That chit can break teeth right off. I’ve hit high tinsel wire buried in apple before. Was not pretty.
Fence Rows, cut high. Yard trees, cut low. ~15% hits of metal on the felling cut. The iron worker's wrench I smoked a chain on in a big Sugar Maple was a real surprise though.
High on fence rows I understand. Low on yard trees I’ve never thought about but that makes good sense. Ok. Time for story time with Joe. (I’m not wearing a dress) First, the wire was just a prelude to a bad day Started with a rotten hickory spur. Figured it was t worth much as firewood but hickory is rare here so,,,,,,might as well cut it down while I’m here and make sure it’s garbage. I knew it would contact a yellow birch on its way to the ground but it was a spur, rotten spur. FIgured it would disintegrate. It didn’t. Also both trees on the side of a rocky hill. Seems the 12” diameter yellow birch had no great root system even tho it was alive and well. The hickory spur hits the birch and they both go over and get hung up in some other trees. Great, just lovely. so now I have this Birch I want to cut hoping it will dislodge and the hickory will go with it. I never expected wire in it. Didn’t think it was old enough to have wire in it. And fence rows on this end of the property were installed numerous times by Stevie Wonder. No rhyme or reason and jump all around the property lines back in the day. So I start cutting, about half way through I hit wire. Not too bad, I was already off the gas. Ok so now I move up the trunk 10” to start a new cut. Didn’t figure something right with the two separate cuts. 462 got jammed solid in the cut. Grrrr. Now I gotta drive home and get a backup saw. Once again start another new cut above my jammed saw. Still not thinking things through well. This time the tree split between the two cuts and came down. Unfortunately the 462 was still jammed in the tree and the preloaded branches pushed the trunk back towards me. Hard And that’s when my foot entered the picture. Tree came down with my jammed saw and the saw came down on my foot. So now I’m standing there with a chainsaw and butt of a tree on top of my foot. It hurt a bit. Couldn’t pull my foot out. Shut off the other saw and worked the 462 loose. Hobbled home, took a couple aspirins and took a nap. Luckily it was my bad foot with some paralysis in it. Think it would have hurt much worse. Black and Blue. Swelled up nice. Later that afternoon I cut down a few Tree of Heaven saplings as revenge. Could have been much much worse. The End.
Damm Brad, The problem is even if the working corner is brought back to be sharp, the top plate is bent down for a good distance back. I've got a 404 chain I dickered up and couldn't get it back with the Silvey. Was cutting up some logs to remove as a favor for landowner. He pushed these up with a skid steer and were super dirty but that is no big deal, that is a normal nuisance. What I didn't see was the log was sitting on a piece of limestone the size of a basketball right where I was cutting. The log was off the ground and thought it was another piece of wood. Cut a half inch groove in it and surprisingly enough, the chains was not the same.
Dang! I started cutting with it and the chips were small and cut not the best. I had sharpened it during the week. Same chain i nicked a rock on the very last cut on Sunday! Well each tooth got 30 strokes with the file in todays marathon session.. Good half hour in the vise. The back up chain got a touch up too. My other 20" chain got thrown off the bar and DL are nicked. Dont have the patience to find and grind the affected DL. Maybe ill try the cursed chain on the first cuts next outing this week. I have a NIB green label semi chisel (i run full chisel on all saws) in reserve. Bought it in a lot of thee four last time i bought 20" chains. I seldom cut dirty logs.
I cut highway right of way and emergency storm response for 30 years, I don't know the odds but I hit metal often, as in daily .
from the looks of your pic, that chain would cut better if you put it on backwards! and this is my opinion I would toss that chain
the very next cut could hit metal again so why toss it , it's got plenty of meat left on it . just reprofile , sharpen and go again .
Thats exactly what i did. PITA but it happens. If it was near the end of its life and teeth were breaking off, then yes its trash.
I have a wand I used to keep around for the sawmill. It was only accurate about 50% of the time. For the time spent detecting, a resharpening of a chain or blade just isn't worth it for me 90% of the time. I do use it when I KNOW there is likely metal in wood, such as the stump end of a yard tree with scars, or cutting some (untreated) power poles. IMO, not worth another tool to carry, remember to use, and have a fresh battery in it...
Sharpened it Saturday. Rainy day project. Half hour or so with the file. Ran the other chain cutting BL today so dunno how well i did with it.
