Chainsaw File

[roger wiegand]

the only place I know locally that does a good job of sharpening chains charges about $25 for an 18" chain and has a six week turnaround. They didn't need to do anything malicious to get me to buy a new chain when I needed one quickly. Now I do my own, and if I take off a bit of extra metal I still come out way ahead.

[Tom M King]

I'm working too cheap then. I get asked at the local store to sharpen a chain for some guys that use chainsaws, and power company guys found out I could sharpen one too, if they catch me there. I do it for nothing on the tailgate of my truck. That's my normal sharpening station. It's quite surprising how many guys get paid to use a chainsaw but can't sharpen one.

I have a bunch of depth gauges for rakers, but I don't use it on every one. I'll count file strokes on the first couple of rakers using the gauge, and then just count strokes on all the others. I use the little smoothing files with smooth edges for rakers.