I need to learn how to sharpen now, I picked up a sharpening jig that sits on the bar, you run a round file by hand.
No directions, I will google it in a bit.
Yesterday I ate the chain on the 372 on the 2nd tree I fell.
Scratching my head on this,,,,, I never hit the ground or any rocks with the bar, did nice clean cuts, my first outing went perfect.
So here I am beating my brains as to why the chain went to crap so fast.
Then it hit me.
For ten years I have been bringing my Shop vac outside behind my garage to clean.
I have been pulling the filter out of the vac and hitting the element with compressed air.
For any of you that have cleaned those filters with compressed air you know what I am talking about when I say you can Cloud half the neighborhood block with what looks like a fog bank of dust and dirt.
Visibility down to about five yards.
Whenever I cleaned my vac I would do it only when the wind was in my favor,,,, you guessed it...right towards the trees I felled yesterday