Do you heat with wood? The best woodcutting season is in the fall and early winter when the weather is cooler and the sap is down. With a small investment in tools, you can keep your chainsaw cutting safely and smoothly without expensive professional sharpening. Learn about file sizes, rotary files, drive links, chain gauges, cutter types, pitch, rakers, gullets, and cutting angles. We’ll cover sharpening techniques for chainsaws as well as splitting mauls and wedges. Get your tools ready with the help of our expert instructor, Richard Freudenberger.
Our new workshop format welcomes live participants online via LivingWebFarms.org and our YouTube channel. No registration is necessary.
Chain selection: pitch, guage, drivelinks matched to bar and sprocket.
Go full chisel, not semi.
With experience – don't use safety chain.
Sharpen with a 2 & 1 for beginners. Square file with a double bevel file for the pro's. (Use narrow kerf, lo pro for speed)
Watch the tip, don't cut dirt, and use your dogs.
Check wood coming out for chain quality. Dust = dull/high rakers/out of adjustment. Strips or chips = good to go.
There ya go, saved ya an hour. Goodday
You can use smaller files on bigger chains, just not the other way around. Go get a 2&1 file and learn that first. Then get a double bevel and square file for that 20% faster cutting. Square grind does not kickback more. False.
This guy is turning simple into overly complicated. Honestly, I can't believe someone didn't edit this down to 10 minutes. Or not publish it all together. Gonna have to unsubscribe. Sorry guys, your wasting people's time. Half of the "info" in this is trash. Sad.