How do you store your chains?

[Hugenpoet]

Dull chains go in a 3 pound coffee can half full of diesel. When I get a dozen or so I sharpen 'em and hang 'em on nails according to size.

 

[Gologit]

:monkey: We have a special room for them, their own room. It's very carefully climate controlled with just a hint of fresh breeze, scented of course, flowing through. It's painted in gentle pastels with indirect soft lighting. We have music piped in, soft soothing music. Each chain has it's own designated private space. They rest on velvet cushions. A hand picked team of specialists cater to their every need. Their health and well being is constantly monitored and, should the need arise, remedial care is available on demand. They are spoken to quietly and politely and their value as an individual is always validated by everyone around them.

No? Okay, I throw the dull ones in a pile on the bench and the sharp ones in a greasy canvas bag. There's a bunch in the back of the crummy, too...but they're pretty much hammered.

 

[chainsawland]

I coat mine with oil and store them in tupperware containers that my wife has deemed to old or stained to use in the house, and then carry them in a milk crate in the truck/tractor or whatever.

I also have a jug of bar oil, wedges, a hatchet, extra bar nuts for when I loose one, a few screwdrivers and a few other odds and ends in the milk crate as well.

Nothing to do with storing chains, but I stole my wifes steel baking trays to catch oil and gasoline. It works great, and most saws fit perfect in them.

 

[the westspartan]

Dirty, and dull hanging on the wall.

Hey Cale!

I have that exact same stool in my shop, same paint drips and all. I found mine in the trash, it was a nice score!

 

[wigglesworth]

I put mine in mason jars and bury them in the yard....

 

[little possum]

I put mine in mason jars and bury them in the yard....

You shouldnt be wasting mason jars. Feel them with white lightining and seem em south

I can afford spare chains :monkey:
Or maybe they are one nails But they are kept inside so no real need for rust prevention

 

[D&B Mack]

I spray mine with WD-40, then wipe clean. Soak in bar oil for 48 hrs, wipe dry. Then I get some shrink wrap and close them up. I then put about 5 chains into a tupperware container. I then gather the family, we say a prayer to the chain gods to keep them preserved until the next day when I use them again... no, just kidding, I hang mine on nails as well and never have had a problem.

 

[eyolf]

Lotas of interesting responses.

I've tried 'em all, including leaving them lay on the dash or on the floorboards of the truck and in the bottom of a toolbox. As I've gotten older and wiser, or maybe less irresponsible I find I like to keep individual chains in little paper lunch bags. THe boxes don't seem to hold up, I lost the lids to tupperware and I hated untangling them from all the other junk in the toolbox or on the floor of the truck.

It saves on cussing as you retrieve them from the dashboard or toolbox bottom. I labelled a few bags with what's in the bag, sprayed each bag with aerosol oil, and called it done. Extras are stored in bags (if I don't have boxes) in bin boxes according to size and type in a cupboard in the barn.

 

[J.Walker]

My really good ones. Wrapped in cloth.
Others, in the cardboard box or on a nail.

 

[7oaks]

Well hanging out to dry on a rusty nail is the obvious choice.

Next would be oiled with Kroil, WD40 or soaked in 10-30.

I like BobL's storage box soultion.

But my favorite solution and the one I'll probably implement is Sawtrol's solution:

"If they have been used - oiled, and in a plastic bag, inside a small plastic food container that take two of them (cheaper than tupperware - LOL)."

My practice up until now has been the same as most ie on the saw or in the box or on a nail.

SKOL

 

[pjwoolw]

I'm going to try Fluid Film. Soak them a couple of days in a 1 gallon paint can before use.

 

[stihl sawing]

Either on the saw or wrapped in a shop towel stuck in the saw box, Never soaked no chains and never will. Too messy. Besides they clean a lot better when you put em in wood.

 

[046]

long term chain storage in diesel

 

[wigglesworth]

You shouldnt be wasting mason jars. Feel them with white lightining and seem em south

The last time I drank some good home brew I.....well.....I dont remember much about it.

 

[parrisw]

The last time I drank some good home brew I.....well.....I dont remember much about it.

Homebrew BEER! Now your talking my language.

 

[wigglesworth]

Homebrew BEER! Now your talking my language.

Not exactly beer....in fact far from it. Kentucky's finest White lightning.

 

[parrisw]

Not exactly beer....in fact far from it. Kentucky's finest White lightning.

Ya, figured it wasn't beer, just got excited that's all. I got a small keg of homebrew beer here now!! Beer on TAP at home is wicked! We used to have a customer at work who brought us a bottle of moonshine every year at Christmas.

 

[Hugenpoet]

Not exactly beer....in fact far from it. Kentucky's finest White lightning.

"And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all."

Merle Haggard

 

[Hugenpoet]

Either on the saw or wrapped in a shop towel stuck in the saw box, Never soaked no chains and never will. Too messy. Besides they clean a lot better when you put em in wood.

Jeez SS I didn't know you were so fastidious. Maybe not used engine oil, but a little diesel is like hand lotion and hand cleaner in one product.

 

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