Want square chain with a round grinder?

Probably because it is harder and more work to do square chain. Yes it cuts faster but a very small percentage of people really care enough to take the time to make square to cut a little faster. So since it’s a small amount of people doing it they need to charge large amounts for the grinders and files to grind it. If the same company made round and square grinders the round would probably be 85% of the companies revenue per year. Grinding square seems slower to me the times I’ve seen it done and 90% of the people wont think the extra time is worth it. Actually seems a the number of people that sharpen their own chains has gone down a significant amount. I get lots of chains to sharpen at 8-10$ each depending on the length.

 

I got my dad the Pferd 2n1 for Christmas. He told me Ace had a one month backlog for chain sharpening. That seemed nuts to me. Dad said he had just had his chain sharpened at another hardware store. Either he had already grounded it or they did a less than half azz job grinding. Sure hope he takes to the CS-x instead of throwing $ away. I don’t live close enough to do it for him. I demonstrated the simplicity of the 2n1 to him.

 

The 2 in 1 works great and is simple, he just needs to remember to only by full comp chains or it won’t work

 

I realized that last week when I sharpened one of my 28" chains. Forgot one of them was full skip.

Other than that I love the 2 in 1. Simple and easy.

 

A friend got suckered into a used Silvey SDM4 . Spent over twice what they used to be BRAND NEW !!
I told him he should just get a new Simington 451C . Beforehand . !!!!
But , the cool guys convinced him there was nothing like a Silvey. So he got it . After grinding about 15 chains , the main bearing froze up . Grinder don't work . He took it apart . Got the parts. Other projects took prescidence. His grinder was still in pieces last I knew . AND he's bucking on the landing with round filed chains .
Had he bought a new Simington. He would still be enjoying Awesome chisel ground chains .
1600 bucks isn't that bad for 20 or more years of awesome chains .
My old small motor 451 A ground away over 1,000s of feet of chain . I bought it used for 400 bucks . 30 years ago . Finally the motor burned out . I'll probably buy a new Simington 451C .

 

A little bit faster per cut over a lot of cuts ends up saving you quite a bit of time on the job. The only time I run round chain now is on semi chisel or beater chains that don’t have enough tooth left to convert to square.

 

Let me guess, that was definitive Dave rubbing the end of the log?

 

Thank you Eric you have been very helpful and you have made my mind up I am going to switch over to square ground chains