Want to Sell Stihl FG2 parts!!!

[thumbilly]

I guess I don't get the hype of square filling. Seems like a pita to me. We don't cut much soft wood around here other that poplar or cottonwood. That's only to get it out of the way I just drop it and leave it nobody wants it. We have dutch elm disease and emerald ash bore so there's no shortage of those dead trees to cut they're everywhere all dead. Just maple cherry and birch left now. They say there's some fungus killing maples now to. Oak is scarce but they're usually the biggest we have around here I think most predate the big fire that burned the pine all out in the 1880s.

 

[skippysphins]

Mostly hardwood s here .

 

[thumbilly]

So I've only recently started sharpening chains so what's the benefit to square sharpening

 

[skippysphins]

Speed

 

[Braintree]

Just trying to get a feel if there might be a market for these.

Yes I would be in for a set of these and if someone can figure out if you could square file with a modified pair I be up to buying them to.
Paul

 

[thumbilly]

Speed

Speed sharpening or speed cutting.

 

[thumbilly]

Yes I would be in for a set of these and if someone can figure out if you could square file with a modified pair I be up to buying them to.
Paul

Working on it

 

[Braintree]

Speed cutting.....

 

[thumbilly]

I see I use stihl rs chain sharpened at 30 and 10 with a 13/64 file and .030 raker and I can beat my uncle by 3 or 4 seconds in 20" ash both 562xp he uses husky chain sharpened with electric grinder. I thought that was pretty good. Got him stirred up anyway. Maybe I really need to figure this out just to mess with him. He has to have the latest greatest and fastest. He had to get his 576xp and put the 20" off the 562xp to beat me and it wasn't by much.

 

[skippysphins]

Sharp square is about .25 percent faster maybe better

 

[thumbilly]

Dulls quick though not.

 

[skippysphins]

So only in dirty wood

 

[DexterDay]

There have been FG2's set up to square file, but it does take extensive modification to allow this to happen.

And square will last a good deal of time cutting farwood. Plenty of people on here who use square only.

 

[thumbilly]

I'm thinking of heading the other way. I'm thinking about running carbide chain. Less sharpening. Ironically I wouldn't be able to use my fg2.

 

[Majorpayne]

Adjustable rotation of the file, but I think u would need some tilt to get a good square cutter profile, I don't know?? If I need to cut a bunch I round file

The fg2 has 10 degrees tilt.

 

[Philbert]

The fg2 has 10 degrees tilt.

That's interesting, and not something I expected.

The Oregon and Granberg versions appear to have 360 degrees of rotation. Might be better choices for this application.

Philbert