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Thanks Burnham The intent of the cordless grinder is not to sharpen the saw but to remove the damaged part of the cutter and then finish up with the file. Saves alot of frustration, time and files. Anythings possible Jed I don't see any reason why a 4.5" wheel can't be dressed to grind chisel...

I keep this cordless 20V 4.5" angle grinder in my truck for times I rock out a 36" chain on my stumper saw. This grinder takes only a few minutes to bring the rounded off corners back to square again, and I can go back and finish the stump cut, actually cuts not too bad with just this quick...

Al the trouble with those dremil stones is they lose their diameter size quick and case harden the cutters, where a file can't touch later.

Nothing new , I've done it myself as I have mentioned before. Quick way to bring the corners back on a pile of rocked out sawchain hanging on a nail in the shop. Only difference I have the b/c mounted in a bench vise, lock the chainbrake, gently grind the cutters to square corners , then finish...

To a certain extent narrowest is fastest, but if the chips can't be cleared from the kerf efficiently enough the chain will cut slower . Too many chain modders make the mistake of thinning out and reducing the size of the cutters too much which in turn slows down the chip flow. Reduced chip...

No worries about the 3120 breaking 3/8 chain. I have run Oregon .050 3/8 LG on my 125cc Yamaha bikesaw and have never broke a chain. Race chain calls for the max cutter height with the largest gullet possible and a kerf width as narrow as possible. I've seen the big 1/2 inch pitch chisel chain...

Jay, looking back at my previous post's photos of my 090, one photo of it cutting that paper roll shows how the saws paint got burnt off from a fire when the muffler ignited the paper roll and debris a few days before. I just stuck a new fuel line on and wrapped some tape around the burnt spark...

Al I agree it does take a young mans reflexes to do good with these machines, but take veteran Sven Johnson and his CanAm 250cc bikesaw, he was breaking speedcutting records into his 60s. Burnham the newest video I have is on VCR but I'll try and dig up and scan some old photos of my saw and...

Thanks cory. Its just a 22' x22' double car garage attached to my house, did all my welding and everything in there. My wife and I now have the place up for sale and got our hearts set on a nice little 4 acre place 5 minutes out in the country with a 3 bay shop with 9 ft high doors and a nice...

That Burnham was something I pieced together almost 30 yrs ago when I was just a young logger looking for excitement.Its a Yamaha YZ 125cc bike saw. Many hours of tinkering and $spent. I used to enter alot of hotsaw races with that baby . Here in Canada our sanctioned competions have a cc...

:lol:No punishment at all Al. When you get really good at filing sawchain , have the right equipment and a little physical endurance its actually a real pleasure. With my 2"X4" aluminum tubing slabbing rails I can cut lumber from 8 ft to 32 ft right where the tree is felled and bucked. All I...

Actually I'm putting the 090 back to work next week on the 36" Alaskan mill. I'm almost all caught up on some major local storm damage removals and have a good stock pile of saw logs. 32 foot 12"x12"s anyone?

How about a 17" on a 090:lol: 17" loop of Stihl .063 full skip .404 bottom photo: 60" loop of Stihl .404- .063 semi chisel harvester chain

Here's 2 pictures of my good ole 066 with the 24" and Oregon 50AL .404- .050 chisel bit chain as I mentioned in my last post. Zoom in close and see the rocked out cutters if you can, would have been alot worse if it was 3/8".

I used .404 chisel on my Stihl 066- 24" for years. Good tough long wearing chain. Takes alot of punishment and holds a good edge. Stretching was never a issue. The bigger drive links in the bar groove kept the chain much more stable when in the wood even when the cutters were filed small enough...

Good for customer relations too, many of my customers who see me file come right over and ask for pointers.

I think thats because loggers only have to fight and curse at trees. But arborists have to have good customer skills [no cursing at the customers or in their yards]:D I always file my chains on my customer's jobs. I'm not charging them by the hour:lol:

winch if your only sending out 10 chains every 2 months then keep doing what your doing. I use up that many in less then a month filed down until the cutters start breaking off and I work alone. But I have to ask how long are you cutting with those chains when dull in that 2 months?

As the saying goes "never call tree mutilators butchers because real butchers are highly skilled professionals. Having said that when I think of a butcher I see him or her running that sharpening hone down their knives edge. Wood cutting pros do the same.:)

Back in the day when I logged in the bush for a living, I cut on a piecework production basis 2 species of trees, spruce and pine. The spruce [most common] grew in nice clean mossy ground, I could cut all day and into the next without touching up the chain with a file. The cutting action in the...