realitycheck
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Do you guys use a stump vise when your in the brush? Or do you make your own while your out to sharpen your chain?
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NORMZILLA44
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23 years of cutting. I passed them by many times, and thought about getting one many times, I finally did last summer. I love it if I have to sharpen in the field wont go without it now.
jus2fat
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And you really don't have to have a stump to use it on...
Anyone can make one out of scrap lumber...2x6's...2x4's etc. widened out...
stacked on top of each other for weight....and keep in truck bed
Sort of like having three hands!!!...Sort of a ...Stump-To-Go.....LOL!!
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miking
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Cut a groove in the top of a stump or log to hold the bar in place to sharpen the chain. It'll do in a pinch.
tomtrees58
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we have them in all my trucks about 1/2 the time
When in the bush, anything I cut becomes a stump vise..............yet another reason saws have a chain brake.
That works for me also, cause i'm never far from my truck. Guys that make a living at it probably hike in and dont have the tailgate luxury. I still will acquire one someday just because.
I have extra chains for most of my saws but it is usually more convenient for me just to sharpen the chain that is on the saw.
Although it has never happened to me, if I hit metal in the wood that tore up the chain, I would change out the chain.
At home I remove the chain and clean out the saw anyway.
I like sharpening chains in a bench vice about as well as on the saw.
I do not have a chain grinder - I usually do it by hand using guides. I have done it free hand though.
I'm just a casual firewood cutter
Although it has never happened to me, if I hit metal in the wood that tore up the chain, I would change out the chain.
At home I remove the chain and clean out the saw anyway.
I like sharpening chains in a bench vice about as well as on the saw.
I do not have a chain grinder - I usually do it by hand using guides. I have done it free hand though.
I'm just a casual firewood cutter
NORMZILLA44
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Give it a try, it's the closest thing to a bench vise, but in the woods, and the saw wont move on you, and you can freely spin the chain, and keep filing.
banshee67
Poulan Wild Thang
i think they work great, i got one off ebay for like $8
much better than trying to sharpen while holding saw still on tailgate
much better than trying to sharpen while holding saw still on tailgate
banshee67
Poulan Wild Thang
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Laying your saw flat and scrambling around on the ground on your hands and knees whilst filing the chain is for greenhorns and tyros sorry.
Just find yourself a log or sloping bank, sit down and relax, plonk the saw between your knees with the bar pointing upwards and file the thing in front of your face.
Just find yourself a log or sloping bank, sit down and relax, plonk the saw between your knees with the bar pointing upwards and file the thing in front of your face.
Always have them in the work trucks, they work a treat and allow you to do better runs with the file without so much bodily contortions.
Justsaws
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I have one. Prefer extra chains to the stump vise. The vise is handy and works well.
NORMZILLA44
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Though i have gotten pretty good at stayin outa the dirt, and looking for nails rocks etc shiat happens, and hit something bad where it takes so much filing you would rather throw the chain away! Stump vise or whatever, extra chains are always a good idea I agree, but takes time to file or change a chain so I just bouthg more Saw's LOL!!!!!!!!!!
flushcut
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I have one welded to a H frame that I use on the tailgate for when the truck is close and the standard one when I am out in the bush. I only switch out chains when they get rocked badly. I buy them from Baileys and the last time I payed $8 or so.
