savageactor7
ArboristSite Guru
Laird don't give up learning to hand file...after awhile you'll get it right. re-read the instructions that come with you'll saw.
Tighter the chain on the bar and secure it in a vice. Try just drawing the file across the chain once while you rotate the file a third turn or so with your thumb and fingers.
It's very imp when sharpening anything that you get comfortable over the object and keep your feet steady...you need to be foot steady when filing to keep the same incline over each tooth.
Take a black marker pen and blacken off the flat part of your starter tooth. Do all teeth on one side then the other.
Remember that it's the points of the chain that do all the cutting so your objective while drawing the fire across the tooth is a nice sharp point. So you are slightly rotating the file up toward that point.
Until you get it right the 1st time keep a length of log by your garage so you can cut a 1" round to see if it's cutting square.
If it's cutting to the left then draw the file once along the right teeth to even it up.
You do that once/twice a day for a week and you'll lock down the mystery of hand filing...and don't think you have to take much off either cause ya don't until you run in to barbed wire or rocks.
All chains can get dull with use so don't think it's just you.
Tighter the chain on the bar and secure it in a vice. Try just drawing the file across the chain once while you rotate the file a third turn or so with your thumb and fingers.
It's very imp when sharpening anything that you get comfortable over the object and keep your feet steady...you need to be foot steady when filing to keep the same incline over each tooth.
Take a black marker pen and blacken off the flat part of your starter tooth. Do all teeth on one side then the other.
Remember that it's the points of the chain that do all the cutting so your objective while drawing the fire across the tooth is a nice sharp point. So you are slightly rotating the file up toward that point.
Until you get it right the 1st time keep a length of log by your garage so you can cut a 1" round to see if it's cutting square.
If it's cutting to the left then draw the file once along the right teeth to even it up.
You do that once/twice a day for a week and you'll lock down the mystery of hand filing...and don't think you have to take much off either cause ya don't until you run in to barbed wire or rocks.
All chains can get dull with use so don't think it's just you.