How the Pro's sharpen a chainsaw

okay we're in the shop with less than Tanner control tree and we are going to show you the right way to sharpens a chainsaw blade these guys run a tree service they know how to do it and show you the two typical ways I'm gonna go through event training and hand filing so we this took us a while to really master the art of you just you have to practice it it's it's getting out there it's darkening your chains and it's cutting with your size and you have to do both of those things repeatedly to master it's an art what are some of the indicators besides not your chain not going through the log so some of these guys are gonna be going oh I know when my chain needs to be sharpened besides that where you get to the point where it's so obvious and you're going small can you tell by the chips at all when your chain needs to be sharpened yeah I mean you want you want it to throw nice long shavings Kay not sawdust not little chips long curly shavings a lot of like professional loggers and you know a lot of guys will Dale's sharpen their saw ever take the gas okay and all you have to do is one stroke with file it takes you know you use a stump vise so like if you're out in the field this is a really good tool this is called the stump vise here you take it and you pound it into a stump and then you tighten your chainsaw bar right into it if you like a professional tree company mountain of ice on the back of your truck is a good idea on the tailgate or on the fender of a trailer these are really cheap I don't know maybe five ten bucks you can get them almost anywhere but you just screw that in the end of your bar you'd hit it on the head with a mallet and what that's gonna do is that's gonna like it's gonna hold your your your chainsaw and your bar in place okay so you can you can file a good job this is the raker okay show me your tumbler this is a gullet right here the gullet yep this is the tooth it's the tooth yep so this is an edge you're gonna want to be checking that's the edge you check yeah exactly that's what's gonna be doing the cutting the more you sharpen the this tooth actually goes down in the back so it gets lower towards the back in which you keep sharpening this you're gonna have to adjust your depth gauge by with a flat file so you could see your sharpen this four times you can check it right here and you can just run a flat file on here so if your raker gets above your tooth it's not gonna be cutting those good or what happens if you take your raker down too far mm-hmm all your side's gonna do is just bite and stop so there's a really fine line what's the point to the raker then if it's not cutting the raker if you didn't have the raker they're all do is bite it's a depth gauge basically as what the raker is so basically the wood would come right here and just get a little shaving taken off if you didn't have any of those a piece of wood will just come and go right into you won't be able to cut that's why if someone were to take a flat file and shave your raker down too far all your saw is gonna do is bite and catch but you can catch yeah so it would just stop and kickback more and be more aggressive that's how one finger Frankie got his nickname storytime with Stan this is no lie one finger Frankie this is the story he took the rakers down Tatar he took that because he likes a real aggressive saw yeah if you know how to run one but well he not the safe way to do that so and then on top of it he's running that my echo which he loves my echo sauce job you love by Abdullah Tanner's and echo fan and cooktop handle you bubble right so he got real aggressive with his rakers took those down and he was holding a log with one hand getting cocky because he's done it for 40 points 57 so he's been doing it for probably 45 50 years cutting after he just took the rakers down and wasn't expecting the bite and it grabbed that log all about hold it back while he's holding it come one finger Frank that happened nothing could be worse don't take your rakers down and far so you need those you'll be about the same as yo and that's where a depth gauge with timing thank you so with the depth gauge that's your raker you know you would put it right here well I'll do it on this one right there you put it right now actually do Tanner just keep moving it around because it's not hard for me to focus or nothing all right go for it got it so you tape take the depth gauge you know put it there so you can see the raker in that pocket and you would take the flat file how do you set the depth gauge though the death gig sits on top of the tooth so it sits on that tooth and that's - oh so you're taking the raker down you're not taking the tooth down if this is adjusting the raker so what you would do is you're in and you do it an order you would sharpen the tooth first okay and then you want a dusty rakers got it got it okay now that flipping makes more sense and it took me 11 minutes and 13 seconds of filming to figure that out if I'm gonna sharpen a chain first thing I do is you want to mark your starting point on each side you're gonna start on this side and you're gonna be basically skipping every other and then you got to turn the whole chain around you start all over this I up cuz the teeth your flip-flop yep and you're you I mean you gotta sharpen like this way I mean you can't go back this way there's a certain grain you can't and what's sharpening you can only push so when I'm sitting here sharpening you want to follow that angle that's what that's for they have guides for this and everything but you sit here and just so you see what file are you using is it matter I'm just using an Oregon hand file and it there's different sizes for different shapes deep to match that up yeah so if you're gonna buy one there's charts for them so how I use it I line it up I've been doing it long enough to where I don't need a guide I just sit here I have my finger here you don't want it any angle you want it level and to follow the angle on your top plate and I just sit here and you don't need a ton of pressure and you can't flip-flop it you know every other and water well you want to do this pretty much the same amount they say you want to do the same amount of swipes on every tooth but in theory you should be taking out the same amount of metal that makes any sense yes so you could be pushing really hard on one and light on the other you just you gotta pay attention and you want to so