear plugs muffs aren't going to work because you have to have a hardhat so ear plugs and a fallers belt your followers bill you're going to want a few things on it a good sturdy belt that you can wear over your pants this is not the one that you're going to be threading through your belt loops but wearing like a gunfighter style first thing is a tape a real tape loggers tape this will help you or this will allow you to determine your lengths also it's nice about these is they have a circumference measurement on the back so you can wrap them and use the back they'll tell you what the diameter of the tree is the circumference wraps around it tells you the diameter so that's kind of cool and that wears on the right side on the back a this is the Grizzly Peak the aluminum hand made in Idaho love them axe sheath with a short-handled axe you want something heavy because you're primarily going to use it to be pounding wedges so something with a good flat Pole on it and a short handle so a boy's axe is a nice fit for this my Grand Forks small forest axe I have used that a lot it's a little bit light when you really need to put some put the sweet on this on the on the wedges and then at least two wedges carried in in some sort of way this is again the Grizzly Peak my favorite their shout out to my man in Idaho there if you want a good product and made these are the best and that holds two budges so you can get a couple wedges in there and of course your power saw but that is your basic followers kit you

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Keywords: How to sharpen a chainsaw, how to file a a chainsaw chain, chainsaw, stihl, husqvarna, stihl 441, stihl 661, stihl 461, granberb mini mill, chainsaw mill, timber framing, homelight, homelite

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Length: 9min 34sec (574 seconds)

Published: Sun May 10 2015