species8472
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$70 to $80 sounds a bit steep to me. They are $45 to $50 here in Tassie.Hi folks.
I have a mate who owns a tree service company.
He buys 3/8 84 DL Stihl chains in bulk and gets them as cheap as I can buy Chinese chain.
He also budgets them into the job and only uses them once. Once dull they come off and go in a bucket.
There are many buckets.
There are many many chains.
Several hundred, bordering on 4 figures....... LOTS
We were talking this arvo about what is best to do with them.
I said the options are I could sharpen them but it would have to be a speedy process to make it even slightly profitable for me due to the low price he pays for them new.
Next option is to bundle them up in lots of 5 or 10 and sell them and once used chains keeping in mind an 84DL Stihl chain is worth %70 to $80 in Australia. Chinese chains are $20ish a loop
Other option is to just ditch them.
He dont want to part with them and I suggested buying a Simington square grinder to mount in my garage. Can only hope.
He is happy to buy hardware to sharpen them but I am thinking I would need a grinder set up for the cutters and something separate set up to do the rakers.
What would people recommend for high volume high speed chain grinding of teeth and rakers?