I picked up a load of oak today. The guy asked me to try to sharpen this chain. It like he hit something hard, all on the same side of the chain. I'm only set up for hand right now. How do I go about this? Anything special? Thanks
Send it to Pete. It needs to be filed back far enough to get past the damaged part, and then the rakers will probably need to be taken down. It's a lot of material to take off by hand.
I agree...I've had a chain look like that..hit a big azz nail in the middle of a trunk (tree must have grown around it) an chewed up every left hand tooth. Like Jon said - need to take both sets of teeth back past the damage...Pete's yer man.
Well, I would if it was mine and he didn't want it back for next weekend. So, I guess up a creek without a paddle then...Well, I might just go buy him a new chain, the least I could do for that nice load of oak that I got from him...
Tell him to buy a new one...and have that one touched up later . When that chain is fixed...it will be down to 50% or so anyhow
I could once I get your sharpener set up... But that will be this winter, before that happens. Need to get garage cleaned and organized...... Now I know why they were looking at me funny, when I was moving the wood around to clear out the rebar and metal banding straps around and under the wood...
No, the situation was, the wood was laying on top of rebar and metal banding... Hazard of in the field work.
The 1st few passes with the file will be fun. But I don't do anything special, just file till sharp and set the rakers.
Ill gladly clean it up for ya. Thats a lot of damage for a hand file... Your gonna really want to grind it to get it to cut right again. The rakers will have to all be set to the depth of that tooth which means all the teeth need to be taken back even. Its a lot of work and your going to lose a good portion of the chain in the process.
Pete's definitely right on this one. I wouldn't waste a file bring that one back, that one is going to need a lot of meat taken off of it! Been there done that, it stinks... But it happens! Cut a nice piece of pink quartz with a new ms261 one time, didn't even see it comin'
Hmmm. Problem here is you would have 1/2 the cost of a new chain racked up just in shipping by sending that one out. No big deal tho if you have other loops that need sharpening.
If it was mine, I'd probably do that in a heart beat. Thanks for the advice though, I've been reading most all of these chain sharpening threads trying to learn...
Maybe a local shop could grind it for you and you could set rakers and touch up the teeth by hand? Unfortunately I don't think the post office could get that chain to Pete or I and back to you by Fri without some special ($$) handling.
This is why I bought a USG. Folks bringing in stuff that look like it had ate concrete etc. Set up even them all up good to go for next round. Just to much time to fix by hand at $5 a chain.
