A friend said he knows someone who when he buys a new chain the first thing he does is grind the rakers off. I know rakers are supposed to prevent kick-back. Just wondering if any of you remove the rakers rather than grind them a little at a time?
The guy has been doing it that way for years and never had a problem. I didn't think it was a great idea, but was mostly curious if anyone else had tried it.
I take a little off the tops of the rakers when they need it. I have an electric sharpener but it doesn't work great for the rakers. Hand filing them is so darned slow.
Maybe he has the bumper link and raker terminology mixed up; if hes filing the bumper link out of existence, why not buy chain with out them or at least a different style of them?
I laugh at those that take the rakers down much lower than say .035, because they think they are faster, but they never take into account how many times they stall or lockup their saw on normal cuts. I watched a guy stall his saw 4 times on a 4" knot that needed to be trimmed off of a log. This after saying he takes the rakers down a lot more for bucking up, and then he couldn't ever get it restarted in the cut if he stopped.
Again, its one of the things I keep saying,"Faster by seconds and slower by minutes." Its just dumb, if its less safe than normal, so much the dumber yet, LOL, but it isn't faster. Plus how the crank or clutch lives through it is beyond me.
Sam
to the OP, your buddy is a liar. .
...or an idiot. Likely both.
You can cut ice with no rakers.
You can cut ice with no rakers.
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