hammer0419
ArboristSite Operative
Usually just change my chain but have had my stump vise come in handy many times. Definately a very handy item to have in the saw box.
I usually just set down on the ground and file away. I use a vise back at the shop from time to time.
Heres a neat video. Ive never tried it, but I might one day just to see if I can.
[video=youtube;CoNDVKdQX_A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoNDVKdQX_A&feature=player_profilepage[/video]
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.
I never understood the reason for that. So you are going to run your saw more with a dull chain to make that vise or do you do the before it gets dull? With a stump vise I think I would be done filing before that thing is even ready.
I must admit they always looked like a neat idea. However, when I was fallin I got paid to put trees on the ground, not file chains. I cut for 6 hrs. At the 3 hr mark I put on a new chain and went back to work. Chains got sharpened at home. Now cutting firewood, I can take some time to touch up a chain.
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