.325 square ground

[Icepick69]

Wolverine,
That looks great. I agree with you, I totally think it's worth doing

 

[Redfin]

Crappy pic.

 

[concretegrazer]

Never heard of it.

 

[Wolverine]

MLee really opened up pandoras box [for me] when he showed me a few things about square filing. The gains achieved going to square are crazy! The biggest pain is converting, but once you're there it's pretty easy to maintain. There's so much voodoo in what some guys can do with a file. And it's instant gratification you can see w/ your chip pile, speed of cut, smoothness of cut, etc.

 

[Wolverine]

View attachment 41983
Crappy pic.

 

[Canadian farm boy]

.325 chain is definitely worth converting to square. It can be just as fast or faster then 3/8 with enough work.

 

[Chris Zautner]

Looks real sharp. What types of advantages do you notice over round toothed .325

A lot more smooth and fast

 

[Chris Zautner]

Do you cut the rakers the same as round, or less clearance?
On .325 chain

For square filing it can really depend of the person square filing it because I can file square chains where they need a tall raker and some that need an aggressive raker. Like I said it really depends on who's square filing it, different angles equals different depth raker heights.

 

[Cut4fun]

RD#3 was 325 square or round. Think there might be some pics and video in this thread here http://opeforum.com/threads/chain-build-off-rd-3-on-crs.731/

 

[RI Chevy]

Really intriguing, but at the same time, intimidating.

 

[Icepick69]

Farm boy,
That chain looks awesome. You really put a lot of time into it.
I was gonna try and square up some .325 and see if anyone would buy it, or I'm I just wasting time.
Anyone please chime in on this

 

[Icepick69]

Are you hand filing or using a grinder

 

[Canadian farm boy]

I'm not sure if asking me or not. Lol. I hand file only. I'm to cheap to buy a square grinder. Lol

 

[Ryan Browne]

Farm boy,
That chain looks awesome. You really put a lot of time into it.
I was gonna try and square up some .325 and see if anyone would buy it, or I'm I just wasting time.
Anyone please chime in on this

Personally, I don't think it's a product I would buy. Just my thinking here, but the consumer would need to A: need a new loop of chain, B: know about square filed chain, C: be able to maintain a square filed chain. I guess I'd think that if you fit the criteria of B and C, then you'd just convert your own. Also, it seems like most folks who are into chain don't buy a loop here or there. They buy reels or several loops when a deal presents itself.

Don't get me wrong, I think that square filing chains for people might work. Personally as a complete beginner to square filing I'd consider buying a loop, but I think that I represent a small segment of consumers. Maybe there's enough buyers to make a product like this a viable option, but I wouldn't go spending tons of time making up a bunch of loops in hopes of having a bunch of people to buy them.

 

[Icepick69]

That's good advice, that's what I'm looking for. One good advantage of buying a square filed chain, if you don't like it. A person could easily round file it back.
Not much to lose if someone just wanted to try. Agree

 

[Wolverine]

I personally wouldn't hand file it just to sell as square. Can't imagine you'd move many loops.

 

[Icepick69]

Sorry, must have misinterpreted what I meant. I was just curious what people use. I haven't hand filed a loop in ages.

 

[Icepick69]

 

[Icepick69]

I'm trying to get a better image. Looks like this will have to do.

 

[concretegrazer]

Really intriguing, but at the same time, intimidating.

No need to feel intimidated. It's a lot of fun.