I'm gona do a round chain to compete with dahmar. My square game just isn't on that level yet. Will employ tricks I've picked up from listening to the guys that make go fast chains though.
Pics or it didn't happen, lol! Both mine are on the way. Should be fun as I've never participated in one before.
Nice looking chain and cool looking bar. Just a side note I do not hand file for square I only grind my chains. Probably not as fast as a good hand filed chain. Good luck.
Squared up the only chain I have for the Del saw. Cuts pretty good another touch up and it will be fully converted.
Your getting there. It just takes practice. If you were filing a hundred cutters a day , 6 days a week you would be getting there faster as far as months . Plus , if your scale (paycheck) was dependant on you putting up super sharp chains every day you would get better faster. That was my case as powersaws were my livelyhood. Just keep at it !
I had a 119 Sachs Dolmar . I thinned trees and cut firewood with it. It was a good saw. Iirc they were around 60 cc. I also had a 116 and a ? 520 ? Blue Makita. Those rollernose bars were better than a hardnose bar. But they sucked for boring and we're the easiest thing in the world to throw the chain with.
I have had that 119 for quite a few years now. I have done some firewood cutting with it and is still and good running saw. But I do prefer the 120 Super over it.
I got mine in 83 and had it for a couple years. It was pretty well the power equivalent of the 041 Stihl , but faster . I started learning to chisel file when I had it. I was 2nd loading under an American Track loader/ snorkel/ swing yarder. I needed a file for the 2100 Husky I was running as a landing saw. I asked the boss for a file , he looked in his pick-up and all he had was chisel files. He handed me one and said, have Larry show you how to chisel file. Larry Reed was the yarder engineer/ shovel operator. A Master West Coast logger and timber faller. I showed him the file at lunch and told him that Jim said I needed to have him show me how to chisel file. So he showed me. Over about a month he would check my chain and give me advice. My next job in the riggin was in Rowan Bay . I was setting chockers and pimpin for the hook tender. Jack Jodrey was on the cutting crew there. I hung around the saw shop in the evenings when all the bushlers were grinding their chains. Jack didn't have a grinder there, he hand filed. The company had a filing jig there made from a hard nose bar with 4, 1/2 ton pu leaf springs welded on for legs and a stool someone had carved from a block of spruce from the sortin yard. I would watch him as close as I dared. And asked questions as much as I dared. Jack was a pretty famous old time faller. Best to do Lots of listening and very little talking around. But he liked me so he taught me several things also. A bit of refinements on what Larry had taught me. I think Every single time I've chisel filed a chain I still hear what those 2 Fallers taught me. We all mostly ran 404 full or semi skip chisel chain . Mostly Oregon 52 AJ = full skip. Or 52 AK = semi skip. 100% old growth conifer. Sitka spruce , Western Hemlock and Yellow Cedar and Western Red Cedar. That was 38 years ago.
I keep these pictures on my phone of my first ever attempt at square filing. Something to look back on and see how far I've come. I'm just a firewood guy so it's taken a little while.
