That's great.Got off work late. Hurried up and filed chains, tossed stuff in the truck and went to "The Pile". I didn't take alot of time filing. Just hit 5 licks a tooth on both the 445 and the 550. Chains cut fine. For a half a tank on the 445 and one tank on the 550. It was ok because thats all the daylight I had anyway but that wood is so caked in frozen mud and now snow that I cant even tell the difference between mud and bark. I have to file every chain every tank or less on this stuff. So I think I am doing fine on filing, its just hard, frozen mud caked wood. It was a big party again when I showed up. The foreman over there is super dude. Every time I have been there when he's there he stops over with his five foot wide monster tonka toy and checks on me. He lets me cut about 20mins then crawls over and asks me what I need. WHAT I NEED!!?? There was a big something 20+" 30ft long and it was too big to get up on the timber jack and I couldn't cut it then roll it either. He squared up the tracks, pulled it up to the tracks then pulled it up to waist height pinned in between the bucket and the tracks and me and the 550 went to ASS. KICKIN.
I had a huge trunk lifted to waist height by a monster excavator and cut all the way to the tracks while he held it there!! When I got to the track he set it down for another bite and I ran down the trunk again to the track. About that time I was running out of bar on the 550 and knew I was gonna need a bigger saw for the bottom half of the trunk but thats ok, its short enough now that next time I go back I can wrestle it around with the timber jack. If not, I'll wait for big brother wiff da macheen.Super dudes over there. I cant believe that is actually happening. Oh get this...he said if I dont have the wood out when the ground thaws hes gonna drag it up to the entrance so I can get to it when its muddy. Does this get. Any. Better?!
If it had been all dead standing then it might have been better

Glad your getting a great hook up like that, good to here stories like that.
It sounds as though you would benefit from having a few semi chisel chains on hand. They don't have the super sharp point the full chisel has as the leading edge has a curve to it. This broader leading edge will stay sharper much longer in frozen dirty wood, it will just cut a little slower.
Remember that video I posted with the little red 2145, that was 18x.325 semi chisel and that saw cut's the same speed as my stock 550 for comparison.
Do you ever make boring cuts/plunge cuts.