I hear the “bleeping safety chain” comment alot. Most of the time I offer to sharpen their chain. I sharpen with a file in a guide, then set the depth gauges with a flat file and it’s like magic. I try to tell people that a safety chain only really takes effect when it rotates around the tip, otherwise the secondary safety gauge is under the depth gauge and does nothing. Lot of guys here can sharpen a chain like a razor but their depth gauges are either way to high and the chain just burns. Or they take off a few licks with a good file and the chain stalls out on the clutch every time it touches wood.
