Chain project

[davidwyby]

Figure saving this mess this is a good place to tune up my filing skills. Came on one of my 266xps. I have a 2n1 and a husky gauge, couple different raker gauges I think. I’ll try it as is for grins and then see what I can do with it. Probably end up being for cutting junk like old telephone poles.


Check out how much different the angles are...and filed with a much too small diameter file. But that’s about the caliber of the “tree guys” around here.

 

[angelo c]

Help a brother out...is this "before" or "after" filing... And what kinda wood were you intending to cut with those angles ?

 

[Dub11]

Help a brother out...is this "before" or "after" filing... And what kinda wood were you intending to cut with those angles ?

I'm gonna have to say these are before since I don't see any shinny metal.

He lives in the desert so cactuses and stuff.

 

[Woodpecker]

Erbody knows the really fast chains have a curved cutting edge just like a knife

 

[davidwyby]

Help a brother out...is this "before" or "after" filing... And what kinda wood were you intending to cut with those angles ?

I think some tweaker was intending to cut palm fronds with it based on the white death in the saw.

 

[angelo c]

I think some tweaker was intending to cut palm fronds with it based on the white death in the saw.

so im gonna spitball some advice cause im not familiar with your "wood" (no pervy comments gents-i know what you're thinking)...
as a general rule of thumb...you can increase the top plate angle greater as the wood gets softer. so if you were to file for a hardwood you would want a more perpendicular to the grain angle.

what you have in pic looks like you're cutting old bananas. too pointy for anything we have here.

file a few teeth and post some pics and we can follow along with some pointers. also nothing gets hurt if you mess around with some angles and different file sizes ect. ive done some really dumb *s-word just to confirm HOW dumb it was...some of the richest guys i know are really dumb...but they got drive and will not give up until they get what they're looking for

 

[Wonkydonkey]

I'd say before filing or after some cutting dirty wood and turf.

those angles look like 35’ or more degrees. and as Anglo says depends on what wood you want your saw to eat and how long you want the edge to stay sharper for.
btw we’re all dumb till someone shows us the smarter way and we listen or we learn the hard way .

 

[davidwyby]

I sure hope you guys aren’t assuming those pics are after I worked on it... OP edited.

 

[Wonkydonkey]

I sure hope you guys aren’t assuming those pics are after I worked on it... OP edited.

 

[davidwyby]

so im gonna spitball some advice cause im not familiar with your "wood" (no pervy comments gents-i know what you're thinking)...
as a general rule of thumb...you can increase the top plate angle greater as the wood gets softer. so if you were to file for a hardwood you would want a more perpendicular to the grain angle.

what you have in pic looks like you're cutting old bananas. too pointy for anything we have here.

file a few teeth and post some pics and we can follow along with some pointers. also nothing gets hurt if you mess around with some angles and different file sizes ect. ive done some really dumb *s-word just to confirm HOW dumb it was...some of the richest guys i know are really dumb...but they got drive and will not give up until they get what they're looking for

Well, I pretty much have euc and pine.

So maybe I'll do some chains with more angle for pine and less for euc.

 

[Wilhelm]

I've found it funny how it was assumed that chain was Your handywork.

I found that chains sharpened to angles for hardwoods work fine on softwoods, not so well the other way around.
I just do all chains for hardwoods, keeps things simple.

 

[davidwyby]

Finally tried the ole chain and ole 266 today.
The chain cut slowly with small chips through dry hard pine full of pitch but it did fine dodging spikes, nails, and brackets cutting up some dry dirty splintered old trash telepoles

I think maybe the 266 has an air leak and the chain def needs fixed!

 

[davidwyby]

I figured out how they did that...some kind of little grinder wheel, like a dremel. See the nick on the back side of the raker?

May have actually been some method to the madness...pretty sure the saw was a palm trimmer. No chip clearance needed, and might actually cut pretty fast in little stuff like that. I’m tempted to dress the mess they have a little and try it on a variety of stuff. I was thinking with all the extra rakers it might be smoother in dry hard euc, but that super aggressive angle isn’t going to be good for that. So maybe delete all the shark fins and use it for small green tamarix. I suspect it would blow through it.

 

[davidwyby]

*air leak fixed!