That Will Buff, Won't It

[dougie]

Put a tree down in the back yard, hollow, with a dead snag at the top, and set where the dogs' tieout/run would let them get wrapped around.

Bucking it up into rounds, though most were C shaped from the hollow.

Putting metal in trees should be a crime. Not normal wire fence looked close to ¼" took 2 cutters off completely. This one down to the rivet. Went in to sharpen the cutters saw 1 missing sharpened 1 side and got to this one

Swapped the chain. Will take it to have the 2 cutters replaced and make it my dirty wood / stumping chain, as well as practicing square filing on as I've been wanting to try square.

dw

 

[hacskaroly]

Time to butterfly in a new section!

 

[dougie]

Time to butterfly in a new section!

Yeah I have not ponied up to the world of breaking a spinning rivots. Thinking of doing so... I'll have to take this to a dealer and the only Stihl dealer I know still spinning chain is almost an hour away.

Worst part is it is close to the outlet malls and if the wife hears that the direction I'm heading

dw

 

[hacskaroly]

Yeah I have not ponied up to the world of breaking a spinning rivots. Thinking of doing so.

Harbor Freight has a setup for about $70, relatively inexpensive way to get into it. I got lucky and my work was tossing out their old Oregon equipment to upgrade to Stihl, so I got the old stuff!

 

[dougie]

Harbor Freight has a setup for about $70, relatively inexpensive way to get into it. I got lucky and my work was tossing out their old Oregon equipment to upgrade to Stihl, so I got the old stuff!

I'll definitely have to look into that...

dw

 

[Motorka]

This only happen on new chain.

 

[dougie]

It was newer, but not new. Still hurts for sure...

dw

 

[davidwyby]

It’s fine as it is you won’t notice

 

[Absolution]

I brought home a tree recently, Turns out the base was solid but the up from that and center it was on it's way out, Upset at first but then figured I could use it for something else. Halfway through the tree I discover a metal sign hiding in it and of course it's always the freshly sharpened chain that finds something.

 

[wcorey]

It's not that hard to repair chains without special equipment. Just grind/file the rivet heads flush and the links fall right out and then peen the new heads over tapping round and round with a ballpeen hammer. Breaker/spinner setup is really just a convenience...

 

[davidwyby]

Exactly. I have a punch set I bought from Madsen's and there's nothing to it. I could do it with punches I already have.

 

[jakethesnake]

I have a super small ball peen hammer I never found much use for. Found it to be nice for chainsaw chain