New Square Chain Grinder

[lxskllr]

Was checking out stuff at baileys, and saw this...

T&S Professional Chain Grinder (Square Chisel) with Stand

The CZ223 is the latest professional chain grinder from T&S. This grinder sharpens square chisel chain, which is the fastest cutting chainsaw chain made today. The CZ223 is designed from the ground up to set a new standard in sharpening square chisel chain. The CZ223 uses a standard 8” x 1” x...

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Not something I need, and it's *spendy*, but it might be of interest to the right person.

 

[Burnham]

Spendy is an accurate description.

 

[Kaveman]

Boss has a square grinder, I'll get to playing with it soon enough. I wanna try square ground on a climbing saw, because I'm dumb and also, bull pine.

 

[lxskllr]

For awhile I was seriously considering trying to learn to square file, but I cut a lot of dirty stuff, and I also have issues with sticking the bar in the dirt. The work and frustration potential got me to quit the idea. Almost 100% semichisel chain, and a round file works well enough. I wouldn't mind trying someone else's square ground climbing saw though. No dirt to stick it in, and it might hotrod something like a 2511. Do they make files for lp chain?

 

[SeanKroll]

Are you using a tripod to stabilize your saw when cutting near the ground, meaning two hands and a rest of the powerhead against the thigh or knee?

 

[lxskllr]

It's more bucking. I do a terrible job estimating my depth, and I'm into the dirt before I know it.

 

[SeanKroll]

While bucking, I sometimes have the bar vertically, skimming just off the dirt, watching chip color (looking for bark). I "set the depth" next to the log to know how to stand/ hold the saw to barely not hit the dirt.

If your cutting horizontally, as you progress downward, you can pull the nose back into the log, cut down a bit, then push forward. You can feel the lessened resistance as you hit bark, then air, barely protruding with the nose.

 

[Kaveman]

For awhile I was seriously considering trying to learn to square file, but I cut a lot of dirty stuff, and I also have issues with sticking the bar in the dirt. The work and frustration potential got me to quit the idea. Almost 100% semichisel chain, and a round file works well enough. I wouldn't mind trying someone else's square ground climbing saw though. No dirt to stick it in, and it might hotrod something like a 2511. Do they make files for lp chain?

Don't know if they make a square file that size, but I do know that flat files can be had that'll work for such.

 

[flushcut]

Jeweler files maybe.