Sharpened chain run amuck!

Del_ · Dec 11, 2021

billyboy said:
Here are a few pics. As I said one side was in decent shape. It looks like the side that was rocked, he changed the grinder angle a bit to take more of the tip off. It does cut pretty well I must say. It marched right through that green mulberry.

I'd say your man did a pretty good job on that chain.

Lots of life left.

BrettS · Dec 11, 2021

billyboy said:
Here are a few pics. As I said one side was in decent shape. It looks like the side that was rocked, he changed the grinder angle a bit to take more of the tip off. It does cut pretty well I must say. It marched right through that green mulberry.

Gone too far into the gullet, people use to balk when I sharpened their chains that had a lot of damage, told them I needed to to get back into a good cutting surface.

Ian178 · Dec 11, 2021

I've never had any luck getting a chain sharpened. Even if it looked good, it didn't cut. If I can't file it, it goes in the trash.

Okie · Dec 12, 2021

Ronnie Milsap could have done a better job at sharpening that chain. (and also immediately seen that it was not sharpened properly by the village idiot)
I sure would not go back around the place that you went to first.

I think I know the guy that tried to sharpen your chain. :buttkick:

5crows · Jan 28, 2022

billyboy said:
I probably should have chucked it in the recycle bin. Another brain fart on my part.

It's hard to throw them away. I had a chain that the Drive Links got chewed up on, threw that one away. I was cutting off a stump below ground, after digging around it and cutting the fanout roots with a saws all and 9inch blade. Then was cutting the stump below ground surface with chainsaw. I was kind of blind to chain tension this big stump. Anyway, I threw the chain off bar, likely messed up the bar too, and definitely chewed up some drive links. Did about 20 stumps before this one caused the problem. I did try to file the drive links that were binding, but gave up and retired the bar, sprocket and chain.