Thru over 6 cords with one chain AND THEN !!!

I had to touch it up a few times but good clean wood & mossy, lichen ground
The chain held up well.

Then I go to cut a few hats for snowmen & I bump a rock in the grass
Not once but TWICE
Last cut was throwing dust & the saw was screaming at me.

I'll sharpen it up but it PIZZZD me off.
All that cutting & at home doing just a few cuts I'll have to really sharpen
it now.
More filing than I did for 6+ cords

 

Hey Dave, you could've hit that rock on the first day with the new chain instead....then you'd really be mad!!!

 

Yea
I was hurrying, saw was almost out of gas.
Saw sparks, new I'd screwed up.

You're right
Not that big a deal, one more thing to put on the "to do" list.

 

Dont feel bad sir-I gutted 2 chains yesterday noodling and trying to make wood cookie placemats and a center piece on hickory for the SO---we sharpen and get back to work...its what we do...

 

You know it when it happens but you're just hoping it wasn't fubared as bad as you think, then when you start making sawdust you know you screwed up

 

SON OF A.......

 

Man I hate when that happens.... I was put the 25" bar on the 461 few days ago to hack up so bigger red oak chunks.... well sure enough same thing happened as you discribed, minus sparks.... it was a damm glass bottle and it messed the chain up pretty bad....i swear when I rock a chain on something it's always on the 25" bar, makes for a long sharpening session!!!


Well I must add rocked chains won't bother me AS bad in w week or two.... I am getting a 511ax grinder, so hopefully it will make those situations easy to deal with!!!

 

Until you rock your 32" chain like I did last time I used it, like second cut!

 

Lucky you can cut into moss , lichen and snow. here I have an 1/8 of hardwood leaves and a tiny bit of duff then mineral soil. you have to stop and roll the log or just barely cut till the other side of bark with the tip so you don't knick dirt

 

& birch is smooth bark, pretty clean, Easy on chains.
Typically vigin woods, no fences, nails etc it run into

Yea , pretty lucky in comparison to where you cut

 

I got a rail road spike a couple of weeks ago....buried in an old fence line tree. lets just say that chain went to my grinder and the hand file wasnt going to touch it....

 

Last month I went through the loop of a big screw eye on the second cut with a new ripping chain. It was the first time I'd ever hit a serious piece of metal in a tree, so I misunderstood what was happening and didn't back off. When I went to set it up on the grinder I discovered a large fraction of the teeth weren't there anymore.

 

yup been there done that.. you now have s root chain!

 

Heh. I wish. More like, now I have a spare bicycle chain.

 

I've hit nails here from yard trees.
Were pretty soft , went thru it fast
but right away I went from throwing chip to making sawdust

 

Cleaned & sharpened
took the rakers down a tad

 

Nice vise.

 

Thanks

Made it years ago

 

Is that like 1.5" plywood it's made of?

 

3 pieces of 3/4" glued together
2-1/4"

Screwed to a piece of 3/4" (roughly a 3' square) plywood that I clamp to a work bench top

ThinkI used a 5/8 " bolt/all-thread , drilled & tapped the end & put a piece of aluminum on the end for the threaded jaw
I glued in a nut but threading a bolt thru the wood,drill the hole a size small, would work.