Sand in my trees? Any good solutions?

[Fishin' Rod]

Thanks for all of the great advice everyone!

I usually only have 3-4 chains in my bag. When I get down to 3, I sometimes get a little stingy about changing out a dull chain.

I will definitely throw a few more chains into the bag. There is zero downside to having a few more inexpensive but sharp and unused chains available for every single job - especially since they never spoil!

 

[pdqdl]

Oh, yes they do! And quite quickly, if you aren't paying attention.

 

[RedneckChainsawRepair]

Unless they are resharpened to regular chain parameters they are too slow to bother with. Must have a diamond wheel to do this.

You should have seen the dirt roostertail cutting roots with stihl carbide. We were planting 26 bushes.

The sawzall wasnt getting it done and the big pruners wasnt. Told wife hang on I got just the ticket.

I got 2 saws I set up now. A clone G466 and a poulan 4000 with stihl carbide chains.

The first chain was for a big apple stump I pulled out of ground after tornado. Could only cut like 10-12" at a time before reg chains needed sharpen.

I cut up the whole thing and never had to touch the carbide yet.

I broke the 74DL one down to a 72DL too. 050 and 063.

I'm sold on the stihl versions for sure.

 

[StoneyMeadowMaple]

We had probably 30-40 cord pile up behind our house after hurricane Irene. No bark on it at all, looked and felt clean as a whistle. Thought there was at least one silver lining to all the damage, the stuff was so impregnated with dirt that you couldn’t get a tank out of a chain, more like 3-4 chains out of a tank. I did a couple tanks of that, it wasn’t getting better so i scrapped the whole Idea and Bulldozed the whole pile
Far away and left it. My advice for flood wood is to leave it alone.

 

[StoneyMeadowMaple]

Nails aren’t really a problem; it will cut right through most mild steel. Rocks, other ceramics are. Remember, these chains were originally designed for fire departments and construction demolition.

They don’t last worth poop when some moron runs them into a mobile home frame… repeatedly.