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Talking with my neighbor, logging within 100 miles of Mt. St. Helens after the eruption meant lots of round filing all day. Slow, torque-y MS 056 Magnums were common workhorses. Slow meant less heat and less dulling than high chain- speed would. 'Brother Lennie' brought his over for 'Brother...

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@Bart clinkers in your stove from hardwoods?

@Nutball Ease into a chain with bad sharpening...well to start with, file evenly, and let someone else fix their bad cutters lol...ease in on the longer cutters, doing multiple passes, as needed. In my past, we used softer, cheaper Oregon chains for cutting trees prone to embedded nails at...

The cheapo grinder will take off rocked, nail-cutting work hardening. One cutter side isn't the exact size as the other, so I adjust for it, advancing one side a hair farther forward. It was given to more 13 years ago If you can't hand-file, it won't be great. If you can, you will have an eye...

For $30-40 you can have a cheap one for rocked chains, to take off work-hardening, and get close to true. You'll likely want to hand-file finish in a cheap grind job. When I've had really dirty cutting, I popped the chain in the grinder, at the jobsite, multiple times rather than keep...

Have you tried the same chain on a different bar? It could be one mal-adjusted/ maintenance-required component exacerbating another. Good chain is expensive.

Do you use a grinder, Cory, to true it up?