Rakers too low

[davidwyby]

If you file your rakers down too much, file your cutters with a larger file or raise it so the cutter has less hook. Won’t be as grabby.

 

[Wilhelm]

If you file your rakers down too much, file your cutters with a larger file or raise it so the cutter has less hook. Won’t be as grabby.

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Nope, no that is not how You do it!

You mount said chain on a bigger saw!

 

[davidwyby]

Nope, no that is not how You do it!

You mount said chain on a bigger saw!

Make the saw go


Wahwahwahwahwahwah!

 

[Wilhelm]

Make the saw go


Wahwahwahwahwahwah!

You do know what sound You get when You have Tinnitus and don't hear the "W"?

 

[Wilhelm]

I ran my primary PS-7900 with rakes as low as ~.065"/1.5mm on a 72DL 3/8" full chisel in pear, hit a steel jacketed bullet and kept cutting.

One of my very first YT vids.

Oddly enough, the chain was salvageable - all cutters had equal damage and I filed it out.
It was a Dolmar 099 loop.

I love those chains!!!

 

[Wilhelm]

If the bar/wood is small enough to allow chip clearance, and the PH utilized has power to spare for the given B&C One can go quite aggressive on the rakers.
Once the cutters bite and the engine loads up it is a fairly exhilarating experience.

Although, DO NOT:
- bore cut
- limb/branch
- cut small OD wood
- be careless

 

[Wilhelm]

Neither of my above posts are an invitation to be stupid and do stupid things!

Be stupid od Your own dime and leave me out of it.

But, have someone make vids of You going cray-cray and up them to YT!

 

[EFSM]

Even though I enjoy it, cutting with low rakers will wear you out physically if they're so low that it pulls the saw in and stalls it.
I enjoy explaining the reasoning behind lowering rakers to customers (because the tooth slants down, etc) and watching the light bulbs come on in their brains. We use a Franzen automatic chain sharpener so it's no extra work to take them down on customers' chains.

 

[davidwyby]

A ported 2188 with 36” of low rakers bucking all day will really wear you out.

You’ll get less stalling if you don’t dog until the second tooth up, the one in line with the bottom of the bar vs. the lowest one. Back barring will stall less too but both will wear you out.

 

[DillonBuck]

I ran my primary PS-7900 with rakes as low as ~.065"/1.5mm on a 72DL 3/8" full chisel in pear, hit a steel jacketed bullet and kept cutting.

One of my very first YT vids.

Oddly enough, the chain was salvageable - all cutters had equal damage and I filed it out.
It was a Dolmar 099 loop.

I love those chains!!!

The beauty of the WCS and other progressive gauges. The teeth don’t need to be the same. It sets the raker to its tooth so they all cut the same even if they are not the same size.

And if one hand files, by the time your chain is about done, they ain’t the same size. DGAS who has hand filed it or what they say. Especially side to side.


Especially mine!

 

[Jusgunn3]

The beauty of the WCS and other progressive gauges. The teeth don’t need to be the same. It sets the raker to its tooth so they all cut the same even if they are not the same size.

And if one hand files, by the time your chain is about done, they ain’t the same size. DGAS who has hand filed it or what they say. Especially side to side.


Especially mine!

That’s a good point, I didn’t use a gauge on near end of life chain and the cutters where all over the place in size. Got some nice crooked cuts haha