who else has tried square chain and switched back to round?
a few months back purchased a dozen or so square cut chains to give square a fair trial. absolutely loved the performance!
even spent a load of hours getting down square filing by hand. my hand filing jobs were never perfect, but outcut round by quite a margin. problems was hand filing simply took too long.
so I search up and down for a square chain grinder. Yeooooo... price shock. cheapest was a $750 razorsharp II, which I couldn't bear to purchase because it was second best to pro-sharp at $2,000+.
a used square grinder was not to be had and I couldn't justify spending so much time on filing chains. especially since I cut a lot of dirty hardwoods. one dab in dirt and square cut chain becomes worthless.
sooooo... filed my square cut chains into round. takes me 3-5 minutes or less to hand file a chain. not fast as square, but still pretty fast. especially when compared to a dull square chain :chainsawguy:
so who else has tried square cut chain and switched back?
a few months back purchased a dozen or so square cut chains to give square a fair trial. absolutely loved the performance!
even spent a load of hours getting down square filing by hand. my hand filing jobs were never perfect, but outcut round by quite a margin. problems was hand filing simply took too long.
so I search up and down for a square chain grinder. Yeooooo... price shock. cheapest was a $750 razorsharp II, which I couldn't bear to purchase because it was second best to pro-sharp at $2,000+.
a used square grinder was not to be had and I couldn't justify spending so much time on filing chains. especially since I cut a lot of dirty hardwoods. one dab in dirt and square cut chain becomes worthless.
sooooo... filed my square cut chains into round. takes me 3-5 minutes or less to hand file a chain. not fast as square, but still pretty fast. especially when compared to a dull square chain :chainsawguy:
so who else has tried square cut chain and switched back?