gwiley
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I appreciate all of the postings - this motivates me to pay even more attention to where my body parts are when I am running the saw and reinforces my PPE religion.
were prolly not as smart as you. now that ur hear we can relaxdI suppose with this many people on a site it is just natural but how can so many people find the dumbest things to worry about (as in) )splitter leaking a drop of oil, moisture % of wood,chain breaking? Been doing firewood over 40 years sure never did isweat the small stuff If you just want to throw chains away I will send you my address!!!!
This is off topic - but tell me about the chains I see on your tire - are those chains held in place by rubber straps?
I had 3 of them break last year. I buy my chains from a local place and they make them up when you buy them. These chains when they broke did not do any damage but the funny part is they were brand new and had not cut hardly any wood. I took them back along with the saw and the roll of chain was bad. It had stress cracks where it was riveted together. I guess I was not the only one that had a problem.
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what? never heard of it? repairing the pin that holds the link together? too scared to try it?
It's not fear, or not knowing about repairing chain. It's your method that is surprising. Spun rivets are the standard way - the same way that chains are manufactured. A weld would restrict the ability of the rivet to pivot as freely as if it was spun. Heating a link enough to weld could also affect its strength.
I can't help but wonder if there is any link between the number of breaks you mention and the way that you maintain/fix your chains. Broken chains seem to be an infrequent, but not unheard of occurrence according to the other responders to this thread.
Philbert
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