you could it depends on how dull it is so I could sit here this isn't very dull see three swipes on everyone at the bottom of the gullet you don't want to sharpen that you want to sharpen the back and the top plate of the tooth so you don't want to sharpen you don't want to sharpen down here okay that doesn't do any cutting you wash up in the back and the top plate of the tooth so you have to apply pressure with the file against against the back of the - do you want to be kind of pushing like this direction and up a little bit and some guys will even I like to twist the file a little bit that's what these it already has so what you were singing Tanner is the file itself it has swirls so you don't need to sit there and twist and what I do every time every couple teeth I'll sit here as I'm filing is that and then kind of hit off get that metal out of there because you don't want to get a bunch of metal buildup in there and these files only last so long you can't just keep the same file on charcoal hunter chains they usually say every three times you'd have to adjust the reductase or rayker okay you should check the depth of your acres every time you know there's two ways to do it the way with the tool that they sell you set that on top and you just run your flat file over it so there's a little bit of a hang up there so that needs to be brought down the way I like to do it is I'd like to look right down the nose of the bar yeah and you can see the top of the depth gauge or the raker and then you you want to just barely be able to see the bottom of the top plate go ahead don't don't don't doll sure sure that's half of them we are what we like to spend time cutting trees you know it don't pay the certainty that this speeds the process up and if you can you know if you're doing a lot of wood cutting the honey it's worth the investment they're about six hundred bucks but this really speeds the process okay so you can you see how he's gotten laid that in I can see okay so that's out so what this thing does is you can set it in there pullback and then the one that comes off wrong too and I want to do it so yes you gotta set the set the grinder depending on what the chain is specified for so right now Tanner's setting it this chain spec to be sharpen at a 30-degree angle so that's what he's set in this grinder floor right here okay so can you see right there so it says 30 degree angles Lee's 0 10 20 30 so you set the grinder at a 30 degree love that chain needs a 30 degree okay and it's just like sharpening it by hand you do 30 and you skip every other on this side that one you're done with the whole side you will eventually switch and set it to 30 degrees and do the other side okay it's important though the big mistake that these guys can the guys can make with this machine is they can blew your - so what a Bluetooth is it means the tooth got too hot and you'll actually look at it and it will be like a bluish-purple and that just means they help the wheel on there too long so it's not like a game of this man you don't just apply as much pressure as you possibly can you'll see tanner here in a second he just kind of he feathers it he uses two fingers and he literally just bounces this cutting wheel off the tip of the tooth and takes his luck this little metal as you can oh yeah so another important piece is you want to make sure that all your teeth the top plate of the teeth is all the same length so but the first step the Tanner is going to do when he sharpens the chain is he's gonna go through on this chain and identify his worst - so the one that's in the worst condition if it was damaged if it was hand filed and it needs that you know he's going to get all this angle right so when you set it there's two jaw specs right here you crank this back and you want to set it so you just barely take off any metal I'm hitting the top of the tooth but you would have to turn this back until you just are barely on that tooth until it builds in there so it slides right in yep so once you get that there's another adjustment back here so you don't go all the way into the gullet so you set this and then you set your depth right there so you set it once and you can sharpen have the rest of the teeth on that but the creek the key thing is to get that first one just right no because you can wreck a chain if you do the first one wrong if you have them all different sizes it's gonna cut crooked it's not getting caught right at all the first one step 1 [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm saying it I was done with that whole side what you do girls hate it back to 30 on the other side [Music] find that out and then slip speak [Music] [Music] like you tell you're kind of going by feel - you know it just bouncing everyone you don't want to hold it on there you just want to barely touch it you don't want to bring that too so do you sharp and chains at the end of every day Tanner's every Monday every Monday and then I stack them up so kind of correct me if I'm wrong but when you blew the - yeah I'll call it doesn't that mean the heat-treat is ruined so it's not hardened to the correct yup and usually bluing at the tooth would be harder than what is supposed to be but more brittle yep and I would also do two things and make it too hard and brittle and it would be harder to hand file mm-hmm so if you are if you go for this two hand filing and you have a blue tooth good luck you're not guys big thanks goes out to Wes and Tanner for helping make this video because without their help this would not have been possible because I'm not qualified to sharpen a chainsaw and it sure as heck wasn't gonna have one finger Frankie telling you guys how to sharpen a chainsaw after what he did to himself so you guys let me know what you think of videos like this what I like to do is find people that know a heck of a lot more about something specifically or in particular and bring their expertise into it and you tell me you like videos like this because if you do well do more but more importantly what do you guys want to see what other kind of things should I bring you you guys comment down below and as always hey check these videos out right here guys and as always god bless and go get them you guys

Channel: Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

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Id: MujE5tObk50

Length: 15min 38sec (938 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 28 2018